by envisionmg | Mar 17, 2016 | History, Reading Lists
Over the past year or so I’ve noticed an uptick in books being published about Irish history. It only occurred to me last week that the reason for this uptick was probably the up coming hundredth anniversary of the Easter Rising (April 24-29). Given the holiday...
by envisionmg | Mar 3, 2016 | History, Reading Lists
Perhaps you’ve seen Hamilton: An American Musical? Or read Chernow’s Alexander Hamilton, the biographical seed of inspiration that grew into the musical? Or perhaps the buzz has simply piqued your interest? From biographies of people like Burr, Lafayette,...
by envisionmg | Dec 18, 2015 | Reading Lists
This is a reading list for those who need a little Star Wars fix leading up to seeing the The Force Awakens, or after having seen it. This is not an exhaustive list that includes, in no particular order, books from both Canon (books published after April 2014) and...
by envisionmg | Dec 10, 2015 | Fiction, Non-fiction, Reading Lists
You’ve already read Nathaniel Philbrick’s In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whale Ship Essex, you’re this-close to making plans to see the film (starring Chris Hemsworth, Cillian Murphy and Ben Whishaw), and the whole thing has provoked a...
by envisionmg | Nov 12, 2015 | Reading Lists
A selection of these and other titles on France can be found on display just beyond the New Book Room. Fiction: Murder in the Marais (An Aimee Leduc Investigation) by Cara Black “Private investigator Aimée Leduc must decrypt a digitized photo from the 1940s. But...
by envisionmg | Sep 14, 2015 | Reading Intersections, Reading Lists
When we first conceived of the Reading Intersections feature, one of the first books that came to mind was Donna Tartt’s The Secret History. The thing was, I didn’t want to use the too-broad theme of private schools when selecting other titles to pair with...
