Review: ‘A Feathered River Across the Sky’ by Joel Greenberg
On Sept. 1, 1914, Martha, the last known passenger pigeon, died in her cage at the Cincinnati Zoo. Her passing marked the end of a species that once was so...
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Review: ‘The Invention of Wings’ by Sue Monk Kidd
A century and a half after slavery was abolished in the United States, this shameful chapter in our nation's history continues to fascinate in our popular culture. Last year, we...
Review: ‘The Rosie Project’ by Graeme Simsion
Early on in "The Rosie Project," 19 children punch the air shouting "Aspies rule!" It's a first clue that Graeme Simsion's sweetly disarming debut novel will change the way you...
Review: ‘The Good Lord Bird’ by James McBride
John Brown's body swung from the gallows in 1859 following his unsuccessful raid on the Harpers Ferry armory, a botched attempt to steal guns, arm America's slaves and spark a...
Review: ‘The People in the Trees’ by Hanya Yanagihara
In 1976, D. Carleton Gadjusek was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for proving the link between a slow-acting prion disease that caused madness and death in the Fore tribe...