Twain’s Feast
“Also a great podcast featuring Nick Offerman… if you like food, Mark Twain biographies, or America – this is for you. A menu that Twain once wrote gives insight to […]
The Lost City of Z
Indiana Jones Wannabes will love it! A non-fiction quest that reads like a blood pumping adventure novel. It’s sure to keep you reading until 3 AM or later. You’ve been […]
Guns, Germs and Steel
Everyone, even unenthusiastic history readers will like this book. A supremely interesting history of modern societies from the perspective of geography and environmental influences. So good! Buy on Bookshop.org
Imbeciles
Did you know that the US once forcibly sterilized women deemed “feeble minded?” Yep, we did that. Read all about the women, Carrie Buck, and her landmark Supreme Court Case. […]
Undaunted Courage
Reading like a novel, this epic account of the Louisiana Purchase and beyond to the west is beautifully and definitively written with a little politics, diplomacy, romance and a lot […]
A Woman of No Importance
Wow- this woman is a stone cold bad a$$! More effective than the male spies the Allies sent to fight Nazis in France and with only 1 leg. A true […]