How our love of storytelling builds societies and tears them down. In his previous book, The Storytelling Animal, Jonathan Gottschall showed us how humans see the world through the paradigm of stories. After all, most of our communication, almost all of our entertainment and all social media is essentially storytelling. We can take in facts …
In 1860's England, Nell, whose body is patterned with birth marks, is sold by her father to Jasper Jupiter's Circus of Wonders. Jasper initially buys her without seeing her, because he notices his younger brother Toby's romantic interest in her and he always has to one up his brother. But Nell has a real talent …
Murderers, Mind hunters, and my quest to decipher the criminal mind. A Killer By Design is a memoir of the woman who was instrumental in the creation of the "mindhunters" methodologies of criminal profiling. Burgess was a forensic nurse who studied victimology and violent sexual crime, and her work was breaking into new ground when …
A black prosecutor's fight for fairness. Laura Coates is a black woman in America who grew up with parents who fought to uphold and advance the work that people like Martin Luther King started. These strong ideals led to her working for the Department of Justice in the Civil Rights Division, but when she moved …
Born into money in the Mid-West, Nanee finds her true home in Paris. So when war breaks out and the German tanks enter the city, rather than leaving, she stays and joins the Resistance. She helps get famous artists targeted by the Nazi's out of the country and also carries messages, being dubbed The Postmistress. …
Continue reading The Postmistress Of Paris by Meg Waite Clayton
When a fifteen year old boy, the middle child in a well-to-do Copenhagen family, goes missing, all the clue that's left behind is an odd letter left on the table. Is this a kidnapping? What does the note mean? Detective's Werner and Korner are on the case to find the missing boy, but there will …
Willa has been friends with Britton and Luz for years and they're inseparable. Until Willa does something that betrays their friendship. Now she has one week to think about what she did and to see if she can make it up to them, as the story spools back to tell us where it all started …
Italy, 1938, under Mussolini. Clara, 11, wakes in a new dingy city apartment to find their mother hasn't returned from a job the previous night. She goes looking for her mother and turns right at the door, and later her little brother Pippo ,7, wakes alone and also goes looking, turning left. A chain of …
I guess the title of the book tells you it all. This book is a slim volume of broad bios of women who have done remarkable things. The women chosen for inclusion are really interesting. There's some of the ones you would expect, like Florence Nightingale or Marie Curie, but there's plenty of women from …
Continue reading Extraordinary Women In History by Leah Gail
In 1916 Sweden, a man who loves books and his own company doesn't fit in with the extroverted, hard drinking people around him. At a loss for what to do with his life, he heads to work in a mine in an isolated arctic zone, and at first sinks into bleak aloneness before being befriended …
Continue reading The Memoirs Of Stockholm Sven by Nathaniel Ian Miller
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