Category: NON FICTION

February 22, 2015

The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert *** (of 4)

Well, someone has to tell it like it is and Kolbert lays it out there as clearly as anyone possibly can. She travels the world,...

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January 25, 2015

52 Loaves by William Alexander *** (of 4)

52 Loaves is one of those memoirs where a guy sets out to do something a little ridiculous, bumbles along, has silly adventures, and learns...

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January 5, 2015

My Promised Land by Ari Shavit **** (of 4)

Israel is threatened, and always has been, from within and without. Beyond its borders are hundreds of millions of Arabs, and 1.5 billion Muslims, most of...

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January 5, 2015

Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? by Roz Chast **** (of 4)

It’s a cartoon memoir of the passing of Roz Chast’s, a New Yorker cartoonist, parents. Her parents lived into their 90s and died the long,...

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November 26, 2014

Yiddishkeit by Harvey Pekar and Paul Buhle *** (of 4)

Even the title of the book isn’t really translatable, encompassing as it does more than a language. Yiddishkeit is a people, it’s culture, and an...

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November 13, 2014

Indonesia Etc. by Elisabeth Pisani *** (of 4)

Indonesia is the fourth largest country in the world comprised of more than 10,000 islands and hundreds of languages and cultures. From west to east...

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October 28, 2014

Agent Zigzag by Ben McIntyre *** (of 4)

Prior to the outbreak of WWII, the British citizen Eddie Chapman spent his youth blowing safes and robbing banks. Passing in and out of jails, Chapman...

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August 31, 2014

Age of Ambition by Evan Osnos *** (of 4)

Evan Osnos has been living in China for the last eight years and reporting for the New Yorker for much of that time. Age of...

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July 13, 2014

Thank you for your Service by David Finkel **** (of 4)

The war after the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq consists of 500,000 broken soldiers, men and women returned to the United States suffering from PTSD...

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June 22, 2014

Five Days at Memorial by Sheri Fink *** (of 5)

When Hurricane Katrina hit New Orleans and tens of thousands of residents were trapped in a city without electricity, water, sewage, law, government, shelter or...

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