Category: NON FICTION

August 29, 2010

Making Toast by Roger Rosenblatt ** (of 4)

Rosenblatt’s daughter Amy dies unexpectedly from a heart attack at age 40 leaving behind a husband, successful career, and three young children. Roger Rosenblatt and...

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July 27, 2010

Soldier’s Heart by Elizabeth Samet ** (of 4)

It’s a fascinating insight into West Point. Samet, a civilian professor of English literature wrestles with what to teach plebes. Looking at a sea of...

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July 26, 2010

97 Orchard by Jane Ziegelman ** (of 4)

It’s an interesting thesis. Jane Ziegelman, a food historian working at the Tenement Museum traces the food history of five immigrant families that settled on...

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July 16, 2010

Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick **** (of 4)

I turned pages as fast as I could shaking my head in disbelief with each new revelation. North Korea is the last totalitarian communist dictatorship...

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July 15, 2010

Schlepping Through the Alps: My Search for Austria’s Jewish Past with Its Last Wandering Shepherd by Sam Apple

A journalist who traveled from childhood memories to adult memories from urban NY to Austria’s highest peaks in search of Hans Breuer, Yiddish folk singer...

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July 14, 2010

Nineteen forty-eight by Benny Morris

A revisionist history of the first Arab-Israeli War. In Pelletier Library.

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July 14, 2010

The Invisible Wall by Harry Bernstein

The author, now in his 90s, recalls his impoverished boyhood in a British mill town, on a street where Jews lived on one side and...

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July 14, 2010

Gettysburg by Stephen W. Sears

According to the Times, Jay Winik, “Sears’s reconstruction is “The Civil War equivalent of a modern spy satellite photograph. He hovers above the action, giving...

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July 13, 2010

Fun Home by Alison Bechdel *** (of 4)

A coming of age memoir of a girl discovering her lesbianism at the same moment she is learning that her obsessive-compulisive, tyrannical father was a...

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July 8, 2010