Tag: books
member name: Ken G.
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April 17, 2007 04:01 PM EDT --
Today, fans of fantasy writer JRR Tolkien will have cause to rejoice...or fear.
A new saga, "The Children of Hurin," hits the store shelves. A prequel of sorts to "The Lord of the Rings" . . .
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April 24, 2007 10:46 AM EDT --
Bet you didn't know this about the late economist John Kenneth Galbraith: As a child growing up in Canada, he was an avid reader who remembered the day the local library changed its lending policy . . .
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May 01, 2007 09:07 AM EDT --
Cathryn Jakobsen Ramin was a hard-hitting journalist whose memory began slipping when she hit her forties. Ramin's book "Carved in Sand: When Attention Fails and Memory Fades in Midlife," . . .
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May 02, 2007 01:45 PM EDT --
Blackwater, USA first came to the attention of most Americans in March 2004 when four of its employees were killed in the Iraqi town of Fallujah, and two of the charred, dismembered bodies were strung . . .
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May 02, 2007 12:18 PM EDT --
You know those stories about generations of women helping the youngest to have and raise a baby, the whole "it takes a village" thing? Or tales of a mother and daughter who heal an estranged . . .
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May 02, 2007 11:53 AM EDT --
Photographer Mark Edward Harris has made two visits to North Korea and has been to the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea. His stunning photographs from the Hermit Kingdom are featured in . . .
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September 07, 2007 10:22 AM EDT --
As they head back to school, are affluent teens carrying bagage not visible in their backpacks?
Psychologist Madeline Levine has been counseling troubled teens for 25 years. Her book "The . . .
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April 30, 2007 03:22 PM EDT --
Listen to a conversation with Molly O'Neill, who has collected some of the finest American food writing in her new book "American Food Writing: An Anthology with Classic Recipes."
To submit . . .
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April 24, 2007 08:31 AM EDT --
Did you know that there is a floating patch of garbage somewhere in the Pacific between Hawaii and California so big it takes a week for a ship to cut through? It's called the "eastern garbage . . .
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May 11, 2007 12:59 PM EDT --
Andrew Blechman is a world authority on pigeons. Blechman spent a year with people who race them, raise them, hunt them and even eat them. The result is his "Pigeons: The Fascinating . . .
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