My City of Dreams (paperback)
$19.95IN THIS CAREFULLY RESEARCHED and hauntingly written memoir, Lisa Gruenberg not only records her own life, but also that of relatives long lost to darkness, terror, and murder.
Summer Restoration: Rosie Dresser and The Cobblers
$21.00IN 1947âhaving spent the better part of the war as a Red Cross volunteer with Pattonâs Third Army in EuropeâRosie Dresser returned to the coastal village of Somesville, Maine where she had spent long and idyllic summers as a child. Unmarried, thirty-eight years old and a Vassar dropout, she bought a decaying house built in 1852 that she named The Cobblerâs and restored over the course of the summer with the active involvement of the communityâsummer and local.
Driving Backwards
$24.95GILMANTON WAS BRIEFLY the most famous town in America. Today the town, nestled amongst the hills of Central New Hampshire and along the curve of the Suncook River, is a microcosm of the changing ways and enduring values of rural life in the twenty-first century.
I Remember: A Life of Politics, Painting and People
$24.95WHILE LUMINARIES from her father the physiologist Walter B. Cannon and the Kennedys to Adlai Stevenson and the Galbraiths have been influential forces in Marian Schlesinger’s very full life, I Remember is less an account of her celebrated family and friends than it is a refreshing, sometimes salty, always compelling account of a richly independent life, much of it focused on her art.
Pitch Uncertain: A Mid-Century Middle Daughter Finds Her Voice
$24.95TOUCHING AND INCISIVE, Pitch Uncertain is a beautifully drawn account of Maisie Houghton’s struggle to find her own voice as the middle child of two parents whose marriage and lives she slowly decoded as she came of age in the 1950s. Growing up in the gentle ambience of Cambridge, Massachusetts, spending full summers in Dark Harbor, Maine, and regularly visiting her relatives in the socially polished reaches of greater New York, Maisie and her two sisters had the makings of an ideal childhood. But their parents were an enigma.
Late Bloomer: A Memoir of School Days
$24.95HALF A CENTURY ON, Nat Bickford revisits the predatory advances of two boarding school masters, one at Phillips Exeter, the other at Williston Academy, whose provocative behaviorâsadistic in one case, tragic in the otherâviolated the genteel codes of prep school life in the late 1950s. Less cynical than Catcher in the Rye and more disturbing than A Separate Peace, the narrative benefits from the distance.
Fake Smiles: A Memoir
$26.95FAKE SMILES IS A GRACEFUL, moving and reflective memoir of a contentious father-son relationship set against the backdrop of the Eisenhower and Nixon eras.
Civil and Uncivil Wars: Memories of a Greek Childhood, 1936 – 1950
$26.95LESS EXTREME THAN the wartime experiences of J. G. Ballard or Jerzy Kosinski but in the same vivid tradition, Civil and Uncivil Wars is a profound, touching, occasionally disconcerting, unfailingly candid, and consistently engaging reminder that the full measure of war and domestic unrest cannot be appreciated without the telling insights of the young.
In The Land of Israel: My Family 1809-1949
$26.95AT ONCE AN INTIMATE ACCOUNT of a young girl’s coming of age during the tempestuous times attending the birth of Israel and a rare record of Jewish family life in Palestine under the Ottomans dating to 1809, Nitza Rosovsky’s In the Land of Israel: My Family 1809-1949 adds fresh insights into the narrative of Jewish migration from early nineteenth century Europe to the formation of a Jewish homeland.
A Liberal Education
$26.95THOUGHTFUL, FUNNY, POINTED AND HONEST, A Liberal Education is an insightful scholar’s memoir of the generation that came of age in the late fiftiesâan opaque generation hinged between the conformist fifties and the rebellious late sixties.
The Inventive Life of Charles Hill Morgan: The Power of Improvement in Industry, Education and Civic Life
$27.95
WHEN CHARLES HILL MORGAN learned how to use specialized drafting tools in the 1840s, his professional-grade compass precisely centered measurements for foundations and steam engines. His mastery of these tools led to a future of vast new possibilities.
Loaded With Dynamite: Unintended Consequences of Woodrow Wilson’s Idealism
$28.00âLOADED WITH DYNAMITE,â was the prescient reaction of Woodrow Wilsonâs secretary of state when he heard the president promote national self-determination at the Paris Peace Conference in 1920. Wilsonâs call became a rallying cry to the many rather than the select few for whom it was intended.
The Perfect Assignment: A Memoir of Journalism in the Golden Age
$28.00WRITTEN WITH GRACE, intimacy, candor, insight, and humor, Jonathan Larsenâs The Perfect Assignment is a timely, first-hand account of the ascendancy and decline of print journalism over the better part of the twentieth century.
My City of Dreams
$28.00IN THIS CAREFULLY RESEARCHED and hauntingly written memoir, Lisa Gruenberg not only records her own life, but also that of relatives long lost to darkness, terror, and murder.