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.
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.
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.
High Time
$28.95In âHIGH TIME,â Abigail Trafford masterfully braids two worlds: the culture and history of an accomplished East Coast family well anchored in time and place, and the life of an adventurous journalist navigating her way through new territoriesâprofessional and personal in diverse locales including Paris, Washington, D.C., Houston and Australiaâs Northern Territory.
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.
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.
Making Hay: Tales from Oakholm, a farm in Massachusetts
$28.00COMBINING LOCAL HISTORY, family memoir and a naturalist’s simple affection for place, John Jeppson recalls his family’s efforts to adapt a well-loved property to changing times. Bought in 1925 and now hosting a fifth generation of the Jeppson family, Oakholm has been optimistically run as a commercial enterprise in Brookfield, Massachusetts during the better part of a century in which farming has virtually disappeared from the local landscape.
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.
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.
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.
To The Stars Over Rough Roads: The Life of Andrew Atchison, Teacher and Missionary
$29.95MISSIONARY, EDUCATOR, ENTREPRENEUR, AND RESTLESS PROGRESSIVE, Andrew Atchison led a peripatetic 19th century life committed to the welfare of othersârecently freed slaves, Indians on reservations, immigrant Chinese building the Panama Canalâin locales ranging from Kansas to New Mexico, Texas to Missouri, Louisiana to Panama. Orphaned at twelve in Ohio, Atchison left a mark that stretched WestâTo the Stars as told by Don Nelson in this engaging account of the distinctively American life of his maternal grandfather.
Tower Hill: The First Twenty-Five Years
$28.95NO TYPE OF BUILDINGâpyramid, skyscraper, palaceâpresents so many challenges as the design, construction and sustenance of a botanic garden. John Trexler’s Tower Hill: The First Twenty-Five Years traces the metamorphosis of a venerable urban horticultural institution, the Worcester County Horticultural Society founded in 1842, into the ever-evolving Tower Hill Botanic Garden, which opened in 1986.
