Summary (from the publisher): Bill Bryson and his family live in a Victorian parsonage in a part of England where nothing of any great significance has happened since the Romans decamped. Yet one day, he began to consider how very little he knew about the ordinary things of life as he found it in that [...]
Summary: In Slander: Liberal Lies About the American Right, conservative columnist Ann Coulter addresses several instances of what she believes to be pervasive liberal media bias. This bias, in part, is revealed in the way political stories are presented to the American people and in the way politicians are covered. Specifically, Coulter believes that the [...]
Description (from the publisher): Some appreciate fine art; others appreciate fine wines. Stanley Fish appreciates fine sentences. The New York Times columnist and world-class professor has long been an aficionado of language: “I am always on the lookout for sentences that take your breath away, for sentences that make you say, ‘Isn’t that something?’ or [...]
Summary (from the publisher): Compared to his Australian excursions, Bill Bryson had it easy on the Appalachian Trail. Nonetheless, Bryson has on several occasions embarked on seemingly endless flights bound for a land where Little Debbies are scarce but insects are abundant (up to 220,000 species of them), not to mention crocodiles. Taking readers on [...]
My nephew is in sixth grade now and is already starting to get some pimples. I know it bothers him (even though he would never admit it) because I see him looking at his zits in the mirror all the time. He probably doesn’t want me to butt in, so I’m not going to say [...]
Summary: In this book, true crime writer Joe McGinniss gives readers an in-depth look at the Lieth Von Stein murder, which took place in 1988. Von Stein was brutally beaten and stabbed to death in his North Carolina home on July 25 of that year. Wife Bonnie suffered life-threatening injuries in the attack, but managed [...]
Summary: Treason by Ann Coulter is subtitled “Liberal Treachery from the Cold War to the War on Terrorism”, and in it the conservative columnist vents her spleen about how Democrats never seem to “root for America”. She begins by talking about Whittaker Chambers and Alger Hiss, and how the Democrats flatly denied that Hiss was [...]
Summary (from the publisher): In June of 1860 three-year-old Saville Kent was found at the bottom of an outdoor privy with his throat slit. The crime horrified all England and led to a national obsession with detection, ironically destroying, in the process, the career of perhaps the greatest detective in the land. Inspector Jonathan Whicher’s [...]
Summary (from the publisher): The real story of the crash began in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can’t pay their [...]
I’ve long been considering a cleansing program as a way to rid my body of toxins, but I really don’t know where to start. There are so many different opinions and products out there that it’s practically impossible to decide — especially since I’ve never done something like this before and have absolutely zero experience [...]