The Perfect Storm by Sebastian Junger
“October 1991. It was “the perfect storm”–a tempest that may happen only once in a century–a nor’easter created by so[…]
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Category: Non-Fiction
Geek Wisdom by Stephen H. Segal (ed.)
“Computer nerds are our titans of industry; comic-book superheroes are our Hollywood idols; the Internet is our night on the[…]
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Tudors by Peter Ackroyd
“Rich in detail and atmosphere and told in vivid prose, Tudors recounts the transformation of England from a settled Catholic[…]
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Caesar’s Last Breath by Sam Kean
“It’s invisible. It’s ever-present. Without it, you would die in minutes. And it has an epic story to tell. With[…]
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Alex and Me by Irene Pepperberg
“Alex & Me is the remarkable true story of an extraordinary relationship between psychologist Irene M. Pepperberg and Alex, an[…]
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Left for Dead by Beck Weathers
“In 1996 Beck Weathers and a climbing team pushed toward the summit of Mount Everest. Then a storm exploded on[…]
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The Private Lives of the Tudors by Tracy Borman
England’s Tudor monarchs—Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I—are perhaps the most celebrated and fascinating of[…]
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Dead Mountain by Donnie Eichar
In February 1959, a group of nine experienced hikers in the Russian Ural Mountains died mysteriously on an elevation known[…]
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Grunt by Mary Roach
“Grunt tackles the science behind some of a soldier’s most challenging adversaries—panic, exhaustion, heat, noise—and introduces us to the scientists[…]
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Sex in the Museum by Susan Forbes
“Sarah Forbes was in graduate school when she stumbled upon a museum dedicated to . . . sex. The anthropology[…]
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