Shelf Reflections

Review: Force of Nature by Joan M. Grifin

Summary: Three friends, women in their fifties, set out to hike “the most beautiful long-distance trail in the world,” the[…]

“Derick Lugo had never been hiking. He didn’t even know if he liked being outside all that much. He certainly[…]

“Daniel Smith’s Monkey Mind is the stunning articulation of what it is like to live with anxiety. As he travels[…]

“The Pacific Crest Trail stretches from Mexico to Canada, a distance of 2,650 grueling, sun-scorched, bear-infested miles. When Dan White[…]

“Alex & Me is the remarkable true story of an extraordinary relationship between psychologist Irene M. Pepperberg and Alex, an[…]

“In 1996 Beck Weathers and a climbing team pushed toward the summit of Mount Everest. Then a storm exploded on[…]

“Sarah Forbes was in graduate school when she stumbled upon a museum dedicated to . . . sex. The anthropology[…]

“Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis’s exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada—a coming of age story,[…]

“Seventeen-year-old Elena is vanishing. Every day means renewed determination, so every day means fewer calories. This is the story of[…]

“In gripping accounts of true cases, surgeon Atul Gawande explores the power and the limits of medicine, offering an unflinching[…]