A sharp, self-deprecating comedy about surviving the dot-com crash, and yourself. It’s 2001, and tech startups are imploding, taking Marilyn Carr’s brand-new telecom job with them. Four months in, unemployed, and saddled with a terrifying Toronto mortgage, panic would be reasonable. Instead, Marilyn finds material. A glittering consulting contract rescues ... more >
From the award-winning author of American Sirens and A Thousand Naked Strangers comes a real-life thriller about the most daring rescue in air-medical history. JULY 2014. Two American medical volunteers who joined the fight against the deadliest Ebola outbreak in world history have gotten infected. The virus kills in just ... more >
Ain’t Nobody’s Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton by Martha Ackmann A larger-than-life new biography of country music legend and philanthropist Dolly Parton. In Ain’t Nobody’s Fool: The Life and Times of Dolly Parton, Martha Ackmann chronicles the life of an American Original. From her impoverished childhood in ... more >
The War Correspondents unveils the extraordinary bravery and unmatched literary legacy of the journalists who risked their lives to cover WWII’s European Theater Ernie Pyle, John Steinbeck, Walter Cronkite, Edward R. Murrow, Ernest Hemingway, Bill Mauldin, Robert Capa, Margaret Bourke-White, Andy Rooney, Martha Gellhorn, Richard Tregaskis—the list of American correspondents ... more >
Bad Date by Ellery Lloyd This was a punchy little short story that probably doesn’t hold up under much scrutiny. I don’t usually (ever) read short suspense stories, so this was something different – I believe it was an Amazon freebie. It starts with the recording of a podcast with ... more >
The Far Edges of the Known World by Owen Rees A revisionist history of the ancient world that shifts our focus from Athens and Rome to the long-ignored societies on the borders. In The Far Edges of the Known World, ancient historian Owen Rees draws on archaeological excavations to reveal ... more >