The Atomic Weight of Love – Los Alamos Revisited
THE ATOMIC WEIGHT OF LOVE Elizabeth J. Church, who grew up in Los Alamos during the 1950s, writes an addendum to her novel, The Atomic
THE ATOMIC WEIGHT OF LOVE Elizabeth J. Church, who grew up in Los Alamos during the 1950s, writes an addendum to her novel, The Atomic
This Fight is Our Fight, written as teacher, scholar, and public servant with heart. When I think of Elizabeth Warren, I think of three things:
Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, Camille Laurens’ intense and personal narrative study of Edgar Degas’s famous sculpture of a young ballet dancer. When I finished reading
Oh William! – Strout’s Lucy Barton is back in a stand-alone novel of depth and texture, drawing the reader into a compelling story of past
This alternate history novel takes us back to Tudor England’s royal family in the mid-sixteenth century. In reality, Anne Boleyn bore a female child to
It is February fellow-Americans, and we know, as readers, students, television programmers and booksellers, what that means: It’s Black History Month! What I’ve never understood
The Burgess Boys belongs to a literary genre that I might facetiously describe as “familial angst.” Written for mildly neurotic women readers and populated by
Black History Month – I can’t believe I have not upgraded this essay and list of interesting titles since 2013. Today, in our frightening political
MY DEAR HAMILTON, the unsanitized version of U.S. history seldom taught to school children. Dray and Kamoie set us straight. Clearly, my generation of school
Jaimy Gordon’s Lord of Misrule is a novel about horse racing at a small time track in West Virginia, where worn-out horses, trainers, jockeys, grooms
A Strong West Wind and Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout When I go on an extended road trip, I always carry along
The Go-Between: A Novel of the Kennedy Years More than fifty years after his untimely death, John F. Kennedy still fascinates us. Frederick Turner’s The
Epitaph: A Novel of the O.K. Corral Thirty seconds at the O.K. Corral. Mary Doria Russell’s sequel novel to Doc (Holliday) is Epitaph. The center
Pacific – Silicon Chips and Surf Boards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires and the Coming Collision of the World’s Superpowers Simon
VINEGAR GIRL The Hogarth Shakespeare project, by commissioning a number of premier authors to write contemporary novels loosely based on William Shakespeare’s plays, brings those
Shadow Land – Elizabeth Kostova – August 13, 2018 – 7:00 PM – Clayton Community Library
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