Details about book discussion for Portrait of a Woman: .Art, Rivalry, and Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard by Quinn. Please check with sherry@storiedgifts.com for details of location.
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Details about book discussion for My People, Five Decades Writing About Black Lives by Hunter-Gauntlet.. Please check with sherry@storiedgifts.com for details of location.
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Details about book discussion for Bet the Farm, the dollars and sense of growing food in America by Beth Hoffman. Please check with sherry@storiedgifts.com for details of location.
Details about book discussion of Taste Makers, Seven Immigrant Women Who Revolutionized Food In America. Contact Sherry@storiedgifts.com for details
Details about book discussion “Confessions of a Sociopath,” September 20, 6:30 p.m.
Details about book discussion for “Caste: Origins of Our Discontents, July 26, 6:30 p.m.
Details about book discussion for “The Destiny of the Republic, Candice Millard, May 17, 6:30 p.m.
Details about book discussion for “Breath: The New Science of a Lost Art, James Nestor, April 19, 6:30 p.m.
Details about book discussion for “The Quiet Zone, by Stephen Kurczy, March 2023.
Details about book discussion for “The Man Who Tried to Save the World, Scott Anderson, February 2023.
Details about book discussion for “The Sky is Not the Limit,” by Tyson deGrasse in January 2023.
Just Kids begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists’ ascent, a prelude to fame.
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humor and heart, she tells of growing up one of the few Asian American kids at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother's particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother's tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food.
Tracing her distinctly American journey from immigrant to war correspondent to presidential Cabinet official, Samantha Power’s acclaimed memoir is a unique blend of suspenseful storytelling, vivid character portraits, and shrewd political insight.
In Left on Tenth, Delia Ephron enchants as she seesaws us between tears and laughter, navigating the suicidal lows of enduring cutting-edge treatment and the giddy highs of a second chance at love. With Peter and her close girlfriends by her side, with startling clarity, warmth, and honesty about facing death, Ephron invites us to join her team of warriors and become believers ourselves.
In 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to “Miss Adorable,” the 17-year-old Abigail Smith. In 1801, Abigail wrote to wish her husband John a safe journey as he headed home to Quincy after serving as president of the nation he helped create.
Was What’s My Line TV Star, media icon, and crack investigative reporter and journalist Dorothy Kilgallen murdered for writing a tell-all book about the JFK assassination? If so, is the main suspect in her death still at large?
In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe.
At an early age, Ruth Reichl discovered that “food could be a way of making sense of the world. If you watched people as they ate, you could find out who they were.” Her deliciously crafted memoir Tender at the Bone is the story of a life defined
When eleven-year-old Cornelius Vanderbilt began to work on his father’s small boat ferrying supplies in New York Harbor at the beginning of the nineteenth century, no one could have imagined that one day he would, through ruthlessness, cunning, and a pathological desire for money, build two empires—one in shipping and another in railroads—that would make him the richest man in America.
With this Dickensian tale from America’s heartland, New York Times writer and columnist Dan Barry tells the harrowing yet uplifting story of the exploitation and abuse of a resilient group of men with intellectual disability, and the heroic efforts of those who helped them to find justice and reclaim their lives.
A never-before-told story of Virginia Hall, the American spy who changed the course of World War II, from the author of Clementine.
In 1942, the Gestapo sent out an urgent transmission: "She is the most dangerous of all Allied spies. We must find and destroy her."
