It’s embarrassing enough to be ignorant about American history, but, as a librarian, to not know about the largest library fire in the country? I’m pretty sure my librarian membership can be ... Read More...
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
You don’t need to be well-versed in history to know about the systematic decimation of Native American tribes by the American government as this country was being settled. What you probably did not ... Read More...
American Radical: Inside the World of an Undercover Muslim FBI Agent
Like some of the other non-fiction books I read last month (Educated, I’ll Be Gone in the Dark), American Radical by Tamer Elnoury reads like fiction. High-wire tension, thriller kind of ... Read More...
I’ll Be Gone in the Dark
I finally joined the hordes of readers I know who have been held hostage by Michelle McNamara’s I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer, a true crime ... Read More...
The Sacrifice
Joyce Carol Oates is not one to shy away from the tough subjects. The last book of hers I read was Daddy Love and it was a very difficult look at child abduction and pedophilia. In The Sacrifice she ... Read More...