Point Mettier, Alaska is no one’s idea of paradise. Its inhabitants—all 205 of them—live in the same high-rise apartment building and the only access to town is by a tunnel or the sea.
“When I turned 18, the first thing my mother told me is to go register to vote,” says Wanda M. Morris, whose latest mystery “Anywhere You Run,” tells the story of two sisters who are caught up in the tumultuous 1960s when Civil Rights workers were trying to help Blacks in the deep south exer…
Lila Macapagal knows there’s trouble ahead when her long-lost cousin Ronnie shows up in Shady Palms, Illinois after having ghosted the family 15 years ago.
For tired travelers journeying across the Kansas prairie in the 1870s, the humble inn run by the Bender family seemed like as good of a place as any for a hot meal and a bed to rest for the night. The only problem? Like the Eagles song “Hotel California,” the Benders’ roadside stop was the t…
Branza de burduf—a sheep’s cheese aged in the bark of a fir tree from the Transylvanian Alp region of Romania, Cuore di Tonno (tuna heart) from Italy, Cod Tongues from Newfoundland and Labrador, and the slightly obscene but tasty geoduck, a giant clam sold in markets in Seattle that can be t…
It’s been 42 years since “Caddyshack” was released but no matter how long ago you saw the movie there are probably scenes and quotes that still can cause a chuckle. That humor, irreverent as it is, was par for the course when Andy Murray was growing up with his eight siblings in Wilmette, Illinois.
Peyote Trip has been in Hell—yes the real Hell—so long that he’s risen to Floor 5, a much better gig than the floors below. His job now is to get people to sign away their souls for short term solutions to their problems and it involves returning to the living world to charm and manipulate.
Peyote Trip has been in Hell—yes the real Hell—so long that he’s risen to Floor 5, a much better gig than the floors below. His job now is to get people to sign away their souls for short term solutions to their problems and it involves returning to the living world to charm and manipulate.
For four years, David Maraniss immersed himself in all things Jim Thorpe, a Native American of mostly Sac and Fox descent who is often touted as the greatest all-around athlete ever.
The grandson of slaves, Jack Trice grew up in a small town in Ohio where his family was one of only a handful of Black families. But the death of his father, a Buffalo soldier—the African American soldiers who served on the Western frontier after the Civil War--sent Trice on a different traj…
Ina Garten has a new cookbook.
Jada Pinkett Smith has a lifetime of thoughts she'd like to set down.
A struggling journalist at the nadir of her career, Cecily Wong is given what might be her last big chance to out scoop her competitors—an interview with renowned mountaineer Charles McVeigh.
After serving in Afghanistan for seven months in the Helmand River Valley, where the single bloodiest battle of that war took place, resulting in the deaths of 25 Marines and the wounding of 200 more, Marine Major Thomas Schueman redeployed to Afghanistan for a second time.
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