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Brian Murphy’s Adrift is a tale of 18th-century high-seas shipwreck and survival that is exhaustingly researched, yet told with the urgency of a good thriller. In January of 1856 the packet ship John Rutledge is scheduled to sail from Liverpool to New York City, but midway in her journey, an iceberg tears into her hull.... Continue Reading →
It takes a lot of courage to jump in and fight against the riptide of systemic racism, low-performing schools, familial economic strain and the lure of drugs in the East Brooklyn neighborhood of Brownsville. Chris Legree and his fellow coaches in the Mo Better Jaguar football program fight a daily battle to help young men... Continue Reading →
Paul Collins’s latest true crime account Blood & Ivy takes the reader into the world of Boston’s elite in 1849. The victim in this case is George Parkman, successful businessman, doctor, and most importantly, Harvard alumni. He disappears on the 23rd of November on a seemingly routine round of errands in Cambridge, close to the... Continue Reading →
Tristram Korten's Into the Storm is a riveting account of the search and rescue effort to save the crews of two ships lost in Hurricane Joaquin in the fall of 2015. The El Faro and the Minouche are trying to move cargo across the Caribbean as the storm grows in intensity. Korten follows the actions... Continue Reading →
John Branch’s The Last Cowboys is an absorbing history of the modern American West. In telling the story of the Wright family of Southwest Utah, Branch covers the politics of land management and grazing rights, the day-to-day operations of a cattle ranch, and the inner workings of the rodeo circuit. The author weaves these topics... Continue Reading →
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