Assassination Vacation is a nonfiction discussion on three American presidents and their assassins as told by one with an obsession so great, she actually took a vacation to visit each and every landmark associated with the murders. Lincoln (R) in 1865, Garfield (R) in 1881, and McKinley (R) in 1901 are the three presidents she…
Dede Cummings and Alyssa Homes are local New England authors from Vermont. Healing Herbs: How to Grow, Store, and Maximize Their Medicinal Power Description Dig into the world of herbal medicine with this complete guide to cultivating and harvesting plants with healing properties. For thousands of years, people have been utilizing herbs and cultivating…
Dr. Shiva is a local Cambridge, MA author and the INVENTOR of email. The Future of Email by V.A. Shiva, Ph.D. Email, the system I invented in 1978, while a 14-year-old boy, to enable collaboration and communication among office workers at a small medical college in Newark, NJ, has now become the center of many controversies….
Cancer doesn’t have to be a death sentence. The get-out-of-cancer-free card? Prevention through information. The recent World Cancer Report from the World Health Organization states that about half of all cancers are preventable and can be avoided if current medical knowledge is better delivered. From People magazine, with a readership of 43 million to Internet…
Abandoned by the Vatican: My Clandestine Journey to Support Secret Priests Behind the Iron Curtain is the little known but true tale of the “Book Priest” and his project to secretly ship Catholic books to illegal priests in Czechoslovakia, Poland, Yugoslavia, and Romania during the Cold War. You would think a tale such as this…
Harvard-born anthropologist and biologist Wade Davis is the author of several award-winning books including The Serpent and the Rainbow. Released in 2009, The Wayfinders: Why Ancient Wisdom Matters in the Modern World is a lecture-filled work of nonfiction that creates a collage of his life’s work among indigenous populations and carefully selected historical accounts, and discusses…
Physics of the Impossible: A Scientific Exploration into the World of Phasers, Force Fields, Teleportation, and Time Travel by Michio Kaku is a fascinating glimpse into all the science-fiction marvels and themes we see in movies, TV shows, and books. If you aren’t familiar with his name, his face is instantly recognizable. He’s been a…
All Mascara is Not Created Equal by Jessica Landmon Genre: Women/Spirituality/Self-Help Women Get Real Press “This book is [more of] a woman-to-woman guidebook for life.”—-Jessica Landmon All Mascara is Not Created Equal takes spirituality to the modern woman. Tackling issues such as body image, fear, depression and many others, Landmon has tips that are practical, spiritual…