GREAT READS

The A&E show Hoarders has nothing on New York's famed Collyer brothers, eccentric recluses from a prominent family who collected anything and everything over a thirty-year period.  Renowned American author E.L. Doctorow fictionalizes the liv...

In The Lost City of Z, journalist David Grann sets out to solve the mystery of what happened to the tough-as-nails British adventurer Percy Fawcett.  The last of the great Victorian explorers, Fawcett disappeared in 1925 during his quest into th...

After writing a piece for Vanity Fair  about the life and tragic death of conservationist Joan Root in Africa in 2006, Mark Seal knew he had much more of Joan's story to tell and set out to do so in the biography Wildflower.  With the help ...

Readers who like Southern fiction will enjoy debut novelist Kathryn Stockett's The Help. Set in the south during the early days of the Civil Rights movement, Stockett tells the stories of several Southern women, drawing striking parallels and social ...

In Pulitzer-prize winning author Geraldine Brooks' novel People of the Book (2008), rare book expert Hanna Heath journeys to Bosnia where she is charged with conserving the Sarajevo Haggadah, a fourteenth-century Jewish prayer book used in Passover w...