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In this fascinating study of learn that everything has meaning, and everything contributes to the making the so-called “First Dark Ages,” Cline takes the remnants of a world of soul. Through Nepo’s clarity and prose, we are encouraged and guided to largely relegated to myth, ties them together with a keen eye and the develop practices that will help address the universal longing for wisdom, help of some of the era’s few written records, and creates something spe - truth, and love. ~ Jane cial. In so doing, he paints an eerily familiar portrait of a burgeoning international civilization rapidly undone by war, climate change, famine, The Tutka Bay Lodge Cookbook: and social upheaval. ~ Tim Coastal Cuisine from the Wilds of Alaska by Kirsten Dixon and Mandy Dixon (Alaska Northwest Books) The Arsonist by Sue Miller (Knopf) I will never be able to afford a night’s stay at the Tutka Bay Lodge near From the author of The Senator’s Wife comes the story of a summer in Homer, Alaska, so I will have to be content with drooling over this beautiful Pomeroy, an eastern beach town where an arsonist has torched six sum - cookbook. Written by the mother-daughter team who operate the lodge, it’s mer homes. The fire and police departments are stretched to their lim - organized into sections based on the meals and activities of the day. There its as conflicts mount between permanent and summer families. 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In the next few years he journeys from the upper echelons of New York Group society to the suburbs of Las Vegas, and finally to Amsterdam. As he tries to adapt to each new situation, all the while shielding a secret from the day of A Child’s Christmas in Wales the attack, the plot centers on his trauma, longing and regret. A frantic and by Dylan Thomas (New Directions) tense climax creates a path of redemption for Theo. Unforgettable charac - Christmas isn’t really Christmas without Dylan Thomas’s classic. Once ters, great attention to detail, exquisite writing, and a grand scope combine to the children are bathed and in their pajamas, once the stockings are make this a rare literary treat. ~ Jane hung and there’s a fire in the fireplace, this is the perfect read-aloud The Norman Conquest: The Battle of Hastings and the book to make the season complete. ~ Ann Fall of Anglo-Saxon England by Marc Morris (WW Norton) Eighty Days: Nellie Bly and Elizabeth Bisland’s Though it looms large in history, information on the Norman invasion of History-making Race Around the World England is sparse, the primary source being the Bayeux Tapestry, itself likely Avail. commissioned by William the Conqueror’s half-brother. Norris has attempted 12/15 by Matthew Goodman (Ballantine) to recreate the events leading up to and immediately following the Conquest, In an era of airliners, it’s tough to remember that “around the world in using sources as close to the events as possible. With an absorbing narrative, eighty days” was once considered a remarkable accomplishment. This he manages to use these oh-so-brief glimpses into a world almost ten centuries story of Bly and Bisland’s 1889 competition to outdo the feat of Jules past to recreate memorable characters and complex events. Part narrative his - Verne’s Phineas Fogg brings that age to vivid life. Journeying in oppo - tory, part historiography, and part investigative journalism, his fascinating tale site directions by steamship and rail, determined to beat time and each sheds new light on the tangled early history of the English nation. ~ Tim other, the journalists encounter every hazard of 19th century travel, along with the everyday hazards that met 19th century women. A terrif - American Chica: Two Worlds, One Childhood ic adventure story about two very different people, this book also by Marie Arana (Dial Press) reminds us that along with its dark moments, history can be rousing and This enthralling memoir of a bicultural childhood is one of the finest works of non - fun. ~ Brendie fiction I have read. With prose masterfully grounded in memory and the senses, Arana, born of a Peruvian father and an American mother, explores the ties and Bijaboji: North to Alaska by Oar tensions between the two, and how those forces resonate intricacies in the cultur - al divide between Latin and North America. Her lyrical story brings to life a Peru by Betty Lowman Carey, ed. by Neil G. Carey (Harbour Publishing) This is the true story of an inspiring adventure. When Betty Lowman was animated by spirits and magic, as well as calamities brought on by earthquakes, 18, her father gave her a cedar dugout canoe.