Prize Winning Book and a Life Cut Short
Marjory Potts

In 2004, the novel Suite Francaise was awarded the Renaudot Prize, a glittering prize for fiction in France. This astounded the literary world because the author, Irene Nemirovsky, had been dead and mostly forgotten for over 60 years.

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Going to the Heart of Cooking, Kitchen Tables of Ancient Kings
Heather Hamacek

James Beard award-winning cookbook author Joan Nathan’s new cookbook, King Solomon’s Table, is filled with recipes as resplendent as those prepared for the fabled royalty.

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For Alexandra Fuller, Writing Requires Going to the Hard Places
Glynis Hart

Alexandra Fuller, author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight, recently released her first novel, Quiet Until the Thaw. She will be speaking on Friday, July 7, at Bunch of Grapes bookstore in Vineyard Haven.

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Oceanographer, Poet, Menemsha Man Through and Through

Conrad Neuman’s new book, Up-Island Poems, is a short lyrical diary of a poetic soul who went out and came in with the tides, an oceanographer who traveled the world and returned to his Island birthplace to rest, to fish, to tell tales.

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Start Making Sense: Cornelia Dean Takes Science to Heart
Bill Chaisson

In all three of her books, Cornelia Dean, former New York Times science editor, Brown University instructor and Chappaquiddick resident, has campaigned against the misuse of science.

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Ebbing and Flowing Around the World

Jonathan White set out to educate himself about tides, traveling from Chile to China. The result is his book Tides: the Science and Spirit of the Ocean.

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When Laughter Leads, the Heart Follows
Heather Hamacek

In an essay in her new book Would Everyone Please Stop? Jenny Allen invites readers to come and stay in her Vineyard home. It’s something of a cautionary tale.

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When Subject Is Mass Extinctions, Hopefully the Past Is Not Prologue
Alex Elvin

Peter Brannen’s book The Ends of the World explores the six mass extinctions on Earth and what they might tell us about our own dangerous experiment on the planet.

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When Roses Go on Adventures, Young Readers Grow in Spirit
Rick Herrick

Two old Vineyard friends have collaborated on a children’s book entitled The Roses on the Wallpaper.

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Sister Islands Meet Sister Issues in Elin Hilderbrand's New Novel
Heather Hamacek

Martha’s Vineyard has a leading role in Nantucket author Elin Hilderbrand’s 19th novel, The Identicals.

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