Books & Ideas
NEGOTIATE LIKE THE PROS: A Top Sports Negotiator’s Lessons for Making Deals, Building Relationships, and Getting What You Want. By Kenneth...
James Grippando’s Intent to Kill is fixed firmly in the thriller genre, but with more twists than most.
The lead character, Ryan James, is a baseball...
EXILES IN THE GARDEN. By Ward Just. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. July, 2009. 288 pages. $25.
Anyone who has spent time in London, Paris, Tokyo or...
THE LITTLE SLEEP. By Paul Tremblay. Holt Paperbacks, March, 2009. 288 pages. $14.
His first novel, Paul Tremblay’s The Little Sleep debuts as a...
LETHAL LEGACY. By Linda Fairstein. Doubleday. February, 2009. 367 pages. $26.
T he magnificent New York Public Library (NYPL) is the number one...
REALITY CHECK. By Peter Abrahams. HarperTeen, April, 2009. 336 pages Hardcover $16.99
If you can get past the not so germane title, Peter...
DOG GONE IT. By Spencer Quinn. Atria, February 2009. 305 pages. $25.
If dogs could translate their thoughts into English, they would undoubtedly...
On Saturday, August 1, at 10 a.m. at the West Tisbury Free Public Library, the Ortlip family will unveil a portrait of Captain Eugene A. Cernan,...
This weekend Dr. Richard Brown, an associate professor in clinical psychology at Columbia University, will visit the Yoga Barn in West Tisbury, to...
Second City alumna Tara DeFrancisco — who also has performed with ComedySportz, iO, and Annoyance Theatres in Chicago, not to mention being named...
Wampanoag Language
The Death and Rebirth of the Wampanoag Language is the topic for Professor David J. Silverman, of George Washington University...
Cultural anthropologist and University of Chicago professor Dr. Richard Shweder will deliver a talk titled Some Hazards of Moral Thinking at the...
