Books & Ideas
Jonathan Scott’s new book, Pioneer Houses of Martha’s Vineyard, released this summer, offers a varied and meticulously researched look into the...
She organized an 18-hole mini golf course starting at the circulation desk and ending at the children’s library upstairs.
Three years have passed since the publication of the book, The Mortal Sea, but its impact continues. The 378-page history of the dramatic decline of...
When Truman Capote hunkered down in Kansas to research what would become his book In Cold Blood, Oak Bluffs resident Don Cullivan, an old army buddy...
In researching the life of King David for her new book, The Secret Chord, Geraldine Brooks traveled to Israel, where she herded sheep on a Samarian...
Judy Flynn Palmer recently published a book telling of the summers she and her sister and their cousins spent at the family farm.
Professor Philip Weinstein will present Anna Karenina and The Brothers Karamazov beginning on Sept. 9 and continuing through December at a series of...
Author Paul Greenberg wants the seafood consumer to take a deeper look into what they purchase.
Daniel Goleman, a part-time Chilmark resident, recently published his latest book, A Force For Good: The Dalai Lama’s Vision for Our World.
A Martha’s Vineyard & Chappy Sketchbook, published this summer by Vineyard Stories. Gail Rodney’s voice is soft as she tells its story.
Not every book talk begins with a Buddhist chant and guided meditation. But that was the scene last week at the Bunch of Grapes Bookstore, when Lama...
It is a big week for symposiums on the Vineyard. so get out the date book.
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Women Healers of the World: The Traditions, History & Geography of Herbal Medicine, has been awarded the national Nautilus Book Award.
The March installment of Tweed’s Reads reading group at West Tisbury library will take up the topic “the prison of group think.”
The West Tisbury Library has received a gift of books from the Vineyard’s sister island, the Caribbean nation of Saint Vincent and the Grenadines.
