Books & Ideas
In America's earliest years, the waters surrounding the young country were vulnerable to foreign invasion, principally by the British Navy.
Dad’s a drunk named Bull, brother Jimmy is an ex con dealing heroin, and Cooper Harrison is stepping in a pile of donkey manure on a regular basis as...
After a winter of endless storms and frigid temperatures, author and family therapist Dr. Anne Fishel is looking at the bright side. “It’s good for...
Over the next year, the Sustainable Book Club will read and discuss books about diverse environmental topics. The entire Island is invited to...
Author Demaris Wehr discusses her new book, Making It Through: Bosnian Survivors Telling Stories of Truth, on Tuesday, Jan. 13, from 7 to 8:30 p.m....
Marshall Highet's love of writing and reading came early. Both of her grandmothers were writers. Her paternal grandmother was Helen MacInnes, the...
Tributes and expressions of sympathy were heard around the country for the acclaimed illustrator and children’s author who delighted multiple...
When I read recently in the New York Times about the possibility of Scotland exiting the United Kingdom, I was confused. I had no idea Great Britain...
The early manuscript was written more than 30 years ago when the West Tisbury author was living on a houseboat in Washington, D.C. Now Murder at C-...
Windswept, a new novel by Kate Hancock, opens with the story of Josiah Cook, a farmer on Chappaquiddick who in the late 18th century witnesses...
Poets come together next Thursday, Nov. 20, at the West Tisbury library for a free evening of reading.
A new novel by Rick Herrick arrives with a weighty yet straightforward title — A Man Called Jesus.
