New Book About White House Seders to Be Celebrated

Richard Michelson’s latest children’s book, Next Year in the White House: Barack Obama’s First Presidential Seder, tells the story of how Passover became an annual celebration at the White House during President Obama’s administration.

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Heath Hen Book Brings History to Kids

History is found everywhere on the Island. Christie Palmer Lowrance hopes her first published children’s book, The Last Heath Hen: An Extinction Story, documents an important part of that story.

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Percival Everett Wins National Book Award

Percival Everett won the National Book Award for his novel James, a retelling of the Mark Twain novel Adventures of Huckleberry Finn from the slave, Jim’s, perspective.

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Vineyard Bookshelf: Represent

On the eve of a national election in the United States that will certainly feature angry conflicting stories of voting fraud, an extra relevance attaches to Represent, the new collaboration by Michael Eric Dyson and Marc Favreau.

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Getting Into the Mind of True Crime

Michael Ditchfield's upcoming true-crime novella, No Such Agency, recently won the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Writing Contest.

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Vineyard Bookshelf: Grappling
Noah Glasgow

For decades, Chilmarker Bob Kaplan has worked as a leadership coach for many influential business executives.

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Excavating Real Life to Get to the Heart of Fiction

Fred Waitzkin’s latest novel began with a phone call.

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Lifting Up the Unsung Origins of Country Music

From the origins of the banjo as an African instrument to the first country radio hits being sung by Black men, Alice Randall wants readers to know that country music would not exist without the Black people who shaped it.

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Lifting up the Legacy of Hope and Perseverance

Grief, family, race, healthcare and identity were at the center of multiple discussions at the recent Martha’s Vineyard Community, Purpose and Legacy Series.

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Following the Flight of the Quiet Butterfly

Author Victoria Wright compares confronting her internal bully to that of a caterpillar folding completely within itself and decomposing inside its cocoon in order to be born again as a radiant butterfly.

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