Career EdTech worker (K12 and Higher Ed) since the 90's, Appalachian Trail thru hiker, Left of liberal, Grandfather, Army Vet, The good kind of southerner. No intellectual pretensions. Friendly.
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"New York City tabloid reporter Rebekah Roberts knows almost nothing about the mother who abandoned her as an infant. Aviva …
"Just months after Rebekah Roberts was born, her mother, an Hasidic Jew from Brooklyn, abandoned her Christian boyfriend and newborn …
A mission to Mars.
A freak accident.
One man's struggle to survive.
Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one …
A spellbinding, propulsive new novel from the bestselling mystery writer who "is in a class …
You can never finish a Tana French book without missing her characters, that feeling where you're not ready to say goodbye on the last page. I'll be thinking of Cal, the retired detective newly moved to Ireland and Trey his young friend for some time.
Brings back with clarity the reason we Americans can't have nice things - our addiction to wars that have become exercises in moving Doritos to the PX for the thousands of American soldiers, most of them trailer dwelling non-combatants like the subject of this novel. Our foreign policy is conducted by people who are good at being in the Army but terrible at solving our often self created problems. This book illustrates that at a micro level.
The Years of Rice and Salt is an alternate history novel by American science fiction author Kim Stanley Robinson, published …
David Sedaris returns with his most deeply personal and darkly hilarious book.If you've ever laughed your way through David Sedaris's …
"Two events made September 1st a memorable day for Jesse Cullum. First, he lost a pair of Oakley sunglasses. Second, …
Not too long from today, a new, highly contagious virus makes its way across the …
Great world building
