Mary Johnson “An Unquenchable Thirst”
May 17th, 2013
A life of service, sacrifice, and spirituality is what Mary Johnson had in mind when, at age 17, she joined Mother Teresa’s Missionaries of Charity order at the end of the 1970s.
What she hadn’t counted on was the pettiness, rigidity, even cruelty that she encountered.
Now in her book “An Unquenchable Thirst,” Mary Johnson offers what Anne Rice has called “a candid, generous, and profound spiritual memoir.”
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Elinor Lipman “The View from Penthouse B”
May 10th, 2013
Elinor Lipman is a longtime favorite novelist who is also, it turns outl, a brilliant essayist. Her tenth novel, “The View From Penthouse B.” was published at the same time as her first essay collection “I Can’t Complain.”
Bringing the same warmth and easy companionship of her fiction to her essays, Lipman writes about everything from her favorite soap opera to unexpected widowhood and caring for elderly parents.
Then she eases you effortlessly from the final essay .. into her novel, which centers on two sisters brought together again by circumstance to live together in a New York penthouse — and how they come to rely on each other, an odd roommate, and even an ex-husband.
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Mary Roach “Gulp”
April 24th, 2013
What, exactly, happens to the food we eat, after we’ve eaten it?
As any school child can tell you, it goes into our stomach where it gets digested.
But, how, exactly, does that happen? And what if something goes wrong? And why doesn’t your stomach digest itsefl? And why don’t we like to eat the same things animals eat? And …….
Well, clearly, once you get started, there are a thousand questions.
And now, with a thousand answers, Mary Roach, whose new book “Gulp” is an adventure down the alimentary canal.
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Jacqui Dunne & Bernard Lietaer “Rethinking Money”
April 22nd, 2013
Money makes the world go ’round, as the saying goes. But what is money? Does there have to be just one kind of currency?
Now, in a new book called “Rethinking Money” journalist Jacqui Dunne and banker and consultant Bernard Lietaer explore the origins of our current monetary system, which is built on bank debt and scarcity, and compare it to new kinds of money that communities all over the world are exploring and adopting.
They contend that the current centuries-old money system is actually causing many of the world’s problems. And new currencies, new ways of defining money, can solve those problems. Continue to the interview > > >
Jamie Mason “Three Graves Full”
April 18th, 2013
There is very little peace for a man with a body buried in his backyard.
But it could always be worse. . . .
And as mild-mannered Jason Getty finds out, in Jamie Mason‘s darkly comic thriller “Three Graves Full,” it can indeed get much worse.
After Jason kills a man in an uncharacteristic moment of lethal rage, he buries the body literally in his backyard. Now a year has passed, and Jason finally is learning to live with the undeniable truth of what he’s done.
And that’s when police dig up two bodies on his property – neither of which is the one Jason buried. Continue to the interview > > >
