Lynn Hamilton
Content by Lynn Hamilton
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It's the mid-1960s, and Walter Selby is living the American dream or so he thinks.
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The sky is truly falling on many fish species. Nets come up empty, and fish-based economies collapse.
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The sky is truly falling on many fish species. Nets come up empty, and fish-based economies collapse.
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Fruit trees and family trees intertwine in The Family Orchard, Nomi Eve's semi-autobiographical novel that traces a fictional Israeli family from the early 19th century to the present.
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When Ralph Nader's photo first appeared on the cover of a national magazine, a family friend called his mother to congratulate her. Really? Rose Nader replied, I think I'll go out and get a copy.
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Don't be misled by the title of Paul Theroux's newest travel book. Dark Star Safari is about neither hunting nor the dark-hearted white hunter made mythic by Joseph Conrad.
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<B>A dog's work is never done</B> Not many dogs pull sleds these days, and only a few fight crime. But that doesn't mean dogs aren't working.
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What is life without all its trappings? That's the question Gretel Ehrlich seems to be pursuing in her fascinating new book This Cold Heaven, a collection of reminiscences about Greenland.
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It's tempting to cast Homer Hickam as a rags-to-riches, self-made man.
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On maps, the Darien Gap doesn't look like a hotbed of armed guerillas.
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As a chubby nine-year-old, Lynne Cox was the slowest kid in the pool. But she loved swimming, so she kept plugging away at it.
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Prepare to lose sleep, skip meals and ignore your e-mail.
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Though she was only a child, the memory of cheering white soldiers on to victory in the Rhodesian war haunts Alexandra Fuller, and probably always will.
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For American history buffs, Derek Hayes' The Historical Atlas of the United States is a dream come true: It's a detailed pictorial history of America's ever-evolving political and cultural
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In Tattoo for a Slave, 92-year-old novelist Hortense Calisher (A Sunday Jew) renders a personalized history of the last 100 years of the United States.
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James Prosek's gone fishin' in a big way. But that doesn't mean he's divorced himself from reality in favor of pastoral bliss the way fishermen so often do.
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Henry loves Tilly. What's not to love? She's beautiful, elegant, does everything to perfection. Henry has lived with her for the past 10 years. But he won't commit.
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Many people have been more famous in death than in life, but Elmer McCurdy would seem to take the prize for post-mortem renown.
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Thomas Marent has been capturing the beauties of the rainforest with his Nikon for 16 years, and now the best of his life's work has been collected in a new coffee table book, titled simply Ra
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Art history professor Martin Kemp (The Oxford History of Art) previously examined Leonardo da Vinci's life in 2004's Leonardo; now he concentrates on the artist's notebooks in Leonardo Da V
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Navajo poet Nasdijj has produced another triumph in his latest memoir, Geronimo's Bones: A Memoir of My Brother and Me.
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During a reader's first 10 minutes of acquaintance with Samantha (Sammy) Joyce, she discloses much of her loveable character.
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We've been lied to.
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Is there anything more American than horse racing? Anything as classy and earthy?
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Does your dream home have a green roof and a rainwater harvesting system? Will you propose marriage over organic wine and sustainably grown vegetables?
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They say a great painting shows you an ordinary scene a pasture you pass on your way to work every day, for instance and suddenly makes you see it as if for the first time.
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Heralded as the worst conflagration to assail a city in peacetime, the 1906 San Francisco fire was responsible for the deaths of 3,000 people and the destruction of 522 city blocks, according to
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When Dorothea Benton Frank's mother died, her family's old beach house on Sullivan's Island went up for sale. Frank wanted to buy it.
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<b>Gore's sobering view of global warming</b> Former Vice President Al Gore's latest treatise on global warming, <b>An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warmin
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Alone on her mountain, Deanna is hugging a secret. A coyote pack has recently moved to the Appalachian Mountains overlooking Zebulon Valley, Virginia, where this story is set.
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Rick Bragg, be afraid. Be very afraid. Chris Offutt is going to give you a run for your money.
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If we back up a few paces, Joseph Romm's Hell and High Water: Global Warming the Solution and the Politics and What We Should Do will tell us exactly what the crisis is and why we need to chan
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No epidemic has equaled the devastation of the Bubonic Plague, which decimated between one-third and three-quarters of Europe's population in the Middle Ages and continued to flare up in destructiv
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Can beauty be found in rubble? The answer is yes if you are street photographer Joel Meyerowitz.
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Ten years in the making, Dale Peterson's definitive biography Jane Goodall: The Woman Who Redefined Man finally shows us Goodall's life as a whole: her charmed childhood in the Engl
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It used to be that more was better. Industrialization, urbanization, specialization and capitalism made people wealthier, healthier and happier. But where are we now?
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While others are stretching and reaching blindly for that first cup of morning coffee, legendary swimmer Lynne Cox is earning her breakfast with a miles-long unsupervised swim in the cold Pacific O
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People are already making comparisons between A Year in Provence and Manana, Manana. But, at the risk of committing travel writing heresy, some readers may like Manana better.
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Honora Beecher collects sea glass off the coast of New Hampshire.
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Guns? Tanks? Fighter planes? Submarines? There must be a better way to fight a war, at least that's what some high-ranking officials in the U.S.tates military thought.
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Eustace Conway is handsome, brilliant, charismatic. He owns his own valley in North Carolina. He's a trendsetter and a newsmaker. He even has a conscience. So why can't he keep a girlfriend?
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For people who want to take their revolution a little slower, there's Michael Norton's 365 Ways to Change the World: How to Make a Difference One Day at a Time, a clever spin on books with dai
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If there is a heaven, I'll be surprised. If I wind up there, even more so.
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In A Crack in the Edge of the World: America and the Great California Earthquake of 1906, Simon Winchester covers the same historic territory, but devotes considerable attention to the science
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No longer young, Bruce Stutz undergoes risky heart surgery which leaves him in the depths of post-operative depression, something physicians call pumphead when their patients aren't listening.
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On an April afternoon in 1935, Hugh Bennett was lecturing a group of U.S. senators on the causes of the Great Plains Dust Bowl. As he spoke, the window darkened as if night were falling.
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For most readers of Nora, Nora, the title character will steal the show. A whiff of scandal accompanies Nora's arrival in Lytton, a sleepy, rural Georgia town.
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e're used to reading about lonely women whose lives revolve around the quest for a man.
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ar is hell, as we all know, but the last word on that still hasn't been said.
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siana's wetlands are a religious thing for Christopher Hallowell. "Life begins for untold animal and plant species in the twilight of swamps and the hidden reaches of marshes," he writes.
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dward Abbey, the staunch defender of the natural world, can quit turning over in his grave now.
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Prepare to e-mail all your cleverest friends and recommend Trials of the Monkey, Matthew Chapman's wickedly funny, politically incorrect diatribe on religious superstition and other human fo
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While others strive to cover up their family's dysfunctions, writer Marsha Recknagel has chosen to bare all.
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Giant reptilian skeletons, stuffed birds and groups of marginally behaved, uniform - clad school children.
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It's tempting to compare rural writer Verlyn Klinkenborg to pillars of American literature such as Robert Frost and Henry Thoreau.
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Rooted in the remote Queen Charlotte Islands of British Columbia, a golden spruce stood for more than 300 years, capturing the hearts, imaginations and scientific curiosity of local tribes, explo
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Do cats have ESP? One man wondered why the family cat went to the door to greet his wife exactly five minutes before she got home every day.
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Born into captivity, Nim Chimpsky was whisked out of his mother's arms and plopped into a human family, where he was the center of an experiment by research psychologist Herbert Terrace, aimed at
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Tim Flannery's The Weather Makers: How Man Is Changing the Climate and What It Means for Life on Earth may well be the most reader-friendly book to date on the science and consequences of clim
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Do people behave any better than animals? Do they often behave worse?
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Reuters news agency has captured the first six years of the 21st century in Reuters: The State of the World, a series of captioned photos that span modern life from the new millennium cele
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Imagine a childhood with almost no boundaries. Kids haphazardly look after each other. They get drunk with their mother and smoke with their dad. There's no such thing as too many dogs.
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In Polar, Deputy Ray Tatum has two mysteries to solve: the disappearance of Angela Dunn, a wordless child who wanders into the woods, never to be seen again by her parents, and the sudden pr
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Prepare for the kind of laugh that starts deep in your belly and lingers on the lips, distilling into residual chuckles that punctuate the silence of your armchair.
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Fame eluded Gordon Langley Hall as a writer, even though he was a prolific scribbler of memoirs and novels.
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To Georgia residents, Savannah Electric billboards featuring white pelicans or cute frogs are a familiar sight.
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Nelson Mandela, one of the most interesting men of the 20th century, also has one of the most interesting faces.
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Prepare to feast your eyes and break your heart.
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If you ever chuckled when you heard the phrase battle of the sexes," thinking to yourself, that's no battle, child," Francine Prose's book might make you reconsider.
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<B>The pain of a boy's final days</B> Native American author Nasdijj delivers an unforgettable memoir with <B>The Boy and the Dog Are Sleeping</B>, a chronicle of the death
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The Rough Guide to Shopping With a Conscience by Duncan Clark and Richie Unterberger is probably the most comprehensive and up-to-date consumer guide of its kind.
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