Autographed Books
Great Soul: Mahatma Gandhi and His Struggle with India
by Joseph Lelyveld
In this ambitious, original study, Pulitzer Prize-winner Lelyveld sets out to measure Gandhi’s accomplishments as a politician and an advocate for the downtrodden–against Gandhi’s own expectations and in light of his complex, conflicted feelings about his place in Indian history.
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Pitch Uncertain: A mid-Century Middle Daughter Finds Her Voice
by Maisie Houghton
Touching and incisive, Pitch Uncertain is a beautifully drawn account of Maisie Houghton’s struggle to find her own voice as the middle child of two parents whose marriage and lives she slowly decoded as she came of age in the 1950s. Growing up in the gentle ambience of Cambridge, Massachusetts, spending full summers in Dark Harbor, Maine, and regularly visiting her relatives in the socially polished reaches of greater New York, Maisie and her two sisters had the makings of an ideal childhood. But their parents were an enigma.
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Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern World
by James Carroll
Jerusalem, Jerusalem: How the Ancient City Ignited Our Modern WorldCarroll’s urgent, masterly “Jerusalem, Jerusalem” uncovers the ways in which the ancient city became, unlike any other in the world–reaching deep into our contemporary lives–an incendiary fantasy of a city.
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Shadows On the Gulf
by Rowan Jacobsen
The James Beard Award-winning author of “A Geography of Oysters” takes readers on a journey through the Gulf’s wetlands, and reveals, in the wake of the oil spill, how the wetlands are being damaged by what experts call a 100-year catastrophe.
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Leaving Van Gogh
by Carol Wallace
In this riveting novel, Carol Wallace brilliantly navigates the mysteries surrounding the master artist’s death, relying on meticulous research to paint an indelible portrait of Van Gogh’s final days–and the friendship that may or may not have destroyed him. Telling Van Gogh’s story from an utterly new perspective–that of his personal physician, Dr. Gachet, specialist in mental illness and great lover of the arts–Wallace allows us to view the legendary painter as we’ve never seen him before. In our narrator’s eyes, Van Gogh is an irresistible puzzle, a man whose mind, plagued by demons, poses the most potentially rewarding challenge of Gachet’s career. Wallace’s narrative brims with suspense and rich psychological insight as it tackles haunting questions about Van Gogh’s fate.
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by Jessica B. Harris
Acclaimed cookbook author Jessica B. Harris has spent much of her life researching the food and foodways of the African Diaspora. “High on the Hog” is the culmination of years of her work, and the result is a most engaging history of African American cuisine. Harris takes the reader on a harrowing journey from Africa across the Atlantic to America, tracking the trials that the people and the food have undergone along the way.
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Before the House Burns
by Mary O’Donoghue
Set on Ireland’s Atlantic coast, Before the House Burns is a tender, implosive first novel by an award-winning short story writer and poet. It concerns the lives of its three young narrators, children of a bereaved father and witnesses to a shared grief.
