Bell Family: Alexander Graham Bell and his daughter walk into the lake

This book provides an inside look at impressionist painter, Berthe Moriscot. ...more

Julia "Marg" Koebert Burns was born in the 1920s and grew up during the Great Depression of the 1930s, and she was Clarksburg, West Virginia's first and only little newspaper girl during that time. In an era when little girls usually wore frilly dresses and giant bows in their hair, ...more

This is the story of a deep and close relationship between two sisters - Virginia Woolf and Vanessa Bell. The influence they exerted over each others lives, their competitiveness, the fierce love they had for each other and also their intense rivalry is explored here with subtlety and compassion. The ...more

Bestseller lists routinely include advice books instructing attentive readers on everything from how to create a life of material and spiritual abundance to how to delay the aging process. While addressing specific issues, such how-to books reflect larger social concerns that characterize a particular time period, and, as such, they ...more