Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Bill Lewis

In The First American, the outstanding young historian H.W. Brands has written the best and most enjoyable biography of Benjamin Franklin that we have had in decades.

The careful and comprehensive research is obvious, the writing superb, and the story is complete.

The Franklin that emerges is lively, ambitious, always at the center of events...and yes, genuinely wise.

This delig... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Louise Jones

Eleanor of Aquitaine: A Life by Alison Weir is one of the best of many books about that most extraordinary woman, the wife of both the King of France (Louis VII) and of England (Henry II), and the mother of two English kings, Richard I and John. Weir paints a vivid portrait, based on a voluminous bibliography, of the people and politics of the Middle Ages. In a time when 50 was elderly, Eleanor, the wealthies... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Bob Gray

This is an extraordinary memoir. McCourt recalls his Irish childhood with a true storyteller's gift for language, humor, and the human spirit. This is an original and irresistible new voice.