The narrator and heroine of Alone in Antarctica, Felicity Aston grew up nursing an inherent spirit of an explorer, that inevitably led her toward the brutal, beautiful, and mysterious continent of Antarctica. She led numerous group expeditions across other cold regions of the world. She was a physically adept skier and had significant prior experiences…
Voices From Chernobyl is a devastating and haunting book, filled with the grieving voices of the survivors of the Chernobyl nuclear explosion in 1986. Svetlana Alexievich recorded the words, bitter, angry, or resigned, of the survivors she had access to, and turned it into a book filled with raw grief, horror, and beauty. Through Keith…
“When I was a kid, my aspirations were simple. I wanted a dog,” the memoir begins. Interestingly enough, by the time Michelle Obama is old enough to have two daughters of her own, so do they. Becoming is a memoir by Michelle Robinson Obama, the former First Lady of the United States (often referenced…