Not sure what to get this holiday season? Give books for Christmas! Here are 5 reasons why a book is better than some random trinket or desultory addition to someone else’s clutter pile. As corny as it sounds: give the gift of reading this Christmas, for Christmas’ sake. 1. Promote Critical Thinking ‘Critical reading’ promotes
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I learned a lot about what I thought I had known about Christopher Columbus; my assumptions challenged, my misconceptions revealed. Laurence Bergreen’s “Christopher Columbus: The Four Voyages” is a literary unmasking of one of history’s most renown subjects, and ironically, one of its least understood. Much enmity and praise has been laid at the doorstep
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The best moments in travel just happen to be the most random ones. Stuff done on the fly, off of a dare, in the moment, often with family. This is one of my favorite memories, not because of the complexity of it, or how much it cost, or even the bragging rights of anything, it’s
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My fascination with author James Horn began with a book called “Adapting to a New World” in which he cast the early Virginia colonists not as ‘instant Americans’ (just add Chesapeake water!) but of Englishmen and women who had transplanted their cultural mores from the old country to their new home. This single premise has
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“This Is The Day” by football legend turned baseball player Tim Tebow is a GRAND SLAM! As an already accomplished author, Tebow brings more colloquial eloquence to his readers in his latest offering subtitled “reclaim your dream, ignite your purpose, live your passion.” Those themes run throughout the book and inject you with enough motivation
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Make these 10 Airport travel tips a chapter in your travel bible! Read this now and save yourself hours of headache and frustration at airports. I’m sharing some advice I’ve learned through my years of extensive travel. I was raised by parents who were travel agents so I got to see all aspects of travel
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You should stop what you’re doing right now and read “The Last Book Smuggler” by Birutė Putrius! Its pages are a lesson for all humanity about tragedy, hope, and success beautifully woven like a Lithuanian juosta sash as a masterpiece of historical fiction. Although set in Lithuania in 1902, this book is universal in both
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Reading “The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine” by Serhii Plokhy has had a profound impact on me. Never before did I understand the history of this region which is at the same time both volatile and beautiful; situated at the eastern gateway to Europe its ancient past harks back to the very first
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Michael North’s book “The Baltic: A History” is like trying to study a train through the window of another train flying in the opposite direction at 80 miles an hour. You can get the gist of the passing train’s composition, color, shape, and length but you would never recognize it sitting in a train yard
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Over the years the #booknerd in me has scored! I’ve come across a few valuable multi-volume book sets that I bought for dirt cheap at book sales, garage sales, and even libraries. In addition to being an avid reader I also have been collecting books for over 30 years now and have on the order
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