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Baby Catcher, Chronicles of a Modern Midwife

126 reviews
Peggy VINCENT

Scribners, 2002

I LOVE this book!
I was born in my house and witnessed the births of my two younger brothers. Yet I hate to say, I never imagined that I myself could deliver at home. All my friends were born at hospitals, so that must have been normal, right? I used a hospital midwife for my first child and had an amazing birth experience. If I hadn't, (and if I didn't already LOVE my current midwife who will also deliver in a ...

The last Puritan: A memoir in the form of a novel

4 reviews
George Santayana

Scribners, 1936

A beautiful and moving novel of ideas
One of the finest books of the 20th century, The Last Puritan was a sensation when published in the 1930's. It tells the triumph and tragedy of Oliver Alden, a youth born into a strict, "Progressive" Unitarian family in late 19th Century Boston. As his life progesses, he struggles to reconcile the harsh idealism in which he was raised with the beautifully chaotic nature of the real world. ...

Die Like a Man

4 reviews
Michael Delving

Scribners, 1970

Absolutely the BEST
I'm not even trying to sell this book, and I can say it was a joy to read, and sad to come to the end because there wasn't more of it. One of the rare reading pleasures I've encountered.

Green Mile the Screenplay

6 reviews
Frank Darabont

Scribners

There is an angel somewhere!
I discovered the first episodes of The Green Mile in Biloxi, Mississippi, and the last ones in France. I read them. I was moved by strong emotions, practically to tears, and yet I remained unsatisfied. I reread it when it came out in one volume, and I had the same sensation of frustration. The book, the story had two lines and the unity was not clear, the message was not obvious and it seemed ...

La Salle and the discovery of the great West (France and England in North America, part 3)

6 reviews
Francis Parkman

Scribners, 1915

Breathing Life into History
While there is a new Introduction, this is the historic account of Robert LaSalle's exploration of the Louisiana territory in the 1680s. Parkman first published this treatise in 1869; it has since been reprinted numerous times. An excellent, thoroughly engrossing recounting of the exploration of the territory which LaSalle claimed for France in 1682, through which the reader not only learns ...

Cross Creek Cookery

5 reviews
Marjorie Kinnan RAWLINGS

Scribners, 1942

Fantastic recipes of Southern cooking
As the other reviewer has mentioned, this is a collection of recipes, filled with anecdotes of central Florida life in the 1930s and 1940s. The recipes are fantastic and one wants to try all of them (although it may be difficult to prepare alligator-tail steak). And, what a pleasure it is to read a cookbook written by an accomplished author. You just keep picking it up.

Over My Dead Body

10 reviews
Rex Stout

Scribners, 1992

Classic Nero Wolfe
Having read just about all of the Nero Wolfe series, I have to say, this one contains all of the elements that make Rex Stout's detective novels wildly entertaining, without most of the elements that make some of them maddening In this mystery, the utterly unswashbuckling Wolfe is revealed, in his younger, svelter days, to have been quite a romantic. Not only did he fight on the anti-Imperial ...

Babylon revisited and other stories

9 reviews
F. Scott Fitzgerald

Scribners, 1965

BRILLIANT STORIES
I bought this volume of stories simply to get a copy of Fitzgerald's "May Day" which I'd read in one of my college texts and then could not find for years. I have always felt that "May Day" would make a superb film--and the screenwriter could lift most of the dialogue right out of the story. It is that good and simple and dramatic. Actually every one of the stories in this collection is first ...

Crossing Open Ground

5 reviews
Barry LOPEZ

Scribners, 1988

At the edge of the senses.
"I live in a rain forest in western Oregon, on the banks of a mountain river in relatively undisturbed country, surrounded by 150-foot-tall Douglas firs, delicate deer-head orchids, and clearings where wild berries grow" (p. 148), Barry Lopez writes in this collection of his 1978 to 1986 essays. Lopez allows each essay to tell a story leaving its reader with "an inexplicable renewal of ...

The King's Evil : A Novel

2 reviews
Will Heinrich

Scribners, 2003

A powerful narrative
I picked up this book expecting evil kings, magic swords, etc. Then I kept reading anyway. I found The King's Evil to be absolutely compelling. The best books are the ones where you wrap yourself in the narrative and you can feel the book's provocative ideas poking around in your gray matter, forcing you to think, ponder, consider - and, for that matter, to consider ideas that are the kind of ...

Basic Christian Ethics

2 reviews
Paul Ramsey

Scribners, 1952

Basic Christian Ethics
This fascinating look at the basic tenets of Christianity is both powerful and enlightening. It should be required reading for anyone studying ethics or theology as well as christians who want to come to a greater understanding of their religion and faith. Particularly noteworhty is the chapter called "Christian Love in Search of a Social Policy" which discusses, among other things, the concept ...

In the South Seas

3 reviews
Robert Louis Stevenson

Scribners, 1891

In the South Seas
In his book, In the South Seas, Stevenson gives an accurate and in depth look into the people and culture of the islands of the South Pacific. The book describes Stevenson's two year journey from the Marqueses Islands, to Tahiti, then Honolulu ,and finally Somoa. Stevenson uses the great adventures he experienced and his masterfully writing skills to paint a breath taking view of the islands and ...

Carver Country: The World of Raymond Carver

2 reviews
Raymond Carver, Bob Adelman

Scribners, 1990, 1990

This book is very moving
Carver was a wonderful, wonderful writer. It's great to see his house, his study, his wife and friends photographed so beautifully. It's great to read his stories, his poems, more than 10 years after his death and to find them as powerful as ever. This book is very moving.

BY-LINE: ERNEST HEMINGWAY; Selected Articles and Dispaches of Four Decades

2 reviews
Ernest Hemingway

Scribners, 1967

A wonderful collection of Hemingway's journalism: A must-read for fans, journalists & bloggers
Even the most die-hard Hemingway fan has probably overlooked this invaluable collection of the famed author's work as a journalist. The articles, though decades old, still read quite modern. Thus is the genius of Hemingway. I was a journalist for Hemingway's suggested "five years" (he advises writers to get out of the newspaper business after that period of time) and back at the start of my ...

R.E. Lee: A biography

3 reviews
Douglas Southall Freeman

Scribners, 1962

No Question About It...THE Biography of Lee For All Time...
The story is well told how Douglas Southall Freeman went on to write this four volume magnum opus. Born in 1886, the son of Confederate veteran Walker Burford Freeman, young Douglas grew up in the sunny remembrances of Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia. He received his Ph.D in history at the tender age of 22 and earned an early reputation as a Confederae scholar with Calendar of Confederate ...

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