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An ocean of plastic

Renée Meyer

Sat, Jan 6

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Book Review

New books are some of my favorite gifts, both to give and to receive. But sometimes they don’t get read immediately and end up in some pile, unread and forgotten. While searching around for something to read recently, I came upon one such book: “Plastic Ocean: How a Sea Captain’s Chance Discovery...
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

Renee Meyer

Sat, Apr 11

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Columnists, Book Review

The nightly national news usually ends with a feel-good story, one that often involves nature, often along the lines of “saving the wild.” One night it may be rhinos, another elephants. Pandas are always popular. Recently it was reported in the Huffington Post that turtle eggs had hatched...
Local genealogist chronicles Mitchell family

Fran Migliaccio

Fri, Jan 23

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Features, Book Review

Genealogist Peter Greenman’s new tome is a hefty and fascinating exploration of one of Block Island’s largest families, enlivened by 53 pages of photos. A few facts: • Experience Mitchell arrived in Plymouth Colony in 1623, the first Mitchell in America. • He married Jane Cooke, the daughter of a...
Book review: Tracy Kidder’s “Mountains Beyond Mountains”

Renée Meyer

Mon, Dec 30

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Book Review

Tracy Kidder is a “literary journalist” and through this genre takes the reader along trails of discovery in whatever subject he has chosen. Kidder’s first book was a flop. His second, “The Soul of a New Machine,” published in 1981, won a Pulitzer Prize. Although Kidder’s “Mountains Beyond...
A book every parent (and taxpayer) should read: “Reign of Error”

Fri, Nov 15

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Book Review

With a title like “Reign of Error,” one might be expecting a spy novel or a history of some oppressive government. But the sub-title of this book is “The Hoax of the Privatization Movement and the Danger to America’s public Schools.” Who could imagine that a book about education in America could be...