An American PlaguePowerful and riveting, this Newbery Honorwinning narrative describes the illness known as yellow fever, the toll it took on the nations capitaland the eventual triumph over the disease. Long before Covid and the West Nile virus, yellow fever was a medical mystery that forced thousands in Philadelphia, the nations temporary capital, to flee and brought the workings of the federal government to a virtual halt. A riveting account of this countrys first

A Grief Observed— One of Lewis' most intimate works

In his 2011 article “Innovation Starvation

the second volume of women's writing from the heart of the American West compiled by the editors and ranchers Linda Hasselstrom

who may or may not be the best thing since sliced bread

so substantially researched

Eliza dreams of being a playwright for the king’s theater

Ted was a hard-lined engineer

When she hears of a mythical place called Eden that might have a cure for the blood disease that killed off most of civilization

but circumstances and men conspire against her

is killed for allegedly whistling at a white woman

A young man jumps from a bridge in Glasgow and falls to his death in the water below

and thefts—all solved with his characteristic panache