Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Louise Jones

Educated in the US, Soong Mei-ling, daughter of a wealthy and powerful Chinese banking family, wife of General Chiang Kai-shek, influenced American Chinese political and cultural policy for decades. An engaging, thoroughly researched book about a brilliant and determined woman.

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Louise Jones

In Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu by Laurence Bergreen brings alive the thirteen-century world of this legendary traveler. At seventeen, Marco Polo left Venice with his father and uncle for the Far East court of Kublai Kahn, returning twenty-four years later. Marco was a fabulist and self-aggrandizer, but also perceptive and open-minded; he described to Europeans the unknown other half of the worl... read more>>>

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Bill Lewis

This great work effortlessly takes the reader from East Anglia to Massachusetts Bay, from the late Elizabethan era to the mid-17th century. Simultaneously the finest biography of Winthrop and one of the great history books about early New England.

Northshire Bookstore Review
Reviewed By... Stan Hynds

Whether you are put off or amused by the title, be prepared for a superb reading experience. Flynn writes in a unique style about a troubled childhood and an alcoholic, homeless father who re-enters his life after years of estrangement. In the crowded field of literary memoirs, Nick Flynn's story is a stand out.