Taken from the diary of Thomas C. Quackenboss, this work was written as he toured Asia in 1937. Quackenboss traveled on assignment as a photographic journalist for the Chicago Times while accompanying Dr. William Montgomery McGovern, and expert on foreign relations and a Navy Reserve officer with U.S. Navy Intelligence. McGovern, a talented linguist and brilliant political analyst, maintained important political connections throughout Asia and Europe. On their journey, he introduced Quackenboss to the politics, culture and history of Asia.This diary is an enthusiastic and detailed portrayal of the people, places and politics he encountered during a time when the world was on the brink of war.

Double Take

Pettit, Scott

Voyage

Peggy is the third daughter in a Midwestern academic family that summers in Vermont. But in Peggy’s imagination, she lives on the hill farm across the way, with its rhythms of milking, haying, and working horses. Ten interlocking stories follow Peggy’s quest for belonging—to a family, to a time, to a place—as she witnesses the irrevocable change in a Vermont whose mountains are becoming ski areas and whose farms are giving way to villages of second homes. A poignant portrait of a girl who sees the truth she embellishes all too clearly, and who learns that no amount of skill can make her stories of the people she loves turn out the way she wants.

Liar from Vermont

Literature & Fiction

Laura C. Stevenson

Short Stories & Anthologies

Journey of Heart: A Sojurn to K2

Join Sequoia in this inspiring autobiographical adventure of her courageous trek as she leaves behind the safe, familiar surroundings of her home and travels across continents to a remote corner of the planet to “respect the mountain and the climbers who came before” her. She discovers a whole new world, both inside and outside of herself, on this Journey of Heart. 

Journey of Heart

Biographies & Memoirs

Schmidt, Sequoia

Community & Culture

A native of Queens, N.Y., Maestro Weibel was never in doubt about the avenue his future career would take. His talent and love for musical expression began at an early age. He attended both the Juilliard School and Mannes College of Music in Manhattan where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree in conducting and piano. Upon graduation he was awarded a Fulbright scholarship from the U.S. government for further study of opera and conducting in Italy. While there he acquired a wealth of valuable experience and knowledge as well as a beautiful young Italian model, Pasquina Scarpa, as his wife. Weibel's professional life began at the Cincinnati Summer Opera, which led to a job offer from the Metropolitan Opera. Maestro Weibel worked there on the musical staff of the world's leading opera house for eleven years. During these rich years, he served as assistant to Leonard Bernstein, Claudio Abbado, Sir Georg Solti, and many more. The Maestro coached and conducted some of the most illustrious singers of the 20th century including Joan Sutherland, Luciano Pavarotti (who was godfather to his two sons), and Renata Tebaldi. He conducted opera at international opera houses and in the United States. William M. Weibel led a colorful life as an opera conductor culminating in a twelve-year tenure as Artistic Director at Opera in the Heights in Houston, Texas. He passed away on Oct. 3, after a long illness.

Behind the Curtain: An Intimate Autobiographical Probe into the Esoteric World of Opera

Weibel, William M

Arts & Literature

A story nearly 90 years in the making, Born In Rome traces the path that Joseph G. Munisteri took from his earliest days in Italy to become a world-renowned business leader and beloved friend, husband, father, and grandfather. Equal parts autobiography and technology primer, this inspirational book details how Joseph's engineering expertise and passion for learning continue making sustainable, significant impacts on the energy industry--impacts that promise to revolutionize how hydrocarbons are valued on the world stage.

Born in Rome: From Italy to the Energy Empire

Munisteri, Joseph G

Professionals & Academics

There is a certain magic that comes from falling asleep in the backseat and waking up far away. Like fairies, we were transported to a new world and when that world ended a short time later, we found another one to take its place. When we saw the familiar orange and white U-Haul trailer parked outside our house, we knew it was time to leave. Like an echo of times past, all five of us would jam into the car--our familial womb--along with our bewildered pets, awaiting the next stop. Riding in the Backseat with my Brother takes readers through a journey beginning in the 1950s, steered by a dad who had wanderlust, and a nervous mother who gave her third child away following a nervous breakdown after his birth. Ourlineage of distant relatives some called gypsies, wanderers, or Irish Travelers, had not skipped this generation altogether. As we bounced across the country, sucking up the sounds, smells, and sights of new places, the events along the way formed us, making imprints in our hearts and minds forever.

Riding in the Backseat with My Brother

Blaze, Judi

Parenting & Relationships

Jerry Garcia

Troy, Sandy

When Bill Leikam aka the Fox Guy first discovered the presence of the gray foxes in the brush along the San Francisco Bay, he took up a daily vigil in a place that he'd come to call Fox Hollow. There he watched the young foxes playing under the edge of the brush across the road. He jotted down notes on what these foxes did. Returning day after day he found himself consumed by the need to know more about these superb predators. Eventually, people came to call Bill the Fox Guy for as one person out on the trail put it, "That's easier to remember. You're just the Fox Guy." The foxes in two communities learned to trust Bill and in so doing they remained wild and they followed him when he was in the area. This gave him the opportunity to see their various behaviors and to record them in his Daily Gray Fox Log. As he learned more about these foxes, wildlife related organizations and high-tech corporations invited him to share what he knew about these intriguing animals. By 2021 people knew the Fox Guy as the leading authority on the gray fox's behavior; their life and their death.

The Road to Fox Hollow

Science & Math

Leikam, WC

Biological Sciences

A Gentle Rain of Compassion

Finding a fascinating and gratifying medical practice in Kathmandu saved his medical career, but befriending a reincarnate Tibetan lama transformed his life. 
This compellingly written memoir is a grand adventure tale of travel in Nepal and Tibet, tense and highly emotional medical encounters, new romances, and ground-breaking medical research. But all these eventually take a back seat to what the author learns about Tibetan Buddhism and the ability to train in compassion. The author reveals the details of his personal tutoring in Buddhism and his gradual exposure to mysteries and hard-to-explain events that he personally witnesses. For all the readers who dream about what it might be like to travel to the Himalayas and achieve a genuine spiritual connection, this book is the story of how that dream can come true.

Shlim, David R.

Into the Storm

Farrar, Danny Farrar

Religion & Spirituality

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