Monthly Archives: July 2024

An Innkeeper’s Memoir

Posted on July 25, 2024 by Bookworm

It sounds like the premise of a movie or a novel: A couple ditches corporate life and buys and restores an inn on the coast of Maine. In actuality, it’s the real life story of 1986 Boston College grad Teri … Continue reading →

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Afghanistan and a disillusioned veteran

Posted on July 22, 2024 by Bookworm

Final Engagement: A Marine’s Last Mission and the Surrender of Afghanistan (Diversion Books, 2024) is 2010 Boston College graduate Christopher Izant’s reckoning with America’s longest war, told through his team’s deadly last showdown fighting alongside Afghan forces against the Taliban. It … Continue reading →

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Tales of a newspaper woman

Posted on July 18, 2024 by Bookworm

Elizabeth Garver Jordan was a groundbreaking journalist, suffragist, and editor who gained notoriety for her coverage of the murder trial of Lizzie Borden. She also published detective novels and short story collections such as Tales of the City Room. She … Continue reading →

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The Big Squeeze

Posted on July 15, 2024 by Bookworm

A new picture book from 2010 Boston College graduate Molly Harris shares a lesson about the importance of asking for help before burning out. The Big Squeeze (HarperCollins Children’s, 2024), illustrated by Alison Hawkins, tells the story of an eager … Continue reading →

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How gender politics broke a party and a nation

Posted on July 11, 2024 by Bookworm

Lauren Haumesser, a 2010 Boston College graduate, conducts a fresh examination of antebellum politics by examining the ways that gender issues and gendered discourse exacerbated fissures within the Democratic Party in her book The Democratic Collapse: How Gender Politics Broke … Continue reading →

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European studies

Posted on July 8, 2024 by Bookworm

Gabriel Feldstein, a digital publishing and outreach specialist at O’Neill Library, has contributed a chapter to The Handbook for European Studies Librarians (University of Minnesota Libraries, 2024), edited by Brian Vetruba and Heidi Madden. It is a new open-access book … Continue reading →

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Words of wisdom

Posted on July 1, 2024 by Bookworm

Boston College graduate Maria Leonard Olsen is a lawyer, journalist, and author who hosts the “Becoming Your Best Version” podcast. She shares words of wisdom from more than 75 inspiring women she has featured on her podcast in the book … Continue reading →

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