It was every parent’s worst nightmare: a desperate phone call from a foreign country with the news that your beloved daughter has gone missing.
Lost in the Stacks: People Who Eat Darkness
Posted by Julie Nelson on July 3, 2012
Lost in the Stacks: Burn Down the Ground
Posted by Julie Nelson on June 5, 2012
Lost in the Stacks: Cruising Attitude
Posted by Julie Nelson on May 2, 2012
A bubbly journey through the friendly skies above and crashpads below, Cruising Attitude by Heather Poole delights the reader with funny, charming, outrageous anecdotes about life as a flight attendant.
Lost in the Stacks: Below Stairs
Posted by Julie Nelson on April 3, 2012
It was bad enough having to polish every shoe in the house – but iron the shoelaces? It was true, then, a kitchen maid really was the lowest of the low.
Lost in the Stacks: An Unquenchable Thirst: Following Mother Teresa in Search of Love, Service and an Authentic Life
Posted by Julie Nelson on March 6, 2012
As young Mary Johnson stared at the cover of Time magazine featuring the loving eyes and wizened face of Mother Teresa, she knew her calling: to become a Missionary of Charity.
Lost in the Stacks: Driving with Dead People
Posted by Julie Nelson on February 7, 2012
Sure there was a corpse in the back of the hearse, but that didn’t stop Monica and Julie from joyriding down Main Street.
Lost in the Stacks: Factory Girls: From Village to City in a Changing China
Posted by Julie Nelson on January 3, 2012
They come in thousands, these girls from rural China, teenagers and young adults, alone or in groups, they flock to the booming South China city Dongguan. Here they make handbags, athletic shoes, rubber parts and electronics for eleven hours a day and, if a girl is lucky, Sunday off, in the endless factories that comprise [...]
Lost in the Stacks: Curse of the Narrows
Posted by Julie Nelson on December 6, 2011
9:04 a.m., December 6, 1917, Halifax, Nova Scotia: clocks would stop; glass would shatter; thousands would be homeless; bodies – smashed, burned, bloodied – would stack up; a city would never be the same.
Lost in the Stacks: In the Sanctuary of Outcasts
Posted by Julie Nelson on November 1, 2011
A prison sentence transformed Neil White’s life forever, but it took a group of outcasts to show him the way.
Lost in the Stacks: Breath: A Lifetime in the Rhythm of an Iron Lung
Posted by Julie Nelson on October 4, 2011
Some people might see life in a tiny village, in the family home, in an iron lung, the ultimate confinement. Some might consider being fed and bathed and totally dependent on others no life at all –Martha Mason disagrees.
Lost in the Stacks: Bobbed Hair and Bathtub Gin
Posted by Julie Nelson on September 6, 2011
Oh those madcap Jazz Age writers! The insults fly, the gin flows and the quips are unending as Marion Meade takes you on a boisterous romp through the 1920s.
