Books
Local Author’s New Book Chronicles Life of an Unconventional Wartime Spy
World War II-era novels, both fiction and nonfiction, offer readers insights and glimpses into life during that particularly turbulent and brutal period of human history. Joining that popular genre is “Code Name Madeleine: A Sufi Spy in Nazi-Occupied Paris,” the true...
Dr. Ruth Recalls Her Israeli Military Service in FIDF Webinar
You know Dr. Ruth K. Westheimer as a world-renowned celebrity sex therapist. For the past four decades, she has delighted and enlightened radio listeners, TV viewers, college students, readers and her own patients with her candid, no-holds-barred advice about human...
Book Smarts – Spring 2020
Seeking your next good read? Emma Snyder, owner of The Ivy Bookshop, offers recommendations for must-read titles for adults and children. Fiction “We Ride Upon Sticks: A Novel” (hardcover)By Quan Barry, Pantheon, 384 pages, $26.95 Acclaimed novelist Quan Barry...
Bestselling Author Robert Kolker Discusses the Stigma of Schizophrenia
Author and investigative journalist Robert Kolker admits he tends to be drawn to dark subject matters. “I think the job of most nonfiction writers is to tell vivid, dramatic stories,” he says. “My job is to not make those stories sensational but to identify with the...
Pikesville Native’s New Book Aims to Create Young Social Activists
In some ways, Jeffrey Kluger’s newest book, “Raise Your Voice: 12 Protests that Shaped America,” couldn’t come at a better time. With the challenges facing the United States and world right now with the coronavirus outbreak, young people desperately need heroes, a...
Filmmaker Barry Sonnenfeld Writes Decidedly Jewy Memoir
In the early 2000s, director and cinematographer Barry Sonnenfeld got into a shouting match with Larry David at a hotel breakfast in New York. Donald Trump was in the room, too. The topic of the argument? Who was more neurotic. “As a Jew, you want to be No. 1,”...
Author and Psychotherapist Lori Gottlieb to Speak at Soul Center
(Editor’s Note: This event has been cancelled by its organizers due to the coronavirus situation. The Soul Center hopes to present Lori Gottlieb’s talk virtually in the future.) If you’re in therapy, maybe you’ve wondered how your therapist really feels about...
Author Tracy Walder to Talk at Ivy Bookshop about her Life as a CIA Operative
Tracy Walder was a young Jewish sorority sister in her junior year at the University of Southern California in the spring of 1999 when she stopped by the CIA’s recruitment table at an on-campus job fair. Walder, who planned to be a high school history teacher, didn’t...
Book Smarts – Feb. / March 2020
Seeking your next good read? Emma Snyder, owner of the Ivy Bookshop at 6080 Falls Road in Mount Washington, offers recommendations for must-read titles for adults and children. Fiction “Such a Fun Age” (Hardcover)By Kiley Reid, G.P. Putnam’s Sons, 320 pages, $26...Upcoming Events
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