We were on a skiing vacation the week before the Coronavirus popped, and this is the story of getting home to deal with it here. With the...

Looking back on the Teens, or the Tens, gives perspective on an incredible decade. It began deep in the throes of the financial disaster...

The backbone of New Zealand’s south island are the spectacular Southern Alps, the home to many glaciers. Two of these are easily...

A trip to New Zealand for anyone from the northern hemisphere should include the treat on a clear night sky of a little southern...

Agent Storm is the story of a Danish man's personal transformation from street thug, to jihadist, to secret agent for Danish, British,...

The Bonnie Lea Book Club convened to discuss a book on the social and economic revolution happening today, entitled Machine Platform...

The Finest Hour is the story of one of the greatest rescue operations in the history of the US Coast Guard, and it happened out of...

The book America’s War for the Greater Middle East is a four decade chronology of America's military involvement in the Middle East,...

Without Precedent, by Joel Richard Paul, was the story of Chief Justice John Marshall, our country's most influential and most prolific...

“Our Man in Charleston” is a story of Britain's consul in Charleston, South Carolina in the several years before, and into the War...

We all enjoyed this second book by Philipp Meyer: great writing, backed by deep research, and an ability to project interesting and...

A Summertime Hemmingway Double Header A Moveable Feast contains the theme the Hemingway writes the truth. Write one page of truth and...

This book is the autobiographical account of Jan Karski, young intellectual, optimistic young soldier, prisoner to the Russians /...

Rogue Heroes is the non-fiction historical accounting of the development of the world’s first “special forces”, the British SAS (Special...

This book was a slog, and only began to flow with the arrival of Caligula past the book's halfway mark. Nero seemed to be Holland's...

This book was the story of the emergence of electricity in America, centered around the three most important characters in its nascent...

Our discussion of Jordan Peterson's 12 Rules for Life - an Antidote to Chaos began with criticism of his verbose prose and slightly...

Malcolm Gladwell’s Outliers provided fertile ground for our April meeting, but our discussion trended toward validating our respective...

This was a book that met one of our book club’s central tenets: it was a book we would never pick up and read on our own. This was the...

Jim Stone's book about five problems that challenge America, and his solutions, resonated with the whole group. Only half of Bonnie Lea...