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Marathon Mania

Sunday, November 2, almost 40,000 people will gather at the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge to run — and walk — through five boroughs of New York City in the New York City Marathon.  New York Times sports...

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Long Island Reads 2009

Doris Kearns Goodwin grew up in Rockville Center in the 1950s.  She recieved a Ph.D. in Government from Harvard University, won the Pulitzer Prize for her book, No Ordinary Time: Franklin and Eleanor...

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Born to Run, by Christopher McDougall

A simple question: how come my feet hurt? provides the premise for this compelling read.  Men’s Health writer Christopher McDougall’s book, Born to Run: a Hidden Tribe, Superathletes, and the Greatest...

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The Wave by Susan Casey

Author Susan Casey wastes no time immersing readers in her watery subject, The Wave: in Pursuit of the Rogues, Freaks, and Giants of the Ocean.  Waves — big, BIG waves — flood her story.  Casey’s...

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Unbroken, by Laura Hillenbrand

Louis Zamperini would have had an incredible life even if he hadn’t crashed into the Pacific Ocean and become a prisoner of war.  Laura Hillenbrand, author of Seabiscuit, tells the amazing story of...

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Eat & Run, by Scott Jurek

“…the ultra distance leaves you alone with your thoughts to an excruciating extent.  Whatever song you have in your head better be a good one.  Whatever story you are telling yourself had better be a...

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The Prophet, by Michael Koryta

In Michael Koryta‘s taut suspense novel, The Prophet, the murder of a 17-year-old girl brings back memories of another similar crime, committed over two decades ago. In the quiet, Midwestern town of...

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