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...
View ArticleLong 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...
View ArticleBorn 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...
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleUnbroken, 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...
View ArticleEat & 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...
View ArticleThe 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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