A tragic story on the edge of the Gilded Age
J. KEMPER CAMPBELL For the Journal Star “Courtesy of Hamilton and Sargent: A Story of Mystery and Tragedy on the Frontier of the Gilded Age”...
Chinese professor discovers boy reading the book “Murphy’s Law” on the train and urges him to attend an elite university
A seven-year-old boy reading about a subject far beyond his age group on a crowded train in China was discovered by a professor at Peking...
Make reading part of your summer adventures
Darcie Caswell, Youth Services Coordinator at Central Rappahannock Regional Library The solstice has just passed and we have Independence Day this week. There’s no denying...
Why finding love in the ‘iron rice bowl’ could kill growth in northern China
She then tried an office job in the military and failed again. “I felt that my desire for freedom was too great to get there,”...
