A severe case of World War Two takes James Herriot away from his vet's life in the Dales and into a training camp somewhere in England. Square bashing in his uniform of RAF blue, he daydreams of the livestock he...

Award-winning reporter Judy Pasternak tells the haunting story of uranium mining on the Navajo desert and its terrible, long-ignored legacy. The Washington Post - Ann Cummins …disturbing and illuminating…There's nothing clinical or dry about Yellow Dirt. While Pasternak cites a...

The first book on AIDS to be writen from the point of view of a gay man's heterosexual sister. And what writing it is! "The mark of a good writer is that when she invites you to take a trip...

In this very special collection of favorite stories about dogs great and small, James Herriot tells us about his own dogs and all the wonderful people and animals we have come to love so much. Fifty memorable tales move us...

Understanding migration through the lives and fiction of migrant workers in New England....

Strapped into the cockpit of a Tiger Moth trainer, Herriot has swapped his wellingtons and breeches for sheepskin boots and a flying suit. Very soon the vet-turned-airman is grounded, and back to his old life in the Dales....

Award-winning reporter Judy Pasternak tells the haunting story of uranium mining on the Navajo desert and its terrible, long-ignored legacy. The Washington Post - Ann Cummins …disturbing and illuminating…There's nothing clinical or dry about Yellow Dirt. While Pasternak cites a...

Full of hilarious tales of his boss Siegfried Farnon, his student brother Tristan, the joys of spring lambing, a cat called Boris and James' jinxed courtship of the lovely Helen, this volume of memoirs is sure to delight old and...

As it ravaged the world, the influenza epidemic of 1918 devastated Boston s congested North End and left hundreds of orphans in its wake. Touched by this crisis, a Roman Catholic priest and a group of Italian Americans founded the...

In May 1948, a nationwide radio audience first heard a twelve-year-old cancer patient known only as "Jimmy" as he was visited bedside by members of his beloved Boston Braves baseball team. An appeal for support followed, and since...