Books & Ideas
Patty Howell Publishes
Island native Patty Howell has published World Class Marriage: How to Create the Relationship You Always Wanted with the Partner You Already Have, a book on marriage she cowrote with her husband, Ralph Jones. The book identifies 16 pillars essential for marital success, based on research as well as their more than 30 years as a married couple. Patty Howell is the daughter of E. Everett and Dorothy Howell of Vineyard Haven. Her father was a well-known photographer and her mother taught for many years at the Tisbury School.
One spring day a few years ago, alone on his boat off Cape Cod, writer William Powers fouled his propeller on a mooring line. He leant overboard to free it and fell in, drowning his mobile phone.
Being a man used to constant electronic contact with the world, Mr. Powers first considered this a “disaster.” But actually, it was an epiphanous moment.
Ruth Marcus, op-ed columnist for the Washington Post and a member of the newspaper’s editorial board since 2003, will speak on Thursday, July 15, as part of the Summer Institute series at the Martha’s Vineyard Hebrew Center in Vineyard Haven.
The Suspense Ends Friday Night
Mary Higgins Clark had yet to write one of her 42 (so far) bestselling books when her fourth baby, Carol, arrived just months after the author sold her first short story. Both bring their pens to the Bunch of Grapes tonight to sign and discuss, in Mary’s case, The Shadow of Your Smile, and in Carol’s case, Wrecked, a new Regan Reilly mystery set on the Cape.
Two Island authors will speak at the Oak Bluffs Public Library this week.
On Thursday, July 8, at 6:30 p.m. Cynthia Riggs will read from her soon to be published book, The Bee Balm Murders.
On Friday, July 9, at 11 am, Tom Dresser will talk about his latest book, African Americans on Martha’s Vineyard: From Enslavement to Presidential Visit. He will answer questions and sign his book.
Beef Cattle Talk
The Martha’s Vineyard Agricultural Society will host a presentation and discussion of beef cattle production a 7:30 p.m. this Friday, July 9.