Taffy Cannon
Personal Information
Description
Cannon graduated from Duke University with a bachelor's degree in political science in 1970 and received her Master of Arts in Teaching from it in 1971. She has worked a multitude of odd jobs from carnival barker to professional feminist but then decided to devote her career to writing. Her work includes both series and standalone mysteries, an Academy Award-nominated short film, and Convictions: A Novel of the Sixties. Her books have been finalists for Best Novel in the Agatha, Macavity, Left Coast Crime Western Regional, and San Diego Book Awards. Her Booked for Travel mystery series was written under the pseudonym Emily Toll. She completed The Tumbleweed Murders, a Claire Sharples Botanical Mystery begun by her friend and colleague, Rebecca Rothenberg, who died in 1998. Cannon was named Carlsbad Citizen of the Year 2014 for service to the Carlsbad City Library. (Source
Books
Blood Matters
(Publisher-supplied data) In 2004 genetic testing revealed that Masha Gessen had a mutation that predisposed her to ovarian and breast cancer. The discovery initiated Gessen into a club of sorts: the small (but exponentially expanding) group of people in possession of a new and different way of knowing themselves through what is inscribed in the strands of their DNA. As she wrestled with a wrenching personal decision -- what to do with such knowledge -- Gessen explored the landscape of this brave new world, speaking with others like her and with experts including medical researchers, historians, and religious thinkers. Blood Matters is a much-needed field guide to this unfamiliar and unsettling territory. It explores the way genetic information is shaping the decisions we make, not only about our physical and emotional health but about whom we marry, the children we bear, even the personality traits we long to have. And it helps us come to terms with the radical transformation that genetic information is engineering in our most basic sense of who we are and what we might become.
Paradise Lost
Women before the bench
Mississippi treasure hunt
Vangie and Jason fly to visit their dad for the summer and expect to be bored but find an old letter hidden in a old desk and set out to solve a mystery and find a hidden treasure.