![]() ![]() LBJ, he’s always insisted, was a supremely complicated person who, for all his venality, was also magnanimous, his merciless crawl to power having been motivated, at least in part, by a heartfelt desire to help the underprivileged. On the other hand, he was a civil-rights hero who cared deeply about the plight of poor blacks and Mexicans. On the one hand, he was colossally corrupt in business, he cheated on an epic scale to win his first Senate election, and he refused to withdraw from Vietnam, at least in part because he was making a mint in payoffs from companies like Bell Helicopter. They read like novels.Īnd as in any good novel, the protagonist, LBJ, was morally ambiguous. Reading his first two LBJ books, I admired more than ever his stately prose, eye for detail, and narrative gift. (If the pattern holds, his final volume should appear in another year or so.) When his first LBJ book came out, Caro was already respected - not least by me - for his 1974 study of Robert Moses, The Power Broker. Johnson, which he’s always described as being about how political power works in America. Then along came Robert Caro, who in 1982, 1990, 2002, and 2012 published the first four massive volumes of his biography of Lyndon B. And as the y ears passed, Best Evidence faded from my memory. ![]()
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Kendra and Seth' s adventure continues in Secrets of the Dragon Sanctuary, the fourth installment of Brandon Mull' s 'NYT 'bestselling Fablehaven series. The siblings are put to the test as the threat grows both abroad and home at the Fablehaven preserve, and Brandon Mull spins his richest and most thrilling fantasy tale yet in this third title of the popular fantasy series. Kendra embarks on a special mission that only she can attempt because of her new abilities as fairykind, while Seth stays behind and discovers an incredible new talent of his own. ![]() In dire need of help, the Sorensons question where to turn, now that long trusted allies have been revealed as potential foes. ![]() Danger lurks everywhere at Fablehaven, where someone has released a plague that transforms beings of light into creatures of darkness. 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It's high time that we start seeing it that way."Ī personal and sociological examination-and ultimately a celebration-of the evolution of female friendship in pop culture and modern societyįor too long, women have been told that we are terrible at being friends, that we can't help being cruel or competitive, or that we inevitably abandon each other for romantic partners. If you're lucky, friends will be the protagonists in these multiple love stories. "Text Me has the thrills and laughs of a romantic comedy, but with an inverted message: 'There just isn't only one love story in our lives,' Schaefer writes. ![]() ![]() ![]() And then we humbly resign ourselves to witnessing the exciting and fateful contests. Maybe all idealized politicians, from Peter the Great to Lincoln to Lenin to Obama, disappoint when we realize that they’re playing the dirty game of politics. That she wrested the crown of all Russia from her husband, Peter III, and with the help of her lover placed it on her own head, and then tried to keep it from her son’s head and place it on her grandson’s, is forgivable – or at least, understandable – in the context of the Sopranos-style skullduggery and double-crosses and murders that characterize royal history. ![]() was only a little German girl brought to Russia for the sole purpose of providing the son of the house with an heir,” the reader, sympathetic or not with some of the grown-up empress’s pragmatic inaction and actions, will always be fascinated. While Massie is smitten with Catherine (1729-1796), who “beneath her title and her diamonds. 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But Matilda will show these horrible grown-ups that even though she's only small, she's got some very powerful tricks up her sleeve.Kate Winslet's award-winning and varied career has included standout roles in Titanic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Finding Neverland, Revolutionary Road and The Reader, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. ![]() Miss Trunchbull is her terrifying headmistress who thinks all her pupils are rotten little stinkers. Matilda Wormwood is an extraordinary genius with really stupid parents. This audiobook features original music and sound design by Pinewood film studios. ![]() Puffin Audiobooks presents Roald Dahl's Matilda, read by Kate Winslet. ![]() ![]() It’s better.” -Dwight Garner, The New York Times I had no idea where it was going, in the best possible sense.It’s never quite the book you think it is. “ Devil House is terrific: confident, creepy, a powerful and soulful page-turner. He begins his research into the murders with diligence and enthusiasm, but soon the story leads him into a puzzle he never expected-back into his own work and what it means, back to the very core of what he does and who he is.ĭevil House is John Darnielle’s most ambitious work yet, a book that blurs the line between fact and fiction, that combines daring formal experimentation with a spellbinding tale of crime, writing, memory, and artistic obsession. Chandler finds himself in Milpitas, California, a small town whose name rings a bell-his closest childhood friend lived there, once upon a time. But now he is being offered the chance for the big break: to move into the house where a pair of briefly notorious murders occurred, apparently the work of disaffected teens during the Satanic Panic of the 1980s. Years later, he is a true crime writer, with one grisly success-and a movie adaptation-to his name, along with a series of subsequent less notable efforts. ![]() ![]() That’s what his mother always told him when he was a child. From John Darnielle, the New York Times bestselling author and the singer-songwriter of the Mountain Goats, comes an epic, gripping novel about murder, truth, and the dangers of storytelling. ![]() ![]() ![]() These traits are just as vital for this new century of globalization, in which our success will depend on our creativity, as they were for the beginning of the last century, when Einstein helped usher in the modern age. This led him to embrace a morality and politics based on respect for free minds, free spirits, and free individuals. His success came from questioning conventional wisdom and marveling at mysteries that struck others as mundane. His fascinating story is a testament to the connection between creativity and freedom.īased on newly released personal letters of Einstein, this book explores how an imaginative, impertinent patent clerk-a struggling father in a difficult marriage who couldn’t get a teaching job or a doctorate-became the mind reader of the creator of the cosmos, the locksmith of the mysteries of the atom, and the universe. How did his mind work? What made him a genius? Isaacson’s biography shows how his scientific imagination sprang from the rebellious nature of his personality. Einstein was a rebel and nonconformist from boyhood days, and these character traits drove both his life and his science. ![]() By the author of the acclaimed bestsellers Benjamin Franklin and Steve Jobs, this is the definitive biography of Albert Einstein. ![]() ![]() ![]() Designed to be read out loud, the stories are complemented with pronunciation guides and translations for foreign words. ![]() In this beautifully illustrated book, Ellen Evert Hopman shares rich stories drawn from traditional folktales, hands-on crafts, and seasonal recipes to help families and classrooms learn about and celebrate traditional holy days and festivals of the sacred earth year. And as the wheel of the year turned, these tales also served to teach the children about holy days and festivals and the Gods and Goddesses who reigned over the changing seasons. ![]() These tales were not only entertaining but also passed down both history and tradition to the next generation. Once upon a time, when only candles lit the inside of homes and people travelled on foot or by horse, the family would finish their supper, wash and dry the dishes, and sit down before the hearth to hear a tale. ![]() ![]() ![]() Source: Kate Raworth’s Amsterdam City Doughnut Scholars United for a Sustainable Amsterdam (SUSA) took up this challenge in 2021 by means of a bottom-up and interdisciplinary approach. The model however, does not answer the pressing question of how the economy can be squeezed into this donut shape. The fact that Amsterdam officials took it up as the basis for their strategy shows how they believe the doughnut can act as a compass for human progress. The strength of this model is that it captures the social as well as the ecological dimension in one simple and tasty metaphor. The Doughnut provides a playful approach to framing humanity’s challenge of the 21 st century: meeting the needs of all people (the ‘social foundation’) within the means of the planet (the ‘ecological ceiling’). The model depicts an economy where societies and businesses contribute to economic development while respecting the limits of the planet. In its Circular Strategy 2020-2025, Amsterdam relies on the Amsterdam City Doughnut developed by the British economist Kate Raworth. ![]() |