![]() ![]() It's a messy topic, as evidenced by the sprawling cast of characters listed in the front of the book, but her attraction to the subject is clear: "History is not rich in unruly young women," she writes, adding, "it would be difficult to name another historical moment so dominated by teenage virgins, traditionally a vulnerable, mute, and disenfranchised cohort." With "The Witches," however, she ventures into her first history without a clear protagonist. Vera Nabokov)," Schiff has tackled an impressive range of subjects: Benjamin Franklin, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, and, most recently, Cleopatra. Since winning a Pulitzer Prize for her 2000 biography "Vera (Mrs. ![]() Yet Schiff makes a strong case for the Salem trials as foundational, a "national nightmare" in which superstitious dogma and contentious colonial politics came together to turn a xenophobic community against itself. For those modern-day Puritans in search of original sin, American history presents no shortage of candidates - the transcontinental slave trade and Native American genocide have far higher body counts. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() He ought to know the symptoms by now since he’s held my hand on lots of other flights. My husband grabbed my hand therapeutically at the moment of takeoff. God knows it was a tribute either to the shrinks’ ineptitude or my own glorious unanalyzability that I was now, if anything, more scared of flying than when I began my analytic adventures some thirteen years earlier. There were 117 psychoanalysts on the Pan Am flight to Vienna and I’d been treated by at least six of them. ![]() ![]() An assertive and idealistic Princess Abhaya meets the enigmatic Krishna Vaasudeva. Prof Vamsee Juluri, professor of media studies at the University of San Francisco and the author of Rearming HinduismĪ tale set in the times of Mahabharata. Read it, and get everyone you know to read it too.” “Abhaya will inspire you to be who you are, whoever you are. Sangeeta Bahadur, Ambassador of India to the Republic of Belarus The sparkling narration adds new facets to the compelling tale of the killing of the demon, Narakasur" "An excitingly different take on one of the myriad legends celebrating the light vs darkness matrix that defines Diwali. ![]() Amish Tripathi, Best Selling Author (Shiva Trilogy and Ramchandra Series) "Abhaya allows us to delve into the world of our ancestors and Gods through the route of great storytelling and a brilliant narrative. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's an uncomfortable place to be because they're acknowledging some very deep and unflattering preconceptions based on race. But this liberal white couple is then forced to confront the fact that their immediate presumption is that this Black couple who show up on their doorstep must somehow be criminals, that they must be lying, that they couldn't possibly have a house this nice because they are Black.Īmanda reflects at one point that they look like they could be the handyman and the maid associated with the house and that maybe this whole thing is just a con. ![]() The reader is meant to feel a bit of discomfort there because, of course, a knock at the door late at night in a place where you're not expecting to be, it feels suspicious, it feels threatening. On the novel's opening chapters, in which the white family who is renting the house opens the door in the middle of the night to an older Black couple who claim to be the home's owners ![]() ![]() ![]() Burt Eddleton and Dave Evans are not present in the earliest texts and are not mentioned until volume 20. Ned Nickerson meets Nancy in volume 7, and the attraction is mutual. Helen Corning is Nancy's friend in the earliest books, but by volume 5, Bess Marvin and George Fayne are Nancy's closest friends, and Helen only appears occasionally. Nancy has blond hair and drives a smart blue roadster. ![]() The early Nancy Drew is smart, adventurous, flippant, and daring. The first 34 Nancy Drew books in the original texts published from 1930 to 1956 contain 25 chapters and around 210 to 225 pages each. List of Nancy Drew titles and publication dates However, Walter Karig is also considered important because the three volumes he wrote are favorites with many readers. Mildred Wirt Benson and Harriet Adams are considered the two most important Nancy Drew authors, and both women had a profound effect on the Nancy Drew series. The writers were hired by the Stratemeyer Syndicate and followed outlines that were provided by the Syndicate. #1-7,11-25, and 30 by Mildred Wirt Benson ![]() ![]() The original 56 stories were written by various people under the pseudonym of Carolyn Keene: The Nancy Drew Mystery Stories were first published in 1930 by Grosset and Dunlap. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Despite his increasing dementia looming over her, Maeve thought she’d have him around a little longer. This is just the tip of Maeve’s iceberg when her father, Jack, a former NYPD cop, dies suddenly. Maeve’s friend and bakeshop helper, Jo, is heavily pregnant, and somehow it’s Maeve taking Jo to birthing classes instead of Jo’s detective husband, Dave. Just don’t mess with her when she gets angry. With her ex-husband and his new wife and son as part of her blended family, Maeve is very representative of a modern woman in most respects. Who would ever think that a divorced mom of two teens, running her own bakeshop, could get into the kind of situations that Maeve does, yet once you know Maeve and her life, it all seems more than plausible. Barbieri keeps up the promise of the first with her second installment of the Westchester baker’s life in Lies that Bind. Auntie M enjoyed Maggie Barbieri’s first Maeve Conlon thriller, Once Upon a Lie, and had been looking forward to the sequel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Royte won an Alicia Patterson Journalism Fellowship in 1990 to research and write about life at a biological research station in the tropics. She has traveled throughout the world to research her articles and books. Her article about women who survived the genocide in Rwanda attracted a good deal of attention. ![]() Her work has been featured in the Best American Science Writing 2004 and the "Best American Science Writing 2009." Royte is a former Alicia Patterson Foundation fellow and a recipient of Bard College's John Dewey Award for Distinguished Public Service. Royte's articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, Harper's, National Geographic, The New York Times Book Review, The New Yorker, The Nation, Outside, Smithsonian, and other magazines. ![]() ![]() She is best known for her books Garbage Land (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year 2005), The Tapir's Morning Bath: Solving the Mysteries of the Tropical Rain Forest (a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, 2001), Bottlemania: How Water Went on Sale and Why We Bought It (a "Best of" or "Top 10" book of 2008 in Entertainment Weekly, Seed and Plenty magazines) and A Place to Go Elizabeth Royte is an American science/nature writer. ![]() ![]() “The sneaky beggar’s hit close to home this time, Harland. “Another jewel has been stolen?”Ĭonant’s jowls wobbled as he shook his head. He carefully folded the newspaper and placed it on the table next to him. Events must be concerning to have roused the elderly peer at the ungodly hour of nine o’clock. Alex twisted his head to glance at the clock on the mantelpiece. Mickey, the Tricorn’s mountainous doorman, had been given strict instructions to admit Sir Nathaniel whenever he so desired. Alex had banked on a good hour of uninterrupted reading before being bothered by anyone.Ĭlearly, it was not to be. And Seb himself, the third pillar of their unholy triumvirate, was doubtless still sleeping off last night’s boisterous trip to the Theatre Royal. Benedict, having recently married, had moved out last month “jumped ship,” as Seb had wryly phrased it. ![]() At this hour, the Tricorn Club’s salon was usually empty. ![]() “That devil-whoever he is-is a menace to society.”Īlex concealed a groan of impatience. ![]() Sir Nathaniel Conant, Chief Magistrate of Bow Street, dropped a sheaf of papers onto the table beside him and lowered himself into a vacant armchair with an irritated exhalation. “That blasted Nightjar has done it again!”Īlexander Harland, Earl of Melton, glanced up from his morning paper. ![]() ![]() And this recording has been selected for the 2023 National Recording Registry. In 1994, Sagan published a book called “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space.” It was inspired by a photograph of Earth taken from so far away in space that the planet looks like a pale blue dot. Sagan voiced the audiobook of Pale Blue Dot himself. He was committed to making science more accessible through his speaking engagements, his media projects (such as the television series “Cosmos”), and his popular science books. In this edition, we speak about a recording from astrophysicist and author Carl Sagan. Our series, “The Sounds of America,” takes a closer look at some of these selections. The registry contains audio recordings of all types, from music and radio broadcasts to dramatic performances and speeches. ![]() Carla Hayden, the librarian of Congress, spoke to 1A last week about the newest additions to the National Recording Registry.Įvery year, 25 audio recordings are added to the National Recording Registry at the Library of Congress. Each has been chosen because of its historical, cultural, or aesthetic importance to our nation’s audio heritage. ![]() ![]() ![]() Well, this was a fantastic idea and a great way to commemorate and pay tribute to him. ![]() ![]() About this series, I read elsewhere that it was created to nearly coincide with the 200th anniversary of Andersen's birth. That couldn't've been the American Broadcasting Company and must be referred to some other ABC (at least, the other one that I know of, probably in Australia, anyway), because I don't remember it ever airing on the channel in my area. A couple other reviewers here mentioned this aired on ABC. This is another one of the greatest discoveries I ever made and I'm all the more grateful for it. The taste I got of the program, I enjoyed it right away. At first, I didn't know it was a part of a series of stand-alone episodes, since the copy the episode I saw didn't mention the show's title as well, nor did it include the intro and outro. No success in finding a copy of that for viewing online, so I decided I try out one of this series's episodes of the same title instead, thus that was the first episode I saw. It all began when I was actually looking for the adaptation of The Nightingale to watch by the now-defunct Atkinson-Film-Arts (which also happened to be the very last production by the Canadian cartoon studio). ![]() I hadn't heard of nor seen any of this show before coming across it on the Web, I guess I could say that happening upon this was serendipitous. ![]() |