A favorite book when our children were growing up was “Louhi, Witch of North Farm” by Toni de Gerez with illustrations by Barbara Cooney. It is a story taken from the Kalevala about Louhi stealing the sun and the moon and hiding them. The hero, Vainamoinen, eventually gets them back ...
ELLA BAKER: FREEDOM BOUND by Joanne Grant (Wiley, 1998) and ELLA BAKER AND THE BLACK FREEDOM MOVEMENT: A RADICAL DEMOCRATIC VISION by Barbara Ransby (University of North Carolina Press, 2002).The founding mother of SNCC, Ms. Baker was an important figure in building grassroots democratic freed...
The Best Fantasy Graphic Novels, recommended by Mike Carey Read 1 Finder: Talisman by Carla Speed McNeil Read 2 The Sandman: Season of Mists by et al & Neil Gaiman Read 3 Bone: The Great Cow Race by Jeff Smith Read 4 Beanworld: A Gift Comes!
Femina is a really interesting book about medieval women and history by Oxford-based historian Janina Ramirez. The title is revealing in itself: ‘FEMINA’ was what Ramirez found scribbled in library catalogues alongside texts known to be written by a woman. It's likely they were considered less...
Written over a decade after Simenon left the U.S.,The Man on the Bench in the Barntakes the theme of guilt by inertia ofBelleand refines it down to a cold existential minimalism. Two couples get stuck in a blizzard near one of their houses. One of the men gets separated from the ot...
The City We Becameby N.K. Jemison (for enjoyment) Kathmanduby Thomas Bell (for relaxation) Up Next Someday / On Pause / Abandoned Digital Minimalism by Cal Newport Educated by Tara Westover Team Human by Douglas … Black Leopard, Red Wolf by Marlon Brando ...
She was replaced by managing editor Dean Baquet, who was the first African American to hold the post. Abramson expanded several of her articles into books. Where They Are Now: The Story of the Women of Harvard Law, 1974 (1986; cowritten with Barbara Franklin) charts the first decade in ...
Barbara MolonyNeil J. HackettMatthew S. GordonRobert R. EdgarGeorge F. JewsburyLongman Pub Group
Written in four parts, the story follows the path of Materna’s political awakening. The first two parts deal with his transition from disinterested hostility to active opposition to the bumptious and malign leaders of the local Nazi party. Then through the third section, the period of the ...
by Neil deGrasse Tyson & with Gregory Mone Read expert recommendations “Neil deGrasse Tyson is an astrophysicist at the American Museum of Natural History…We felt this book was just really nicely written. In the first sentence he writes, ‘in the beginning, nearly 14 billion years ago, th...