![]() ![]() ![]() Drawing on unprecedented access to Rockefeller's private papers, Chernow reconstructs his subjects' troubled origins (his father was a swindler and a bigamist) and his single-minded pursuit of wealth. He was the terror of his competitors, the bogeyman of reformers, the delight of caricaturists-and an utter enigma. In the course of his nearly 98 years, Rockefeller was known as both a rapacious robber baron, whose Standard Oil Company rode roughshod over an industry, and a philanthropist who donated money lavishly to universities and medical centers. Rockefeller, Sr.-the Jekyll-and-Hyde of American capitalism. National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist From the acclaimed, award-winning author of Alexander Hamilton here is the essential, endlessly engrossing biography of John D. ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() As Grey’s deadline draws nearer, Lia Mara questions if she can be the queen her country needs.Īs two kingdoms come closer to conflict, loyalties are tested, love is threatened, and an old enemy resurfaces who could destroy them all, in this stunning conclusion to bestselling author Brigid Kemmerer’s Cursebreaker series. But after enjoying decades of peace once magic was driven out of their lands, some of her subjects are angry Lia Mara has an enchanted prince and magical scraver by her side. ![]() Meanwhile, Lia Mara struggles to rule Syhl Shallow with a gentler hand than her mother. Grey has agreed to wait two months before attacking Emberfall, and in that time, Rhen has turned away from everyone-even Harper, as she desperately tries to help him find a path to peace. Synopsis: Face your fears, fight the battle.Įmberfall is crumbling fast, torn between those who believe Rhen is the rightful prince and those who are eager to begin a new era under Grey, the true heir. ![]() ![]() ![]() She expects nothing more than an amiable union, but their increasingly tempestuous kisses prove more than she bargained for. But when matters escalate with the diplomat, she chooses Edwin's gallant offer of a marriage between friends in hopes that it will deter her stalker. Yet he wants nothing more than to have her for his own.Clarissa has no intention of marrying anyone-not Edwin, whom she's sure would be an overbearing husband, and certainly not the powerful French diplomat stalking her. if she would even take such a gruff cynic for her husband. Although captivated by the witty, free-spirited beauty, he fears that she'd be all wrong as a wife. ![]() He's been hunting for someone to wed, and she'll just get in the way. When Edwin Barlow, the Earl of Blakeborough, agrees to help his best friend's impetuous ward, Lady Clarissa Lindsey, in her time of need, he knows that he's in for trouble. ![]() ![]() As his pursuit of Anna and their child moves from threatening to criminal, Ned begins to alter his wife's world in ways she never could have imagined.Ī double-edged and satisfying story with a strong female protagonist, a thrilling plot, and a creeping sense of the apocalyptic, Sweet Lamb of Heaven builds to a shattering ending with profound implications for its characters - and for all of us. ![]() ![]() When Ned chases Anna and their six-year-old daughter from Alaska to Maine, the two go into hiding in a run-down motel on the coast. But the longer they stay, the less the guests in the dingy motel look like typical tourists - and the less Ned resembles a typical candidate. Lydia Millets chilling new novel is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman whos just launched his first campaign for political office. Lydia Millet's chilling new novel is the first-person account of a young mother, Anna, escaping her cold and unfaithful husband, a businessman who's just launched his first campaign for political office. ![]() ![]() I resisted it initially because I was overwhelmed by my sense of dislocation, my uncertainty about where we were headed. Blending domestic thriller and psychological horror, this compelling page-turner follows a mother fleeing her estranged husband. Lydia Millet’s Sweet Lamb of Heaven confounded me, delightfully so.It is Anna’s voice cool, intelligent, passionate, contradictory that makes this novel so affecting. A double-edged and satisfying story with a strong female protagonist, a thrilling plot, and a creeping sense of the apocalyptic, Sweet Lamb of Heaven builds to a shattering ending with profound implications for its charactersand for all of us. ![]() ![]() ![]() By the summer of 1962, the administration was in trouble. Many voters yearned for the dynamism that Kennedy's youth and politics implied, but others worried that Kennedy's inexperience made him a poor choice to lead the nation during such a challenging time.Įarly errors in judgment, particularly in the Bay of Pigs fiasco, seemingly confirmed these fears. ![]() Style became an essential complement to substance.īefore winning the presidency, Kennedy had lived a life of privilege and comfort, and his relatively short congressional career had been unremarkable. Television began to have a real impact on voters and long, drawn-out election campaigns became the norm. Kennedy played a role in revolutionizing American politics. It was, in the words of one notable biographer, “an unfinished life.” For that reason, assessments of the Kennedy presidency remain mixed. Kennedy had promised much but never had the opportunity to see his program through. ![]() ![]() ![]() When Billings ( Dune's David Dastmalchian) arrives at their home - dishevelled and creepy, but begging to speak with someone - it's clear that we're looking at two people at different junctures of grief: One is a man deranged by it, the other a man intent on burying it. Their father, Will ( Air's Chris Messina), has returned to his psychiatry practice, helping patients process their own traumas - though we get the sense that he's ignoring his own. Sadie - dark, depressed, lonely - can barely make it through a day at school, while Sawyer can't sleep with the lights out. When we meet Sadie (Sophie Thatcher of Yellowjackets fame) and her younger sister, Sawyer ( Bird Box's Vivien Lyra Blair), they're a month on the other side of their mother's death. ![]() In the updated script by A Quiet Place screenwriting duo Scott Beck and Bryan Woods, Billings's story is mostly used as a springboard for a film that instead focuses on the psychiatrist and his two daughters. ![]() The original 18-page bloodcurdler centres on a man named Lester Billings who visits a psychiatrist after his children are murdered by a malevolent creature. Six years after the Stephen King adaptation industrial complex rumbled up to fifth gear with 2017's box office wonder It - and with it, a studio-led rush to mine every corner of the horror novelist's literary output, dollar babies be damned - an adaptation of his 1973 short story The Boogeyman, later published in the collection Night Shift, has hit theatres. ![]() ![]() Each Ferguson falls under the spell of the magnificent Amy Schneiderman, yet each Amy and each Ferguson have a relationship like no other. Athletic skills and sex lives and friendships and intellectual passions contrast. Four identical Fergusons made of the same DNA, four boys who are the same boy, go on to lead four parallel and entirely different lives. From that single beginning, Ferguson’s life will take four simultaneous and independent fictional paths. ![]() ![]() Nearly two weeks early, on March 3, 1947, in the maternity ward of Beth Israel Hospital in Newark, New Jersey, Archibald Isaac Ferguson, the one and only child of Rose and Stanley Ferguson, is born. Paul Auster’s greatest, most heartbreaking and satisfying novel-a sweeping and surprising story of birthright and possibility, of love and of life itself. New York Times Bestseller, Los Angeles Times Bestseller, Boston Globe Bestseller, National Indiebound Bestseller An incredibly moving, true journey.” -NPR “A stunningly ambitious novel, and a pleasure to read. ![]() ![]() A monumental assemblage of competing and complementary fictions, a novel that contains multitudes.”- Tom Perrotta, The New York Times Book Review NPR, The Globe and Mail, Kirkus Reviews, Huffington Post, and The Spectator UK Named a Best Book of the Year by The Washington Post, The New York Times Book Review, * * * Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize * * * ![]() ![]() Ma'am Darling is, as you would expect, very funny also, full of quirky facts and genial footnotes. 'Brown has been our best parodist and satirist for decades now. Combining interviews, parodies, dreams, parallel lives, diaries, announcements, lists, catalogues and essays, Ma'am Darling is a kaleidoscopic experiment in biography, and a witty meditation on fame and art, snobbery and deference, bohemia and high society. It is Cinderella in reverse: hope dashed, happiness mislaid, life mishandled. The tale of Princess Margaret is pantomime as tragedy, and tragedy as pantomime. One friend said he had never known an unhappier woman. By the time of her death, she had come to personify disappointment. In her 1950's heyday, she was seen as one of the most glamorous and desirable women in the world. To her enemies, she was rude and demanding. "If they knew what I had done in my dreams with your royal ladies" he confided to a friend, "they would take me to the Tower of London and chop off my head!" Princess Margaret aroused passion and indignation in equal measures. For Pablo Picasso, she was the object of sexual fantasy. John Fowles hoped to keep her as his sex-slave. ![]() She cold-shouldered Princess Diana and humiliated Elizabeth Taylor. A DAILY MAIL BOOK OF THE YEAR 'I honked so loudly the man sitting next to me dropped his sandwich' Observer She made John Lennon blush and Marlon Brando clam up.The funny and tragic, bestselling biography of The Queen's sister, Princess Margaret, perfect for fans of Netflix's The Crown. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Schwab’s Gallant, a story of a house haunted by ghosts both literal and figurative and the cursed family that inhabits its walls. Things that, if looked at in the right light, can be strangely and compellingly lovely, even in their blood and decay. Then all bets are off.) But the horror genre is also the rightful home of the weird and the odd, the unexpected and the ambitious. ![]() Horror is supposed to be frightening and, generally, we consider the things we’re afraid of to be things that are also ugly. Too often, when we think of horror, we think of things that are not often considered beautiful: Gory murders, decomposing bodies, ghosts with clanking chains, and zombies trailing rotting bits of flash behind them. ![]() ![]() ![]() Over the next 9 years, her platform has grown to an audience of over 300,000. Having been a bookworm and writer all her life, her passion for poetry began at the age of 13, and shortly afterward, she began sharing her writing online. Aside from music, poetry is her other great love. She holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the University of Kentucky and is currently earning her Master of Music in Voice degree at Indiana University. She is the author of four poetry collections: "shades of lovers" (2020), "sometimes i fall asleep thinking about you" (2021), and "i gave myself the world" (January 2023), all published with Central Avenue Publishing, Catarine Hancock is a 23-year-old poet and opera singer from Lexington, Kentucky. ![]() ![]() ![]() Catarine Hancock is a 23-year-old poet and opera singer from Lexington, Kentucky. ![]() |