With her father, a diplomat, probably facing execution, the family’s odyssey from a Europe on the brink of World War II to safety in America took 10 years and two escapes to London. She also discovered that 26 family members, including three grandparents, had been murdered in the Holocaust. She learned that her family was Jewish and that her parents had protectively converted to Roman Catholicism during World War II, raising their children as Catholics without telling them of their Jewish heritage. It was not until after she became secretary of state that she accepted proof that as she had long suspected, her ethnic and religious background was not what she had thought. Under President Bill Clinton, she became the country’s representative to the United Nations (1993-97) and secretary of state (1997-2001), making her the highest-ranking woman in the history of American government at the time. The cause was cancer, her daughter Anne said.Įnveloped by a veil of family secrets hidden from her for most of her life, Albright - whose family settled in Denver - rose to power and fame as a brilliant analyst of world affairs and a White House counselor on national security. Albright, a child of Czech refugees who fled from Nazi invaders and Communist oppressors and then landed in the United States, where she flourished as a diplomat and the first woman to serve as secretary of state, died on Wednesday in Washington. Digital Replica Edition Home Page Close Menu
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While his Twitter begins to blow up, Jack must also keep the restaurant afloat and continue managing the communication app, Weasel, that he created for his school. When a big burger company steals his family recipe, he does whatever he can to make them regret messing with his family. Everything Ethan does is perfect, and Jack is just expected to stay home and take over the family restaurant. Jack has always felt like the lesser twin. Between tweeting, swim practices, and snide conversations with class clown, Jack, Pepper begins to wonder how she can do it all. However, when her family’s company Big League Burgers gets accused of stealing a small town restaurant’s grilled cheese recipe, Hazel’s mom puts her in charge of the Twitter war that takes the Internet by storm. After four years of doing everything she can to fit into her new private school in New York, Pepper is almost done with high school and ready to get into a good college and make her mom proud. Overall: flawed but thoughtful, often fascinating-with a potent theme (how to define humanity?), the brilliantly conceived alien jewels, and the usual Sturgeon weaknesses (disjointed plotting, pulp-ish patches) in the narration. in preparation for the ultimate showdown with the megalomaniac Maneater. (He controls Zena by controlling the crystal that made her.) So Zena, who recognizes that Horty is a jewel-being, helps him to develop a secure human personality. The carnival's owner, however, is a vicious, amoral doctor, the ""Maneater,"" who knows about the jewels: he can cause them great pain and thus force them to do his bidding. Theodore Sturgeon (19181985) is considered one of the godfathers of contemporary science fiction and dark fantasy. But the rare paired jewels produce perfect copies-like young Horty, an apparently human lad who runs away from home and joins a carnival, where he's befriended by midget Zena and the other carnies. Crystalline, jewel-like aliens, intelligent but utterly incomprehensible, exist on Earth as part of their life-processes, they sometimes produce flawed copies of objects, animals, or people. Sturgeon is excellent at conveying the emotions of children-a talent on ample display in this 1950 novel. ‘His great achievement in short form’ The TimesĪ staunch pacifist after his time in the Ministry of War during the First World War, Stefan Zweig was, at his peak, one of the bestselling and most widely acclaimed authors in the world. Never mind that you may have never moved a pawn to King four the story will grip you.’ Economist ‘Perhaps the best chess story ever written, perhaps the best about any game. ‘The rediscovery of this extraordinary writer could well be on a par with last year’s refinding of the long-lost Stoner, by John Williams, and which similarly could pluck his name out of a dusty obscurity.’ Simon Winchester, Telegraph But in agreeing to take on Czentovic, what price will Dr B ultimately pay?Ī moving portrait of one man’s madness, A Chess Story is a searing examination of the power of the mind and the evil it can do. But there is another passenger with a passion for chess: Dr B, previously driven to insanity during Nazi imprisonment by the chess games in his imagination. Dull-witted in all but chess, he entertains himself on board by allowing others to challenge him in the game, before beating each of them and taking their money. One of the most perfectly gripping novellas from a master of the form, Stefan Zweig.Ĭhess world champion Mirko Czentovic is travelling on an ocean liner to Buenos Aires. An epic chess match on a transatlantic liner unearths a story of persecution and obsession. His term for this was Naturgemälde, in which – unlike other naturalists of his day, who focused on identifying, naming and categorising as if species lived in isolation – he saw that natural systems form a complex, interdependent web. While still in his twenties he came to the realisation that nature forms ecosystems, such a key concept today. Alexander rejected this planned career in favour of natural history, and became a tireless traveller, explorer, collector, writer, observer and interpreter of the natural world. His father, an army officer, died when Alexander was nine, and he was brought up by his rather distant mother, who sent him to study government and politics. He was so influential that I’m astonished he isn't a household name, like Charles Darwin, and Wulf's subtitle reflects this: The Adventures of Alexander von Humboldt, the Lost Hero of Science.īorn into a wealthy Prussian family in 1769, he loved collecting and labelling shells, insects and plants from an early age. In fact, he has more animals and plants named after him than anyone else – as well as the Mare Humboldtianum, an impact basin, or ‘sea’, on the moon. Yet until I heard about Andrea Wulf's book when it won the Costa Biography prize in 2015, the name Humboldt meant little to me beyond the Humboldt current in the Pacific and the Humboldt penguin. What an amazing man Alexander von Humboldt was - one of those driven people who achieves enough to fill ten lives. And the subject matter of this book is something I’ve never read about before, and it’s a topic that we need to be normalizing and start discussing more. And even though I had problems with some of the content, I still think this book is super important. I swear, this book made me feel everything. I wanted to give it five stars, and I wanted to give it one star. I wanted to hug my iPad, and throw my iPad. It broke me, and it healed me, and it made me not feel so lonely. One can exist without the other.”Īll Your Perfects is a book that made me feel every emotion in the world. “The problem is, love and happiness are not concordant. Goodreads | Amazon US| Barnes & Noble | Book DepositoryĪRC provided by Atria Books in exchange for an honest review. Serenias-the high-born women of the city-live tightly laced lives, cloistered by their families before marriage, rigidly controlled by their husbands after.Įmmeline watches her twin brother gain success as a professional racing jockey while her own life grows increasingly narrow. The Velocipede Races by Emily June Street –įrom the book description: “Cutthroat velocipede racing enthralls the citizens of Seren, and Emmeline Escot was born to ride. Our heroine Emmeline sets out to change all that. It’s a compelling story set in a world in which bike racing plays a huge role (yay) but in which only boys can ride bikes or race (boo). If you’re looking for a gift for a young woman in your life, cyclist or not, have a look at The Velocopide Races. Thanks to author Emily Street for sharing it with me. I’ve just read a great fantasy ebook about girls, bicycling, and gender justice (themes familiar to readers of this blog). Brown published his book a century after the events took place, but it was a timely publication, since many U.S. Brown began searching for the facts about Native Americans after he met several as a child and had a hard time believing the myths about their savagery that were popular among white people. It demonstrated that whites instigated the great majority of the conflicts between Native Americans and themselves. Focusing mainly on the thirty-year span from 1860 to 1890, the book was the first account of the time period told from the Native-American point of view. politicians, soldiers, and citizens who colonized the American West. This landmark book-which incorporated a number of eyewitness accounts and official records-offered a scathing indictment of the U.S. Dee Brown's Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee was first published in the United States in 1970. Set at the peripheral, adult side of the Marvel universe where ladies do lunch and individuals actually swear, have sex and suffer from chronic period pains, it's a journey during which Jessica Jones finally comes to terms with the fact that she's been not a failure but a victim of one wretched bastard's callous and cruel objectification and - anyway, you'll have to wait for book four. She wakes up in the morning and hates what she did, so she wanders around from bar to bar, drinking as much as she can and sleeping with whoever will have her. Night after night Jessica wanders around from bar to bar drinking whatever she can and sleeping with whoever will have her. She could have given and gotten a great deal more except that something so harrowing happened to her years ago when she was once a cape that it's set her down a self-perpetuating spiral of self-loathing. It's the messed-up life of a woman who cares and who gives as good as she gets. The finest series ever published by Marvel, this isn't superheroes at all. For the first time ever, DC graphic novels and select MAD Magazine issues will also be available to read across all membership tiers on DC UNIVERSE INFINITE. 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