Veteran educator and author Margaret Stenerson announces the release of two powerful books that shine a light on the transformative power of knowledge, curiosity, and lifelong learning: My Noble Profession (Third Edition) and The Joy of Knowing: Everyday Wonders and Science Stories. Together, these titles offer a heartfelt tribute to teaching as a calling, and …
All About Eve (1950) belonged to Bette Davis, who played aging Broadway great Margo Channing, but what about Eve? That was Anne Baxter (1923-1985), who may have been an Oscar winner for The Razor’s Edge (1946), but she never achieved Davis-like stature. Bailey, who has written widely on Hollywood’s golden age, seeks to give Baxter …
Sixty-six-year-old Alice Standfield is worried about the recent behavior of her petulant 16-year-old granddaughter Irene Standfield. Ever since the London blitz killed Irene’s parents, Alice has cared for her and her two older brothers, Martin and Leo, welcoming them into Elm House, the Standfield family home. In April 1947, Alice watches Irene as she dashes …
In this straightforward nonfiction title, Subramanian offers a detailed guide to menstruation and stresses the importance of teen readers’ being informed—from learning the vocabulary to talk about their experiences to knowing how to care for themselves throughout their cycles—and able to advocate for themselves (and others). What sets this book apart from similar guides is …
Cultural “erasure” silences or disappears marginalized communities, writes Jaeger, a scholar at the University of Maryland and a lifelong disabled person and activist for disability rights. “At this moment,” he writes, groups are “seeking to limit the gains made in recent years by women, BIPOC communities, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, members of the Jewish …
“The importance of metadata for discovery and sales.” That’s the title of a new survey from Nielsen on, well, precisely that. One of the things that makes it interesting is that this is an update of a survey that first ran in 2012, so you can see the emergence of distinct trends. In terms of …
As a semi-autobiographical author shooting for broad appeal with a highly personalized account of their own life, Amman walks a tightrope as readers rejoin Leda at 19, attending college and searching for happiness: “In high school, I had been a big (petite) fish in a small pond, but at the University of Milano, I was …
Following a miscarriage and the accidental death of her husband Earl Honneywell in 1939, Iris Gilda Bakken returns to Waziya, Minnesota. Soon after, she’s hired as a nurse at the offices of Drs. Gallagher & Swenson and marries Harrison Elmer Lawrence, who converts Sherm’s Shaves barbershop into his private dental office. After just a month …
Winner of a Pulitzer Prize for a riveting article that gave visual context to Jeff Bezos’ wealth, Chalabi proves a dab hand both at getting frank admissions from her interviewees about money and using surveys and statistics to put their individual experiences into broader economic contexts. She’s frank about her own situation, too, as she …
Created by Congress in 1870, the Department of Justice, has, on occasion, been a force for the good, writes Maddow, MS NOW host and author (Drift, 2012, etc.). More often, she adds, it has been abused to protect the interests of corporations, corrupt politicians, and self-serving presidents. In her fiery retelling of the DOJ’s checkered …
No one knows his real name, or exactly what he looks like. He’s been fleecing women for years, and he’s too smart to be caught. Despite a robust “r/WeWillFindYou” Reddit thread tracing the shadowy man’s many crimes, no one can clearly identify him—so they call him “Mr. Disappear.” No one knows him, that is, except …