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![]() In Stitches, Small, the award-winning children's illustrator and author, recreates this terrifying event in a life story that might have been imagined by Kafka. ![]() A vocal cord removed, his throat slashed and stitched together like a bloody boot, the fourteen-year-old boy had not been told that he had cancer and was expected to die. One day David Small awoke from a supposedly harmless operation to discover that he had been transformed into a virtual mute. ![]() ![]() ![]() Was Operation Paperclip a moral outrage, or did it help America win the Cold War?ĭrawing on exclusive interviews with dozens of Paperclip family members, colleagues, and interrogators, and with access to German archival documents (including previously unseen papers made available by direct descendants of the Third Reich’s ranking members), files obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, and dossiers discovered in government archives and at Harvard University, Annie Jacobsen follows more than a dozen German scientists through their postwar lives and into a startling, complex, nefarious, and jealously guarded government secret of the twentieth century. They were also directly responsible for major advances in rocketry, medical treatments, and the U.S. ![]() Many of these men were accused of war crimes, and others had stood trial at Nuremberg one was convicted of mass murder and slavery. So began Operation Paperclip, a decades-long, covert project to bring Hitler’s scientists and their families to the United States. These were the brains behind the Nazis’ once-indomitable war machine. government faced many difficult decisions, including what to do with the Third Reich’s scientific minds. ![]() In the chaos following World War II, the U.S. ![]() The explosive story of America’s secret post-WWI science programs, from the author of the New York Times bestseller Area 51. ![]() ![]() When asked to “dust the furniture,” she sprinkles powder all over the living room asked to “change the towels,” she takes scissors to them. She “dresses the chicken,” but in lederhosen (an homage to Siebel’s Austrian childhood). Rogers tells her Amelia Bedelia reaches for pen and paper. ![]() She takes each instruction she is given with an absurd literalism. But, rather than keeping order, Amelia Bedelia creates disarray. ![]() Each book follows a simple formula: Amelia Bedelia, a housemaid replete with apron and frilled cap, encounters various domestic imperatives: clean the house, host a party, babysit, substitute-teach. The books, with illustrations by Fritz Siebel, depict a young woman who sows domestic chaos in and around the home of her wealthy employers, a snooty older couple who have outsourced the labor of keeping their household, family, and community relations running smoothly. Yet the more I read Amelia Bedelia the more unsettled I felt I began to suspect that I wasn’t hearing all the notes. Had you asked me a couple of years ago, I would not have classified Peggy Parish’s Amelia Bedelia series with this loftier group-my children delighted in the wordplay, but I found the books a bit one-note. ![]() Many classic children’s books beg for philosophical readings: the likes of “ Charlotte’s Web” or “ Are You My Mother?” are well known as complex and subterranean ruminations on death and identity and community. Illustration Courtesy the Estate of Fritz Siebel ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The prose throughout the book is lively and original and moves along at a steady clip. ![]() It is Elf’s debilitating depression and suicidal tendencies that keep the two urgently close as Yoli, for decades, does everything she can to help Elf ward off her psychological problems. Over the course of this tender and bittersweet novel, Elf tours the world while Yoli stays put, has two kids with two different men but stays with neither of the fathers. While Elfrieda is the genius and the perfectionist, it is the practical, capable Yolandi on whom she depends. When we were kids she would occasionally let me be her page-tuner for the fast pieces that she hadn’t memorized.” This sentence, in the voice of the younger Yolandi, crystallizes the dynamic of the two sisters in Toews’s ( Summer of My Amazing Luck) latest novel. ![]() ![]() FBI records show COINTELPRO resources targeted groups and individuals the FBI deemed subversive, including feminist organizations, the Communist Party USA, anti–Vietnam War organizers, activists of the civil rights and Black power movements (e.g. ![]() Covert campaigns to publicly discredit activists and destroy their interpersonal relationships were a common tactic used by COINTELPRO agents.ĬOINTELPRO ( syllabic abbreviation derived from Counter Intelligence Program 1956–1971) was a series of covert and illegal projects actively conducted by the United States Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) aimed at surveilling, infiltrating, discrediting, and disrupting domestic American political organizations. COINTELPRO memo proposing a plan to expose the pregnancy of actress Jean Seberg, a financial supporter of the Black Panther Party, hoping to "possibly cause her embarrassment or tarnish her image with the general public". ![]() ![]() “ writes well, he has a wicked sense of humor and his characters are so keenly, intelligently and even movingly drawn. Will that be enough to save all of humanity? ![]() All they have is luck, fearlessness, and a mordant sense of humor. Over one harrowing night, the unlikely trio must figure out how to quarantine this horror again. ![]() He races across the country to help two unwitting security guards-one an ex-con, the other a single mother. Now, after decades of festering in a forgotten sub-basement, the specimen has found its way out and is on a lethal feeding frenzy. ![]() ![]() He contained it and buried it in cold storage deep beneath a little-used military repository. When Pentagon bioterror operative Roberto Diaz was sent to investigate a suspected biochemical attack, he found something far worse: a highly mutative organism capable of extinction-level destruction. "On every level, Cold Storage is pure, unadulterated entertainment." -Douglas Preston, The New York Times Book Reviewįor fans of The Martian, Dark Matter, and Before the Fall comes an astonishing debut thriller by the screenwriter of Jurassic Park: a wild and terrifying bioterrorism adventure about three strangers who must work together to contain a highly contagious, deadly organism that could destroy all of humanity. ![]() ![]() ![]() In a Dark, Dark Wood centers on the previously mentioned event from the past that is teased frequently in the first half of In a Dark, Dark Wood, and an event that opens the book that seems like it might be connected. ![]() I think this book might suffer from the current literary climate - Gone Girl, Luckiest Girl Alive, Girl on the Train - all of which include big reveals and surprising twists. See also: Most entertaining audiobooks with great narrators During high school, something terrible happened that made Nora into a introvert who looks, not for love, but that “thing,” which is just hinted at for most of the book. The reasons why they are there becomes the crux of the story. ![]() Something goes terribly wrong at the party– which we learn in the first few pages– and Clare and Nora both end up in the hospital. Nora doesn’t realize that Clare is marrying Nora’s high school sweetheart, until Nora gets to the party and things immediately become extremely awkward. They get together for Clare’s hen party (what the Brits call a bachelorette party). In a Dark, Dark Wood by Ruth Ware is a mystery/ thriller that revolves around two friends, Nora and Clare, who haven’t seen or spoken to each other for ten years, since high school. ![]() ![]() ![]() He taught this subject to senior students at a technical high school in Caen between 19, before establishing what he and his supporters call the Université populaire de Caen, proclaiming its foundation on a free-of-charge basis, and the manifesto written by Onfray in 2004 (La communauté philosophique). Born to a family of Norman farmers, he graduated with a Ph.D. After all, 'ordinary' French University lectures are open to all, free Michel Onfray is a French philosopher. However, the title 'Popular University' is misleading, although attractive, as this 'University' provides no services other than the occasional delivery of lectures - there is no register of students, no examination or assessment, and no diplomas. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Her first assignment under Hornblowers command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson. Winston Churchill From the Back Cover In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. I find Hornblower admirable, vastly entertaining. At the center of each adventure is Hornblower, Foresters most inspired creation, whose blend of cautious preparation and spirited execution dazzles friend and foe alike. Soon Atropos is part of the Mediterranean Fleets harassment of Napoleon, recovering treasure that lies deep in Turkish waters and boldly challenging a Spanish frigate several times her size. ![]() In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. ![]() Book Synopsis Hornblower leads a ship into the Mediterranean in this intense and exciting installment (New York Times) of C. ![]() |