![]() ![]() Watergate defined a decade, and a nation. Over the next two years, that single thwarted break-in would lead to dozens more arrests, an alleged kidnapping, FBI and congressional investigations, a Senate hearing, and bombshell testimonies from the highest levels of political power that ultimately would reveal a cover-up, sink a vice-president and a half-dozen Cabinet officials, lead to the jailing of an FBI director, end a presidency, and alter our views of moral authority and leadership. ![]() ![]() The five men-Virgilio Gonzalez, Bernard Baker, James McCord, Eugenio Martinez, and Frank Sturgis-arrested and charged with attempted burglary that night kicked off the biggest scandal in American politics. ![]() In the early hours of June 17, 1972, a security guard named Frank Wills entered six words into the log book of the Watergate office complex that would change the course of history: 1:47 AM Found tape on doors call police. Graff € 44.99 If not in stock, the expected delivery time to our store for this item will be 7-10 working days.įrom the New York Times bestselling author of The Only Plane in the Sky, the first definitive narrative history of Watergate, exploring the full scope of the scandal through the politicians, investigators, journalists, and informants who made it the most influential political event of our modern era. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Sloane-Kinkaid Tristan, Darcy, or WinkyĢ) Favorite and least favorite books of the series? Delaney Savannah (after the events of Dear Pen Pal, of course)Įmma or Jess Mrs. ![]() (My mom's answers are in purple, and mine are in teal.)ġ) Favorite daughter? Favorite mom? Favorite secondary character?Įmma Mrs. Something fun I did was ask my mom some questions after she finished the series, and I answered the same questions. She finished the whole series in 2 weeks, and right as she was finishing up Wish You Were Eyre, Heather announced the 7th MDBC book, news that made us both ecstatic. My mom knows how much I love them and admire Heather Vogel Frederick, the author, so she was happy that I was finally sharing a favorite series with her. I've been reading the books since I was 12 going on 13, and I've followed the girls' journeys as they grew up alongside me. If you've been a follower of my blog for awhile, you'll know that I'm a big MDBC fan. While she ended up being fine, they kept her overnight for observation, so I sent a special gift for her: the first Mother-Daughter Book Club book. My mom was in the hospital back in January. ![]() ![]() The narrator's question, "what could go wrong?", is both rhetorical and ironic. Neither the rural south, nor a large northern ghetto, Lorain, Ohio affords an intimate microcosm of caste and class, both within and without the black community. ![]() ![]() Set in a small, industrialized, Midwestern town on the eve of World War I, The Bluest Eye explores the relationship of a variety of black families and individuals to each other as well as to the larger white community from which they are marginalized by racism. In that young and growing Ohio town whose side streets, even, were paved with concrete, which sat on the edge of a calm blue lake, which boasted an affinity with Oberlin, the underground railroad station, just thirteen miles away, this melting pot on the lip of America facing the cold but receptive Canada-What could go wrong?( The Bluest Eye, 93) ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() As an undergraduate student and aspiring cartoonist, the book laid open most often on my drawing table was Blackbeard and Sheridan’s weighty “Smithsonian Book of Newspaper Comics.” For years I’d been led to believe by various comic book aficionados that the zenith of achievement for the medium were the EC comic books of the 1950s, but after discovering the Smithsonian book, it became all too clear to me that the real original geniuses of the medium were the pre-cinema cartoonists of the throwaway sunday supplements of a half century prior. ![]() ![]() ![]() Appetite City takes us on a unique and delectable journey, from the days when oysters and turtle were the most popular ingredients in New York cuisine, through the era of the fifty-cent French and Italian table d'h tes beloved of American "Bohemians," to the birth of Times Square-where food and entertainment formed a partnership that has survived to this day. ![]() Beginning with the era when simple chophouses and oyster bars dominated the culinary scene, he charts the city's transformation into the world restaurant capital it is today. ![]() In Appetite City, the former New York Times restaurant critic William Grimes leads us on a grand historical tour of New York's dining culture. New York is the greatest restaurant city the world has ever seen. ![]() ![]() Sebastien’s hysterical dot was Marie DuGard’s prelude to emancipation. He remembered that afternoon three years ago as a kind of a blurred, hysterical dot on the continuum of his otherwise orderly life, a little moment that was easier to pretend had never happened than to explain in the context of his normally sound, exemplary conduct.” It had been a feverish encounter on a rainy August afternoon that had made no sense then and made even less now. ![]() “Sebastien knew Marie Du Gard slightly better than her father realized. From the first paragraph you know Sebastien is going to get his hair mussed. Everything we consider modern was just beginning to pop: Freud, Picasso, automobiles, motion picture photography, electronic communication, feminism! And to see all these issues rolled out against a backdrop of turn-of-the-century, hub-of-the-universe Paris, and a romantically derelict castle in Normandy is delicious.Īnd the most tasty entree of all is Sebastien de Saint Vallier, an aristocrat, a genius, a hand-ball player and weight-lifter, a lawyer, a man completely in control. ![]() Dance by Judy Cuevas is set in France at the beginning of the 20th Century, which doesn’t sound particularly romantic, but is. ![]() ![]() Spares, fated never to come into full power, are scorned by all and often end up working for pennies for the more powerful and wealthy witch families. Yet she ends up a Spare, not chosen for any of the houses. ![]() Seven Salazar, who “wanted desperately to belong,” hopes to be sorted into House Hyacinth-“valiant, virtuous, powerful in all things”-with her best friend Poppy. ![]() ![]() Each coven attracts witches of different characteristics-House of Stars witches, for example, are “Brilliant, beautiful, generous to all” Moth House witches are “Mysterious, morbid, dependable friends.” Ortega (Scholastic), begins in the town of Ravenskill, where every year 12-year-old Witchlings participate in the Black Moon Ceremony and are placed into covens, where they come into their powers as full-fledged witches. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Logan’s found himself caught in the middle in a massive battle and the very fate of the world may hang in the balance. ![]() No matter what Logan could have imagined, nothing prepared him for the truth: His PP’s are actually superheroes, and they’re being hunted down by dastardly forces. Although they aren’t exactly perfect themselves-Gil has the punniest sense of humor and Margie’s cooking would have anyone running for the hills-they genuinely seem to care.īut it doesn’t take Logan long to notice some very odd things about them. They are out at all hours, they never seem to eat, and there’s a part of the house that is protected by some pretty elaborate security. Then everything changes when Gil and Margie arrive. It could have something to with his awkward manner, his photographic memory, or his affection for reciting curious facts, but whatever the cause, Logan and his “PP’s” (prospective parents) have never clicked. Logan Foster has pretty much given up on the idea of ever being adopted. ![]() ![]() The spectacle of Roosevelt defending himself in a lawsuit captured the imagination of the nation, and more than fifty newspapers sent reporters to cover the trial. ![]() ![]() The furious Barnes responded by suing Roosevelt for an enormous sum that could have financially devastated him. Roosevelt, the boisterous and mostly beloved legendary American hero, had accused his former friend and ally, now turned rival, William Barnes of political corruption. ?No more dramatic courtroom scene has ever been enacted,? reported the Syracuse Herald on as it covered ?the greatest libel suit in history,? a battle fought between former President Theodore Roosevelt and the leader of the Republican party. A Reputation at Stake.ĪBC News legal correspondent and host of LIVE PD Dan Abrams reveals the story of Teddy Roosevelt's last stand?an epic courtroom battle against corruption?in this thrilling follow-up to the New York Times bestseller Lincoln's Last Trial. ![]() ![]() ?Gripping.? Theodore Roosevelt for the Defense is a must-read.?NPRĪ President on Trial. Look for Dan Abrams and David Fisher's new book, Kennedy's Avenger: Assassination, Conspiracy, and the Forgotten Trial of Jack Ruby.Ī Mental Floss Book to Read in Summer 2019 ![]() ![]() This study guide uses the 2022 paperback edition by Montlake Press.Īt 26, Kenna is released from prison after serving five years for involuntary vehicular manslaughter in the death of her boyfriend, Scotty. In its exploration of the dynamics of grief, the complicated psychology of forgiveness, and the heroic struggle for a second chance, the novel tests how to handle guilt and self-doubt and shows how a bandaged heart can find its way to love again. Diem is now being raised by Scotty’s parents, Grace and Patrick Landry. She was in prison for a drunk driving accident that killed the only man she ever loved-Scotty Landry, the father of Diem. ![]() However, Kenna is hardly a typical romance heroine. ![]() ![]() The story offers elements of the romance genre: the hesitant movement toward new love by those wounded by previous relationships, and the affirmation of hope as characters find their way to new beginnings through friends and family. ![]() She is determined to have a relationship with her four-year-old daughter, Diem Landry. Kenna Rowan, age 26, returns to her hometown near Denver after being in prison for five years. Reminders of Him (2022) is at once a conventional romance and a reimagination of the genre. ![]() |