![]() ![]() Within five years, most of those historians contacted Cook privately and apologized saying, Gee, I finally read the letters. But Blanche Wiesen Cook was pilloried by other historians in 1992 for examining the facts and the letters and concluding that Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok were not just good friends, not just in love, but lovers. These are not the kind of things that I have ever said to just-a-friend, no matter how close. Please keep most of my heart in Washington as long as I’m here, for most of mine is with you!” I went and kissed your photograph instead and tears were in my eyes. “My dear, if you meet me, may I forget there are other people present or must I behave?” and “I long to kiss the south-east corner of your lips. ![]() She quotes from the letters generously, concluding that the two women were lovers. I first read about the letters, written between 1932 and Eleanor Roosevelt’s death in 1962, in Blanche Wiesen Cook’s exceptional biography, Eleanor Roosevelt (Viking, 1992). ![]() There are 3,000 letters between First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt and Lorena Hickok, then a prominent female journalist, in 18 large, heavy boxes in the archives of the FDR Library in Hyde Park. ![]()
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Winslow ( California Fire and Life, 1999, etc.) starts with Art Keller, a DEA adviser who wants so badly to take down Don Pedro Aviles, the Patron of Sinaloa, that he makes what turns out to be a bargain with three devils: rising drug power Miguel Angel Barrera and his nephews Adan and Raul. A sprawling, old-fashioned saga focuses 25 years of Mexico’s violent drug history through the interlocking loyalties, obsessions and vendettas of a DEA agent, a drug lord, a courtesan and a killer-for-hire. ![]() ![]() Lovelight Farms is not the magical winter wonderland of Ste. This sweet and steamy romance is a holiday happily ever after and the first book in a series of interconnected standalones following the three Lovelight owners. And shipments that have mysteriously gone missing. Lovelight Farms is a romantic comedy featuring a handsome freckled data analyst, a messy, optimistic Christmas-tree-farm owner, and a small town with the best hazelnut lattes on the east coast. ![]() He just came home for some hot chocolate, and somehow got a farm and a serious girlfriend in the process. Only there is no boyfriend.Įnter her best friend Luka Peters. To make the farm seem like a romantic destination for the holidays, she lied on the application and said she owns Lovelight Farms with her boyfriend. With the added publicity and the $100,000 cash prize, she might just be able to save the farm from its financial woes. Stella owns a pine tree farm and she applied for a social media contest so that she can win a giveaway of 100,000. ![]() In an effort to save the Christmas tree farm she’s loved since she was a kid, she enters a contest with instafamous influencer Evelyn St. Lovelight Farms by BK Borison Lovelight Farms follows Stella and Luka. Borison The three owners of Lovelight Farms find love in the small town of Inglewild. A pasture of dead trees, a hostile takeover of the Santa barn by a family of raccoons, and shipments that have mysteriously gone missing-Lovelight Farms is not the magical winter wonderland of Stella Bloom’s dreams. ![]() ![]() ![]() All in all, this relatively short novel supports great writing with a masterful narrative design. As author, he handles the transitions between his two characters' view points with astounding stylistic assurance. McEwan's adroitness at characterization and his deftness at dialogue show through these astounding chapter-length psychological studies. There is true genius not only in McEwan's plan for Clive's and Vernon's stories but also in their relationship to each other and to the plot. By utilizing alternating chapters and dueling points of view, McEwan develops his study in friendship into a dark psychological portrait of descent. He somehow manages to draw suspense out of two men's professional and personnel breakdowns, revealing a twisted horror story lurking underneath a tale seemingly meant to address undying friendship and love. ![]() Amazingly lucid prose aside, the power of Amsterdam lies in McEwan's devilishly clever narrative plan. It is also something of a thriller, which, combined with its brevity means there is little of the plot that can be. ![]() I am not sure what to say about Amsterdam. As his newest novel Amsterdam shows, McEwan holds few peers. A study of heartlessness and hypocrisy in the face of contemporary moral dilemmas, it is a short, sharp, well-crafted novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is a result of Zwigtman’s unique ability to combine critical distance with open intimacy. It draws the reader in without resorting to cheap sensationalism. Tricks of the Trade is an intense book that is difficult to put down. Then he faces the choice of whether to put his integrity and his friendships on the line so that he doesn’t have to live in a mouldy, cockroach-infested garret. In a male brothel he discovers the flip side of his new life in the twofaced London of the nineteenth century, where gossip, blackmail and brutal police violence make homosexuality a highly dangerous way of life. ![]() Until, that is, London’s beau monde decamps to Europe for the summer holidays, as happens every year.Īdrian, by now accustomed to luxury, ends up without any income. Everything appears to be going swimmingly. The work pays well and he meets the most interesting and powerful people of his time.Īdrian is very pleased with his new life at first. He introduces Adrian to the flamboyant circle of Oscar Wilde, where he meets other men like Augustus and finds work as an artist’s model. The man is Augustus Trops, a second-rate artist from Flanders. It’s not a scenario that the street-hardened lad could have envisaged: a wealthy older gentleman falls in love with him and takes him home. However, a different career lies in store for him. Adrian Mayfield is born in the poor East End of Victorian London, the son of a pub landlord and a seamstress. ![]() Tricks of the Trade is Zwigtman’s best novel to date. ![]() ![]() ![]() Cromwell's Commissioner Robin Singleton, has been found dead, his head severed from his body. There can only be one outcome: the monasteries are to be dissolved.īut on the Sussex coast, at the monastery of Scarnsea, events have spiralled out of control. ![]() Under the order of Thomas Cromwell, a team of commissioners is sent through the country to investigate the monasteries. Henry VIII has proclaimed himself Supreme Head of the Church and the country is waking up to savage new laws, rigged trials and the greatest network of informers ever seen. ![]() It is 1537, a time of revolution that sees the greatest changes in England since 1066. Dissolution is the first in the phenomenal Shardlake series by bestselling author, C. ![]() ![]() ![]() Surprisingly, although I have read many of his papers since then, and heard him give more than a few talks, I had never before come to know Nesse’s outlook on his own chosen discipline, psychiatry. His 1991 Quarterly Review of Biology paper with George Williams brought together many of the ideas that still drive the field. Nesse, of course, is one of the founders of the field of evolutionary medicine. Against all evolutionary logic, we seem to be working hard to do ourselves in.Īgainst this backdrop of disturbing news, I picked up Randy Nesse’s engaging new book, Good Reasons for Bad Feelings: Insights from the Frontier of Evolutionary Psychiatry (Dutton, $28.00), in the hope that it would help me understand a bit more about the human behavior and especially mental states, disorders, and diseases than I currently did. ![]() These numbers do not include an estimated 88 000 deaths from alcohol abuse or nearly 500 000 more attributed to cigarette smoking. ![]() In America, >70 000 people died from drug overdoses in 2017 -the latest year for which reliable statistics are available-and nearly 50 000 more died from suicide. This is similar to the 35% of global college students who report having a mental disorder. In Europe, 38% of the population suffers from at least one mental disorder annually. The modern world, it seems, needs all the psychiatric help it can muster. ![]() ![]() ![]() Two other things troubled me: why on earth in an area known for abrupt, sudden sandstorms was there not food and water on the child's camel? Also, there are absolutely no women present or even mentioned in the text. The illustrations are gorgeous, capturing the colors of the desert extremely well and practically glowing off the page. Again, there are gun safety issues present here, though culturally this is entirely within the bounds of normalcy for the area the story takes place. He has no idea how to shoot it prior to this, and is actually blown off his feet by the first shot (he shoots it repeatedly after he is left alone in the desert, so there is no supervision present). Ali appears to be about eight years old in this, and he is given a gun to signal his father by a Berber tribesman. ![]() More troubling, though, is the use of the gun. For example, several different Muslim traditions are mentioned. For that reason, a lot of the cultural differences would need careful explanation to any children who would read the book. That stated, it's worth noting this story does not take place in the Middle East but in Morocco, which is North Africa. Ali is an interesting and brave character, and his adventure being separated from his father during a sandstorm is well told and exciting. This is a good, though slightly problematic, text for the exercise I have in mind. ![]() ![]() Truly affecting., "Gerstein's dramatic paintings include some perspectives bound to take any reader's breath away. ![]() Readers of all ages will return to this again and again for its history, adventure, humor, and breathtaking homage to extraordinary buildings and a remarkable man., Gerstein's dramatic paintings include some perspectives bound to take any reader's breath away. ![]() ![]() You can watch Pablo on CBeebies, RTE and Netflix and the RTE/ CBeebies characters are just as creative and funny as the book characters. Pablo is also the first ever animated TV series to star an autistic character and the first TV programme with an all-autistic core cast. Svante Pbo: The Dark Lord of Ancient DNA Novem Health & Medicine, Science In fall of 2022, Swedish geneticist Svante Pbo won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries concerning the genomes of extinct hominins and human evolution. Over time, very old DNA degrades and can. All the books are written by writers on the autistic spectrum and are grounded in the real-life experiences of autistic children. Pbo, who is 67, has spent decades pioneering and perfecting new methods of extracting Neanderthal DNA, an extremely complex and challenging process. ![]() ![]() ![]() These fun and heartwarming stories help build empathy and show that not everybody thinks alike, as well as giving autistic children the confidence to tackle new experiences. Pablo and his Book Animal Friends navigate scary situations together, like noisy birthday parties or starting school. He uses his creativity to help him understand the world, and the characters he draws with his magic crayons help him express his feelings and turn challenges into fantastic adventures. ![]() Pablo thinks differently! Pablo is five years old, autistic and sees the world in a different way. ![]() |