It was thought, in that moment, on that night, that the boy would recover. He lay sick upstairs while below, the party went on until dawn. It is a state dinner at the White House, hosted by Abraham and Mary Todd Lincoln - a lavish, decadent state dinner thrown in 1862, as the meat grinder of the Civil War is just beginning to churn.Īnd it's no simple death, because it is the death of the Lincolns' beloved young son Willie, of typhoid fever, at age 11. And with a death.īut this is no simple party. It begins, like so many simpler books before it, with a party. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Lincoln in the Bardo Author George Saunders
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The Moon’s a Harsh Mistress (sometimes titled as The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress) is a song by American songwriter Jimmy Webb. It is the tale of the disparate people–a computer technician, a vigorous young female agitator, and an elderly academic–who become the rebel movement’s leaders. It is a tale of revolution, of the rebellion of the former Lunar penal colony against the Lunar Authority that controls it from Earth. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress was the last of these Hugo-winning novels, and it is widely considered his finest work. Delany notes, “modern critics attempting to wrestle with that influence find themselves dealing with an object rather like the sky or an ocean.” He won the Hugo Award for best novel four times, a record that still stands. Heinlein was the most influential science fiction writer of his era, an influence so large that, as Samuel R. 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Kirkus Reviews Leo is back (Leo Loves Baby Time, 2014, etc.), and now he happily attends a community swim class with Daddy. " A touching comical saga.about facing things that go bump in the night."- US Weekly readers will want to accompany him again."- The New York Times Book Review "Charlie Laird, who learns fear will eat you alive if you feed it, makes an impression, and. Nightmares! (Bk 1) is a Texas Bluebonnet Nominee And he’s going to need all the help he can get, or it might just be lights-out for Charlie Laird. well, that’s something only Charlie can face. Nightmares can ruin a good night’s sleep, but when they start slipping out of your dreams and into the waking world. What Charlie doesn’t know is that his problems are about to get a whole lot more real. He can’t remember the last time sleeping wasn’t a nightmarish prospect. He had to move into her purple mansion-the creepiest place in Cypress Creek.ģ. His dad married a woman he is sure moonlights as a witch.Ģ. The hilariously frightening, middle-grade novel Nightmares! is a Texas Bluebonnet nominee and the first book in a trilogy about a boy named Charlie and a group of kids who must face their fears to save their town.ġ. in this delightfully entertaining offering from actor Segel and co-author Miller."- Publishers Weekly |