![]() She is active on social media, where she has 15,000 combined followers on Facebook and Twitter. ![]() ![]() Her books have earned starred reviews from Publishers Weekly and Library Journal, and have been selected as Hoda Kotb’s ""favorite thing"" on-air on the “Today Show.” A former investigative journalist and newspaper features writer for The Washington Post, Sarah’s writing has appeared in publications ranging from USA Today to Publisher’s Weekly. Sarah Pekkanen is the internationally-bestselling author of six novels (Atria Books), all of which have been People magazine picks. Her writing has been published in The New York Times and Publishers Weekly. Prior to Simon & Schuster, Greer worked for Allure magazine and earned her Masters in Journalism from Columbia University. In her tenure with Simon & Schuster she signed and edited dozens of the most recognizable names in women’s fiction and nonfiction, including Jennifer Weiner, Marlo Thomas, Jessica Seinfeld, Lauren Weisberger, Emma McLaughlin and Nicola Kraus. ![]() Greer Hendricks spent two decades at Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster, as Vice President, Senior Editor. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Inspired by Betty’s real life–but expanded upon and fictionalized through collaboration with novelist Renée Watson–Ilyasah Shabazz illuminates four poignant years in her mother’s childhood with this book, painting an inspiring portrait of a girl overcoming the challenges of self-acceptance and belonging that will resonate with young readers today. Soon, the American civil rights icon we now know as Dr. Betty quickly finds confidence and purpose in volunteering for the Housewives League, an organization that supports black-owned businesses. The singing, the preaching, the speeches from guest activists like Paul Robeson and Thurgood Marshall stir African Americans in her community to stand up for their rights. Church helps those worries fade, if only for a little while. She believes her mother loves her, but she can’t shake the feeling that her mother doesn’t want her. In Detroit, 1945, eleven-year-old Betty’s house doesn’t quite feel like home. One of their daughters, Ilyasah Shabazz, is the co-author of the middle-grade book about Betty Shabazz called Betty Before X. ![]() ![]() Much like Coretta Scott King, after the death of her husband, Shabazz worked not only to continue on her husband’s fight, safeguard his legacy from inaccurate portrayals, but also raise their six children. Betty Shabazz (born Betty Dean Sanders) may be known to some as simply the wife of Malcolm X, but to reduce her to that belies a legacy all her own. ![]() ![]() Her husband Ferdinand joined the Great-Falls Clinic where he practiced as a cardiologist and surgeon. Walker earned a master's degree from the University of Michigan and also completed her first novel "Fireweed." Earnings from this book allowed the Walker and her family to move to Great Falls, Montana in 1933. In 1927 she enrolled in graduate school at the University of Michigan where she met and married Dr. In 1926 she graduated magna cum laude in literature from Wells College in Aurora, New York. She and her family spent summers at a vacation home in Grafton, Vermont. Her father was a Baptist minister and her mother a school teacher. Mildred Walker was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on May 2, 1905. She was a faculty member at Wells College from 1955 to 1968. She graduated from Wells College and from the University of Michigan. ![]() Mildred Walker (Schemm) (May 2, 1905 – May 27, 1998) was an American novelist who published 12 novels and was nominated for the National Book Award. ![]() ![]() Zane convinces Tally to take the cure, agreeing to share it with her. There is a letter inside the package from Tally, written when she was an ugly, telling her that the pills included inside the package are a cure for lesions put on her brain during the "pretty" surgery. With the help of Zane, a friend and leader of the clique, the Crims, Tally is able to clear her mind enough to find the package. This ugly tells Tally that he has a package for her, but he leaves it hidden, forcing her to work to find it. While attending a party, she is approached by an ugly whom she vaguely recalls from her time in the Smoke. In this novel, Tally is now a pretty living in New Pretty Town. ![]() Pretties by Scott Westerfeld is the second book in the Uglies series. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The Avicen are the only family Echo has ever known, so when a centuries-old war crests on the borders of her home, she decides it’s time to act. Age-old enchantments keep them hidden from all but one human: Echo, a runaway pickpocket who survives by selling stolen treasures on the black market. In this dazzling opener to a new fantasy series that Danielle Page, author of Dorothy Must Die, calls “inventive, gorgeous, and epic,” a girl caught between two ancient peoples must struggle to find the legendary magic that will end the conflict between them.īeneath the streets of New York City live the Avicen, an ancient race of people with feathers for hair and magic running through their veins. ![]() ![]() ![]() Talent managers should think like businesspeople and innovators first, and like HR people last. You’ve got to actually model and encourage the behavior you talk up. Leaders own the job of creating the company culture. Don’t rate them on whether they are good mentors or fill out paperwork on time. Offer generous severance rather than holding on to workers whose skills no longer fit your needs. Scrap formal reviews in favor of informal conversations. Ask workers to rely on logic and common sense instead of formal policies, whether the issue is communication, time off, or expenses. ![]() Hire, reward, and tolerate only fully formed adults. Now one of those executives, the company’s longtime chief talent officer, goes beyond the bullet points to paint a detailed picture of how Netflix attracts, retains, and manages stellar employees. When Netflix executives wrote a PowerPoint deck about the organization’s talent management strategies, the document went viral-it’s been viewed more than 5 million times on the web. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This exquisitely terrifying and beautiful tale will sink its teeth into you and never let go. Rose Szabo's thrilling debut is a dark fantasy novel about a teen girl who returns home to her strange, wild family after years of estrangement, perfect for fans of Wilder Girls. But when she gets there, she struggles to fit in with her monstrous relatives, who prowl the woods around the family estate and read fortunes in the guts of birds.Įleanor finds herself desperately trying to hold the family together-in order to save them all, Eleanor must learn to embrace her family of monsters and tame the darkness inside her. ![]() ![]() When she flees boarding school after a horrifying incident, she goes to the only place she thinks is safe: the home she left behind. "With a layered mystery, a haunting setting, and thrilling tension, What Big Teeth has an otherness to it that pulls you in and forces you to keep reading." -Tricia Levenseller, Publisher’s Weekly-bestselling author of The Shadows Between UsĮleanor Zarrin has been estranged from her wild family for years. ![]() ![]() “This is the most inspirational room,” she says waving at the high ceilings and large sash windows that invite in the winter sun. ![]() From her home in Egypt to studying in France and England, some time in Switzerland and now Ireland, every one of Hannah’s books carries her readers away to a new location.įor now, though, the couple are living in a beautiful period home overlooking the Wicklow countryside. For now, though, she is settling into her new home in Ireland.Īlthough, her husband Nicolas proclaims – while pouring tea into delicate china cups – that he is “half Irish on his mother’s side”, this is their first extended stay in Ireland.īoth have travelled the world and lived in various locations. “Believe me, I was right in the midst of the Greek culture when I was writing the book,” she laughs. So we were a bit surprised to find the author wrapped in a large scarf beside an open fire at her home in Co Wicklow. Aphrodite’s Tears is Hannah Fielding’s newest novel that is sure to heat up any winter’s day – or serve as the perfect escapism for those heading to the sun this summer. The sultry heat of Greece, the barren, isolated islands, the azure blue of the sea and the broad, tanned, handsome and domineering master of the great house. ![]() ![]() ![]() As the princess requested, Spoto waited twenty-five years after her death to write this biography. Based on never-before-published or quoted interviews with Grace and those conducted over many years with her friends and colleagues-from costars James Stewart and Cary Grant to director Alfred Hitchcock-as well as many documents disclosed by her children for the first time, acclaimed biographer Donald Spoto explores the transformation of a convent schoolgirl to New York model, successful television actress, Oscar-winning movie star, and beloved royal. Her astonishing career lasted until her retirement at age twenty-six, when she withdrew from stage and screen to marry a European monarch and became a modern, working princess and mother. ![]() From the principled Amy Fowler Kane in High Noon to the thrill-seeking Frances Stevens of To Catch a Thief, Grace established herself as one of Hollywood's most talented actresses and iconic beauties. Summary In just seven years-from 1950 through 1956-Grace Kelly embarked on a whirlwind career that included roles in eleven movies. ![]() High Society - The Life of Grace Kelly Donald Spoto Sorry, the publisher does not allow users to read this book from the country from which you are connecting. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() His work has been translated into more than 25 languages and published in over 30 countries. His Los Arácnidos won the Cádiz Latin American Story Award, Las Corrientes Oceánicas won the 2005 Luis Berenguer Award for Novel and El Mapa del Tiempo was awarded the Ateneo de Sevilla XL Prize in 2008. The Map of Time was the first novel to be published in the United States. Palma has also published La Hormiga que Quiso ser Astronauta (The Ant that Wanted to Become an Astronaut), Las Corrientes Oceánicas (The Ocean Currents), and El Mapa del Tiempo (The Map of Time). He is also author of the storybooks: Métodos de Supervivencia (Methods of Survival), Las Interioridades (Interiors), Los Arácnidos (The Arachnid), and El Menor Espectáculo del Mundo (The World’s Smallest Show). His first volume of stories, El Vigilante de la Salamandra (The Lizard's Keeper) showed his ability to introduce fantasy into the every day. He attended Francisco Pacheco High School and studied Publicity at the University at Sevilla. Félix Jesús Palma Macías, was born in Sanlúcar de Barrameda, Spain on June 16, 1968. ![]() |