![]() ![]() Acting on orders from the Princess of Wales, she commissions Mina Holmes, daughter of Mycroft and niece of Sherlock, and Evaline Stoker, the much younger sister of Bram and the descendant of a talented Regency vampire huntress (familiar to readers of Gleason’s Gardella series), to investigate the disappearance and deaths of several young society girls. Irene Adler (yes, that Irene Adler, the woman who outwitted Sherlock Holmes) has left her husband and the opera stage for a new career as a cataloger of antiquities at the British Museum. Gleason sets “The Clockwork Scarab” in a London that is recognizably Victorian but filled with steampunk technology, sure to please what she delightfully calls the “cognoggins” among us. ![]() Where would teenage mysteries be without idiotic antics like going down to the docks alone late at night or opening haunted lockets? And where would Victorian London be without Undead motifs like fog and Scotland Yard? In two new middle-grade novels, Colleen Gleason and Jonathan Stroud have vamped up the familiar world of Holmes and Watson - and Scooby-Doo and Nancy Drew - to paranormally exhilarating effect. ![]()
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![]() Longtime New Yorker contributor John Brooks's insightful reportage is so full of personality and critical detail that whether he is looking at the astounding market crash of 1962, the collapse of a well-known brokerage firm, or the bold attempt by American bankers to save the British pound, one gets the sense that history repeats itself. ![]() Stories about Wall Street are infused with drama and adventure and reveal the machinations and volatile nature of the world of finance. ![]() " Business Adventures remains the best business book I've ever read." -Bill Gates, The Wall Street Journal What do the $350 million Ford Motor Company disaster known as the Edsel, the fast and incredible rise of Xerox, and the unbelievable scandals at General Electric and Texas Gulf Sulphur have in common? Each is an example of how an iconic company was defined by a particular moment of fame or notoriety these notable and fascinating accounts are as relevant today to understanding the intricacies of corporate life as they were when the events happened. ![]() ![]() Before Sanders came to medical school she was an Emmy award winning producer for CBS News. She also wrote the New York Times best seller, Every Patient Tells a Story: Medical Mysteries and the Art of Diagnosis. Her most recent book, Diagnosis: Solving the Most Baffling Medical Mysteries, a collection of her New York Times columns was published this summer. These documentaries are airing on Netflix. ![]() ![]() Working with the New York Times and producer Scott Rudin, Sanders helped create a series of documentaries which followed patients in their search for a diagnosis using crowdsourcing. Her column was the inspiration for the hit television series House MD and she was an advisor for the show. Sanders created and writes the biweekly Diagnosis column for the New York Times Magazine. Lisa Sanders as she attempts to help patients with rare illnesses and. She graduated from Yale Medical School and did her residency and chief residency at Yale’s Internal Medicine Primary Care Residency Program. Diagnosis is a 2019 documentary streaming television series. Lisa is an internist on the faculty of Yale School of Medicine and teaches in the Internal Medicine residency program there. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Plus he has made promises that he doesn’t feel he can break, promises that will take him away from Midgard to the planes of the Norse, where his actions will create ripples throughout the nine realms. But when multiple people convince him that Thor, the Norse god of thunder, needs to get got, he thinks maybe this is the one time he should ignore the advice of the wise-even if those sages include deities who tend not to be wrong about very much.īecause Thor has undeniably done somebody wrong-many somebodies, in fact, and Atticus doesn’t think he can simply dismiss it as someone else’s problem. When the naysayers say, “Nay, don’t mess with the man who wields the lightning bolts,” ninety-nine times out of a hundred, the ancient Druid Atticus O’Sullivan would nod along and agree. “A page-turning and often laugh-out-loud-funny caper through a mix of the modern and the mythic.”-Ari Marmell, author of The Warlord’s Legacy In the third novel in the New York Times bestselling Iron Druid Chronicles, two-thousand year-old Druid Atticus O’Sullivan must take down the Norse god of thunder himself. ![]() ![]() Smith also presented Mock with $10,000 from the Asian Americans for Equality organization to buy lanterns for the Light Up Chinatown initiative, Mock’s idea to have donors buy a personalized lantern to be strung and lit over Mott Street. Mock was also nominated by Instagrammer New York Nico and led to a $50,000 grant from Google, presented by actor Will Smith on his Snapchat series “Will from Home.” ![]() We dive into his upbringing and being a product of NYC Chinatown, which gave him the tenacity to start organizing efforts to help save struggling Chinatown businesses while also caring for the neighborhood’s most vulnerable residents during the pandemic. ![]() Will and Norm welcome community activist and local Chinatown shop manager, Patrick Mock, who went viral for confronting de Blasio when the pandemic hit New York City. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() SpaceNext50 Britannica presents SpaceNext50, From the race to the Moon to space stewardship, we explore a wide range of subjects that feed our curiosity about space!.Learn about the major environmental problems facing our planet and what can be done about them! Saving Earth Britannica Presents Earth’s To-Do List for the 21st Century.100 Women Britannica celebrates the centennial of the Nineteenth Amendment, highlighting suffragists and history-making politicians.COVID-19 Portal While this global health crisis continues to evolve, it can be useful to look to past pandemics to better understand how to respond today.Student Portal Britannica is the ultimate student resource for key school subjects like history, government, literature, and more.This Time in History In these videos, find out what happened this month (or any month!) in history.#WTFact Videos In #WTFact Britannica shares some of the most bizarre facts we can find. ![]() Demystified Videos In Demystified, Britannica has all the answers to your burning questions.Britannica Classics Check out these retro videos from Encyclopedia Britannica’s archives.Britannica Explains In these videos, Britannica explains a variety of topics and answers frequently asked questions. ![]() ![]() ![]() He was the co-author, with Chris Columbus, of the New York Times bestselling fantasy-adventure series House of Secrets. ![]() The Other Normals, his third novel, was a Junior Library Guild selection. It's Kind of a Funny Story, a cult classic, was adapted into a 2010 film starring Zach Galifianakis and named one of the 100 Best-Ever Teen Novels by National Public Radio. His debut teen novel, Be More Chill, was selected for the Today Show Book Club by Judy Blume. At seventeen, he was asked to write a piece for the New York Times Magazine, and at nineteen, he published Teen Angst? Naaah., his autobiography of his years at Stuyvesant High School. Ned Vizzini (1981-2013) began writing for the New York Press at the age of fifteen. As a director, Columbus has been at the helm of such films as Home Alone and Mrs. More recently, Columbus has directed features such as the hit film Percy Jackson the Olympians: The Lightning Thief. Columbus directed and produced the first two films in the blockbuster Harry Potter series and produced the third. ![]() As a writer, he launched his career with the legendary films Gremlins and The Goonies. For over twenty-five years, Chris Columbus has written, directed and produced some of the most successful box-office hits, which have established him as a major force in contemporary Hollywood film-making. ![]() ![]() ![]() Now the puzzle they set out to solve has become a trap from which they might never escape. But soon another body turns up, and it seems they have a real-life serial killer on their hands. The Marlow Murder Club Series 3 primary works 3 total works Book 1 The Marlow Murder Club by Robert Thorogood 3. Together, they are the Marlow Murder Club. When the local police don't believe her story, Judith and two unlikely friends decide to investigate for themselves. ![]() Utterly delightful Robert Webb Agatha Christie with a modern twist SUN. One evening, while out swimming in the Thames, Judith witnesses a brutal murder. The first in a stunning new series introducing the Marlow Murder Club A hugely enjoyable murder mystery written with wonderful verve, humour and compassion. ![]() She lives alone in a faded mansion in Marlow, sets crosswords for The Times, and there's no man in her life to tell her what to do or how much whisky to drink. Seventy-seven-year-old Judith Potts is blissfully happy. Judith's mansion lies on the outskirts of the little town of Marlow and one thing her prestigious property offers is plenty of privacy. Utterly delightful' Robert Webb 'I love Robert Thorogood's writing' Peter James From the creator of the BBC One hit TV series, Death in Paradise To solve an impossible murder, you need an impossible hero. The Marlow Murder Club follows 77-year old Judith Potts, a crossword setter, who lives in a slightly-fading mansion on the banks of the River Thames. ![]() The first in a stunning new series introducing the Marlow Murder Club! 'A hugely enjoyable murder mystery written with wonderful verve, humour and compassion. ![]() ![]() ![]() This is not to say there’s nothing partisan about Liberal Fascism. This is not the literary clickbait it might appear to be at first glance, but actually a well-researched work that contains a lot of interesting information and provides an insightful and I think for the most part accurate synthesis of that information. ![]() If an Internet troll who decided to take his habit of posting annoying memes on social media sites were to take his efforts to the next level by writing and publishing a book, it might well look something like this!īut the old saying about not judging a book by its cover applies here, as I discovered when curiosity led me to begin reading it. It’s an inflammatory title, not helped by the lurid red book jacket highlighting a bright yellow smiley face with a Hitler mustache drawn on it. ![]() The full title of this book is Liberal Fascism: The Secret History of the American Left from Mussolini to the Politics of Meaning. ![]() ![]() ![]() In the Doctor Who meets Sherlock schema, Abigail is simultaneously the Doctor’s companion, and Sherlock’s Watson, creating a written record of her first case with Jackaby. In the fall of 2014, Jackaby garnered a lot of buzz thanks to publicists characterizing this title as “Doctor Who meets Sherlock,” a bold claim that appears right on the cover flap of the book. Given Jackaby’s preternatural preoccupations, Abigail’s grounded perspective and eye for detail prove invaluable as they attempt to track the killer with the surreptitious assistance of Junior Detective Charlie Cane. Though the police steadfastly insist on a mundane explanation, Jackaby suspects something more unusual is afoot, but his lack of official standing hampers the investigation. When Abigail answers his advertisement for an assistant, she finds herself pulled into the investigation of a series of grisly murders. ![]() Jackaby, private investigator of supernatural crimes. Fortunately for Abigail, there is nothing respectable about R.F. In the New England of 1892, there is not much in the way of respectable employment for unaccompanied seventeen-year-old girls. But a monster in a suit? That’s basically just a wicked man, and a wicked man is a more dangerous thing by far.”īoarding school runaway Abigail Rook steps off the Lady Charlotte onto the docks of New Fiddleham with one suitcase to her name, and no job prospects to speak of. ![]() |