“The Undoing Project” picks up the dangling thread of the spectacle of human folly it revealed, documenting the mind meld between two Israeli psychologists that put the landscape of human error on the map, revolutionizing understanding of how in an uncertain world, our reach exceeds our grasp. “Moneyball” follows Beane as he exploits these blind spots for profit. But the story’s appeal lay partly in the inference that trading ballplayers was symptomatic, that other fields were ripe for similar “disruption.” Since then, moneyball has come to connote the application of quantitative principles to any number of endeavors considered the preserve of old-school human acumen, Lewis notes in his latest work, “The Undoing Project,” rattling off a list - traditionally artisanal moviemaking and publishing among them - in which such efforts are reportedly under way.īut as arresting as Beane’s audacious tactics for on-field success were, more startling still was the dysfunction “Moneyball” disclosed in professional baseball - its fixation with physique that led teams to consistently overlook paunchy prospects with superior stats, preoccupation with performance yardsticks that turn out to be whimsical and thralldom to the wisdom of the gut (supposedly an organ of exquisite discernment, but frequently.
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Theres a place beyond this world where spirits tell their talesstories that ended too soon, or dont end at all. And they need to use it, because, clearly, something is up. The author of the 1 New York Times bestseller Pendragon invites you to enter The Library, where the stories you cant finish just might finish you. Marcus and his friends have found the key to open it. Puzzles that won't be solved until someone steps in to finish them. There's a place filled with tales that don't have an ending. Check out a book-and unlock an adventure! A fast-paced, thrilling series opener from bestselling author D. Previously published as Curse of the Boggin. Tyler had dropped out of school the end of his junior year. Electronic messaging about the shooting, sent both by students inside the school, and outsiders reacting to the news, is also incorporated into each chapter. Each tells his experience from his own perspective while the author alternates among them. Four narrators tell the story of what happens minute by minute during the shooting. The tragedy at OHS is over in less than an hour. At the end of the day, thirty-nine students and teachers are dead and many more are injured. He blames his fellow students for his loneliness and takes his frustration out on them by bringing a gun to school. Although, people who would listen to him, surround him - including his sister, Autumn - Tyler Browne believes he is all alone. Tragedy brings out the worst and the best in people, the students of Opportunity High School (OHS) learn from a school shooting in This is Where it Ends by Marieke Nijkamp. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Nijkamp, Marieke. Readers will also find the essential collection of core butter recipes, including beurre manié, croissants, pâte brisée, and the only buttercream frosting anyone will ever need, as well as practical how-tos for making various types of butter at home-or shopping for the best. With tales about the ancient butter bogs of Ireland, the pleasure dairies of France, and the sacred butter sculptures of Tibet, Khosrova details butter’s role in history, politics, economics, nutrition, and even spirituality and art. Here, it finally gets its due.Īfter traveling across three continents to stalk the modern story of butter, award-winning food writer and former pastry chef Elaine Khosrova serves up a story as rich, textured, and culturally relevant as butter itself.įrom its humble agrarian origins to its present-day artisanal glory, butter has a fascinating story to tell, and Khosrova is the perfect person to tell it. Ubiquitous in the world’s most fabulous cuisines, butter is boss. It’s a culinary catalyst, an agent of change, a gastronomic rock star. “Edifying from every point of view-historical, cultural, and culinary.” -David Tanis, author of A Platter of Figs and Other Recipes (This story will remind you of the children's picture book classic, Fortunately, by Remy Charlip.) And finally, the littlest brother, Karl, comes over bearing a wagonload of inflatable toys to take swimming in Stillwater's small wading pool. The two of them sit companionably in a tall tree while Stillwater relates a tale about a rabbit farmer who has good and bad luck, but understands not to take life for granted. Michael visits next, worried about how unpredictable life is. To Addy, who brings him a housewarming gift, he tell the story of his Uncle Ry, a generous panda who gives his only robe to a raccoon who comes to the house to rob him. One at a time, the siblings, even the youngest, Karl, who is "shy around bears he doesn't know," visit Stillwater at his house, and he tells each child a special story. Karl, Michael, and Addy are intrigued with their new neighbor, Stillwater, a kindly giant panda who speaks with a slight panda accent, when he comes over to retrieve his red umbrella from their backyard. With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam tell a moving and deeply profound story about how one boy is able to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth, in a system designed to strip him of both. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal's bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn't commit and sent to prison. "Boys just being boys" turns out to be true only when those boys are white. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. But even in a diverse art school, he's seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo.Īmal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. Instant New York Times bestseller! From award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. The novel is grounded in the reality of late 1970s/early 1980s Communist Romania, including long lines for groceries, the absurdities of the education system, and the misery of family life. One character asks another: when you rush into the burning building, will you save the newborn or the artwork? On a broad scale, the novel’s investigations of other universes, dimensions, and timelines reconcile the realms of life and art. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2022 by the New Yorker, Publishers Weekly, The Financial Times, Words Without BordersĪ highly-acclaimed master work of fiction from Cărtărescu, author of Blinding: an existence (and eventually a cosmos) created by forking paths.īased on Cărtărescu’s own role as a high school teacher, Solenoid begins with the mundane details of a diarist’s life and quickly spirals into a philosophical account of life, history, philosophy, and mathematics. She manages to escape and heads to the bus station, coincidentally getting on the same bus as Robie in an attempt to leave town.īut the killer follows her on board. Returning to her own house, she sees her parents being murdered by a lone killer. When she receives a note from her mother stating that they want to make a new start as a family, Julie runs away from her foster home. Putting his personal escape plan into action, he heads to the bus station to get on the next bus to New York with a ticket booked earlier under an alias.įourteen-year-old Julie Getty has been forced into the foster care system due to a recurring drug problem faced by parents who have made numerous attempts to turn clean. Robie manages to escape in spite of his handler leading him to the second shooter, and imminent death. Before he realizes his mistake, a secondary shooter kills both mother and child. But on the day, faced by the young woman he’s meant to kill and the child that’s holding on to her, Robie, for the first time in his life, hesitates. Government assassin, Will Robie, returns from two successful assignments in Tangier and Edinburgh to find that his next target is right in his home city – a government employee who needs to be eliminated for an unknown reason. There was a play that didn't do very well, and a company out in Hollywood is doing a reanimation of the walk. There have been books: Petit's own and a children's book. I could watch the documentary Man on Wire over and over again. O: What made you want to write about Philippe Petit's walk?Ĭolum: It's such a glorious human image, almost overused at this stage, but people are still thrilled by the idea of a man walking a quarter of a mile in the sky, back and forth eight times on a quarter-inch rope. Our reviewer called the novel "an act of pure bravado."īalance isn't as easy to achieve in life, he admits: "It's bizarre channeling a 38-year-old grandmother who's a prostitute, and then suddenly a note from my kid slips under my door that says: Daddy, let's go play soccer." Colum took time, before heading out to a Mets game with his three children, to speak with us about his reconnaissance walks on Park Avenue, attempts to track down '70s hookers (in a public library), and the reason he wants Bill Gates to read this book. In his National Book Award winning novel Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann plays with the idea of balance, starting with Philippe Petit's 1974 glorious tightrope walk between the Twin Towers, and in stories of ordinary New Yorkers tied, however tangentially, to that event. "That sounds like a pretty good story too.” Better than any tough heroine or dreamy love interest. For me, a complex villain with a backstory that can create sympathy is one of the strongest kinds of characters. It personally made me want to know more about her. Levana is a seriously crazy bitch in the other books of the Lunar Chronicles. There's just something really great about reading the stories behind the villains, finding out why they became the way they are. I enjoyed this book immensely and I had the feeling beforehand that it would be the villain's story that affected me most. so far, but I find it hard to imagine that Winter will top this. This is easily my favourite book of the series. A girl who tried so hard, harder than anyone else, and still never had anything to show for it.”Ĥ 1/2 stars. “She cried for the girl who had never belonged. |