Mystery and manners, romance and fun-the sophisticated compositions and stylish characters in the extraordinary pictures of fashion photographer Rodney Smith (1947–2016) exist in a timeless world of his imagination. Handsomely designed, 1964: Eyes of the Storm creates an intensely dramatic record of The Beatles’ first transatlantic trip, documenting the radical shift in youth culture that crystallized in 1964. “Beatleland,” an essay by Harvard historian and New Yorker essayist Jill Lepore, describing how The Beatles became the first truly global mass culture phenomenon.Candid recollections preceding each city portfolio that form an autobiographical account of the period McCartney remembers as the “Eyes of the Storm,” plus a coda with subsequent events in 1964.A personal foreword in which McCartney recalls the pandemonium of British concert halls, followed by the hysteria that greeted the band on its first American visit.Featuring 275 images from the six cities―Liverpool, London, Paris, New York, Washington, D.C., and Miami―of these legendary months, 1964: Eyes of the Storm also includes: Taken with a 35mm camera by Paul McCartney, these largely unseen photographs capture the explosive period, from the end of 1963 through early 1964, in which The Beatles became an international sensation and changed the course of music history. ''Millions of eyes were suddenly upon us, creating a picture I will never forget.'' -Paul McCartney
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In his most personal work to date, he turns his attention to the essay, offering vigorous and laugh-out-loud funny accounts of both popular and highbrow culture while mixing in meditations on gender transition, family dynamics, and the many meanings of faith.įrom a thoughtful analysis of the beauty of William Shatner to a sinister reimagining of HGTV’s House Hunters, and featuring figures as varied as Anne of Green Gables, Columbo, Nora Ephron, Apollo, and the cast of Mean Girls, Something That May Shock and Discredit You is a hilarious and emotionally exhilarating compendium that combines personal history with cultural history to make you see yourself and those around you entirely anew. Everyone should read this extraordinary book.” - Kirkus Reviews (starred review)įrom the New York Times bestselling author of Texts From Jane Eyre and Merry Spinster, writer of Slate’s “Dear Prudence” column, and cofounder of The Toast comes a hilarious and stirring collection of essays and cultural observations spanning pop culture-from the endearingly popular to the staggeringly obscure.ĭaniel Mallory Ortberg is known for blending genres, forms, and sources to develop fascinating new hybrids-from lyric rants to horror recipes to pornographic scripture. “A delightful hybrid of a book… Yo u’l l laugh, you'll cry, often both at once. Named one of the most anticipated books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, O, The Oprah Magazine, BuzzFeed, Electric Literature, Yahoo Lifestyle, and Bitch Media Lewis is the award-winning illustrator of such books as Virgie Goes to School with Us Boys by Elizabeth Fitzgerald, which was a Coretta Scott King Illustrator Honor Book, and This Little Light of Mine. In recognition of her outstanding talent, Angela was named a 2003 MacArthur Fellow. Additional picture books include A Sweet Smell of Roses, Just Like Josh Gibson, The Day Ray Got Away, and All Different Now. Her books for younger readers include the Coretta Scott King Honor Book When I Am Old with You, illustrated by David Soman Wind Flyers and I Dream of Trains, both illustrated by Loren Long and Lottie Paris Lives Here and its sequel Lottie Paris and the Best Place, both illustrated by Scott M. She is also the author of the novels Looking for Red and A Certain October. The First Part Last was also the recipient of the Michael L. Angela Johnson has won three Coretta Scott King Awards, one each for her novels The First Part Last, Heaven, and Toning the Sweep. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. Named a "Best Essay Collection of the Decade" by Literary HubĪs a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. “I give daily thanks for Robin Wall Kimmerer for being a font of endless knowledge, both mental and spiritual.” -RICHARD POWERS, NEW YORK TIMES Hardy DIG Little Free Library Book Donation Lexington Elementary 2022 Summer Reading List Upcoming Fall 2022 Releases - Preorder Now! In one of those remarkable moments of serendipity, during lunch I mentioned the article to agent Al Zuckerman, who told me he was already trying to reach Professor Hawking to see if he might be interested in writing a popular book. I tucked the article in my knapsack, and a few days later I finished reading it on my way to lunch with a literary agent. I remember being struck by writer Timothy Ferris’s description of Professor’s Hawking’s shoes, their soles pristine, having never touched the ground. Inside, its pages told a story we all know today, but at the time it was a revelation: a Cambridge astrophysicist sought to solve the great mysteries of the universe, while he himself was trapped in a wheelchair by a progressive neurogenerative disease. I first encountered Stephen Hawking on the cover of the New York Times magazine. Suddenly, Kiran is swept into another dimension full of magic, winged horses, moving maps, and annoying, talking birds. To complicate matters, two crushworthy Indian princes ring her doorbell, insisting they’re here to rescue her. Turns out there might be some truth to her parents’ fantastical stories-like how Kiranmala is a real Indian princess-and a wealth of secrets about her origin they’ve kept hidden. On the morning of her twelfth birthday, Kiranmala is just a regular sixth grader living in Parsippany, New Jersey… until her parents mysteriously vanish later that day and a rakkhosh demon slams through her kitchen, determined to eat her alive. MEET KIRANMALA: INTERDIMENSIONAL DEMONSLAYER Genre: middle grade, urban fantasy, fairytales, adventure, magic Hope and assurance that believers will emerge victorious. 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