The Secret Service was born in 1865, in the wake of the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, but its story begins in earnest in 1963, with the death of John F. But the Secret Service wasn’t always so troubled. Terrifying.”-Rachel Maddow The first definitive account of the rise and fall of the Secret Service, from the Kennedy assassination to the alarming mismanagement of the Obama and Trump years, right up to the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6-by the Pulitzer Prize winner and #1 New York Times bestselling co-author of A Very Stable Genius and I Alone Can Fix It NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST Carol Leonnig has been reporting on the Secret Service for The Washington Post for most of the last decade, bringing to light the secrets, scandals, and shortcomings that plague the agency today-from a toxic work culture to dangerously outdated equipment to the deep resentment within the ranks at key agency leaders, who put protecting the agency’s once-hallowed image before fixing its flaws. “This is one of those books that will go down as the seminal work-the determinative work-in this field.
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"An excellent bug-ginner’s guide to the world of entomophagy. No doubt about it: teachers, librarians, and parents are hungry for books that entice young readers to be active participants in science.īugs for Breakfast may not completely remove the yuck-factor from the notion of eating bugs, but it will open young readers’ minds to what is happening in the world around them. Kids will see how making small changes in their own diets could help ensure no one goes hungry. They'll discover how nutritious bugs can be and why dining on insects is more environmentally friendly than eating traditional protein sources. Readers will be introduced to the insect specialties and traditions around the globe. Bugs for Breakfast helps middle-grade readers understand the role insects fill in feeding people around the world. More than one-fourth of the world’s population eats insects-a practice called entomophagy. Most North Americans would rather squish a bug than eat it.īut mopane worms are a tasty snack in Zimbabwe, baby bees are eaten right out of the can in Japan, and grasshopper tacos are popular in Mexico. At the night market, a half chicken would be flattened and tied lengthways on to bamboo sticks so it could be turned easily to cook both sides for my version, I use a whole spatchcocked chicken, marinated in the sauce and baked in the oven.ġ whole chicken, about 1.3kg/3lb, spatchcocked 2 Tbsp vegetable oil 2 Tbsp dark muscovado sugar 2 tsp fine sea salt For the marinade 2 banana shallots, peeled 3 garlic cloves, peeled 2.5cm ginger 5cm fresh turmeric, peeled, or 1 tsp ground turmeric 1 Tbsp vegetable oil 1 tsp fine sea salt For the slaw ¼ cup white sugar 300g red cabbage, thinly sliced 1 carrot, julienned 10 red radishes, thinly sliced 1 red onion, thinly sliced 1 cucumber, deseeded and julienned 100ml rice vinegar For the sauce 3 banana shallots, peeled 3 cloves garlic, peeled 2.5cm ginger 5 Tbsp chilli paste (I recommend sambal badjak) 2 stalks of lemongrass, trimmed 2 Tbsp coconut milk 1 Tbsp tamarind pasteġ. I waited all week for Friday night to come when the smoke from the stall carried with it the wonderful smell of grilled chicken that makes you instantly hungry. I have a vivid memory of saving my pocket money to buy this dish at the night market in my village when I was 11 years old. His latest cookbook, Bowlful, is the distillation of many years of travel and a celebration of the economical, vibrant and deliciously simple bowl food from these regions. Photo / Luke J Albertīorn in Malaysia, chef and author Norman Musa has spent much of his life exploring the cultures and cuisines of Southeast Asia. For it she won the Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and was nominated for the Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay and the BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay, among others. įlynn wrote the script for the 2014 film adaptation of Gone Girl, directed by David Fincher. Her books have been published in 40 languages and according to The Washington Post, as of 2016 Gone Girl alone has sold more than 15 million copies. She is known for writing the thriller and mystery novels, Sharp Objects (2006), Dark Places (2009), and Gone Girl (2012), which are all critically acclaimed. Gillian Schieber Flynn ( / ˈ ɡ ɪ l i ə n/ born February 24, 1971) is an American author, screenwriter, and producer. Then it took the agent another year to get her published. Meg spent three years working everyday just to get an agent. Like most authors, getting her first book published wasn't easy. She said she didn't study creative writing because a boy she met at a party told her college would ruin writing for her and she didn't want that (she would later marry that same boy). Meg went to college at Indiana University where she studied studio arts. She likes to write her stories about kids like she was. 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Although Magnus Bane erased memories of his absence, she was still subconsciously suspicious about his whereabouts. After his meeting, he returns home worried about what his mother would think, as she has been suspicious since he went to Idris in City of Glass and did not return for a few days. She says that if Simon joins her side as the Daylighter, he will finally earn his place in the vampire society. Simon receives an offer from a vampire named Camille Belcourt, who claims to have been usurped by Raphael Santiago. The series was meant to end with City of Glass it was announced in March 2010 that a fourth book would be added, with Cassandra Clare later saying that she views this as a "second trilogy" in the series. But there was also something unsettling about its images of dolls come to life. Like so many children’s books, A Gift From the Lonely Doll was an aching mix of absurd and profound. The story was told via beautiful black-and-white photographs of a curious doll named Edith and her teddy bear friends, Mr. Have you heard of the The Lonely Doll? For my birthday one year, my friend Drew presented me with a reissued copy of A Gift From the Lonely Doll and these solemn words: “You need this book.” It was one in a series by the late photographer/author/model Dare Wright, the first of which was originally published in 1957 with a trademark pink-and-white gingham cover. Collage by Sonja, drawing by Brooke Nechvatel. Through fascinating vignettes and honest, vivid descriptions, Dettwyler explores such diverse topics as ethnocentrism, culture shock, population control, breastfeeding, child care, the meaning of disability and child death in different cultures, female circumcision, women’s roles in patrilineal societies, the dangers of fieldwork, and facing emotionally draining realities. With nutritional anthropology at its core, Dancing Skeletons presents informal, engaging, and oftentimes dramatic stories that relate the author’s experiences conducting research on infant feeding and health in Mali. This personal account by a biocultural anthropologist illuminates not-soon-forgotten messages involving the sobering aspects of fieldwork among malnourished children in West Africa. One of the most widely used ethnographies published in the last twenty years, this Margaret Mead Award winner has been used as required reading at more than 600 colleges and universities. Her second poetry collection, Fondue, was awarded the 2019 Ledbury Forte Prize. She appeared at the Greenbelt Festival in 2018. In 2017, The Poetry Society invited her to write a 'poetry manifesto', which she named "The flower is forever my capitain". She was awarded the 2014 Melita Hume Prize which resulted in her publishing her first full-length collection of poetry Humbert Summer. Blakemore was Foyle Young Poet of the Year in 20. She has published two full-length collections of poetry, a novel, and a poet's manifesto, alongside translating the work of Sichuanese poet Yu Yoyo and contributing to various literary publications and collections.Īged 15, she had her poem Peckham Rye Lane published in the London Evening Standard. She studied Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. Blakemore (born in 1991) is an English author, poet, and translator.īlakemore was born in London in 1991. |