![]() It is an immense organism, this army, with a small brain."Īs the huge Union Army of General William Tecumseh Sherman burned its way from Atlanta to the Carolinas in 1864 - 1865, it was accompanied by a motley group of freed slaves, entrepreneurs, the dispossessed wives and children of landowners, and even a few turncoats, all of whom saw this army on the march as their protection from the hostile unknown. It sends out as antennae its men on horses. It is tubular in its being and tentacled to the roads and bridges over which it travels. ![]() ![]() "Imagine a great segmented body moving in contractions and dilations at a rate of twelve or fifteen miles a day, a creature of a hundred thousand feet. ( Jump down to read a review of The Waterworks ) ( Jump down to read a review of Billy Bathgate) ( Jump over to read a review of Homer & Langley) ![]() ( Jump over to read a review of Andrew's Brain) ![]()
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![]() ![]() ![]() PFEIFFER: So nothing specific required for a Supreme Court justice? It could essentially be identical for the lower - for what the lower courts abide by? So A, it's easy to say what it would look like, and B, it shouldn't be a great chore to draft it. But the situation we have now is that 9,991 of them have a code of conduct and nine don't. So let's say there are 10,000 judges in the country. ![]() KING: Well, that's an easy question because there's already a code of conduct for every other judge in the federal system, not to mention every judge in the state system. On the first part, what would a code of conduct for the Supreme Court look like? The second part would create an enforcement mechanism. The first part would require the court to adopt a code of conduct. Last week's bill was introduced by Republican Senator Lisa Murkowski of Alaska and Senator Angus King, an independent who represents Maine and is with us now. That's all in response to recent allegations of misconduct involving Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch. And last week, senators introduced a bipartisan bill to create a code of conduct for the Supreme Court. Yesterday, the Senate held a hearing on judicial ethics. ![]() ![]() ![]() For some, the dissonance drives them to suicide.Īuthor Interviews What If You Hadn't Gotten Married? 'Dark Matter' Imagines An Alternate Life The memories come on in grayscale, black and white but with the full weight of actual memories. ![]() There are other spouses, other children, other choices made - sometimes better, sometimes worse. ![]() Ann Voss Peters falls 40 stories to her death, but just before she does, she tells Barry that she is suffering from False Memory Syndrome - an emerging neurological disease in which sufferers are suddenly afflicted with vivid, encompassing memories of lives they never lived. It starts like this: It is 2018 and NYPD detective Barry Sutton fails to talk a jumper off a ledge. Being that guy, over and over, his books like a perfect distillation of all those late-night, chemically altered conversations that seemed so important once upon a time.Īnd his new book, Recursion? Man, it's a good one. Who always said the most fascinating things. You remember that guy from college, sophomore year? The one that was always there at the bar, on the strange nights when it felt like you could hold off last call just by talking fast enough and thinking big enough? He was the one you'd find yourself listening to at 3am, sitting on the floor, weed and cheap beer twining together in your head as he spun out some bonkers theory about perception, psychology, memory, reality. Here's the thing you gotta know about Blake Crouch. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Recursion Author Blake Crouch ![]() ![]() The Department of Health sent Mallon to North Brother Island, where she was kept in isolation from 1907 to 1910, then released under the condition that she never work as a cook again. ![]() ![]() With this seemingly preposterous theory, he made Mallon a hunted woman. Then one determined “medical engineer” noticed that she left a trail of disease wherever she cooked, and identified her as an “asymptomatic carrier” of Typhoid Fever. Sought after by New York aristocracy, and with an independence rare for a woman of the time, she seemed to have achieved the life she’d aimed for when she arrived in Castle Garden. Canny and enterprising, she worked her way to the kitchen, and discovered in herself the true talent of a chef. Brave, headstrong, and dreaming of being a cook, she fought to climb up from the lowest rung of the domestic-service ladder. ![]() ![]() On the eve of the twentieth century, Mary Mallon emigrated from Ireland at age fifteen to make her way in New York City. Mary Beth Keane, named one of the 5 Under 35 by the National Book Foundation, has written a spectacularly bold and intriguing novel about the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” the first person in America identified as a healthy carrier of Typhoid Fever. The “infectiously readable” ( Vanity Fair) novel about the woman known as “Typhoid Mary,” who becomes, “in Keane’s assured hands.a sympathetic, complex, and even inspiring character” ( O, The Oprah Magazine). ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() If mysterious accidents don’t do her in, then the rebellious gnomes just might. Oh, and not to mention the strange hallucinations and garden gnomes who are far more than lawn ornaments. 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And why-oh-why are there so many chickens? When Skunk plows into Badger’s life, everything Badger knows is upended. But Skunk is Badger’s new roommate, and there is nothing Badger can do about it. Skunks should never, ever be allowed to move in. ![]() They should not linger in Important Rock Rooms. Wallace and Gromit meets Winnie-the-Pooh in a fresh take on a classic odd-couple friendship, from Newbery Honor author Amy Timberlake with full-color and black-and-white illustrations throughout by Caldecott Medalist Jon Klassen. Learn how Skunk and Badger first became roommates before embarking on their latest adventure, Egg Marks the Spot, now on sale!Ī Best Book of 2020: People * Kirkus Reviews * Booklist * School Library Journal * Publishers Weekly * Shelf Awareness for Readers * New York Public Library * Chicago Public Library * Evanston Public Library ![]() ![]() ![]() Sanderson (Legion, 2018, etc.) plainly had a ball with this nonstop, highflying opener, and readers will too.Ī harrowing tale of survival in the Killing Fields. M-Bot, a damaged AI of unknown origin, develops into a comical sidekick: “Hello!.You have nearly died, and so I will say something to distract you from the serious, mind-numbing implications of your own mortality! I hate your shoes.” Meanwhile, hints that all is not as it seems, either with the official story about her father or the whole Krell war in general, lead to startling revelations and stakes-raising implications by the end. Spensa, who is assumed white, interacts with reasonably diverse human classmates with varying ethnic markers. Opportunities to exercise wild recklessness and growing skill begin at once, as the class is soon in the air, battling the mysterious Krell raiders who have driven people underground. ![]() I didn’t get afraid”), Spensa “Spin” Nightshade leaves her previous occupation-spearing rats in the caverns of the colony planet Detritus for her widowed mother’s food stand-to wangle a coveted spot in the Defiant Defense Force’s flight school. ![]() Plainly modeled as a cross between Katniss Everdeen and Conan the Barbarian (“I bathed in fires of destruction and reveled in the screams of the defeated. Eager to prove herself, the daughter of a flier disgraced for cowardice hurls herself into fighter pilot training to join a losing war against aliens. ![]() ![]() ![]() after the suspect apparently jumped into a canal and then got out.Ĭamacho said a short pursuit ensued, and the trooper eventually lost sight of the vehicle.Ī Miami-Dade Police Department helicopter, however, spotted the stolen truck shortly after.Ĭamacho said Anderson bailed out of the vehicle in the area of Northwest Second Avenue and South Biscayne River Drive. ![]() Sky 10 was above the scene near Northwest 151st Street around 10:15 a.m. Alex Camacho, Marc Alan Anderson, 54, was taken into custody Friday afternoon after leading troopers and officers from several different other agencies on a chase in a stolen pickup truck in Northwest Miami-Dade.Īccording to Camacho, a trooper attempted to pull over a stolen Dodge pickup truck in the area of Northwest 103rd Street and Northwest 32nd Avenue, but the driver failed to stop. – A suspect who fled from authorities Friday morning while driving a stolen vehicle has been identified, the Florida Highway Patrol confirmed Saturday morning.Īccording to Florida Highway Patrol Lt. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s not only a near-perfect example of a thriller, but it’s also a novel that seems fresh and relevant over 40 years after it was written. Follett introduces complex protagonists, wraps the book around a real-life historical deception monumental in scale (the Allies’ efforts to deceive the Axis about the D-Day landing), paces the action carefully, then unleashes a real nail-biter of an ending. It’s also worth noting that the book is extremely good. ![]() ![]() The book sold at least 10 million copies by the author’s reckoning, was made into a film starring Donald Sutherland and Kate Nelligan and continues to engage readers today. Ken Follett published Eye of the Needle in 1978, and the book achieved a level of success that few other Edgar Award winners have matched I can only think of a small handful of Edgar winners that ascended to similar heights ( The Long Goodbye, The Spy Who Came in from the Cold, and The Day of the Jackal are probably the only other books on the list to reach the same level of sales and popularity). ![]() |