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Articles by Katherine Howe
Exclusive: Vanderbilt Family Secrets Revealed
On Tuesday, March 23, 1909, Flora Payne Whitney, age 11 and a half, came down with a sore throat. Her governess took her to the doctor, who sprayed her throat with medicine and rewarded her with candy. When she got home she was put straight to bed and given jelly for supper. "Mamma came to see me," Flora wrote in her diary that night. Flora always noted when she got to see Mamma, usually only for a short hello right before bed. This night was special, though.
A True Account
A True Account by Katherine Howe Pirates! Adventure! Treasure! This dual timeline story follows an accidental pirate on her hunt for treasure and a college professor on her hunt for the truth. Will either of them find what they are looking for? Julie G., R.J. Julia Booksellers, Madison
好书荐读｜GSB教授们的2023年末假日书单
来源：斯坦福商学院 一本好书是舒适冬日假期的完美配饰。倒上一杯你最喜欢的热饮，让我们一起来看看斯坦福商学院教授们推荐的假期读物吧。 The Worlds I See by Fei-Fei Li “I loved reading this memoir by Fei-Fei Li, a brilliant member of the Stanford faculty, creator of ImageNet, and founder of the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered Artificial Intelligence. Fei-Fei recounts the revolution in computer vision, neural networks, and machine learning from a unique perspective as one of the protagonists.
The Man Behind Santa
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Review: Eyeliner: A Cultural History
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A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates, Written by Herself
Katherine Howe, the bestselling author of THE PHYSICK BOOK OF DELIVERANCE DANE, invites her readers to the high seas in A TRUE ACCOUNT. This cleverly crafted novel-within-a-novel exposes both the hard-fought equality and brutal bloodshed of pirates in the Golden Age of Piracy. Hannah Masury, a servant to Mrs. Tomlinson, owner of the Ship Tavern inn, is about as ordinary as she is plain.
7 Famous Expressions About Laughter
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On Blinking and Cocksuckers: Notes on Writing Historical Dialogue
“I cannot blink it.” If you don’t know what that means, I don’t blame you. I don’t rightly know what it means, either. “Blink” has meant about what it means today—a quick fluttering of the eyelids—since at least the 1330s. Blinking is something that eyes do, not something that takes a direct object.
Beyond Treasure Island: A Brief Introduction to Pirates in Fiction
Not too long ago I found myself nearly alone in the Maritime wing of the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem. The Peabody Essex was formed from the gradual merging of the Essex Institute, once the historical society for Essex County in Massachusetts, and the Peabody Museum, a descendant of the once-storied, now mysterious East India Marine Society.
Paul Lynch wins Booker
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Review: Fun historical fiction 'A True Account' tests the borders of reality
This cover image released by Henry Holt shows " A True Account: Hannah Masury’s Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates" by Katherine Howe. Photo: AP Hannah Masury, for a brief time, was a pirate. At least, according to the mysterious manuscript that shows up on Professor Marian Beresford’s desk, brought by a bright-faced student excited at the possibility of finding the treasure that Hannah left behind.
Book Review: A True Account By Katherine Howe
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A TRUE ACCOUNT | Kirkus Reviews
Enjoy the author's strong eye for details of time and place; skim the muddled pirate action on the high seas. Issues of identity loom large in this tale of a female pirate whose journal becomes the research subject of a professor and her ambitious student. Hannah Masury’s “Sojourn Amongst the Pyrates” tells a classic story: In 1726, the illiterate teenager witnesses the murder of a young sailor by pirates and knows she must flee Boston.
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
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Book World: Anderson Cooper on money, history and the dark side of great fortunes
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune By Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe Harper. 336 pp. $32.99 - - - Anderson Cooper grew up in the shadow of great wealth: His great-great-great-grandfather was Cornelius Vanderbilt, one of the richest men in American history. His mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, was at the center of a sensational trial in the 1930s when her mother and aunt battled for custody of the little girl and her trust fund - worth more than $80 million in today's dollars.
Anderson Cooper On Money, History And The Dark Side Of Great Fortunes
Anderson Cooper grew up in the shadow of great wealth: His great-great-great grandfather was Cornelius Vanderbilt, one of the richest men in American history. His mother, Gloria Vanderbilt, was at the center of a sensational trial in the 1930s when her mother and aunt battled for custody of the little girl and her trust fund — worth more than $80 million in today’s dollars. Like so many family fortunes, it didn’t last. The Vanderbilt descendants (including Gloria) frittered most of it away.
Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune
(Author) (Author) FORMAT Hardcover$32.99$30.68(English) Buy new or used from an indie through our partner Biblio: Price Condition Seller The number one New York Times bestselling authors of Vanderbilt return with another riveting history of a legendary American family, the Astors, and how they built and lavished their fortune. The story of the Astors is a quintessentially American story--of ambition, invention, destruction, and reinvention.
Anderson Cooper and Katherine Howe at Old South Church
presenting Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune Location Old South Church 645 Boylston St, Boston, MA 02116 Tickets $45.00 (book included) Harvard Book Store and Boston Globe Events welcome ANDERSON COOPER—anchor at CNN and a correspondent for CBS’ 60 Minutes— and KATHERINE HOWE—novelist and historian of America—for a discussion of their new book Astor: The Rise and Fall of an American Fortune.
ASTOR | Kirkus Reviews
Alternately admiring and critical, unvarnished, and a closely detailed account of a troubled innovator. Awards & Accolades Likes 15 Our Verdict GET IT New York Times Bestseller A warts-and-all portrait of the famed techno-entrepreneur—and the warts are nearly beyond counting. To call Elon Musk (b. 1971) “mercurial” is to undervalue the term; to call him a genius is incorrect. Instead, Musk has a gift for leveraging the genius of others in order to make things work.
Op/Ed: Eradicating hunger, food insecurity in Indiana requires bipartisan effort
Katherine Howe, Dave Miner, Eugene Cho Over 50 years ago, President Richard Nixon convened America’s first hunger conference, a bipartisan event that brought together Republicans and Democrats to solve one of America’s most pressing social issues: rampant hunger and food insecurity across struggling rural and urban communities.
Looking for a last minute book gift? Becky Toyne's holiday reads list might have just what you need
There’s just one week until Christmas — and if you’re looking for a last minute gift idea, books are always a good option. Day 6 books columnist Becky Toyne joined host Peter Armstrong to give her top reads of the year. Day 6 books columnist Becky Toyne returns with her annual holiday reads list. (Maglara/Shutterstock) There's just one week until Christmas — and if you're looking for a last-minute gift idea, books are always a good option.
Business Books - Best Sellers - Books - Dec. 12, 2021
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Business Books - Best Sellers - Books - Nov. 14, 2021
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Business Books - Best Sellers - Books - Oct. 17, 2021
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Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
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Combined Print & E-Book Nonfiction
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Hardcover Nonfiction
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How to fritter away a family fortune
Gloria Vanderbilt and her husband, Wyatt Cooper, stand in front of one of her collages at Brentano's book store on Fifth Avenue in New York, Oct. 23, 1970. (Ray Howard/AP) Anderson Cooper begins his and Katherine Howe's splendid book with a vignette about his father taking him, age 6, to see the statue of his great-great-great-grandfather "Commodore" Cornelius Vanderbilt outside New York's Grand Central Terminal.
Fall 2021 Preview - Biographers International Organization
We’re highlighting here some of the biographies due out this fall and winter that are likely to garner critical and popular acclaim, because of their subject, their author, or both. The titles already getting buzz are drawn from Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, Booklist, Library Journal, and Amazon, among others. BIO members with upcoming releases are noted in bold type.
Be my escape
Interview with Caroline B. Cooney Professional Book Nerds Sep 14, 2020 | E:479 On today's episode, Jill interviews Caroline B. Cooney, author of the iconic Face on the Milk Carton, about her new adult book Before She Was Helen. Caroline talks about the "What if?" question that inspired her to write Before She Was Helen, transitioning creatively from writing young adult to adult, and tells the best librarian story ever (according to Jill). Listen to Interview with Caroline B. Cooney
Becoming a Home Modification Consultant
The best solution for home modification leverages occupational therapists and physical therapists working as a team in which family members and caregivers are included. by Katherine Howe, MsPT, ECHM Any acute care physical therapist (PT) or occupational therapist (OT) recognizes the rigor of the job.
The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs
CHAPTER 1 Cambridge, Massachusetts Early February 2000 "It would appear that we are nearly out of time," Janine Silva said, eying her vintage Spiro Agnew wristwatch, and Connie Goodwin's vision blurred with a surreal sense of déjà vu. For six years, every major event of her graduate student life had taken place in this room. The new student welcome reception was held here — Connie had worn flip-flops, of course, which was appalling, but true. Her reading seminars were taught here.
The Daughters of Temperance Hobbs
New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe returns to the world of The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane with a bewitching story of a New England history professor who must race against time to free her family from a curse Connie Goodwin is an expert on America’s fractured past with witchcraft.
14 Books for Fans of Chilling Adventures of Sabrina
By Dianca London Potts • 12 months ago If you’re having a hard time figuring out what to do in between rewatches of the Chilling Adventures of Sabrina’s A Midwinter’s Tale, don’t worry. You’re not alone. For those of us who prefer to ring in the yuletide season with ghost stories instead of cheerful carols, cozying up with a witchy read isn’t just an ideal way to celebrate the final turn of the wheel of the year, it’s the only way.
7 Spooky Books from Penguin That Aren't Dracula
From ghost stories told around campfires to zombie melodramas on television, we are obsessed with the living dead. Scott G. Bruce’s The Penguin Book of Undead is a compilation of historical accounts of run-ins with revenants and restless spirits, as well as the writings of theologians and scholars concerning the same.
5 Chilling Non-Fiction Reads Perfect for Halloween - Unbound Worlds
Colin Dickey doesn’t try to make a case for the existence of ghosts in his book Ghostland. Instead, he explores what ghost stories tell us about our nation’s history. Central to Ghostland is the premise that a haunting is the interposition of memory and place that serve as reminders of a past we’d prefer to forget: one of violence, inequality, and cruelty. If the idea of digging deeply into America’s haunted history appeals to you, then you’ll want to dig this fascinating book up.
Gotta catch’em all! Pokémon GO and physical activity among young adults: difference in differences study
Objective To estimate the effect of playing Pokémon GO on the number of steps taken daily up to six weeks after installation of the game. Participants Survey participants of Amazon Mechanical Turk (n=1182) residing in the United States, aged 18 to 35 years and using iPhone 6 series smartphones.
After the People Lights Have Gone Off
WINNER, Best Collection of the Year, THIS IS HORROR NOMINATED, Best Collection of the Year, BRAM STOKER AWARDS NOMINATED, Best Collection of the Year, SHIRLEY JACKSON AWARDS The fifteen stories in After the People Lights Have Gone Off by Stephen Graham Jones explore the horrors and fears of the supernatural and the everyday. Included are two original stories, several rarities and out of print narratives, as well as a few "best of the year" inclusions.
The Serious History Of Hocus Pocus In 'Penguin Book Of Witches'
The Serious History Of Hocus Pocus In 'Penguin Book Of Witches' Throughout history, witches have taken on many forms: As women with a mystical relationship to the natural world. Or as endearing characters in pop culture (cue the Bewitched theme song). But historian Katherine Howe's new book recalls a time when witchcraft wasn't just a crime, it was enough to get you killed.
Hardcover Fiction
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