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Todos Llaman Padre, A mi Padre
by Tim 'Dr. Hope' AndersBasado en la verdadera historia de amor de la vida de los padres del autor, su madre, una actriz, y su padre, un sacerdote católico. El hijo de un sacerdote católico lo cuenta todo. Esta novela romántica se basa en una verdadera historia de amor: la historia de los padres del autor. El personaje de una joven tenaz, Bouvette Sherwood, que es una exitosa productora y actriz de New York Broadway, conduce la trama. A mediados de la década de 1940, Bouvette se encuentra y se enamora de un alcohólico encantador, Hughie Hewitt. Sin embargo, él tiene un secreto que le oculta durante su intenso noviazgo: es un sacerdote católico. Su historia de amor se desarrolla en un caleidoscopio de intriga, suspenso, traición y romance.
Todos los futuros perdidos: Conversaciones sobre el final de ETA
by Eduardo Madina Borja SémperUn libro lleno de valentía, honestidad y verdad. Este libro comienza con el recuerdo de un día feliz, el 20 de octubre de 2011, en el que la banda terrorista ETA anunció su cese definitivo. Diez años después de aquella fecha histórica, un centenario caserío en Aretxabaleta, cercano a Mondragón, albergaba esta emocionante conversación sobre uno de los episodios más oscuros de nuestro pasado reciente. Eduardo Madina y Borja Sémper eligieron un simbólico cruce de caminos en el corazón de Euskadi porque la suya es una historia de vidas paralelas con muchos puntos de conexión. Nacidos en Bilbao e Irun con apenas unas horas de diferencia, su compromiso les convirtió desde muy jóvenes en objetivos de la violencia. Ambos vivieron los años más duros del terrorismo en primera línea y desde distintas formaciones políticas. Nunca se plantearon renunciar, a pesar del coste que supuso en sus vidas. Todos los futuros perdidos es un conmovedor testimonio contra el miedo, el silencio y el olvido. Un libro imprescindible que reivindica la memoria colectiva de un pasado que no debió existir al tiempo que celebra la mayor de las victorias, la de todos los futuros que se ganaron.
Todos los hombres del Führer: La élite del nacionalismo (1919-1945)
by Ferran GallegoTodos los nombres relevantes de aquellos que hicieron los sueños de Hitler realidad: Los artífices del III Reich. Un sistema político, económico, social, militar y cultural tan complejo como el nazismo sólo pudo levantarse gracias a la decidida participación de muchas personas. Himmler, Göring, Rosenberg, Goebbels, Drexler, Strasser, Röhm, Speer, entre otros destacados jerarcas nacionalsocialistas, fueron algunos de los responsables de la construcción de aquella barbarie. Sin ellos, Hitler, el Führer, su conductor, no hubiera podido sembrar el terror en su propio país y en Europa. Como explica el profesor Gallego en la brillante conclusión de este trabajo -destinado a convertirse en un clásico de la historiografía española sobre la materia- el nacionalsocialismo fue un proyecto social que se instaló en la modernidad y que procedía de sus mismas actitudes culturales. Premio Internacional de Ensayo Caballero Bonald Reseña:«Ferran Gallego es un caso bastante excepcional en España por la dimensión literaria de su prosa, algo especialmente perceptible en este libro.»Jacinto Antón, El País
Todos tenemos un lado (oscuro) rosa
by Lili Herrejón¿Todavía hay alguien que piense que las chicas no saben contar chistes? Eso es porque no conocen a Lili y Herrejón (o Lilirrejón), dos jóvenes influencers de redes sociales que son capaces de arrancar 400.000 carcajadas en seis segundos. Lili y Herrejón no pueden ser más distintas. A Herrejón le gustan las películas de acción y a Lili las románticas. Herrejón prefiere la montaña y Lili la playa. A Herrejón le gustan los chicos como vikingos, tatuados y barbudos, y a Lili le gustan los chicos tiernos que tocan la guitarra. Herrejón prefiere salado y Lili, dulce. Sin embargo, son grandes amigas y compañeras de piso. En Todos tenemos un lado (oscuro) rosa hablan de amistad, de relaciones sentimentales, de la experiencia de compartir piso y, por supuesto, de sí mismas: la música que les gusta, sus peores y mejores citas, lo que les hace reíry llorar... Rompen con las ideas preconcebidas del mundo femenino mostrando mujeres que saben reírse de sus defectos y que prefieren quedarse en casa comiendo una pizza a tener una cita. Todo con el toque dulce que le pone Lili y con un poquito de mala leche, como le gusta a Herrejón.
Toffee Apples and Quail Feathers: New Stories From Call the Midwife
by Jennifer Worth Suzannah WorthFollowing the death of her beloved mother Jennifer Worth in 2011, Suzannah Worth discovered amongst her manuscripts a folder simply labelled 'Fifth Book'. Imagine her excitement when she sat down to read and her mother's distinctive voice came flooding back. She found herself once again immersed in the world of the 1950s East End of London. The voices of much loved, familiar characters spoke loud and clear, particularly that of Fred the boiler man, who features extensively in this joyful collection. From Fred and Maisie's romance, to Fred's little earners including boat tours on the Thames, a fledgling singing career and raising pigs on the allotment, these new stories are as heart-warming and funny as the originals.Published here for the first time and accompanied by a selection of Suzannah's favourite chapters from the original memoirs, featuring Chummy and Sister Monica Joan, this is a very special addition to the Call the Midwife family.
Together For Good: Lessons from Fifty Five Years of Marriage
by Henry H. Mitchell Ella P. MitchellThe book tells how the Mitchells coped with the first year of marriage, financial problems, the birth and adoption of their children, switching jobs, and moving.
Together We March: 25 Protest Movements That Marched into History
by Leah HendersonMarch through history and discover twenty-five groundbreaking protest movements that have shaped the way we fight for equality and justice today in this stunningly illustrated and sweeping book!For generations, marches have been an invaluable tool for bringing about social change. People have used their voices, the words on their signs, and the strength in their numbers to combat inequality, oppression, and discrimination. They march to call attention to these wrongs and demand change and action, from a local to a global scale. Whether demanding protective laws or advocating for equal access to things like voting rights, public spaces, and jobs, the twenty-five marches in this book show us that even when a fight seems impossible, marching can be the push needed to tip the scales and create a movement. This gorgeous collection celebrates this rich and diverse history, the often-overlooked stories, and the courageous people who continue to teach us the importance of coming together to march today.
Together We Roared: Alongside Tiger for His Epic Twelve-Year, Thirteen-Majors Run
by Steve Williams Evin PriestSteve Williams, arguably the greatest caddie in golf history, teams up with renowned golf journalist Evin Priest to give his definitive account of his 12-year partnership with the legendary Tiger Woods, sharing personal, never-before-told moments of their friendship on and off the course.When Tiger Woods went on an extraordinary majors run between 1999 and 2008, one man stood at his side: his caddie Steve Williams. Together Steve and Tiger dominated the PGA Tour and won an astonishing 13 major championships, their sights set on breaking Jack Nicklaus’s record 18 majors. Before they could overtake Nicklaus, however, their partnership ended abruptly, and a 12-year period without talking began. Years later, the two reconnected.Steve, with PGA Tour journalist Evin Priest, reflects fondly on his years as Tiger’s caddie and their relentless pursuit of greatness. He revisits all their best moments, from Tiger’s iconic shot on the 16th hole at the 2005 Masters to the famed Tiger Slam of 2000 and 2001, to his against-the-odds victory on a broken leg at the 2008 US Open. Steve goes behind the scenes of their on-course success and shows their friendship off the course, like Tiger caddying for Steve on his wedding day and Tiger giving a heartfelt best man speech. Steve also shares fascinating, never-before-seen photos and ephemera.Together We Roared offers an inside look at what it is like to ride alongside greatness and is a heartfelt ode to the friendship that produced one of the winningest duos in golf history.
Together in Manzanar: The True Story of a Japanese Jewish Family in an American Concentration Camp
by Tracy SlaterOn a late March morning in the spring of 1942, Elaine Yoneda awoke to a series of terrible choices: between her family and freedom, her country and conscience, and her son and daughter. She was the child of Russian Jewish immigrants and the wife of a Japanese American man. On this war-torn morning, she was also a mother desperate to keep her young mixed-race son from being sent to a US concentration camp. Manzanar, near Death Valley, was one of ten detention centers where our government would eventually imprison every person of Japanese descent along the West Coast—alien and citizen, old and young, healthy and sick—or, in the words of one official, anyone with even "one drop" of Japanese blood. Elaine's husband Karl was already in Manzanar, but he planned to enlist as soon as the US Army would take him. The Yonedas were prominent labor and antifascist activists, and Karl was committed to fighting for what they had long cherished: equality, freedom, and democracy. Yet when Karl went to war, their son Tommy, three years old and chronically ill, would be left alone in Manzanar—unless Elaine convinced the US government to imprison her as well. The consequences of Elaine's choice did not end there: if she somehow found a way to force herself behind barbed wire with her husband and son, she would leave behind her white daughter from a previous marriage. Together in Manzanar tells the story of these painful choices and conflicting loyalties, the upheaval and violence that followed, and the Yonedas' quest to survive with their children's lives intact and their family safe and whole.
Together on Top of the World: The Remarkable Story of the First Couple to Climb the Fabled Seven Summits
by Phil Ershler Susan ErshlerOn May 16, 2002, Phil and Susan Ershler reached the top of Mt. Everest and became the first couple in history to scale the fabled Seven Summits. What made their achievement all the more remarkable was that Susan was not a mountain climber, but a high-powered Fortune 500 executive who had never hiked or climbed until she met Phil at the age of 36. Phil, a professional mountain guide who was the first American to summit Everest from its treacherous north face, had climbed his whole life with Crohn's disease, a chronic, debilitating illness. Adding to these challenges, just before their final summit, Phil was diagnosed with colon cancer, and the resulting surgeries and complications were expected to end his career. This is Susan and Phil's story: a tale of love set in the mountains, a story of triumphal highs and devastating lows in quest of a seemingly impossible dream.
Together, Alone
by Susan Wittig AlbertWhat does it mean to belong to a place, to be truly rooted and grounded in the place you call home? How do you commit to a marriage, to a full partnership with another person, and still maintain your own separate identity? These questions have been central to Susan Wittig Albert's life, and in this beautifully written memoir, she movingly describes how she has experienced place, marriage, and aloneness while creating a home in the Texas Hill Country with her husband and writing partner, Bill Albert. Together, Alone opens in 1985, as Albert leaves a successful, if rootless, career as a university administrator and begins a new life as a freelance writer, wife, and homesteader on a patch of rural land northwest of Austin. She vividly describes the work of creating a home at Meadow Knoll, a place in which she and Bill raised their own food and animals, while working together and separately on writing projects. Once her sense of home and partnership was firmly established, Albert recalls how she had to find its counterbalance--a place where she could be alone and explore those parts of the self that only emerge in solitude. For her, this place was Lebh Shomea, a silent monastic retreat. In writing about her time at Lebh Shomea, Albert reveals the deep satisfaction she finds in belonging to a community of people who have chosen to be apart and experience silence and solitude.
Together: A Memoir of a Marriage and a Medical Mishap
by Judy GoldmanA routine procedure left novelist, memoirist, and poet Judy Goldman's husband paralyzed. Together is her unforgettable account of the struggle to regain their "normal" life and a nuanced portrait of a marriage tested.When Judy Goldman's husband of almost four decades reads a newspaper ad for an injection to alleviate back pain, the outpatient procedure sounds like the answer to his longtime backaches. But rather than restoring his tennis game, the procedure leaves him paralyzed from the waist down--a phenomenon none of the doctors the family consults can explain. Overnight, Goldman's world is turned upside down. Though she has always thought of herself as the polite, demure wife opposite her strong, brave husband, Goldman finds herself thrown into a new role as his advocate, navigating byzantine hospital policies, demanding and refusing treatments, seeking solutions to help him win back his independence. Along the way, Goldman flashes back to her memories of their life together. As she tries envision her family's future, she discovers a new, more resilient version of herself. Together is a story of the life we imagine versus the life we lead--an elegant and empathetic meditation on partnership, aging, and, of course, love.
Tokugawa Ieyasu
by Stephen Turnbull Giuseppe RavaTowards the end of the 16th century three outstanding commanders brought Japan's century of civil wars to an end, and even though reunification was first achieved under Toyotomi Hideyoshi, it was his successor Tokugawa Ieyasu who was to ensure a lasting peace. In terms of his strategic and political achievements Ieyasu ranks as Japan's greatest samurai commander. His battlefield prowess, however, needs careful consideration before accolades are offered, because Ieyasu was undoubtedly a lucky general. Mikata ga Hara, for example, was a defeat that the onset of winter saved from being a rout. Ieyasu's crowning victory at Sekigahara depended very much on the defection to his side of Kobayakawa Hideaki, and the absence from the scene of Ieyasu's son Hidetada serves to illustrate how just once there was a failure in Ieyasu's otherwise classic strategic vision. Yet Ieyasu possessed the particular wisdom of knowing who should be an ally and who was an enemy, and he was gifted in the broad brush strokes of a campaign. He also knew how to learn from his mistakes.Ieyasu was also patient, a virtue sadly lacking in many of his contemporaries, and unlike Hideyoshi never outreached himself. To establish his family as the ruling clan in Japan for the next two and a half centuries was abundant proof of his true greatness.
Tokyo Hostess: Inside the shocking world of Tokyo nightclub hostessing
by Clare CampbellThe ambition of Tokyo businessman Joji Obara was to have sex with five hundred women. He set up a kind of date-rape production line to do it - the horrible workings of which would become infamous in the course of a sensational trial.'In recent years, a number of high profile murder cases involving Western women who work as hostesses in Tokyo nightclubs have attracted the attention of the media. 'Gaijin' generally means 'foreign' or 'non-Japanese'. This book focuses on the victims of businessman Joji Obara, who was controversially acquitted of the murder of Lucie Blackman but jailed for that of Carita Ridgway. Samantha Ridgway, Carita's sister, and the Blackman family never gave up their fight for justice and finally Obara was jailed. But there are many more tragic stories of the men who prey on the gaijin girls...
Tokyo Hostess: Inside the shocking world of Tokyo nightclub hostessing
by Clare CampbellThe ambition of Tokyo businessman Joji Obara was to have sex with five hundred women. He set up a kind of date-rape production line to do it - the horrible workings of which would become infamous in the course of a sensational trial.'In recent years, a number of high profile murder cases involving Western women who work as hostesses in Tokyo nightclubs have attracted the attention of the media. 'Gaijin' generally means 'foreign' or 'non-Japanese'. This book focuses on the victims of businessman Joji Obara, who was controversially acquitted of the murder of Lucie Blackman but jailed for that of Carita Ridgway. Samantha Ridgway, Carita's sister, and the Blackman family never gave up their fight for justice and finally Obara was jailed. But there are many more tragic stories of the men who prey on the gaijin girls...
Tokyo, My Everest: A Canadian Woman in Japan
by Gabrielle BauerCo-winner of the Canada-Japan Literary Awards 1997 By either folly or design, Gabrielle Bauer finds herself on a plane bound for Tokyo, leaving her career, home, and husband behind.
Tolkien and the Great War: The Threshold of Middle-earth
by John GarthHow the First World War influenced the author of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy: &“Very much the best book about J.R.R. Tolkien that has yet been written.&” —A. N. Wilson As Europe plunged into World War I, J. R. R. Tolkien was a student at Oxford and part of a cohort of literary-minded friends who had wide-ranging conversations in their Tea Club and Barrovian Society. After finishing his degree, Tolkien experienced the horrors of the Great War as a signal officer in the Battle of the Somme, where two of those school friends died. All the while, he was hard at work on an original mythology that would become the basis of his literary masterpiece, the Lord of the Rings trilogy. In this biographical study, drawn in part from Tolkien&’s personal wartime papers, John Garth traces the development of the author&’s work during this critical period. He shows how the deaths of two comrades compelled Tolkien to pursue the dream they had shared, and argues that the young man used his imagination not to escape from reality—but to transform the cataclysm of his generation. While Tolkien&’s contemporaries surrendered to disillusionment, he kept enchantment alive, reshaping an entire literary tradition into a form that resonates to this day. &“Garth&’s fine study should have a major audience among serious students of Tolkien.&” —Publishers Weekly &“A highly intelligent book . . . Garth displays impressive skills both as researcher and writer.&” —Max Hastings, author of The Secret War &“Somewhere, I think, Tolkien is nodding in appreciation.&” —San Jose Mercury News &“A labour of love in which journalist Garth combines a newsman&’s nose for a good story with a scholar&’s scrupulous attention to detail . . . Brilliantly argued.&” —Daily Mail (UK) &“Gripping from start to finish and offers important new insights.&” —Library Journal &“Insight into how a writer turned academia into art, how deeply friendship supports and wounds us, and how the death and disillusionment that characterized World War I inspired Tolkien&’s lush saga.&” —Detroit Free Press
Tolstoy and Tolstaya: A Portrait of a Life in Letters
by Andrew DonskovBoth Lev Nikolaevich Tolstoy (1828–1910) and his wife Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya (1844–1919) were prolific letterwriters.Lev Nikolaevich wrote approximately 10,000 letters over his lifetime — 840 of these addressed to his wife. Letters written by (or to) Sofia Andreevna over her lifetime also numbered in the thousands. When Tolstaya published Lev Nikolaevich’s letters to her, she declined to include any of her 644 letters to her husband. The absence of half their correspondence obscured the underlying significance of many of his comments to her and occasionally led the reader to wrong conclusions.The current volume, in presenting a constantly unfolding dialogue between the Tolstoy-Tolstaya couple — mostly for the first time in English translation — offers unique insights into the minds of two fascinating individuals over the 48-year period of their conjugal life. Not only do we ’peer into the souls’ of these deep-thinking correspondents by penetrating their immediate and extended family life — full of joy and sadness, bliss and tragedy but we also observe, as in a generation-spanning chronicle, a variety of scenes of Russian society, from rural peasants to lords and ladies. This hard-cover, illustrated critical edition includes a foreword by Vladimir Il’ich Tolstoy (Lev Tolstoy’s great-great-grandson), introduction, maps, genealogy, as well as eleven additional letters by Sofia Andreevna Tolstaya published here for the very first time in either Russian or English translation. It is a beautiful complement to My Life, a collection of Sofia Tolstaya’s memoirs published in English in 2010 at the University of Ottawa Press."While Adolf Hitler was seizing power in Germany, Adrien Arcand was laying the foundations in Quebec for his Parti national social chrétien. The Blue Shirts, as its members were called, wore a military uniform and prominently displayed the swastika. Arcand saw Jewish conspiracy wherever he turned and his views resonated with his followers who, like him, sought a scapegoat for all the ills eroding society.Even after his imprisonment during the Second World War, the fanatical Adrien Arcand continued his correspondence with those on the frontlines of anti-semitism. Until his death in 1967, he pursued his campaign of propaganda against communists and Jews.Hugues Théorêt describes a dark period in Quebec’s ideological history using an objective approach and careful, rigorous research in this book, which won the 2015 Canada Prize (Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences).Published in English.
Tolstoy and the Purple Chair: My Year of Magical Reading
by Nina Sankovitch“A dazzling memoir that reminds us of the most primal function of literature—to heal, to nurture and to connect us to our truest selves.” —Thrity Umrigar, author of The Space Between UsCatalyzed by the loss of her sister, a mother of four spends one year savoring a great book every day, from Thomas Pynchon to Nora Ephron and beyond. Nina Sankovitch’s soul-baring and literary-minded memoir is a chronicle of loss, hope, and redemption. Nina ultimately turns to reading as therapy and through her journey illuminates the power of books to help us reclaim our lives.“Intelligent, insightful and eloquent, Sankovitch takes the reader on the literary journey. . . . As a bonus, even the well-read reader will be inspired to explore some of the books from this magical year.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review“The beauty of her project lies in seeing how books intertwine with daily life, how very much they affect our moods, interactions, and, especially important for Sankovitch, how we recover and process our memories.” —Los Angeles Times“Through the stories of her own family, Nina Sankovitch shows how books have the power to refresh, renew, and even heal us.” —Julie Klam, New York Times bestselling author of You Had Me at Woof“[An] entertaining bibliophile’s dream. . . . Sankovitch champions the act of reading not as an indulgence but as a necessity, and will make the perfect gift from one bookworm to another.” —Publishers Weekly“There is much to learn from this moving book.” —Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, author of One Amazing Thing“Anyone who has ever sought refuge in literature will identify.” —O magazine“A beautifully paced look at how mindfulness can affect the psyche.” —Shelf Awareness, starred review
Tolstoy's False Disciple: The Untold Story of Leo Tolstoy and Vladimir Chertkov
by Alexandra PopoffThe new book from the critically acclaimed author of The Wives and ?Sophia Tolstoy sheds light on one of the strangest and most unusual relationships in literary history--which has been steeped in secrecy for more than a century. On the snowy morning of February 8, 1897, the Petersburg secret police were following Tolstoy's every move. At sixty-nine, Russia's most celebrated writer was being treated like a major criminal. Prominent Russians were always watched, but Tolstoy earned particular scrutiny. Over a decade earlier, when his advocacy on behalf of oppressed minorities angered the Orthodox Church and the Tsar, he was placed under permanent police surveillance. Although Tolstoy was wearing his peasant garb, people on the streets had no trouble recognizing him from his portraits. He was often seen in the company of his chief disciple, Vladimir Chertkov. A man of striking appearance, twenty-five years younger, Chertkov commanded attention. His photographs with Tolstoy show him towering over the writer, but who exactly was this imposing man? Close to the Tsars and to the chief of the secret police, Chertkov represented the very things Tolstoy had renounced --class privilege, unlimited power, and wealth. Yet, Chertkov fascinated and attracted Tolstoy. He became the writer's closest confidant, even reading his daily diary, and by the end of Tolstoy's life, Chertkov had established complete control over the writer and his legacy. Tolstoy's full exchange with Chertkov comprises more than 2,000 letters, making him the writer's largest correspondent. The Russian archives have suppressed much of this communication as well as Chertkov's papers for more than a century. The product of ground-breaking archival research, Tolstoy's False Disciple promises to be a revelatory portrait of the two men and their three-decade-long clandestine relationship.
Tolstoy, Rasputin, Others, and Me
by Robert Chandler Elizabeth Chandler Teffi Anne Marie Jackson Rose FranceEarly in her literary career Nadezhda Lokhvitskaya, born in St. Petersburg in 1872, adopted the pen-name of Teffi, and it is as Teffi that she is remembered. In prerevolutionary Russia she was a literary star, known for her humorous satirical pieces; in the 1920s and 30s, she wrote some of her finest stories in exile in Paris, recalling her unforgettable encounters with Rasputin, and her hopeful visit at age thirteen to Tolstoy after reading War and Peace. In this selection of her best autobiographical stories, she covers a wide range of subjects, from family life to revolution and emigration, writers and writing. Like Nabokov, Platonov, and other great Russian prose writers, Teffi was a poet who turned to prose but continued to write with a poet's sensitivity to tone and rhythm. Like Chekhov, she fuses wit, tragedy, and a remarkable capacity for observation; there are few human weaknesses she did not relate to with compassion and understanding.
Tolstoy: A Russian Life (Leo Tolstoy, Diaries And Letters Ser. #2)
by Rosamund BartlettThis biography of the brilliant author of War and Peace and Anna Karenina &“should become the first resort for everyone drawn to its titanic subject&” (Booklist, starred review). In November 1910, Count Lev Tolstoy died at a remote Russian railway station. At the time of his death, he was the most famous man in Russia, more revered than the tsar, with a growing international following. Born into an aristocratic family, Tolstoy spent his existence rebelling against not only conventional ideas about literature and art but also traditional education, family life, organized religion, and the state. In &“an epic biography that does justice to an epic figure,&” Rosamund Bartlett draws extensively on key Russian sources, including fascinating material that has only become available since the collapse of the Soviet Union (Library Journal, starred review). She sheds light on Tolstoy&’s remarkable journey from callow youth to writer to prophet; discusses his troubled relationship with his wife, Sonya; and vividly evokes the Russian landscapes Tolstoy so loved and the turbulent times in which he lived.
Tom Brady, 3rd Edition (Amazing Athletes Ser.)
by Jeff SavageQuarterback Tom Brady of the New England Patriots has done it all in the National Football League (NFL). He and his teammates have won the Super Bowl three times. Twice he was named Most Valuable Player of the Super Bowl. But Tom didn't get to the top by being satisfied with his accomplishments. He still has the drive to win, and almost made it to the Super Bowl again in 2014. Learn all about one of the fiercest competitors in football history.
Tom Brady: A Little Golden Book Biography (Little Golden Book)
by L. KeapHelp your little one dream big with a Little Golden Book biography about legendary NFL quarterback Tom Brady. Little Golden Book biographies are the perfect introduction to nonfiction for young readers—as well as fans of all ages!This Little Golden Book about Tom Brady--the GOAT quarterback for the Patriots and Buccaneers with seven Superbowl wins--is an inspiring read-aloud for young readers.Look for more Little Golden Book biographies:Jackie RobinsonMisty CopelandSimone Biles
Tom Clarke: The True Leader of the Easter Rising
by Michael T. FoyLong overshadowed by fellow republicans Patrick Pearse and James Connolly, Tom Clarke was the man who made the Easter Rising possible. During an extraordinary life dedicated to Irish freedom he rose from humble origins and endured thirty years of struggle, imprisonment and exile before becoming a master conspirator in the Easter Rising. Endowed with a charisma and moral ascendancy, he held together a disparate group of followers and they, in turn, recognised his indispensable leadership by insisting that his name alone should have pride of place on the Proclamation. It was a gesture that, in a sense, guaranteed Clarke immortality; it also proved to be also his death warrant. But death held no terrors for Clarke who was to die satisfied in the belief that, with the sight of a tricolour flying over the GPO, he had changed the course of Irish history.