Morgan, Jr., who financed the Allies in World War I and waged a marathon feud with Franklin Roosevelt. Pierpont Morgan, with his colossal art collection, numerous mistresses, and cruiser-sized yacht, and tells of his son, J. Yet this fascinating chronicle is far more than just financial history. Covering over 150 years in the banking and financial community, every boom and panic on Wall Street and in London’s City, The House of Morgan is a compelling and incisive account of the rise of the modern financial world. (Morgan Guaranty), Morgan Stanley, and Morgan Grenfell. It is a rich, panoramic story of four generations of Morgans and the powerful, secretive firms they spawned-J. Morgan empire from its obscure beginnings in Victorian London up to the crash of 1987. Like the best-sellers Ford and The Rockefellers, the book has the sweep of an epic novel as it traces the rise of the J. The House of Morgan may be the most ambitious history ever written about an American banking dynasty.
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Only a Liveship can brave the dangers of the Rain Wild River and trade with the legendary Rain Wild Traders and their mysterious magical goods, plundered from the enigmatic Elderling ruins. At one time, possession of a Liveship, constructed of magical wizard wood, guaranteed a Trader's family prosperity. The war in the north has interrupted the trade that is the lifeblood of Bingtown, and the Liveship Traders have fallen on hard times despite their magic sentient ships. The Liveship Trader's Trilogy takes place in Jamaillia, Bingtown and the Pirate Isles, on the coast far to the south of the Six Duchies. All the first editions were hardcovers: the UK covers were illustrated by John Howe, while the US versions were designed by Stephen Youll. The series was stylized as The Liveship Traders, and also as the Liveship Traders. The concluding volume, Ship of Destiny, was released in March 2000 in the UK and in August 2000 in the US. The second book followed in March 1999 in the UK, where it was titled The Mad Ship a US edition titled Mad Ship followed one month later. The first volume of the trilogy, Ship of Magic, was published in March 1998 by HarperCollins Voyager in the UK, and simultaneously in the US by Bantam Spectra. Several critics regard it as Hobb's best work. A nautical fantasy series, the Liveship Traders is the second trilogy set in the Realm of the Elderlings and features pirates, sea serpents, a family of traders and their living ships. The Liveship Traders is a trilogy of fantasy novels by American author Robin Hobb. It’s a book about learning from our mistakes and about not being afraid. Part memoir, part manifesto, and including chapters on dating, work, sport, babies, families, anger and friendship, it is based on the simple premise that understanding why we fail ultimately makes us stronger. I have evolved more as a result of things going wrong than when everything seemed to be going right. Out of crisis has come clarity, and sometimes even catharsis. If I have learned one thing from this shockingly beautiful venture called life, it is this: failure has taught me lessons I would never otherwise have understood. This is a book for anyone who has ever failed. Inspired by her hugely popular podcast, How To Fail is Elizabeth Day’s brilliantly funny, painfully honest and insightful celebration of things going wrong. Jane, a runaway daughter of a wealthy businessman, who later works as a governess for Mr. When factory conditions worsen, workers rise up in a strike. Yetta, a coworker from Russia, has been crusading for a trade union. There, along with 500 other immigrants, she works long hours at a grueling job under terrible conditions. Summary īella, newly arrived in New York City from Calia, Italy, starts work at the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory. According to Maureen Paschal of The Washington Post, it "helps reinforce how immigrants have often struggled with hardship and unfairness". The novel is a fictionalized account of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire. Uprising is a young-adult novel by Margaret Peterson Haddix and published by Simon & Schuster in September 2007. Abandoned Area: Aster has turned a mess hall on Deck X, which was abandoned after a massive flood, into her own illicit botanarium to grow medicinal plants, store her secret research notes, and get some privacy.When the Sovereign is poisoned, Aster tries to find out how, in the process unraveling a mystery involving the ship's life-threatening blackouts and the journals of her mother Lune Grey, who cut her own throat the day Aster was born.Īn Unkindness of Ghosts contains examples of: Her expertise and skill, as well as her friendship with the ship's Surgeon General Theophilus Smith, give her far more freedom and social status than most of her fellow Tarlanders. Inhabitants of the higher decks live on lavish estates, while on the lower decks, known as the Tarlands, dark-skinned workers suffer horrible abuse and privation.Īster Grey is a doctor from Deck Q. The decks are arranged according to a strict caste system similar to Antebellum America. 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When Hap unwittingly alerts robots from Gio’s former life to their whereabouts, the family is no longer hidden and safe. The day Vic salvages and repairs an unfamiliar android labelled “HAP,” he learns of a shared dark past between Hap and Gio–a past spent hunting humans. In a strange little home built into the branches of a grove of trees, live three robots-fatherly inventor android Giovanni Lawson, a pleasantly sadistic nurse machine, and a small vacuum desperate for love and attention. “An enchanting tale of Pinocchio in the end times.” -P. New York Times bestselling author TJ Klune invites you deep into the heart of a peculiar forest and on the extraordinary journey of a family assembled from spare parts. Across the Pacific, we meet Ruth, a novelist living on a remote island who discovers a collection of artifacts washed ashore in a Hello Kitty lunchbox-possibly debris from the devastating 2011 tsunami. A diary is Nao’s only solace-and will touch lives in ways she can scarcely imagine. But before she ends it all, Nao first plans to document the life of her great grandmother, a Buddhist nun who’s lived more than a century. In Tokyo, sixteen-year-old Nao has decided there’s only one escape from her aching loneliness and her classmates’ bullying. “A time being is someone who lives in time, and that means you, and me, and every one of us who is, or was, or ever will be.” A brilliant, unforgettable novel from bestselling author Ruth Ozeki, author of The Book of Form and Emptinessįinalist for the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award louis is the only person that sees through it all. Main tropes: university AU, enemies to lovers, slow burn, angst, hurt/comfort, rich harryīasics: harry has a destructive, public persona, doesn’t quite know who he really is, and builds up walls to protect himself. 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I didn’t read Good Omens as often, but like any true cult-classic fan, I held on to my much borrowed, much battered copy across two masters degrees, three jobs and three states. The last time Neil Gaiman saw Terry Pratchett before he died, Pratchett handed Gaiman a letter. There were other funny books, yes, but I already knew and loved Pratchett’s storytelling and the arc of his ethical universe-and that familiar mix of humour and earnestness was especially comforting at a time when my personal sense of right and wrong seemed at odds with the world around me. Humour was my only coping mechanism through depression, and reading Discworld made me laugh when little else did. Author of 1095 books including Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere. When I went through a particularly bleak personal phase a couple of years later, rereading Discworld obsessively (especially the Witches and Vimes books) helped me feel like I hadn’t entirely lost the parts of myself that made me who I was-my nerdiness, my love for trivia and books, and my propensity for terrible puns and wordplay. The Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, better known by the pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English author, mathematician, logician, Anglican clergyman and photographer. |