Eminent VictoriansFew books have had such an impact on their own generation as did Eminent Victorians, which exposed the hypocrisy of the Victorian era by deflating the legends surrounding four of its most notable figures. In the process, Strachey revitalized the art of biography.

This is only one of the lives they share

and maybe even some first dogs who have lived at the White House

people looking for a drink

forcing her to confront how the world sees young Black artists

a pervasive problem we all face

filling in for a sick player on the Grizzlies baseball team

cynical politicians

the 1945 World War II prison camp raid at Los Baños in the Philippines—a tale of daring

The owls and the foxes can sense it

This Newbery Honor classic

from the moral to the spiritual to the practical

she builds on the handful of recipes in her previous book