This riveting book takes the reader on a thrilling and fast-paced trip through time as you find out how important events were actually influenced by only twelve people. Be prepared to want to flip ahead to see what might happen next. And, in the end, find out... are you PRAUS? For 2000 years a secret group has remained in hiding. But advances in technology may soon reveal their identities and hiding place at 2752 Matthew Street.When Viktor Hoven finds out the location of the 12 members he has hunted for most of his life, the news is unbelievable! How could they have eluded him this long while hiding in plain sight?
Matthew St. Clare is a Boston publishing executive who is teetering on the edge of insanity and self-destruction. His illness threatens his marriage, his job, and his life; and his fitful search for healing and salvation leads him to all the wrong places. He struggles to maintain his tenuous hold on life, and faint hints of light sustain him. The book describes his desperate effort to make sense of life, of love, and the question of God’s existence, and is a startling revelation of the reality of mental illness. It is a gripping and intelligently written story that readers will find difficult to put down.
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • One of the most acclaimed books of our time, this modern classic “has set a new standard for reporting on poverty” (Barbara Ehrenreich, The New York Times Book Review). In Evicted, Princeton sociologist and MacArthur “Genius” Matthew Desmond follows eight families in Milwaukee as they each struggle to keep a roof over their heads. Hailed as “wrenching and revelatory” (The Nation), “vivid and unsettling” (New York Review of Books), Evicted transforms our understanding of poverty and economic exploitation while providing fresh ideas for solving one of twenty-first-century America’s most devastating problems. Its unforgettable scenes of hope and loss remind us of the centrality of home, without which nothing else is possible. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY President Barack Obama • The New York Times Book Review • The Boston Globe • The Washington Post • NPR • Entertainment Weekly • The New Yorker • Bloomberg • Esquire • BuzzFeed • Fortune • San Francisco Chronicle • Milwaukee Journal Sentinel • St. Louis Post-Dispatch • Politico • The Week • Chicago Public Library • BookPage • Kirkus Reviews • Library Journal • Publishers Weekly • Booklist • Shelf Awareness WINNER OF: The National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction • The PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • The Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction • The Hillman Prize for Book Journalism • The PEN/New England Award • The Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize FINALIST FOR THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE AND THE KIRKUS PRIZE “Evicted stands among the very best of the social justice books.”—Ann Patchett, author of Bel Canto and Commonwealth “Gripping and moving—tragic, too.”—Jesmyn Ward, author of Salvage the Bones “Evicted is that rare work that has something genuinely new to say about poverty.”—San Francisco Chronicle
The Columbian Institute had its origin in the formation, on June 15, 1816, of an association termed the Metropolitan Society, which later influenced the plan and organization of the Smithsonian Institution, particularly its function as museum, to promote the arts and the sciences.
