The Mighty Queens of Freeville: A Mother, a Daughter, and the Town That Raised Them by Amy Dickinson from Hyperion is $3.99 (US Kindle)
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Millions of Americans know and love Amy Dickinson from reading her syndicated advice column “Ask Amy” and from hearing her wit and wisdom weekly on National Public Radio. Amy’s audience loves her for her honesty, her small-town values, and the fact that her motto is “I make the mistakes so you don’t have to.” In The Mighty Queens of Freeville, Amy Dickinson shares those mistakes and her remarkable story. This is the tale of Amy and her daughter and the people who helped raise them after Amy found herself a reluctant single parent.
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Sync: How Order Emerges From Chaos In the Universe, Nature, and Daily Life by Steven H. Strogatz from Hyperion is $3.03 (US Kindle)
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The tendency to synchronize may be the most mysterious and pervasive drive in all of nature. It has intrigued some of the most brilliant minds of the 20th century, including Albert Einstein, Richard Feynman, Norbert Wiener, Brian Josephson, and Arthur Winfree.
At once elegant and riveting, Sync tells the story of the dawn of a new science. Steven Strogatz, a leading mathematician in the fields of chaos and complexity theory, explains how enormous systems can synchronize themselves, from the electrons in a superconductor to the pacemaker cells in our hearts. He shows that although these phenomena might seem unrelated on the surface, at a deeper level there is a connection, forged by the unifying power of mathematics.
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Madness Under the Royal Palms: Love and Death Behind the Gates of Palm Beach by Laurence Leamer from Hyperion is $3.99 (US Kindle)
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Love, lust, and fatal hatreds inside America’s most exclusive enclave of wealth and privilege–Palm Beach
Bernard Madoff’s Ponzi scheme devastated the eternally sunny world of Palm Beach, bringing down multimillionaires and destroying once wealthy widows. The South Florida island and its rarified life suddenly found itself at the epicenter of the scandal, with this strange universe of wealth and privilege under an unrelenting spotlight.
Now, in Madness Under the Royal Palms, Laurence Leamer shows us–as no one else has–this world of the megawealthy, which he calls “as hidden a place as I have ever resided.” Digging deep, he hits a dark well of conflicting ambitions–right up to and including murder–much darker than the sky-blue weather and sunny Lily Pulitzer prints most of us associate with Palm Beach.
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