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THE ACCIDENTAL BILLIONAIRES: THE FOUNDING OF FACEBOOK — A TALE OF SEX, MONEY, GENIUS AND BETRAYAL by Ben Mezrich — Eduardo Saverin and Mark Zuckerberg were Harvard undergraduates and best friends — outsiders at a school filled with polished prep-school grads. They shared both academic brilliance in math and a geeky awkwardness with women. Eduardo figured their ticket to social acceptance was getting invited to join one of the university’s Final Clubs. Mark used to find a more direct route to social stardom: One lonely night, Mark hacked into the university’s computer system, creating a ratable database of all the female students on campus — and subsequently crashing the university’s servers and nearly getting himself kicked out of school. In that moment, in his Harvard dorm room, the framework for Facebook was born.
THE HOTEL UNDER THE SAND by Kage Baker — This adventure explores classic fantasy themes from a unique young heroine’s perspective. Nine-year-old Emma loses everything she has in a fearsome storm and finds herself alone in the wilderness of the Dunes — an area desolate since the mysterious disappearance of a resort known as the Grand Wenlocke. Finding a friend in Winston, the ghostly bellboy who wanders the Dunes, Emma learns that it has been more than 100 years since the hotel with an unsavory reputation vanished; but, unbeknownst to either of them, the long slumbering resort has just begun to stir. Allying herself with a motley crew of companions — the ghost bellboy, a kindhearted cook, a pirate with a heart of gold, and the imperious young heir to the Wenlocke fortune — Emma soon learns that things are not always as lost as they seem, especially if you have a brave heart and good friends.
THE SUPREMES: A SAGA OF MOTOWN DREAMS, SUCCESS, AND BETRAYAL by Mark Ribowsky — Drawing on intimate recollections from friends, family and Motown contemporaries, Mark Ribowsky charts the Supremes’ meteoric rise and bitter disintegration. He sheds light on Diana Ross’s relationship with Berry Gordy and her cutthroat rise to top billing in the group, as well as Florence Ballard’s corresponding decline. He also takes us inside the studio, examining how timeless classics were conceived and recorded on the Motown “assembly line,” and considers the place of Motown in an era of cultural upheaval, when not being “black enough” became a fierce denunciation within the black music industry. Combining personal testimony, history, and expert analysis, Ribowsky not only tells the full, heartbreaking story of the Supremes, but shows why Gordy’s revolutionary concept of “blacks singing white” was essential to the modern evolution of music.
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