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Back-to-school time may be weeks away, but the season's surprise on the best-seller lists is a how-to for academic success. Ron Clark, 31, author of The Essential 55 (Hyperion), is an earnest Atlanta-based grade-school teacher who has come up with 55 rules for "discovering the successful student in every child." What magical formula has the educator discovered? His core philosophy is that if you teach basic behavioral lessons first, they will lay the foundation for academic education later. Among his tips for kids: make eye contact when in conversation, meet your deadlines, learn...
Halberstam was born not far from Yankee Stadium, but The Teammates (Hyperion; 217 pages) deals not with the Bronx Bombers but with their eternal archrivals, the Boston Red Sox and not so much with their playing careers as with the diamond-shape holes baseball left in their lives when they left the game. Halberstam, whose previous subjects include Vietnam and Bill Clinton, focuses on the four players who formed the core of a powerhouse Boston lineup in the 1940s: Johnny Pesky, Bobby Doerr, Dominic DiMaggio (kid brother to Joltin' Joe) and the troubled, tyrannical genius Ted Williams, the last...
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING. Hyperion Shakespeare Company presents Much Ado About Nothing, Shakespeare’s charming comedy about the complexities of relationships and the power of words. Promises to be a witty and exuberant open-air production. Thursday, May 1, 2 p.m. Free and open to the public. Memorial Church, Harvard Yard...
...studying divorced families for the past 30 years. The Unexpected Legacy of Divorce, which she published in 2000, explored the long-lasting impact of broken marriages, and is now a classic in the field. Her new book, What About the Kids? Raising Your Children Before, During, and After Divorce (Hyperion), is a guide for parents on how to make the breakup easier for all members of the family. TIME recently spoke with Wallerstein...
...during her year away from Harvard that Murray sealed a book deal with Hyperion Press that allowed her to begin work on her autobiography. She also worked for Candice Bergen’s show on the Oxygen cable television network...