Books with author Jim Bernstein

The legendary Phoenix has awoken after four hundred years and is causing destruction across both the Southern and Northern kingdoms. Raven, a young girl of fifteen is lucky enough to survive her people's demise. Rescued by Lord Reghan, she is brought back to his castle where he gives her food and a warm bed in return for her working in the kitchens. One day, in a fit of rage at hearing the lords and ladies of the court making fun of the Phoenix rumors, she throws a stone and unknowingly channels her dormant powers. Instead of being thrown in the dungeons, she is given an apprenticeship with Gamayun the castle magician because of her rare talents. Castle life proves difficult. The only thing Raven wants in life is to get revenge on the Phoenix for taking her family and friends away from her. How far will she go to seek justice in this Young Adult Fantasy book designed to keep the reader flipping pages?

Carl Bernstein's stunning portrait of Hillary Rodham Clinton shows us, as nothing else has, the true trajectory of her life and career with its zigzag bursts of risks taken and safety sought. Marshaling all the skills and energy that propelled his history-making Pulitzer Prize reporting on Watergate, Bernstein gives us the most detailed, sophisticated, comprehensive, and revealing account we have had of the complex human being and political meteor who has already helped define one presidency and may well become, herself, the woman in charge of another. We see the shaping of Hillary as a self-described "mind conservative and heart liberal" -her ostensibly idyllic Midwestern girlhood (her mother a nurturer, but her father a disciplinarian, harsher than she has acknowledged); her early development of deep religious feelings; her curiosity fueled by dedicated teachers, by exposure to Martin Luther King Jr., by the ferment of the sixties, and, above all, by a desire to change the world. At Wellesley, we watch Hillary, a Republican turned Democrat, thriving in the new sky's-the-limit freedom for women, already perceived as a spokeswoman for her generation, her commencement speech celebrated in Life magazine. And the book takes us to Yale Law School as Hillary meets and falls in love with Bill Clinton and cancels her dream to go her own way, to New York or Washington, tying her fortune, instead, to his in Arkansas.