Her second nonfiction book, First Women: The Grace & Power of America's Modern First Ladies, examined the lives of the First Ladies of the United States. Netflix has optioned the TV rights to the book with Shonda Rhimes producing. The book hit number 1 on the nonfiction New York Times Best Seller list. Writings īrower's book The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House has been called a "groundbreaking" backstairs look at the maids and butlers and other professionals who work at the White House. She is a graduate of Barnard College and Oxford University. She is also a CNN contributor and has written for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, The Washington Post, and The Smithsonian. She covered the White House for Bloomberg News during President Barack Obama's first term and before that she worked at CBS News and Fox News as a producer. Kate Andersen Brower is an American journalist and author who has written three books about the White House, two of which have been New York Times bestsellers, The Residence: Inside the Private World of the White House, First Women: The Grace & Power of America's Modern First Ladies, First in Line: Presidents, Vice presidents, and the Pursuit of Power, and Team of Five: The presidents Club in the Age of Trump.
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Fourteen-year-old teenagers Toby Magill and Annabel Oshiro and fifteen-year-old Strobe get invited to New York City to tour KP Headquarters, and also to meet Harvey Major III, the owner of the KP chain and their boss (both at making pizzas and hunting down monsters). The action takes place four months after the group of friends discovers that their new place of employment, Killer Pizza, is actually a front for an underground Monster Hunting Organization. What is the latest book in the Killer Pizza series like? Think of a strange but oddly cohesive mix of R.L. What’s the favorite food of most red-blooded American teens? Pizza, of course, with assorted toppings of your choice! And, what could be better than awesome pizza? How about awesome pizza combined with hunting monsters? Killer Pizza: The Slice combines the two coolest things in the world, killer pizza and hunting monsters, in Greg Taylor’s sequel to his best-selling YA horror novel, Killer Pizza. 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