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<i>Dear Between the Covers readers,</i><br />
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We're redecorating! It is time for our Tattered Cover blog to undergo a mini-makeover. As we finish up a long-overdue update to our website, we're going to take this opportunity to freshen up the blog a bit with a revamped look and some additional staff voices.<br />
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hungry readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09360226432054333546noreply@blogger.com80tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039291547450894569.post-23993149627270958932015-03-22T06:00:00.000-06:002015-03-22T06:00:08.211-06:00When We Are Gone<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>While examining the history of our planet and actively exploring our present environment, science journalist Michael Tennesen describes what life on earth could look like after the next mass extinction. </b></span><br />
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A growing number of scientists agree we are headed toward a mass extinction, perhaps in as little as 300 years. Already there have been five mass extinctions in the last 600 million years, including the Cretaceous Extinction, during which an asteroid knocked out the dinosaurs. Though these events were initially destructive, they were also prime movers of evolutionary change in nature. And we can see some of the warning signs of another extinction event coming, as our oceans lose both fish and oxygen. In <a href="http://bit.ly/1ArZvhL"><b>The Next Species</b></a>, Michael Tennesen questions what life might be like after it happens. <br />
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Tennesen discusses the future of nature and whether humans will make it through the bottleneck of extinction. Without man, could the seas regenerate to what they were before fishing vessels? Could life suddenly get very big as it did before the arrival of humans? And what if man survives the coming catastrophes, but in reduced populations? Would those groups be isolated enough to become distinct species? Could the conquest of Mars lead to another form of human? Could we upload our minds into a computer and live in a virtual reality? Or could genetic engineering create a more intelligent and long-lived creature that might shun the rest of us? And how would we recognize the next humans? Are they with us now? <br />
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Tennesen delves into the history of the planet and travels to rainforests, canyons, craters, and caves all over the world to explore the potential winners and losers of the next era of evolution. His predictions, based on reports and interviews with top scientists, have vital implications for life on earth today.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>For readers of Claire Messud and Mary Gaitskill comes a striking debut
novel of marriage, fidelity, sex, and morality, featuring a fascinating
heroine who struggles to live a life with meaning.</b></span><br /> <br /> <i> </i><br /> <span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>Anna was a good wife, mostly.</i></b></span><br /> <br />
Anna Benz, an American in her late thirties, lives with her Swiss
husband, Bruno—a banker—and their three young children in a
postcard-perfect suburb of Zürich. Though she leads a comfortable,
well-appointed life, Anna is falling apart inside. Adrift and
increasingly unable to connect with the emotionally unavailable Bruno or
even with her own thoughts and feelings, Anna tries to rouse herself
with new experiences: German language classes, Jungian analysis, and a
series of sexual affairs she enters with an ease that surprises even
her.<br /> <br /> But Anna can’t easily extract herself from these affairs.
When she wants to end them, she finds it’s difficult. Tensions
escalate, and her lies start to spin out of control. Having crossed a
moral threshold, Anna will discover where a woman goes when there is no
going back.<br /> <br /> Intimate, intense, and written with the precision
of a Swiss Army knife, Jill Alexander Essbaum’s debut novel is an
unforgettable story of marriage, fidelity, sex, morality, and most
especially self. Navigating the lines between lust and love, guilt and
shame, excuses and reasons, Anna Benz is an electrifying heroine whose
passions and choices readers will debate with recognition and fury. Her
story reveals, with honesty and great beauty, how we create ourselves
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<a href="http://on.wsj.com/1Asefxn"><b>Read an Excerpt from ‘Hausfrau’ by Jill Alexander Essbaum</b></a><br />
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<b><a href="http://bit.ly/1xpZkT6">INTERVIEW: Jill Alexander Essbaum, author of Hausfrau</a> </b><br />
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“Sexy and insightful, this gorgeously written novel opens a window into one woman’s desperate soul.”~<b><i>People</i></b><br /><br />“With an elegance, precision, and surehandedness that recalls Marguerite Duras’s <b>The Lover</b> and Anita Brookner’s <b>Hotel du Lac</b>, Jill Alexander Essbaum gives us this exquisite tale of an expatriate American wife living in Switzerland and her sexual and psychic unraveling. Hausfrau stuns with its confidence and severe beauty, its cascading insights into the uses of erotic life and the nature of secrets, the urgency of compulsion and the difficulty of freedom. This is a rare and remarkable debut.”~Janet Fitch, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1MDLdQW"><b>White Oleander</b></a><br /> <br />“Over a century after the publication of <a href="http://bit.ly/1HUB41z"><b>Madame Bovary</b></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/1MDL8gh"><b>Anna Karenina</b></a>, poet Essbaum proves in her debut novel that there is still plenty of psychic territory to cover in the story of ‘a good wife, mostly.’ . . . The realism of Anna’s dilemmas and the precise construction of the novel are marvels of the form. . . . This novel is masterly as it moves toward its own inescapable ending, and Anna is likely to provoke strong feelings in readers well after the final page.” ~<b><i>Publishers Weekly </i></b><br /><br />
“In Anna Benz, Essbaum has created a genuine, complex woman whose journey—no matter how dark it may be—reveals truths as only great literature can. She may have her roots in Tolstoy’s <b>Anna Karenina</b> or Flaubert’s <b>Emma Bovary</b> or Ibsen’s <b>Hedda Gabler</b>, but she is a thoroughly modern and distinct character. Hausfrau is not just an exceptional first novel, it is an extraordinary novel—period.” ~<b><i>Shelf Awareness<br /> </i></b><br /> “This debut brilliantly chronicles a woman’s life falling apart. . . . Fifty Shades for the literati.” ~<b><i>The Times</i></b> (U.K.)<br /><br />“I loved this brilliant, insightful, and devastating novel about Anna: trains . . . adultery . . . the punctual, rigid Swiss . . . Jungian analysis . . . anhedonia . . . more adultery and more trains . . . and Jill Alexander Essbaum’s beautiful sentences strewn with sharp thorns that prick and cut straight into the heart of a woman’s unfulfilled life. I wish I had written it.”~Lily Tuck, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1BJ5XFg"><b>The News from Paraguay</b></a><br /><br />“A stunningly written, hauntingly paced book. Anna Benz has the weight of a classic heroine—isolated yet crowded—but she is utterly modern in Jill Alexander Essbaum’s hands. Reading <b><u>Hausfrau</u></b> is like staring at a painting that simultaneously seduces and disturbs. Even when you want to turn away, you find your feet are planted to the floor.”~Sloane Crosley, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1G9A0Wy"><b>I Was Told There’d Be Cake</b></a><br /> <br />“Hot damn, is <b><u>Hausfrau</u></b> a beautiful, heart-wrenching novel. It casts a spell that doesn’t stop working until that wonderful final line. Jill Alexander Essbaum has a seismic talent, and it shows on every page of her first novel. Just read this bad boy. Like right now.” ~Victor LaValle, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1xq3rOY"><b>The Devil in Silver</b></a><br /> <br /> <br /> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>She was there. She was involved in Celia's day, although she isn't sure exactly how. She had far too much to drink. And then the incredible death—the shocking, horrible, inconceivable death, sticking like a dagger in her heart. She closes her eyes and tries to remember the last thing she said to Celia. She thinks it was "I don't ever want to see you again."</b></span><br /><br />Dana Catrell's life is in chaos. She's married to a lawyer who makes her feel trivial, as if stuck inside his pocket like loose change. She's also sliding toward the brink of insanity. Devastated by mania, part of her bipolar disorder, Dana finds that there are troubling holes in her memory, including what happened on the afternoon of her friend Celia's death. She's horrified to learn she's the only other person with a key to Celia's house—and the last person to see her alive.<br /><br />She and Celia had shared recipes and gossip. But not secrets—until that final afternoon. Closing her eyes, Dana can see images, loose pieces of a hazy puzzle. Sangria in a glass, a tiny rip in Celia's screen door, Celia lying in a pool of blood, the broken vase beside her head, the kitchen knife just so above her hand. But there are infuriating, terrifying gaps.<br /><br />Is murder on her mind—or is it all in her head?<br /><br />As evidence starts to point in her direction, Dana will use the clarity her mania brings her to fill in the blanks and clear her name before her demons win out. But her husband's odd behavior and the persistent probing of Detective Jack Moss complicate Dana's search for answers. The closer she comes to piecing together shards of her broken memory, the closer Dana comes to falling apart. Is there a killer lurking inside her . . . or is there one out there in the shadows of reality, waiting to strike again?<br /><br />A story of marriage, murder, and madness, <a href="http://bit.ly/1BHcTBq"><b>The Pocket Wife</b></a> is a sophisticated, gripping tale of psychological suspense that explores the world through the foggy lens of a woman on the edge.<br />
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“Not a word is wasted in Susan Crawford’s fast-paced, thrilling debut. As Crawford explores the boundaries of memory and sanity, the suspense steadily gathers, and in her skilled hands, readers will be left guessing until the very end.” ~Lori Roy, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1wN5Act"><b>Bent Road </b></a><br /><br />“<b><u>The Pocket Wife</u></b> is an exceptional literary thriller debut that sensitively portrays a woman struggling with Bipolar Disorder, and the horrific possibility that she’s a murderer. Engrossing, thrilling, and page turning all the way through, this is one you won’t want to miss!” ~<b>Chevy Stevens</b>, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author <br /><br />"<b><u>The Pocket Wife</u></b> is haunting, gripping, and lyrical--a book you won’t want to put down. Susan Crawford is a bright new star.” ~<b>Deborah Crombie</b>, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author <br /><br />“Because the tale is told primarily from Dana’s sharp but manic perspective, suspense develops around her possibly unreliable interpretation of events. This is a gripping, character-driven mystery that would pair well with Sophie Hannah’s <a href="http://bit.ly/1Cjoo4a"><b>The Truth-Teller’s Lie</b></a>.” ~<b><i>Booklist </i></b><br /><br />“This intriguing thriller will leave readers guessing till the last minute. Dana Cantrell is a dynamic, well-written character whose bipolar disorder makes her both maddening and endearing. Tightly moving, fast-paced and suspenseful, Crawford’s debut novel puts her on the map of writers to watch.” ~<b><i>RT Book</i> <i>Reviews</i> </b><br /><br />“Descriptive, lyrical prose creates an intimate and visceral read that is both a solid mystery and a fast-paced psychological thriller. Try this first novel as a read-alike for Alice LaPlante’s <a href="http://bit.ly/1wkbvyY"><b>Turn of Mind</b></a>.” ~<b><i>Library Journal</i></b><b><span style="font-size: large;"> </span> </b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>A sweeping, gorgeously written debut novel of duty to family and country, passion, and blood ties that unravel in the charged political climate of Berlin between the wars.</b></span><br /><br />Lev Pearlmutter, an assimilated, cultured German Jew, enlists to fight in World War I, leaving behind his gentile wife Josephine and their children, Franz and Vicki. Moving between Lev's and Josephine's viewpoints, Part I of the novel focuses on Lev's experiences on the Eastern Front—both in war and in love—which render his life at home a pale aftermath by comparison.<br />
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Part II picks up in Berlin in 1927–1928: the Pearlmutter children, now young adults, grapple with their own questions: Franz, drawn into the Brown Shirt movement, struggling with his unexpressed homosexuality; and Vicki, seduced by jazz, bobbed hair, and falling in love with a young man who wants to take her to Palestine.<br />
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Unlike most historical novels of this kind, <a href="http://bit.ly/1CjaBKX"><b>The Empire of the Senses</b></a> is not about the Holocaust but rather about the brew that led to it, and about why it was unimaginable to ordinary people like Lev and his wife. Plotted with meticulous precision and populated by characters who feel and dream to the fullest, it holds us rapt as cultural loss and ethnic hatred come to coexist with love, passion, and the power of the human spirit.<br />
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1HUpdkd"><b>Write Start: Alexis Landau on the 7 Habits of Highly Effective Writers</b></a><br />
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“Vivid . . . Landau evokes the Weimar Republic era with spellbinding detail and nuance, deftly capturing the zeitgeist in the characters’ colorful pursuits . . . . Lev’s struggle with his Jewish identity is also fascinating.” ~<b><i>Publishers Weekly</i></b><br />“A top-notch literary saga with a gripping plotline . . . Each perfectly crafted individual is fully involved in the surrounding world. In Landau’s hands, even a simple trip to the barber becomes meaningful and illustrative of the novel’s themes. The characters’ actions and thoughts are so three-dimensionally human that readers may forget they’re reading fiction.” ~<b><i>Booklist</i></b><br /><br />
“Landau’s debut is lush, smart, sexy, affecting, interesting, beautifully researched, and well made. Spending time in the world of this novel is an absolute pleasure.” ~Aimee Bender, author of <b><a href="http://bit.ly/1baICT4">The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake</a><br /> </b><br />“A gripping, beautifully written saga of an ordinary German family’s slow immersion into the simmering cauldron that is Germany in the 1920s and 1930s. Like most of us, the characters in this novel make choices determined by love and desire; their personal secrets and preoccupations often loom larger than the encroaching danger. Ultimately, their fates are determined as much by their passions as by history. As the novel builds toward its riveting conclusion, Landau explores how the unimaginable can become real—and in the process offers a fresh and moving perspective on a piece of history we thought we already knew.” ~Christina Baker Kline, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1MCZYFJ"><b>Orphan Train </b></a><br />
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hungry readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09360226432054333546noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039291547450894569.post-87337004473482515082015-03-21T04:00:00.000-06:002015-03-21T04:00:01.547-06:00Fresh Ink: Spotlight on Debut Books of All Kinds "'POXL' a lovely novel sentence-to-sentence, and it gets at something deep about how we're all frauds, and all worthy of love." -John Green <div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Poxl West fled the Nazis' onslaught in Czechoslovakia. He escaped their clutches again in Holland. He pulled Londoners from the Blitz's rubble. He wooed intoxicating, unconventional beauties. He rained fire on Germany from his RAF bomber. </b></span><br /><br />Poxl West is the epitome of manhood and something of an idol to his teenage nephew, Eli Goldstein, who reveres him as a brave, singular, Jewish war hero. Poxl fills Eli's head with electric accounts of his derring-do, adventures and romances, as he collects the best episodes from his storied life into a memoir. <br /><br />He publishes that memoir, "Skylock", to great acclaim, and its success takes him on the road, and out of Eli's life. With his uncle gone, Eli throws himself into reading his opus and becomes fixated on all things Poxl. <br /><br />But as he delves deeper into Poxl's history, Eli begins to see that the life of the fearless superman he's adored has been much darker than he let on, and filled with unimaginable loss from which he may have not recovered. As the truth about Poxl emerges, it forces Eli to face irreconcilable facts about the war he's romanticized and the vision of the man he's held so dear. <br /><br />Daniel Torday's debut novel, <a href="http://bit.ly/1MCLvtt"><b>The Last Flight of Poxl West</b></a>, beautifully weaves together the two unforgettable voices of Eli Goldstein and Poxl West, exploring what it really means to be a hero, and to be a family, in the long shadow of war.</div>
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"While Torday is more likely to be compared to Philip Roth or Michael Chabon than Gillian Flynn, his debut novel has two big things in common with Gone Girl--it's a story told in two voices, and it's almost impossible to discuss without revealing spoilers. A richly layered, beautifully told and somehow lovable story about war, revenge and loss." ~<b><i>Kirkus</i></b><br /><br />
"A wonderful accomplishment of storytelling verve: tender, lyrical, surprising, full of beautifully rendered details. Torday is a prodigiously talented writer, with a huge heart." ~George Saunders, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1xpIfbW"><b>Tenth of December</b></a><br /><br />
"According to Tim O'Brien, 'A true war story, if truly told, makes the stomach believe.' Daniel Torday knows how to tell a true war story, and <b><u>The Last Flight of Poxl West</u></b> is a stunning debut. Meticulously researched and beautifully written, <b><u>The Last Flight of Poxl Wes</u></b>t resurrects a chapter of World War II that was a complete surprise to me. It's the viscerally-gripping, eye-wateringly moving first-person account of a young Czech Jew who flew missions for the RAF during World War II; it's also a profound and timely meditation on the desire for justice, retribution, and redemption. This book is unputdownable, wise, and unbelievably generous. Its ending left me speechless." ~Karen Russell, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1xapn3M"><b>Swamplandia!</b></a><br /><br />
"<b><u>The Last Flight of Poxl West</u></b> is a beautifully told and moving story of love, loss, and growing up. Daniel Torday is a stunning writer, and his first novel is full of elegant, thought provoking surprises." `~Edan Lepucki, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1xpI68h"><b>California</b></a><br /><br />
"<b><u>The Last Flight of Poxl West</u></b> is a love story, a war story, a family saga, an intimate view of vast Twentieth Century events, a treatise on the telling of stories, and a damned good read as well. Torday's language is precise and it is grand; and he uses it to describe scenes you will swear he was witness to himself. The details, the insights, the knowledge, the writing, and the unmistakable empathy-- these elements add up to a stellar, memorable book." ~Robin Black, author of<b> <a href="http://bit.ly/1EnroLX">Life Drawing</a></b><br /><br />
"Love, lust, war, revenge, betrayal: I was inclined to like this book before I opened it. Daniel Torday's gorgeous prose and moral candor made me love it. A spectacular debut. Torday is quickly making a name for himself as one of our finest young novelists." ~Daniel Smith, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1GIaibn"><b>Monkey Mind</b></a><br /><br />
"OMFG! What a book! Eli Goldstein has the retrospective candor of Roth's Zuckerman and the sensitivity of a Harold Brodkey narrator, and Poxl West is an unforgettable creation. Plus, things happen in this book, big things like the world wars. A delight!" ~Gary Shteyngart, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1FoTDeY"><b>Little Failure</b></a><br /><br />
"A brilliant--and perhaps even more importantly, hilarious--book about what we make of our heroes, and what our heroes make of us. It's all here: the crime of storytelling, the joy of storytelling, the story hidden not so well in history, and the pleasures and problems of one word placed so well after another." ~Rivka Galchen, author of <b><a href="http://bit.ly/14qT2eb">Atmospheric Disturbances</a></b><br /><br />
"Daniel Torday's <b><u>The Last Flight of Poxl West</u></b> interweaves a powerful war story with a profound meditation on the need such stories fill in us, and the truths they can sometimes obscure. Eli Goldstein's relationship with Poxl West is strange and moving, and the book's final pages present a deep and revealing pathos. Really good stuff." ~Phil Klay, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1FqHpDp"><b>Redeployment</b></a><br /><br /><br /> </div>
hungry readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09360226432054333546noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039291547450894569.post-53618876579148816992015-03-20T06:00:00.000-06:002015-03-20T06:00:03.824-06:00Three New Thrillers<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Set in a small coal-mining town, a debut novel full of secrets, love, betrayal, and suspicious accidents, where Catholicism casts a long shadow and two courageous women make choices that will challenge our own moral convictions</b></span><br /> <br />One morning in Verra, a town nestled into the hillsides of West Virginia, the young Myrthen Bergmann is playing tug-of-war with her twin, when her sister is killed. Unable to accept her own guilt, Myrthen excludes herself from all forms of friendship and affection and begins a twisted, haunted life dedicated to God.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>In late nineteenth-century Boston, home to Herman Melville and Oliver Wendell Holmes, a serial killer preying on children is running loose in the city--a wilderness of ruin caused by the Great Fire of 1872--in this literary historical crime thriller reminiscent of <a href="http://bit.ly/18LL2Wx">The Devil in the White City</a>.</b></span><br /><br />In the early 1870s, local children begin disappearing from the working-class neighborhoods of Boston. Several return home bloody and bruised after being tortured, while others never come back.<br /><br />With the city on edge, authorities believe the abductions are the handiwork of a psychopath, until they discover that their killer--fourteen-year-old Jesse Pomeroy--is barely older than his victims. The criminal investigation that follows sparks a debate among the world's most revered medical minds, and will have a decades-long impact on the judicial system and medical consciousness.<br /><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/1El8lBS"><b>The Wilderness of Ruin</b></a> is a riveting tale of gruesome murder and depravity. At its heart is a great American city divided by class--a chasm that widens in the aftermath of the Great Fire of 1872. Roseanne Montillo brings Gilded Age Boston to glorious life--from the genteel cobblestone streets of Beacon Hill to the squalid, overcrowded tenements of Southie. Here, too, is the writer Herman Melville. Enthralled by the child killer's case, he enlists physician Oliver Wendell Holmes to help him understand how it might relate to his own mental instability.<br /><br />With verve and historical detail, Roseanne Montillo explores this case that reverberated through all of Boston society in order to help us understand our modern hunger for the prurient and sensational.<br /><br /><b><u>The Wilderness of Ruin</u></b> features more than a dozen black-and-white photographs.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The author of the blockbuster New York Times bestsellers, <a href="http://bit.ly/1EMm07M">The Happiness Project </a>and <a href="http://bit.ly/1EMmWZW">Happier at Home</a>, tackles the critical question: How do we change? </b></span><br /> <br /> Gretchen Rubin's answer: through habits. Habits are the invisible architecture of everyday life. It takes work to make a habit, but once that habit is set, we can harness the energy of habits to build happier, stronger, more productive lives.<br /> <br /> So if habits are a key to change, then what we really need to know is: How do we change our habits?<br /> <br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/1GEVF8O"><b>Better than Before</b></a> answers that question. It presents a practical, concrete framework to allow readers to understand their habits—and to change them for good. Infused with Rubin’s compelling voice, rigorous research, and easy humor, and packed with vivid stories of lives transformed, <b><u>Better than Before</u></b> explains the (sometimes counter-intuitive) core principles of habit formation. <br /> <br /> Along the way, Rubin uses herself as guinea pig, tests her theories on family and friends, and answers readers’ most pressing questions—oddly, questions that other writers and researchers tend to ignore: <br /><br />• Why do I find it tough to create a habit for something I love to do? <br />• Sometimes I can change a habit overnight, and sometimes I can’t change a habit, no matter how hard I try. Why? <br />• How quickly can I change a habit? <br />• What can I do to make sure I stick to a new habit? <br />• How can I help someone else change a habit? <br />• Why can I keep habits that benefit others, but can’t make habits that are just for me? <br /><br /> Whether readers want to get more sleep, stop checking their devices, maintain a healthy weight, or finish an important project, habits make change possible. Reading just a few chapters of <b><u>Better Than Before</u></b> will make readers eager to start work on their own habits—even before they’ve finished the book. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>In <a href="http://bit.ly/1wJdi7A">Thrive</a>, Arianna Huffington makes an impassioned and compelling case for the need to redefine what it means to be successful in today's world.</b></span><br /> <br /> Arianna Huffington's personal wake-up call came in the form of a broken cheekbone and a nasty gash over her eye -- the result of a fall brought on by exhaustion and lack of sleep. As the cofounder and editor-in-chief of the Huffington Post Media Group -- one of the fastest growing media companies in the world -- celebrated as one of the world's most influential women, and gracing the covers of magazines, she was, by any traditional measure, extraordinarily successful. Yet as she found herself going from brain MRI to CAT scan to echocardiogram, to find out if there was any underlying medical problem beyond exhaustion, she wondered is this really what success feels like?<br /> <br /> As more and more people are coming to realize, there is far more to living a truly successful life than just earning a bigger salary and capturing a corner office. Our relentless pursuit of the two traditional metrics of success -- money and power -- has led to an epidemic of burnout and stress-related illnesses, and an erosion in the quality of our relationships, family life, and, ironically, our careers. In being connected to the world 24/7, we're losing our connection to what truly matters. Our current definition of success is, as <b><u>Thrive</u></b> shows, literally killing us. We need a new way forward.<br /> <br /> In a commencement address Arianna gave at Smith College in the spring of 2013, she likened our drive for money and power to two legs of a three-legged stool. They may hold us up temporarily, but sooner or later we're going to topple over. We need a third leg -- a third metric for defining success -- to truly thrive. That third metric, she writes in <b><u>Thrive</u></b>, includes our well-being, our ability to draw on our intuition and inner wisdom, our sense of wonder, and our capacity for compassion and giving. As Arianna points out, our eulogies celebrate our lives very differently from the way society defines success. They don't commemorate our long hours in the office, our promotions, or our sterling PowerPoint presentations as we relentlessly raced to climb up the career ladder. They are not about our resumes -- they are about cherished memories, shared adventures, small kindnesses and acts of generosity, lifelong passions, and the things that made us laugh.<br /> <br /> In this deeply personal book, Arianna talks candidly about her own challenges with managing time and prioritizing the demands of a career and raising two daughters -- of juggling business deadlines and family crises, a harried dance that led to her collapse and to her "aha moment." Drawing on the latest groundbreaking research and scientific findings in the fields of psychology, sports, sleep, and physiology that show the profound and transformative effects of meditation, mindfulness, unplugging, and giving, Arianna shows us the way to a revolution in our culture, our thinking, our workplace, and our lives.<br />
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hungry readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09360226432054333546noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039291547450894569.post-48382037011684083462015-03-20T04:00:00.000-06:002015-03-20T04:00:03.758-06:00Today Is World Storytelling Day!!!<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1wYlfWW"><b>World Storytelling Day</b></a> is a global celebration of the art of oral storytelling. It is celebrated every year on the spring equinox in the northern hemisphere, the first day of autumn equinox in the southern. On World Storytelling Day, as many people as possible tell and listen to stories in as many languages and at as many places as possible, during the same day and night. Participants tell each other about their events in order to share stories and inspiration, to learn from each other and create international contacts. <br /><br />The significance in the event lies in the fact that it is the first global celebration of storytelling of its kind, and has been important in forging links between storytellers often working far apart from each other. It has also been significant in drawing public and media attention to storytelling as an art form.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Fifty of the world’s greatest writers share their views in collaboration with the artist Matteo Pericoli, expanding our own views on place, creativity, and the meaning of home </b></span><br /><br /> All of us, at some point in our daily lives, have found ourselves looking out the window. We pause in our work, tune out of a conversation, and turn toward the outside. Our eyes simply gaze, without seeing, at a landscape whose familiarity becomes the customary ground for distraction: the usual rooftops, the familiar trees, a distant crane. The way of life for most of us in the twenty-first century means that we spend most of our time indoors, in an urban environment, and our awareness of the outside world comes via, and thanks to, a framed glass hole in the wall. <br /><br /> In <a href="http://bit.ly/1b9wBNC"><b>Windows on the World: Fifty Writers, Fifty Views</b></a>, architect and artist Matteo Pericoli brilliantly explores this concept alongside fifty of our most beloved writers from across the globe. By pairing drawings of window views with texts that reveal—either physically or metaphorically—what the drawings cannot, <b><u>Windows on the World</u></b> offers a perceptual journey through the world as seen through the windows of prominent writers: Orhan Pamuk in Istanbul, Daniel Kehlmann in Berlin, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie in Lagos, John Jeremiah Sullivan in Wilmington, North Carolina, Nadine Gordimer in Johannesburg, Xi Chuan in Beijing. Taken together, the views—geography and perspective, location and voice—resonate with and play off each other. <br /><br /> Working from a series of meticulous photographs and other notes from authors’ homes and offices, Pericoli creates a pen-and-ink illustration of each window and the view it frames. Many readers know Pericoli’s work from his acclaimed series for <i>The New York Times</i> and later for <i>The Paris Review Daily</i>, which have a devoted following. Now, <b><u>Windows on the World</u></b> collects from Pericoli’s body of work and features fifteen never-before-seen windows in one gorgeously designed volume, as well as a preface from the Paris Review’s editor Lorin Stein. As we delve into what each writer’s view may or may not share with the others’, as we look at the map and explore unfamiliar views of cities from around the world, a new kind of map begins to take shape. <br /><br /> <b><u>Windows on the World</u></b> is a profound and eye-opening look inside the worlds of writers, reminding us that the things we see every day are woven into our selves and our imaginations, making us keener and more inquisitive observers of our own worlds.</div>
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">Jackie</span> says: </b></div>
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<i>"This is a wonderful book. 50 authors from all over the world have
written short essays about the windows they look through as they write,
and what the scene means to them. Topping it off, there is a line
drawing for each of the essays. I've been savoring this book for a few a
months now, making me think about my view through our sliding door to
the patio. This book is delightful for a short break or a serious
philosophical breakthroughs. The art in the book is a very lovely
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The Clakker: a mechanical man, endowed with great strength and boundless stamina -- but beholden to the wishes of its human masters. </b></span><br />
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Soon after the Dutch scientist and clockmaker Christiaan Huygens invented the very first Clakker in the 17th Century, the Netherlands built a whole mechanical army. It wasn't long before a legion of clockwork fusiliers marched on Westminster, and the Netherlands became the world's sole superpower. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>An enthralling first novel about a teenage girl who finds refuge--but perhaps not--in an 1840s Shaker community. </b></span><br /><br />
After 15-year-old Polly Kimball sets fire to the family farm, killing her abusive father, she and her young brother find shelter in a Massachusetts Shaker community called the City of Hope. It is the Era of Manifestations, when young girls in Shaker enclaves all across the Northeast are experiencing extraordinary mystical visions, earning them the honorific of "Visionist" and bringing renown to their settlements. <br /><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Introducing the Custard Protocol series, in which Alexia Maccon's daughter Prudence travels to India on behalf of Queen, country...and the perfect pot of tea. </b></span><br /> When Prudence Alessandra Maccon Akeldama ("Rue" to her friends) is bequeathed an unexpected dirigible, she does what any sensible female under similar circumstances would do -- she christens it the Spotted Custard and floats off to India. <br />Soon, she stumbles upon a plot involving local dissidents, a kidnapped brigadier's wife, and some awfully familiar Scottish werewolves. Faced with a dire crisis (and an embarrassing lack of bloomers), Rue must rely on her good breeding -- and her metanatural abilities -- to get to the bottom of it all...<span style="font-size: x-small;"> </span></div>
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Our coming was foretold by the elders Those who would change the future, just as the planet teetered on the edge of darkness. <br /><br />Born on the prophesied day with birthmarks in the form of a crescent moon, they knew us immediately. Swaddled and screaming, we were spirited away by those who hid us, trained us, and kept us safe until our time came. <br /><br />They poured their lives into us. Some died to save us. <br /><br />And now we, the Remnants, protected by Knights of the Last Order, have gathered. Called until we breathe our last to save the world.<br />
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After tackling her first mission and coming to terms with her power of empathy, Andrei and her fellow Remnants discover their first battles were only a taste of what is to come. As the Sons of Sheol continue their assault on the world, planning to keep all hope dead, the Remnant finds itself battling within its ranks. With everyone pursuing what they feel is the best course of action, trouble mounts--and Andrei finds herself in terrible danger at the hands of Kellach. The Remnants must travel to Italy and find a way to fight as one before it is too late. <br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>In the third volume of the bestselling Frieda Klein Mystery series, the brilliant but troubled London psychotherapist returns—only to journey into a darkness from which there may be no return. </b></span><br /><br />Ruth Lennox, mother of three, is found dead in a pool of her own blood. Detective Chief Inspector Karlsson calls Frieda, hoping she can offer a new angle. But when it emerges that Ruth was leading a secret life, her family closes ranks. Still reeling from a recent attempt on her life, Frieda starts down a dangerous path that seems to lead to a serial killer who has long escaped detection. Is she getting closer to unraveling either case? Or is Frieda just the victim of her own paranoid, fragile mind?<br />
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<i>"Poor Frieda Klein. She is a caring, helpful kind of person, a psychotherapist by trade, interested in aiding sufferers to find peace and happiness. But she keeps falling into very bad situations, not always without her active involvement, which just seem to get worse for everyone, including herself, as time progresses. She’s just so driven. She, like the proverbial bulldog, gets the bone in her teeth and just won’t let go until she’s sure every bit of substance has been chewed from it, mostly to the sorrow of everyone involved. Still. She doesn't take crap from anyone and it sometimes plunges her into trouble. The "personal assault on a private citizen" type of trouble, if she's pushed, which she doesn't like.<br /><br />Her previous encounters with the police have ended in appalling tragedy, deeply disturbed participants, her own near death and her traumatic killing of an assailant accompanied by a reputation with the cops as a troublemaker and inciter of violence. Not a great place to start, and she doesn’t want to. But she gets drawn into several cases of murder, on one hand very recent and the other over a series of years leading up to the present. This is the third of the "Frieda Klein Mysteries" and is as strong as the previous entries.<br /><br />Her fencing match with a rival psychological profiler has put her in the position of being on the defensive about her own actions, justifiable as they may be and at odds with nearly everyone in officialdom except her stalwart ally Detective Chief Inspector Malcolm Karlsson who puts his own career on the line to support her increasingly hard-to-believe assertions about a serial killer targeting young girls. It all hinges, you see, on a single phrase uttered to her in the middle of a bogus patient interview designed by her psychological nemesis to entrap her into making actionable mistakes. All of the conversation is bogus, she’s convinced (and she’s right) except for one trenchant remark which sends her on an unlikely search for the person who really uttered it and why they did. <br /> </i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><a href="http://bit.ly/1BG6k3q">Mightier than the Sword</a> opens with an IRA bomb exploding during the MV Buckingham's maiden voyage across the Atlantic - but how many passengers lose their lives? </b></span><br /><br />When Harry Clifton visits his publisher in New York, he learns that he has been elected as the new president of English PEN, and immediately launches a campaign for the release of a fellow author, Anatoly Babakov, who's imprisoned in Siberia. Babakov's crime? Writing a book called <b>"Uncle Joe"</b>, a devastating insight into what it was like to work for Stalin. So determined is Harry to see Babakov released and the book published, that he puts his own life in danger. <br /><br />His wife Emma, chairman of Barrington Shipping, is facing the repercussions of the IRA attack on the Buckingham. Some board members feel she should resign, and Lady Virginia Fenwick will stop at nothing to cause Emma's downfall. <br /><br />Sir Giles Barrington is now a minister of the Crown, and looks set for even higher office, until an official trip to Berlin does not end as a diplomatic success. Once again, Giles's political career is thrown off balance by none other than his old adversary, Major Alex Fisher, who once again stands against him at the election. But who wins this time? <br /><br />In London, Harry and Emma's son, Sebastian, is quickly making a name for himself at Farthing's Bank in London, and has proposed to the beautiful young American, Samantha. But the despicable Adrian Sloane, a man interested only in his own advancement and the ruin of Sebastian, will stop at nothing to remove his rival. <br /><br />Jeffrey Archer's compelling Clifton Chronicles continue in this, his most accomplished novel to date. With all the trademark twists and turns that have made him one of the world's most popular authors, the spellbinding story of the Clifton and the Barrington families continues.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Nancy Turner burst onto the literary scene with her hugely popular novels <a href="http://bit.ly/1LcVuIz">These Is My Words</a>, <a href="http://bit.ly/1GQXxPp">Sarah’s Quilt</a>, and <a href="http://bit.ly/1EfpgmR">The Star Garden</a>. Now, Turner has written the novel she was born to write, this exciting and heartfelt story of a woman struggling to find herself during the tumultuous years preceding the American Revolution. </b></span><br /><br />The year is 1729, and Resolute Talbot and her siblings are captured by pirates, taken from their family in Jamaica, and brought to the New World. Resolute and her sister are sold into slavery in colonial New England and taught the trade of spinning and weaving.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>"You ain't gonna like what I have to tell you, but I'm gonna tell you anyway. See, my name is Karen Memery, like memory only spelt with an e, and I'm one of the girls what works in the Hôtel Mon Cherie on Amity Street. Hôtel has a little hat over the o like that. It's French, so Beatrice tells me." </i></b></span><br /><br />Set in the late 19th century--when the city we now call Seattle Underground was the whole town (and still on the surface), when airships plied the trade routes, would-be gold miners were heading to the gold fields of Alaska, and steam-powered mechanicals stalked the waterfront, Karen is a young woman on her own, is making the best of her orphaned state by working in Madame Damnable's high-quality bordello. Through Karen's eyes we get to know the other girls in the house--a resourceful group--and the poor and the powerful of the town. Trouble erupts one night when a badly injured girl arrives at their door, beggin sanctuary, followed by the man who holds her indenture, and who has a machine that can take over anyone's mind and control their actions. And as if that wasn't bad enough, the next night brings a body dumped in their rubbish heap--a streetwalker who has been brutally murdered. <br /><br />Bear brings alive this Jack-the-Ripper yarn of the old west with a light touch in Karen's own memorable voice, and a mesmerizing evocation of classic steam-powered science.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Kell is one of the last Travelers—magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel universes—as such, he can choose where he lands.</b></span><br />
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Officially, Kell is the Red Traveler, personal ambassador and adopted Prince of Red London, carrying the monthly correspondences between the royals of each London. Unofficially, Kell is a smuggler, servicing people willing to pay for even the smallest glimpses of a world they'll never see—a dangerous hobby, and one that has set him up for accidental treason. Fleeing into Grey London, Kell runs afoul of Delilah Bard, a cut-purse with lofty aspirations, first robs him, then saves him from a dangerous enemy, and then forces him to spirit her to another world for a proper adventure.<br /> <br />But perilous magic is afoot, and treachery lurks at every turn. To save all of the worlds, Kell and Lila will first need to stay alive—and
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Once there was a time when men and women lived as equals, when girl babies were valued, and women could belong only to themselves. But that was ten generations ago. Now women are property, to be sold and owned and bred, while a strict census keeps their numbers manageable and under control. The best any girl can hope for is to end up as some man’s forever wife, but most are simply sold and resold until they’re all used up. </b></span><br /><br />Only in the wilderness, away from the city, can true freedom be found. Aya has spent her whole life in the mountains, looking out for her family and hiding from the world, until the day the Trackers finally catch her. <br /><br />Stolen from her home, and being groomed for auction, Aya is desperate to escape her fate and return to her family, but her only allies are a loyal wolf she’s raised from a pup and a strange mute boy who may be her best hope for freedom . . . if she can truly trust him. <br /><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/18pVKC4"><b>The Glass Arrow</b></a> is a haunting, yet hopeful, new novel from Kristen Simmons, the author of the popular Article 5 trilogy.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>In the heart of New York City, a group of artistic friends struggles with society's standards of beauty. At the center are Barb and Lily, two women at opposite ends of the beauty spectrum, but with the same problem: each fears she will never find a love that can overcome her looks. </b></span><br />
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Barb, a stunningly beautiful costume designer, makes herself ugly in hopes of finding true love. Meanwhile, her friend Lily, a brilliantly talented but plain-looking musician, goes to fantastic lengths to attract the man who has rejected her with results that are as touching as they are transformative. To complicate matters, Barb and Lily discover that they may have a murderer in their midst, that Barb's calm disposition is more dangerously provocative than her beauty ever was, and that Lily's musical talents are more powerful than anyone could have imagined.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>It was all her doing. She had cried wolf, and the wolf had come. </b></span></div>
<br /> It's July 1940, and eleven-year-old Lydia has just run away from life as a child evacuee in Wales. She arrives in her English village, gas mask in tow, only to find it abandoned. Her family's house is shuttered and empty, the windows covered by black-out blinds--but Lydia settles in, determined to wait there until they return. <br /><br />Late that night he comes: a wounded soldier, gun in hand, heralding a full-blown German invasion. There are, the man explains, certain rules that Lydia must now follow. He says he won't hurt Lydia, but she cannot leave the house. <br /><br />As the unlikely pair coexists in the claustrophobic confines of the house, each becomes dependent on the other for survival. But when Lydia tries to uncover what brought the soldier to her door, she realizes that he knows more than he should about her family--and that he's plotting something for them both. <br /><br />Eerie, gripping, and piercingly sad, <a href="http://bit.ly/1MuE9YR"><b>The Dynamite Room</b></a> brings a strikingly original and contemporary resonance to the great tradition of war classics. It shrinks the global theater of history's most devastating war to a game of cat and mouse played out in a single house--resulting in a moving portrait of war and how it affects soldiers and citizens alike.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Four years after she set sail from England, leaving everything she most loved behind, Maisie Dobbs at last returns, only to find herself in a dangerous place . . . </b></span><br /><br />In Jacqueline Winspear‘s powerful story of political intrigue and personal tragedy, a brutal murder in the British garrison town of Gibraltar leads Maisie into a web of lies, deceit, and peril.<br /><br />Spring 1937. In the four years since she left England, Maisie Dobbs has experienced love, contentment, stability—and the deepest tragedy a woman can endure. Now, all she wants is the peace she believes she might find by returning to India. But her sojourn in the hills of Darjeeling is cut short when her stepmother summons her home to England; her aging father Frankie Dobbs is not getting any younger.<br /><br />But on a ship bound for England, Maisie realizes she isn’t ready to return. Against the wishes of the captain who warns her, “You will be alone in a most dangerous place,” she disembarks in Gibraltar. Though she is on her own, Maisie is far from alone: the British garrison town is teeming with refugees fleeing a brutal civil war across the border in Spain.<br /><br />Yet the danger is very real. Days after Maisie’s arrival, a photographer and member of Gibraltar’s Sephardic Jewish community, Sebastian Babayoff, is murdered, and Maisie becomes entangled in the case, drawing the attention of the British Secret Service. Under the suspicious eye of a British agent, Maisie is pulled deeper into political intrigue on “the Rock”—arguably Britain’s most important strategic territory—and renews an uneasy acquaintance in the process. At a crossroads between her past and her future, Maisie must choose a direction, knowing that England is, for her, an equally dangerous place, but in quite a different way. </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Drawing on their unusual access to intelligence sources, law enforcement, and groundbreaking research, two of America's leading experts on violent extremism and terrorism explain the genesis, evolution, and implications of today's most barbaric jihadist army, Islamic State--and how we can fight it.</b></span><br /><br />Though terrorist groups are a fixture of contemporary politics and warfare, the world has never witnessed the degree of sheer brutality demonstrated by the group know as ISIS--the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant. Its sadistic disregard for human life, sophisticated use of social media, acquisition of territory, and ability to attract foreign fighters--many from modern Western democracies--is unprecedented. <br /><br />Jessica Stern and J. M. Berger analyze the tools ISIS uses both to frighten innocent citizens and lure new soldiers--including the "ghoulish pornography" of their pro-jihadi videos, the seductive appeal of "jihadic chic," and its startling effective social media expertise. While this jihadi army poses a significant threat, our response must be carefully calibrated the authors warn; sending troops onto the battlefield could become the ideal recruiting tool, increasing ISIS's ranks.<br /><br /><a href="http://bit.ly/1wJ4LBt"><b>ISIS: The State of Terror</b></a> offers practical ideas on potential government responses--most importantly, emphasizing that we must alter our present conceptions of terrorism and terrorists and react to the rapidly changing jihadi landscape, both online and off, as quickly as the terrorists do. As it lays out what our next move--as a country, as a government, as the world--should be, it offers a vital assessment of the future of counterterrorism and countering violent extremism.<br />
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Social networking has grown into a staple of modern society, but its continued evolution is becoming increasingly detrimental to our lives. Shifts in communication and privacy are affecting us more than we realize or understand. <a href="http://bit.ly/1MATSWj"><b>Terms of Service</b></a> crystalizes this current moment in technology and contemplates its implications: the identity-validating pleasures and perils of online visibility; our newly adopted view of daily life through the lens of what is shareworthy; and the surveillance state operated by social media platforms--Facebook, Google, Twitter, and others--to mine our personal data for advertising revenue, an invasion of our lives that is as pervasive as government spying.<br /><br />Jacob Silverman calls for social media users to take back ownership of their digital selves from the Silicon Valley corporations who claim to know what's best for them. Integrating politics, sociology, national security, pop culture, and technology, he reveals the surprising conformity at the heart of Internet culture--explaining how social media companies engineer their products to encourage shallow engagement and discourage dissent. Reflecting on the collapsed barriers between our private and public lives, Silverman brings into focus the inner conflict we feel when deciding what to share and what to "like," and explains how we can take the steps we need to free ourselves from its grip.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>A father's exhilarating and funny love letter to his daughter with Down syndrome whose vibrant and infectious approach to life has something to teach all of us about how we can better live our own.</b></span> <br /><br />Jillian Daugherty was born with Down syndrome. The day they brought her home from the hospital, her parents, Paul and Kerry, were flooded with worry and uncertainty, but also overwhelming love, which they channeled to "the job of building the better Jillian." While their daughter had special needs, they refused to allow her to grow up needy--"Expect, Don't Accept" became their mantra. Little did they know how ready Jillian was to meet their challenge.<br /><br />Paul tells stories from Jillian's mischievous childhood and moves to her early adulthood, tracing her journey to find happiness and purpose in her adult life, sharing endearing anecdotes as well as stories about her inspiring triumphs. Having graduated from high school and college, Jillian now works to support herself, and has met the love of her life and her husband-to-be, Ryan.<br /><br />In <a href="http://bit.ly/19l2zG5"><b>An Uncomplicated Life</b></a>, the parent learns as much about life from the child as the child does from the parent. Through her unmitigated love for others, her sparkling charisma, and her boundless capacity for joy, Jillian has inspired those around her to live better and more fully. The day Jillian was born, Paul says, was the last bad day. As he lovingly writes, "Jillian is a soul map of our best intentions"--a model of grace, boundless joy, and love for all of us.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>For generations and generations, the women of Grunhilda's family have stirred up trouble in a big, black pot. Grunhilda inherits her famous ancestors' recipes and cauldron, but no one believes in magic anymore. </b></span><br />
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Despite the fact that Grunhilda's only useful skill is cooking up potfuls of foul brew, she finds a job listing that might suit her: lunch lady. She delights in scaring the kids until she meets a timid little girl named Madison with a big set of glasses who becomes an unlikely friend. Madison needs help at school and at home, but helping people goes against everything Grunhilda's believes in as a witch! Will this girl be able to thaw the Lunch Witch's icy heart? Or will Grunhilda turn her back on a kindred spirit?<br />
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hungry readerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09360226432054333546noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1039291547450894569.post-62125892056882025202015-03-16T06:00:00.000-06:002015-03-16T06:00:01.063-06:00Indies Inroduce...Debut Authors<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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Nina MacLaughlin spent her twenties working at a Boston newspaper, sitting behind a desk and staring at a screen. Yearning for more tangible work, she applied for a job she saw on Craigslist "Carpenter's Assistant: Women strongly encouraged to apply" despite being a Classics major who couldn't tell a Phillips from a flathead screwdriver. She got the job, and in <a href="http://bit.ly/1C7GffG"><b>Hammer Head</b></a> she tells the rich and entertaining story of becoming a carpenter. <br />
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Writing with infectious curiosity, MacLaughlin describes the joys and frustrations of making things by hand, reveals the challenges of working as a woman in an occupation that is 99 percent male, and explains how manual labor changed the way she sees the world. We meet her unflappable mentor, Mary, a petite but tough carpenter-sage ( Be smarter than the tools ), as well as wild demo dudes, foul-mouthed plumbers, grizzled hardware store clerks, and the colorful clients whose homes she and Mary work in. <br />
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Whisking her readers from job to job building a wall, remodeling a kitchen, gut-renovating a house MacLaughlin examines the history of the tools she uses and the virtues and varieties of wood. Throughout, she draws on the wisdom of Ovid, Annie Dillard, Studs Terkel, and Mary Oliver to illuminate her experience of work. And, in a deeply moving climax, MacLaughlin strikes out on her own for the first time to build bookshelves for her own father. <br />
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“An effortless blend of literary craft with woodcraft.” ~<b><i>Library Journal</i></b><br />
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“A surprisingly thoughtful book about taking chances and finding joy in change.” ~<b><i>Kirkus</i></b> <br />
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“Renders enormous interest in this painstaking work, so lovingly delineated.” ~<b><i>Publishers Weekly </i></b><br />
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“Not many of us find the courage to follow that small voice inside us to our true work, especially when that work lacks social status and health benefits and financial stability. But here, in this wonderfully assured debut, Nina MacLaughlin compellingly chronicles having done just that, a leap of faith that brings her more deeply into her very core where the stakes are high but the potential for lasting joy is even higher. Lucky for us, MacLaughlin's evocative prose is just as plumb, level, and true as all the wood structures she ultimately learns to build. This is a lovely and important book!” ~Andre Dubus III, author of <b><a href="http://bit.ly/1BrU9XP">Townie</a> </b><br />
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“<b><u>Hammer Head</u></b> is warm, wise, and authentically inspiring. No other book has made me want to re-read Ovid and retile my bathroom floor, nor given me the conviction that I can do both. I loved it.” ~Rosie Schaap, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1wvboaD"><b>Drinking with Men </b></a><br />
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“In this beautiful memoir about learning a trade, Nina MacLaughlin explores mortality, desire, the passage of time, and the meaning of work. She transcends the personal and makes us question what of our own works are built to endure. This book—a thing well-made—certainly is.” ~Philip Connors, author of <b><a href="http://bit.ly/1AkJnxJ">Fire Season </a><br /> </b><br />
“Nina MacLaughlin built a dream by becoming a carpenter, and transformed her life. <b><u>Hammer Head</u></b> is her exquisitely inspiring story. I loved it.” ~Lynne Cox, author of <b><a href="http://bit.ly/1GFPJjk">Swimming to Antarctica</a> </b><br />
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“I have never built anything but after reading Nina MacLaughlin's smart, inspiring memoir<b><u> Hammer Head</u></b>, I wanted to. She gives context and depth to wood and the act of shaping it, of working with one's hands, of taking risks and letting go. A fantastic debut.” ~Molly Birnbaum, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/18cAakv"><b>Season to Taste</b></a><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1NVxp85">Mrs. Lincoln's Dressmaker</a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/1Lbi6ZZ">Mrs. Lincoln's Rival</a> imagines the inner life of Julia Grant, beloved as a Civil War general’s wife and the First Lady, yet who grappled with a profound and complex relationship with the slave who was her <span id="goog_1229023584"></span><span id="goog_1229023585"></span>namesake—until she forged a proud identity of her own. </b></span><br /><br /> In 1844, Missouri belle Julia Dent met dazzling horseman Lieutenant Ulysses S Grant. Four years passed before their parents permitted them to wed, and the groom’s abolitionist family refused to attend the ceremony. <br /><br /> Since childhood, Julia owned as a slave another Julia, known as Jule. Jule guarded her mistress’s closely held twin secrets: She had perilously poor vision but was gifted with prophetic sight. So it was that Jule became Julia’s eyes to the world. <br /><br /> And what a world it was, marked by gathering clouds of war. The Grants vowed never to be separated, but as Ulysses rose through the ranks—becoming general in chief of the Union Army—so did the stakes of their pact. During the war, Julia would travel, often in the company of Jule and the four Grant children, facing unreliable transportation and certain danger to be at her husband’s side. <br /><br /> Yet Julia and Jule saw two different wars. While Julia spoke out for women—Union and Confederate—she continued to hold Jule as a slave behind Union lines. Upon the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation, Jule claimed her freedom and rose to prominence as a businesswoman in her own right, taking the honorary title Madame. The two women’s paths continued to cross throughout the Grants’ White House years in Washington, DC, and later in New York City, the site of Grant’s Tomb. <br /><br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/1BhPV0k"><b>Mrs. Grant and Madame Jule</b></a> is the first novel to chronicle this singular relationship, bound by sight and shadow.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>A startling and tender portrait of one family’s struggle to make peace with their son’s death</b></span> <br /><br />An ingeniously layered narrative, told over the course of one week, Eddie Joyce’s debut novel masterfully depicts an Italian-Irish American family on Staten Island and their complicated emotional history. Ten years after the loss of Bobby—the Amendola family’s youngest son—everyone is still struggling to recover from the firefighter’s unexpected death. Bobby’s mother Gail; his widow Tina; his older brothers Peter, the corporate lawyer, and Franky, the misfit; and his father Michael have all dealt with their grief in different ways. But as the family gathers together for Bobby Jr.’s birthday party, they must each find a way to accept a new man in Tina’s life while reconciling their feelings for their lost loved one.<br /> <br /><br />Presented through multiple points of view, <a href="http://bit.ly/1NVxMPT"><b>Small Mercies</b></a> explores the conflicts and deep attachments that exist within families. Heart-wrenching and profoundly relatable, Joyce’s debut is a love letter to Staten Island and a deeply affecting portrait of an American family.<b> </b></div>
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As Giovanni describes it, “No one’s disguise is perfect. There is in every person, no matter how graceful, a seam, a thread curling out of them. . . . When pulled by the right hands, it will unravel the person entire.” As his fame grows, Giovanni encounters a beautiful and enigmatic stage singer, Lucy Starlight—the only person whose thread he cannot find—and becomes increasingly trapped inside his many poses. Ultimately, he must assume the one identity he has never been able to master: his own.<br /> </div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b><i>New York Times</i>–bestselling writer C. J. Box returns with a thrilling new novel, featuring Wyoming game warden Joe Pickett.</b></span><br /> <br /> She was gone. Joe Pickett had good reason to dislike Dallas Cates, even if he was a rodeo champion, and now he has even more—Joe’s eighteen-year-old ward, April, has run off with him. <br /><br /> And then comes even worse news: The body of a girl has been found in a ditch along the highway—alive, but just barely, the victim of blunt force trauma. It is April, and the doctors aren’t sure if she’ll recover. Cates denies having anything to do with it—says she ran away from him, too—and there’s evidence that points to another man. But Joe knows in his gut who’s responsible. What he doesn’t know is the kind of danger he’s about to encounter. Cates is bad enough, but Cates’s family is like none Joe has ever met before. <br /><br /> Joe’s going to find out the truth, even if it kills him. But this time, it just might.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>A tense and enthralling historical thriller in which British Naval Intelligence officer Ian Fleming attempts to foil a Nazi plot to assassinate FDR, Churchill, and Stalin. </b></span><br /><br />November, 1943. Weary of his deskbound status in the Royal Navy, intelligence officer Ian Fleming spends his spare time spinning stories in his head that are much more exciting than his own life…until the critical Tehran Conference, when Winston Churchill, Franklin Roosevelt, and Josef Stalin meet to finalize the D-Day invasion. <br /><br />With the Big Three in one place, Fleming is tipped off that Hitler’s top assassin has infiltrated the conference. Seizing his chance to play a part in a real-life action story, Fleming goes undercover to stop the Nazi killer. Between martinis with beautiful women, he survives brutal attacks and meets a seductive Soviet spy who may know more than Fleming realizes. As he works to uncover the truth and unmask the assassin, Fleming is forced to accept that betrayal sometimes comes from the most unexpected quarters—and that one’s literary creations may prove eerily close to one’s own life. <br /><br />Brilliantly inventive, utterly gripping and suspenseful, <a href="http://bit.ly/1GEpOoI"><b>Too Bad to Die</b></a> is Francine Mathews’s best novel yet, and confirms her place as a master of historical fiction.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>From the acclaimed author of Pack Up the Moon comes a poignant and beautiful novel about love, loss, and the unbreakable bonds of family—particularly those between mothers, daughters, and sisters. </b></span><br /><br />Ten years ago, Nora Glass started writing essays about being a single mother of a six-year-old daughter. Her weekly column made her a household name, and over the years, her fans have watched Ellie grow from a toddler to a teenager. <br /><br />But now Nora is facing a problem that can’t be overcome. Diagnosed with a devastating disease that will eventually take away who she is, she is scared for herself, but even more frightened about what this will mean for her sixteen-year-old daughter. <br /><br />Now Nora has no choice but to let go of her hard-won image as a competent, self-assured woman, and turn to the one person who has always relied on her: her twin sister, Mariana. Nora and Mariana couldn’t be more different from one another, and they’ve always had a complicated relationship. But now the two sisters will have to summon the strength to help them all get through a future none of them could have ever imagined, while uncovering the joy and beauty that was always underneath.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>A masterful depiction of a life driven off the rails by tragedy and sin--a man now summoned by the legacy of a beloved, lost brother to embark on a journey in search toward understanding, happiness, and redemption.</b></span><br /><br />Haunted by the disappearance of his older brother Tommy in the first Gulf War, the tragic deaths of his parents, and the felony conviction that has branded him for a decade, Roy Joseph has labored in lonesome exile--and under the ever-watchful eyes of the law--moving between oil rigs off the coast of Louisiana and an Airstream trailer he shares with his dog.<br /><br />Then, on the cusp of his thirtieth birthday, Roy is contacted by a teenage girl from California claiming to be his lost brother's biological daughter. Yearning for connection and the prospect of family, Roy embarks on a journey across America, visiting childhood haunts in the South to confront his troubled memories and history, and making a stop in Nevada to call on a retired Navy SEAL who may hold the answer to Tommy's fate. The ultimate destination is San Francisco, where a potential Russian bride and his long-lost niece await, and Roy may finally recover the Joseph line.<br /><br />With <a href="http://bit.ly/1Bi0y36"><b>The Other Joseph</b></a>, Skip Horack delivers a powerful, spellbinding tale of a man nearly defeated by life who is given one last chance at redemption--one last shot to find meaning and alter the course of his solitary existence.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>An unforgettable debut of linked stories that follow the members and retinue of a wealthy Mexican family forced into exile after the patriarch is kidnapped</b></span>. <br />
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On an unremarkable night, Jose Victoriano Arteaga--the head of a thriving Mexico City family--vanishes on his way home from work. The Arteagas find few answers; the full truth of what happened to Arteaga is lost to the shadows of Mexico's vast and desperate underworld, a place of rampant violence and kidnappings, and government corruption. But soon packages arrive to the family house, offering horrifying clues. <br />
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Fear, guilt, and the prospect of financial ruination fracture the once-proud family and scatter them across the globe, yet delicate threads still hold them together: in a swimming pool in Palo Alto, Arteaga's young grandson struggles to make sense of the grief that has hobbled his family; in Mexico City, Arteaga's mistress alternates between rage and heartbreak as she waits, in growing panic, for her lover's return; in Austin, the Arteagas' housekeeper tries to piece together a second life in an alienating and demeaning new land; in Madrid, Arteaga's son takes his ailing dog through the hot and unforgiving streets, in search of his father's ghost. <br />
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Multiple award-winning author Antonio Ruiz-Camacho offers an exquisite and intimate evocation of the loneliness, love, hope, and fear that can bind a family even as unspeakable violence tears it apart.<a href="http://bit.ly/1EYsJtZ"><b> Barefoot Dogs</b></a> is a heartfelt elegy to the stolen innocence of every family struck by tragedy. This is urgent and vital fiction.<br />
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“Antonio Ruiz-Camacho's <b><u>Barefoot Dogs</u></b> is bravura, brilliant, moving, hilarious—it's both clear-eyed and dreamy, strange and beautiful, stories for our time, and also for all-time.That it's his first book is a wonder, and a wonderful promise.” ~Elizabeth McCracken, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/19czmNE"><b>The Giant's House</b></a> <br />
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“With deftness and nuance, Ruiz-Camacho…captures the flawed but fascinating humanity of the extended Arteaga family…Readers receive a gift as rare as it is unnerving: a chance to enter imaginatively into a world of personal tragedy through portals other than pathos. Despite their myopia and unreckoned privilege, the wealthy wanderers of <b><u>Barefoot Dogs</u></b> never become objects of scorn or pity. And this is perhaps the most powerful testament to Ruiz-Camacho’s powers.” ~<b><i>Texas Observer</i></b><br />
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"Antonio Ruiz-Camacho has written a marvelous and moving story collection: <b><u>Barefoot Dogs</u></b> is a brilliant and devastating portrait of a scattered, entitled, and traumatized Mexican upper-class, waking up in horror to the reality of the country they once owned. A tour de force." ~Daniel Alarcón, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/19azeOP"><b>At Night We Walk in Circles</b></a><br />
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“In the world of today no calamity stays local, no tragedy private. Someone missing at a street corner leaves unhealed scars in other countries, among different generations. It is with this keen sense of intersection between personal and impersonal history that Antonio Ruiz-Camacho approaches his characters—his scrutiny of them, his empathy for them, and his versatile voice reminding us of Grace Paley, among other masters of the short story.” ~Yiyun Li, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1NKZVJj"><b>The Vagrants </b></a><br />
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“'Are you afraid of a human’s touch? Have you become that American already?' one of Antonio Ruiz-Camacho’s displaced upper-class Mexican characters asks another who is about to become her lover in the Austin, Texas laundromat where they meet. The brilliantly gifted Ruiz-Camacho, writing in English about the members of a Mexican family forced to flee their country, brings the terror, sadness, tenderness and intimacy as well as the class absurdities of contemporary Mexican life into that most traditional of American forms, the realist short story. Ruiz-Camacho’s mastery will impress and astonish, open your eyes, but most of all, each one of these stories will unforgettably touch your heart and move you." ~Francisco Goldman, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1C3nx7l"><b>Say Her Name</b> </a><br />
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“Mexican-born,Texas-based journalist Ruiz-Camacho shows a wealth of talent in this fiction debut….Outstanding…Funny….A nimble debut that demonstrates not a singular narrative voice but a realistic chorus of them.” ~<b><i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br />
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“Antonio Ruiz Camacho springs out of the gate with an assured, beautiful collection of stories. There were several spots that made me stop and go back to them. And not a few others that made me burn with envy. Great stuff.” ~Luis Alberto Urrea, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/18cpIJP"><b>The Devil’s Highway </b></a><br />
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"<b><u>Barefoot Dogs</u></b> offers readers a relatable experience of dealing with unexpected tragedy, even when framed by a less-than-relatable situation. An extremely promising debut." ~<b><i>Booklist</i></b><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>A witty, tender memoir of a son’s journey home to care for his irascible mother—a tale of secrets, silences, and enduring love </b></span><br /><br /> When George Hodgman leaves Manhattan for his hometown of Paris, Missouri, he finds himself—an unlikely caretaker and near-lethal cook—in a head-on collision with his aging mother, Betty, a woman of wit and will. Will George lure her into assisted living? When hell freezes over. He can’t bring himself to force her from the home both treasure—the place where his father’s voice lingers, the scene of shared jokes, skirmishes, and, behind the dusty antiques, a rarely acknowledged conflict: Betty, who speaks her mind but cannot quite reveal her heart, has never really accepted the fact that her son is gay. <br /><br /> As these two unforgettable characters try to bring their different worlds together, Hodgman reveals the challenges of Betty’s life and his own struggle for self-respect, moving readers from their small town—crumbling but still colorful—to the star-studded corridors of Vanity Fair. Evocative of <a href="http://bit.ly/1F9qrZ9"><b>The End of Your Life Book Club</b></a> and <a href="http://bit.ly/1BpnKkA"><b>The Tender Bar</b></a>, Hodgman’s debut is both an indelible portrait of a family and an exquisitely told tale of a prodigal son’s return.</div>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/1Bpge9u"><b>A Conversation with George Hodgman</b></a></div>
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“A remarkable, laugh-out-loud book . . . Rarely has the subject of elder care produced such droll human comedy, or a heroine quite on the mettlesome order of Betty Baker Hodgman. For as much as the book works on several levels (as a meditation on belonging, as a story of growing up gay and the psychic cost of silence, as metaphor for recovery), it is the strong-willed Betty who shines through.” ~<b><i>The New York Times</i></b> <br /><br />“An exquisitely written memoir about the complicated but deeply genuine love a son feels for his courageous, headstrong, vulnerable mother in the twilight of her life. George Hodgman is stunningly clear-eyed and yet so darned big-hearted. <a href="http://bit.ly/1B2SFyu"><b><u>Bettyville</u></b></a> is just wonderful.” ~Jeannette Walls, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1AgHYrR"><b>The Glass Castle</b></a><br /> <br /> “The idea of a cultured gay man leaving New York City to care for his aging mother in Paris, Missouri, is already funny, and George Hodgman reaps that humor with great charm. But then he plunges deep, examining the warm yet fraught relationship between mother and son with profound insight and understanding.... As George and his mother come to terms with one another at the end of her days, the book begins to shimmer with something much more rare than love: a boundless, transcendent, and simple kindness. <b><u>Bettyville</u></b> is a beautiful book about the strange plenitude that comes from finally letting go of everything.” ~Alison Bechdel, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1GDofee"><b>Fun Home</b></a><br /> <br /> “<b><u>Bettyville</u></b> is a beautifully crafted memoir, rich with humor and wisdom. George Hodgman has created an unforgettable book about mothers and sons, and about the challenges that come with growing older and growing up.” ~Will Schwalbe, author of <b><u>The End of Your Life Book Club</u></b><br />“The book is instantly engaging, as Hodgman has a wry sense of humor, one he uses to keep others at a distance. Yet the book is also devastatingly touching. Betty is one tough cookie, and she is crumbling. Hodgman as a young man came out around the same time AIDS did, complicating his already complicated feelings immeasurably. There’s a lot for Hodgman to handle, yet he does, despite the urge to give in to his own sadness and his own former drug addiction. A tender, resolute look at a place, literal and figurative, baby boomers might find themselves.” ~<b><i>Booklist</i></b><br /><br /> “<b><u>Bettyville</u></b> is a gorgeous memoir. I was completely engaged, not just because of George Hodgman’s great ear and his sense of timing, but because he delivers Betty to us in such a manner that she steps off the page . I felt transported to a better place, to a time period and a web of relationships with which we can all identify, no matter where we grew up. Beyond the humor and the pathos, the quotidian and the bizarre, there remain profound lessons about life and love that I will carry away.” ~Abraham Verghese, author of<b> <a href="http://bit.ly/1B2TxmD">Cutting for Stone</a></b><br /><br /> “<b>Bettyville</b> reminded me of some Homeric legend, complete with treacherous chimeras and ravenous gorgons, except that it is told with such grace, wit, and spirited generosity that you hardly sense you are on a fragile bark, adrift on a perilous sea. This story of a sensitive Midwestern boy coming to terms with his homosexuality, his drug addiction, his clueless parents, his all-out war with shame, is nothing short of epic. It begins as a simple trip home from fast-track Manhattan to Paris, Missouri, to care for a failing mother, but by the time we are through, we have descended to an underworld, witnessed a plague, traveled all nine circles of hell, and emerged exhilarated by the grit and valor of our remarkable guide. It is, in every sense, a tale about the power of love.” ~Marie Arana, author of<b> <a href="http://bit.ly/18aaPHV">American Chica</a></b><br /><br />
“With great tenderness, honesty, and a searing, sardonic humor, George Hodgman has written a love letter to his mother, at once a penance and a tribute. In doing so, he has given us Betty, a character for the ages. This is a beautiful, illuminating book.” ~Dani Shapiro, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1MqiDSY"><b>Devotion</b></a><br /><br /> <br /><b> </b></div>
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<a href="http://bit.ly/189wzDM"><b>Signs Preceding the End of the World</b></a> is one of the most arresting novels to be published in Spanish in the last ten years. Yuri Herrera does not simply write about the border between Mexico and the United States and those who cross it. He explores the crossings and translations people make in their minds and language as they move from one country to another, especially when there's no going back. <br /><br />
Traversing this lonely territory is Makina, a young woman who knows only too well how to survive in a violent, macho world. Leaving behind her life in Mexico to search for her brother, she is smuggled into the USA carrying a pair of secret messages - one from her mother and one from the Mexican underworld <br />In this grippingly original novel Yuri Herrera explores the actual and psychological crossings and translations people make--with their feet, in their minds, and in their language as they move from one country to another, especially when there's no going back. <br />
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"Yuri Herrera must be a thousand years old. He must have travelled to hell, and heaven, and back again. He must have once been a girl, an animal, a rock, a boy, and a woman. Nothing else explains the vastness of his understanding." ~Valeria Luiselli, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1b0YszN"><b>Faces in the Crowd</b></a><br /><br />
"Yuri Herrera is Mexico’s greatest novelist. His spare, poetic narratives and incomparable prose read like epics compacted into a single perfect punch – they ring your bell, your being, your soul. Signs Preceding the End of the World delivers a darkly mythological vision of the U.S. as experienced by the “not us” that is harrowing and fierce. The profoundly dignified, mind-boggling Makina, our guide and translator, is the heroine who redeems us all: she is the Truth.’ Francisco Goldman, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1C3nx7l"><b>Say Her Name</b></a><br /><br />
"Herrera never forgets the turbulent and moving humanity of his protagonist: adroit, angry, ineluctable, Makina is destined to become one of the essential characters of Mexico’s new literature…Herrera creates a radically new language […] and condenses into a few pages what other authors need hundreds to convey." ~Jorge Volpi, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1BpdA3D"><b>In Search of Klingsor</b></a><br /><br />
"Yuri Herrera’s <b><u>Signs Preceding the End of the World </u></b>is a masterpiece, a haunting and moving allegory about violence and the culture built to support and celebrate that violence. Of the writers of my generation, the one I most admire is Yuri Herrera." ~Daniel Alarcón, author of <a href="http://bit.ly/19azeOP"><b>At Night We Walk in Circles</b></a><br /><br />
"<b><u>Signs Preceding the End of the World</u></b> by Yuri Herrera confirms his status as a storyteller skilled at creating intense storylines and using original language. It is as adept at depicting wretched conditions as it is of elevating the humble and everyday to symbolic dimensions. And that symbolism, to be sure, has something of the Kafkaesque." ~<b>Arturo García Ramos</b>, <i>ABC</i><br /><br />
‘It’s fair to say that Yuri Herrera follows in the footsteps of compatriot Juan Rulfo, perhaps the master par excellence of creating limbos, spectral spaces in which the characters—real Schrödinger’s cats—reside halfway between the living and the dead." ~<b>Javier Moreno</b>, <i>Quimera</i><br /><br />
"The book amazes with the precise and persuasive beauty of its words. New words are created or transformed in order to tell what cannot be told." ~<b>María José Obiol</b>, <i>El País</i><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The award-winning journalist and author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1A7B7lv">The Beekeeper's Lament </a>attempts to uncover the truth about her great-great-grandmother, Julia--whose ghost is said to haunt an elegant hotel in Santa Fe--in this spellbinding exploration of myth, family history, and the American West.</b></span><br /><br />The dark-eyed woman in the long black gown was first seen in the 1970s, standing near a fireplace. She was sad and translucent, present and absent at once. Strange things began to happen in the Santa Fe hotel where she was seen. Gas fireplaces turned off and on without anyone touching a switch. Vases of flowers appeared in new locations. Glasses flew off shelves. And in one second-floor suite with a canopy bed and arched windows looking out to the mountains, guests reported alarming events: blankets ripped off while they slept, the room temperature plummeting, disembodied breathing, dancing balls of light.<br /><br />La Posada--"place of rest"--had been a grand Santa Fe home before it was converted to a hotel. The room with the canopy bed had belonged to Julia Schuster Staab, the wife of the home's original owner. She died in 1896, nearly a century before the hauntings were first reported. In <a href="http://bit.ly/1BU4zQL"><b>American Ghost</b></a>, Hannah Nordhaus traces the life, death, and unsettled afterlife of her great-great-grandmother Julia, from her childhood in Germany to her years in the American West with her Jewish merchant husband.<br /><br /><b><u>American Ghost </u></b>is a story of pioneer women and immigrants, ghost hunters and psychics, frontier fortitude and mental illness, imagination and lore. As she traces the strands of Julia's life, Nordhaus uncovers a larger tale of how a true-life story becomes a ghost story--and how difficult it can sometimes be to separate history and myth.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>The <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <a href="http://bit.ly/1MiViog">Turn Right at Machu Picchu </a>sets out to uncover the truth behind the legendary lost city of Atlantis.</b></span> <br /><br /> A few years ago, Mark Adams made a strange discovery: Everything we know about the lost city of Atlantis comes from the work of one man, the Greek philosopher Plato. Then he made a second, stranger discovery: Amateur explorers are still actively searching for this sunken city all around the world, based entirely on the clues Plato left behind. <br /><br /> Exposed to the Atlantis obsession, Adams decides to track down these people and determine why they believe it’s possible to find the world’s most famous lost city and whether any of their theories could prove or disprove its existence. He visits scientists who use cutting-edge technology to find legendary civilizations once thought to be fictional. He examines the numerical and musical codes hidden in Plato’s writings, and with the help of some charismatic sleuths traces their roots back to Pythagoras, the sixth-century BC mathematician. He learns how ancient societies transmitted accounts of cataclysmic events—and how one might dig out the “kernel of truth” in Plato’s original tale. <br /><br /> <a href="http://bit.ly/18rrh6k"><b>Meet Me in Atlantis</b></a> is Adams’s enthralling account of his quest to solve one of history’s greatest mysteries; a travelogue that takes readers to fascinating locations to meet irresistible characters; and a deep, often humorous look at the human longing to rediscover a lost world.</div>
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>Thanks to Salem sea captains, Gilded Age millionaires, curators on horseback and missionaries gone native, North American museums now possess the greatest collections of Chinese art outside of East Asia itself. How did it happen? <a href="http://bit.ly/1wPNo2k">The China Collectors</a> is the first full account of a century-long treasure hunt in China from the Opium Wars and the Boxer Rebellion to Mao Zedong’s 1949 ascent</b></span>.<br /><br /> The principal gatherers are mostly little known and defy invention. They included “foreign devils” who braved desert sandstorms, bandits and local warlords in acquiring significant works. Adventurous curators like Langdon Warner, a forebear of Indiana Jones, argued that the caves of Dunhuang were already threatened by vandals, thereby justifying the removal of frescoes and sculptures. Other Americans include George Kates, an alumnus of Harvard, Oxford and Hollywood, who fell in love with Ming furniture. The Chinese were divided between dealers who profited from the artworks’ removal, and scholars who sought to protect their country’s patrimony. Duanfang, the greatest Chinese collector of his era, was beheaded in a coup and his splendid bronzes now adorn major museums. Others in this rich tapestry include Charles Lang Freer, an enlightened Detroit entrepreneur, two generations of Rockefellers, and Avery Brundage, the imperious Olympian, and Arthur Sackler, the grand acquisitor. No less important are two museum directors, Cleveland’s Sherman Lee and Kansas City’s Laurence Sickman, who challenged the East Coast’s hegemony.<br /><br /> Shareen Blair Brysac and Karl E. Meyer even-handedly consider whether ancient treasures were looted or salvaged, and whether it was morally acceptable to spirit hitherto inaccessible objects westward, where they could be studied and preserved by trained museum personnel. And how should the US and Canada and their museums respond now that China has the means and will to reclaim its missing patrimony</div>
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