The Bay in the Boy: Harry Cuff Publications Limited, Pp 2 , [3] Otto Ralph Lawrence b. August 23, - d. Growing up in the Basin. Arranged in nine parts. Memories of School; 4. Other Memory Mists; 5. Anchors in the Harbour; 6. The Power of Prayer. Arranged in ten Experiences. Rowed in a Dory; 2. My First Church Service; 4.
The Pleasures of Teaching; 6. The Biting Winds of Boxey; 8. Pastime in Boxey; 9. A Trying Tri p; Some spotting and wear to covers, else very good. New English Fiction from Quebec. Includes the following stories: McClelland and Stewart, Name, occasional yellow highlighting, else vg in nicked, price-clipped dj. Second Edition Hardcover in dustjacket.
Photography by William Curwen and Nick Meers. Large oblong 8vo, brown leatherette with gilt lettering to front and spine. Of Nova Scotia interest: Cape Breton Highlands pp. Name, else very good in nicked dustjacket. Large oblong 8vo, green cloth with white lettering to front and spine.
Some light edgewear, binding a bit shaky, else vg in nicked dj. Signed by the author onthe half-title. The day-book of the R. Limited read, uncensored Edition, No. Lawrence's uncensored account of his time spent working anonymously as an aircraftman in the Royal Air Force under the alias John Hume Ross shortly after the end of the First World War. Gift inscription to flyleaf, else very good in slightly browned slipcase. Recent research work at the John Innes Horticultural Institution and elsewhere has shown that a great deal of past practice has been bad practice.
Rule-of-thumb and make-do have been used everywhere because no reliable information was available. Now soil sterilization has been put on a scientific basis and precision sterilizing is possiblefor everyone.
Soil Sterilization is the first book of its kind. It covers the whole range of soil sterilization: Sufficient is given of the theoretical background to the subject to enable the reader to carry out sterilization with understanding, efficiency and economy. This book should prove invaluable to commercial growers, gardeners, students and advisers. Very good in nicked, tape-repaired, price-clipped dustjacket.
Little, Brown and Company, Debates in Parliament and in the French Chambers; Ashburton Treaty, stipulating for separate African squadron, as a waiver of the right of search; Lord Ashburton's declaration in Parliament respecting visitation and search; President's message and debates on the treaty in executive Session; Sir Robert Peel's disclaimer of having abandoned the right of visitation; Debate in the Senate on Sir Robert Peel's speech; Lord Aberdeen's despatch, reaffirming the British doctrines, transmitted to the House of Representatives, with a message from the President; Debate in the House of Representatives on the bill for carrying the treaty into effect; Debate in the Senate on the same subject Appendix ; Mr.
Webster's instructions; British instructions to their cruisers under the Treaty of ; Reclamations for seizure of slaves on board of vessels driven into the British West Indies; Reclamations for seizure of vessels engaged in the American fisheries; Statute of for capturing Brazilian vessels suspected to be engaged in the slave-trade; Right to arrest pirates under the law of nations, unconnected with claim of visitation on account of the slave-trade; No right of visitation on the high seas for fiscal or defensive purposes; Opinion of Dr.
Twiss; Opinions of institutional writers on the right of visitation and search - Wheaton; Hautefeuille, Masse", and Ortolan; De Cussy; Phillimore's attempt to reconcile right of visitation with international law; His opinion in the Cagliari case; Treaties in between Great Britain and other nations for the suppression of the slave-trade; Decisions under the mixed commissions and in the Vice-Admiralty Courts; Interference of British cruisers with the American squadron in seizing vessels under the United States flag; French convention of with England no longer operative; Lord Napier's reaffirmance of the claim of visiting American vessels; General Cass's reply; The boarding and searching of American vessels by British cruisers in the Gulf of Mexico; Instructions to Mr.
Dallas as to searches on the high seas and in the harbor of Sagua la Grande; Report of the Committee of Foreign Relations on the stopping and examining of American vessels; Debate on the committee's resolution, in the Senate; Note on the right of visitation, at variance with the text, interpolated into the late editions of Kent's Commentaries ; Antecedents of Lord Derby as regards the United States; Opinion of the Attorney-General in the Cagliari case; First announcement in Parliament of the aggressions in the Gulf of Mexico; Lord Malmesbury's declaration that he admitted the international law as laid down by the American Minister of Foreign Affairs; Further debates in Parliament; Opinions of the law-officers of the crown on the right of search; Announcement in the United States of the British recognition of Gen.
Dallas's speech on the fourth of July; No further sanction required for the British renunciation British suggestion of a conventional right of visitation; Difficulty of making any treaty with England; Involuntary trespass the only matter open for consideration; French proposition; Abandonment of impressment no equivalent for visitation; Original objections of Mr. Buchanan and General Cass to the Ashburton Treaty; Practical effect of the treaty as regards the operations of American cruisers in arresting our own citizens suspected of being engaged in the slave trade; Petition from Rhode Island for the withdrawal of the African squadron; Desirableness of colonization for free negroes; Mr.
Slidell's resolution to abrogate the eighth article of the Ashburton Treaty, and the report thereon; Mr. Abolition of Privateering; B. Porsyth's instructions to Mr. Stevenson, on the detaining and visiting American vessels; C. Everett's despatch to Mr. Webster, on the appointment of Lord Ashburton; D.
Speech of the King of the French, December, ; E. President Buchanan's message as regards the El Dorado; G. Rhode Island Memorial for the withdrawal of the African squadron; H. American policy with regard to Cuba; I. Lord Aberdeen's instructions to Mr. Packenham as to the abolition of slavery in the United States, and Mr. The consumption of cotton in the different countries of Europe and in the United States.
Ex-library 2 book plates, blindstamp, numbers to lower spine , worn along edges, corners, and spine ends one inch piece missing from top spine , else very good. Inscribed by the author. Physical Conditions of the Elizabethan Public Playhouse. Harvard University Press, Conceive of a platform jutting out into an open circus, with the sun casting its beams over the groundlings, or mayhap the rain pouring in, and you have a broad idea of its distinguishing features.
Much of spine lettering worn away, else very good. A History of Lawrencetown. Printed by Creative Printing, 16 School Street, Illustrated with [1] pp map and photos to text. Previous owner's signature to title page, else very god. Lawrencetown United Baptist Church History Penned name, else very good.
Bibliography of Dyeing and Textile Printing: Comprising a list of books from the sixteenth century to the present time. First Edition in dustjacket. A Bibliography of Dyeing and Textile Printing: Although it would not be true to say that there existed no bibliography re lating to the subject of dyeing, as an excellent list was produced by Mr. Jules Garcon in , with this exception those lists which have been compiled contain relatively few entries and are mostly out of print and difficultto obtain.
The art of dyeing does not, therefore, possess anything in the nature of a comprehensive list of books published since the beginning of printing to the present time. Includes over eight hundred entries. Faint discoloured spotting to spine, a bit musty, else very good in rubbed, nicked, verso-tape-repaired, unclipped dustjacket. Large 8vo, illustrated blue card covers.
An illustrated survey of the Antarctic natural history. Electricity Applied to Marine Engineering. The Institute of Marine Engineers, Second Edition, revised and enlarged. Inner hinges cracked, light sunning to spine, else vg. Partners in Growth Hupman Connections A Genealogy. Pp 4 ,, 1. Pp 42 ,, 1. A detailed genealogyof the Hupman family of Nova Scotia a. Front cover of Vol. The set for Andrew, The Reverend Dr. These Things We Shared: Memoirs of a life in the Church in Can ada. Lawson was based in Toronto for about twenty-five years, spending timepreaching also in Calgary and Manitoba.
The memoirs cover the first half o f the volume, while Dr. Lawson's sermons are found in the second half. Includes the following sermons: Faint cover creasing, else vg. Signed without inscription by Dorothea Lawson on the title page. Nova Scotia Printing Company, Some smudges to front cover old glue? Tear totail of spine, else vg. A reprint of the edition "Exposition of the Book of Proverbs" published by W.
A volume in the Kregel Timeless Classics series. The author draws on his knowledgeof the Hebrew and the Greek Scriptures to reveal the practical instruction therein provided. His deep sense of God's sense of right commend this thor oughly sound and useful commentary to the devoted seeker of God's will for man's life on earth. Of this work Dr. He, in company with very few others, knew the human heart and had the ability to so teach the Word that his hearers and readers were continuously blessed by his messages.
Front inner hinge tender, highlighting to the first thirty pages, else very good in lightly rubbed, nicked dustjacket. The Popular Science Review: Steamships for the Channel Passage by C. Steamships for t he Channel Passage by C. Greene, Illustrated ; Hallucinaky Manifestations by Dr. R ichardson ; Man and Apes.
Part I by St. Proctor ; Curiosities of VegetableMorphology by H. Boyd Dawkins, Illustrated ; Torpedoes by A. Webb ; Man and Apes. Part II by St. Bennett, Illustrated ; News from Jupiter by E. Proctor ; The Outlines of Cloud Forms: Barber ; Sexuality in Plants by M. Flying Machines by Fred W. Brearey, pp plus one plate. He cofounded the Aeronautical Society of Great Britain and was its secretary for thirty years. Brearey made a "wave action" aeroplane model driven by a rubber band. It had rigid spars elsewhere called "bowsprits" which beat up and down, trailingundulating wings of fabric behind them, whose action propelled the model f orward with "limited success.
Brearey published more than 15 articles about aeronautical subjects from to Allen Miller, Illustrated ; What is Bathybius? Williamson ; Are there Any Fixed Stars? Proctor, Illustrated ; Kent's Hole by W. Lacking half of spine, boards worn, bookplate, heavy fooxing to endpapers, elsegood. Record of the Shipping of Yarmouth, N. Yarmouth Past and Present: A Book of Reminiscences. Yarmouth Herald , An overarching anecdotal surveyof the early history of Yarmouth, Nova Scotia.
Minor bumping to spine ends, else a verynice copy. Appendix to the Record of the Shipping of Yarmouth, N. The Herald Office, P p viii, 3 , Yarmouth Shipping, pp. The remainder of the books is comprised of local advertising. Edges and spine browned with some soiling, spine ends frayed, inner hinges cracked with one inch split to head of front inner hinge, foxing and occasional textual smudging, else good.
Boards creased, dampsoiled and heavily sunned, outer hinges splitting, ffep torn, else clean internally. Spine browned, rear inner hinge cracked, some light silverfishing to outer hinges, else vg. Yarmouth County Historical Society, Pp 6 ,, 2. Index to Shipping of Yarmouth, N. Explanation by Eric J. One of the finest Nova Scotian local compilations. A substantial miscellany which reflects the extant and range of Yarmouth marine history.
Virtually every chapter includes some nautical content, with the bulk ofthis material appearing under the headings "Yarmouth Shipping". Front in ner hinge cracked, title page and folding frontis loose but present, a couple of spots to fore-edge, else very good, with errata slip at p. This is New Brunswick. Ryerson Press, May Potatoes - And a Long, Long Walk; 5.
This is Saint John [pp. The Sou thwest Shore; The Fundy Isles; The Chignecto Country; The Northeast Corner; Photographs by Lyle Lawson and others. Pp 21 ,, 3. Colour photos and maps throughout. No in the Insight Guides series. Light cover creasing else very good. A History and Geography of BritishColumbia. For Use in Public Schools. Illustrated with over seventy photographs and twelve maps.
From the Gage's 20th Century Series. Dagg, The Feminine Gaze: Head and tail of spine worn, corners bumped, some light foxing to fore-edge, previous owner's name pencilled to flyleaf, else very good. Canadian Journal of Economics and Political Science Domestic Exports of Halifax, Quebec and Britain in the Age of the American Revolution. McGill-Queen's University Press, He reinterprets the standard accounts of the conquest of Quebec in , challenging prevailing ideas about political traditions and philosophical assumptions in midth-century Britain.
Quebec played a pivotal role in the shift away from the rigid principles of Protestant political exclusionism by challenging the fundamental tenets of English constitutional order. The attempt to bring English law, religion, and custom to Quebec forced the State to revise its whole approach to the existing political and religious problems of the day.
In forming his argument, Lawson has made use of material which has recently come to light. The Conquest of Quebec and Peace-making, ; 2. Policy and Mythology, ; 3. The True Spirit of a Lawful Sovereign: The Rockingham Ministry and Quebec, ; 5. The Lost Years, ; 6. The Quiet Revolution, ; 7.
An Elastic Spirit in Our Constitution: With bibiography and index. Very good in dustjacket. Economics of Fisheries Development. Overview of the State of World Fisheries. Economic Theory of Fish Resource Exploitation. Economics of the Fish Market. Fish Marketing and Prcessing. Planning for Fisheries Development. Penned underlining and marginal notes throughout the preface and first 3 chapters, owner's blind stamp on title page, name, else very good in dustjacket.
The development of steamers, on an ocean where there were few docks or repair shops, and m ostly each ship was her own foundry, is truly traced. Well told are the chapters on the Pacific Navigation Company's pioneer voyages around the Horn, the epic voyage of the Golden Age from Sydney to Panama 73 years ago, the achievements of the great Pacific Mail Company of the United States, in opening trade routes on the Pacific, and the parts played by Australia and New Zealand in launching ocean services. Illustrations from photographs and paintings collected by the author, including one of the Golden Age which was venerated at a shrine to a Japanese sea-god, add to the gripping quality of the book, as well as to the historical value of a work which is the first record of shipping in the Pacific to be published.
Brief History of the Pacific Lines. The Pacific Mail Company. The Voyage of the Golden Age. Early New Zealand Steamers. The Sydney-San Francisco Services. Vancouver - Yokohama - Hong Kong. Some Pacific Co ast Steamers. The Blue Water Route. The All Red Mail. Edges specked, very slight shelfwear, else vg in rubbed dj. Pp [i]-xx, 2 ,, frontis, 71 leaves of plates. Vancouver - Yo kohama - Hong Kong. Some Pacific Coast Steamers. The development of steamers, on an ocean where there were few docks or repair shops, and mostly each ship was her own foundry, is truly traced.
Well told are the chapters on the Pacific Navigation Company's pioneer voyages around the Horn, the epic voyage of theGolden Age from Sydney to Panama 73 years ago, the achievements of the gre at Pacific Mail Company of the United States, in opening trade routes on the Pacific, and the parts played by Australia and New Zealand in launching ocean services. Illustrations from photographs and paintings collected bythe author, including one of the Golden Age which was venerated at a shrin e to a Japanese sea-god, add to the gripping quality of the book, as well as to the historical value of a work which is the first record of shipping in the Pacific to be published.
Very good in rubbed dustjacket. Light wear toextremities, heavy spotting to fore-edge, intermittent marginal foxing thr oughout, else very good in rubbed, worn, chipped, tape-repaired, verso-spotted dust jacket. Chater, 89 Clayton Street", Having consented to lecture on the subject, "Tyneside Celebrities," before several local societies, and feeling the deep interest which the story of the lives of famous Northern men naturally excited, it occurred to me that a more lasting memorial of them, than the ephemeral notice given in a few popular Lectures, would be appreciated by the public.
Duns Scotus Mark Akenside. Richardson Gray and Carmichael. Thomas Binney Sir William G. Sir Richard Airey, K. Thomas Doubleday Wesley S. Woolhouse John Collingwood Bruce, L. John Graham Lough William Harvey ["the father of wood engraving"]. Ainsley Robert Lawson Joseph P. Inner binding cracked at last signature, binding slightly cocked, short tear along top rear edge of spine, boards scuffed, corners bumped, name inked to flyleaf, else very good.
Akins Historical Prize Essay. Edited by Harry Piers. Pp 2 ,[iii]-vi, 2 ,[1],frontispiece. The annals of Dartmouthand its sister townships, contain several tales of a by-gone age, whose recital has often brought tears to humble eyes and which may yet have a charm for a more general and critical audience. History of Township of Dartmouth: The Shubenacadie Canal pp Church History pp We witness shifts in taste and morality through a series of vividly rendered episodes: With tenderness, wit and keen insight, The Sparsholt Affair explores the social and sexual revolutions of the past century, even as it takes us straight to the heart of our current age.
Like many first-time mothers, Rebecca Stone finds herself both deeply in love with her newborn son and deeply overwhelmed. Rebecca is white, and Priscilla is black, and through their relationship, Rebecca finds herself confronting, for the first time, the blind spots of her own privilege. She feels profoundly connected to the woman who essentially taught her what it means to be a mother. Then Priscilla dies unexpectedly in childbirth, Rebecca steps forward to adopt the baby.
But she is unprepared for what it means to be a white mother with a black son. As she soon learns, navigating motherhood for her is a matter of learning how to raise two children whom she loves with equal ferocity, but whom the world is determined to treat differently.
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Written with the warmth and psychological acuity that defined his debut, Rumaan Alam has crafted a remarkable novel about the lives we choose, and the lives that are chosen for us. Felix and Tilda seem like the perfect couple: She has looked on silently as Tilda stopped working, nearly stopped eating, and turned into a neat freak, with mugs wrapped in Saran Wrap and suspicious syringes hidden in the bathroom trash. Worried about the psychological hold that Felix seems to have over Tilda, Callie joins an Internet support group for victims of abuse and their friends.
However, things spiral out of control and she starts to doubt her own judgment when one of her new acquaintances is killed by an abusive man. And then suddenly Felix dies — or was he murdered? A page-turning work of suspense that announces a stunning new voice in fiction, White Bodies will change the way you think about obsession, love, and the violence we inflict on one another — and ourselves.
The sea is broken, fishermen say. The sea is empty. The genii have taken the fish elsewhere. For centuries, fishermen have launched their pirogues from the Senegalese port of Joal, where the fish used to be so plentiful a man could dip his hand into the grey-green ocean and pull one out as big as his thigh. But in an Atlantic decimated by overfishing and climate change, the fish are harder and harder to find. Here, Badkhen discovers, all boundaries are permeable — between land and sea, between myth and truth, even between storyteller and story.
He presents his delusions as facts. Sandra Allen did not know her uncle Bob very well. But Bob had lived a hermetic life in a remote part of California for longer than she had been alive, and what little she knew of him came from rare family reunions or odd, infrequent phone calls. Then in Bob mailed her his autobiography. The result is a heartbreaking and sometimes hilarious portrait of a young man striving for stability in his life as well as his mind, and an utterly unique lens into an experience that, to most people, remains unimaginable.
A major literary event: In , Hurston returned to Plateau, the African-centric community three miles from Mobile founded by Cudjo and other former slaves from his ship. Spending more than three months there, she talked in depth with Cudjo about the details of his life. Offering insight into the pernicious legacy that continues to haunt us all, black and white, this poignant and powerful work is an invaluable contribution to our shared history and culture.
The Beekeeper , by the acclaimed poet and journalist Dunya Mikhail, tells the harrowing stories of several women who managed to escape the clutches of Daesh. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist: After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks. Together they spent a combined thirty years in prison before finally being exonerated in Meanwhile, the real killer remained free. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist recounts the story of how the criminal justice system allowed this to happen, and of how two men, Dr.
Steven Hayne and Dr. Michael West, built successful careers on the back of that structure. West, a local dentist, pitched himself as a forensic jack-of-all-trades. Together they became the go-to experts for prosecutors and helped put countless Mississippians in prison. But then some of those convictions began to fall apart. The authors argue that bad forensics, structural racism, and institutional failures are at fault, raising sobering questions about our ability and willingness to address these crucial issues.
Eat the Apple is a daring, twisted, and darkly hilarious story of American youth and masculinity in an age of continuous war. Matt Young joined the Marine Corps at age eighteen after a drunken night culminating in wrapping his car around a fire hydrant. The teenage wasteland he fled followed him to the training bases charged with making him a Marine. Matt survived the training and then not one, not two, but three deployments to Iraq, where the testosterone, danger, and stakes for him and his fellow grunts were dialed up a dozen decibels.
Searing in its honesty, tender in its vulnerability, and brilliantly written, Eat the Apple is a modern war classic in the making and a powerful coming-of-age story that maps the insane geography of our times. Tara Westover was seventeen the first time she set foot in a classroom. Her father distrusted the medical establishment, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism.
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The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education, and no one to intervene when an older brother became violent. When another brother got himself into college and came back with news of the world beyond the mountain, Tara decided to try a new kind of life. She taught herself enough mathematics, grammar, and science to take the ACT and was admitted to Brigham Young University.
There, she studied psychology, politics, philosophy, and history, learning for the first time about pivotal world events like the Holocaust and the Civil Rights Movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge University. Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: What does it mean to die, she wonders, in a society that insists everything happens for a reason?
Kate is stripped of this certainty only to discover that without it, life is hard but beautiful in a way it never has been before. Frank and funny, dark and wise, Kate Bowler pulls the reader deeply into her life in an account she populates affectionately with a colorful, often hilarious retinue of friends, mega-church preachers, relatives, and doctors. Everything Happens for a Reason tells her story, offering up her irreverent, hard-won observations on dying and the ways it has taught her to live.
The Girl on the Velvet Swing: In Evelyn Nesbit, a chorus girl in the musical Florodora , dined alone with the architect Stanford White in his townhouse on 24th Street in New York. Nesbit, just sixteen years old, had recently moved to the city. As the foremost architect of his day, he was a celebrity, responsible for designing countless landmark buildings in Manhattan.
That evening, after drinking champagne, Nesbit lost consciousness and awoke to find herself naked in bed with White. Telltale spots of blood on the bed sheets told her that White had raped her. She told no one about the rape until, several years later, she confided in Harry Thaw, the millionaire playboy who would later become her husband. Thaw, thirsting for revenge, shot and killed White in before hundreds of theatergoers during a performance in Madison Square Garden, a building that White had designed.
The trial was a sensation that gripped the nation. Most Americans agreed with Thaw that he had been justified in killing White, but the district attorney expected to send him to the electric chair. The murder of White cast a long shadow: Harry Thaw later attempted suicide, and Evelyn Nesbit struggled for many years to escape an addiction to cocaine.
The Girl on the Velvet Swing , a tale of glamour, excess, and danger, is an immersive, fascinating look at an America dominated by men of outsize fortunes and by the women who were their victims. For more than ten years, a mysterious and violent predator committed fifty sexual assaults in Northern California before moving south, where he perpetrated ten sadistic murders. Then he disappeared, eluding capture by multiple police forces and some of the best detectives in the area.
Utterly original and compelling, it is destined to become a true crime classic—and may at last unmask the Golden State Killer. When thousands of Somali refugees resettled in Lewiston, Maine, a struggling, overwhelmingly white town, longtime residents grew uneasy. Then the mayor wrote a letter asking Somalis to stop coming, which became a national story. Taking readers behind the tumult of this controversial team—and onto the pitch where the teammates vied to become state champions and achieved a vital sense of understanding—ONE GOAL is a timely story about overcoming the prejudices that divide us.
In some senses, particularly at the outset, you wonder if this narrative would work best as a brilliant long-read magazine article. The Wu-Tang Clan are considered hip-hop royalty. Here, for the first time, the quiet one speaks. Raised by a single mother and forced to reckon with the hostile conditions of project life, U-God learned from an early age how to survive. Brought up by the streets, and bonding over their love of hip-hop, they sought to pursue the impossible: The Great War was over and American optimism was higher than the stock market.
Everyone wanted in on the adventure. Could he get away with it? Rutherford, principal physician to the insane, is found dead, his head bashed in, his ears cut off, his lips and eyes stitched closed. In a world where guilt and innocence, crime and atonement, madness and reason, are bounded by hypocrisy, ambition and betrayal, Jem and Will soon find themselves caught up in a web of dark secrets and hidden identities. Rachel has an unusual problem: Her recent troubles—widowhood, a failing business, an unemployed middle-aged son—are only the latest. In , as her children and grandchildren develop new technologies for immortality, Rachel knows she must enable her beloved offspring to live fully—without her, but with meaning—by finding a way for herself to die.
Gripping, hilarious, and profoundly moving, Eternal Life celebrates the bonds between generations, the power of faith, the purpose of death, and the reasons for being alive. Five women reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking along the muddy track. Only four come out the other side. The hike through the rugged Giralang Ranges on the corporate retreat is meant to take the office workers out of their air-conditioned comfort zone and teach resilience and team building.
Federal Police Agent Aaron Falk has a particularly keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing hiker. In an investigation that takes Falk from isolated bushland to city headquarters, he discovers secrets lurking in the mountains, and a tangled web of personal and professional friendship, suspicion, and betrayal among the hikers.
But did that lead to murder? This is as atmospheric, tense, and explosive as the bestselling The Dry , and marks the continuation of a terrific new series. Mark and Karen Breakstone have constructed the idyllic life of wealth and status they always wanted, made complete by their beautiful and extraordinary daughter Heather. But they are still not quite at the top. A woman refuses to remove the green ribbon from her neck, no matter how hard her husband pleads with her to take it off; a weight-loss surgery results in an unwelcome houseguest. Fourteen-year-old Linda lives with her parents in the beautiful, austere woods of northern Minnesota, where their nearly abandoned commune stands as a last vestige of a lost counter-culture world.
Isolated at home and an outlander at school, Linda is drawn to the enigmatic, attractive Lily and new history teacher Mr. Grierson is charged with possessing child pornography, the implications of his arrest deeply affect Linda as she wrestles with her own fledgling desires and craving to belong. And then the young Gardner family moves in across the lake and Linda finds herself welcomed into their home as a babysitter for their little boy, Paul.
Over the course of a few days, Linda makes a set of choices that reverberate throughout her life. As she struggles to find a way out of the sequestered world into which she was born, Linda confronts the life-and-death consequences of the things people do — and fail to do — for the people they love. In the Midst of Winter begins with a minor traffic accident—which becomes the catalyst for an unexpected and moving love story between two people who thought they were deep into the winter of their lives. Richard Bowmaster—a year-old human rights scholar—hits the car of Evelyn Ortega—a young, undocumented immigrant from Guatemala—in the middle of a snowstorm in Brooklyn.
At a loss, the professor asks his tenant Lucia Maraz—a year-old lecturer from Chile—for her advice. These three very different people are brought together in a mesmerizing story that moves from present-day Brooklyn to Guatemala in the recent past to s Chile and Brazil, sparking the beginning of a long overdue love story between Richard and Lucia.
In the Midst of Winter will stay with you long after you turn the final page. Richly drawn, full of unforgettable characters, The King is Always Above the People reveals experiences both unsettling and unknown, and yet eerily familiar in this new world. Excitement is rare in the small town of Marumaru, New Zealand. So when a young Maori man arrives on the morning train one day in — announcing the imminent visit of a famous strongman — the entire town turns out to greet him, save one.
Colton Kemp, a department store window-dresser, is at home, watching his beloved wife die in premature childbirth. Tormented by grief, he hatches a plan to make his name and thwart his rival, the silent and gifted Carpenter: When Isabel comes into a large, unexpected inheritance, she is finagled into a marriage with the charming, penniless, and — as Isabel finds out too late — cruel and deceitful Gilbert Osmond, whose connection to a certain Madame Merle is suspiciously intimate. On a trip to England to visit her cousin Ralph Touchett on his deathbed, Isabel is offered a chance to free herself from the marriage, but nonetheless chooses to return to Italy.
And when Isabel arrives in Italy — along with someone else! But for now, he and his radio show must remain untraceable, because in addition to being a lifelong Vermonter and concerned citizen, Vern Barclay is also a fugitive from the law. Marina Makarova is a young woman of privilege who aches to break free of the constraints of her genteel life, a life about to be violently upended by the vast forces of history.
From the writer of White Oleander comes the story of a young Russian woman trapped in a cage of privilege, who longs to escape — and gets her wish. Petersburg, , and everything is about to change for Marina Makarova. But what she never predicted was the betrayals hiding in the shadows, just when she thinks she is certain about everything.
Placidia, a mere teenager herself living far from her family and completely unprepared to run a farm or raise a child, must endure the darkest days of the war on her own. By the time Major Hockaday returns two years later, Placidia is bound for jail, accused of having borne a child in his absence and murdering it. What really transpired in the two years he was away? Inspired by a true incident, this saga unfolds with gripping intensity, conjuring the era with uncanny immediacy.
Amid the desperation of wartime, Placidia sees the social order of her Southern homeland unravel. As she comes to understand how her own history is linked to one runaway slave, her perspective on race and family are upended. He tends to his rose garden and to Gordon, his cat, then rides the bus to the cemetery to visit his beloved late wife for lunch. The last thing Arthur would imagine is for one unlikely encounter to utterly transform his life. Eighteen-year-old Maddy Harris is an introspective girl who often comes to the cemetery to escape the other kids at school and a life of loss.
Wonderfully written and full of profound observations about life, The Story of Arthur Truluv is a beautiful and moving novel of compassion in the face of loss, of the small acts that turn friends into family, and of the possibilities to achieve happiness at any age. But this delightful new book takes a different tack: What about the women? For many of the 40 million Americans who undergo anesthesia each year, it is the source of great fear and fascination.
But it remains one of the most extraordinary, unexplored corners of the medical world. In Counting Backwards , Dr. Przybylo has administered anesthesia more than 30, times in his career — erasing consciousness, denying memory, and immobilizing the body, and then reversing all of these effects — on newborn babies, screaming toddlers, sullen teenagers, even a gorilla. With compassion and candor, he weaves his experiences into intimate stories that explore the nature of consciousness, the politics of pain relief, and the wonder of modern medicine.
Filled with intense and humane tales of near-disasters, life-saving successes, and moments of grace, Counting Backwards is for anyone curious about what happens after we lose consciousness. On March 11, , a powerful earthquake sent a foot-high tsunami smashing into the coast of northeast Japan. By the time the sea retreated, more than eighteen thousand people had been crushed, burned to death, or drowned. It set off a national crisis and the meltdown of a nuclear power plant.
And even after the immediate emergency had abated, the trauma of the disaster continued to express itself in bizarre and mysterious ways. Richard Lloyd Parry, an award-winning foreign correspondent, lived through the earthquake in Tokyo and spent six years reporting from the disaster zone. There he encountered stories of ghosts and hauntings, and met a priest who exorcised the spirits of the dead. And he found himself drawn back again and again to a village that had suffered the greatest loss of all, a community tormented by unbearable mysteries of its own.
What really happened to the local children as they waited in the schoolyard in the moments before the tsunami? Why did their teachers not evacuate them to safety? And why was the unbearable truth being so stubbornly covered up? Ghosts of the Tsunami is a soon-to-be classic intimate account of an epic tragedy, told through the accounts of those who lived through it. It tells the story of how a nation faced a catastrophe, and the struggle to find consolation in the ruins.
Horses feel shame, deer grieve, and goats discipline their kids. Ravens call their friends by name, rats regret bad choices, and butterflies choose the very best places for their children to grow up. In this, his latest book, Peter Wohlleben follows the hugely successful The Hidden Life of Trees with insightful stories into the emotions, feelings, and intelligence of animals around us.
Yet the remedy that economists and policy makers continue to miss is also miraculously simple. Good medicine takes more than amazing technology; it takes time—time to respond to bodies as well as data, time to arrive at the right diagnosis and the right treatment. Sweet knows this because she has learned and lived it over the course of her remarkable career.
Here she relates unforgettable stories of the teachers, doctors, nurses, and patients through whom she discovered the practice of Slow Medicine, in which she has been both pioneer and inspiration. Medicine, she helps us to see, is a craft and an art as well as a science. It is relational, personal, even spiritual. Jellyfish are an enigma. They have no centralized brain, but they see and feel and react to their environment in complex ways. They look simple, yet their propulsion systems are so advanced that engineers are just learning how to mimic them. They produce some of the deadliest toxins on the planet and still remain undeniably alluring.
Long ignored by science, they may be a key to ecosystem stability. More than a decade ago, she left the sea and her scientific career behind to raise a family in landlocked Austin, Texas. What was unclear was whether these incidents were symptoms of a changing planet or part of a natural cycle. She travels the globe to meet the scientists who devote their careers to jellies; hitches rides on Japanese fishing boats to see giant jellyfish in the wild; raises jellyfish in her dining room; and throughout it all marvels at the complexity of these fascinating and ominous biological wonders.
Or, you can call it a gun. See, his brother Shawn was just murdered. And Will knows the rules.
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He gets on the elevator, seventh floor, stoked. As the elevator stops on the sixth floor, on comes Buck. Buck, Will finds out, is who gave Shawn the gun before Will took the gun. Buck tells Will to check that the gun is even loaded. When they were eight. And stray bullets had cut through the playground, and Will had tried to cover her, but she was hit anyway, and so what she wants to know, on that fifth floor elevator stop, is, what if Will, Will with the gun shoved in the back waistband of his jeans, MISSES.
And so it goes, the whole long way down, as the elevator stops on each floor, and at each stop someone connected to his brother gets on to give Will a piece to a bigger story than the one he thinks he knows. Told in short, fierce staccato narrative verse, Long Way Down is a fast and furious, dazzlingly brilliant look at teenage gun violence, as could only be told by Jason Reynolds. Being the middle child has its ups and downs. After putting her own baby up for adoption, she goes looking for her biological family, including—Maya, her loudmouthed younger bio sister, who has a lot to say about their newfound family ties.
And Joaquin, their stoic older bio brother, who has no interest in bonding over their shared biological mother. On the island, everything is perfect. The sun rises in a sky filled with dancing shapes; the wind, water, and trees shelter and protect those who live there; when the nine children go to sleep in their cabins, it is with full stomachs and joy in their hearts. And only one thing ever changes: From depression and potential suicide in his debut novel, Looking for Alaska , to terminal illness in The Fault in Our Stars , and now obsessive-compulsive disorder in his latest novel, Turtles All the Way Down , it seems that Green it is at his strongest when he is exploring such meaty and delicate topics.
Who is she now? Life in the crowded home is tense. Then Ruth moves in. Ruth, a Jewish girl, from Germany. Could Ruth be a spy? As the fallout from war intensifies, calamity creeps closer, and life during wartime grows even more complicated. Who will Ada decide to be? How can she keep fighting?
And who will she struggle to save? Catarina Agatta is a hacker. And Cat happens to be a gene-hacking genius. But during the outbreak, Lachlan was kidnapped by a shadowy organization called Cartaxus, leaving Cat to survive the last two years on her own. But Cole also brings a message: Now Cat must decide who she can trust: The soldier with secrets of his own? The father who made her promise to hide from Cartaxus at all costs? In a world where nature itself can be rewritten, how much can she even trust herself?
Red is an oak tree who is many rings old. Until a new family moves in. Deep Water focuses on a group of teens from Coronado, California, in Under the tutelage of their high school swim coach, they begin running drugs from the US to Mexico. This small operation quickly bloomed into a million dollar empire. Like the other titles in the series, this title is perfect for fans of true crime.
This is the heart wrenching and inspiring story of Allison Britz, a young woman who developed Obsessive Compulsive Disorder after a horrifyingly vivid nightmare that she had brain cancer. Her disorder threatened to derail her life, with everyday tasks becoming impossible to perform, until she was able to reach out for help.
Early on a grey November morning in , only weeks after the German invasion, a small Ukrainian town is overrun by the SS. This new novel from the award-winning author of the Booker Prize short-listed The Dark Room tells of the three days that follow and the lives that are overturned in the process. Penned in with his fellow Jews, under threat of deportation, Ephraim anxiously awaits word of his two sons, missing since daybreak.
Come in search of her lover, to fetch him home again, away from the invaders, Yasia must confront new and harsh truths about those closest to her. Here to avoid a war he considers criminal, German engineer Otto Pohl is faced with an even greater crime unfolding behind the lines, and no one but himself to turn to. And in the midst of it all is Yankel, a boy determined to survive this. But to do so, he must throw in his lot with strangers. Rich with a rare compassion and emotional depth, A Boy in Winter is a story of hope when all is lost and of mercy when the times have none.
In , the ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn apart by religious conflict. As power in England shifts precariously between Catholics and Protestants, royalty and commoners clash, testing friendship, loyalty, and love. Ned Willard wants nothing more than to marry Margery Fitzgerald. But when the lovers find themselves on opposing sides of the religious conflict dividing the country, Ned goes to work for Princess Elizabeth.
When she becomes queen, all Europe turns against England. Over a turbulent half century, the love between Ned and Margery seems doomed as extremism sparks violence from Edinburgh to Geneva. Elizabeth clings to her throne and her principles, protected by a small, dedicated group of resourceful spies and courageous secret agents. The real enemies, then as now, are not the rival religions. The true battle pitches those who believe in tolerance and compromise against the tyrants who would impose their ideas on everyone else—no matter what the cost.
Jazz Bashara is a criminal. So smuggling in the occasional harmless bit of contraband barely counts, right? Everything changes when Jazz sees the chance to commit the perfect crime, with a reward too lucrative to turn down. A searing debut novel from the award-winning author of You Know When the Men are Gone , about jealousy, the unpredictable path of friendship, and the secrets kept in marriage, all set within the U.
With achingly honest prose and riveting characters, The Confusion of Languages plunges readers into a shattering collision between two women and two worlds, affirming Siobhan Fallon as a powerful voice in American fiction and a storyteller not to be missed. A prisoner in a secret cell. The guard who has watched over him a dozen years. An American waitress in Paris. A young Palestinian man in Berlin who strikes up an odd friendship with a wealthy Canadian businessman.
From these vastly different lives Nathan Englander has woven a powerful, intensely suspenseful portrait of a nation riven by insoluble conflict, even as the lives of its citizens become fatefully and inextricably entwined — a political thriller of the highest order that interrogates the anguished, violent division between Israelis and Palestinians, and dramatizes the immense moral ambiguities haunting both sides.
Who is right, who is wrong — who is the guard, who is truly the prisoner? One night three years ago, the Tanner sisters disappeared: Three years later, Cass returns, without her sister Emma. Her story is one of kidnapping and betrayal, of a mysterious island where the two were held. But to forensic psychiatrist Dr. Looking deep within this dysfunctional family Dr. Winter uncovers a life where boundaries were violated and a narcissistic parent held sway. Jules Epstein, a man whose drive, avidity, and outsized personality have, for sixty-eight years, been a force to be reckoned with, is undergoing a metamorphosis.
With the last of his wealth, he travels to Israel, with a nebulous plan to do something to honor his parents. In Tel Aviv, he is sidetracked by a charismatic American rabbi planning a reunion for the descendants of King David who insists that Epstein is part of that storied dynastic line. Leaving her family in Brooklyn, a young, well-known novelist arrives at the Tel Aviv Hilton where she has stayed every year since birth. Bursting with life and humor, Forest Dark is a profound, mesmerizing novel of metamorphosis and self-realization—of looking beyond all that is visible towards the infinite.
The world as we know it is ending. Evolution has reversed itself, affecting every living creature on earth. Science cannot stop the world from running backwards, as woman after woman gives birth to infants that appear to be primitive species of humans. Thirty-two-year-old Cedar Hawk Songmaker, adopted daughter of a pair of big-hearted, open-minded Minneapolis liberals, is as disturbed and uncertain as the rest of America around her.
But for Cedar, this change is profound and deeply personal. She is four months pregnant. As Cedar goes back to her own biological beginnings, society around her begins to disintegrate, fueled by a swelling panic about the end of humanity. There are rumors of martial law, of Congress confining pregnant women. Of a registry, and rewards for those who turn these wanted women in.
Flickering through the chaos are signs of increasing repression: The streets of her neighborhood have been renamed with Bible verses. A stranger answers the phone when she calls her adoptive parents, who have vanished without a trace. It will take all Cedar has to avoid the prying eyes of potential informants and keep her baby safe. A chilling dystopian novel both provocative and prescient, Future Home of the Living God is a startlingly original work from one of our most acclaimed writers: Cast aside by her cheating husband, Katelyn Chandler is ready to pack it all in and drive home to Little Springs, Texas.
She wants a chance to regroup, reconnect with her mother, and get back to her art. Katelyn has no choice but to play peacekeeper between the ornery old woman and the proud matrons of Little Springs. Yet the small town seems to be changing Shirley. When a beloved high schooler named Lucinda Hayes is found murdered, no one in her sleepy Colorado suburb is untouched—not the boy who loved her too much; not the girl who wanted her perfect life; not the officer assigned to investigate her murder.
In the aftermath of the tragedy, these three indelible characters—Cameron, Jade, and. Russ—must each confront their darkest secrets in an effort to find solace, the truth, or both. In crystalline prose, Danya Kukafka offers a brilliant exploration of identity and of the razor-sharp line between love and obsession, between watching and seeing, between truth and memory. Compulsively readable and powerfully moving, Girl in Snow offers an unforgettable reading experience and introduces a singular new talent in Danya Kukafka. Two girls are forced into the woods at gunpoint. One runs for her life.
It left their mother dead. And it left the family fractured beyond repair, consumed by secrets from that terrible night. But when violence comes to Pikeville again — and a shocking tragedy leaves the whole town traumatized — Charlie is plunged into a nightmare. How far does the apple really fall from the tree? Though Milly loves her mother, the only way to make her stop is to turn her in to the police.
Milly is given a fresh start: But Milly has secrets, and life at her new home becomes complicated. When tensions rise and Milly feels trapped by her shiny new life, she has to decide: Will she be good? Or is she bad? If you love historical fiction, this book should be on your fall reading list.
It tells the story of Eliza Lucas, a teenager living in South Carolina in who, against all odds and amidst mounting dangers, enters the indigo business. While this story is fiction, it is based on historical documents and the real-life Eliza Lucas, an influential figure in South Carolina history, so influential, in fact, that President George Washington served as a pallbearer at her funeral. Twelve times a week, twenty-eight-year-old Ella May Wiggins makes the two-mile trek to and from her job on the night shift at American Mill No.
Her no-good husband, John, has run off again, and she must keep her four young children alive with whatever work she can find. When the union leaflets begin circulating, Ella May has a taste of hope, a yearning for the better life the organizers promise. But the mill owners, backed by other nefarious forces, claim the union is nothing but a front for the Bolshevik menace sweeping across Europe. To maintain their control, the owners will use every means in their power, including bloodshed, to prevent workers from banding together.
Illuminating the most painful corners of their history, she reveals, for the first time, the tragedy that befell Ella May after that fateful union meeting in Intertwining myriad voices, Wiley Cash brings to life the heartbreak and bravery of the now forgotten struggle of the labor movement in early twentieth-century America—and pays tribute to the thousands of heroic women and men who risked their lives to win basic rights for all workers. In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is planned — from the layout of the winding roads, to the colors of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead.
And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules. Enter Mia Warren — an enigmatic artist and single mother — who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenaged daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than tenants: But Mia carries with her a mysterious past and a disregard for the status quo that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community. But her obsession will come at unexpected and devastating costs.
Little Fires Everywhere explores the weight of secrets, the nature of art and identity, and the ferocious pull of motherhood — and the danger of believing that following the rules can avert disaster. In an unnamed country at the beginning of the last century, a child called Pavla is born to peasant parents. Her arrival, fervently anticipated and conceived in part by gypsy tonics and archaic prescriptions, stuns her parents and brings outrage and scorn from her community.
Pavla has been born a dwarf, beautiful in face, but as the years pass, she grows no farther than the edge of her crib. When her parents turn to the treatments of a local charlatan, his terrifying cure opens the floodgates of persecution for Pavla. Woven throughout is the journey of Danilo, the young man entranced by Pavla, obsessed only with protecting her. Part allegory about the shifting nature of being, part subversive fairy tale of love in all its uncanny guises, Little Nothing spans the beginning of a new century, the disintegration of ancient superstitions, and the adoption of industry and invention.
With a cast of remarkable characters, a wholly original story, and extraordinary, page-turning prose, Marisa Silver delivers a novel of sheer electricity. Drop into this novel in October. Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family.
She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war.
Manhattan Beach is a deft, dazzling, propulsive exploration of a transformative moment in the lives and identities of women and men, of America and the world. It is a magnificent novel by the author of A Visit from the Goon Squad, one of the great writers of our time. Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin.
Her social existence is confined to the middle school where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might penetrate her shell and to her life with her father. Then Turtle meets Jacob, a high-school boy who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush, Turtle starts to imagine escape, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her.
What follows is a harrowing story of bravery and redemption. Shot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting, My Absolute Darling is an urgently told, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer. On a dim winter afternoon, a young Irish immigrant opens the gas taps in his Brooklyn tenement.
Savior, an aging nun appears, unbidden, to direct the way forward for his widow and his unborn child. We begin deep inside Catholic Brooklyn, in the early part of the twentieth century. Yet his suicide, although never spoken of, reverberates through many lives and over the decades testing the limits and the demands of love and sacrifice, of forgiveness and forgetfulness, even through multiple generations.
For the Owens family, love is a curse that began in , when Maria Owens was charged with witchery for loving the wrong man. Hundreds of years later, in New York City at the cusp of the sixties, when the whole world is about to change, Susanna Owens knows that her three children are dangerously unique. From the start Susanna sets down rules for her children: No walking in the moonlight, no red shoes, no wearing black, no cats, no crows, no candles, no books about magic. And most importantly, never, ever, fall in love. But when her children visit their Aunt Isabelle, in the small Massachusetts town where the Owens family has been blamed for everything that has ever gone wrong, they uncover family secrets and begin to understand the truth of who they are.
Back in New York City each begins a risky journey as they try to escape the family curse. The Owens children cannot escape love even if they try, just as they cannot escape the pains of the human heart. The two beautiful sisters will grow up to be the revered, and sometimes feared, aunts in Practical Magic , while Vincent, their beloved brother, will leave an unexpected legacy. Thrilling and exquisite, real and fantastical, The Rules of Magic is a story about the power of love reminding us that the only remedy for being human is to be true to yourself.
The story begins in , when Deborah Campbell travels undercover to Damascus to report on the exodus of Iraqis into Syria, following the overthrow of Saddam Hussein. Ahlam has fled her home in Iraq after being kidnapped while running a humanitarian center. She supports her husband and two children while working to set up a makeshift school for displaced girls. Strong and charismatic, she has become an unofficial leader of the refugee community. The story intertwines art, politics, historical memory, patriotism, racism, and a fascinating set of characters, from those who fought in the conflict and those who resisted it to politicians at the highest level.
At its center are two enduring figures: Maya Lin, a young, Asian-American architecture student at Yale whose abstract design won the international competition but triggered a fierce backlash among powerful figures; and Frederick Hart, an innovative sculptor of humble origins on the cusp of stardom. A true crime narrative chockfull of spellbinding storytelling and incredible reportage, American Fire tells the story of Accomack Virginia, a rural town where — night after night — someone is setting fires.
Not only is it stranger than fiction: Border is a scintillating, immersive travel narrative that is also a shadow history of the Cold War, a sideways look at the migration crisis troubling Europe, and a deep, witchy descent into interior and exterior geographies. In this extraordinary work of narrative reportage, Kapka Kassabova returns to Bulgaria, from where she emigrated as a girl twenty-five years previously, to explore the border it shares with Turkey and Greece.
When she was a child, the border zone was rumored to be an easier crossing point into the West than the Berlin Wall, and it swarmed with soldiers and spies. Kassabova discovers a place that has been shaped by successive forces of history: Her exquisite portraits of fire walkers, smugglers, treasure hunters, botanists, and border guards populate the book. There are also the ragged men and women who have walked across Turkey from Syria and Iraq. But there seem to be nonhuman forces at work here too: This densely forested landscape is rich with curative springs and Thracian tombs, and the tug of the ancient world, of circular time and animism, is never far off.
In Coming to My Senses Alice retraces the events that led her to Shattuck Avenue and the tumultuous times that emboldened her to find her own voice as a cook when the prevailing food culture was embracing convenience and uniformity. Moving from a repressive suburban upbringing to Berkeley in at the height of the Free Speech Movement and campus unrest, she was drawn into a bohemian circle of charismatic figures whose views on design, politics, film, and food would ultimately inform the unique culture on which Chez Panisse was founded. When an injury led to a stroke that ended his careers as a doctor and a soldier, he faced the most difficult crossing of all, a recovery that proved as shattering as war itself.
His three tours in the Iraq War marked the height of the American struggle there. The stroke he suffered upon returning from Iraq led to serious cognitive and physical disabilities. His years-long recovery, impeded by near-unbearable pain and complicated by PTSD, meant overcoming the perceived limits of his body and mind and re-imagining his own capacity for renewal and change.
It led him not only to writing as a vocation but to a deeper understanding of how healing means accepting a new identity, and how that acceptance must be fought for with as much tenacity as any battlefield victory. In The Great Green Room: Her whimsy and imagination fueled a steady stream of stories, book ideas, songs, and poems and she was renowned for her prolific writing and business savvy, as well as her stunning beauty and endless thirst for adventure. Margaret started her writing career by helping to shape the curriculum for the Bank Street School for children, making it her mission to create stories that would rise above traditional fairy tales and allowed girls to see themselves as equal to boys.
At the same time, she also experimented endlessly with her own writing. Clever, quirky, and incredibly talented, Margaret embraced life with passion, lived extravagantly off of her royalties, went on rabbit hunts, and carried on long and troubled love affairs with both men and women. One was a gender-bending poet and the ex-wife of John Barrymore.
She went by the stage name of Michael Strange and she and Margaret had a tempestuous yet secret relationship, at one point living next door to each other so that they could be together. In In the Great Green Room , author Amy Gary captures the eccentric and exceptional life of Margaret Wise Brown, and drawing on newly-discovered personal letters and diaries, reveals an intimate portrait of a creative genius whose unrivaled talent breathed new life in to the literary world.
With the help of good Samaritans, including the cop who first arrested her and later took her into his home, the courageous young woman eventually found redemption and grew up to lead an ordinary life. While much has been written about Charles Manson, this riveting account from an actual Family member is a chilling portrait that recreates in vivid detail one of the most horrifying and fascinating chapters in modern American history.
The Girls by Cline. Amy Dresner had a Beverly Hills upbringing: But at 24, while living in San Francisco, she turned into an addiction monster, starting with meth and spiraling downward from there. While she was able to keep up the illusion of having it together for a while, eventually Dresner landed in jail — and then a psych ward. This is the story of how she fought her way back: Darkly funny, the memoir reckons with demons — sex addiction, drugs, and the quest for sobriety — in brutally honest, entertaining prose.
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Recalling Olive Kitteridge in its richness, structure, and complexity, Anything Is Possible explores the whole range of human emotion through the intimate dramas of people struggling to understand themselves and others. Here are two sisters: One trades self-respect for a wealthy husband while the other finds in the pages of a book a kindred spirit who changes her life. Michael Beaumont is head over heels with the woman of his dreams. The minute he and Alison saw each other across a crowded bar, there was a powerful, immediate connection.
But Alison is harboring a dangerous secret, one that threatens to break loose once Michael introduces her to his last remaining relative. And something about the string of murders terrorizing London, with incidents occurring just blocks from Michael, feels like more than just a coincidence. What is Rose not telling Michael? What is Alison hiding? Now Apollo is a father himself—and as he and his wife, Emma, are settling into their new lives as parents, exhaustion and anxiety start to take their toll. Irritable and disconnected from their new baby boy, at first Emma seems to be exhibiting signs of postpartum depression, but it quickly becomes clear that her troubles go even deeper.
Three years into her graduate studies at a demanding Boston university, the unnamed narrator of this nimbly wry, concise debut finds her one-time love for chemistry is more hypothesis than reality. Eventually, the pressure mounts so high that she must leave everything she thought she knew about her future, and herself, behind. What do I really want?
Taking us deep inside her scattered, searching mind, here is a brilliant new literary voice that astutely juxtaposes the elegance of science, the anxieties of finding a place in the world, and the sacrifices made for love and family. These eleven stories by Joshua Ferris, many of which were first published in The New Yorker , are at once thrilling, strange, and comic.
The modern tribulations of marriage, ambition, and the fear of missing out as the temptations flow like wine and the minutes of life tick down are explored with the characteristic wit and insight that have made Ferris one of our most critically acclaimed novelists. Ferris shows to what lengths we mortals go to coax human meaning from our very modest time on earth, an effort that skews ever-more desperately in the direction of redemption.
The stories in The Dinner Party are about lives changed forever when the reckless gives way to possibility and the ordinary cedes ground to mystery. This novel follows three sets of spoiled, wealthy parents and their children as they embark on a cruise to Central America. The children go missing during an onshore zipline expedition, paths diverge; the children become the unwilling accomplices of a murder cover-up whiel their parents split time between the embassy and a seedy hotel, waiting for news and arguing among themselves.
Satire about privilege or a straight up thriller? Oprah Magazine, July , p. After getting a note demanding his presence, Federal Agent Aaron Falk arrives in his hometown for the first time in decades to attend the funeral of his best friend, Luke. Twenty years ago when Falk was accused of murder, Luke was his alibi.
Amid the worst drought in a century, Falk and the local detective question what really happened to Luke. And Falk will find that small towns have always hidden big secrets. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy. But everything changes when Eleanor meets Raymond, the bumbling and deeply unhygienic IT guy from her office.
Smart, warm, uplifting, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine is the story of an out-of-the-ordinary heroine whose deadpan weirdness and unconscious wit make for an irresistible journey as she realizes. The only way to survive is to open your heart. During a terrible heat wave in — the worst in a decade — ten-year-old Anton has been locked in an apartment in the projects, alone, for seven days, without air conditioning or a fan. With no electricity, the refrigerator and lights do not work. Hot, hungry, and desperate, Anton shatters a window and climbs out.
Cutting his leg on the broken glass, he is covered in blood when the police find him. Juanita, his mother, is discovered in a crack house less than three blocks away, nearly unconscious and half-naked. When she comes to, she repeatedly asks for her baby boy. She never meant to leave Anton — she went out for a quick hit and was headed right back, until her drug dealer raped her and kept her high.
Though the bond between mother and son is extremely strong, Anton is placed with child services while Juanita goes to jail. Desperate to have a child in the house again after the tragic death of his teenage son, David uses his power and connections to keep his new foster son, Anton, with him and his wife, Delores- actions that will have devastating consequences in the years to come. But when he discovers the truth about his life, his birth mother, and his adopted parents, this man of the law must come to terms with the moral complexities of crimes committed by the people he loves most.
All Denny Malone wants is to be a good cop. What only a few know is that Denny Malone is dirty: Now Malone is caught in a trap and being squeezed by the Feds, and he must walk the thin line between betraying his brothers and partners, the Job, his family, and the woman he loves, trying to survive, body and soul, while the city teeters on the brink of a racial conflagration that could destroy them all. Based on years of research inside the NYPD, this is the great cop novel of our time and a book only Don Winslow could write: A searing portrait of a city and a courageous, heroic, and deeply flawed man who stands at the edge of its abyss, The Force is a masterpiece of urban living full of shocking and surprising twists, leavened by flashes of dark humor, a morally complex and utterly riveting dissection of modern American society and the controversial issues confronting and dividing us today.
The request seems odd, even intrusive — and for the two women who answer, the consequences are devastating. Reeling from a traumatic break-in, Emma wants a new place to live.