![]() Plunged into successive global crises, Gunther, Knickerbocker, Sheean, and Thompson could no longer separate themselves from the turmoil that surrounded them. Living in the heady afterglow of Freud, they subjected themselves to frank, critical scrutiny and argued about love, war, sex, death, and everything in between. Alongside these backstage glimpses into the halls of power, they left another equally incredible set of records. In those tumultuous years, they landed exclusive interviews with Hitler and Mussolini, Nehru and Gandhi, and helped shape what Americans knew about the world. Knickerbocker, Vincent Sheean, and Dorothy Thompson. Last Call at the Hotel Imperial is the extraordinary story of John Gunther, H. While empires collapsed and fledgling democracies faltered, they chased deposed empresses, international financiers, and Balkan gun-runners, and then knocked back doubles late into the night. As cub reporters in the 1920s, they roamed across a war-ravaged world, sometimes perched atop mules on wooden saddles, sometimes gliding through countries in the splendor of a first-class sleeper car. Summary: "They were an astonishing group: glamorous, gutsy, and irreverent to the bone. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Who is she ready to become? Can she release her past and honor her grief while still embracing her future? And, of course, there’s the biggest question of all-how far is she willing to go for a second chance at love?Īkwaeke Emezi’s vivid and passionate writing takes us deep into a world of possibility and healing, and the constant bravery of choosing love against all odds. This new life she asked for just got a lot more complicated, and Feyi must begin her search for real answers. ![]() ![]() She’s even started dating the perfect guy, but their new relationship might be sabotaged before it has a chance by the dangerous thrill Feyi feels every time she locks eyes with the one person in the house who is most definitely off-limits. Feyi isn’t ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer she could have never imagined: a luxury trip to a tropical island, decadent meals in the glamorous home of a celebrity chef, and a major curator who wants to launch her art career. It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s almost a new person now-an artist with her own studio, and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it’s time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. New York Times bestselling author and National Book Award finalist Akwaeke Emezi (they/them) reimagines the love story in this fresh and seductive novel about a young woman seeking joy while healing from loss.įeyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again. ![]() Den halves arv by Julie M. Day7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() It’s a dark comedy that delves into the human condition, as well as honestly depicting the complex dynamics of relationships and the societal expectations around traditional gender roles. His fourth film tells the story of a Swedish family on holiday in the French Alps and how the father comes to personify the phrase “Every man for himself” when he saves his own skin during an avalanche, while his wife calls to him and attempts to protect their children. Östlund’s Force Majeure was the film that revealed him on an international stage as a talent to follow closely. Having won two Palme d’Or awards in the space of five years (for 2017’s The Square and 2022’s Triangle of Sadness), Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund has become something of a phenomenon in recent years, excelling in probing the quirks and absurdities of modern society with acerbic wit. ![]() The caged virgin book7/4/2023 ![]() In November 2004, the violent murder on an Amsterdam street of Dutch filmmaker Theo van Gogh, with whom Hirsi Ali had written a film about women and Islam called Submission, changed her life. There, she learned Dutch, worked as an interpreter in abortion clinics and shelters for battered women, earned a college degree, and started a career in politics as a Dutch parliamentarian. But it is also the courageous story of how Hirsi Ali herself fought back against everyone who tried to force her to submit to a traditional Muslim woman’s life and how she became a voice of reform.īorn in Somalia and raised Muslim, but outraged by her religion’s hostility toward women, Hirsi Ali escaped an arranged marriage to a distant relative and fled to the Netherlands. It is a defiant call for clear thinking and for an Islamic Enlightenment. Hard-hitting, outspoken, and controversial, The Caged Virgin is a call to arms for the emancipation of women from a brutal religious and cultural oppression and from an outdated cult of virginity. So asserts Ayaan Hirsi Ali’s profound meditation on Islam and the role of women, the rights of the individual, the roots of fanaticism, and Western policies toward Islamic countries and immigrant communities. ![]() Muslims who explore sources of morality other than Islam are threatened with death, and Muslim women who escape the virgins’ cage are branded whores. ![]() Swallowdale book7/4/2023 ![]() It has everything four adventurers (and Titty’s parrot) could possibly want: a Cave which belongs to Peter Duck (a fictional character Titty created), a waterfall, a river with trout in… a watch tower. But when news arrives that Nancy and Peggy, the Amazon pirates are having to spend the summer as hosts to their fearsome Great Aunt, and then the Swallow is ship wrecked surely their summer is ruined? And then Titty and Roger discover a secret valley – Swallowdale. ![]() ![]() A beautiful tale of exploration, adventure and outdoor life, this time mainly featuring an exciting Valley (the previous book in the Swallows and Amazons series was based around Wild-Cat island.) As in Swallows and Amazons, the main characters are Captain John, Mate Susan, Able Seaman Titty and Mate Roger and thirsty for adventure the crew set out to Wild-Cat island once more to take life back up on the wonderful little island on the river. ![]() Bliss Montage by Ling Ma7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() I want to know why Ma’s characters are so far away, not just in this story, but in all of the stories in Bliss Montage. Why would I accept this chasm, I ask myself as I read “Tomorrow.” I want to demand an explanation. Pregnancy has flipped a switch in her mind, it seems, and created an inarticulable chasm, unbridgeable even by the author, between us and her. She learns she’s pregnant, she is surprised, and then, suddenly, she has decided to become a mother. ![]() Held at a distance by Ma’s deadpan, matter-of-fact prose style, we are not privy to Eve’s decision-making process. After the doctor tells her this is normal, an effect of since-discontinued hygiene products and other regularly consumed toxic materials, Eve books a six-month trip to her (unspecified) country of origin, where she will spend the bulk of her pregnancy. ![]() Ling Ma’s new short story collection, Bliss Montage, ends with a story called “Tomorrow,” about a woman named Eve who discovers she’s pregnant and then, disturbingly, that the fetus’s arm is sticking down through her cervix and out of her vagina. Review of Bliss Montage: Stories by Ling Ma (Farrar, Strauss, and Giraux, September 2022) ![]() A Certain Exposure by Jolene Tan7/4/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Jolene Tan has written, in devastatingly beautiful prose, a quiet book about disquieting things. Balli Kaur Jaswal, bestselling author of Sugarbread, Inheritance and Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows “One of the best novels I’ve read recently…a haunting story about elitism and prejudice in a society which recites daily pledges to maintain equality for all.” ![]() This wide-ranging debut beautifully presents the resonances and the ghosts of lost possibilities, as well as a gripping story of hope and betrayal. This is a classic coming-of-age tale doubled across two vividly individual brothers, who struggle to navigate a complex tangle of relationships and coercive forces, cinematically interwoven with the yearnings and fears of an ensemble of mothers, fathers, cousins, friends and lovers both false and true. Satirical and sympathetic, political and personal, A Certain Exposure traces the adolescences of twin brothers Andrew and Brian, culminating in the explosive events leading to Andrew’s tragic death. ![]() Wandfasted by Laurie Forest7/4/2023 ![]() But Vogel has one more earth-shattering revelation for them all. The Black Witch is back, and the Prophecy is at hand. And Tierney’s bond with Erthia’s most powerful river has exposed a danger even more terrifying than the looming war. But Trystan is fighting on two fronts, as the most despised and least trusted member of the guard. In the Eastern Realm, Water Fae Tierney Calix and Elloren’s brother Trystan have joined the Wyvernguard to prepare for Vogel’s attack. With her fastmate, Lukas Grey, either dead or in the hands of High Mage Marcus Vogel, Elloren knows the only chance of turning the tide of the coming war is to seek allies who will listen long enough not to kill her on sight. ![]() ![]() Newly exposed as the Black Witch of Prophecy, Elloren Gardner Grey is on the run, not knowing if she’ll find friends or foes. ![]() When Tessla Harrow is driven from her home by the fighting, she discovers a depth of power she never knew she hadand. So when she and her husband, Fred Thibodeau, learned she was in. Magic, romance and adventure collide in Wandfasted, the irresistible ebook prequel to The Black Witch by Laurie Forest.Twenty years before Elloren Gardner enrolled at Verpax University, the Realm War was tearing apart Erthia. ![]() Nothing can stop the demon tide. Don't miss the epic fourth book in The Black Witch Chronicles by critically acclaimed fantasy author Laurie Forest. As the leader of three universities, Rebecca Chopp lived a life of the mind. ![]() Moon Flower by Shirl Henke7/3/2023 ![]() Since childhood I’ve been an avid reader, everything from Robert Heinlein’s sci-fi adventures to Frank Yerby’s historical romantic sagas. My last two years of teaching were in remedial English-just the nudge I needed to take this writing thing seriously. ![]() After that I taught gerontology, sociology, proposal writing for social service agencies and freshman composition at the same university. Unfortunately, when the history requirement was dropped for incoming students, so was my instructorship. None of my wide variety of jobs satisfied me: cashier for a loan company, public welfare caseworker, assistant circulation manager for a small daily, editor for several “house organ” newspapers, administrator of a federal information program for the elderly.įinally I was offered the opportunity to use my history degrees, teaching in a large urban university in the Northeast. in history from the University of Missouri. Instead, I floundered around during and after receiving my B.A. ![]() I didn’t know I was destined to write books. ![]() Working my way through college provided great life experiences for a novelist. ![]() ![]() ![]() Opinions will vary among people who actually read the book. Look For Me There: Grieving My Father, Finding Myself is billed as "the emotional story of a young man taking charge of his life," brimming with "important lessons," "historical understandings," "vivid narrative," and "poignant reflection." Sounds amazing, right? That's probably why the likes of Tom Brokaw, Savannah Guthrie, and Maria Shriver had such nice things to say about it. ![]() He's spent the last few days hawking it on the Beltway book circuit, back in shackles. ![]() Having exhausted all other options, including a failed attempt to make it as an Instagram influencer, Russert discovered that his true purpose was writing a memoir about discovering his true purpose. ![]() |