Celeste ng new book7/8/2023 ![]() ![]() Lucy Liu voices the audiobook.īorn in Pittsburgh and raised there and in Shaker Heights, OH (as much a character in Little Fires as Elena and Mia), Ng-a recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Guggenheim Foundation-now lives in Cambridge, MA. It’s a theme that threads through her first two novels: Everything I Never Told You (to be adapted as a series) and Little Fires Everywhere (which was a Hulu series with Reese Witherspoon and Kerry Washington), both NYT bestsellers. Set in a dystopia where civil liberties are eroding and anti-Asian hate goes unchecked, Celeste Ng’s third novel, Our Missing Hearts (Penguin Press) explores otherness and race. ![]()
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Hard times terkel7/8/2023 ![]() Two motion pictures found the mark for us: Bonnie and Clyde featured and then mythologized a pair of scruffy killers who established for a later generation something of the value of, if not the style of, shall we say, dissent. ![]() The historians and biographers and critics have just about had their day: Leuchtenburg, and Aaron, and Bird, and Schlesinger. It may be that urenewal" is what the two eras have most in common for if we sloughed off the post-Great War recklessness as we lined up for soup and bread, so have we more recently denounced "middletown." Great and strange things came of the Depression but we have no way yet of knowing what will come of the Sixties. ![]() Probably because Americans could not make sense of the Sixties, they turned to the Thirties, a time when many of us came of age, a time, it now seems, when America started over again. VICTOR HOAR Harold Clurman called them "The Fervent Years." Leo Gurko, "The Angry Decade." Louis Filler, nThe Anxious Years." Isabel Leighton, "The Aspirin Age." Edmund Wilson, 11 American Jitters." For Studs Terkel, the years of the Great Depression were, quite simply, "Hard Times." The discovery of the Great Depression was one of the minor spectacles of the past decade. Hard Times Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression By Studs Terkel. ![]() In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]() ![]() "Weeks cleverly continues the fantasy saga. ![]() ![]() Brett, New York Times bestselling author of The Desert Spear on The Night Angel Trilogy "Brent Weeks is so good it's starting to tick me off."- Peter V. Night Angel: The Complete Trilogy (omnibus) As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange magics - and cultivate a flair for death. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint.īut to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums, and learned to judge people quickly - and to take risks. ![]() A modern classic of epic fantasy, New York Times bestseller The Way of Shadows is the first volume in the multi-million copy selling Night Angel Trilogy in which a young boy trains under the city's most legendary and feared assassin, Durzo Blint.įor Durzo Blint, assassination is an art - and he is the city's most accomplished artist.įor Azoth, survival is precarious. ![]() ![]() ![]() It's kind of funny reading them now - I don't quite remember them being so depressing. Since I'm in the middle of a Cherub reread I thought I'd come back to Alex. I must have read the first five books like fifty million times. Avid readers will find themselves consumed. Reluctant readers will find themselves intrigued. ![]() There are daring stunts and lucky saves and many near misses. Each novel is fast paced and action packed. I love Alex, but I'm also surprised he doesn't have a ton more issues than he does. Worse is being lied to and manipulated and screwed over so many times it's painful to read. Worse is being sent into constant danger with various gadgets but no real weapons. ![]() Worse is being sworn to secrecy and given no mental support (seriously that drives me insane). Worse is finding that his uncle was not only a spy but had been training him his whole life - his early years filled with language lessons, martial arts classes, rock climbing, mountain biking, skiing, lock picking and anything else you could imagine. It's a choice that's no choice at all.īut the hits just keep on coming. M16 jump at the chance to blackmail him - if he agrees to be a spy, his caretaker and the only family he has left, Jack, won't be deported. When his uncle dies, Alex finds himself recruited into the shady world of spies and espionage. Alex Rider is a fourteen year old reluctant teenage James Bond. ![]() The doughnut fix7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() But Tristan will soon discover that when starting a business, it helps to be both Gifted and Talented, and It’s possible he’s bitten off more than he can chew…ġ2-year-old Tristan’s life had been rapidly turned up-side-down when his parents announced that they were moving from New York City to Petersville after his father lost his job at the bank. And so begins the only thing that could make life in Petersville worth living: getting the recipe, making the doughnuts, and bringing them back to the town through his very own doughnut stand. His suspicions about his new town are confirmed when he’s tricked into believing the local general store has life-changing chocolate cream doughnuts, when in fact the owner hasn’t made them in years. ![]() It’s like suddenly they’re supposed to be this other family, one that can survive without bagels and movie theaters. But his life takes a turn for the worse when his parents decide to move to middle-of-nowhere Petersville-a town with one street and no restaurants. Tristan isn’t Gifted or Talented like his sister Jeanine, and he’s always been okay with that because he can make a perfect chocolate chip cookie and he lives in the greatest city in the world. ![]() Superfudge meets The Lemonade War in this funny, heartwarming series debut about change, adventure, family, and of course, doughnuts. ![]() ![]() ![]() Czerneda, award-winning author of The Gossamer Mage "Jackson modernizes Christian lore in her action-packed debut. In Forging a Nightmare she has created a brilliantly plotted, hard-hitting fantasy deeply rooted in the mythos of the human, the divine, the angelic and the equine." - Nancy Springer, author of The Enola Holmes Mysteries "Crafted with skill, featuring an array of unforgettable characters and breath-stealing action, Forging a Nightmare is one hell of a ride. Jackson opens Hell's stable door and releases fallen angels and demons onto each fast-moving page." - RWW Greene, author of The Light Years, "Just about anyone can get published and call themself a writer, but Patty Jackson is that much rarer and finer thing, a true writer, master of her craft. Czerneda, award-winning author of The Gossamer Mage "Man's best friend is his Nightmare, provided he proves worthy of the ride, in this thrilling urban-fantasy debut. PRAISE FOR PATRICIA A JACKSON "Crafted with skill, featuring an array of unforgettable characters and breath-stealing action, Forging a Nightmare is one hell of a ride. ![]() Flesh and Blood by Patricia Cornwell7/7/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Her father was one of the leading appellate lawyers in the United States and served as a law clerk to Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black. Her books have sold more than 100 million copies.Ī descendant of abolitionist and writer Harriet Beecher Stowe, Cornwell was born on June 9, 1956, in Miami, Florida, second of three children, to Marilyn (née Zenner) and Sam Daniels. Cornwell has also initiated new research into the Jack the Ripper killings, incriminating the popular British artist Walter Sickert. The plots are notable for their emphasis on forensic science, which has influenced later TV treatments of police work. She is known for her best-selling novels featuring medical examiner Kay Scarpetta, of which the first was inspired by a series of sensational murders in Richmond, Virginia, where most of the stories are set. Patricia Cornwell (born Patricia Carroll Daniels June 9, 1956) is an American crime writer. ![]() American midnight hochschild7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was America during and after the Great War: a brief but appalling era blighted by lynchings, censorship, and the sadistic, sometimes fatal abuse of conscientious objectors in military prisons-a time whose toxic currents of racism, nativism, red-baiting, and contempt for the rule of law then flowed directly through the intervening decades to poison our own. It was a tumultuous period defined by a diverse and colorful cast of characters, some of whom fueled the injustice while others fought against it: from the sphinxlike Woodrow Wilson, to the fiery antiwar advocates Kate Richards O’Hare and Emma Goldman, to labor champion Eugene Debs, to a little-known but ambitious bureaucrat named J. When the government stepped in, it was often to fan the flames. Self-appointed vigilantes executed tens of thousands of citizens’ arrests. Some seventy-five newspapers and magazines were banned from the mail and forced to close. Courts threw thousands of people into prison for opinions they voiced-in one notable case, only in private. Mobs burned Black churches to the ground. "A riveting, resonant account of the fragility of freedom.”- Kirkus, STARRED review From legendary historian Adam Hochschild, a groundbreaking reassessment of the overlooked but startlingly resonant period between World War I and the Roaring Twenties, when the foundations of American democracy were threated by war, pandemic, and violence fueled by battles over race, immigration, and the rights of labor ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Today, Diego resides in Western Massachusetts with his wife, where they live quietly and meditate daily. ![]() Diego's online presence as Yung Pueblo, as well as his books, Inward and Clarity & Connection, are meant to serve those undertaking their own journey of personal transformation. The penname Yung Pueblo means "young people" and is meant to convey that humanity is entering an era of remarkable growth and healing, when many will expand their self-awareness and release old burdens. The results he witnessed firsthand moved him to describe his experiences in writing. Clarity & Connection, by Yung Pueblo, is a powerful and inspiring book that guides readers to recognize and connect with their own inner peace. He became more committed to his meditation practice while living in New York City. During a silent Vipassana meditation course in 2012, he saw that real healing and liberation were possible. He grew up in Boston and attended Wesleyan University. Biography: Diego Perez was born in Ecuador and immigrated to the United States as a child. ![]() The vegetarian kang7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() As of summer 2013, Han teaches creative writing at the Seoul Institute of the Arts while writing stories and novels. Since then, she has gone on to win the Yi Sang Literary Prize (2005), Today's Young Artist Award, and the Korean Literature Novel Award. She made her official literary debut in the following year when her short story "The Scarlet Anchor" was the winning entry in the daily Seoul Shinmun spring literary contest. She began her writing career when one of her poems was featured in the winter issue of the quarterly Literature and Society. She studied Korean literature at Yonsei University. She was born in Kwangju and at the age of 10, moved to Suyuri (which she speaks of affectionately in her work "Greek Lessons") in Seoul. Han Kang is the daughter of novelist Han Seung-won. As of summer 2013, Han teaches creative writing at the Seoul Inst 소설가 한강 ![]() ![]() First time published in Korea in 2007, it received an uneasy reception and was thought to be both bizarre and extreme. She was born in Kwangju and at the age of 10, moved to Suyuri (which she speaks of affectionately in her work "Greek Lessons") in Seoul. The Vegetarian is a novella in three parts written by Korean author Han Kang. ![]() 소설가 한강 Han Kang is the daughter of novelist Han Seung-won. ![]() |