-Titulo Original : It Could Happen Here Why America Is Tipping From Hate To The Unthinkable And How We Can Stop It-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: Refreshingly candid . . . Get off and read this book.-Sacha Baron Cohen From the dynamic head of ADL, an impassioned argument about the terrifying path that America finds itself on today-and how we can save ourselves It’s almost impossible to imagine that unbridled hate and systematic violence could come for us or our families. But it has happened in our lifetimes in Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and Asia. And it could happen here. Today, as CEO of the storied ADL (the Anti-Defamation League), Jonathan Greenblatt has made it his personal mission to demonstrate how antisemitism, racism, and other insidious forms of intolerance can destroy a society, taking root as quiet prejudices but mutating over time into horrific acts of brutality. In this urgent book, Greenblatt sounds an alarm, warning that this age-old trend is gathering momentum in the United States-and that violence on an even larger, more catastrophic scale could be just around the corner. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Drawing on ADL’s decades of experience in fighting hate through investigative research, education programs, and legislative victories as well as his own personal story and his background in business and government, Greenblatt offers a bracing primer on how we-as individuals, as organizations, and as a society-can strike back against hate. Just because it could happen here, he shows, does not mean that the unthinkable is inevitable. Review Jonathan Greenblatt and I have two things in common: a love of storytelling and a strong belief that social media has dangerously amplified bigotry, misogyny, and conspiracy theories. In this refreshingly candid read, Jonathan is not afraid to call out leaders of tech companies like and Twitter to be more accountable for their role in spreading hatred. Get off and read this book. -- Sacha Baron CohenJonathan Greenblatt has written an urgent work of deep love and deep anxiety - for the Jewish people, for America, for the state of Israel . . . It Could Happen Here will help shape the conversation on antisemitism and hate in America -- Yossi Klein Halevi, Senior Fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute, and author of Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor It Could Happen Here describes the insidious ways that unchecked hate can seep into society from the periphery, growing from the seeds of fringe thought into harmful rhetoric and heinous actions. Greenblatt has written a playbook against hate that shows just how fragile the balance between calm and chaos can be when we turn a blind eye. We should heed the warning. -- Darren Walker, President, Ford Foundation For over a century, ADL has played a crucial role in identifying and countering antisemitism, prejudice, and hatred. In his book, Jonathan Greenblatt helps readers take the battle to their own social networks, by offering practical advice to individuals and institutions on ways to confront and even dismantle hatred in its early stages. In this time of extreme political polarization and quickly growing distrust, Greenblatts comprehensive work can help us build bridges, build trust, and uproot harmful prejudices from our midst. -- Natan Sharansky, Israeli politician, human rights activist, and a former prisoner of conscience in the Soviet Union“There has never been a more perilous time for individual rights and liberties. And as Jonathan Greenblatt illustrates so powerfully in It Could Happen Here, we must understand our history, both recent and distant, to avoid the threats to our rights today. Greenblatt offers his piercing insights from multiple perches he’s served in-from the White House to the ADL. We must act now, heed his advice, and fight for what’s right.” -- Anthony Romero, Executive Director, ACLUPurpose-driven business leaders are taking a stand against the rise of hate at home and around the world. As CEO of ADL, an institution that has been at the forefront of the fight against antis...

-Titulo Original : The Postscript Murders-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: Murder leaps off the page when crime novelists begin to turn up dead in this intricate new novel by internationally best-selling author Elly Griffiths, a literary mystery perfect for fans of Anthony Horowitz and Agatha Christie.The death of a ninety-year-old woman with a heart condition should not be suspicious. Detective Sergeant Harbinder Kaur certainly sees nothing out of the ordinary when Peggy’s caretaker, Natalka, begins to recount Peggy Smith’s passing.But Natalka had a reason to be at the police station: while clearing out Peggy’s flat, she noticed an unusual number of crime novels, all dedicated to Peggy. And each psychological thriller included a mysterious postscript: PS: for PS. When a gunman breaks into the flat to steal a book and its author is found dead shortly thereafter-Detective Kaur begins to think that perhaps there is no such thing as an unsuspicious death after all.And then things escalate: from an Aberdeen literary festival to the streets of Edinburgh, writers are being targeted. DS Kaur embarks on a road trip across Europe and reckons with how exactly authors can think up such realistic crimes . . . Review Praise for Elly Griffiths and THE POSTSCRIPT MURDERS Finalist for the CWA Gold Dagger Award A Most Anticipated Title of 2021 from Crime Reads and The Buzz Magazines A Best Book of March from New York Post and PopSugar This droll romp is a latter-day Miss Marple.” -Washington Post “A limitless talent, a novelist in the humane vein of Louise Penny and Kate Atkinson, Elly Griffiths is one of my flat-out favorite contemporary suspense writers. No matter the book-a Ruth Galloway mystery, a Magic Men caper, an ambitious, assured non-series thriller-she innovates and excites; I turn each final page both deeply satisfied and ravenous for more.” -AJ Finn A macabre ode to the mystery genre. -PopSugar A motley and charming trio of amateur sleuths...Griffiths’ strong sense of place-the sea is sparkling yet unsettling, Aberdeen’s cliffs beautiful yet unforgiving-provides a rich foundation for a cleverly constructed story with complex, memorable characters...A cozy bibliophile’s delight of a mystery that turns writerly research and acknowledgments into fodder for pivotal plot points, offers a tongue-in-cheek peek at the publishing business and pays tribute to friendships that transform into chosen families. -BookPage “Delightful...Told with Griffithss characteristic charm and gentleness.” -Daily Mail “A light-hearted, life-affirming celebration of crime fiction and the colourful characters that create it...Such witty and charming entertainment.” -The Times “Delicious, unadulterated entertainment.” -Sunday Express “This super-readable thriller will have you hooked.” -The Sun “A love letter to murder mysteries, wrapped up in a character-rich caper.” -Sunday Mirror “Griffiths assembles a vivid cast of characters, offering an enjoyably modern take on an old genre.” -The Sunday Times “If youre looking for a laugh and to travel on a murder hunt, The Postscript Murders is the read for you.” -Daily Record “An entertaining mystery for book-lovers.” -Good Housekeeping “Always an expert in building tension and creating atmosphere in her thrillers, Elly Griffiths latest is no exception.” -Womans Weekly “Dark and addictive.” -Womans Weekly Fiction Smart and complex...even a little comic. Very satisfying; the intelligence unmistakable and the characters made as knowable as those in The Stranger Diaries, and-well, and this is clearly just a writer to be trusted with as much of your attention as she asks for. -Shawanjunk Journal Complex characters, hidden histories, and adept twists enrich the narrative. Readers will be enthralled. -Publishers Weekly Griffiths, author of the long-running Ruth Galloway series, follows the success of her first standalone, The Stranger Diaries (2019), win About the Author ELLY GRIFFITHS is the...

-Titulo Original : Black Buck-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: A New York Times Bestseller A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! Longlisted for the Center for Fictions First Novel Prize“Askaripour closes the deal on the first page of this mesmerizing novel, executing a high wire act full of verve and dark, comic energy.”-Colson Whitehead, author of The Nickel Boys “A hilarious, gleaming satire as radiant as its author. Askaripour has announced himself as a major talent of the school of Ralph Ellison, Paul Beatty, Fran Ross, and Ishmael Reed. Full of quick pacing, frenetic energy, absurd-yet spot on-twists and turns, and some of the funniest similes I’ve ever read, this novel is both balm and bomb.” -Nafissa Thompson-Spires, author of Heads of the Colored People For fans of Sorry to Bother You and The Wolf of Wall Street-a crackling, satirical debut novel about a young man given a shot at stardom as the lone Black salesman at a mysterious, cult-like, and wildly successful startup where nothing is as it seems.There’s nothing like a Black salesman on a mission. An unambitious twenty-two-year-old, Darren lives in a Bed-Stuy brownstone with his mother, who wants nothing more than to see him live up to his potential as the valedictorian of Bronx Science. But Darren is content working at Starbucks in the lobby of a Midtown office building, hanging out with his girlfriend, Soraya, and eating his mother’s home-cooked meals. All that changes when a chance encounter with Rhett Daniels, the silver-tongued CEO of Sumwun, NYC’s hottest tech startup, results in an exclusive invitation for Darren to join an elite sales team on the thirty-sixth floor. After enduring a “hell week” of training, Darren, the only Black person in the company, reimagines himself as “Buck,” a ruthless salesman unrecognizable to his friends and family. But when things turn tragic at home and Buck feels he’s hit rock bottom, he begins to hatch a plan to help young people of color infiltrate America’s sales force, setting off a chain of events that forever changes the game.Black Buck is a hilarious, razor-sharp skewering of America’s workforce; it is a propulsive, crackling debut that explores ambition and race, and makes way for a necessary new vision of the American dream. Review An Instant New York Times Bestseller A Read with Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick Long-listed for the Center for Fictions First Novel Prize Long-listed for the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize An Indie Next Pick Apple’s Best of January Amazon’s Spotlight Best Pick of the Month One of Barnes & Noble Reads “Most Anticipated for January” One of Entertainment Weekly’s “Best Books to Keep You Warm this January” One of Washington Post’s “10 Books to Read in January” One of NBC News 10 of the Best Fiction Books by Black Authors in 2021 One of Fortune’s “Best Books for January” One of Shondalands Best Five Books for January One of Essences 21 Books We Cant Wait to Read in 2021 One of WIREDs Picks for the 10 Books You Have to Read This Winter One of O, the Oprah Magazines 33 of the Best Beach Reads to Help You Escape One of Vultures 46 Books We Cant Wait to Read in 2021 One of Elles 55 Best Books to Read in 2021 One of Marie Claire’s “29 Best New 2021 Books” One of Vanity Fair’s “Books to Get You Through Winter” One of E! Onlines 17 Books to Add to Your Reading List in January One of The Roots PageTurners: Were in for a Hell of Year One of AV Clubs 5 New Books to Read in January One of Marie Claires 35 Must-Read 2021 Book Releases by Black Authors One of Cosmopolitan’s “Best New Books 2021” One of the New York Posts Best New Books to Read One of PopSugar’s “Books Everyone Will Be Talking About in 2021” One of Literary Hubs Most Anticipated Books of the Year One of Parades Best New Books to Read this Winter One of Thrillists 30 Books We Cant Wait to Read in 2021 One of Readers Digests 25 Best Books by Black Authors Youll Want to Know...

-Titulo Original : Punch Me Up To The Gods A Memoir-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: Review Punch Me Up to the Gods feels like a gift. There will come a day when some Black child . . . will have read Broome’s masterwork and possibly commit to staying alive because of Broome’s words. They will tell him that Punch Me Up to the Gods is a testament to the insurgent and ineradicable power of Black queer being. That it reveals that Black queer men are our own best creations. -- New York Times Book ReviewAn electrifying read. Vulnerable and poetic but filled with a ferocious fire, it grabs you from the first page to the last. Perfect for fans of Sarah Broom, Kiese Laymon, and Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight. -- Chicago Review of BooksThis devastatingly beautiful memoir about growing up Black and gay in rural Ohio introduces a major literary talent in Broome. -- Entertainment WeeklyBroome debuts with a magnificent and harrowing memoir that digs into the traumas of growing up Black and gay in Ohio in the late 1970s and early ’80s . . . There are no easy victims or villains in Broome’s painful, urgent telling-his testimony rings out as a searing critique of soul-crushing systems and stereotypes. -- Publishers Weekly (starred review)An engrossing memoir about growing up Black and gay and finding a place in the world. Structured around Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem We Real Cool,” Broome’s thought-provoking, emotional journey unfolds through a clever use of parallel stories and juxtaposition . . . Beautifully written, this examination of what it means to be Black and gay in America is a must-read. A stellar debut memoir. -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Bursting at the seams with raw power . . . Broome is a debut author, but you wouldn’t know it by his writing. He commands his story and readers’ attention in a way that will have them laughing, crying, and screaming along with him . . . Punch Me Up to the Gods is an exquisite and important memoir. -- Library Journal (starred review)Punch Me Up to the Gods is a pain-filled tour de force of incredible beauty. The writing is as exquisite as the story is at times horrific. A true work of art. Not one of the best new books I’ve read this year, but quite simply the best. -- Sapphire, author of Push and The KidPunch Me Up to the Gods feels like a scream at the end of a summit.... Broome has shattered every rule and has come to make a mess of what we think of as family, Blackness, sexuality, and most importantly, the memoir. With unflinching honesty, he delivers a necessary testament of his refusal to allow the strangling expectations of life to rob him of his personhood. We should all hope to be this courageous, not only in our writing, but in our living. -- Jason Reynolds, New York Times best-selling author of Long Way Down and Look Both WaysBlack, dark, queer, and poor. These are the vectors of Punch Me Up to the Gods. Brian Broome, literary son of the Black modernist giant Gwendolyn Brooks, writes from the center as one declared wrong among the wronged, one cast out of those cast aside, and one who desperately seeks tenderness. And on the hard road of growing up he finds wisdom, poetry, and love. This spectacular, unforgettable, and wholly innovative book is an ethical reckoning that tears us away from cruelty and invites us to witness real beauty. -- Imani Perry, author of Looking for Lorraine and BreatheThis book is light forged from darkness, in the way that James Baldwin’s writing is or in the way that Barry Jenkins’s Moonlight is but also in a way that is singular and vivid and wholly original.... Punch Me Up to the Gods is furious and dazzling, poetic and gritty. It is vital for every type of reader and a gift to every reader who has had to fight to affirm their existence in this country. -- R. Eric Thomas, national best-selling author of Here for It and Reclaiming Her Time WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE * A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK * A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS PICK * A LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD FINALIST * A STONEWALL HONOR BOOK * NA...

-Titulo Original : A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: A People 10 Best Books of the Year * A New York Times Notable Book of the Year * An Independent (UK) 20 Best Books of the YearWise, bracingly honest...A reassuring reality check...Exhilarating. -New York Times Book ReviewA heartbreaking, soul-baring novel about the repercussions of choice that “will strike a resonant chord with parents everywhere,” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) from the award-winning author of The Welsh Girl and The FortunesA Lie Someone Told You About Yourself traces the complex consequences of one of the most personal yet public, intimate yet political decisions a family can make: to have a child, and conversely, to choose not to have a child. A first pregnancy is interrupted by test results at once catastrophic and uncertain. A second pregnancy ends in a fraught birth, a beloved child, the purgatory of further tests-and questions that reverberate down the years. When does sorrow turn to shame? When does love become labor? When does chance become choice? When does a diagnosis become destiny? And when does fact become fiction? This spare, graceful narrative chronicles the flux of parenthood, marriage, and the day-to-day practice of loving someone. As challenging as it is vulnerable, as furious as it is tender, as touching as it is darkly comic, Peter Ho Davies’s new novel is an unprecedented depiction of fatherhood.“There are some stories that require as much courage to write as they do art. Peter Ho Davies’s achingly honest, searingly comic portrait of fatherhood is just such a story . . . The world needs more stories like this one, more of this kind of courage, more of this kind of love.” -Sigrid Nunez, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend Review A People Book of the Week One of USA Todays Best Books of the Year So Far A New York Times Editors Choice A Book Riot January 2021 Book Recommendation A Millions Most Anticipated Title of 2021 Wise, bracingly honest...A reassuring reality check...Davies throws some new ingredients into the family casserole...Nameless characters can come across as coy, but here, anonymity adds a layer of intimacy. Davies’s characters could be anyone, even you...The all-access pass is exhilarating...The family does not live happily ever after. Instead, they find their footing in ritual and routine, in peaceful and predictable exhaustion, in the hardiest kind of love. -Elisabeth Egan, New York Times Book Review Astute and heartbreaking but also witty. -People, Book of the Week Gemlike...The heart of the novel, though, is a piercing depiction of a marriage under intense pressure - the fear for their child’s future, the struggle for intimacy, the “scorched whispers” the couple argues in. Resolution is important in novels, but it can be a cheat in novels about parenting. The anxiety might alleviate, Davies knows, but it never quite goes away. -USA Today (3.5/4 stars) Short, concisely and poetically written. -Good Morning America Davies treats twists of fate with clear-eyed realism, humor, and grace. -The New Yorker There is nothing superfluous in these pages, and yet Davies, whose characters’ humor carries the reader through considerable agony, allows cheerfully for life’s banality...A Lie Someone Told You About Yourself is a novel about the comedy and travails of parenting a twice exceptional child that earns its place on the shelf alongside the frank and sometimes acerbic memoirs of Rachel Cusk and Anne Enright. -Claire Messud, Harpers [A] powerful account of fatherhood...At times, Davies’s autofiction has the easy cadence of a stand-up set...But this is a complicated story, told with fearless honesty. The prose is rueful, spare and matter-of-fact, but emotions churn beneath the clean surface. It can be very funny, but it can also stop you in your tracks. -Guardian Piercing and expansive...A unique window into just how bewildering taking care of another human can be. Also of note is D...

-Titulo Original : Chaos Under Heaven America, China, And The Battle For The Twenty-first Century-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: Review “The ultimate insider’s account of the making and mismaking of China policy by the Trump administration?-?a chilling twin portrait of the relentless advance of Xi Jinping and the venomous backbiting among Donald Trump and his advisers, who tried unsuccessfully to combat it. There are scoops on nearly every page. Read it and weep: Chaos Under Heaven reveals how China rose and America flubbed its response.” -- DAVID IGNATIUS, Washington Post columnist “In Chaos Under Heaven, Josh Rogin tells a deeply reported, briskly written, and compelling story of how President Trump and his team struggled to deal with the significant economic and national security threats posed to the US by the Chinese government. This book is a must-read for anyone looking for insight into why this new cold war matters to every American.” -- JAKE TAPPER, CNN anchor “Chaos Under Heaven is required reading for anyone who wants to know what happened between America and China during Trump’s tumultuous four years in the White House. Josh Rogin’s account is rich in detail and full of insight into the events and people that drove the United States as it began to change many of its longstanding policies in dealing with Beijing.” -- JAMES MANN, New York Times best-selling author of The China Fantasy and Rise of the Vulcans “Josh Rogin is an outstanding journalist who breaks news all the time. And there’s certainly lots of news in his extraordinary book. He takes us behind the scenes to get a real appreciation of this critically important relationship. Chaos Under Heaven is well written and incisive?-?and once you start reading, you won’t want to put it down.” -- WOLF BLITZER, CNN Anchor “Josh Rogin’s superbly researched Chaos Under Heaven: Trump, Xi, and the Battle for the Twenty-First Century is the first book-length dive into that newborn competition [between the U.S. and China] . . . In what could be the plot of a thriller, Mr. Rogin traces Washington’s efforts to engage the CCP threat . . . Mr. Rogin’s research on the murky origins of the ‘Wuhan virus’ is darkly fascinating.” -- Wall Street JournalChaos Under Heaven moves quickly, is well-written and draws the reader in. -- The Guardian Outstanding . . . That Mr. Rogin manages to capture the complexity and multi-faceted nature of the China challenge is a testament to his writing and reporting. This is a must-read book . . . Chaos Under Heaven is the best single volume on the totality of China’s reach and influence, and our muddled policy over the last four years. -- Diplomatic Courier Packing the account with insider details, Rogin makes a persuasive case that confronting China’s rise is essential to world affairs. Readers will appreciate this in-depth look behind the headlines. -- Publishers WeeklyAn exhaustive study. -- Kirkus Reviews The explosive, behind-the-scenes story of Donald Trump’s high-stakes confrontation with Beijing, from an award-winning Washington Post columnist and peerless observer of the U.S.-China relationshipNow with a new afterword featuring an interview with former President Trump There was no calm before the storm. Donald Trump’s surprise electoral victory shattered the fragile understanding between the United States and China and immediately brought to a boil their long-simmering rivalry. By the time the COVID-19 pandemic erupted in Wuhan, Trump’s love-hate relationship with Chinese president Xi Jinping had sparked a trade war, while Xi’s aggression had pushed the world to the brink of a new Cold War. From award-winning Washington Post columnist Josh Rogin, Chaos Under Heaven uncovers the explosive, behind-the-scenes story of how the Trump administration upended the U.S.-China relationship, with reverberations that will be shaking the world for years to come. About the Author JOSH ROGIN is a Washington Post foreign policy columnist and CNN political analyst. He has reported for Bloomberg View, the Daily Beast,...

-Titulo Original : The Hidden World Of The Fox-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: Review “By turns lyrical, salty, funny and scholarly. … The sight of foxes can lift [Brand’s] prose into poetry. … [An] ode to this familiar yet mysterious creature.” -- New York Times Book Review“A lovely little book. Quietly lyrical, often funny. [An] ideal stocking filler.” -- Sunday Times (London)Brand has studied foxes on four different continents for 20 years. She shares her observations and the history of an animal remarkably adaptable to human environments. -- Los Angeles Times, New and Classic Books to Keep You in Touch with the Natural World“Beautifully written. … Eminent British mammal ecologist Brand pens a tribute to the red fox.” -- Library Journal“Mammal ecologist Brand offers a spirited look at the red fox in this smart and accessible volume. ... Thanks to her mix of biology, personal history, and pop culture, Brand’s readers will be left both entertained and better informed about ‘this small, curious member of the dog family.’” -- Publishers Weekly“Succinct, clear, sophisticated. I couldn’t stop reading.” -- Jeff VanderMeer, bestselling author of Annihilation and theSouthern Reach Trilogy“Provides everything you ever wanted to know about the fox.” -- Kirkus Reviews“This charming book leads us into the lives of red foxes. . … Brand paints a wonderful picture of a wild neighbor.” -- Booklist Discover the hidden world of the fox, as beautifully revealed by an acclaimed ecologist who has studied foxes for two decades across four continents “An ode to this familiar yet mysterious creature. … The sight of foxes can lift Brands prose into poetry. ... By turns lyrical, salty, funny and scholarly.” -New York Times Book ReviewThe fox. For thousands of years myth and folklore have celebrated its cunning intelligence. Today the red fox is the nature’s most populous carnivore, its dancing orange tail a common sight in backyards. Yet who is this wild neighbor, truly? How do we negotiate this uneasy new chapter of an ancient relationship? Join British ecologist Adele Brand on a journey to discover the surprising secrets of the fabled fox, the familiar yet enigmatic creature that has adapted to the human world with astonishing-some say, unsettling-success.Brand has studied foxes for twenty years across four continents-from the Yucatan rainforest to India’s remote Thar Desert, from subarctic Canada to metropolitan London. Her observations have convinced her that the fox is arguably the most modern of all wildlife, uniquely suited to survival in the rapidly expanding urban/wild interface. Blending cutting-edge science, cultural anthropology, and intimate personal storytelling drawn from her own remarkable fieldwork, The Hidden World of the Fox is Brand’s rich and revelatory portrait of the extraordinary animal she has devoted her life to understanding. About the Author ADELE BRAND met her first fox as a child in Englands Surrey Hills, a fragile border between urban London and the rural southeast. Now a mammal ecologist, she has led research in five countries. She is passionate about connecting people with wildlife...

-Titulo Original : In Search Of A Kingdom Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, And The Perilous Birth Of The British Empire-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: Review “Fascinating. … Engaging. … Drake’s story is both dramatic and timely. … In Laurence Bergreen’s colorful assessment, an unlikely alliance between Queen Elizabeth I and Sir Francis Drake empowered English Protestants to … stake out the beginnings of the British Empire.” -- New York Times Book Review, Editors Choice“A dramatic tale of discovery. ... A comprehensive look at Drake, in all his contradictions. ... A lively and compelling history of a man whose blend of audacity, piety and cruelty changed the world.” -- San Francisco Chronicle“Vivid. … Entrancing. ... The accounts of Drake’s circumnavigation and his subsequent naval career are very good indeed. They will surely delight aficionados of imperial history and anyone keen on real-life adventure stories.” -- Wall Street JournalWith a keen sense of adventure and a sharp grasp of personalities on sea and land, Bergreen details Drake’s round-the-world adventures as well as political intrigues and mutinous sailors. -- Booklist (starred review)“The swashbuckling life and times of the explorer who achieved what Magellan could not-and made England’s fortune in the process. ... Demonstrating his deep knowledge of the era, the author energetically recounts Drake’s action-packed journey. ... Bergreen masterly portrays the principal characters in this drama. … A smooth, dramatic, and well-fleshed world history.” -- Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“The great pleasure of In Search of a Kingdom is the revelation of Drake as a man of apparent contradictions that helped rather than hindered his ambitions. Readers in search of a story of how a clergyman’s son gained the support of a queen and helped found the British Empire will not be disappointed.” -- Washington Independent Review of Books“Laurence Bergreen’s new book tells the swashbuckling tale of Sir Francis Drake. … Drake’s trip around the globe, which Bergreen describes in great and fascinating detail, was truly a marvel. … The account of Drake’s remarkable trip and Bergreen’s parsing of this complicated character will repay the time of readers who choose to take this 400-page trip.” -- American Spectator “FASCINATING . . . Dramatic and timely.” -New York Times Book Review, Editors ChoiceIn this grand and thrilling narrative, the author of the 200,000-copy paperback bestseller Over the Edge of the World reveals the singular adventures of Sir Francis Drake, whose mastery of the seas during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I changed the course of history.“Entrancing . . . Very good indeed.” -Wall Street JournalBefore he was secretly dispatched by Queen Elizabeth to circumnavigate the globe, or was called upon to save England from the Spanish Armada, Francis Drake was perhaps the most wanted-and successful-pirate ever to sail. Nicknamed “El Draque” by the Spaniards who placed a bounty on his head, the notorious red-haired, hot-tempered Drake pillaged galleons laden with New World gold and silver, stealing a vast fortune for his queen-and himself. For Elizabeth, Drake made the impossible real, serving as a crucial and brilliantly adaptable instrument of her ambitions to transform England from a third-rate island kingdom into a global imperial power.In 1580, sailing on Elizabeth’s covert orders, Drake became the first captain to circumnavigate the earth successfully. (Ferdinand Magellan had died in his attempt.) Part exploring expedition, part raiding mission, Drake’s audacious around-the-world journey in the Golden Hind reached Patagonia, the Pacific Coast of present-day California and Oregon, the Spice Islands, Java, and Africa. Almost a decade later, Elizabeth called upon Drake again. As the devil-may-care vice admiral of the English fleet, Drake dramatically defeated the once-invincible Spanish Armada, spurring the British Empire’s ascent and permanently wounding its greatest rival. The relationship between Drake and Elizabeth is the missing link in our understanding of the rise of the Brit...

-Titulo Original : Plunder A Memoir Of Family Property And Nazi Treasure-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: From a gifted young writer, the story of his quest to reclaim his family’s apartment building in Poland-and of the astonishing entanglement with Nazi treasure hunters that followsMenachem Kaiser’s brilliantly told story, woven from improbable events and profound revelations, is set in motion when the author takes up his Holocaust-survivor grandfather’s former battle to reclaim the family’s apartment building in Sosnowiec, Poland. Soon, he is on a circuitous path to encounters with the long-time residents of the building, and with a Polish lawyer known as “The Killer.” A surprise discovery-that his grandfather’s cousin not only survived the war, but wrote a secret memoir while a slave laborer in a vast, secret Nazi tunnel complex-leads to Kaiser being adopted as a virtual celebrity by a band of Silesian treasure seekers who revere the memoir as the indispensable guidebook to Nazi plunder. Propelled by rich original research, Kaiser immerses readers in profound questions that reach far beyond his personal quest. What does it mean to seize your own legacy? Can reclaimed property repair rifts among the living? Plunder is both a deeply immersive adventure story and an irreverent, daring interrogation of inheritance-material, spiritual, familial, and emotional. Review “A twisting and reverberant and consistently enthralling story. It’s a weird story that gets weirder … Kaiser is a reflective man on the page, with a lively mind. He dwells on the moral seesaw he finds himself on … Kaiser considers the nature of conspiracy theories, in a way that’s highly relevant to our era. (His thinking about reparations of various kinds is as complex and timely.) … Plunder has many stories to tell … many moods and registers. It acquires moral gravity. It pays tender and respectful attention to forgotten lives. It is also alert to melancholic forms of comedy. Tonally I was reminded at times of Jonathan Safran Foer’s excellent first novel, Everything Is Illuminated … Traveling on a private road, closer to the ground, and at a slower pace, [Kaiser’s] walk turns up details that are fresh, unexpected and significant. His perceptions are sharp. We partake of his curiosity.”-Dwight Garner, The New York Times “This is weird, complicated territory - by which I mean it’s fantastic . . . ‘Plunder’ thrives as a morally complicated travelogue . . . it is original, and it finishes strong. Kaiser chases down the facts (fingers-crossed) of Abraham Kajzer’s story, and they devastated me. It’s not spoiling things to say that Kajzer survived the absolute worst humanity had to offer only to abandon life’s greatest reward. From the distance of all these years his choice is incomprehensible. It’s our duty to try to understand anyway.”-The New York Times Book Review “Often hilarious, often poignant … A light tone belies the book’s seriousness of purpose: to tease out thorny issues of inheritance, reparations, and what it means to honor one’s dead.” -New Yorker “[Kaiser’s] rabbit-hole quest leads to wild encounters with Nazi treasure hunters, a lawyer named Killer, and plenty of questions. Fascinating.” -People A master storyteller embarks on a journey to learn about his grandfather and to reclaim an apartment building that was stolen during the Holocaust. The odyssey is fascinating and thought-provoking.-Christian Science Monitor, The 10 Best Books of March With smart, elegant prose, [Kaiser] manages to construct an engrossing chronicle of his foray into an elusive past. His narrative is wonderfully digressive, laced with coincidences and ambiguities, and filled with just enough revelations to keep readers contentedly turning pages.-The Forward A saga of family history and inheritance that reads like a murder mystery, Plunder begins with Menachem Kaiser’s journey to reclaim a Polish apartment building but immediately becomes something far richer and stranger. Probing with unusual insight and humor into questions of m...

-Titulo Original : Lincolns Mentors The Education Of A Leader-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: A brilliant and novel examination of how Abraham Lincoln mastered the art of leadership“Abraham Lincoln had less schooling than all but a couple of other presidents, and more wisdom than every one of them. In this original, insightful book, Michael Gerhardt explains how this came to be. -H.W. Brands, Wall Street JournalIn 1849, when Abraham Lincoln returned to Springfield, Illinois, after two seemingly uninspiring years in the U.S. House of Representatives, his political career appeared all but finished. His sense of failure was so great that friends worried about his sanity. Yet within a decade, Lincoln would reenter politics, become a leader of the Republican Party, win the 1860 presidential election, and keep America together during its most perilous period. What accounted for the turnaround?As Michael J. Gerhardt reveals, Lincoln’s reemergence followed the same path he had taken before, in which he read voraciously and learned from the successes, failures, oratory, and political maneuvering of a surprisingly diverse handful of men, some of whom he had never met but others of whom he knew intimately-Henry Clay, Andrew Jackson, Zachary Taylor, John Todd Stuart, and Orville Browning. From their experiences and his own, Lincoln learned valuable lessons on leadership, mastering party politics, campaigning, conventions, understanding and using executive power, managing a cabinet, speechwriting and oratory, and-what would become his most enduring legacy-developing policies and rhetoric to match a constitutional vision that spoke to the monumental challenges of his time.Without these mentors, Abraham Lincoln would likely have remained a small-town lawyer-and without Lincoln, the United States as we know it may not have survived. This book tells the unique story of how Lincoln emerged from obscurity and learned how to lead. Review “Abraham Lincoln had less schooling than all but a couple of other presidents, and more wisdom than every one of them. In this original, insightful book, Michael Gerhardt explains how this came to be. ... Gerhardt’s emphasis on Lincoln’s education casts his presidency in a distinctive light. This is no small accomplishment. -- H.W. Brands, Wall Street Journal“Abraham Lincoln had less schooling than all but a couple of other presidents, and more wisdom than every one of them. In this original, insightful book, Michael Gerhardt explains how this came to be. He focuses on five men he calls Lincoln’s mentors, but the book is really an account of how Lincoln educated himself. Crucially, it does not stop at the inauguration; more than any other president, Lincoln grew in office. Until the very end of his life, his self-education never ceased. ... Gerhardt’s emphasis on Lincoln’s education casts his presidency in a distinctive light. This is no small accomplishment given all that has been written about Lincoln. Mr. Gerhardt stresses that Lincoln was educable, a quality never more necessary in an occupant of the White House than during the Civil War.” -- H.W. Brands, Wall Street Journal“Lincoln’s Mentors has a vital lesson for anyone whos trying to succeed, or trying to help others succeed. The books big idea is that Lincoln, for all his gifts, was intentional about seeking out mentors who could help him master oratory, speechwriting, party politics, campaigning, conventions, executive power, managing a cabinet.” -- Mike Allen, Axios“Michael J. Gerhardt has devised an ingenious solution for demystifying America’s most enigmatic president: examining the key people who influenced Lincoln as he developed his own unique skills and leadership style. These pages trace how a poor backwoods farm boy rose to become among the most eloquent defenders of America’s highest ideals, as well as a steely and tenacious source of unity when the nation needed it most. Gerhardt shows that Lincoln’s genius was in borrowing selectively from the examples of his mentors-both the famous and the ...

-Titulo Original : Flowers For Algernon-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: Winner of both the Hugo and Nebula Awards, the powerful, classic story about a man who receives an operation that turns him into a genius...and introduces him to heartache. Charlie Gordon is about to embark upon an unprecedented journey. Born with an unusually low IQ, he has been chosen as the perfect subject for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence-a procedure that has already been highly successful when tested on a lab mouse named Algernon. As the treatment takes effect, Charlies intelligence expands until it surpasses that of the doctors who engineered his metamorphosis. The experiment appears to be a scientific breakthrough of paramount importance, until Algernon suddenly deteriorates. Will the same happen to Charlie? Review PRAISE FOR FLOWERS FOR ALGERNONA tale that is convincing, suspenseful and touching.--The New York Times An ingeniously touching story . . . Moving . . . Intensely real.--The Baltimore Sun From the Back Cover When we first meet Charlie he is about to embark on a compelling but dangerous journey from retardation to genius. He has only a vague understanding of what will happen, but he is aware that knowledge and the ability to write are of paramount importance. So he doesnt hesitate for a moment to cooperate in a radical experiment designed to increase his intelligence, the key - he hopes - to being valued as a human being and to being loved. Daniel Keyess powerful and highly original story of a young man whose quest for intelligence and knowledge parallels that of Algernon (the mouse who is an earlier subject of a similar experiment) remains unique in imaginative literature. We follow Charlie Gordons mental, emotional, and spiritual growth. We watch with excitement as he becomes the focus of attention by the scientific world, his intellectual capacities far surpassing those of the psychologists and neurosurgeons who engineered his metamorphosis. We also follow the progress of his romance with two women, one who knew him before the experiment as well as with another, who knows him only as the attractive, bright, and sympathetic man he has become. And, finally, we hope against hope that what happens suddenly, unexpectedly, to Algernon will not happen to Charlie. About the Author Daniel Keyes (1927 - 2014) was born in Brooklyn, New York, and received his B.A. and M.A. degrees from Brooklyn College. He was the author of eight books, including the classic Flowers for Algernon, first published in 1966, which would go on to sell more than five million copies and inspire the Oscar-winning film Charly. He also worked as a merchant seaman, a fiction editor, a high school teacher, and as a university professor at Ohio University, where he was honored at Professor Emeritus in 2000. He won the Hugo and Nebula awards for his work and was chosen as an Author Emeritus by the Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America in 2000. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. progris riport 1 martch 3Dr Strauss says I shoud rite down what I think and remembir and evrey thing that happins to me from now on. I dont no why but he says its importint so they will see if they can use me. I hope they use me becaus Miss Kinnian says mabye they can make me smart. I want to be smart. My name is Charlie Gordon I werk in Donners bakery where Mr Donner gives me 11 dollers a week and bred or cake if I want. I am 32 yeres old and next munth is my brithday. I tolld dr Strauss and perfesser Nemur I cant rite good but he says it dont matter he says I shud rite just like I talk and like I rite compushishens in Miss Kinnians class at the beekmin collidge center for retarted adults where I go to lern 3 times a week on my time off. Dr. Strauss says to rite a lot evrything I think and evrything that happins to me but I cant think anymor because I have nothing to rite so I will close for today...yrs truly Charlie Gor...

-Titulo Original : The Hobbit And The Lord Of The Rings Deluxe Pocket Boxed Set-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: About the Author J.R.R. TOLKIEN (1892-1973) is the creator of Middle-earth and author of such classic and extraordinary works of fiction as The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion. His books have been translated into more than fifty languages and have sold many millions of copies worldwide. Immerse yourself in Middle-earth with J.R.R. Tolkien’s classic masterpieces behind the films... This gorgeous four-volume, deluxe pocket boxed set contains Tolkiens epic works The Hobbit and the three volumes of The Lord of the Rings (The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, and The Return of the King). The set comes shrinkwrapped and all four books are held in a leatherette bound box with gold foil stamping; each book features a leatherette cover with stamped title. In The Hobbit, Bilbo Baggins is whisked away from his comfortable, unambitious life in Hobbiton by the wizard Gandalf and a company of dwarves. He finds himself caught up in a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon.The Lord of the Rings tells of the great quest undertaken by Frodo Baggins and the Fellowship of the Ring: Gandalf the wizard; the hobbits Merry, Pippin, and Sam; Gimli the dwarf; Legolas the elf; Boromir of Gondor; and a tall, mysterious stranger called Strider.Tolkiens epic tales, all in a four-volume, deluxe pocket boxed set, is at once a classic myth and a modern fairy tale-a story of high and heroic adventure set in the unforgettable landscape of Middle-earth...

-Titulo Original : Animal Farm 1984-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: This edition features George Orwells best known novels - 1984 and Animal Farm - with an introduction by Christopher Hitchens. In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston Smith joins a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be.Animal Farm is Orwells classic satire of the Russian Revolution -- an account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Joness Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. But are they? From the Inside Flap ALL ANIMALS ARE EQUALBUT SOME ANIMALS ARE MORE EQUAL THAN OTHERSGeorge Orwells classic satire of the Russian Revolution is the account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Joness Manor Farm into Animal Farm--a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. Out of their cleverness, the pigs Napoleon, Squealer, and Snowball emerge as leaders of the new community in a subtle evolution that proves disastrous. The climax is the brutal betrayal of the faithful horse Boxer, when totalitarian rule is re-established with the bloodstained postscript to the founding slogan: But Some Animals Are More Equal Than Others. WAR IS PEACE. FREEDOM IS SLAVERY. IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH.In 1984, London is a grim city where Big Brother is always watching you and the Thought Police can practically read your mind. Winston is a man in grave danger for the simple reason that his memory still functions. Drawn into a forbidden love affair, Winston finds the courage to join a secret revolutionary organization called The Brotherhood, dedicated to the destruction of the Party. Together with his beloved Julia, he hazards his life in a deadly match against the powers that be. From the Back Cover The two novels that you now hold in your hands have become modern classics. . . taught in many schools as examples of moral weight and political prescience . . . read for pleasure, excitement and instruction. -- from the Introduction by Christopher HitchensPRAISE FOR ANIMAL FARMA wise, compassionate, and illuminating fable. -- The New York TimesAbsolutely first-rate . . . comparable to Voltaire and Swift. -- The New YorkerThere are no replacements for a George Orwell, just as there are no replacements for a Bernard Shaw or a Mark Twain. . . . he pricked, provoked and badgered lazy minds, delighted those who enjoyed watching an orginal intelligence at work. -- TimePRAISE FOR 19841984 is a profound, terrifying, and wholly fascinating book. It is a fantasy of the political future, and like any such fantasy, serves its author as a magnifying device for an examination of the present. -- Lionel Trilling 1949The most solid, the most brilliant, thing George Orwell has done. -- V.S. Pritchett About the Author GEORGE ORWELL (1903-1950) was born in India and served with the Imperial Police in Burma before joining the Republican Army in the Spanish Civil War. Orwell was the author of six novels, including 1984 and Animal Farm, as well as numerous essays and nonfiction works. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. MR. JONES, OF THE Manor Farm, had locked the hen-houses for the night, but was too drunk to remember to shut the popholes. With the ring of light from his lantern dancing from side to side, he lurched across the yard, kicked off his boots at the back door, drew himself a last glass of beer from the barrel in the scullery, and made his way up to bed, where Mrs. Jones was already snoring. As soon as the light in the bedroom went out there was a stirring and a fluttering all through the farm buildings. Word had gone round during the day that old Major, ...

-Titulo Original : This Is Going To Hurt [tv Tie-in] Secret Diaries Of A Young Doctor-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: About the Author Adam Kay is an award-winning comedian and writer for TV and film. He previously worked for many years as a doctor. His first book, This Is Going to Hurt, spent more than a year at #1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list and has sold 2.5 million copies worldwide. It will be a major new comedy-drama for AMC (BBC in UK), for which Kay is the creator, writer, and executive producer. He lives in Oxfordshire, England. Soon to be an AMC series starring Ben Whishaw The acclaimed multimillion-copy bestseller, This Is Going to Hurt is Adam Kay’s equally blisteringly funny (Boston Globe) and “heartbreaking” (New Yorker) memoir of his years as a young doctor.Welcome to 97-hour weeks. Welcome to life and death decisions. Welcome to a constant tsunami of bodily fluids. Welcome to earning less than the hospital parking meter. Wave goodbye to your friends and relationships. Welcome to the life of a first-year doctor.Scribbled in secret after endless days, sleepless nights, and missed weekends, comedian and former medical resident Adam Kay’s This Is Going to Hurt provides a no-holds-barred account of his time on the front lines of medicine.Hilarious, horrifying, and heartbreaking by turns, this is everything you wanted to know-and more than a few things you didn’t-about life on and off the hospital ward.And yes, it may leave a scar. Review Darkly funny. ... heartbreaking. - Sam Knight, The New YorkerHilarious and heartbreaking. ...I howled, yelped, and occasionally choked with laughter. ...This book may hurt, but in an important and necessary way. - Cathy Rentzenbrink, The Times (London), “Humour Book of the Year”“Its so hilarious. Its so irreverent, both about himself, the patients, the doctors in charge of him, that I think I laughed on every page.” - Kristan Higgins, Entertainment WeeklyBlisteringly funny. - Boston GlobeSo clinically funny and politically important that it should be given out on prescription. - The GuardianBrilliant. Five stars. Amazing. - Mark Haddon, bestselling author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-TimePainfully funny. The pain and the funniness somehow add up to something entirely good, entirely noble, and entirely lovable. - Stephen Fry, actor, comedian, and author of MythosBloody funny. - Minnie Drive...

-Titulo Original : When God Was A Woman-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: The landmark exploration of the ancient worship of the Great Goddess and the eventual supression of womens rites.In the beginning, God was a woman...How did the shift from matriarchy to patriarchy come about? In fascinating detail, Merlin Stone tells us the story of the Goddess who reigned supreme in the Near and Middle East. Under her reign, societal roles differed markedly from those in patriarchal Judeo-Christian cultures: women bought and sold property, traded in the marketplace, and inherited title and land from their mothers. Documenting the wholesale rewriting of myth and religious dogmas, Merlin Stone describes an ancient conspiracy in which the Goddess was reimagined as a wanton, depraved figure, a characterization confirmed and perpetuated by one of modern cultures best-known legends-that of the fall of Adam and Eve. Insightful and thought-provoking, this is essential reading for anyone interested in the origin of current gender roles and in rediscovering womens power. About the Author Merlin Stone, a teacher of art and art history as well as a widely exhibited sculptor, became interested in archaeology and ancient religion through her art. She has produced pieces on the Goddess for both radio and the stage, and conceived and organized Goddess festivals in both New York and Toronto...

-Titulo Original : The Namesake A Novel-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. Pulitzer Prize winner Jhumpa Lahiri brilliantly illuminates the immigrant experience and the tangled ties between generations. Namesake is a fine-tuned, intimate, and deeply felt novel of identity from “a writer of uncommon elegance and poise.” (The New York Times) Meet the Ganguli family, new arrivals from Calcutta, trying their best to become Americans even as they pine for home. The name they bestow on their firstborn, Gogol, betrays all the conflicts of honoring tradition in a new world - conflicts that will haunt Gogol on his own winding path through divided loyalties, comic detours, and wrenching love affairs. Dazzling...An intimate, closely observed family portrait.-The New York Times Hugely appealing.-People Magazine An exquisitely detailed family saga.-Entertainment Weekly Review This eagerly anticipated debut novel deftly expands on Lahiris signature themes of love, solitude and cultural disorientation.Harpers BazaarThis poignant treatment of the immigrant experience is a rich, stimulating fusion of authentic emotion, ironic observation, and revealing details.Library JournalLahiris ... deeply knowing, avidly descriptive, and luxuriously paced first novel is equally triumphant [as Interpreter of Maladies]. Booklist, ALAJhumpa Lahiri expands her Pulitzer Prize-winning short stories of Indian assimilation into her lovely first novel, THE NAMESAKE. Vanity FairLahiri weaves an intricate story of ... an Indian family in America. Their bumpy journey to self-acceptance will move you.Marie Claire[Lahiri] weaves an authentic tale of a Bengali family in Boston... [which] powerfully depicts the universal pull of family traditions.LifetimeThe casual beauty of the writing keeps the pages turning.Elle...immaculately written, seamlessly constructed novel from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of INTERPRETER OF MALADIES.Book Magazine...remarkably assured first novel. Readers will find here the same elegant, deceptively simple prose that garnered so much praise for her short stories.BookpageA debut novel that is as assured and eloquent as the work of a longtime master of the craft.The New York TimesGracefully written and filled with well-observed details.People Magazine...far more authentic and lavishly imagines than many other young writers best work.TimeOut New YorkLahiri is insightful on the complexities of foreignness.Boston Magazinegraceful and wonderfully specific prose...A Entertainment WeeklyIn the world of literature, Lahiri writes like a native.The San Francisco Chroniclegenerous, exacting portrait of the clash between cultural dictates and one mans heart.Boston GlobeAstringent and clear-eyed in thought, vivid in its portraiture, attuned to American particulars and universal yearnings...memorable fiction.Newsday[Lahiris] writing is assured and patient, inspiring immediate confidence that we are in trustworthy hands.The Los Angeles TimesAchingly artful, Jhumpa Lahiris first novel showcases her prodigious gifts.The Baltimore SunLahiris inventive imagination and mellifluous prose makes her first novel simply wonderful...Its simply splendid.Providence JournalA fine novel from a superb writer The Washington PostA delicate, moving first novel.Time MagazineA debut novel that triumphs in its breadth and mastery.Star LedgerThe novel not only proves the authors ease with the longer form but clearly demonstrates her artistic sensibility.News and Observer...an accomplished novelist of the first rank, to whose further work we can look forward with confidence and excitement The San Diego Union-Tribune...simple yet richly detailed writing that makes the heart ache as [Lahiri] meticulously unfolds the lives of her characters.USA TodayA book to savor, certainly one of the best of the year.Atlanta Journal Constitution[An] exquisitely accomplished novel.San Jose Mercury News...one of the best works of fiction published this year.The Seattle Times...leaves its imprin...

-Titulo Original : Peterson Field Guide To Birds Of Eastern & Central North America, Seventh Ed. (peterson Field Guides)-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: A new edition of the classic, best-selling field guide from Peterson Field Guides For decades, the Peterson Field Guide to Birdsof Eastern and Central North America has been a popular and trusted guide for birders of all levels, thanks to its famous system of identification and unparalleled illustrations. Following the Spring 2020 update to Peterson Field Guide to Birds of North America, this guide will feature updated text and range maps, and art updated to reflect current knowledge in ornithology. About the Author ROGER TORY PETERSON, one of the world’s greatest naturalists, received every major award for ornithology, natural science, and conservation as well as numerous honorary degrees, medals, and citations, including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. The Peterson Identification System has been called the greatest invention since binoculars...

-Titulo Original : Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone A Novel-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: Knives Out and Clue meet Agatha Christie and The Thursday Murder Club in this “utterly original” (Jane Harper), “not to be missed” (Karin Slaughter), fiendishly clever blend of classic and modern murder mystery.Everyone in my family has killed someone. Some of us, the high achievers, have killed more than once. I’m not trying to be dramatic, but it is the truth. Some of us are good, others are bad, and some just unfortunate.I’m Ernest Cunningham. Call me Ern or Ernie. I wish I’d killed whoever decided our family reunion should be at a ski resort, but it’s a little more complicated than that.Have I killed someone? Yes. I have.Who was it?Let’s get started.EVERYONE IN MY FAMILY HAS KILLED SOMEONEMy brotherMy stepsisterMy wifeMy fatherMy motherMy sister-in-lawMy uncleMy stepfatherMy auntMe Review “I absolutely loved it. Utterly original, hugely entertaining, and a must-read for every fan of the mystery genre. What an exceptionally fresh, smart, funny book-I’ve never read anything like this before.” - Jane Harper“Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone is a jaunty and clever mystery with unexpected twists. Absolutely not to be missed.” - Karin Slaughter“I absolutely LOVED it. It’s so engaging, entertaining and charming. I don’t think I’ve ever read anything like it. It was SUCH a fun read.” - Marian Keye...

-Titulo Original : Davos Man How The Billionaires Devoured The World-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: A San Francisco Chronicle BestsellerThe New York Times’s Global Economics Correspondent masterfully reveals how billionaires’ systematic plunder of the world-brazenly accelerated during the pandemic-has transformed 21st-century life and dangerously destabilized democracy.“Davos Man will be read a hundred years from now as a warning.” -Evan Osnos“Excellent. A powerful, fiery book, and it could well be an essential one.” -NPR.orgThe history of the last half century in America, Europe, and other major economies is in large part the story of wealth flowing upward. The most affluent people emerged from capitalism’s triumph in the Cold War to loot the peace, depriving governments of the resources needed to serve their people, and leaving them tragically unprepared for the worst pandemic in a century.Drawing on decades of experience covering the global economy, award-winning journalist Peter S. Goodman profiles five representative “Davos Men”-members of the billionaire class-chronicling how their shocking exploitation of the global pandemic has hastened a fifty-year trend of wealth centralization. Alongside this reporting, Goodman delivers textured portraits of those caught in Davos Man’s wake, including a former steelworker in the American Midwest, a Bangladeshi migrant in Qatar, a Seattle doctor on the front lines of the fight against COVID, blue-collar workers in the tenements of Buenos Aires, an African immigrant in Sweden, a textile manufacturer in Italy, an Amazon warehouse employee in New York City, and more.Goodman’s revelatory expose of the global billionaire class reveals their hidden impact on nearly every aspect of modern society: widening wealth inequality, the rise of anti-democratic nationalism, the shrinking opportunity to earn a livable wage, the vulnerabilities of our health-care systems, access to affordable housing, unequal taxation, and even the quality of the shirt on your back. Meticulously reported yet compulsively readable, Davos Man is an essential read for anyone concerned about economic justice, the capacity of societies to grapple with their greatest challenges, and the sanctity of representative government. Review “A meticulously researched, clearly reported and truly infuriating history of the way the top 1% of the world has systematically arranged the way societies operate in order to become even richer, all to the detriment of the rest of us. … The book serves as a call to arms and an invitation to fight back against the continued unabashed pillaging of all economies by those who least need it.” - San Francisco Chronicle“Powerful. … Goodman’s reporting is biting and bitterly funny. … Davos Man shows us that today’s extreme wealth is inextricably linked to a great crime, perhaps the greatest one of this century: the hijacking of our democracy.” - Washington Post“Excellent. ... An angry, powerful look at the economic inequality thats been brought into sharp relief by the COVID-19 pandemic. … A powerful, fiery book, and it could well be an essential one.” - NPR.orgThe Times’s global economics correspondent profiles five billionaires (along with workers and migrants across the world) to show how their exploitation of the pandemic has exacerbated inequality across the globe. - New York Times Book Review “Well-written and well-reported. … A passionate denunciation of the mega-rich.” - The EconomistA biting, uproarious yet vital and deadly serious account of the profound damage the billionaire class is inflicting on the world. Peter S. Goodman guides the reader through the hidden stories and twisted beliefs of some of the titans of finance and industry, who continually rationalize their bad behavior to themselves. - JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ, recipient of the Nobel Prize in EconomicsUnflinching and authoritative, Peter Goodman’s Davos Man will be read a hundred years from now as a warning, bellowed from the blessed side of the velvet rope, about a slow-motion scandal that...

-Titulo Original : Wahala A Novel-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: Contemporary female friendship goes glam in this lively debut novel with remarkable depth. -- Washington PostGreat fun and extremely smart. -- npr.orgNAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2022 BY Vogue * Marie Claire * Glamour * Essence * Oprah Daily * Entertainment Weekly * Bustle * PopSugar * CrimeReads * and more! An incisive and exhilarating debut novel following three Anglo-Nigerian best friends and the lethally glamorous fourth woman who infiltrates their group-the most unforgettable girls since Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte, and Samantha.Ronke wants happily ever after and 2.2. kids. She’s dating Kayode and wants him to be “the one” (perfect, like her dead father). Her friends think he’s just another in a long line of dodgy Nigerian boyfriends.Boo has everything Ronke wants-a kind husband, gorgeous child. But she’s frustrated, unfulfilled, plagued by guilt, and desperate to remember who she used to be.Simi is the golden one with the perfect lifestyle. No one knows she’s crippled by impostor syndrome and tempted to pack it all in each time her boss mentions her “urban vibe.” Her husband thinks they’re trying for a baby. She’s not.When the high-flying, charismatic Isobel explodes into the group, it seems at first she’s bringing out the best in each woman. (She gets Simi an interview in Shanghai! Goes jogging with Boo!) But the more Isobel intervenes, the more chaos she sows, and Ronke, Simi, and Boo’s close friendship begins to crack.A sharp, modern take on friendship, ambition, culture, and betrayal, Wahala (trouble) is an unforgettable novel from a brilliant new voice. Review “The novel’s strength lies in May’s attention to her main characters’ identities. ...May’s breezy prose is well suited for these moments of casual intimacy, unfolding over drinks, at the hairdresser’s or at the kitchen table, where all the best gossip takes place.” - New York TimesContemporary female friendship goes glam in this lively debut novel with remarkable depth. - Washington Post“If And Just Like That... isnt exactly satisfying your modern Sex and the City itch, may we present to you Wahala. This dazzling debut centers on three Anglo-Nigerian best friends and the glamorous fourth woman who infiltrates their group....We couldnt help but wonder if they might need something stronger than a cosmopolitan to survive this.” - E! Online“Sharply observed…sophisticated and culturally adept…May is a masterful chronicler of Black upper-middle-class life and ennui in Britain. Wahala is both great fun and extremely smart in how it captures some of the central issues in modern city living: womens evolving roles in home and work, interracial relationships and multicultural identity, the current of competition that runs through so many friendships and daily interactions and, most of all, how easily intimacy can morph into enmity. - NPR.orgA fun, juicy read with a dash of drama, just like all the best friendships. - Good Housekeeping“Wahala is a solid, slow-burn, page-turning mystery...Worth the read.” - Associated Press“Nikki Mays debut novel, Wahala, melds the beach read with the thriller - with a little dose of Sex and the City energy on the side.” - Entertainment Weekly“This has bestseller written all over it. Fast-paced, funny, shocking, unputdownable. I loved it.” - Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train and A Slow Fire BurningI couldnt get enough of the four women at the heart of Nikki Mays utterly winning debut novel, WAHALA. Every evening, I sank into my bubble bath, eager to return to the lives of Mays deep and complex characters: Simi, Ronke, Boo, and the fabulous (but maybe evil) Isobel. Their loves and wahala (trouble) brought to mind Sex & the City but felt more modern, more real. When I closed Nikki Mays delicious, hilarious novel, I felt I was returning to joy. I knew it was time to call my friends...time to get into some good wahala of my own. - Amanda Eyre Ward, New York Times bestsel...

-Titulo Original : Coach K The Rise And Reign Of Mike Krzyzewski-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER The definitive biography of college basketball’s all-time winningest coach, Mike Krzyzewski. Mike Krzyzewski, known worldwide as “Coach K,” is a five-time national champion at Duke, the NCAA’s all-time leader in victories with nearly 1,200, and the first man to lead Team USA to three Olympic basketball gold medals. Through unprecedented access to Krzyzewski’s best friends, closest advisers, fiercest adversaries, and generations of his players and assistants, three-time New York Times bestselling author Ian O’Connor takes you behind the Blue Devil curtain with a penetrating examination of the great but flawed leader as he closes out his iconic career. Krzyzewski built a staggering basketball empire that has endured for more than four decades, placing him among the all-time titans of American sport, and yet there has never been a defining portrait of the coach and his program. Until now. O’Connor uses scores of interviews with those who know Krzyzewski best to deliver previously untold stories about the relationships that define the venerable Coach K, including the one with his volcanic mentor, Bob Knight, that died a premature death. Krzyzewski was always driven by an inner rage fueled by his tough Chicago upbringing, and by the blue-collar Polish-American parents who raised him to fight for a better life. With updated coverage of Coach K’s stunning final season, O’Connor shows you sides of the man and his methods that will surprise even the most dedicated Duke fan. “Basketball fans might feel as though they already know Coach K-or Mike Krzyzewski, the decades-long coach of the Duke Blue Devils who’s set to retire after this season. In this insightful biography, sportswriter O’Connor captures the formative experiences and inner drive that catapulted the coach to icon status. Even the most die-hard fans will learn something.” - Washington Pos...

-Titulo Original : Lessons From The Edge A Memoir-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER | An inspiring and urgent memoir by the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine-a pioneering diplomat who spent her career advancing democracy in the post-Soviet world, and who electrified the nation by speaking truth to power during the first impeachment of President Trump.Marie Yovanovitch was at the height of her diplomatic career when it all came crashing down. In the middle of her third ambassadorship-a rarity in the world of diplomacy-she was targeted by a smear campaign and abruptly recalled from her post in Kyiv, Ukraine. In the months that followed, she endured personal tragedy while simultaneously being pulled into the blinding lights of the first impeachment inquiry of Donald Trump. It was a time of chaos and pain, for her and for the nation.Yet Yovanovitch was no stranger to instability and injustice. Born into a family that had survived Soviet and Nazi terror, she first saw the corrosive effect of corruption in Somalia while cutting her teeth as a diplomat in the male-dominated world of the 1980s State Department. She was an eyewitness to the 1993 constitutional crisis in Russia and the street fighting in Moscow. And she rose to the top of her profession in the crucible of the former USSR, where she saw how President Vladimir Putin adeptly exploited corrupt leaders in neighboring countries and undermined their developing democracies.Nowhere was Putin’s aggression clearer than in Ukraine, where Russia meddled in elections, launched cyberattacks, peddled misinformation, illegally annexed Crimea, invaded the Donbas, and attacked Ukrainian ships in the Black Sea. But when Yovanovitch was abruptly recalled from her post and Ukraine’s democratically elected president, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, found himself set upon by Trump, it became clear just how dangerously close to the edge America itself had strayed.Through it all, Yovanovitch tirelessly advocated for the Ukrainian people, while advancing U.S. interests and staying true to herself. When she made the courageous decision to participate in the impeachment inquiry-over the objections of the Trump administration-she earned the nation’s respect, and her dignified response to the president’s attacks won our hearts. She has reclaimed her own narrative, first with her lauded congressional testimony, and now with this powerful memoir: the dramatic saga of one woman’s role at the vanguard of American foreign policy during a time of upheaval, for herself and for our country.A Publishers Marketplace 2021 Buzz Book“A brilliant, engaging, and inspiring memoir from one of America’s wisest and most courageous diplomats-essential reading for current policymakers, aspiring public servants, and anyone who cares about America’s role in the world.”-Madeleine K. Albright“First through the breach, Ambassador Yovanovitch showed Americans what courage and patriotism looks like. More than essential reading, Lessons from the Edge is thoroughly engaging and impossible to put down, showing us how an introverted career diplomat overcame the most vicious of smear campaigns to become a foreign service legend.”-Congressman Adam Schiff“At turns moving and gripping and always inspiring … a powerful testament to a uniquely American life well-lived and a remarkable career of dedicated public service at the highest levels of government.”-Fiona Hill, New York Times best-selling author of There Is Nothing for You Here: Finding Opportunity in the Twenty-First Century Review “Absorbing… During the [impeachment] hearings, Yovanovitch sounded calm and self-assured, but in her book she describes how scared she was…. That I arrived at this moment in the book with my heart in my throat speaks to how skillfully Yovanovitch narrates her life story. - Jennifer Szalai, New York TimesSubtle and engaging ... Yovanovitch emerges from this narrative as a model of what America should want in its diplomats: courageous, steadfast, removed from politics to the p...

-Titulo Original : Fault Lines: A Novel-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARDWhat is the cost of a mother’s desire?...Emily Itami explores this question with wit and poignancy. -- New York Times Book ReviewThe perfect marriage of Sally Rooney and early Murakami. -- Kathy Wang, author of Impostor SyndromeMizuki is a Japanese housewife. She has a hardworking husband, two adorable children, and a beautiful Tokyo apartment. It’s everything a woman could want, yet sometimes she wonders whether she would rather throw herself off the high-rise balcony than spend another evening not talking to her husband and hanging up laundry.Then, one rainy night, she meets Kiyoshi, a successful restaurateur. In him, she rediscovers freedom, friendship, and the neon, electric pulse of the city she has always loved. But the further she falls into their relationship, the clearer it becomes that she is living two lives-and in the end, we can choose only one.Funny, provocative, and startlingly honest, Fault Lines is for anyone who has ever looked in the mirror and asked, who am I and how did I get here? A bittersweet love story and a piercing portrait of female identity, it introduces Emily Itami as a debut novelist with astounding resonance and wit. Review What’s intriguing about Fault Lines is its shrewd commentary on Japan’s societal expectations of women as either sex objects or dutiful mothers. As Mizuki eventually learns, it’s in striking a workable balance between these two dichotomies - her past life versus her present one, titillating desire versus familial obligations, who she wants to be versus who society dictates she should be - that the real work of living begins.” - Washington Post“A complicated romance with immense empathy for all its characters and their flaws [and] a wonderfully nuanced take on Tokyo life.” - PopsugarSharp and stunning. - New York PostThis remarkably strong debut has volumes to say about choices, adulthood, tradition and freedom. - Ms. magazineWanderlust warning! Itamis dreamy debut will have you craving a trip to Tokyo. - E! OnlineWhat is the cost of a mother’s desire?...Emily Itami explores this question with wit and poignancy. - New York Times Book Review Sexy, laugh-out-loud funny, and full of prose as sumptuous as the meals described, Fault Lines is a must read for anyone fond of Sally Rooney’s expert characterization and Haruki Murakami’s immersive world-building. - Bon AppetitMizuki is one of the most engaging adulteresses I’ve ever encountered, and a wonderfully witty guide to the morals and mores of contemporary Tokyo. I now know just how to behave while picking up children from school, or meeting strangers. Fault Lines is a moving and suspenseful novel full of the best kinds of incidental wisdom. - Margot Livesey, author of The Boy in the Field“Fault Lines manages to be clever, wise, and heartbreaking all at once -- the book is the perfect marriage of Sally Rooney and early Murakami, with a unique insight into marriage, motherhood, and warring cultural expectations that is all Emily Itamis own. Absolutely brilliant. - Kathy Wang, author of Impostor Syndrome“Fault Lines is full of laugh-out-loud, irreverent humor, as well as heartstoppingly poignant, yet seemingly incidental, wisdom. All of the inner yearnings and tribulations of Mizuki are laid bare, offering one of the fullest, most thorough depictions of a character I have ever read. … Every line here is razor-sharp, chosen with precision, resulting in a deceptively clever, emotionally wise and truly heartbreaking novel.” - Bookreporter Brilliant. - BooklistFunny and tender. - Bustle“A brilliant modern love story. I found it atmospheric and transporting but also wise, clever, and universal in its exploration of love, family, and identity. I loved it.” - Cathy Rentzenbrink, Sunday Times bestselling author of The Last Act of Love“An addictive and beautiful novel with a fantastic voice, full of wry humor and sharp observations. It...

-Titulo Original : The Locked Room-Fabricante : Mariner Books-Descripcion Original: About the Author ELLY GRIFFITHS is the author of the Ruth Galloway and Brighton mystery series, as well as the standalone novels The Stranger Diaries, winner of the Edgar Award for Best Novel, and The Postscript Murders. She is the recipient of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award and the Mary Higgins Clark Award. She lives in Brighton, England. Pandemic lockdowns have Ruth Galloway feeling isolated from everyone but a new neighbor-until Nelson comes calling, investigating a decades-long string of murder-suicides that’s looming ever closer, in USA Today Elly Griffiths’ penultimate novel in the beloved series.Three years after her mother’s death, Ruth is finally sorting through her things when she finds a curious relic: a decades-old photograph of her own Norfolk cottage-before she lived there-with a peculiar inscription on the back. Ruth returns to the cot­tage to uncover its meaning as Norfolk’s first cases of Covid-19 make headlines, leaving her and Kate to shelter in place there. They struggle to stave off isolation by clapping for frontline workers each evening and befriending a kind neighbor, Zoe, from a distance.Meanwhile, Nelson is investigating a series of deaths of women that may or may not be suicide. When he links a case to an archaeological dis­covery, he breaks curfew to visit Ruth and enlist her help. But the further Nelson investigates the deaths, the closer he gets to Ruth’s isolated cot­tage-until Ruth, Zoe, and Kate all go missing, and Nelson is left scrambling to find them before it’s too late.PRAISE FOR ELLY GRIFFITHS AND THE RUTH GALLOWAY SERIESWinner of the Edgar Award for Best NovelWinner of the Mary Higgins Clark AwardWinner of the CWA Dagger in the Library Award“Galloway is an everywoman, smart, successful and a little bit unsure of herself. Readers will look forward to learning more about her.” -USA Today“Elly Griffiths draws us all the way back to prehistoric times . . . Highly atmospheric.” -New York Times Book Review“Forensic archeologist and academic Ruth Galloway is a captivating amateur sleuth-an inspired creation. I identified with her insecurities and struggles, and cheered her on.” -Louise Penny Review “This 14th installment in the beloved series finds forensic archaeologist Ruth Galloway contending with a medieval skeleton, a family secret-and the encroaching COVID pandemic.” - People, Best Books of Summer“Kicks of just ahead of the COVID-19 lockdown, adding an extra level of tension to a locked-room police investigation that intersects with local ghost stories, myths, and historical plague lore.” - Boston Globe, Summer Reading “Ruth proves endearing in her insecurities and inspiring in her fierce determination as she copes with a perilous world. The Galloway series has achieved both critical acclaim and widespread popular success, and this latest installment will only enhance its reputation.” - Booklist (starred review)“Lockdown provides a brilliant opportunity for Griffiths, bringing fresh drama into her characters lives and she makes the most of it.” - Sunday Times (UK)“A terrific story that allows Galloway and Nelson to get closer than they have been for years.” - The Times (UK), Best New Crime Fiction“Griffiths Ruth Galloway series combines imaginative plotting, cleverly located in deepest Norfolk, with the everyday dramas of her case of regular characters . . . This is Griffiths on top form.” - Mail on Sunday“A classic English mystery from one of the leading authors in the field, charming from start to finish.” - Irish Independen...