-Titulo Original : Light Perpetual A Novel-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: Named a Best Book of the Year by TheNew York Times, NPR, Slate, Lit Hub, Fresh Air, and more From the critically acclaimed and award winning author of Golden Hill, an “extraordinary…symphonic…casually stunning” (The Wall Street Journal) novel tracing the infinite possibilities of five lives in the bustling neighborhoods of 20th-century London.Lunchtime on a Saturday, 1944: the Woolworths on Bexford High Street in South London receives a delivery of aluminum saucepans. A crowd gathers to see the first new metal in ages-after all, everything’s been melted down for the war effort. An instant later, the crowd is gone; incinerated. Among the shoppers were five young children. Who were they? What futures did they lose? This brilliantly constructed novel, inspired by real events, lets an alternative reel of time run, imagining the lives of these five souls as they live through the extraordinary, unimaginable changes of the bustling immensity of twentieth-century London. Their intimate everyday dramas, as sons and daughters, spouses, parents, grandparents; as the separated, the remarried, the bereaved. Through decades of social, sexual, and technological transformation, as bus conductors and landlords, as swindlers and teachers, patients and inmates. Days of personal triumphs and disasters; of second chances and redemption. Ingenious and profound, full of warmth and beauty, Light Perpetual “offers a moving view of how people confront the gap between their expectations and their reality” (The New Yorker) and illuminates the shapes of experience, the extraordinariness of the ordinary, the mysteries of memory, and the preciousness of life. Review *A New York Times Notable Book of 2021* A God’s-eye meditation on mutability and loss. . . . an extraordinary novel in terms of its variety of character, symphonic language and spiritual reach. . . . [Spufford is] such a beautiful writer, casually stunning in his language and perceptions. . . . Light Perpetual is a miracle, not only of art but of encompassing empathy.” -Maureen Corrigan, The Wall Street Journal Offers a moving view of how people confront the gap between their expectations and their reality. -The New Yorker Vividly imagined. . . . Spufford is a fluent writer, bringing a deft touch to the emotional force fields of parents and their children. . . . richly drawn.” -Christopher Benfy, The New York Times Book Review Heady, vivid, ecstatically precise. . . . uncannily good. . . . Light Perpetual is the sort of novel that’s carried by its descriptions, passages that transform the ordinary into the transcendent and leave us marveling.” -Laura Miller, Slate “Just finished Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford. My God he can write. And one of the best opening chapters and closing chapters youll ever read.”-Richard Osman, author of The Thursday Murder Club and The Man Who Died Twice Spufford’s storytelling is beautiful, paced, and engaging. . . . [He] makes the case that all lives are inherently interesting if we look at them closely enough. -Lit Hub, Our Favorite Books of 2021 “Magical . . . stunning. . . . Thanks to Spufford’s narrative wizardry, all five protagonists come to vivid life in this spectacularly moving story.” -Publishers Weekly, STARRED review “[A] richly imagined mosaic. . . . [T]he characters are complex, engaging, memorable. Spufford does indeed bring them to life. He also brings depth and detail to every vignette, from a boy’s view of soccer to hot-lead typesetting, a neo-Nazi concert, or a trip on a double-decker bus. . . . Entertaining and unconventional.” -Kirkus Reviews, STARRED review “Graceful. . . . Light Perpetual derives considerable power from dramatizing the experiences its characters missed: the chance to build and lose a fortune, to see one’s dreams realized or else rerouted toward more modest achievements, or just to hold a loved one’s hand. -BookPage, STARRED review Five children die in 1944, but ima...

-Titulo Original : Stories From Quarantine-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: A stunning collection ofnew fiction previously published as The Decameron Project and originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic firstspread acrossthe world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Edwidge Danticat, Rachel Kushner, Colm Toibin, Charles Yu, and more.When reality is surreal, only fiction can make sense of it... In 1353, Giovanni Boccaccio wrote The Decameron: one hundred nested tales told by a group of young men and women passing the time at a villa outside Florence while waiting out the gruesome Black Death, a plague that killed more than 25 million people. Some of the stories are silly, some are bawdy, some are like fables. In March 2020, the editors of The New York Times Magazine worked to create a collection of stories written just as the pandemic first swept the globe. How might new fiction from some of today’s finest writers help us memorialize and understand the unimaginable? And what could be learned about how this crisis will affect the art of fiction? These Stories from Quarantine by twenty-nine authors vary widely in texture and tone. The work is a historical tribute to a moment unlike any other in our lifetimes, offering perspective and solace to the reader now and in the uncertain future. Table of Contents: “Preface” by Caitlin Roper “Introduction” by Rivka Galchen “Recognition” by Victor LaValle “A Blue Sky Like This” by Mona Awad “The Walk” by Kamila Shamsie “Tales from the LA River” by Colm Toibin “Clinical Notes” by Liz Moore “The Team” by Tommy Orange “The Rock” by Leila Slimani “Impatient Griselda” by Margaret Atwood “Under the Magnolia” by Yiyun Li “Outside” by Etgar Keret “Keepsakes” by Andrew O’Hagan “The Girl with the Big Red Suitcase” by Rachel Kushner “The Morningside” by Tea Obreht “Screen Time” by Alejandro Zambra “How We Used to Play” by Dinaw Mengestu “Line 19 Woodstock/Glisan” by Karen Russell “If Wishes Was Horses” by David Mitchell “Systems” by Charles Yu “The Perfect Travel Buddy” by Paolo Giordano “An Obliging Robber” by Mia Couto “Sleep” by Uzodinma Iweala “Prudent Girls” by Rivers Solomon “That Time at My Brother’s Wedding” by Laila Lalami “A Time of Death, The Death of Time” by Julian Fuks “The Cellar” by Dina Nayeri “Origin Story” by Matthew Baker “To the Wall” by Esi Edugyan “Barcelona: Open City” by John Wray “One Thing” by Edwidge Danticat About the Author From the editors of The New York Times Magazine, including Caitlin Roper, Claire Gutierrez, Sheila Glaser, and Jake Silverstein...

-Titulo Original : Mirrorland A Novel-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: Told with startling twists and haunting power, Mirrorland is a thrilling psychological suspense novel about twin sisters, the man they both love, the house that has always haunted them, and the childhood stories they can’t leave behind.Cat lives in Los Angeles, far from 36 Westeryk Road, the imposing gothic house in Edinburgh where she and her estranged twin sister, El, grew up. As girls, they invented Mirrorland, a dark, imaginary place under the pantry stairs, full of pirates, witches, and clowns. These days, Cat rarely thinks about their childhood home, or the fact that El now lives there with her husband, Ross. But when El mysteriously disappears after going out on her sailboat, Cat is forced to return to 36 Westeryk Road, which hasnt changed in twenty years. The grand old house is still full of shadowy corners, and at every turn Cat finds herself stumbling on long-held secrets and terrifying ghosts from the past. Because someone-El?-has left Cat clues: a treasure hunt that leads back to Mirrorland, where the truth lies waiting... A brilliantly crafted story of love and betrayal, redemption and revenge, Mirrorland is a propulsive, page-turning debut about the power of imagination and the price of freedom. Review I loved Mirrorland. It’s dark and devious, a neo-gothic featuring twin sisters and a deeply frightening old dark house. Beautifully written and plotted with a watchmaker’s precision. -Stephen King In this unsettling, labyrinthine tale, it is hard at first to tell who the villain is-or even how many villains there are in a family with a great deal to hide. The book unlocks its mysteries slowly, twisting the knife a little deeper with each revelation. -Sarah Lyall, The New York Times Book Review “An unnerving thriller. . . . Fantasy and reality intermingle when a twin returns to her childhood home to search for her estranged sister. As Cat roams the creepy house, memories of an imaginary world the twins created spring to life.” -People Magazine Fans of twist-filled thrillers, look no further than Johnstones tale of estranged twins who invented their own dark and imaginary world. -E! News “It’s hard to believe that this is Johnstone’s first novel. It’s slick and accomplished and drips with Gothic suspense, but never swings into melodrama. This is a writer to watch.” -Globe and Mail Johnstone has plenty of tricks up her sleeve in this suspenseful tale of betrayal and revenge, memory and imagination, and the thin line between love and hate. -Business Insider Enthralling . . . a dark, twisting thriller that explores the pitch-black corners of people’s minds; how good and bad, love and hate, terror and joy can co-exist; and how childhood memories can be rewritten with time as the lines between imagination and reality are blurred. Fans of Gillian Flynns creeping dread and Liane Moriartys nuanced morality and complex relationships should love this book. -Kirkus Reviews “Johnstone’s debut had me flying through the pages while also wanting to sink into her gorgeous writing. Paired with twists and turns I didn’t see coming, readers will certainly be in for tons of surprises.” -Buzzfeed This ambitious blend of psychological suspense and horror casts a powerful light on the liberating power of imagination. -Publishers Weekly “Melds intricate family dynamics into a gripping mystery with the undercurrent of a gothic novel.” -Oline Gogdill, Shelf Awareness Johnstone pulls out all the stops in creating an atmospheric mystery.” -The Big Thrill “An inherently riveting and compulsive page-turning suspense thriller about the power of imagination and the price of freedom.” -Midwest Book Review “Carole Johnstone’s debut feels like the love child of Gillian Flynn and Stephen King. In Mirrorland, nothing is as it appears and the kaleidoscope twists and turns will have you frantically turning the pages until you reach the gasp-out-loud ending.” -Greer Hendricks, #1 New York Times...

-Titulo Original : Icebound Shipwrecked At The Edge Of The World-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: In the bestselling tradition of Hampton Sides’s In the Kingdom of Ice, a “gripping adventure tale” (The Boston Globe) recounting Dutch polar explorer William Barents’ three harrowing Arctic expeditions-the last of which resulted in a relentlessly challenging year-long fight for survival.The human story has always been one of perseverance-often against remarkable odds. The most astonishing survival tale of all might be that of 16th-century Dutch explorer William Barents and his crew of sixteen, who ventured farther north than any Europeans before and, on their third polar exploration, lost their ship off the frozen coast of Nova Zembla to unforgiving ice. The men would spend the next year fighting off ravenous polar bears, gnawing hunger, and endless winter. In Icebound, Andrea Pitzer masterfully combines a gripping tale of survival with a sweeping history of the great Age of Exploration-a time of hope, adventure, and seemingly unlimited geographic frontiers. At the story’s center is William Barents, one of the 16th century’s greatest navigators whose larger-than-life ambitions and obsessive quest to chart a path through the deepest, most remote regions of the Arctic ended in both tragedy and glory. Journalist Pitzer did extensive research, learning how to use four-hundred-year-old navigation equipment, setting out on three Arctic expeditions to retrace Barents’s steps, and visiting replicas of Barents’s ship and cabin. “A resonant meditation on human ingenuity, resilience, and hope” (The New Yorker), Pitzer’s reenactment of Barents’s ill-fated journey shows us how the human body can function at twenty degrees below, the history of mutiny, the art of celestial navigation, and the intricacies of building shelters. But above all, it gives us a firsthand glimpse into the true nature of courage. Review “A gripping adventure tale that deserves an honored place in the long bookshelf of volumes dealing with arctic shipwrecks, winter ordeals, and survival struggles.” -Boston GlobeA resonant meditation on human ingenuity, resilience, and hope. -The New Yorker“A fascinating modern telling of Barents’s expeditions….Ms. Pitzer presents a compelling narrative situated in the context of Dutch imperial ambition. She writes vividly about the ‘unnerving isolation’ of venturing north and east of Scandinavia into uncharted waters.” -Wall Street Journal“The expedition’s highlight reel included everything a polar fan could want: hand-to-hand combat with polar bears and walruses; scurvy and vitamin A poisoning; asphyxiation by carbon dioxide; frostbite, keelhauling and hangings; plus the sighting of a rare atmospheric optical phenomenon called a parhelion…Pitzer writes with care about the Arctic landscape Barents encountered…A reminder that there was once a time when things were unknown.” -New York Times Book Review“The name of William Barents isn’t that familiar to us these days beyond perhaps a line of type on your atlas… but this enthralling, elemental and literally spine-chilling epic of courage and endurance should change all that.” -Daily Mail (UK)“The stuff of castaway movies…Pitzer does a fine job of telling this gripping adventure, painting a convincing portrait of an obsessive who put his life on the line for glory and knowledge-and succumbed.” -The Guardian“Dramatic and dire…[the men]fight off polar bears that rear up from nowhere, attacking until they are slaughtered or driven away. The ship tacks endlessly and desperately to escape floating ‘mountains of steel’…Ms. Pitzer’s descriptions of the region sing.” -The Economist“Narratives of frozen beards in polar hinterlands never lose their appeal. Most of the good stories have been told, but in Icebound Andrea Pitzer fills a gap, at least for the popular reader in English, with the story of the 16th-century Dutch mariner William Barents….Elegant.” -The Spectator“Richly descriptive…The real grip of the book lies in the horrendous dangers and hardship...

-Titulo Original : The High House A Novel-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: Shortlisted for the 2021 Costa Novel Award In this powerful, highly anticipated novel from an award-winning author, four people attempt to make a home in the midst of environmental disaster.Perched on a sloping hill, set away from a small town by the sea, the High House has a tide pool and a mill, a vegetable garden, and, most importantly, a barn full of supplies. Caro, Pauly, Sally, and Grandy are safe, so far, from the rising water that threatens to destroy the town and that has, perhaps, already destroyed everything else. But for how long? Caro and her younger half-brother, Pauly, arrive at the High House after her father and stepmother fall victim to a faraway climate disaster-but not before they call and urge Caro to leave London. In their new home, a converted summer house cared for by Grandy and his granddaughter, Sally, the two pairs learn to live together. Yet there are limits to their safety, limits to the supplies, limits to what Grandy-the former village caretaker, a man who knows how to do everything-can teach them as his health fails. A searing novel that takes on parenthood, sacrifice, love, and survival under the threat of extinction, The High House is a stunning, emotionally precise novel about what can be salvaged at the end of the world. Review Shortlisted for the Costa Best Novel Award Timely and terrifying … The High House stands out for our investment in its characters’ fates … Hope survives even a worst-case scenario, it seems. And yet, what remains with the reader is this: Let’s not let things get to that point.” -Oprah Daily Lush ... Greengrass explores what it is like to grow up amid an escalating catastrophe and what remains after so much is swept away.” -Scientific American “The High House portrays a near-future climate catastrophe the same way M. Night Shyamalan’s Signs depicts an alien invasion: through the eyes of a single family, in and around their rural home … It’s a bleak yet somehow soothing novel about parenting while the world is falling apart, but also about finding magic in the smallest moments, like a toddler’s smile or a bird’s flight. Jessie Greengrass knows how to bring scenes to life with tactile, sensory details, and while the story can be brutal, the prose is gorgeous.” -The A.V. Club “Quietly devastating ... [the characters] gradual reckoning with their existence and the fate of the planet is made heartbreaking through Greengrass’s stunning prose. Painful and beautiful, this is not to be missed.” -Publishers Weekly, STARRED “Moving…Greengrass excels in her account of this makeshift family-the sweet but fading Grandy, the two women who often see themselves as rivals, and the curious, growing, bird-crazy Pauly-and their attempts to live on and with and through a land that is increasingly inhospitable…[A] poignant, impressive contribution to an ever growing genre, the fiction of climate catastrophe.” -Kirkus This postapocalyptic, introspective drama is all about the love of family, isolation, hopelessness, and the will to go on. Readers will be asking the question, is it better to remember the life you had before and all that’s been lost, or to start fresh, only knowing this new existence? This novel is perfect for those who enjoy beautifully written, thought-provoking stories. -BooklistA book suffused with the joy and fulfilment of raising a child ... The High House stands out. -The Guardian The premise is dark, but Greengrass’s lyrical prose brings glimmers of light ... Despite the devastation, this not-quite family finds small moments of love and happiness. -The Times Literary Supplement Greengrass is a thoughtful writer and The High House is full of elegant, resonant sentences about human fallibility, complacency, selfishness and our unquenchable capacity for love. -The Times Jessie Greengrass uses elegiac sentences as weapon in this melancholic tale of coastal erosion ... The story is haunted by an old world that got...

-Titulo Original : La Tienda Roja-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: Profundamente conmovedora, La tienda roja combina una rica historia con el valor de la ficcion moderna: una nueva vision de la sociedad biblica femenina.Su nombre era Dina y en la Biblia apenas se la menciona para referirse a un violento suceso de venganza que protagonizaron su padre, Jacob, y sus hermanos Simeon y Levi. Única hija de Jacob entre los numerosos varones que este tuvo con Lia, su primera mujer, y con sus otras tres esposas, Zilpa, Raquel y Bilha, todas ellas hijas de Laban. Dina relata su propia historia creando una autentica evocacion del mundo femenino en la epoca del Antiguo Testamento. En aquellos tiempos, las tradiciones, las historias familiares y los conocimientos en general se perpetuaban de generacion en generacion por medio del linaje materno. Y el traspaso de toda esta sabiduria tenia lugar en la “tienda roja,” espacio donde se recluian las mujeres cuando no podian aparecer ante los ojos de los hombres: durante los dias del ciclo femenino, despues de los partos y en momentos de enfermedad. Alli, Dina explicara las historias de sus “cuatro madres,” a partir del dia en que Jacob aparecio en las tierras de su tio Laban, asi como el azaroso traslado de su familia desde las Mesopotamia hasta Canaan, y mas tarde su emigracion a Egipto.Pero La tienda roja no es simplemente una reconstruccion del libro del Genesis desde el punto de vista de la mujer, sino una novela historica minuciosamente investigada que nos introduce en el riquisimo mundo de las tradiciones mas ancestrales. Todo un acopio de normas y conductas imprescindibles para la supervivencia en tierras aridas y desoladas que, ademas de constituir la base de las religiones judeocristianas, siguen vigentes en algunos rincones del mundo hasta el dia de hoy. Review “Una novela viva e intensa... Seria tentador decir que La tienda roja es lo que la Biblia podria haber sido si hubiera sido escrita por mujeres, pero tan solo Diamant habria podido dotarla de tanta profundidad y gracia.” The Boston Globe About the Author Anita Diamant es la autora de Good Harbor, The Last Days of Dogtown, Day After Night, The Boston Girl y una coleccion de ensayos, Pitching My Tent. Es una distinguida periodista y sus articulos se han publicado en The Boston GlobeMagazine y Parenting. Es la autora de seis guias sobre la vida judia contemporanea. Anita vive en Massachusetts. Visite su pagina web en AnitaDiamant . Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. La Tienda Roj...

-Titulo Original : The Time Travelers Wife-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: Now a series on HBO starring Rose Leslie and Theo James!The iconic time travel love story and mega-bestselling first novel from Audrey Niffenegger is a soaring celebration of the victory of love over time (Chicago Tribune). Henry DeTamble is a dashing, adventurous librarian who is at the mercy of his random time time-traveling abilities. Clare Abshire is an artist whose life moves through a natural sequential course. This is the celebrated and timeless tale of their love. Henry and Clares passionate affair is built and endures across a sea of time and captures them in an impossibly romantic trap that tests the strength of fate and basks in the bonds of love. “Niffenegger’s inventive and poignant writing is well worth a trip” (Entertainment Weekly). Review “[A] time-travel love story par excellence…It will be a hard-hearted reader who is not moved to tears by the dangers Henry and Clare ultimately face, and by the author’s soaring celebration of the victory of love over time.” Chicago Tribune“As Clare and Henry take turns telling the story, revealing the depth of their bond despite everything a sci-fi premise becomes a powerfully original love story.” People (Top Ten Books of the Year)“Spirited…Niffenegger plays ingeniously in her temporal hall of mirrors.” The New Yorker“Readers will recall in Love in the Time of Cholera a love that works despite all travails and impediments…Marquez, like Niffenegger here, means to tell us that for such exalted love there is no tragedy and never any constraints.” The Washington Post Book World“Niffenegger’s inventive and poignant writing is well worth a trip.” Entertainment Weekly“Moving, razor-edged prose…Niffenegger writes with the unflinching yet detached clarity of a war correspondent standing at the sidelines of an unfolding battle.” USA Today“A singular tale of a charming man with a funny condition (he slips in and out of time) and the woman who loves him. The setting, the city of Chicago, is luminous.” San Francisco Chronicle“As if love weren’t complicated enough, debut author Niffenegger dreams up a happy couple plagued by a peculiar problem…It is to Niffenegger’s credit that she avoids cheap shots and develops her innovative concept in some exceptionally strange and witty ways.” Time Out New York“Contrary to appearances, The Time Traveler’s Wife is a very old love story: wonky, sexy, incredible…charmingly, inventively retold and none the worse for it.” The Times (London)“An extraordinary novel with a unique premise…Niffenegger compassionately develops her unique characters, with the grace to accept their difficult circumstances, as well as their blessings. Don’t be deceived by the easy charm of Henry and Clare’s relationship; they will draw you into their small circle, make you complicit with their dreams and disappointments. They will break your heart.” Curledup “A soaring love story illuminated by dozens of finely observed details and scenes, and one that skates nimbly around a huge conundrum at the heart of the book…Leaves a reader with a sense of life’s riches and strangeness.” Publishers Weekly (starred review)“Intricately woven…Exceedingly literate.” Kirkus Reviews“Compelling…Skillfully written with a blend of distinct characters and heartfelt emotions that hopscotch through time, begging interpretation on many levels.” Library Journal (starred review)“To those who say there are no new love stories, I heartily recommend The Time Traveler’s Wife, an enchanting novel, beautifully crafted and as dazzlingly imaginative as it is dizzyingly romantic.” -- Scott Turow, author of Reversible Errors and Presumed Innocent“Haunting, original, and so smart it took my breath away…in short, the rare kind of book that I finish and jealously wish that I’d written.” -- Jodi Picoult, author of Plain Truth and Second Glance“The Time Traveler’s Wife is a Houdini box of a novel, filled with spring latches and trap doors. Henry and Cla...

-Titulo Original : The First Populist The Defiant Life Of Andrew Jackson-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: A revelatory, timely, and masterful biography of President Andrew Jackson that offers a new perspective on this charismatic figure in the context of American populism-identifying the reasons for his unprecedented appeal as it shows us the man and politician in his full complexity.A number of bestselling and award-winning biographies have been written about the seventh president of the US, but none have positioned Andrew Jackson so firmly in the forefront of the country’s populist tradition. Now, historian David S. Brown traces Jackson’s unusual life and legacy and sheds new light on his place in our nation’s history, focusing on his role as a popular leader. Andrew Jackson rose from rural poverty to become the dominant figure in American politics between Jefferson and Lincoln. His reputation, however, defies easy description. Some regard him as the symbol of a powerful democratic movement that saw early 19th century suffrage restrictions recede for white men. Others stress his prominent role in removing Native American peoples from their ancestral lands, which were then opened to create a southern cotton kingdom, home to more than a million enslaved people. A self-defined champion of “farmers, mechanics, and laborers,” Jackson railed against the established ruling order, fostering a brand of democracy that struck a chord with the common man and helped catapult him into the presidency-he was the first westerner, first orphan, and thus far the only prisoner of war to occupy the office. Drawing on a wide range of research material, The First Populist takes a fresh look at Jackson’s public career, including the momentous Battle of New Orleans and the far-reaching Bank War; it reveals his marriage to an already married woman, a deadly duel with a Nashville dandy, and analyzes his magnetic hold on much of the country at the time. Presenting a full portrait of a controversial American life, The First Populist offers a new way to interpret Jackson’s legacy, connecting “Old Hickory” to a longer history of division, dissent, and partisanship that has come to define our current times. Review Calling Jackson the country’s original anti-establishment president, historian David S. Brown offers a timely assessment of Jackson’s controversial career, in the context of the American populist tradition. -Christian Science MonitorADVANCE PRAISE FOR THE FIRST POPULIST: In this comprehensive and evenhanded biography, historian Brown (The Last American Aristocrat) makes a convincing case that Andrew Jackson (1767-1845) was the most consequential American leader between Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln. . . . Thoroughly researched and fluidly written, this accessible presidential biography will appeal to admirers of Ron Chernow and Doris Kearns Goodwin. -Publishers Weekly Brown’s approach offers an often revealing view of how Jackson, drawing on reserves of charisma and ferocity, leveraged his identity as a political outsider to claim widespread popular support. . . . An instructive exploration of a controversial and enduringly relevant president. -Kirkus Reviews Brown profiles the rise and career of the seventh U.S. President, scrutinizing in particular Jackson’s reputation as a populist. . . . Brown juggles the personal and political controversies surrounding Jackson to reveal, as much as possible, what drove the man. -Booklist “In this brisk and vividly written biography of Andrew Jackson, David S. Brown gives us a fresh, compelling portrait of Old Hickory.” -David S. Heidler and Jeanne T. Heidler, authors of Henry Clay: The Essential American and The Rise of Andrew Jackson: Myth, Manipulation, and the Making of Modern Politics “In a narrative influenced by recent US politics, David S. Brown’s The First Populist revisits the contentious question of whether Andrew Jackson was a democratic populist or a charismatic strongman. Then, as now, Brown finds that the line between the two is not always ...

-Titulo Original : The Shore A Novel-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: Set over the course of one summer, this perfect beach read follows a mother and her two daughters as they grapple with heartbreak, young love, and the weight of family secrets.Brian and Margot Dunne live year-round in Seaside, just steps away from the bustling boardwalk, with their daughters Liz and Evy. The Dunnes run a real estate company, making their living by quickly turning over rental houses for tourists. But the family’s future becomes even more precarious when Brian develops a brain tumor, transforming into a bizarre, erratic version of himself. Amidst the chaos and new caretaking responsibilities, Liz still seeks out summer adventure and flirting with a guy she should know better than to pursue. Her younger sister Evy works in a candy shop, falls in love with her friend Olivia, and secretly adopts the persona of a middle-aged mom in an online support group, where she discovers her own mother’s most vulnerable confessions. Meanwhile, Margot faces an impossible choice driven by grief, impulse, and the ways that small-town life in Seaside has shaped her. Falling apart is not an option, but she can always pack up and leave the beach behind. The Shore is a powerful, heartbreaking, and ultimately uplifting novel infused with humor about young women finding sisterhood, friendship, and love in a time of crisis. This big-hearted family saga examines the grit and hustle of running a small business in a tourist town, the ways we connect with strangers when our families can’t give us everything we need, and the comfort to be found in embracing the pleasures of youth while coping with unimaginable loss. Review Runde is an expert at the fastball to the heart. . . . The Shore is never sentimental; it is absorbing, lucid and true. Anyone who has lost someone by inches will recognize the struggle to push through despair and affirm the dogged endurance of love. -New York Times Book Review “A novel about how a family contends with hardship and the ways we often flee from the people who know us best, The Shore is an emotional and authentic read.” -Shondaland An emotional family drama [thats] both devastating and a little bit hilarious, and Runde pulls it off beautifully, with endearing characters and deep insights. -Glamour An engrossing escape. . . . Runde weaves poetry and poignant questions into her debut novel. It’s an empathy-fueled exploration of caretaking and coming-of-age struggles. -NJ Monthly “Filled with lovable characters and heart-wrenching moments . . . a powerful story of a family coming together to find comfort in the midst of crisis.” -Womans World The Shore is not read but breathed, as life-affirming, natural and beautifully flawed as the world and emotions it embodies. Runde is a powerful, masterfully restrained writer, a keen interpreter of the human psyche . . . perfect for readers who enjoy-and have had their hearts broken and repaired by-Mary Beth Keane, Cara Wall and Ann Napolitano.” -BookReporter“A comforting debut on family and finding resilience in the face of sorrow.” -Booklist “Runde’s debut is a heartbreaking family journey; a summer read that is at once sad, hopeful, frustrating, and ultimately uplifting.” -Library Journal Vivid. . . . Runde’s evocative descriptions conjure the salty humidity of the Jersey Shore. . . . this transportive work successfully captures the dissonance and resilience of family.” -Publishers Weekly “A heartfelt family drama saturated with a sense of place and the passage of time. -BookPage Runde’s sympathetic portrait of a family in crisis is not without humor and insight. . . . this family story is sweet, sad, and surprising. -Kirkus Reviews Locals and longtimers are forced to reckon with their families, choices, and secrets. -The MillionsThe Shore is a sharp and affecting novel, a wholly original exploration of what it means to love and lose set against a fabulously vibrant backdrop. Rundes writing is both deeply felt...

-Titulo Original : A Farewell To Arms The Hemingway Library Edition-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: The definitive edition of the classic novel of love during wartime, featuring all of the alternate endings: “Fascinating…serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author’s process” (The New York Times).Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War I, A Farewell to Arms is the unforgettable story of an American ambulance driver on the Italian front and his passion for a beautiful English nurse. Set against the looming horrors of the battlefield-weary, demoralized men marching in the rain during the German attack on Caporetto; the profound struggle between loyalty and desertion-this gripping, semiautobiographical work captures the harsh realities of war and the pain of lovers caught in its inexorable sweep. Ernest Hemingway famously said that he rewrote the ending to A Farewell to Arms thirty-nine times to get the words right. This edition collects all of the alternative endings together for the first time, along with early drafts of other essential passages, offering new insight into Hemingway’s craft and creative process and the evolution of one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. Featuring Hemingway’s own 1948 introduction to an illustrated reissue of the novel, a personal foreword by the author’s son Patrick Hemingway, and a new introduction by the author’s grandson Sean Hemingway, this edition of A Farewell to Arms is truly a celebration. Review Fascinating...serves as an artifact of a bygone craft, with handwritten notes and long passages crossed out, giving readers a sense of an author’s process. The New York Times“A Farewell to Arms” stands, more than 80 years after its first appearance, as a towering ornament of American literature. The Washington TimesThis special edition of [Hemingways] classic World War I novel, first published in 1929, contains several features that illuminate how Hemingway constructed his timeless tale of love and war. Minneapolis Star-TribuneA Farewell to Arms is a gem....To see Hemingway go from bold pronouncements and overwriting to his signature stripped-down style isnt just instructive, its practically intrusive (but fun!) NPR About the Author Ernest Hemingway did more to influence the style of English prose than any other writer of his time. He has been called “the most important author since Shakespeare,” by John O’Hara in The New York Times Book Review. The publication of The Sun Also Rises and A Farewell to Arms immediately established him as one of the greatest literary lights of the 20th century. His classic novella The Old Man and the Sea won the Pulitzer Prize in 1953. Hemingway was also awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1954. His life and accomplishments are explored in-depth in the PBS documentary film from Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, Hemingway. He died in 1961...

-Titulo Original : It A Novel-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: It: Chapter Two-now a major motion picture! Stephen King’s terrifying, classic #1 New York Times bestseller, “a landmark in American literature” (Chicago Sun-Times)-about seven adults who return to their hometown to confront a nightmare they had first stumbled on as teenagers…an evil without a name: It.Welcome to Derry, Maine. It’s a small city, a place as hauntingly familiar as your own hometown. Only in Derry the haunting is real. They were seven teenagers when they first stumbled upon the horror. Now they are grown-up men and women who have gone out into the big world to gain success and happiness. But the promise they made twenty-eight years ago calls them reunite in the same place where, as teenagers, they battled an evil creature that preyed on the city’s children. Now, children are being murdered again and their repressed memories of that terrifying summer return as they prepare to once again battle the monster lurking in Derry’s sewers. Readers of Stephen King know that Derry, Maine, is a place with a deep, dark hold on the author. It reappears in many of his books, including Bag of Bones, Hearts in Atlantis, and 11/22/63. But it all starts with It. “Stephen King’s most mature work” (St. Petersburg Times), “It will overwhelm you…to be read in a well-lit room only” (Los Angeles Times). Review “A landmark in American literature.” Chicago Sun-Times“It will overwhelm you…Characters so real you feel you are reading about yourself…scenes to be read in a well-lit room only.” Los Angeles Times“The indisputable King of Horror.” Time Magazine“A mesmerizing odyssey of terror…King writes like one possessed, never cheats the reader, always gives full measure…He is brilliant…dark and sinister.” The Washington Post Book World“Vintage King…a magnum opus of terror…just a glance at the first few pages, and you can’t put this novel aside.” St. Louis Post-Dispatch“A great scary book…a nightmare roller-coaster…packed with more chills than a Frigidaire… ‘It’ turns out to be the monster-dread in us all, the one that refuses to go away.” San Francisco Chronicle“Epic…gargantuan…breathlessly accelerating suspense… King is our great storyteller…I imagine him as a possessed figure rocking over a smoking word processor, hunting for a beat his sentences can dance to, pounding the shocks and scares like a rock organist laying down the power chords.” Los Angeles Herald-Examiner“A ghoul’s delight…a good old-fashioned chill and shiver fest…as creepy as the finest of that genre.” Kansas City Star“ King’s most ambitious project…reads as if written in a white heat!” San Jose Mercury News“IT exhibits the potato chip syndrome - quite simply, you can’t read just one page and stop…It is in this novel that King comes out of the closet, a closet jammed and crowded with his own monsters.” Houston Chronicle“Compulsively readable.” Fort Worth Star Telegram“King’s most mature work.” St. Petersburg Times“Chock-full of spooky stuff…a sprawling scare-fest that defines King’s recurring themes and adds a new set of ambitions to the mix.” The Philadelphia Inquirer About the Author Stephen King is the author of more than sixty books, all of them worldwide bestsellers. His recent work includes Fairy Tale, Billy Summers, If It Bleeds, The Institute, Elevation, The Outsider, Sleeping Beauties (cowritten with his son Owen King), and the Bill Hodges trilogy: End of Watch, Finders Keepers, and Mr. Mercedes (an Edgar Award winner for Best Novel and a television series streaming on Peacock). His novel 11/22/63 was named a top ten book of 2011 by The New York Times Book Review and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller. His epic works The Dark Tower, It, Pet Sematary, and Doctor Sleep are the basis for major motion pictures, with It now the highest-grossing horror film of all time. He is the recipient of the 2020 Audio Publishers Association Lifetime Achievement Award, the 2018 PEN America ...

-Titulo Original : Relentless From Good To Great To Unstoppable (tim Grover Winning Series)-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: Legendary trainer Tim Grover uses his experience with the world’s top athletes to drill down into the killer instinct that separates the good from the great, showing you how to tap into the dark side of competitive intensity in order to win-regardless of the circumstance or cost.For more than two decades, legendary trainer Tim Grover has taken the greats-Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, and hundreds of relentless competitors in sports, business, and every walk of life-and made them greater. Now, for the first time ever, he reveals what it takes to achieve total mental and physical dominance, showing you how to be relentless and achieve whatever you desire. Direct, blunt, and brutally honest,Grover breaks down what it takes to be unstoppable: you keep going when everyone else is giving up, you thrive under pressure, you never let your emotions make you weak. In “The Relentless 13,” he details the essential traits shared by the most intense competitors and achievers in sports, business, and all walks of life. Relentless shows you how to trust your instincts and get in the Zone; how to control and adapt to any situation; how to find your opponent’s weakness and attack. Grover gives you the same advice he gives his world-class clients-“don’t think”-and shows you that anything is possible. Packed with previously untold stories and unparalleled insight into the psyches of the most successful and accomplished athletes of our time, Relentless shows you how even the best get better...and how you can too. Review Tim Grover is the master of mental toughness. This book is the blueprint for discovering what you are capable of achieving, getting results you never imagined, reaching the highest level of success--and then going even higher. -- Kobe BryantI consider Tim Grover to be second to none in his knowledge of sports training, and he was an invaluable part of my training program. He is a take-charge person, with a deliberate but energetic and enthusiastic technique. -- Michael JordanTim Grover’s insight into leadership and excellence has taken the greats to the top, and his book will do the same for you. Relentless is about breaking the rules that hold you back and trusting your instincts to take you where you want to be. -- Mike Coach K Krzyzewski, Duke University and USA Men’s Olympic Basketball head coach, and bestselling author of Leading with the Heart“This book will do for you what Tim has done for me--take you to the next level, and show you how to be the best at whatever you do. I have unbelievable trust and faith in him.” -- Dwyane WadeIn all the years that I coached, inspired and trained world class athletes there was no better resource to collaborate with than Tim Grover. -- Pat Riley, 8-time NBA champion and NBA Hall-of-Fame coachIf you compete at anything--sports or business or life--you need this book. No one knows more than Tim Grover about competitive intensity, killer instinct and crushing the other guy. He is the best at what he does: Creating champions. -- Charles Barkley“Grover finally marches the public behind the curtain of decades of work with the likes of Jordan and Kobe Bryant, a riveting read that balances the illumination of the work of those stars and how it can apply to everyone else. . . Magnificent.” -- Adrian Wojnarowski ! SportsStraight up. Relentless...is one of the best books Ive ever read. -- Jim Rome“An opus on successful thinking.” Sun SentinelA must-read... Grover calls upon his decades of experience working with the worlds most eliteathletes to dissect what it takes not just to succeed, but to be the absolutebest. Stack About the Author Tim S. Grover is the CEO of Attack Athletics, Inc., which he founded in 1989, and author of the international bestseller Relentless: From Good to Great to Unstoppable. World-renowned for his work with Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Dwyane Wade, and thousands of athletes and busine...

-Titulo Original : Cuba (winner Of The Pulitzer Prize) An American History-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE IN HISTORYWINNER OF THE LOS ANGELES TIMES BOOK PRIZE IN HISTORYFull of...lively insights and lucid prose (The Wall Street Journal) an epic, sweeping history of Cuba and its complex ties to the United States-from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day-written by one of the worlds leading historians of Cuba.In 1961, at the height of the Cold War, the United States severed diplomatic relations with Cuba, where a momentous revolution had taken power three years earlier. For more than half a century, the stand-off continued-through the tenure of ten American presidents and the fifty-year rule of Fidel Castro. His death in 2016, and the retirement of his brother and successor Raul Castro in 2021, have spurred questions about the countrys future. Meanwhile, politics in Washington-Barack Obamas opening to the island, Donald Trumps reversal of that policy, and the election of Joe Biden-have made the relationship between the two nations a subject of debate once more.Now, award-winning historian Ada Ferrer delivers an important (The Guardian) and moving chronicle that demands a new reckoning with both the islands past and its relationship with the United States. Spanning more than five centuries, Cuba: An American History provides us with a front-row seat as we witness the evolution of the modern nation, with its dramatic record of conquest and colonization, of slavery and freedom, of independence and revolutions made and unmade.Along the way, Ferrer explores the sometimes surprising, often troubled intimacy between the two countries, documenting not only the influence of the United States on Cuba but also the many ways the island has been a recurring presence in US affairs. This is a story that will give Americans unexpected insights into the history of their own nation and, in so doing, help them imagine a new relationship with Cuba; readers will close [this] fascinating book with a sense of hope (The Economist).Filled with rousing stories and characters, and drawing on more than thirty years of research in Cuba, Spain, and the United States-as well as the authors own extensive travel to the island over the same period-this is a stunning and monumental account like no other. Review “The heroes of Ada Ferrer’s narrative are the island’s nationalists and reformers. . . . [She] reveals a relationship that is deeper and more troubled than it may appear. . . . Yet readers will close Ms. Ferrer’s fascinating book with a sense of hope. . . . moving.” -The Economist “Cuba focuses on the equivocal relationship of the two countries, and presents it convincingly as symbiotic. . . . exemplary . . . [full of] lively insights and lucid prose. . . . By being equally severe with Cuban leaders and US leaders, Ms. Ferrer achieves an honorable objective: pleasing nobody by being just.” -Wall Street Journal “Important. . . . rather than putting geopolitics or great men at the heart of the book, Ferrer’s focus is on the Cuban people, the descendants of whom are calling for libertad. -The Guardian Ferrer’s narrative history of Cuba’s past 500 years is epic, authoritative, and deeply insightful. . . . [an] essential book. . . . Cuba is broad and expansive and inclusive, telling a hemisphere-wide story of colonialism, enslavement, and entangled empires, nations, and peoples-the legacies of which are still with us. -Geraldo Cadava, Public Books “This monumental new book represents another formidable piece of original scholarship. It is written, moreover, in an admirably paced narrative style, which, one suspects, will earn it pride of place among the published histories of Cuba.” -Jon Lee Anderson, Foreign Affairs An encompassing look back at Cuba, from before the arrival of Columbus to the present day. . . . a moving chronicle of the relationship between the United States and Cuba and what that’s meant for both sides. -ForbesA fluid, consistently informative hi...

-Titulo Original : The Berlin Exchange A Novel-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: From “the most accomplished spy novelist working today” (The Sunday Times, London), a “heart-poundingly suspenseful” (The Washington Post) espionage thriller set at the height of the Cold War, when a captured American who has spied for the KGB is returned to East Berlin, needing to know who arranged for his release and what they now want from him.Berlin, 1963. An early morning spy swap, not at the familiar setting for such exchanges, nor at Checkpoint Charlie, where international visitors cross into the East, but at a more discreet border crossing, usually reserved for East German VIPs. The Communists are trading two American students caught helping people to escape over the wall and an aging MI6 operative. On the other side of the trade: Martin Keller, a physicist who once made headlines, but who then disappeared into the English prison system. Keller’s most critical possession: his American passport. Keller’s most ardent desire: to see his ex-wife Sabine and their young son. The exchange is made with the formality characteristic of these swaps. But Martin has other questions: Who asked for him? Who negotiated the deal? The KGB? He knows that nothing happens by chance. They want him for something. Not physics-his expertise is out of date. Something else, which he cannot learn until he arrives in East Berlin, when suddenly the game is afoot. Intriguing and atmospheric, with action rising to a dangerous climax, The Berlin Exchange “expertly describes what happens when a disillusioned former agent tries to come in from the cold” (The New York Times Book Review), confirming Kanon as “the greatest writer ever of historical espionage fiction” (Spybrary). Review “The Berlin Exchange, by the veteran spy-story author Joseph Kanon, expertly describes what happens when a disillusioned former agent tries to come in from the cold. . . . Kanon vividly evokes the suspicion, hypocrisy and relentless grayness of life in the East. . . . the plot shifts into high gear and turns into a complex, high-stakes operation in which Martin, thrillingly, is pulling all the strings. He’s one step ahead of his enemies, and three steps ahead of us.” -Sarah Lyall, The New York Times Book Review In Joseph Kanon’s skillful telling, Keller’s elaborate scheme for escaping with his family to the West is heart-poundingly suspenseful. -Washington Post [A] masterly Cold War thriller. . . . [Kanon] is a pro. . . . from the opening paragraph of The Berlin Exchange, with its matter-of-fact immediacy, you feel you’re in safe hands. . . . it’s superbly accomplished, from the Swiss watch plot and crisp dialogue to an atmosphere so well realised it feels as if it is written in black-and-white film. . . . Bold disguises, car chases and handbrake-turn twists wind inexorably to a climax at the border that shows that Kanon can do not just the talk, but also the tensest of spotlit walks. Expect this to exchange the page for the screen, but before then let yourself enjoy a modern master at work. -The Times (UK) Joseph Kanon is, for my money, the best spy writer working today, an author of rare gifts as a stylist, plotter and creator of characters. He is also the greatest writer ever of historical espionage fiction. . . . He is absolutely worth his place in the pantheon of the greats. -Tim Shipman, Spybrary Thoroughly absorbing, a thoughtful and subtle evocation of a place and era, with occasional invigorating bursts of violence. . . . when [Kanons] at his best you get the rare sense of a writer whose style, plot and characters have been perfectly aligned to convey his vision of the world. -Sunday Telegraph (UK) “Kanon [is] probably the most accomplished spy novelist working today.” -The Sunday Times (UK) [A] riveting tale of a spy forced to go back into the cold as a way of reclaiming his life. . . . Genuine suspense, including an exciting variation on the border-crossing theme, combine beautifully with moving psychological dram...

-Titulo Original : The Magician: A Novel-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: The daughter and granddaughter of Billy Graham share inspiring stories from their family life that offer compelling insights for leaving a legacy of faith.“An inspiring guide for living with intentionality and instilling truth in the next generation.”-Dr. Tony EvansPassing on our faith does not happen passively-it’s something we intentionally pursue with prayer and joy. Yet many of us struggle to know what it looks like to live out a contagious faith in today’s world. We long for spiritual wisdom on how to ignite faith in our children, grandchildren, and others we encounter. Jesus Followers offers practical ideas, biblical teaching, and inspiring true stories from Anne Graham Lotz and her daughter Rachel-Ruth Lotz Wright for effectively running the race of faith and passing the Baton of Truth to the next generation. Drawing on the fascinating genealogy of Genesis 5, Anne explores the unique impact of our witness, worship, work, and walk. Rachel-Ruth illustrates each of these critical elements with stories from the Graham and Lotz families, offering vivid descriptions of how God’s truth was passed on by word and example. Jesus Followers not only offers a glimpse into the living rooms and prayer closets of a faith-filled family, but it also equips you with the wisdom, motivation, and practical ideas for consistently and joyfully sharing your faith. Review “Jesus Followers will help you take stock of your faith and grow in your walk with Christ.”-Greg Laurie“For Christian parents, there’s no task more important than handing down our faith to the next generation. In Jesus Followers, Anne Graham Lotz and her daughter Rachel-Ruth show us what it looks like to model a vibrant, contagious faith so that our children might ultimately embrace Christ too.”-Jim Daly, president of Focus on the Family “Anne and Rachel-Ruth have produced an engaging and practical book that will encourage you to live out your walk with God in a manner that motivates your children and grandchildren to follow your example. Drawing from one of the world’s most famous Christian families, this book is filled with inspiring and delightful stories. Best of all, you’ll realize as you read that you don’t have to be Billy and Ruth Graham to raise godly children, as long as you embrace the wisdom and guidance of their God!”-Richard Blackaby, coauthor of Experiencing God and Experiencing God at Home “Standing firm against cultural trends in order to raise up Jesus Followers has never been more challenging-or more urgently needed. Which is why I’m thankful that, through unforgettable family stories and biblical examples, Anne Graham Lotz and Rachel-Ruth Lotz Wright have crafted an inspiring guide for living with intentionality and instilling truth in the next generation.”-Dr. Tony Evans, president of the Urban Alternative and senior pastor of Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship “Many Christian families today would like to leave a legacy of faith for the next generation but sadly lack any example of what this looks like. Jesus Followers offers the example we all need, giving us a beautiful, honest look at what a legacy of faith can look like when a family chooses to truly follow Jesus. My faith has been ignited by every chapter of this book!”-Monica Swanson, author of Boy Mom and host of the Boy Mom podcast “How can we raise godly children in a godless culture? Anne and her daughter Rachel-Ruth answer this growing dilemma through powerful stories and biblical principles to equip and inspire you to develop Jesus Followers in your own family.”-Dr. John Ankerberg, founder and president of The John Ankerberg Show “In this brilliant book, Anne Graham Lotz and Rachel-Ruth Lotz Wright invite us into their family’s story, and along the way, we find many important and inspiring teaching moments for our own lives. But most refreshing of all, we are invited into a wholehearted, vibrant relationship with Jesus Christ. Highly recommended!”-Matt and Beth Re...

-Titulo Original : Cloud Cuckoo Land: A Novel-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: On the New York Times bestseller list for over 20 weeks * A New York Times Notable Book * A Barack Obama Favorite * A National Book Award Finalist * Named a Best Book of the Year by Fresh Air, Time, Entertainment Weekly, Associated Press, and many more “If you’re looking for a superb novel, look no further.” -The Washington Post From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of All the Light We Cannot See, comes the instant New York Times bestseller that is a “wildly inventive, a humane and uplifting book for adults that’s infused with the magic of childhood reading experiences” (The New York Times Book Review).Among the most celebrated and beloved novels of recent times, Cloud Cuckoo Land is a triumph of imagination and compassion, a soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope, and a book. In the 15th century, an orphan named Anna lives inside the formidable walls of Constantinople. She learns to read, and in this ancient city, famous for its libraries, she finds what might be the last copy of a centuries-old book, the story of Aethon, who longs to be turned into a bird so that he can fly to a utopian paradise in the sky. Outside the walls is Omeir, a village boy, conscripted with his beloved oxen into the army that will lay siege to the city. His path and Anna’s will cross. In the present day, in a library in Idaho, octogenarian Zeno rehearses children in a play adaptation of Aethon’s story, preserved against all odds through centuries. Tucked among the library shelves is a bomb, planted by a troubled, idealistic teenager, Seymour. This is another siege. And in a not-so-distant future, on the interstellar ship Argos, Konstance is alone in a vault, copying on scraps of sacking the story of Aethon, told to her by her father. Anna, Omeir, Seymour, Zeno, and Konstance are dreamers and outsiders whose lives are gloriously intertwined. Doerr’s dazzling imagination transports us to worlds so dramatic and immersive that we forget, for a time, our own. Review Praise for Anthony Doerr and Cloud Cuckoo Land *WINNER OF THE READING THE WEST BOOK AWARD AND THE OHIOANA BOOK AWARD* *FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION* “Sweeping and atmospheric.” -Time “A magical (and hopeful) tale of humanity.” -People “As intimate as a bedtime story, a love letter to libraries and bibliophiles.” -O Magazine “A dazzling epic of love, war, and the joy of books.” -The Guardian “A novel of epic stature and ambition.” -Buzzfeed “[An] intricately braided story . . . [and] a stunning, mind-bending tale of survival and how closely we’re all connected.” -Good Housekeeping Doerr works literary magic to tell three cleverly entwined stories set centuries apart, celebrating children, and the natural world, and always, especially, libraries. Well be talking about this one for a long time. -St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Packed with lush details and a gripping narrative.” -Keziah Weir, Vanity Fair “A trip well worth taking with the inimitable Doerr.” -Rob Merrill, Associated Press “Of all our contemporary fiction writers, Anthony Doerr is the one whose novels seem to be the purest response to the primal request: tell me a story. . . . [Cloud Cuckoo Land] transports us far above the stars, and down into the mud. It dazzles, and disturbs. And I for one wanted Doerr’s vast and overwhelming story to last much, much longer.” -Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air “Sprawling and ambitious and imaginative. . . . [Doerr] is a writer with the rare ability to achieve the universal and the specific simultaneously. His stories, both vast and intimate, are dazzling, sometimes dizzying in their scope. . . . [Cloud Cuckoo Land] is unlike anything you’ve ever read.” -Samantha Schoech, San Francisco Chronicle “Readers will come away from it with a greater appreciation for those invisible qualities that have bound human life across the ages-the love of a good story and t...

-Titulo Original : The Candy House A Novel-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: One of Barack Obama’s Summer Favorites! Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Oprah Daily, Glamour, USA TODAY, Parade, Bustle, San Francisco Chronicle, The Seattle Times, The Boston Globe, Tampa Bay Times, BuzzFeed, and Vulture “A compelling read that showcases Egan’s masterful storytelling.” -Time “Dazzling.” -Vogue “Radiant, exhilarating.” -Slate “Mesmerizing…A thought-provoking examination of how and why we change.” -People From one of the most celebrated writers of our time comes an “inventive, effervescent” (Oprah Daily) novel about the memory and quest for authenticity and human connection.The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is forty, with four kids, restless, and desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. Within a decade, Bix’s new technology, “Own Your Unconscious”-which allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share your memories in exchange for access to the memories of others-has seduced multitudes. In the world of Egan’s spectacular imagination, there are “counters” who track and exploit desires and there are “eluders,” those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative styles-from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter, and a chapter of tweets. Intellectually dazzling, The Candy House is also a moving testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for connection, family, privacy, and love. “A beautiful exploration of loss, memory, and history” (San Francisco Chronicle), “this is minimalist maximalism. It’s as if Egan compressed a big 19th-century novel onto a flash drive” (The New York Times). Review Praise for The Candy House Because its Jennifer Egan, its a really beautifully written book. And I loved every moment of it. -Natalie Escobar, NPR “As the right to privacy continues to be under threat and assault, from our legislatures to our courts, I am looking forward to Egan’s reflections - through her story - on what that could mean for our future.” -Chelsea Clinton, Politico “The Candy does what only the best and rarest books can: peel back the thin membrane of ordinary life, and find transcendence on the other side.” -Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly “The Candy House is bursting with stories, thick with beating hearts…Egan’s writing dazzles.” -Maggie Galehouse, Houston Chronicle “May be the smartest novel you read all year… Fiction at its best ..gets at our secret selves in ways the internet can’t… Egan’s audacity is welcome.” -Mark Athitakis, USA Today “Radiant… an exhilarating delight…Egan opens windows on entrancing new worlds, in which what happened depends on who’s telling the story.” -Laura Miller, Slate “This is a beautiful exploration of loss, memory and history, a not too subtle critique of what is lost when we live our lives online.” -Allison Arieff, The San Francisco Chronicle “You dont have to read A Visit From the Goon Squad to love this sibling novel to Egans stellar hit…complex and intimate.” -Good Housekeeping “Rich in indelible characters…full of humor and heartbreak and insight about our brave new world…Egan’s subtle attention to the distinctive voices of her many characters is remarkable.” -Colette Bancroft, Tampa Bay Times “For Egan, getting it right has to do with fulfilling a reader’s craving -for mystery and imagination, as opposed to the barrage of information we find much easier to access.” -Lynn Steger Strong, Los Angeles Times “A brilliant demonstration of the unquantifiable pleasures of great fiction.” -Ron Charles, The Washington P...

-Titulo Original : The Devil You Know Encounters In Forensic Psychiatry-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: In this “unmissable book” (The Guardian), an internationally renowned forensic psychiatrist and psychotherapist demonstrates the remarkable human capacity for radical empathy, change, and redemption.What drives someone to commit an act of terrible violence? Drawing from her thirty years of experience in providing therapy to people in prisons and secure hospitals who have committed serious offenses, Dr. Gwen Adshead provides fresh and surprising insights into violence and the mind. Through a collaboration with coauthor Eileen Horne, Dr. Adshead brings her extraordinary career to life in a series of unflinching portraits. Alongside doctor and patient, we discover what human cruelty, ranging from serial homicide to stalking, arson or sexual offending, means to perpetrators, experiencing firsthand how minds can change when the people some might label as “evil” are able to take responsibility for their life stories and get to know their own minds. With outcomes ranging from hope to despair, from denial to recovery, these men and women are revealed in all their complexity and shared humanity. In this era of mass incarceration, deep cuts in mental health care and extreme social schisms, this book offers a persuasive argument for compassion over condemnation. Moving, thought-provoking, and brilliantly told, The Devil You Know is a rare and timely book with the power to transform our ideas about cruelty and violence, and to radically expand the limits of empathy. “A welcome contribution to the literature of crime and rehabilitation” (Kirkus Reviews). About the Author Dr. Gwen Adshead is one of the UK’s leading forensic psychiatrists and psychotherapists. She has spent thirty years working in Broadmoor, England’s largest secure psychiatric hospital, with groups and individual patients convicted of serious violent offences, as well as with people in prisons and in the community. Gwen has a Master’s degree in medical law and ethics and has published several academic books and over one hundred papers and commissioned articles on forensic psychotherapy, moral reasoning and ethics, and attachment theory. She is a founder member of the International Association for Forensic Psychotherapy and has been a visiting professor at Yale University and Gresham College in the UK.Eileen Horne is an American author and dramatist currently based in California, with an MA in Creative Writing from the University of London. Following a long career in the UK as an independent TV drama producer, over the last decade, she has written an eclectic mix of historical nonfiction, journalism, Italian translation, as well as several original dramas and literary adaptations-including contributing to a BBC radio drama series about an entirely fictional female forensic psychiatrist...

-Titulo Original : O Caledonia: A Novel-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: In the tradition of Shirley Jackson’s We Have Always Lived in the Castle, a darkly humorous modern classic of Scottish literature about a doomed adolescent growing up in the mid-19th century-featuring a new introduction by Maggie O’Farrell, award-winning author of Hamnet.Janet lies murdered beneath the castle stairs, attired in her mother’s black lace wedding dress, lamented only by her pet jackdaw… Author Elspeth Barker masterfully evokes the harsh climate of Scotland in this atmospheric gothic tale that has been compared to the works of the Brontes, Edgar Allan Poe, and Edward Gorey. Immersed in a world of isolation and loneliness, Barker’s ill-fated young heroine Janet turns to literature, nature, and her Aunt Lila, who offers brief flashes of respite in an otherwise foreboding life. People, birds, and beasts move through the background in a tale that is as rich and atmospheric as it is witty and mordant. The family’s motto-Moriens sed Invictus (Dying but Unconquered)-is a well-suited epitaph for wild and courageous Janet, whose fierce determination to remain steadfastly herself makes her one of the most unforgettable protagonists in contemporary literature. Review A surreal, hilarious, and dark story of a troubled adolescence deep in the wilds of Scotland. I once decided to become friends with someone on the sole basis that she named O Caledonia as her favourite book. -Maggie OFarrell, author of Hamnet Though the novel opens with Janet newly dead, murdered on a staircase, it is full of life, energized by Ms. Barker’s thistle-sharp eye for natural detail. -The New York Times “This is an extraordinary novel: original, beautiful yet tough, with a sympathetic outsider of a heroine whose tragic fate is depicted on the very first page. . . . Barker’s love of the classics, her focus on mothers and daughters, and her remarkable evocation of landscape, should mark her out as one of Scotland’s principal writers.” -Financial Times “Elspeth Barker’s is a wholly original literary voice. . . . Steeped in classical allusions, rich in Scottish and natural history, fantastical in its highly wrought characters, this coming-of-age-novella is as passionately intense as it is wittily acerbic. . . . Propelled by the sheer force of words, the horrors and humours plunge on, observed by an eye both youthful and perspicacious. . . . The reader feels unalloyed joy, and occasional winces, on every page.” -The Independent “O Caledonia is like a bunch of flowers. Vivid images are handed to the reader one after the other and the colours are often freakish.” -The Guardian “O Caledonia is a Gothic coming-of-age story, the Brontes and Poe via Dodie Smith and Edward Gorey. Funny, surprising, exquisitely written-and brilliant on the smelly, absurd, harsh business of growing-up.” -David Nicholls, author of One Day “A sparky, funny work of genius about class, romanticism, social tradition and literary tradition, and one of the best least-known novels of the 20th century.” -Ali Smith “A wonderful oddity-brief, vivid, eccentric, written with ferocious zest and black humour.” -Penelope Lively “Witty, civilized. . . . With ravishing descriptions of nature which manage to be simultaneously rapturous and precise.” -New York Review of Books “A poetic and passionate description of adolescence. The words sing in their sentences. A world is evoked that has shades of the Bronte sisters and of Poe. . . . O Caledonia sets dreams and longing against Scottish righteousness and judgement, and the resolution is the blade of a skinning knife.” -The Times (London) “An absolute sumptuous treat of a book.” -Elizabeth Macneal, author of The Doll Factory “A poetic and blackly comic account of an unhappy childhood in a remote setting, recreated so sensuously it makes you feel the wind on the heath. Exquisite.” -Independent on Sunday “Beautifully written. . . . A remarkable debut.” -Times Literary Supplement “Animals, Sir Walter Sco...

-Titulo Original : Lying Beside You (3) (cyrus Haven Series)-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: Cyrus Haven and Evie Cormac return in Robotham’s latest page-turning, psychological thriller in this “gripping and eerie” (Karin Slaughter) series, reaffirming why Stephen King has proclaimed this author “an absolute master.”If I could tell you one thing about my brother, it would be this. Two days after his nineteenth birthday, he killed our parents and twin sisters because he heard voices in his head. As defining events go, nothing else comes close for Elias, or for me. As a boy, Cyrus Haven survived a family massacre and slowly pieced his life back together. Now, after almost twenty years, his brother is applying to be released from a secure psychiatric hospital-and Cyrus is expected to forgive Elias and welcome him home. Elias is returning to a very different world. Cyrus is now a successful psychologist, working with the police, sharing his house with Evie Cormac, a damaged and gifted teenager who can tell when someone is lying. Evie has gone back to school and is working part-time at an inner-city bar, but she continues to struggle with authority and following rules. When a man is murdered and his daughter disappears, Cyrus is called in to profile the killer and help piece together Maya Kirk’s last hours. Police believe she was drugged and driven away from the same bar where Evie is working. Soon, a second victim is taken, and Evie is the only person who glimpsed the man behind the wheel. But there’s a problem. Only two people believe her. One is Cyrus. The other is the killer. Review PRAISE FOR LYING BESIDE YOU “The guy cant write a bad book. This is one of his best, suspenseful and hard to put down.” -Stephen King A riveting page-turner. -Megan Goldin, author of The Night Swim I loved Lying Beside You. Michael Robotham is such a wonderfully perceptive writer; rich, real characters who are constantly surprising . . . I could read about these two forever. -Alex Marwood, author of The Wicked Girls Every single book is a plotting masterclass, and Lying Beside You is especially poignant. -Anna Downes, author of The Safe Place A masterful plot which pelts along at breakneck speed. With its intriguing characters, perfectly interwoven storylines and killer twists, Robothams latest thriller lives up to his fans sky-high expectations. His best yet. -Rose Carlyle, author of The Girl in the Mirror Compulsively readable. . . . A nail-biter. -Linwood Barclay, author of Take Your Breath Away Exactly the sort of thriller that pins you to your seat until youve finished it: a proper heart-pounding mystery with unforgettable characters and compelling twists. -Jane Casey, author of The Killing Kind Michael Robotham never lets you down and Lying Beside You is yet further proof that he is one of the most accomplished thriller writers in the world right now. Superbly paced, intricately plotted and packed with characters that leap off the page. Simply sensational. -M. W. Craven, author of the Washington Poe series I devoured Lying Beside You in two sittings. What a terrific writer and a fantastic read-pacey, spare and engrossing. -Ajay Chowdury, author of The WaiterPRAISE FOR THE CYRUS HAVEN SERIES “Good Girl, Bad Girl is a gripping and eerie read. You won’t be able to look away.” -Karin Slaughter I always have a huge stack of books to read, but a Michael Robotham novel automatically goes to the top of the pile. His new one is Good Girl, Bad Girl, and its unputdownable. -Stephen King “Good Girl, Bad Girl is an impeccable thriller with a plot that encompasses murder, incest, drugs, abuse, torture, sex-you name it, this book has it.” -New York Journal of Books “Haunting…Robotham expertly raises the tension as the action hurtles toward the devastating climax. Readers will hope the complex Cyrus will return for an encore.” -Publishers Weekly, STARRED review of Good Girl, Bad Girl “[A] gripping follow-up to Good Girl, Bad Girl. . . . Robotham delves into some very (very) dark terr...

-Titulo Original : Love Marriage A Novel-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: “Cultural clashes, political satire, Oedipal conflicts, elegant prose-they’re all here in this romp of a book.” -Oprah Daily A Phenomenal Book Club Pick and a New York Times Book Review Group Text Selection, Love Marriage is a glorious moving novel from Booker Prize shortlisted Monica Ali, who has “an inborn generosity that cannot be learned” (The New York Times Book Review).In present-day London, Yasmin Ghorami is twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father), and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose formidable mother, Harriet, is a famous feminist. The gulf between families is vast. So, too, is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe. As the wedding day draws near, misunderstandings, infidelities, and long-held secrets upend both Yasmin’s relationship and that of her parents, a “love marriage,” according to the family lore that Yasmin has believed all her life. A gloriously acute observer of class, sexual mores, and the mysteries of the human heart, Monica Ali has written a “riveting” (BookPage, starred review) social comedy and a moving, revelatory story of two cultures, two families, and two people trying to understand one another that’s “sure to please Ali’s fans and win some new ones” (Publishers Weekly). Review Praise for Love Marriage “An absorbing and meaty exploration of love, family and culture…There are differences in race, class and religion to navigate between the middle-class, Muslim and Indian-born Ghoramis and the white, upper-middle-class Sangsters, and Ali delineates those distinctions with nuance. Yet, to its credit, the characters of Love Marriage are more interesting than their well-worn challenges.” -NPR “Quick-footed and absorbing... The playful clash of cultures evolves into a subtle exploration of the ways in which both immigrant and nonimmigrant families have shaped their children. -The New Yorker “Ali successfully skewers everyone-white feminists, children of immigrants, overconfident male doctors…funny and satisfying.” -Glamour “Such lively characters, they practically waltz off the page to hand readers save-the-date cards. -New York Times Book Review, May “Group Text” pick Cultural clashes, political satire, Oedipal conflicts, elegant prose-they’re all here in this romp of a book. -Oprah Daily “Monica Ali’s latest novel explores a wide range of themes from smashing cultural taboos to the faltering steps you take when you’re young and in love and the experience of being the child of immigrants. Ali’s wit and insight illuminate the complications of modern love in Britain today. A joy.” -Harper’s Bazaar “Every bit as compelling as her debut, Brick Lane... warm and intelligent.” -Good Housekeeping “What starts out as a novel about planning a wedding that crosses two very different cultures evolves into something quite different. Love Marriage is about coming of age when you thought (perhaps wrongly) that you already had arrived.” -Bookreporter “A riveting portrait of a seemingly perfect engagement’s unraveling… Ali’s character treatments are multifaceted, humane and fluid in this multicultural family drama.” -BookPage, STARRED review The characters’ brisk discussions on politics, culture, and race skate over ideological divides, the substance of which emerges in dramatic irony and creates a textured portrayal of an immigrant family. This is sure to please Ali’s fans and win some new ones. -Publishers Weekly “[A] colorful tale of strained relationships ... The finale is rich, bawdy, and bold, a dramatization of the many ways we fail those closest to us and build lives on shifting sediments of buried feelings. And we live for love, nonetheless.” -Booklist Ali’s immersive novel, skipping deftly between several points of view, might be termed a comedy of manners of Britain’s urban middle class, but the comedy here has teeth: Though the book treats its characters with affection, the racial...

-Titulo Original : Better To Have Gone Love, Death, And The Quest For Utopia-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, CNN, New Statesman, Air Mail, and more A “haunting and elegant” (The Wall Street Journal) story about love, faith, the search for utopia-and the often devastating cost of idealism.It’s the late 1960s, and two lovers converge on an arid patch of earth in South India. John Walker is the handsome scion of a powerful East Coast American family. Diane Maes is a beautiful hippie from Belgium. They have come to build a new world-Auroville, an international utopian community for thousands of people. Their faith is strong, the future bright. So how do John and Diane end up dying two decades later, on the same day, on a cracked concrete floor in a thatch hut by a remote canyon? This is the mystery Akash Kapur sets out to solve in Better to Have Gone, and it carries deep personal resonance: Diane and John were the parents of Akash’s wife, Auralice. Akash and Auralice grew up in Auroville; like the rest of their community, they never really understood those deaths. In 2004, Akash and Auralice return to Auroville from New York, where they have been living with John’s family. As they reestablish themselves in the community, along with their two sons, they must confront the ghosts of those distant deaths. Slowly, they come to understand how the tragic individual fates of John and Diane intersected with the collective history of their town. “A riveting account of human aspiration and folly taken to extremes” (The Boston Globe), Better to Have Gone probes the underexplored yet universal idea of utopia and portrays in vivid detail the daily life of one such community. Richly atmospheric and filled with remarkable characters, spread across time and continents, this is narrative writing of the highest order-a “gripping…compelling…[and] heartbreaking story, deeply researched and lucidly told” (The New York Times Book Review). Review “This haunting memoir, by a man who grew up in an intentional community in India and returned to live there with his wife and children, is a sensitive excavation of fraught family history as well as a philosophical meditation on the utopian impulse.” -New York Times, Notable Books of 2021 A troubling and moving account of lives gone wrong in the search for an eastern Utopia. -Damon Galgut, Wall Street Journal “Writers’s Favorite Books of 2021” Written with insight and compassion, Better to Have Gone takes us on the journey of the author and his wife as they seek to reconstruct the events that brought them together as children and then shaped their lives as adults. At the same time, the book also explores the rivalries and tensions that defined Aurovilles early years and what it means to try to create a utopian environment. -Glenn Lowry, director of the Museum of Modern Art, in CNNs Best Books of 2021 “A group biography, the investigation of a mystery, a meditation on searching and faith, and an act of love. . . . This is a haunting, heartbreaking story, deeply researched and lucidly told, with an almost painful emotional honesty-the use of present tense weaving a kind of trance. . . . gripping. . . . compelling. . . . Better to Have Gone ends with an unexpected lightness, even transcendence, as Kapur helps us see what Auroville has given him, gives him still, despite the pain.” -Amy Waldman, The New York Times Book Review Better to Have Gone tells the extraordinary true story of an ‘aspiring utopia’ . . . a riveting account of human aspiration and folly taken to extremes.” -Dan Cryer, The Boston Globe Haunting and elegant. . . . The beauty of Mr. Kapur’s story lies in our conviction, by the end, that he and his wife have found most of the answers they were looking for.” -The Wall Street Journal “Three lives, three acts, and three genres combine in this narrative. Kapur weaves together memoir, history and ethnography to tell a story of the desire for utopia and the cruelties committed in its na...

-Titulo Original : Corruptible: Who Gets Power And How It Changes Us-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: An “absorbing, provocative, and far-reaching” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) look at what power is, who gets it, and what happens when they do, based on over 500 interviews with those who (temporarily, at least) have had the upper hand-from the creator of the Power Corrupts podcast and Washington Post columnist Brian Klaas.Does power corrupt, or are corrupt people drawn to power? Are tyrants made or born? Are entrepreneurs who embezzle and cops who kill the result of poorly designed systems or are they just bad people? If you were suddenly thrust into a position of power, would you be able to resist the temptation to line your pockets or seek revenge against your enemies? To answer these questions, Corruptible draws on over 500 interviews with some of the world’s top leaders-from the noblest to the dirtiest-including presidents and philanthropists as well as rebels, cultists, and dictators. Some of the fascinating insights include: how facial appearance determines who we pick as leaders, why narcissists make more money, why some people don’t want power at all and others are drawn to it out of a psychopathic impulse, and why being the “beta” (second in command) may actually be the optimal place for health and well-being. Corruptible also features a wealth of counterintuitive examples from history and social science: you’ll meet the worst bioterrorist in American history, hit the slopes with a ski instructor who once ruled Iraq, and learn why the inability of chimpanzees to play baseball is central to the development of human hierarchies. Based on deep, unprecedented research from around the world, and filled with “unexpected insights…the most important lesson of Corruptible is that when psychopaths inadvertently reveal their true selves, the institutions that they plague must take action that is swift, brutal, and merciless” (Business Insider). Review A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2021“FUN AND ENTERTAINING…With a deft literary hand, Klaas describes how positions that offer power and possibilities for enrichment feature incentives that attract the wrong sort of people.” -Washington Post “COMPELLING... [A] useful framework [for] recognizing that while difficult to change, human behavior can be steered in better directions.” -Washington Monthly “UNEXPECTED INSIGHTS…presented in a digestible and accessible way…Maybe the most important lesson of Corruptible is that when psychopaths inadvertently reveal their true selves, the institutions that they plague must take action that is swift, brutal and merciless.” -Business Insider “FAST-PACED…Klaas is an entertaining guide who has read widely across different fields and is able to connect his findings insightfully and judiciously.” -Times Literary Supplement ABSORBING, PROVOCATIVE, FAR-REACHING...Essential for interpreting history and world events-both the province of tyrants-alike. -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “ENRICHED BY COLORFUL CASE STUDIES AND LUCID EXPLANATIONS... a nuanced and entertaining guide to the meaning and function of power.” -Publishers Weekly“ILLUMINATING…reveals why some people and systems are more likely to be corrupted by power than others. -Adam Grant, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Think Again “A FASCINATING, FUN READ…Klaas has striking insights, presents impeccable science accessibly, and tells terrific stories-all with great writing and wonderfully mordant humor.” -Robert Sapolsky, New York Times bestselling author of Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst“A NEW, INSIGHTFUL, AND SEDITIOUS ROADMAP TO THE PRIMAL URGE TO DOMINATE… Dangerous as a drug addiction, power changes both those who have it and those who just want a quick fix.” -Richard Engel, Chief Foreign Correspondent of NBC News AN EXTRAORDINARY INTERROGATION OF THE WORKINGS OF POWER... A critical book for these troubling times. A must read! -Eddie S. Glaude Jr., James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor at Princet...

-Titulo Original : Both/and A Memoir-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: A New York Times bestseller, this extraordinary memoir from Huma Abedin-Hillary Clinton’s famously private top aide and longtime advisor-offers “a gripping testament to the power of a woman finding her voice, owning her ambition, and sharing her truth” (Glennon Doyle).Abedin’s stunning memoir garnered an extraordinary amount of media coverage, with appearances on CBS Sunday Morning, the Today show, The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, The View, Late Night with Seth Meyers, Christiane Amanpour, and coverage in many other outlets, including The Washington Post, The New York Times, and NPR. The daughter of Indian and Pakistani intellectuals and advocates, Abedin grew up in the United States and Saudi Arabia and traveled widely. Both/And grapples with family, legacy, identity, faith, marriage, motherhood-and work-with wisdom, sophistication, grace, and clarity. Abedin launched full steam into a college internship in the office of the First Lady in 1996, never imagining that her work at the White House would blossom into a career in public service, nor that her career would become an all-consuming way of life. She thrived in rooms with diplomats and sovereigns, entrepreneurs and artists, philanthropists and activists, and witnessed many crucial moments in 21st-century American history-Camp David for urgent efforts at Middle East peace in the waning months of the Clinton administration, Ground Zero in the days after the September 11 attacks, the inauguration of the first African American president of the United States, and the convention floor when America nominated its first female presidential candidate. Abedin’s relationship with Hillary Clinton has seen both women through extraordinary personal and professional highs, as well as unimaginable lows. Here, for the first time, is a deeply personal account of Clinton as mentor, confidante, and role model. Abedin cuts through caricature, rumor, and misinformation to reveal a crystal-clear portrait of Clinton as a brilliant and caring leader, a steadfast friend, generous, funny, hardworking, and dedicated. Both/And is “the story of a person of substance-someone determined to tell her own story” (The New York Times) including the heartbreaking chronicle of her marriage to Anthony Weiner, what drew her to him, how much she wanted to believe in him, the devastation wrought by his betrayals-and their shared love for their son. Abedin’s journey through the opportunities and obstacles, the trials and triumphs, of a full and complex life is a testament to her profound belief that in an increasingly either/or world, she can be both/and. Abedin’s compassion and courage, her resilience and grace, her work ethic and mission are an inspiration to women of all ages. Review Praise for Both/And “Outstanding... This is a brave, bold story.” -Book Reporter “It is one of the most powerful interviews I have ever done… and one of the best books I’ve ever read… utterly fascinating.” -Norah O’Donnell, CBS News Both/And is also a story of Abedin’s life before and outside politics. She tells of being born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, of spending most of her youth in Saudi Arabia, a father and mother who held doctorates, of family ties in the Middle East, the subcontinent and the US. It is the strongest part of the book, a tale of an immigrant, of an upward arc. -The Guardian Abedin will have a next act. She is an extremely driven woman, even as she is still haunted by her husbands transgressions and the exceedingly public way they were revealed. Despite it all, this is a woman who wants to be part of America’s future, even if it means putting herself out there in a painful way. And that is to be applauded. -MSNBC Morning Joe Abedin is presenting her own narrative with her new memoir, Both/And: A Life in Many Worlds. The much-anticipated book chronicles her fascinating life ... Both/And is available now; below, find some of the most powerful-and heartbreaking-moments fr...