-Titulo Original : The Coldest Case A Bruno, Chief Of Police Novel (bruno, Chief Of Police Series)-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: An anonymous skull, an unsolved murder-Bruno’s investigation into a long-standing cold case finds him caught between an enigmatic winegrower and a menacing remnant of the Cold War.After attending an exhibit on the facial reconstruction of ancient skulls, chief of police Bruno Courreges wonders if this technology might provide an invaluable clue to a thirty-year-old cold case. But learning the identity of the murder victim is only the beginning. The investigation quickly turns thorny and leads Bruno to a reclusive vintner, Henri Bazaine, whose education at a vocational school in a formerly Communist region has raised some eyebrows. An inquiry into the defunct school turns up shadowy reports of possible connections to the Stasi. And the scrutiny on Henri only intensifies once Bruno discovers that he was declared dead thirty years ago… and has been living under an assumed name ever since. The strange case is further complicated as Parisian bureaucrats get involved, hinting that essential diplomatic relations might be at stake. And to make matters even worse, the Dordogne is suffering from an intense summer drought that is sparking fires across the region. But as always, Bruno will keep a cool head through it all--and, bien sur, find time to enjoy the bounty of the Perigord! Review “Walker really shines in portraying the Dordogne-and Bruno’s idyllic life there. . . . New readers to the series can comfortably start here-Walker has the rare ability in a series writer of orienting old and new readers alike. A feast.”-Connie Fletcher, Booklist (starred review)“While I am an avid fan of one-sitting, page-turner books . . . I am also quite taken with books that force me to pause every few pages or so to savor and reflect a bit before continuing-to enjoy a deft turn of phrase or imagine the smells and sounds of the locale. Martin Walker’s books fall squarely into the latter category, and his latest, The Coldest Case, is a prime example.”-Bruce Tierney, BookPage (starred review)“Packed with descriptions of the food Courreges and his friends cook, of the gorgeous French countryside and of the local community, this book is pure escapism. . . . It is a delight to dip into [Bruno’s] sun-baked world.”-The Observer (London) “Bruno Courreges has a life the rest of us can only dream about. . . . Walker weaves an exciting story against a backdrop of bucolic bliss.”-Daily Mail (London)“Three different elements need to be addressed in Martin Walkers latest novel. First, the quality of writing, which is quite simply super. Second, the story, which in and of itself is enough to elevate this to the top echelon of police crime dramas. But the unexpected bonus is the culinary descriptions. They add a unique spice to the story, as they form a beautiful bond with the region, the people, and the art of good cooking. Highly recommended.”-Davis Bunn About the Author MARTIN WALKER, after a long career of working in international journalism and for think tanks, now gardens, cooks, explores vineyards, writes, travels, and has never been more busy. He divides his time between Washington, D.C., and the Dordogne. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1The three skulls transfixed him. The first, the original that had been unearthed after seventy thousand years, was not quite complete. Beside it stood a reconstruction, an exact copy artificially filled in with the missing parts of the jaw and cranium. Behind them, glowing eerily in the museum’s carefully crafted lighting, was a copy or perhaps a casting of the same skull made from an almost transparent blue plastic. Maybe it was a trick of the light that made it seem larger than the others. Reluctantly, Bruno Courreges shifted his glance back to the original, whose caption said it was the closest to a perfect Neanderthal skull ever found. It came from the rock shelter of La Ferrassie, a place he passed each day as he drove from his h...

-Titulo Original : Gambling With Armageddon Nuclear Roulette From Hiroshima To The Cuban Missile Crisis-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of American Prometheus comes the first effort to set the Cuban Missile Crisis, with its potential for nuclear holocaust, in a wider historical narrative of the Cold War-how such a crisis arose and why, at the very last possible moment, it never happened. “Fresh and thrilling.... A fascinating work of history that is very relevant to today’s politics.” -Walter Isaacson, bestselling author of The Code BreakerPulitzer Prize-winning author Martin J. Sherwin introduces a dramatic new view of how luck and leadership avoided a nuclear holocaust during the October 1962 Cuban missile crisis. Set within the sweep of the Cold War and its nuclear history, every chapter of this gripping narrative of the origins and resolution of history’s most dangerous thirteen days offers lessons and a warning for our time. Gambling with Armageddon presents a riveting, page turning account of the crisis as well as an original exploration of the evolving place of nuclear weapons in the Post-World War II world. Review **Kirkus Reviews The Best Books of the Year**“[This] book should become the definitive account of its subject.” -The New York Times“In this riveting book, Sherwin provides a fresh and thrilling account of the Cuban Missile Crisis and also puts it into historical perspective. With great new material, he shows the effect of nuclear arms on global affairs, starting with the decision to bomb Hiroshima. It is a fascinating work of history that is very relevant to today’s politics.” -Walter Isaacson, author of Leonardo da Vinci“Engrossing . . . Forget everything you think you know about how close the world came to nuclear war, then read this superb new book that completely upends the mythology of those critical weeks in October 1962 . . . From the opening pages [Sherwin] draws the reader into the immediacy of the Crisis . . . Should make everyone who reads it and was born after October 1962 extremely thankful to be alive.” -Jerry D. Lenaburg, New York Journal of BooksIntricately detailed, vividly written, and nearly Tolstoyan in scope, Sherwin’s account reveals just how close the Cold War came to boiling over. History buffs will be enthralled.” -Publishers Weekly (starred review)“A fresh examination of the Cuban missile crisis and its wider historical context, showing how the U.S. avoided nuclear war . . . Makes it clear how national leaders bumbled through the crisis, avoiding nuclear Armageddon through modest amounts of wisdom mixed with plenty of machismo, delusions, and serendipity . . . A fearfully convincing case that avoiding nuclear war ‘is contingent on the world’s dwindling reservoir of good luck.’” -Kirkus Reviews (starred review)“Examines nuclear policy as it evolved in the Cold War, culminating with the chillingly suspenseful week-long drama of the Cuban Missile Crisis . . . Grounded in an exceptional and up-to-date knowledge of the military, diplomatic, and individual components of American and Soviet politics.” -Mark Levine, Booklist (starred review)“In Gambling with Armageddon Martin J. Sherwin summarizes the ‘official’ narrative of the ‘thirteen days’ as follows. Members of ExComm, through ‘their careful consideration of the challenge, their firmness in the face of terrifying danger, and their wise counsel,’ steered the world to a peaceful resolution of a potentially civilization-ending conflict. Nothing, he writes, ‘could be further from the truth.’” -Elizabeth Kolbert, The New Yorker“One of our ablest chroniclers of the larger-than-life personalities and lasting environmental effects of the nuclear age.” -Marc Ambinder, The American Scholar“A thrilling account of the tension-filled days when the world teetered on the edge of nuclear apocalypse. Drawing on new sources, Martin Sherwin shows how the Cuban missile crisis grew out of the nuclear sabre-rattling of the Cold War, going all the way back to the early confrontations between Truman and Stalin. No o...

-Titulo Original : Inside Story A Novel (vintage International)-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: An autobiographical novel that’s a tender, witty exploration of the hardest questions: how to live, how to grieve, and how to die-from “the Mick Jagger of literature ... Amis is the most dazzling prose stylist in post-war British fiction” (The Daily Telegraph). “[A] charismatic compound of fact and fiction ... Martin Amis has retained the power to surprise.” -Parul Sehgal, The New York Times This novel had its birth in the death of Martin Amiss closest friend, the incomparable Christopher Hitchens, and it is within that profound and sprawling friendship that Inside Story unfurls. From their early days as young magazine staffers in London, reviewing romantic entanglements and the latest literary gossip (not to mention ideas, books, and where to lunch), Hitch was Amiss wingman and adviser, especially in the matter of the alluringly amoral Phoebe Phelps-an obsession Amis must somehow put behind him if he is ever to find love, marriage, a plausible run at happiness. Other figures competing as Amiss main influencers are his literary fathers-Kingsley, of course; his hero Saul Bellow; the weirdly self-finessing poet Philip Larkin-and his significant literary mothers, including Iris Murdoch and Elizabeth Jane Howard. Moving among these greats to set his own path, he winds up surveying the horrors of the twentieth century, and the still-unfolding impact of the 9/11 attacks on the twenty-first--and considers what all of this has taught him about how to live and how to be a writer. The result is a love letter to life-and to the people in his life-that achieves a new level of confidentiality with his readers, giving us the previously unseen portrait of his extraordinary world. Review “[A] charismatic compound of fact and fiction.... Includes some of Amis’s best writing to date.” -The New York Times “Warm, generous and deeply moving, whether on the subject of fatherhood, love or friendship.... The finest work he’s produced.” -The Observer “His most beautiful book.” -New York Times Book Review “A five-course meal of a book.... It’s a memoir tucked inside an endearingly discursive novel.” -Vanity Fair, “The Fifteen Best Books of 2020” “Brilliant ... Abounds with entertaining anecdotes ... [Amis] explores the rich terrain of how matters of the heart (and loins) inform art ... Stylistically, Inside Story is most reminiscent of Dylan’s Chronicles, a master artist following his muse to create a genre-defying and career-defining work.” -Booklist (starred review) “Amis newest novel [is] unlike anything Amis has written. Its unlike anything anyone has written.... Inside Story is the 71-year old writer’s death-haunted ode to life.” -Esquire “The great lines come flying at you, as always, volleyed out of the cleft of the book and into the magic space beneath your raised eyebrows ... and there are good jokes, too.... [Amis] wants to lance the moment with language, and he wants his language to live forever.” -The Atlantic “Inside Story is a book of gloriously unchecked preoccupations: sex, Saul Bellow, literature, sex, Philip Larkin, anti-Semitism, aging, smoking, sex, Christopher Hitchens, terrorism, suicide. Did I mention sex? ... Fans will revel in the excess and piling up of Amis’s sentences, which are both wired and ruthlessly controlled.” -Vogue “This once-young buck of the British literary scene cannot help but look death, mortality, and the meaning of life squarely in the face. And he does so with a singular panache and much offhanded wit.... [Inside Story] caps Amis’s estimable literary career with cheeky candor and more than a touch of razzle-dazzle.” -BookPage About the Author MARTIN AMIS is the author of fourteen previous novels, the memoir Experience, two collections of stories, and seven nonfiction books. He lives in Brooklyn...

-Titulo Original : Betty A Novel-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: One of the Best Books of the Year: The Guardian, Glamour, GoopAn Entertainment Weekly Must-ReadA stunning, lyrical novel set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachians about a young girl and the family truths that will haunt her for the rest of her life.“A girl comes of age against the knife.”So begins the story of Betty Carpenter. Born in a bathtub in 1954 to a white mother and a Cherokee father, Betty is the sixth of eight siblings. The world they inhabit in the rural town of Breathed, Ohio, is one of poverty and violence-both from outside the family and, devastatingly, from within. But despite the hardships she faces, Betty is resilient. Her curiosity about the natural world, her fierce love for her sisters, and her father’s brilliant stories are kindling for the fire of her own imagination, and in the face of all to which she bears witness, Betty discovers an escape: she begins to write. Inspired by generations of her family, Tiffany McDaniel sets out to free the past by delivering this heartbreaking yet magical story-a remarkable novel that establishes her as one of the most important voices in American fiction. Review NAUTILUS BOOK AWARD WINNERTHE SOCIETY OF MIDLAND AUTHORS AWARD WINNEROHIOANA LIBRARY READERS CHOICE AWARDS WINNER FRIENDS OF AMERICAN WRITERS CHICAGO WINNERLONGLISTED FOR THE DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD“Innovative . . . devastating. . . . A brilliant, expansive exploration of family and grief.” -The Guardian“The book is rich with the texture of everyday living. It’s these details that sing Betty to life and bring readers fully into the Appalachian landscape and the social milieu of Breathed.” -The Los Angeles Times“Breathtaking.” -Vogue “Prepare to be undone. . . . This is one of those rare books . . . that is so stunning, so beautiful, so piercing, you could never forget it. . . . Wow, wow, wow.” -Goop “Sumptuous and intimate.” -O, The Oprah Magazine“This book will break your heart open, in the best way.” -Good Housekeeping“A traditional beach read this is not - unless your idea of a beach read involves ugly sobbing for a few hundred pages. But [Betty] is so beautiful you wont care about the tears.” -Entertainment Weekly“Gorgeous. . . . A plaintive coming of age narrative.” -Glamour“Fierce, vividly realized.” -The Columbus Dispatch“Members of this hardscrabble family stride through their Ohio community like minor gods, leaving amazement in their wake. Highly recommended; a coming-of-age novel that is a treat for lovers of stylistic prose.” -Library Journal“Epic, lyrical . . . McDaniel’s sophomore work is a sweeping and heart-wrenching exploration of how we understand our parents’ lives and how our children will one day understand our own.” -Booklist, (starred review) About the Author Tiffany McDaniel is a novelist, poet, and visual artist born and raised in Ohio. She is the author of The Summer That Melted Everything. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. 3 Awake, O north wind; and come, thou south; blow upon my garden. -Song of Solomon 4:16 Ozark, Arkansas. A place of deep green wilderness on the edge of mountains. It is where I was born and where we returned to after Lint came into the world. We lived in a small house Dad had partially built on a concrete foundation. The walls were not yet up, so the insulation showed while tarp hung from the unfinished roof. In between building the house, Dad sold moonshine and worked underground like a mole along with the other coal miners. The only one of us kids not living at home was Leland. He was twenty by then and had already been gone two years after enlisting in the army at eighteen. He was currently stationed in Korea. He would write letters to Mom and Dad. Leland never wrote about anything related to the army or the reasons he was stationed in any particular place. He would write about things that made it seem like he was on a trip. I did some fishing the other day, he wrote. I used a Ko...

-Titulo Original : Hippie-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: Review Theres no denying that Slavic Soul Party! are inspired by the giants of Balkan brass, and on their fifth outing, they continue to grow in stature. What they create isnt some slavish imitation of their heroes, but work that uses the idea and feel of the Balkans, mixed with their own histories and experiences. But that doesnt mean they cant do Balkan music very well indeed, as on the Macedonian Sviraj Srecko or the title cut, which use it as a base for some mixnmatch styles, all the while keeping to some death-defying playing and rhythms that threaten to career out of control but never do. Real Simple, of course, is anything but, a showcase of extraordinary chops, while Sarba takes a little detour into Moldova. The Balkan bands arent afraid to look outside their borders and pick up on other ideas, and this group does it too, which some electrifying results, The gospel tune Canaan Land starts out straightforwardly enough, then morphs onto something that would fit in down in New Orleans, with the freedom to do some real blowing thats not always there on the other tracks, while Sancti Peri, which began life as a flamenco piece, is taken south of the border. While, quite understandably, brass predominates, a couple of pieces let accordion up for air, bringing a little variety, and the slower, elegiac closer, Hymn sounds as if the entire ensemble is finally catching its breath. A magnificent, daring ride that broadens the groups horizons, and consolidates their previous glory. -- Chris Nickson, All Music Guid...

-Titulo Original : The Murder Of Mr. Wickham-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: A summer house party turns into a thrilling whodunit when Jane Austens Mr. Wickham-one of literature’s most notorious villains-meets a sudden and suspicious end in this brilliantly imagined mystery featuring Austen’s leading literary characters.The happily married Mr. Knightley and Emma are throwing a party at their country estate, bringing together distant relatives and new acquaintances-characters beloved by Jane Austen fans. Definitely not invited is Mr. Wickham, whose latest financial scheme has netted him an even broader array of enemies. As tempers flare and secrets are revealed, it’s clear that everyone would be happier if Mr. Wickham got his comeuppance. Yet they’re all shocked when Wickham turns up murdered-except, of course, for the killer hidden in their midst. Nearly everyone at the house party is a suspect, so it falls to the party’s two youngest guests to solve the mystery: Juliet Tilney, the smart and resourceful daughter of Catherine and Henry, eager for adventure beyond Northanger Abbey; and Jonathan Darcy, the Darcys’ eldest son, whose adherence to propriety makes his father seem almost relaxed. In this tantalizing fusion of Austen and Christie, from New York Times bestselling author Claudia Gray, the unlikely pair must put aside their own poor first impressions and uncover the guilty party-before an innocent person is sentenced to hang. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL Review “Had Jane Austen sat down to write a country house murder mystery, this is exactly the book she would have written. Devotees of Austen’s timeless novels will get the greatest possible pleasure from this wonderful book. Immense fun and beautifully observed. Delicious!” -Alexander McCall Smith“A well-done pastiche that balances menace with wit, recrimination with reconciliation, sin with redemption and justice with mercy.” -Tom Nolan, The Wall Street Journal “Satisfying. . . . Readers looking for a charming mystery will adore this book. Gray captures Austen’s tone perfectly, allowing fans to step back into the Regency author’s beloved world.” -Elyse Discher,BookPage“An astonishingly convincing and tremendously entertaining pastiche. . . . Written elegantly, with a keen eye for Regency detail as well as a deep knowledge and affection for Ms. Austen’s oeuvre, this is an entirely plausible continuation of the Austen canon that stands as a worthwhile read in its own right.” -Doreen Sheridan,Criminal Element“What a splendid conceit! . . . Gray provides plenty of backstory and enough depth to her characters that even those who mix up their Pride and Prejudice with their Sense and Sensibility will delight in the Agatha Christie-style mystery. . . . There’s so much fun to be had in this reimagined Austen world-and the mystery is so strong-that one can only hope, dear reader, that more books will follow.” -Ilene Cooper, Booklist (starred review)“The Murder of Mr. Wickham illuminates Jane Austen’s best-loved (and lesser loved) characters, introduces a dynamic sleuthing duo, and delivers a most satisfying murder mystery in the grand tradition of Clue.” -Jane Pek, author of The Verifiers“Jane Austen is spinning in her grave: she’s trying to climb out and shake Claudia Gray’s hand. The Murder of Mr. Wickham delivers in spades-and in diamonds, hearts, and clubs!” -Alan Bradley, author of the Flavia de Luce series“Claudia Gray’s The Murder of Mr. Wickham is a charming, sharp, and engrossing mystery that evokes the meta wonder of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen with the evocative depth of the Jane Austen library-delivered in a voice and tone that is modern and mesmerizing. Gray has crafted a book that one won’t easily forget.” -Alex Segura, author of Secret Identity“[An] enchanting mystery. . . . Gray perfectly captures the personalities of Austen’s beloved characters. This is a real treat for Austenites.” -Publishers Weekly“Who would NOT want to read a book in which one a literature’s most notorious rakes meets his final demise?...