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  • Book : Walking With Ghosts - Byrne, Gabriel
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    Book : Walking With Ghosts - Byrne, Gabriel

    -Titulo Original : Walking With Ghosts-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: About the Author Gabriel Byrne was born in Dublin in 1950. Before becoming an actor, he joined a seminary with hopes of becoming a Catholic priest. Byrne is best known for his work in The Usual Suspects, Miller’s Crossing, and Into the West. He’s also done extensive work as a television actor and as a director and producer. He is based in New York. “Make no mistake about it: Walking with Ghosts is a masterpiece. A book that will wring out our tired hearts. It is by turns poetic, moving, and very funny. You will find it on the shelf alongside other great Irish memoirs including those by Frank McCourt, Nuala OFaolain and Edna O’Brien.” -Colum McCannAs a young boy growing up in the outskirts of Dublin, Gabriel Byrne sought refuge in a world of imagination among the fields and hills near his home, at the edge of a rapidly encroaching city. Born to working class parents and the eldest of six children, he harbored a childhood desire to become a priest. When he was eleven years old, Byrne found himself crossing the Irish Sea to join a seminary in England. Four years later, Byrne had been expelled and he quickly returned to his native city. There he took odd jobs as a messenger boy and a factory laborer to get by. In his spare time, he visited the cinema where he could be alone and yet part of a crowd. It was here that he could begin to imagine a life beyond the grey world of 60s Ireland.He reveled in the theatre and poetry of Dublin’s streets, populated by characters as eccentric and remarkable as any in fiction, those who spin a yarn with acuity and wit. It was a friend who suggested Byrne join an amateur drama group, a decision that would change his life forever and launch him on an extraordinary forty-year career in film and theatre. Moving between sensual recollection of childhood in a now almost vanished Ireland and reflections on stardom in Hollywood and Broadway, Byrne also courageously recounts his battle with addiction and the ambivalence of fame.Walking with Ghosts is by turns hilarious and heartbreaking as well as a lyrical homage to the people and landscapes that ultimately shape our destinies. Review Praise for Walking with Ghosts Dazzles with unflinching honesty, as it celebrates the exuberance of being alive to the world despite living through pain. [Byrnes] portrait of an artist as a young boy is steeped in nostalgia of the best sort, re-creating the pull of home . . . With this tender book--full of warm and often funny stories--Byrne shows us the depth of his true character. --Washington PostThe In Treatment star is a graceful stylist . . . finding elegant connections between childhood longings and adult mistakes. --Minneapolis Star Tribune A moody and melodic memoir--much like the great actor himself. --Oprah Daily, Most Anticipated Books of 2021 [Byrne] writes passionately about first love and hilariously about life as an actor. --Colm Toibin, Irish Times Walking with Ghosts is lavish with lyricism, but presents a pretty unvarnished version of its author . . . The book is also a conscious departure: stylistically ambitious, purposefully (and successfully) so. --The Guardian (UK) Remarkably intimate . . . A lyrical and unflinching interrogation of the self . . . The excavations of Byrnes early traumas . . . are stark and heartbreaking . . . That hes been able to alchemize these traumas into something so beautiful feels like deliverance, and reads like a gift. --Dan Sheehan, Air Mail Melancholic and poetic . . . Whats clear from the outset is that Byrne possesses that rare ability not just to identify meaningful moments but to recount them in an engaging way. --RTE Pulses with nostalgia and an honesty palpable from the opening pages . . . Byrne arrives at a truth greater than an honest and sensitive memoir; he verges on a profoundly touching articulation of our short time on earth, time that will make of each of us nothing more or less than a ghost...
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    -Titulo Original : The Spys Son The True Story Of The Highest-ranking Cia Officer Ever Convicted Of Espionage And The Son He Trained To Spy For Russia-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Jim Nicholson earned the nickname “Batman” early in his spy career with the CIA. A talented case officer with a Rolex watch and hand-tailored suits, Jim’s elan and fierce patriotic streak shot him to stardom. He played cat-and-mouse with the KGB during Cold War postings in the Philippines, Thailand, and Japan, and then, when the Soviet Union collapsed, he ran spy operations against a new foe, the Russian SVR.Fourteen years after his first overseas assignment, mired in a messy divorce and custody battle, Jim’s superiors called him back to CIA headquarters in Langley, Virginia. By day, he ran Middle East counterterrorism operations. By night, he was just another minivan-driving single dad racing home for dinner with his kids.But Jim had a secret. For two years, in exotic locales across the globe, he had sold his country’s deepest secrets to Russia. Jim turned over troves of classified documents and he blew the covers of countless officers-a betrayal that put lives in danger and destroyed careers. The CIA and FBI joined forces to catch him, mounting the only spy-versus-spy criminal investigation ever run under the roof of Langley. In 1997, Jim became the CIA’s highest-ranking officer convicted of espionage. Yet his duplicity didn’t stop there.While behind the bars of a federal prison in Oregon, the former mole systematically groomed the one person he trusted most to serve as his stand-in: his youngest son, Nathan, a broke college student in his early twenties. Deeply depressed after suffering a serious injury during Army training, Nathan was easy prey for his father. When Jim asked him to courier messages out of prison to his Russian contacts, Nathan saw an opportunity to prove himself and to make his father proud. But trespassing into the global spy word is a risky business and the chain of events that followed irreversibly changed their lives.The Spy’s Son goes inside the private meeting rooms of the FBI and CIA, delves into the post-Cold War intrigues between Moscow and Washington, and steps behind the closed doors of a family struggling to stay together. The culmination of a six-year investigation, Bryan Denson has masterfully crafted a high-speed, high-stakes account of this riveting true story of a father’s deception and a son’s loyalty, and the dire consequences that resulted from betraying both country and kin. Review In a stunning piece of reporting Denson has unraveled one of the strangest spy stories in American history and written a haunting book as fast-paced and as exciting as the best spy novel. It will keep readers awake as he takes them deep into a world of international espionage populated by KGB and CIA agents, American spy catchers, and a family theyll never forget -- and its all true. -- Robert Lindsey, author of The Falcon and the SnowmanThe Spys Son is an intelligence services worst nightmare -- a double agent inside its walls. Human foibles of hubris and greed drive Jim Nicholson to betray his nations deepest secrets and his own family. Densons telling of the tale is riveting, agonizing, and, for a former spook like me, sometimes heart-stopping. -- Valerie Plame, author of Fair GameThe Spys Son expertly chronicles Jim Nicholsons cold-blooded betrayal of both country and son. A gripping nonfiction read on par with a John le Carre thriller. -- Pete Earley, author of Confessions of a Spy: The Real Story of Aldrich Ames From the Author It took me five years to finish this book, but only because I wrote it. My goal was to write this true story in the style of a novelist. I hope that you find I succeeded and that the story thrills you in the reading as much as it did me in the writing. About the Author Bryan Denson, an investigative reporter and veteran staff writer for The Oregonian, is a Pulitzer Prize finalist in journalism for national reporting and for the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism award, and the winner of the George Polk Award, am...
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    -Titulo Original : A Fighters Heart One Mans Journey Through The World Of Fighting-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: In 1999, after a series of wildly adventurous jobs around the world, Sam Sheridan found himself in Australia, loaded with cash and intent on not working until he’d spent it all. It occurred to him that, without distractions, he could finally indulge a long-dormant obsession: fighting. Within a year, he was in Bangkok training with the greatest fighter in muay Thai (Thai kickboxing) history and stepping through the ropes for a professional bout. That one fight wasn’t enough. Sheridan set out to test himself on an epic journey into how and why we fight, facing Olympic boxers, Brazilian jiu-jitsu stars, and Ultimate Fighting champions. Along the way, Sheridan delivers an insightful look at violence as a career and a spectator sport, a behind-the-pageantry glimpse of athletes at the top of their terrifying game. An extraordinary combination of gonzo journalism and participatory sports writing, A Fighter’s Heart is a dizzying first-hand account of what it’s like to reach the peak of finely disciplined personal aggression, to hit-and be hit. Review “[An] excellent book.” -BoxingScene...
  • Book : Is There Still Sex In The City? - Bushnell, Candace
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    Book : Is There Still Sex In The City? - Bushnell, Candace

    -Titulo Original : Is There Still Sex In The City?-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Twenty years after her sharp, seminal first book Sex and the City reshaped the landscape of pop culture and dating with its fly on the wall look at the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite, the trailblazing Candace Bushnell delivers a new book on the wilds and lows of sex and dating after fifty. Set between the Upper East Side of Manhattan and a country enclave known as The Village, Is There Still Sex in the City? follows a cohort of female friends Sassy, Kitty, Queenie, Tilda Tia, Marilyn, and Candace as they navigate the ever-modernizing phenomena of midlife dating and relationships. There’s “Cubbing,” in which a sensible older woman suddenly becomes the love interest of a much younger man, the “Mona Lisa” Treatment a vaginal restorative surgery often recommended to middle aged women, and what it’s really like to go on Tinder dates as a fifty-something divorcee. From the high highs (My New Boyfriend or MNBs) to the low lows (Middle Age Madness, or MAM cycles), Bushnell illustrates with humor and acuity today’s relationship landscape and the types that roam it. Drawing from her own experience, in Is There Still Sex in the City? Bushnell spins a smart, lively satirical story of love and life from all angles marriage and children, divorce and bereavement, as well as the very real pressures on women to maintain their youth and have it all. This is an indispensable companion to one of the most revolutionary dating books of the twentieth century from one of our most important social commentators. Review Praise for IS THERE STILL SEX IN THE CITY? A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER for US WEEKLY, ELLE, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, NEWSDAY, and POPSUGAR“Perhaps no one has better excavated our kinky underpinnings than Candace Bushnell author of the original ‘Sex and the City’ columns and progenitor of the show that made Manolo a household name. Fifteen years after Carrie Bradshaw sighed her last ‘I couldnt help but wonder,’ Bushnell is back with Is There Still Sex in the City?. The protagonist, Candace, is a recently divorced writer who trades her Manhattan life for a cottage in the Hamptons...[the book is] brimming with the snappy rhetorical questions and taxonomic acronyms that became Bushnells signature back in the stiletto days... While Carrie was a bright-eyed anthropologist, Candace and her friends are survivalists; even beyond the City, its a jungle out there.”-LAUREN MECHLING, VOGUE“What comes after cosmos and toxic bachelors? Fueled by chilled rose, Sex and the City scribe Candace Bushnell is masterfully decoding a new era of single life.”-USA TODAY“From Cosmos to rose, her current beverage of choice, Bushnell may drink pink. But she knows how to write dark.”-ASSOCIATED PRESS“The book captures the buoyancy of the writer’s brand, but it also has a...mellow quality... As with the show, there’s a lot to relish. Bushnell’s portrayals of the women in her circle somehow feel both forgiving and clinical, with an anthropologist’s matter-of-factness...Bushnell wrestles smartly with the theme of aging, with how being a “fiftysomething” woman is different from being a “thirtysomething” woman....this Bushnell writes most gracefully about topics that are not sex and dating...This Bushnell has softer edges than the erstwhile Observer columnist... The city is big, Bushnell implies, but not endless. The sex never left it. But was sex ever really the point?”-Katy Waldman, NEW YORKER“As she did in her bestselling Sex in the City, Bushnell examines her own and her friends’ experiences with dry wit, delivering sharp social observations about the trials and piquant pleasures of looking for love at a certain age.”-PEOPLE“While [Bushnell] doesn’t bring back Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte or Samantha, it feels a bit like we’re at brunch with middle-aged versions of those archetypes, and they’re still talking about love and sex because, well, of course. The book, part memoir, part fiction, is a guide to the Ides of 50...Much ...
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    -Titulo Original : Is There Still Sex In The City?-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Twenty years after her sharp, seminal first book Sex and the City reshaped the landscape of pop culture and dating with its fly on the wall look at the mating rituals of the Manhattan elite, the trailblazing Candace Bushnell delivers a new book on the wilds and lows of sex and dating after fifty. Set between the Upper East Side of Manhattan and a country enclave known as The Village, Is There Still Sex in the City? follows a cohort of female friends Sassy, Kitty, Queenie, Tilda Tia, Marilyn, and Candace as they navigate the ever-modernizing phenomena of midlife dating and relationships. There’s “Cubbing,” in which a sensible older woman suddenly becomes the love interest of a much younger man, the “Mona Lisa” Treatment a vaginal restorative surgery often recommended to middle aged women, and what it’s really like to go on Tinder dates as a fifty-something divorcee. From the high highs (My New Boyfriend or MNBs) to the low lows (Middle Age Madness, or MAM cycles), Bushnell illustrates with humor and acuity today’s relationship landscape and the types that roam it. Drawing from her own experience, in Is There Still Sex in the City? Bushnell spins a smart, lively satirical story of love and life from all angles marriage and children, divorce and bereavement, as well as the very real pressures on women to maintain their youth and have it all. This is an indispensable companion to one of the most revolutionary dating books of the twentieth century from one of our most important social commentators. Review Praise for IS THERE STILL SEX IN THE CITY? A BEST BOOK OF THE SUMMER for US WEEKLY, ELLE, ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY, NEWSDAY, and POPSUGAR“Perhaps no one has better excavated our kinky underpinnings than Candace Bushnell author of the original ‘Sex and the City’ columns and progenitor of the show that made Manolo a household name. Fifteen years after Carrie Bradshaw sighed her last ‘I couldnt help but wonder,’ Bushnell is back with Is There Still Sex in the City?. The protagonist, Candace, is a recently divorced writer who trades her Manhattan life for a cottage in the Hamptons...[the book is] brimming with the snappy rhetorical questions and taxonomic acronyms that became Bushnells signature back in the stiletto days... While Carrie was a bright-eyed anthropologist, Candace and her friends are survivalists; even beyond the City, its a jungle out there.”-LAUREN MECHLING, VOGUE“What comes after cosmos and toxic bachelors? Fueled by chilled rose, Sex and the City scribe Candace Bushnell is masterfully decoding a new era of single life.”-USA TODAY“From Cosmos to rose, her current beverage of choice, Bushnell may drink pink. But she knows how to write dark.”-ASSOCIATED PRESS“The book captures the buoyancy of the writer’s brand, but it also has a...mellow quality... As with the show, there’s a lot to relish. Bushnell’s portrayals of the women in her circle somehow feel both forgiving and clinical, with an anthropologist’s matter-of-factness...Bushnell wrestles smartly with the theme of aging, with how being a “fiftysomething” woman is different from being a “thirtysomething” woman....this Bushnell writes most gracefully about topics that are not sex and dating...This Bushnell has softer edges than the erstwhile Observer columnist... The city is big, Bushnell implies, but not endless. The sex never left it. But was sex ever really the point?”-Katy Waldman, NEW YORKER“As she did in her bestselling Sex in the City, Bushnell examines her own and her friends’ experiences with dry wit, delivering sharp social observations about the trials and piquant pleasures of looking for love at a certain age.”-PEOPLE“While [Bushnell] doesn’t bring back Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte or Samantha, it feels a bit like we’re at brunch with middle-aged versions of those archetypes, and they’re still talking about love and sex because, well, of course. The book, part memoir, part fiction, is a guide to the Ides of 50...Much ...
  • Book : The Voyeurs Motel - Talese, Gay
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    -Titulo Original : The Voyeurs Motel-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous handwritten letter from a man in Colorado. “Since learning of your long-awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America,” the letter began, “I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its contents or to contents of a future book.”The man went on to tell Talese an astonishing secret: he had bought a motel outside Denver to satisfy his voyeuristic desires. Underneath the roof of his motel, the man had built an “observation platform,” fitted with vents, through which he could watch his unwitting guests.Unsure what to make of this confession, Talese traveled to Colorado where he met the man-Gerald Foos-and verified his story in person. But because Foos insisted on remaining anonymous, preserving for himself the privacy he denied his guests, Talese filed his reporting away, assuming the story would remain untold.Over the ensuing years, Foos occasionally reached out to Talese to fill him in on the latest developments in his life. He also sent Talese hundreds of pages of notes on his guests and their habits, work that Foos believed made him a pioneering researcher into American society and sexuality. America in microcosm had passed through the Voyeur’s motel, and he witnessed and recorded the harsh effects of the war in Vietnam, the upheaval in gender roles, the decline of segregation, and much more. But Foos continued to insist on anonymity. Now, after thirty-five years, he’s ready to go public and Gay Talese can finally tell his story.The Voyeur’s Motel is an extraordinary work of narrative journalism, at once a portrait of one complicated man, and an examination of secret lives and shifting mores in a culturally-evolving country. Review Praise for The Voyeur’s Motel: Named a Best Book of the Year by the Daily Mail (Event Critics’ Selection) “This book flipped nearly all of my switches as a reader. It’s a strange, melancholy, morally complex, grainy, often appalling and sometimes bleakly funny book, one that casts a spell not dissimilar to that cast by Janet Malcolm’s The Journalist and the Murderer . . . Gripping . . . [Talese] lays out what he knows and does not know in sentences that are as crisp as good Windsor knots. He expresses his qualms, but trusts the reader to come to his or her own conclusions . . . An intense book.” Dwight Garner, New York Times “Informative and intriguing . . . [I] was enlightened and entertained by The Voyeur’s Motel.” Washington Post “This is a weird book about weird people doing weird things, and I wouldn’t have put it down if the house were on fire.” Washington Times “Whether Gerald Foos is telling the complete truth is almost beside the point. The Voyeur is so fascinating a character insightful, observant and amoral that the reader becomes caught up in his story.” Providence Journal “If you’ve ever wanted your inner voyeur to run free, vicariously at least, then The Voyeur’s Motel is for you . . . Motel delves deeply into the taboo world with no holds barred and no excuses . . . The type of unflinching New Journalism that Talese helped found three decades ago.” Jackson Clarion Ledger “Pioneering reporter Gay Talese tells the ultimate surveillance story in The Voyeur’s Motel . . . Talese a master of elegant, understated prose uses an objective reportorial style to tell the voyeur’s story, and it’s the right approach for a narrative that requires no extra spice . . . An unforgettable book.” BookPage “Foos [is revealed] as a singularly pervy, grandiose, and strangely eloquent weirdo who would be irresistible to any writer, let alone one as talented, patient, and thoughtful as Talese . . . Those seeking a uniquely discomfiting journey couldn’t find a better pair of reprobates with whom to cast their lot.” Booklist “Undoubtedly creepy and unnerving but also an entirely compelling slice of seamy American lif...
  • Book : The Private Lives Of The Tudors Uncovering The...
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    -Titulo Original : The Private Lives Of The Tudors Uncovering The Secrets Of Britain’s Greatest Dynasty-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: England’s Tudor monarchs-Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I-are perhaps the most celebrated and fascinating of all royal families in history. Their love affairs, their political triumphs, and their overturning of the religious order are the subject of countless works of popular scholarship. But for all we know about Henry’s quest for male heirs, or Elizabeth’s purported virginity, the private lives of the Tudors remain largely beyond our grasp.In The Private Lives of the Tudors, Tracy Borman delves deep behind the public face of the monarchs, showing us what their lives were like beyond the stage of court. Drawing on the accounts of those closest to them, Borman examines Tudor life in fine detail. What did the monarchs eat? What clothes did they wear, and how were they designed, bought, and cared for? How did they practice their faith? And in earthlier moments, who did they love, and how did they give birth to the all-important heirs?Delving into their education, upbringing, sexual lives, and into the kitchens, bathrooms, schoolrooms, and bedrooms of court, Borman charts out the course of the entire Tudor dynasty, surfacing new and fascinating insights into these celebrated figures. Review Praise for The Private Lives of the Tudors: A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice “For Borman, the intimate particulars of everyday life are what help the past come bracingly, stirringly alive. Her full-quivered social history of the Tudor monarchs . . . furnishes readers with a ‘Hey, did you know . . . ?’ on almost every page . . . [An] authoritative work.” New York Times Book Review “[Written] with effortless verve . . . [A] riveting history.” O, The Oprah Magazine “[A] fascinating new book . . . No royal family is better known . . . But there’s still much to learn from The Private Lives of the Tudors thanks to the expertise and persistence of Borman . . . The most captivating moments of Private Lives, and there are plenty of them, bring the reader into other personal Tudor moments of strength, weakness, and heartache.” Christian Science Monitor “Comprehensively researched and compulsively readable . . . The potions, plots, liaisons and marriages described in this book are thoroughly entertaining . . . A bloody good read.” Minneapolis Star Tribune “This is a fascinating and informative account of the personal lives of the Tudors. So much so that it is certain that the average person would surely be unfamiliar with much of this history.” New York Journal of Books “A measured, precise, and humanizing overview of the behind-the-scenes monarchical lives of Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VII, Mary I, and Elizabeth I . . . Fascinating . . . This Downton Abbey-like peek into the everyday lives of these privileged yet cloistered rulers and their households will appeal to both serious scholars and Tudor enthusiasts.” Booklist “Amusing [and] well-researched . . . [An] entertaining mixture of esoteric social history and well-known details of the persona lives of the Tudor monarchs.”-Kirkus Reviews “Borman . . . unearth[s] some obscure and intriguing tidbits that have been overlooked by other historians . . . Though all five Tudor monarchs made even their most private moments into courtly spectacles . . . Borman’s fine book goes far toward humanizing them. Recommended.” Publishers Weekly “Borman’s passion for the Tudor period shines forth from the pages of this fascinatingly detailed book.” Allison Weir, author of The Six Wives of Henry VIII “[A] fascinating, detailed account . . . Borman ranges far and wide in her quest to throw light on what the Tudor kings and queens ate, what they wore, what they did with their days and how they spent their nights . . . This is a book of rich scholarship. Tracy Borman . . . knows her Tudor history inside out.”-Daily Mail (UK) “Borman approaches her topic with huge enthusiasm and a keen eye . . . All good fun. And there is plenty of it . ....
  • Book : Neither Snow Nor Rain A History Of The United States.
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    -Titulo Original : Neither Snow Nor Rain A History Of The United States Postal Service-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Named a Favorite Book of 2016 by the Washington Independent Review of BooksThe United States Postal Service is a wondrous American creation. Seven days a week, its army of 300,000 letter carriers delivers 513 million pieces of mail, more than forty percent of the world’s volume. It is far more efficient than any other mail service-more than twice as efficient as the Japanese and easily outpacing the Germans and British. And the USPS has a storied history. Founded by Benjamin Franklin, it was the information network that bound far-flung Americans together, fostered a common culture, and helped American business to prosper. A first-class stamp remains one of the greatest bargains of all time, and yet, the USPS is slowly vanishing. Critics say it is slow and archaic. Mail volume is down. The workforce is shrinking. Post offices are closing.In Neither Snow nor Rain, journalist Devin Leonard tackles the fascinating, centuries-long story of the USPS, from the first letter carriers through Franklin’s days, when postmasters worked out of their homes and post roads cut new paths through the wilderness. Under Andrew Jackson, the post office was molded into a vast patronage machine, and by the 1870s, over seventy percent of federal employees were postal workers. As the country boomed, the USPS aggressively developed new technology, from mobile post offices on railroad cars and Air Mail Service to mechanical sorting machines and optical character readers.Neither Snow nor Rain is a rich, multifaceted history, full of remarkable characters, from the stamp-collecting FDR, to the revolutionaries who challenged USPS’s monopoly on mail, to the renegade union members who brought the system-and the country-to a halt in the 1970s. An exciting and engrossing read, Neither Snow nor Rain is the first major history of the USPS in over fifty years. Review Praise for Neither Snow nor Rain:Named a Favorite Book of 2016 by the Washington Independent Review of Books“Delectably readable . . . [Leonard] has a zesty prose style, a great sense of humor, a fine eye for the telling anecdote and a lucid way of unraveling some of the controversies and challenges our postal service has faced in its 224 years of existence. Leonard’s account offers surprises on almost every other page . . . [and] delivers both the triumphs and travails with clarity, wit and heart.”-Chicago Tribune“[A] sweeping and entertaining history . . . offers a host of interesting anecdotes.”-New York Times Book Review“Intensely readable . . . Colored by entertaining and lively retellings, including the exploits of the Pony Express and of Wells Fargo . . . Leonard mines important moments from the history of the postal service.”-Nation“Engaging [and] well-written.”-Washington Post“Neither Snow nor Rain . . . serves up a colorful array of visionaries, hucksters, daredevils and crackpots . . . What’s most remarkable is the way [the] book makes you care what happens to its main protagonist, the U.S. Postal Service itself. And, as such, it leaves you at the end in suspense.”-USA Today“A lively examination of America’s most ubiquitous public institution . . . Captivating and thoughtful.”-Washington Independent Review of Books“Answers every question you’ve ever had about the United States Postal Service . . . Surprises abound. Who knew, for instance, that some early-20th-century families sent their children by parcel post to save on train fares?”-Week“A good, quirky history book . . . Lively, fun . . . Leonard delivers a lot here, and moves fast as he entertains . . . Remember how exciting it was to get birthday cards in the mail? Neither Snow nor Rain is that much fun, and I think you’ll enjoy it. If you’re stamping around for something different to read, you’ll love every letter.”-Journal Record“Equally rollicking and relevant . . . this is history on an epic scale . . . Engaging and concise . . . Leonard writes with a hard-nosed understanding of the organization’s...
  • Book : On The Wealth Of Nations Books That Changed The World
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    -Titulo Original : On The Wealth Of Nations Books That Changed The World-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: In On The Wealth of Nations, America’s most provocative satirist, P. J. O’Rourke, reads Adam Smith’s revolutionary The Wealth of Nations so you don’t have to. Recognized almost instantly on its publication in 1776 as the fundamental work of economics, The Wealth of Nations was also recognized as really long: the original edition totaled over nine hundred pages in two volumes including the blockbuster sixty-seven-page digression concerning the variations in the value of silver during the course of the last four centuries,” which, to those uninterested in the historiography of currency supply, is like reading Modern Maturity in Urdu.” Although daunting, Smith’s tome is still essential to understanding such current hot-topics as outsourcing, trade imbalances, and Angelina Jolie. In this hilarious, approachable, and insightful examination of Smith and his groundbreaking work, P. J. puts his trademark wit to good use, and shows us why Smith is still relevant, why what seems obvious now was once revolutionary, and why the pursuit of self-interest is so important. Review Later economists, such as, in the early nineteenth century, J. B. Say, felt that Smith undervalued the economic contributions of services. And he did. The eighteenth century had servants, not a service economy. It was hard for a man of that era to believe that the semi-inebriated footman and the blowzy scullery maid would evolve into, well, the stoned pizza delivery boy and the girl behind the checkout counter with an earring in her tongue. Some jobs require protection, to ensure they are performed locally in their own communities. My job is to make quips, jests, and waggish comments. Somewhere in Mumbai there is a younger, funnier person who is willing to work for less. My job could be outsourced to him. But he could make any joke he wanted. Who would my wife scold? Who would my in-laws be offended by? Who would my friends shun? Unfortunately, Adam Smith didnt have graphs. Hundreds of pages of The Wealth of Nations that readers skim might have been condensed into several pages that readers skip entirely. Another thing Smith didnt have, besides graphs, was jargon. Economics was too new to have developed its thieves cant. When Adam Smith was being incomprehensible he didnt have the luxury of brief, snappy technical terms as a shorthand for incoherence. He had to go on talking through his hat until the subject was (and the reader would be) exhausted...
  • Book : Worm The First Digital World War - Bowden, Mark
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    Book : Worm The First Digital World War - Bowden, Mark

    -Titulo Original : Worm The First Digital World War-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: The Conficker worm infected its first computer in November 2008 and within a month had infiltrated 1.5 million computers in 195 countries. Banks, telecommunications companies, and critical government networks (including the British Parliament and the French and German military) were infected. No one had ever seen anything like it. By January 2009 the worm lay hidden in at least eight million computers and the botnet of linked computers that it had created was big enough that an attack might crash the world. Surprisingly, the U.S. government was only vaguely aware of the threat that Conficker posed, and the task of mounting resistance fell to disparate but gifted group of geeks, Internet entrepreneurs, and computer programmers. They formed what came to be called the Conficker Cabal, and began a tireless fight against the worm. But when Conficker’s controllers became aware that their creation was beginning to encounter resistance, they began refining the worm’s code to make it more difficult to trace and more powerful testing the Cabal’s unity and resolve. Will the Cabal lock down the worm before it is too late? Game on. Worm reports on the fascinating battle between those determined to exploit the internet and those committed to protect it. Review [ Worm] is well-written and informative, capturing a key episode in a fast-moving field we all need to better understand.” The Washington Post When Mark Bowden writes, smart readers pay attention. . . . Bowden is a deserved brand name a superb reporter and compelling narrative writer, whether his subject is war in a forlorn land ( Black Hawk Down, set in Somalia) or a variety of others in seven other books ( Killing Pablo, Guests of the Ayatollah, etc.). And now we have the current masterpiece, Worm.” The Philadelphia Inquirer Worm is a solid although disquieting read for anyone with a stake in the Internet’s continued smooth functioning and these days, isn’t that just about all of us?” Pop Matters In the world of nonfiction, Bowden is an ace, a writer with guts and gusto. . . [ Worm] does a terrific job of setting the groundwork, turning the highly technical into something comprehensible.” The Seattle Times Worm details a digital-age battle between good and evil . . . It is a harbinger of the future, where threats to the cyber domain are as real and potentially cataclysmic as a weapon of mass destruction.” Military Review Bowden . . . gives this account of the computer world’s efforts to neutralize the Conficker worm the flavor of a riveting report from the digital battlefield’s front lines. . . . A nerve-wracking but first-rate inside peek into the world of cybercrime and its vigilant adversaries.” Booklist [T]he thumbs of every 30-something untergeek will still Tweet in ecstasy at seeing technical terms like NCP/IP, Port 445, and MS08-067 spread across the pages of a mainstream book. But the rest of us should take Mark Bowden’s warnings with the utmost seriousness because of the growing threats to our wired world.” New York Journal of Books [T]his book chronicles a larger threat and should be on the shelves not just of computer collections, but any general lending library.” The Midwest Book Review People have compared cybercrime to a type of warfare. And after reading Mark Bowden’s fast-paced Worm: The First Digital World War, it’s easy to see why.” South Bend Tribune Excellent. . . a screen grab of a kaleidoscopic video with a projection growing bigger by the day, a sound getting louder by the hour.” The Oregonian [A] story that readers will find entertaining, informative, and hopefully a little alarming.” Lawfare Bowden is a sharp, funny writer who can convey a complex narrative in crisp terms . . . A brief, punch reminder of our high-tech vulnerabilities.” Kirkus Reviews [Bowden] delivers a dramatic cyber crime story that explores . . . a devastating computer virus and a potential weapon in war.”...
  • Book : I Learn From Children An Adventure In Progressive...
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    Book : I Learn From Children An Adventure In Progressive...

    -Titulo Original : I Learn From Children An Adventure In Progressive Education-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: A lucid presentation of what progressive education can accomplish.” The New York Times How should schools prepare students for the Information Age? The successful worker of the future a creative, independent thinker who works well in teams would seem to be too self-contradictory to be the deliberate product of a school. A century ago, the American educator Caroline Pratt created an innovative school that she hoped would produce such independent thinkers, but she asked herself a different question: Was it unreasonable to try to fit the school to the child, rather than . . . the child to the school?” A strong-willed, small-town schoolteacher who ran a one-room schoolhouse by the time she was seventeen, Pratt came to viscerally reject the teaching methods of her day, which often featured a long-winded teacher at the front of the room and rows of miserable children, on benches nailed to the floor, stretching to the back. In this classic 1948 memoir, now in its fourth edition, Pratt recounts, in a wry authorial voice much closer to Will Rogers than John Dewey, how she founded what is now the dynamic City and Country School in New York City; invented the maple unit blocks” that have become a staple in classrooms and children’s homes around the globe; and came to play an important role in reimagining preschool and primary-school education in ways that resound in the tumultuously creative age before us. This edition features a new introduction by Ian Frazier, as well as additional commentary, and an afterword. About the Author Caroline Pratt (1867-1954) was the founder of City and Country School, a path-breaking progressive school for children to the age of thirteen. She poured a lifetime of experience into I Learn from Children...
  • Book : Birth The Surprising History Of How We Are Born -...
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    -Titulo Original : Birth The Surprising History Of How We Are Born-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Well-researched and engaging . . . Birth is a clever, almost irreverent look at an enduring everyday miracle. (A-)” Entertainment Weekly Wonderful. Packed full of information, a brilliant mixture of ancient wisdom and modern science.” Kate Mosse, author of the New York Times best seller, Labyrinth Birth is a power-packed book. . . . A lively, engaging, and often witty read, a quirky, eye-opening account of one of life’s most elemental experiences.” The Boston GlobePublished to widespread acclaim, Tina Cassidy’s smart, engaging book is the first world history of childbirth in fifty years. From evolution to the epidural and beyond, Tina Cassidy presents an intelligent, enlightening, and impeccably researched cultural history of how and why we’re born the way we are. Women have been giving birth for millennia but that’s about the only constant in the final stage of the great process that is human reproduction. Why is it that every culture and generation seems to have its own ideas about the best way to give birth? Cassidy explores the physical, anthropological, political, and religious factors that have and will continue to influence how women bring new life into the world. Review Its as true of feminism as anything else that if we dont know our history were condemned to repeat it. A liberating look at how assumptions have changed of what a good childbirth is supposed to be. Its remarkable how little we know about the one piece of human history we all share: birth. Tina Cassidy has written a lively and informative journey through centuries of what women could really expect when they were expecting. The history of birth, as Cassidy deftly tells it, might well be summed up as What No One Ever Expected When Theyre Expecting: Crank-and-pulley birthing systems and fish-bladder vacuum extractors. Man-midwives in drag and obstetricians trained on mock mothers. With wit and aplomb, Cassidy covers the ongoing march of birthing fads, from the surreal horrors of the Twilight Sleep to Lamaze, doulas, and the current craze for elective C-sections. -- MARY ROACH, AUTHOR OF STIFF: THE CURIOUS LIVES OF HUMAN CADAVERS AND SPOOK: SCIENCE TACKLES THE AFTE This smart and fun read is full of who knew? moments that show in fascinating detail how birth has affected our culture in so many ways--even explaining the origins of gossip. Mothers, non-mothers and those who dont want to think about all the messy details of childbirth will find this a gripping read...
  • Book : Code Blue Inside Americas Medical Industrial Complex.
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    Book : Code Blue Inside Americas Medical Industrial Complex.

    -Titulo Original : Code Blue Inside Americas Medical Industrial Complex-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: A powerful and path-breaking expose of America’s Medical Industrial Complex the network of mutually beneficial relationships between big business, academic medicine, patient advocacy organizations, hospitals, and government and a compelling way forward for transforming America’s healthcare system How has the United States, with more resources than any nation, developed a healthcare system that delivers much poorer results, at near double the cost of any other developed country such that legendary seer Warren Buffett calls the Medical Industrial Complex “the tapeworm of American economic competitiveness”? Mike Magee, M.D., who worked for years inside the Medical Industrial Complex administering a hospital and then as a senior executive at the giant pharmaceutical company Pfizer, has spent the last decade deconstructing the complex, often shocking rise of, and connectivity between, the pillars of our health system Big Pharma, insurance companies, hospitals, the American Medical Association, and anyone affiliated with them. With an eye first and foremost on the bottom line rather than on the nations health, each sector has for decades embraced cure over care, aiming to conquer disease rather than concentrate on the cultural and social factors that determine health. This decision Magee calls the “original sin” of our health system. Code Blue is a riveting, character-driven narrative that draws back the curtain on the giant industry that consumes one out of every five American dollars. Making clear for the first time the mechanisms, greed, and collusion by which our medical system was built over the last eight decades and arguing persuasively and urgently for the necessity of a single-payer, multi-plan insurance arena of the kind enjoyed by every other major developed nation Mike Magee gives us invaluable perspective and inspiration by which we can, indeed, reshape the future. Review Praise for Code Blue: “Show[s] readers that the present dysfunction in U.S. health care is not an aberration, but a persistent feature of a system ruled by self-interested institutions . . . The material on Big Pharma is where the book cuts deepest . . . [Magee] describes a world in which needed drugs are not produced because profits don’t justify it, but huge research-driven pharma companies cry foul when their work benefits the public cheaply after patents expire.” Minneapolis Star Tribune “Utilizing a character-drawn structure to lend narrative flow to the book, Magee has penned a provocative and riveting read.” The Day “A searing and persuasive expose of the American health care system . . . The inferiority of U.S. health care compared to dozens of other nations ahs been well-documented for several decades, and the author effectively builds on that documentation. He demonstrates how leaders of other nations have consciously decided that quality health care is a basic right for all citizens, in large part because a healthy citizenry is essential to economic well-being. However, decades ago, American leaders decided that quality health care was not a basic right of citizenship; instead, they chose to rely on market capitalism as the health care model, with disastrous results . . . Readers will hope that Magee’s knowledgeable, urgent indictment, following so many others in recent years, will lead to meaningful reforms.” Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “Hospitals use ‘code blue’ for medical emergencies; longtime physician Magee argues convincingly that the U.S. itself is in one . . . What’s the solution? Among other things, Magee recommends suspending FDA-approved direct-to-consumer advertising and giving basic universal coverage to everyone.” Booklist “As we did with Big Tobacco, Mike Magee skillfully exposes a collusive web of businesspeople who restructured health care to deliver profit in the billions. With an eye toward justice, Code Blue traces eight decades of wrongdoing. This is public service at its be...
  • Book : Leisureville Adventures In A World Without Children -
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    Book : Leisureville Adventures In A World Without Children -

    -Titulo Original : Leisureville Adventures In A World Without Children-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: When his next-door neighbors in a quaint New England town suddenly pick up and move to a gated retired community in Florida called The Villages, Andrew Blechman is astonished by their stories, so he goes to investigate. Larger than Manhattan, with a golf course for every day of the month, two downtowns, its own newspaper, radio, and TV station, The Villages is a city of nearly one hundred thousand (and growing) missing only one thing: children. In the critically acclaimed Leisureville, Blechman delves into life in the senior utopia, offering a hilarious firsthand report on everything from ersatz nostalgia to the residents’ surprisingly active sex life. But this is more than just a romp through a retirement paradise; Blechman traces the history of the age-segregated retirement phenomenon, and travels to Arizona to show what has happened to the pioneering developments after decades of segregation. A fascinating blend of serious history, social commentary, and hilarious, engaging reportage, Leisureville is an important book on a major, underreported trend. Review Blechman describes this brave new world with determined good humor and considerable bemusement. He clearly disapproves of the whole thing, but accepts that for most residents living in these conditions is the fulfillment of a dream. ----Katherine A. Powers, The Boston Globe Blechman describes this brave new world with determined good humor and considerable bemusement. He clearly disapproves of the whole thing, but accepts that for most residents living in these conditions is the fulfillment of a dream. -Katherine A. Powers, The Boston Globe --The Boston Globe Review Andrew Blechmans account of the rampant unreality that has become the normal condition of life in Floridas child-free retirement ghettos is fascinating. The generation that enjoyed the greatest economic boom in the history of the world is going out with a bang--the sound of society blowing up in our faces. Blechman has a laser eye for the tragicomic absurdities of all the fun, games, and wild sex in theme-park senior villages where Oz-like control is exercised by the developer and his minions. His mordant report from a strange land is consistently interesting. Andrew Blechmans account of the rampant unreality that has become the normal condition of life in Floridas child-free retirement ghettos is fascinating. The generation that enjoyed the greatest economic boom in the history of the world is going out with a bang--the sound of society blowing up in our faces. Blechman has a laser eye for the tragicomic absurdities of all the fun, games, and wild sex in theme-park senior villages where Oz-like control is exercised by the developer and his minions. His mordant report from a strange land is consistently interesting. -James Howard Kunstler, author of The Long Emergency Review Eye-opening... If you are contemplating retirement or know anyone who is doing so, I urge you to read Leisureville. You will not find a better written, more entertaining or more insightful account of the myriad implications of the segregation of our society by age and income. - Daily Kos Review As more and more Baby Boomers retire, the growing phenomenon of retirement communities will continue to expand throughout the country. ... This lively book reveals why older Americans are flocking to these geritopias and what happens to our social fabric when they opt to live in gate leisurevilles where no children are allowed. As more and more Baby Boomers retire, the growing phenomenon of retirement communities will continue to expand throughout the country. ... This lively book reveals why older Americans are flocking to these geritopias and what happens to our social fabric when they opt to live in gate leisurevilles where no children are allowed. - Tucson Citizen Book Description Blechmans primary interest is not in the eerily false...
  • Book : A Symphony In The Brain The Evolution Of The New...
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    -Titulo Original : A Symphony In The Brain The Evolution Of The New Brain Wave Biofeedback-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: A Newly Revised and Expanded Edition In the decade since Jim Robbins’s A Symphony in the Brain was first published, the control of our bodies, brains, and minds has taken remarkable leaps. From neurofeedback with functional magnetic resonance imaging equipment, to the use of radio waves, to biofeedback of the heart and breath, and coverage of biofeedback by health insurance plans, the numerous advances have driven the need for a revised edition to this groundbreaking book that traces the fascinating, untold story of the development of biofeedback. Discovered by a small corps of research scientists, this alternative treatment allows a patient to see real-time measurements of their bodily processes. Its advocates claim biofeedback can treat epilepsy, autism, attention deficit disorder, addictions, and depression with no drugs or side effects; bring patients out of vegetative states, even improve golf scores or an opera singer’s voice. But biofeedback has faced battles for acceptance in the conservative medical world despite positive signs that it could revolutionize the way an incredibly diverse range of medical and psychological problems are treated. Offering a wealth of powerful case studies, accessible scientific explanations, and dramatic personal accounts, Robbins remarkable history develops our understanding of this important field...
  • Book : Scripts People Live Transactional Analysis Of Life...
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    -Titulo Original : Scripts People Live Transactional Analysis Of Life Scripts-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: When Claude Steiner and the late Eric Berne developed the theory of Transactional Analysis, their basic belief that people were born princes and princess, until their parents turned them into frogs” countered the fundamental principle of psychiatry which asserts that emotional and mental distress comes from within. This theory was further developed in Steiner’s book Games Alcoholics Play. Dr. Berne, in What Do You Say After You Say Hello?, acknowledged Steiner’s important role in the analysis of life scripts” which we choose at an early age and which rule every detail of our lives until our death. In Scripts People Live, Steiner expands upon this belief to show that people are innately healthy but develop a pattern early in life based upon negative or positive influences of those around them. Thus children decide, however unconsciously, whether they will be happy or depressed, winners or failures, strong or dependent, and having decided, they spend the rest of their lives making the decision come true. For those who choose a negative script, the consequences can be disastrous unless they make a conscious decision to change. Steiner’s classic in psychological theory, with a new foreword by the author, offers a hopeful and practical analysis so that we all may rewrite our life scripts and lead more meaningful and fulfilling lives. From the Inside Flap When Claude Steiner and the late Eric Berne developed the theory of Transactional Analysis, their basic belief that people were born princes and princess, until their parents turned them into frogs countered the fundamental principle of psychiatry which asserts that emotional and mental distress comes from within. This theory was further developed in Steiners book Games Alcoholics Play. Dr. Berne, in What Do You Say After You Say Hello?, acknowledged Steiners important role in the analysis of life scripts which we choose at an early age and which rule every detail of our lives until our death. In Scripts People Live, Steiner expands upon this belief to show that people are innately healthy but develop a pattern early in life based upon negative or positive influences of those around them. Thus children decide, however unconsciously, whether they will be happy or depressed, winners or failures, strong or dependent, and having decided, they spend the rest of their lives making the decision come true. For those who choose a negative script, the consequences can be disastrous unless they make a conscious decision to change. Steiners classic in psychological theory, with a new foreword by the author, offers a hopeful and practical analysis so that we all may rewrite our life scripts and lead more meaningful and fulfilling lives. Claude Steiner was born in Paris in 1935. He spent his childhood in Spain and Mexico, before immigrating to the United States in 1952. In 1957 he met Eric Berne, who encouraged him to attend the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, where he received a Ph.D. in clinical psychology. Among his other books are Games Alcoholics Play, Achieving Emotional Literacy, and the childrens book, The Warm Fuzzy Tale. He currently divides his time between his homes in Mendocino County and Berkeley, where he continues his practice as a psychotherapist...
  • Book : Sleepyhead A Tom Thorne Novel (di Tom Thorne Series).
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    Book : Sleepyhead A Tom Thorne Novel (di Tom Thorne Series).

    -Titulo Original : Sleepyhead A Tom Thorne Novel (di Tom Thorne Series)-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: The next superstar detective is already with us don’t miss him.” Lee Child His first three victims ended up dead. His fourth was not so fortunate... Alison Willetts is unlucky to be alive. She has survived a stroke, deliberately induced by a skilful manipulation of pressure points on the head and neck. She can see, hear and feel and is aware of everything going on around her, but is completely unable to move or communicate. Her condition is called Locked-In Syndrome. In leaving Alison Willetts alive, the police believe the killer made his first mistake. Then D.I. Tom Thorne discovers the horrifying truth; it isn’t Alison who is the mistake, it’s the three women already dead. An appropriate margin of error is how their killer dismisses them, and Thorne knows they are unlikely to be the last. For the killer is smart, and he’s getting his kicks out of toying with Thorne as much as he is pursuing his sick fantasy. Thorne knows immediately he’s not going to catch the killer with simple procedure. But with little more than gut instinct and circumstantial evidence to damn his chief suspect, anesthetist Jeremy Bishop, his pursuit of him is soon bordering on the unprofessional. Especially considering his involvement with Anne Coburn, Alison’s doctor and Jeremy’s close friend. Thorne must find a man whose agenda is terrifyingly unique, and Alison, the one person who holds the key to the killer’s identity, is unable to speak... Review Praise for Sleepyhead: Brilliantly conceived and superbly plotted, with complex characters, deft twists, and an ending thats both shocking and oppressive. A must-read. Booklist (Starred review) Billinghams flawless plotting and the steadily increasing sense of fear combine to make this one of the best debut novels of the year. Going from 0 to 60 in record time, his next book is on my must read list. The Rocky Mountain News (Grade: A) A new twist to the twisted mind of a psychopath - an exciting debut novel. Baltimore Sun Billinghams turn as a novelist, might be his most successful career move. Pittsburg Tribune-Review A sensational debut. Toronto Globe & Mail An assured chiller. Disturbing and thrilling. . . with memorable characters and bundles of atmosphere. Britain now has its own forensic crime maestro. The Guardian A terrifically stylish debut novel. The Independent On Sunday There’s not much you can fault Sleepyhead on. Disturbingly original. Time Out (UK) A brilliantly dark and different new crime novel. Manchester Evening News After reading only the first few pages of Sleepyhead I had my first nightmare in years. I woke up in the early hours shaking and sweating... Birmingham Post Sleepyhead is the kind of novel that has you checking the locks and shutting the windows. Ireland On Sunday With Sleepyhead, Billingham leaps to the upper echelons of British crime fiction in a single bound. John Harvey, author of the Resnick series Don’t make any plans for the weekend when you buy it - because you won’t be leaving the house until its finished. FHM Ideal for those who like big goosebumps to go with their glowing tans. Elle (UK) Praise for Mark Billingham: “Billingham is a world-class crime writer and Tom Thorne is a wonderful creation. Rush to read these books.” Karin Slaughter “Billingham is one of the most consistently entertaining, insightful crime writers working today.” Gillian Flynn “Billingham’s books are as compulsively readable as Michael Connelly’s.” George Pelecanos “With each of his books, Mark Billingham gets better and better. These are stories and characters you don’t want to leave.” Michael Connelly “Mark Billingham is one of my favorite new writers.” Harlan Coben “Morse, Rebus, and now Thorne. The next superstar detective is already with us don’t miss him.” Lee Child About the Author Mark Billingham is one of Englands best known and top-selling crime writers. His most recent book was a #1 bestseller i...
  • Book : Lady Chatterleys Lover - D. H. LAWRENCE
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    -Titulo Original : Lady Chatterleys Lover-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Lyric and sensual, D.H. Lawrences last novel is one of the major works of fiction of the twentieth century. Filled with scenes of intimate beauty, explores the emotions of a lonely woman trapped in a sterile marriage and her growing love for the robust gamekeeper of her husbands estate. The most controversial of Lawrences books, Lady Chatterlys Lover joyously affirms the authors vision of individual regeneration through sexual love. The books power, complexity, and psychological intricacy make this a completely original work--a triumph of passion, an erotic celebration of life. Review Perhaps the most famous of Lawrences novels, the 1928 Lady Chatterleys Lover is no longer distinguished for the once-shockingly explicit treatment of its subject matter--the adulterous affair between a sexually unfulfilled upper-class married woman and the game keeper who works for the estate owned by her wheelchaired husband. Now that were used to reading about sex, and seeing it in the movies, its apparent that the novel is memorable for better reasons: namely, that Lawrence was a masterful and lyrical writer, whose story takes us bodily into the world of its characters...
  • Book : Convenience Store Woman A Novel - Murata, Sayaka
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    Book : Convenience Store Woman A Novel - Murata, Sayaka

    -Titulo Original : Convenience Store Woman A Novel-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Shortlisted for the Best Translated Book AwardLonglisted for the Believer Book Award Longlisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation A Los Angeles Times Bestseller The English-language debut of an exciting young voice in international fiction, selling 660,000 copies in Japan alone, Convenience Store Woman is a bewitching portrayal of contemporary Japan through the eyes of a single woman who fits into the rigidity of its work culture only too well. The English-language debut of one of Japan’s most talented contemporary writers, selling over 650,000 copies there, Convenience Store Woman is the heartwarming and surprising story of thirty-six-year-old Tokyo resident Keiko Furukura. Keiko has never fit in, neither in her family, nor in school, but when at the age of eighteen she begins working at the Hiiromachi branch of “Smile Mart,” she finds peace and purpose in her life. In the store, unlike anywhere else, she understands the rules of social interaction many are laid out line by line in the store’s manual and she does her best to copy the dress, mannerisms, and speech of her colleagues, playing the part of a “normal” person excellently, more or less. Managers come and go, but Keiko stays at the store for eighteen years. It’s almost hard to tell where the store ends and she begins. Keiko is very happy, but the people close to her, from her family to her coworkers, increasingly pressure her to find a husband, and to start a proper career, prompting her to take desperate action… A brilliant depiction of an unusual psyche and a world hidden from view, Convenience Store Woman is an ironic and sharp-eyed look at contemporary work culture and the pressures to conform, as well as a charming and completely fresh portrait of an unforgettable heroine. Review Praise for Convenience Store Woman: Shortlisted for the Best Translated Book AwardLonglisted for the Believer Book AwardLonglisted for the Warwick Prize for Women in TranslationA Los Angeles Times Bestseller Named a Best Book of the Year by the New Yorker, BuzzFeed, Boston Globe, Literary Hub, Minneapolis Star Tribune, Electric Literature, Library Journal, Shelf Awareness, WBUR, Hudson, Bustle, Chatelaine, and Globe and Mail An Indies Introduce Title An Indie Next Pick An Amazon Best Book of the Month (Literature and Fiction) An Elle Magazine Best Summer Book Pick One of Vogue’s Books to Thrill, Entertain, and Sustain You This Summer “In Sayaka Murata’s Convenience Store Woman, a small, elegant and deadpan novel, a woman senses that society finds her strange, so she culls herself from the herd before anyone else can do it . . . Casts a fluorescent spell . . . A thrifty and offbeat exploration of what we must each leave behind to participate in the world.” Dwight Garner, New York Times “Alienation gets deliciously perverse treatment in Convenience Store Woman . . . Murata herself spent years as a convenience store employee. And one pleasure of this book is her detailed portrait of how such a place actually works. Yet the book’s true brilliance lies in Murata’s way of subverting our expectations . . . With bracing good humor . . . Murata celebrate[s] the quiet heroism of women who accept the cost of being themselves.” John Powers, NPR “Fresh Air” “The novel borrows from Gothic romance, in its pairing of the human and the alluringly, dangerously not. It is a love story, in other words, about a misfit and a store . . . Keiko’s self-renunciations reveal the book to be a kind of grim post-capitalist reverie: she is an anti-Bartleby, abandoning any shred of identity outside of her work . . . It may make readers anxious, but the book itself is tranquil dreamy, even rooting for its employee-store romance from the bottom of its synthetic heart.” Katy Waldman, New Yorker “Keiko, a defiantly oddball 36-year-old woman, has worked in a dead-end job as a convenience store cashier in Tokyo for half her life. She lives alone and has never bee...
  • Book : Willful Behavior A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery
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    -Titulo Original : Willful Behavior A Commissario Guido Brunetti Mystery (the Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries)-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Mystery lovers everywhere are addicted to Donna Leon’s ever-honorable Commissario Guido Brunetti and her portrayal of Venice’s beautiful but sinister byways and canals. In Willful Behavior, Brunetti is approached for a favor by one of his wife’s students. Intelligent and serious, Claudia Leonardo asks for his help in obtaining a pardon for a crime once committed by her now-dead grandfather. Brunetti thinks little of it until Claudia is found dead. Soon, another corpse and an extraordinary art collection lead Brunetti to long-buried secrets of Nazi collaboration and the exploitation of Italian Jews secrets few in Italy want revealed. Review Praise for Willful Behavior: “Compelling . . . absorbingly detailed . . . this is a powerful story, brilliantly evoking Venetian atmosphere, and the characters of Brunetti and his family continue to deepen throughout this series.” The Times (UK) “Donna Leon’s novels have become successively more subtle, more complex and perhaps more serious, without ever losing their compelling power as narratives. This is especially true of Willful Behavior; the story is wholly engrossing.” Evening Standard (UK) “A classic example of detective-book murder, it is satisfyingly difficult to resolve . . . Leon whips up a brilliant narrative storm.” Sunday Times (UK) Praise for Donna Leon’s Commissario Guido Brunetti Mysteries: “Donna Leon’s Venetian mysteries never disappoint, calling up the romantic sights and sounds of La Serenissima even as they acquaint us with the practical matters that concern the city’s residents.” Marilyn Stasio, New York Times Book Review “Few detective writers create so vivid, inclusive, and convincing a narrative as Donna Leon . . . One of the most exquisite and subtle detective series ever.” Washington Post “The sophisticated but still moral Brunetti, with his love of food and his loving family, proves a worthy custodian of timeless values and verities.” Wall Street Journal “[Leon] uses the relatively small and crime-free canvas of Venice for rips about Italian life, sexual styles and best of all the kind of ingrown business and political corruption that seems to lurk just below the surface.” Chicago Tribune “Hers is an unusually potent cocktail of atmosphere and event.” New Yorker “For those who know Venice, or want to, Brunetti is a well-versed escort to the nooks, crannies, moods, and idiosyncrasies of what residents call La Serenissima, the Serene One . . . Richly atmospheric, [Leon] introduces you to the Venice insiders know.” USA Today “Donna Leon is the undisputed crime fiction queen . . . Leon’s ability to capture the social scene and internal politics [of Venice] is first-rate.” Baltimore Sun “Terrific at providing, through its weary but engaging protagonist, a strong sense of the moral quandaries inherent in Italian society and culture.” San Francisco Chronicle “Brunetti is one of the most attractive policemen in crime fiction today.” Philadelphia Inquirer “As always, Brunetti is highly attuned to (and sympathetic toward) the failings of the humans around him.” Seattle Times “Leon’s writing trembles with true feeling.” Minneapolis Star Tribune “Leon started out with offhand, elegant excellence, and has simply kept it up.” Guardian “Compassionate yet incorruptible, Brunetti knows that true justice doesn’t always end in an arrest or a trial.” Publishers Weekly “[Brunetti] is a superb police detective calm, deliberate, and insightful as he investigates with a reflective thoroughness.” Library Journal “The appeal of Guido Brunetti, the hero of Donna Leons long-running Venetian crime series, comes not from his shrewdness, though he is plenty shrewd, nor from his quick wit. It comes, instead, from his role as an Everyman . . . [his life is] not so different from our own days at the office or nights around the dinner table. Crime fiction for those willing to grapple with, rather than escape, the uncertainties of daily life.” B...
  • Book : Ten Little Indians - Alexie, Sherman
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    Book : Ten Little Indians - Alexie, Sherman

    -Titulo Original : Ten Little Indians-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Sherman Alexie is one of our most acclaimed and popular writers today. With Ten Little Indians, he offers nine poignant and emotionally resonant new stories about Native Americans who, like all Americans, find themselves at personal and cultural crossroads, faced with heartrending, tragic, sometimes wondrous moments of being that test their loyalties, their capacities, and their notions of who they are and who they love. In Alexie’s first story, “The Search Engine,” Corliss is a rugged and resourceful student who finds in books the magic she was denied while growing up poor. In “The Life and Times of Estelle Walks Above,” an intellectual feminist Spokane Indian woman saves the lives of dozens of white women all around her to the bewilderment of her only child. “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” starts off with a homeless man recognizing in a pawn shop window the fancy-dance regalia that was stolen fifty years earlier from his late grandmother. Even as they often make us laugh, Alexie’s stories are driven by a haunting lyricism and naked candor that cut to the heart of the human experience, shedding brilliant light on what happens when we grow into and out of each other. Review In [Alexie’s] warm, revealing, invitingly roundabout stories, the central figures come in all shapes and sizes, sharing only their wry perspective on Indian life off the reservation. . . . They are affectionate tales of dealings between men and women.” Janet Maslin, The New York Times Alexie’s Ten Little Indians serves up nine seamless stories formed in the gut and delivered from the heart, depicting Native Americans caught in contemporary cultural crosshairs.” Lauren Slater, Elle Alexie has always been a master of the short story. . . . In [Ten Little Indians]Alexie blends humor, biting sarcasm and emotion, varying the book’s mood and presenting a spectrum of voices.” Deirdre Donahue, USA Today This is a stellar collection of full-hearted, energetic stories.” Arion Berger, People Magazine With wicked humor and a piercing eye, Alexie dances liehely across America’s racial and historical divides. Not since Langston Hughes’s classic collection The Ways of White Folks have these rifts been so wonderfully minded as they are in Ten Little Indians. . . . This is an inspired collection . . . told with a bittersweet and irrepressible touch. . . . Alexie, like his characters, is on a modern-day vsion quest, and his powers are only getting stronger.” Anderson Tepper, Time Out New York Alexie’s language has energy; his dialogue is both sharp and believable. His characters are ordinary people, extraordinary in their own unique ways.” Karen Joy Fowler, The Washington Post Book World The stories are wide, expansive, and focus on the lives of Spokane Indians inside Seattle for the most part, many of whom are aspiring to nothing less than greatness. . . . The haunting and powerful fictions of Ten Little Indians deserve to be read, contemplated, and savored.” William J. Cobb, The Houston Chronicle [Alexie’s] stories, rambunctious and exuberant, bristle with an edgy and mordant humor all his own.” Robin Hemley, The Chicago Tribune The subjects of these nine stories are passionate in their odd pursuits. Alexie, who wrote the 1998 film Smoke Signals, is an established chronicler of the rituals and ruptures of modern Native American life, but his eye for hard truths transcends any ethnic pigeonholing.” Emily Mead, Entertainment Weekly Ten Little Indians deals with a lot of things nobody talks about, from the always loaded subject of cultural authenticity to the influence of politics on everyday life.” David L. Ulin, The Los Angeles Times Alexie paints a full range of human emotions and conditions on a canvas he knows well. . . . Alexie’s nine little worlds contain a quietly glorious literary excellence; each is as pleasing to the mind and the heart and even the senses as witnessing the perfection of nature....
  • Book : And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks -...
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    Book : And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks -...

    -Titulo Original : And The Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: The legendary novel whose true events inspired the film KILL YOUR DARLINGS In the summer of 1944, a shocking murder rocked the fledgling Beats. William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac, both still unknown, we inspired by the crime to collaborate on a novel, a hard-boiled tale of bohemian New York during World War II, full of drugs and art, obsession and brutality, with scenes and characters drawn from their own lives. Finally published after more than sixty years, this is a captivating read, and incomparable literary artifact, and a window into the lives and art of two of the twentieth century’s most influential writers. Review The legendary novel whose true events inspired the film KILL YOUR DARLINGS A combination hard-boiled murder mystery and existentialist lament think Dashiell Hammett meets Albert Camus an essential document of the Beat Generation.” Gerald Nicosia, San Francisco Chronicle [A] persuasive portrait of la vie boheme in all its aimlessness and squalor.” Amanda Heller, The Boston Globe A literary curiosity, a genuine collectible.” Carolyn See, The Washington Post Reveals two giants-to-be in the development stages of their craft With its evocative rendition of now-vanished saloons, bygone diners, and other landmarks of yesteryear, Burroughs and Kerouac may have inadvertently done for 1944 Greenwich Village what Joyce did for 1904 Dublin.” George Kimball, The Phoenix (Boston) The appearance in print of And the Hippos Were Boiled In Their Tanks by William S. Burroughs and Jack Kerouac is a literary event, not only because it drew two of the three leading Beat writers into confederacy, but because the book told a story of male friendship, gay obsession, and murder that came to fascinate a score of American authors It’s a fascinating snapshot from a lost era. If you’re looking for the link between Hemingway’s impotent post-war drifters in The Sun Also Rises, the barflies and Tralalas of Last Exit to Brooklyn and the zonked-out kids of Bret Easton Ellis’s Less Than Zero, look no further.” John Walsh, The Independent In alternating chapters, Burroughs and Kerouac serve up a noir vision of Manhattan Of the two, Kerouac, then in his early 20s, is the more developed writer, though Burroughs, an absolute beginner, already shows some of the interests and obsessions that will turn up in Naked Lunch and elsewhere, to say nothing of an obviously field-tested understanding of how syringes work For his part, Kerouac recounts wartime experiences in the Merchant Marine, along with notes on the bar scene that would do Bukowski proud.” Kirkus Reviews [Hippos] significantly predates Kerouac’s major novels and illuminates his dynamic and productive literary friendship with William S. Burroughs. it is very charming. The conceit of switching back and forth between narrators every chapter also keeps things speeding along it creates the illusion that one is listening to a radio broadcast from one station, only to have the frequency changed every few minutes, with the narrative sometimes overlapping and the two voices bleeding into another.” Andrew Martin, Open Letters Monthly Illuminates the links between Sam Spade and Sal Paradise, noir nihilism and Beat exuberance.” Timothy Hodler, Details If you care about either of these beat masters I don’t see how you can fail to enjoy [And the Hippos Were Boiled in Their Tanks]. Slight as it may seem at first glance, it’s an invaluable document of literary history, glimmering with nascent genius.” Craig Seligman, Bloomberg News Naughtily sexual and emotionally grimy, written is a prose style that is deadpan-dry and larded with hardboiled atmosphere. This oddly titled novel is an engaging literary and historical curio.” Richard Labone, Between the Lines Spellbinding. with spot-on dialogue and descriptions of seedy bars and jam-packed apartments, the authors serve up a fascinating look at a time of late night pa...
  • Book : Birdman (jack Caffery/walking Man Series) - Hayder,..
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    Book : Birdman (jack Caffery/walking Man Series) - Hayder,..

    -Titulo Original : Birdman (jack Caffery/walking Man Series)-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Now in Grove Press paperback for the first time, Birdman showcases Hayder at her spine-tingling best as beloved series character Jack Caffery tracks down a terrifying serial killer. In his first case as lead investigator with London’s crack murder squad, Detective Inspector Jack Caffery is called on to investigate the murder of a young woman whose body has been discovered near the Millennium Dome in Greenwich, south-east London. Brutalized, mutilated beyond recognition, the victim is soon joined by four others discovered in the same area all female and all ritualistically murdered. And when the post-mortem examination reveals a gruesome signature connecting the victims, Caffery realizes exactly what he’s dealing with a dangerous serial killer...
  • Book : Black Out An Inspector Troy Thriller (the Inspector..
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    -Titulo Original : Black Out An Inspector Troy Thriller (the Inspector Troy Novels, 1)-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: John Lawton’s debut novel first published by Viking in 1995, and now being reissued by Grove Press is a stunning, war-time thriller that cements his place among the greatest crime writers of our era. The first of the Inspector Troy novels, Black Out singularly captures the realities of wartime London, weaving them into a riveting drama that encapsulates the uncertainty of Europe at the dawn of the postwar era. London, 1944. While the Luftwaffe makes its final assault on the already battered British capital, Londoners rush through the streets, seeking underground shelter in the midst of the city’s black out. When the panic subsides, other things begin to surface along with London’s war-worn citizens. A severed arm is discovered by a group of children playing at an East End bomb site, and when Scotland Yard’s Dective Sergeant Frederick Troy arrives at the scene, it becomes apparent that the dismembered body is not the work of a V-1 rocket. After Troy manages to link the severed arm to the disappearance of a refugee scientist form Nazi Germany, America’s newest intelligence agency, the OSS, decides to get involved. The son of a titled Russian emigre, Troy is forced to leave the London he knows and enter a corrupt world of bloody consequences, stateless refugees, and mysterious women as he unearths a chain of secrets leading straight to the Allied high command...
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