-Titulo Original : Small Things Like These-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time. -Lily King, New York Times bestselling author of Writers & LoversSmall Things Like These is award-winning author Claire Keegans landmark new novel, a tale of one mans courage and a remarkable portrait of love and familyIt is 1985 in a small Irish town. During the weeks leading up to Christmas, Bill Furlong, a coal merchant and family man faces into his busiest season. Early one morning, while delivering an order to the local convent, Bill makes a discovery which forces him to confront both his past and the complicit silences of a town controlled by the church. Already an international bestseller, Small Things Like These is a deeply affecting story of hope, quiet heroism, and empathy from one of our most critically lauded and iconic writers. Review Praise for Small Things Like These:An NPR “Books We Love” of 2021 selectionA Chicago Public Library “Best of the Best” of 2021 selectionPeople Magazine’s “Book of the Week”A Publishers Weekly Holiday Gift Guide 2021 Selection“For all her earlier accolades, Small Things Like These, Keegan’s first novel, enters the world this month with the shocking force of a debut…Over what would amount to a couple of chapters in another novel, Keegan manages to place her characters and her readers at the center of an essential human dilemma: Will we turn a blind eye to evil in our midst, or will we take some action against it, even if it consists of just one small thing? As Keegan’s concise, capacious new book demonstrates, little acts can lead to real change.”-Los Angeles Times“Keegan’s precisely considered details about character, setting, memory, and dramatic moment create a story you will want to read again and again. Her deceptively simple language is pitch-perfect.”-Boston Globe“This exquisite miniature of a novel somehow defies the gravitational pull of its grim subject to hover in a quotidian, luminous present. Details materialize with preternatural clarity. The milky light of a winter afternoon, mist on a river, a woman opening an oven door, a child taking her father’s hand: We see these things and feel their lingering presence as we are drawn into the life of an unassuming man in an unremarkable place.”-The Wall Street Journal“Claire Keegan…now gives us her best work yet. Small Things Like These is a short, wrenching, thoroughly brilliant novel mapping the path of one mans conscience, its torment and vacillation between two courses of action. Either one bears a price…Spare and potent, this is a remarkable story.” -Minneapolis Star Tribune“A sparse, breathtaking perfect gem of a novel.”-People “Small Things Like These is a gem of a slim novel about a family man faced with a moral decision… a deeply moving tale.”-Associated Press “Keegan captured and affected my whole attention. She draws a web of complicity around the convent’s activities that is chillingly mundane and brutally true. These kinds of places existed not just because of the cruelty of the people who ran them, but also because of the fear and selfishness of those who were willing to ignore them. Stunning. Just stunning.”-Catherine Whelan, NPR “The novel isn’t just an eloquent attack on [Magdalene] laundries, however. It is also a touching Christmas tale, genuinely reminiscent of the festive stories of O Henry and Charles Dickens; a novel that has been seeped in sherry and served by the fireside…As soon as you pick the novel up, it’s all over. The monumental power of Claire Keegan is that she can create these cuckoo-clock narratives where every single word seems to be a necessary contribution to the overall mechanism of the novel. She is all killer, no filler. …How lucky we are to have Keegan, a genuine once-in-a-generation writer whose dedication to her craft is as meticulous as it is masterly.”-The Times (UK) “Keegan distils the years of suffering and torture that went on across the co...

-Titulo Original : Earthlings A Novel-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: About the Author Sayaka Murata is the author of many books, including Convenience Store Woman, winner of the Akutagawa Prize. Murata has been named a Freemans Future of New Writing author, and a Vogue Japan Woman of the Year.Ginny Tapley Takemori has translated works by more than a dozen Japanese writers, including Ryu Murakami. She lives at the foot of a mountain in Eastern Japan. From the beloved author of cult sensation Convenience Store Woman, which has now sold more than one million copies worldwide and has been translated into thirty-three languages, comes a spellbinding and otherworldly novel about a woman who believes she is an alien Sayaka Muratas Convenience Store Woman was one of the most unusual and refreshing bestsellers of recent years, depicting the life of a thirty-six-year-old clerk in a Tokyo convenience store. Now, in Earthlings, Sayaka Murata pushes at the boundaries of our ideas of social conformity in this brilliantly imaginative, intense, and absolutely unforgettable novel. As a child, Natsuki doesnt fit in with her family. Her parents favor her sister, and her best friend is a plush toy hedgehog named Piyyut, who talks to her. He tells her that he has come from the planet Popinpobopia on a special quest to help her save the Earth. One summer, on vacation with her family and her cousin Yuu in her grandparents ramshackle wooden house in the mountains of Nagano, Natsuki decides that she must be an alien, which would explain why she cant seem to fit in like everyone else. Later, as a grown woman, living a quiet life with her asexual husband, Natsuki is still pursued by dark shadows from her childhood, and decides to flee the baby factory of society for good, searching for answers about the vast and frightening mysteries of the universe answers only Natsuki has the power to uncover. Dreamlike, sometimes shocking, and always strange and wonderful, Earthlings asks what it means to be happy in a stifling world, and cements Sayaka Muratas status as a master chronicler of the outsider experience and our own uncanny universe. Review Praise for Earthlings:A New York Times Book Review Editors ChoiceNamed a Best Book of the Year by the New York Times, TIME and Literary HubNamed a Most Anticipated Book by the New York Times, TIME, USA Today, Entertainment Weekly, the Guardian, Vulture, Wired, Literary Hub, Bustle, PopSugar, and Refinery29To Sayaka Murata, nonconformity is a slippery slope . . . Reminiscent of certain excellent folk tales, expressionless prose is Muratas trademark . . . In Earthlings, being an alien is a simple proxy for being alienated. The characters define themselves not by a specific notion of what they are-other-but by a general idea of what they are not: humans/breeders . . . The strength of [Muratas] voice lies in the faux-naif lens through which she filters her dark view of humankind: We earthlings are sad, truncated bots, shuffling through the world in a dream of confusion. -Lydia Millet, New York Times Book ReviewWhat does it mean to feel at home in the world? Natskui, the protagonist of this startling novel, doesnt know: from a young age, shes convinced that she has been contacted by aliens who will take her away from a middle-class Japanese life marked by cruelty . . . Murata takes a childlike idea and holds onto it with imaginative fervor, brilliantly exposing the callousness and arbitrariness of convention. -New YorkerShocking, hilarious, and hugely, darkly entertaining. Murata has crafted an unforgettable, original hybrid of absurd fantasy and stark realism. -Financial TimesA strange and dreamlike story of a young girl who comes to believe shes an alien. -USA TodayAs in Convenience Store Woman, Murata displays her gift for scrambling notions of utopia and dystopia to propulsive effect-only this time, her characters are convinced that theyre rebelling, not conforming . . . Murata manages what her characters cannot: ...

-Titulo Original : How The West Stole Democracy From The Arabs The Syrian Congress Of 1920 And The Destruction Of Its Historic Liberal-islamic Alliance-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: About the Author Elizabeth F. Thompson is a leading historian of the modern Middle East and Mohamed S. Farsi Chair of Islamic Peace at American Universitys School of International Service. She is the author of two previous books, Colonial Citizens: Republican Rights, Paternal Privilege and Gender in French Syria and Lebanon, winner of two national book prizes, and Justice Interrupted: The Struggle for Constitutional Government in the Middle East. The story of a pivotal moment in modern world history, when Arabs established a representative democracy-and how the West crushed it When Europes Great War engulfed the Ottoman Empire, Arab nationalists rose in revolt against their Turkish rulers and allied with the British on the promise of an independent Arab state. In October 1918, the Arabs military leader, Prince Faisal, victoriously entered Damascus and proclaimed a constitutional government in an independent Greater Syria.Faisal won American support for self-determination at the Paris Peace Conference, but other Entente powers plotted to protect their colonial interests. Under threat of European occupation, the Syrian-Arab Congress declared independence on March 8, 1920 and crowned Faisal king of a civil representative monarchy. Sheikh Rashid Rida, the most prominent Islamic thinker of the day, became Congress president and supervised the drafting of a constitution that established the worlds first Arab democracy and guaranteed equal rights for all citizens, including non-Muslims.But France and Britain refused to recognize the Damascus government and instead imposed a system of mandates on the pretext that Arabs were not yet ready for self-government. In July 1920, the French invaded and crushed the Syrian state. The fragile coalition of secular modernizers and Islamic reformers that had established democracy was destroyed, with profound consequences that reverberate still.Using previously untapped primary sources, including contemporary newspaper accounts, reports of the Syrian-Arab Congress, and letters and diaries from participants, How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs is a groundbreaking account of an extraordinary, brief moment of unity and hope-and of its destruction. Review Praise for How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs:This expertly researched account brings to life a meaningful but underexplored chapter in world history.-Publishers WeeklyIn a book sure to interest students of Middle Eastern history, particularly in the 20th century, Thompson fashions an original, authoritative study, laying out the process of the theft of Syrian democracy . . . Bitter lessons from the past unearthed and expertly reexamined.-Kirkus ReviewsThat the interests of great powers override the voices of small nations is an unremarkable observation in diplomatic history, yet reading Thompsons account of the circumstances in one particular context, and knowing the consequences that followed, is enough to make you feel outraged once again.-Washington Independent Review of BooksThompson has written an outstanding book on the attempts by Western actors to not only reverse democracy in Syria in the early 20th century, but also to deliberately conceal the reality of this reversal. Through rich archival research, Thompson puts forward an important and fascinating corrective to conventional and longstanding accounts.-Amaney A. Jamal, Edwards S. Sanford Professor of Politics, Princeton UniversityElizabeth Thompson has successfully combined her mastery of the immensely complex relationship between the Middle East and the West during World War I with her capacity for excellent storytelling and explains better than ever before how the dreams of those who supported the new leaders clashed with the know-how of seasoned colonialists who appropriated lands and imposed political systems that defeated democracy for more than a century since. It is an essential read.-Leila Fawaz, Issam...

-Titulo Original : Double Agent (kate Henderson Thrillers, 2)-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: About the Author Tom Bradby is a British novelist, screenwriter and journalist. As a broadcaster, he is best known as the current Anchor of the UK network ITVs News at Ten. He has written seven previous novels. The Master of Rain was shortlisted for the Crime Writers Association Steel Dagger for Thriller of the Year, and both The White Russian and The God of Chaos were shortlisted for the CWA Historical Crime Novel of the Year. He lives in London. From British journalist and bestselling author, Tom Bradby, a sequel to Secret Service that pushes senior MI6 agent Kate Henderson to her limits as she tries to unmask the Russian spy holding the nations highest officeKidnapped in Venice by a Russian defector, Kate knows shes in trouble. But when he offers her conclusive evidence that the British Prime Minister is a live agent working for Moscow, Kates holiday quickly becomes the start of her next mission.The defector has proof of the PM involved in a sordid scandal-a video supposedly used to blackmail him into Russian service decades prior-and a financial paper trail that undeniably links him to the Russians, but his motives are anything but clear. Riddled with doubt that the evidence she is presented with may not in fact be as bulletproof as it seems, Kate reopens the investigation into the PM. As she works through the case, Kate runs up against key people at the heart of the British Establishment who refuse to acknowledge the reality in front of them. And, more worryingly, clear signs that theres still a mole in her department.But Kate had already identified and eradicated the mole, codenamed Viper. Could she have been mistaken? And could this horrifying video be a fake, produced by the Russians to sabotage British democracy?These questions plague Kate as she tries to keep it together for her children and ailing mother, steadily losing sleep and, she fears, her sanity. This mission will push Kate dangerously close to the edge as she continues her relentless fight for the truth. Review Praise for Double Agent:“The character of Kate is terrific. Shes honest, brave and whip smart . . . If any of you are missing the Cold War espionage novels of the 1970s and 1980s, this series is for you.”-Deadly Pleasures Magazine“Bradby masterfully combines textured psychological drama with a rip-roaring plot that boasts several dizzying switchbacks along the way to a genuinely shocking conclusion.”-Booklist (starred review)“Engrossing . . . The tantalizingly ambiguous ending will leave the reader wondering what’s in store for Kate. Bradby does a fine job balancing the professional with the personal.”-Publishers Weekly“Kates quest has plenty of scope for a third volume . . . Bradbys fans will welcome his heroines return.”-Kirkus Reviews“An enjoyably labyrinthine tale with a light touch and the odd naughty satirical echo.”-Sunday Express“Bradbys portrayal of squabbling Whitehall folk continues to be intriguing and distinctive (and piquantly naughty, coming as it does from ITVs chief anchorman).”-Sunday Times“A high-paced thriller.”-Radio Times“Zips along like a big, breaking news story.”-The SunPraise for Tom Bradby and Secret Service: A gripping thriller.-Sunday Times (UK), on Secret Service There are resonant echoes of le Carre here-in the way the betrayals reach from marriage beds to the seats of governments-but there is also a distinctly contemporary feeling in the idea that truth, even when its discoverable, may no longer matter.-Booklist (starred review), on Secret Service Cracking, uber-topical spy thriller . . . Bradby deftly works in current fears of Moscow infiltrating our institutions amid a plot full of twists and turns.-Financial Times, on Secret Service The author reveals a rarely seen facet of secret agents: the domestic side. Not a cliched Jane Bond, Kate is a mother to two teenagers, daughter to a spiteful mother sliding into dementia, and wife to a civil servant wh...

-Titulo Original : Cry Baby A Tom Thorne Novel (di Tom Thorne Series, 17)-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: About the Author Mark Billingham has twice won the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and has also won the Sherlock Award for Best Detective Novel Created by a British Author. His books, which include the critically acclaimed Tom Thorne series, have been translated into twenty-five languages and have sold over six million copies. He lives in London. The latest thriller from internationally bestselling author Mark Billingham takes us back to the origins of Tom Thorne.In the summer of 1996, two boys run from a playground into the adjoining woods, but only one comes out. DS Tom Thorne takes on a case that quickly spirals out of control when two people connected with the missing boy are murdered. As London prepares to host the European Soccer Championships, Thorne fights to keep on top of a baffling investigation while also dealing with the ugly fallout of his broken marriage.A prequel to Billingham’s acclaimed debut Sleepyhead which the Times voted “one of the 100 books that had shaped the decade” this compelling novel highlights the case that shaped the career of one of British crime fiction’s most iconic characters. Review Praise for Cry Baby: “Superb . . . Billingham adds tantalizing red herrings throughout. The book’s masterly ending features a heart-stopping chase to apprehend Kieron’s surprising kidnapper. Established fans and newcomers alike will be thrilled.” Publishers Weekly, starred review “How much tighter can Billingham turn the screws before his climactic twist? . . . Expertly grueling.” Kirkus Reviews “Cry Baby is the perfect prequel to send us back to revel in Tom Thornes twenty years. As if we needed reminding how good Mark Billingham is.” Val McDermid “Tom Thorne is one of the most credible and engaging heroes in contemporary crime fiction. Mark Billingham is a master of psychology, plotting and the contemporary scene-making the Thorne novels the complete package. Twenty years in and better than ever.” Ian Rankin Praise for Mark Billingham and the Tom Thorne novels: “A fantastic thriller, combining a gripping plot and lead characters of remarkable depth…Readers who grab this one but aren’t familiar with its predecessors will be seeking them out. A series to savor.” Booklist (starred review), on Their Little Secret “The twisted plot unfolds gradually, with a maximum of suspense. Billingham never strains credulity in this thoughtful page-turner.” Publishers Weekly (starred review), on Their Little Secret “Morse, Rebus, and now Thorne. The next superstar detective is already with us don’t miss him.” Lee Child “Billingham is a world-class writer and Tom Thorne is a wonderful creation. Rush to read these books.” Karin Slaughter “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 has brought a rare and welcome blend of humanity, dimension, and excitement to the genre.” George Pelecano...

-Titulo Original : Zappa A Biography-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Ten years after his death, Frank Zappa continues to influence popular culture. With almost one hundred recordings still in print, Zappa remains a classic American icon. Scores of bands have been influenced by (and have shamelessly imitated) his music, and a talented roster of musicians passed through Zappa’s bands. Now comes the definitive biography of Zappa by Barry Miles, best-selling author of Hippie and Paul McCartney: Many Years from Now, who knew Zappa personally and was present at the recording of some of his most important albums. Miles follows Zappa from his sickly Italian-American childhood in the 1940s (his father worked for the military and was used to test the effectiveness of new biological warfare agents) to his youthful pursuit of what was a lifelong dream: becoming a classical composer. Zappa brings together the many different personalities of this music legend together for the first time: the self-taught musician and composer who gained fame with the rock” band the Mothers of Invention; the political antagonist who mocked presidents while being invited by Vaclav Havel to represent Czechoslovakia’s cultural interests in the United States, and Zappa the family man who was married to the same woman for over thirty years...

-Titulo Original : The Wire Truth Be Told-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Widely regarded as one of the greatest television shows ever made, The Wire, often called a novel-as-television, is a Dickensian masterpiece that weaves together complex stories and complicated characters into a sprawling, textured portrait of an American city in decline. The Wire: Truth Be Told is the ultimate companion to this spectacular show. Essays from David Simon, George Pelecanos, Laura Lippman, William F. Zorzi, and others join interviews with the show’s creators, entertaining summaries of all sixty episodes and overviews of each of its seasons. Above all, The Wire: Truth Be Told offers a captivating behind the scenes look at the show, from the struggle to get it on the air, to the response from Baltimore’s residents and politicians, to the fascinating true stories and real life inspiration behind favorite scenes and characters. Lavishly illustrated with hundreds of photos, this is a must have book and a fitting guide to, and celebration of, a monumental show. From Publishers Weekly After HBO launched its gritty, Baltimore-based series, The Wire, in 2002, it ran for five seasons and 60 episodes. The show was created by former Baltimore Sun crime reporter Simon, who pitched the drama series as an anti-cop show and as a novel for television, bolstering his writing staff with such novelists as Richard Price, Dennis Lehane, and George Pelecanos. Initially perceived as a crime show, Simon wanted to explore larger themes of politics, sociology, and economics while depicting all angles of life in Baltimore, from news media mediocrity to the life of addicts, dealers, whores, johns, and the homeless: This is the world of The Wire, the America left behind. Low ratings were followed by critical acclaim. In addition to detailed episode guides, total cast/character breakdowns, crew listings, 300 b&w photos, and a glossary of the street slang employed in the shows dialogue, the book includes a dozen insightful, informative contributions by a variety of journalists, directors, screenwriters, and novelists, including Pelecanos, Laura Lippman, and Nick Hornby, who interviewed Simon. Other interviews include Little Melvin Williams, one of the legendary kingpins in the annals of Baltimore narcotics, who from prison went into the shows third-season cast. Weaving a sprawling tapestry of both the TV drama and the Baltimore cityscape, Alvarez, a Baltimore Sun reporter for 20 years and The Wire staff writer, has compiled engrossing, definitive coverage certain to lure HBO viewers into bookstores. (May) Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Review Not the usual coffee-table photo book, but something substantial, complex, honest, challenging, revealing, funny, and also unprecedented, and unique--a book, in other words, worthy of The Wire. -- Tony Kushner The breadth and ambition of The Wire are unrivaled . . . taken cumulatively over the course of a season--any season--its an astonishing display of writing, acting, and storytelling that must be considered alongside the best literature and filmmaking in the modern era. -- Tim Goodman The Wire will knock the breath out of you . . . literary television that broadens the mind and blows the heart open . . . a beautiful, brave series. -- Virginia Hefferna...

-Titulo Original : Beethoven The Man Revealed-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Beethoven scholar and classical radio host John Suchet has had a lifelong, ardent interest in the man and his music. Here, in his first full-length biography, Suchet illuminates the composer’s difficult childhood, his struggle to maintain friendships and romances, his ungovernable temper, his obsessive efforts to control his nephew’s life, and the excruciating decline of his hearing. This absorbing narrative provides a comprehensive account of a momentous life, as it takes the reader on a journey from the composer’s birth in Bonn to his death in Vienna. Chronicling the landmark events in Beethovens career from his competitive encounters with Mozart to the circumstances surrounding the creation of the well-known Fur Elise and Moonlight Sonata this book enhances understanding of the composers character, inspiring a deeper appreciation for his work. Beethoven scholarship is constantly evolving, and Suchet draws on the latest research, using rare source material (some of which has never before been published in English) to paint a complete and vivid portrait of the legendary prodigy. Review One of Publishers Weekly’s Top 10 Music Books of the Year Suchet’s explanations of Beethoven’s music sing to us almost as if we could hear it. . . . Kudos to the author for this deeply moving, outstanding biography. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A big, bold biography. Library Journal Suchets conversational approach allows him to present the known details of Beethovens life while speculating effectively on the unknown. . . . A colloquial, picaresque biography. Shelf Awareness Breathtaking . . . Suchet has turned his vast knowledge, imagination and passion [into] . . . a memorable life that abounds with the kind of details often overlooked by researchers focused only on verifiable facts. . . . [His] intuitive understanding of human nature, social history and psychological insight . . . unwraps Beethoven’s life as a lively connected narrative, energized on every page . . . What is refreshing and novel here is the imaginative and engaging way in which a formidably tangled skein of pre-existing strands has been deftly unraveled and re-woven into a deeply moving portrait. Bookreporter I have loved and performed Beethoven since I was very young and have read a good deal about the life and times of this giant among composers, but John Suchet’s infectious enthusiasm and fascination, probing the details behind every step of his life, and turning sensitive sleuth when the facts are less clear, opens new vistas and makes for a gripping and thought-provoking read. Howard Shelley, Pianist and Conductor John Suchet offers us a fascinating and touchingly human insight into a great figure who has consumed him for decades. By exercising a genuine authority in identifying how Beethoven, the man, manifests himself in our appreciation of the music, Suchet brings an incisive freshness to an extraordinary life. The results in his Beethovenia are always rigorously researched and accompanied by a child-like passion to communicate the composers true essence. Jonathan Freeman-Attwood, Principal of the Royal Academy of Music Beethovens music continues to form one of the cornerstones of the concert repertoire some 200 years after it was written, and its sheer ingenuity and inventiveness never cease to amaze the perceptive listener. Knowing the context in which it was written can aid our understanding of the music, and every biography of Beethovens unusual life has something new to say. Although some aspects of his life, such as his deafness, and his great love for his only nephew, are well known, this book also includes many details that are less familiar. John Suchet writes with infectious enthusiasm, and his avoidance of technical detail makes this a biography that can be read and understood by anyone interested in the composer. Professor Barry Cooper, University of Manchester About...

-Titulo Original : Unreasonable Behavior An Autobiography-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: From the construction of the Berlin Wall through every major conflict of his adult lifetime up to the Syrian Civil War, photographer Don McCullin has left a trail of iconic images. Revised and updated after twenty-five years, Unreasonable Behavior traces the life and career of one of the top photojournalists of the twentieth century and beyond. Born in London in 1935, McCullin worked as a photographer’s assistant in the RAF during the Suez Crisis. His early association with a North London gang led to the first publication of his pictures. As an overseas correspondent for the Sunday Times Magazine beginning in 1966, McCullin soon became a new kind of hero, taking a generation of readers beyond the insularity of post-war domestic life through the lens of his Nikon camera. He captured the realities of war in Biafra, the Congo, Vietnam, Cambodia, and the human tragedy of famine and cholera on the Bangladesh border and later, the AIDs epidemic in Sub-Saharan Africa. McCullin now spends his days in a Somerset village, where he photographs the landscape and arranges still-lifes. Harrowing and poignant, Unreasonable Behavior is an extraordinary account of a witness who triumphed over the memories that could have destroyed him. Review [Don McCullin] has known all forms of fear, he’s an expert in it. He has come back from God knows how many brinks, all different. His experience in a Ugandan prison alone would be enough to unhinge another man like myself, as a matter of fact for good. He has been forfeit more times than he can remember, he says. But he is not bragging. Talking this way about death and risk, he seems to be implying quite consciously that by testing his luck each time, he is testing his Maker’s indulgence.” John le Carre From the opening . . . there is hardly a dull sentence: his prose is so lively and uninhibited . . . An excellent book.” Sunday Telegraph (UK) McCullin handles much of the material culled from his war experiences like a seasoned thriller writer. His dialogue is convincing and sharp.” Observer (UK) McCullin is required reading if you want to know what real journalism is all about.” Times (UK) Unsparing reminiscences that effectively combine the bittersweet life of a world-class photojournalist with a generous selection of his haunting lifework . . . A genuinely affecting memoir that reckons the cost and loss involved in making one’s way on the cutting edge of conflict.” Kirkus Reviews If anyone is the living embodiment of the power of a photo, it is Don McCullin.” Sunday Times (UK) This is a great book not just for those with an interest in photography, but also for those with an interest in modern history.” Oliver Atwell, Amateur Photographer About the Author Don McCullin grew up in north London. He worked for the Sunday Times for eighteen years and has covered every major conflict in his adult lifetime. The finest British photojournalist of his generation, he has received many honors and awards including the CBE. He received a knighthood in the 2017 New Year honors list. He lives in Somerset...

-Titulo Original : The Cello Suites J. S. Bach, Pablo Casals, And The Search For A Baroque Masterpiece-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: One evening, journalist Eric Siblin attended a recital of Johann Sebastian Bachs Cello Suites and began an epic quest that would unravel three centuries of intrigue, politics, and passion. Winner of the Mavis Gallant Prize for Nonfiction and the McAuslan First Book Prize, The Cello Suites weaves together three dramatic narratives: the disappearance of Bachs manuscript in the eighteenth century; Pablo Casalss discovery and popularization of the music in Spain in the late-nineteenth century; and Siblins infatuation with the suites in the present day. The search led Siblin to Barcelona, where Casals, just thirteen and in possession of his first cello, roamed the backstreets with his father in search of sheet music and found Bachs lost suites tucked in a dark corner of a store. Casals played them every day for twelve years before finally performing them in public. Siblin pursues the mysteries that continue to haunt this music more than 250 years after its composers death: Why did Bach compose the suites for the cello, then considered a lowly instrument? What happened to the original manuscript? A seamless blend of biography and music history, The Cello Suites is a true-life journey of discovery, fueled by the power of these musical masterpieces. Review This is one of the most extraordinary, clever, beautiful, and impeccably researched books I have read in years. A fascinating story deftly told and, for me at least, ideally read with Bach’s thirty-six movements playing softly in the background; a recipe for literary rapture.” Simon Winchester, author of the New York Times best-seller The Professor and the Madman Vividly chronicles [Siblin’s] international search for the original, and unfound, Bach score Mr. Siblin’s book is well researched, and filled with enough anecdotes to engage even the classical-music aficionado but the book is best distinguished by its writing. To vivify music in words is not easy. But Mr. Siblin rises to the task Read The Cello Suites preferably with their melodious hum in the background and you will never look at a cello in quite the same way again.” The Economist This is rich terrain, and Siblin’s book is an engrossing combination of musical and political history spiced with generally vivid descriptions of the cello suites themselves [Siblin] has given us a compelling portrait of a passionate, prickly Bach, of Casals, a musician who was also politically engaged, and an engrossing cast of secondary characters. Best of all, The Cello Suites makes us want to pop in a CD and really listen to those cello suites. Awesome.” Wynne Delacoma, Chicago Sun-Times A work of ever-percolating interest. Mr. Siblin winds up mixing high and low musical forms, art and political histories, Bach’s and Casals’s individual stories and matters of arcane musicology into a single inquisitive volume.” Janet Maslin, The New York Times The ironies of artistic genius and public taste are subtly explored in this winding, entertaining tale of a musical masterpiece Siblin is an insightful writer with an ability to convey the sound and emotional impact of music in words.” Publishers Weekly Engaging and imaginative a charming narrative.” Melinda Bargreen, The Seattle Times The author has done a wealth of research in pursuit of his new passion, and he writes engagingly this intrepid writer has worked hard to interest readers in his musical obsession, and there is a great deal to chew on here.” Priscilla S. Taylor, he Washington Times It’s not often that one begins reading a book with mild interest and then can’t put it down, which happened to me with this beautiful book.” Diana Athill, author of Stet and Somewhere Towards the End pitch-perfect The Cello Suites is, on all counts, a superior book.” -QWF McAuslan First Book Prize Jury citation an ambitious, carefully researched, and inventively constructed book written with clarity and verve.” Mavis Gallant Prize for Nonfic...

-Titulo Original : The Private Lives Of The Tudors Uncovering The Secrets Of Britain’s Greatest Dynasty-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: 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 “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 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 “[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 . . . Borman really succeeds when she uses her store of homely tidbits to recast our perceptions of Tudors we thought we knew . . . This is a very human story of a remarkable family, full of vignettes that sit long in the mind.” Sunday Times (UK) “Tracy Borman’s eye for detail is impressive; the book is packed with fascinating courtly minutiae . . . [Borman is] a very good historian and this is a wonderful book.” Times (UK) “Like Alison Weir . . . Borman is an authoritative and engaging writer, good at prising out those humanising details that make the past alive to us.” Guardian (UK) 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 cou...

-Titulo Original : Henry Viii And The Men Who Made Him-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Henry VIII is best known in history for his tempestuous marriages and the fates of his six wives. However, as acclaimed historian Tracy Borman makes clear in her illuminating new chronicle of Henry’s life, his reign and reputation were hugely influenced by the men who surrounded and interacted with him as companions and confidants, servants and ministers, and occasionally as rivals many of whom have been underplayed in previous biographies. These relationships offer a fresh, often surprising perspective on the legendary king, revealing the contradictions in his beliefs, behavior, and character in a nuanced light. They show him capable of fierce but seldom abiding loyalty, of raising men up only to destroy them later. He loved to be attended by boisterous young men, the likes of his intimate friend Charles Brandon, who shared his passion for sport, but could also be diverted by men of intellect, culture, and wit, as his longstanding interplay with Cardinal Wolsey and his reluctant abandonment of Thomas More attest. Eager to escape the shadow of his father, Henry VII, he was often trusting and easily led by male attendants and advisors early in his reign (his coronation was just shy of his 18th birthday in 1509); in time, though, he matured into a profoundly suspicious and paranoid king whose ruthlessness would be ever more apparent, as Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk and uncle to two of Henry’s wives, discovered to his great discomfort, and as Eustace Chapuys, the ambassador of Charles V of Spain, often reported. Recounting the great Tudor’s life and signal moments through the lens of his male relationships, Tracy Borman’s new biography reveals Henry’s personality in all its multi-faceted, contradictory glory, and sheds fresh light on his reign for anyone fascinated by the Tudor era and its legacy. Review Praise for Henry VIII: “[Borman’s] beautifully perceptive and dynamic reassessment of Henry VIII places emphasis, as the book’s subtitle indicates, not on the monarch’s infamous marriages but rather on the kaleidoscope of male figures both high- and middle-born who were drawn to the king throughout his life as moths circle a bright flame . . . Here in this highly engrossing biography, the notoriously larger-than-life English monarch, seen from an original and revealing perspective, lives anew in full and in the epic proportions he so well deserves. For all Tudor enthusiasts.” Booklist (starred review)“Capably intuiting the personalities of both Henry and his influencers, the author concentrates not on the worn path of brutality and numerous marriages, but on the political landscape, the emotional pulls, and insecurities of Henry’s decisions. Choosing to illuminate Henry’s environment and his vulnerabilities, Borman’s writing style is easily accessible, and she succeeds in delivering a uniquely intimate portrait.” Historical Novel Society“Borman essentially puts aside Henry VIII’s notorious and well-hashed relationships with women in favor of showcasing stories of the advisers and servants who surrounded the intelligent, mercurial king . . . Borman’s astute analysis of Henry’s personality demonstrates how both low-born and noble advisers affected his reign. It’s generally agreed to that to be a woman in Henry’s circle was to throw caution to the wind in hopes of great reward; Borman’s ambitious narrative shows that being a man in Henry’s court can be just as fraught.” Publishers Weekly “Borman skillfully shows Henry maneuvering his men like chess pieces; when they opposed him, they suffered violent downfalls. Henry eventually assumed control of his realm, but it was too little, too late. Tudor fans will enjoy this outside-in biography as a different view of a complicated monarch.” Kirkus Reviews “Fascinating . . . Borman’s deep background knowledge serves her and the reader well. The pages and years fly by, and one has the feeling of stepping into an engaging historical lecture by a master of ...

-Titulo Original : Insatiable Porn A Love Story-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Review A New York Post Best Book of the Year“Akira is the Galileo of women’s sexuality, shifting our culture from the ‘Dark Ages’ of slut-shaming into an enlightened celebration of female desire. Hot, hilarious, and engrossing, this book is a path toward greater freedom for us all: read it and evolve.”-Alissa Nutting, author of Tampa“Akira is not only passionate about the porn industry, she is shameless, funny and even endearing.”-Susannah Cahalan, New York Post (Best Books of the Year)“An intimate look at her life. Each chapter is filled with brutal honesty and self-deprecating humor. It’s touching, inspiring, and flies in the face of a lot of people’s preconceptions about the life of an adult film star. What’s most refreshing is that the high points of the book aren’t the double-penetration and masturbation scenes-even though that stuff is great-it’s her strong storytelling, which makes her struggles and triumphs in the adult film industry super relatable.”-ViceIt is common for mainstream porn stars to explain their choice of profession with some variation on “I just love sex. . . . When Asa Akira says it, though, I really believe it. . . . And yet, no person can act as the flawless representative for an entire group of people - and certainly not while writing a memoir worth reading. Luckily, Akira doesn’t try to do that with her book. . . . All of which is to say, her book is a lot like her porn: raw, brutal and always unflinching.”-Salon “A hypersexual narrative of the author’s experiences making adult films . . . Akira acknowledges that her positive experience in pornography is not necessarily representative. . . . [but] is happy to be a porn star. . . . For Akira, the “right reason” for her own career has been that she enjoys her job. If that changes, she says, she’ll leave.”-NPR “All Things Considered”“In her debut book, Akira finds an inimitable voice from the inside in a world where porn is increasingly becoming part of the mainstream.”-Examiner “Relentlessly risque. . . a lascivious, personalized journey through the pornography industry. . . . and the frequently hilarious, surprisingly humbling anecdotes of a life spent having sex for the camera. . . . Alive with an unconventional affinity for raw human sexuality, this exuberant memoir is effortlessly honest, without coming across as cavalier or catty. [Akira’s] passion lies in the rush and the “high” of the perfectly filmed sex scene. Open-minded readers will find themselves bombarded by a carnal locomotive of industry insider secrets and amusing observations. . . . Puritans take note: Nothing is left to the imagination in this hypersexual memoir of life as a porn star.”-Kirkus Reviews“Akira gives even the most household items . . . an entirely new meaning. Forget all the stuff you thought you knew about porn--truth is, you’ll never look at Baby Wipes, Q-Tips and Ziploc bags the same way again.”-LA WeeklyIn this no-holds-barred memoir-which at times take on the form of letters, haiku, and diary entries-Akira shares her personal experiences working as a celebrated porn actress. [Akira] gives intriguing insight into the industry, particularly the bits about porn stars’ private and public lives and her own attempt to maintain a meaningful romantic relationship.-Publishers Weekly“Asa Akira is the latest addition in a wave of highly raunchy but fiercely unapologetic female porn stars.”-Globe and Mail“Asa Akira is insatiable in every sense of the word. Insatiable is, at turns, laugh-out-loud funny (the book is punctuated with naughty haikus, such as ‘Home from Trader Joe’s/Was it there for that whole time?/Dried cum on my chin’), poignant (she writes imaginary letters to her future unborn child and her mother, with whom she is close but does not discuss her career), and outrageously politically incorrect. . . . But above all else, it’s a brutally honest look at one woman’s journey through the adult industry, which Akira says the ultimate culmination of her ...

-Titulo Original : Walking With Ghosts-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: About the Author GABRIEL BYRNE was born in Dublin and has starred in over 80 films for some of the cinemas leading directors. He won a Golden Globe for his performance on HBOs In Treatment. On Broadway he won the Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Actor and has been nominated twice for the Tony Award. He lives in Manhattan and Maine. 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 OBrien.-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. [Byrne’s] 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 Post“The 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 Byrne’s early traumas . . . are stark and heartbreaking . . . That he’s 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 . . . What’s 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.” -The Independent (UK) ...

-Titulo Original : But You Did Not Come Back A Memoir-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: “You might come back, because you’re young, but I will not come back.”-Marceline Loridan-Ivens’ father, speaking to her at the Drancy internment camp, April 1944A runaway international bestseller, But You Did Not Come Back garnered rave reviews and features on hardcover publication, including a New York Times profile on the author. Hailed as an important new addition to the library of books dealing with the Holocaust, it is the profoundly moving and poetic memoir by Marceline Loridan-Ivens, who at the age of fifteen was arrested by the Vichy government’s militia, along with her father. At the internment camp of Drancy, France, her father told her that he would not come back, preparing her for the worst. On their arrival at the camps, they were separated-her father sent to Auschwitz, she to the neighboring camp of Birkenau. The three kilometers that separated them were an insurmountable distance, and yet before he died in the camps, he managed to send her a small note, a sign of life that gave Marceline hope to go on.In But You Did Not Come Back, Marceline writes back to her father. The book is a letter to the man she would never know as an adult, to the person whose death overshadowed her whole life. Although her grief never diminished in its intensity, Marceline ultimately found a calling, working on behalf of many disenfranchised groups, both as an activist for Algerian independence and a documentary filmmaker.And now, as France and Europe face growing anti-Semitism, Marceline feels pessimistic about the future. Her testimony is a memorial, a confrontation, and a deeply affecting personal story of a woman whose life was shattered and never totally rebuilt. Review Praise for But You Did Not Come Back: Named a Book of the Year by the Economist Winner of the National Jewish Book Award (Biography, Autobiography and Memoir) Named a Memoir of the Year by the Times (UK) “A profoundly moving testimony of the challenges of survival, a wake-up call to those who ignore the rise of anti-Semitism in Europe, and a stunning tribute to her late father, But You Did Not Come Back is heartbreaking, important, and unlike anything that has preceded it.”-Andre Aciman“I read this book in one sitting, it was unputdownable, an astonishing account of a family caught up in the Holocaust’s turbulent wake, so deeply sad and very, very moving. Most striking to me was the brutal honesty and clarity of her relationship with her father who, despite his murder by the Nazis, is still very much with her more than fifty years later, and the question, so troubling, as to whether it would have been better if he had come back instead of her.”-Thomas Harding, author of Hanns and Rudolf “In tight, unsparing prose, [Loridan-Ivens] confronts the delusions her father held, and the lies she told herself. A small book with a big voice.” Economist (Books of the Year 2016) “Profound and moving . . . elegantly rendered into English by Sandra Smith . . . [This] slim but powerful book is both a vital account of her survival and a tender reply to her father . . . Seldom do such short books make so big an impact . . . Her important and miraculous testimony will endure.”-Minneapolis Star Tribune“Extraordinary, unflinching and deeply moving . . . [Loridan-Ivens] describes her experiences with a resolute commitment to detail; there is the brutal, visceral truth . . . and there are harrowing stories . . . But there is no room for sentimentality in Loridan-Ivens’s honest and self-aware prose: the facts of her incarceration speak emotively enough . . . Very occasionally a book comes along that demands to be published, to be read, to be talked about. A book about pain and suffering, about cruelty and humanity, about grief and love. But You Did Not Come Back is an exquisitely written, beautifully translated and unwaveringly honest testimony; a story we will all do well never to forget.”-Guardian“In this powerful book [Marceline Loridan-Ivens] tel...

-Titulo Original : All The Young Men-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Review Praise for All The Young MenFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award One of Library Journal’s Best Biographies and Memoirs of 2020 “My friend Ruth Coker Burks is one of the most amazing people I know. The care she gave HIV-positive gay men in and around our hometown of Hot Springs, Arkansas during the desperate early days of the AIDS crisis helped them live and die with dignity in the face of stigma and discrimination. In All the Young Men, Ruth tells their stories and hers with the same warmth, wit, grace, and gumption that I have admired for decades. This book will make you love her as much as I do.” President Bill Clinton“Burks and [O’Leary] balance tragedy with bright moments of joy, sly humor and inspiring empathy in this surprisingly pleasurable memoir.” -San Francisco Chronicle“Throughout the memoir, it’s hard not to fall in love with Burks for her big-heartedness and enduring sense of humor in the face of suffering… Burks forges a path alongside these vulnerable men, her embrace of education and rejection of bigotry light the way forward for us all.” -BookPage, starred reviewA powerful memoir... Burks’s spirited, straightforward prose balances the heartbreak of her story with just enough humor and toughness. A must-read for anyone interested in narratives of front-line responses to the early AIDS crisis as well as personal accounts of kindness and determination. -Library Journal, starred review“Burks’ vivid memories of ‘my guys’ and the trials she endured fighting against prejudice offer a portrait of courageous compassion that is both rare and inspiring . . . [A] deeply moving, meaningful book.”-Kirkus Reviews “Anecdotes of small-town gay bars and drag queen rivalries add levity to tales of hardship and sacrifice-crosses set ablaze on her lawn, her young daughter ostracized at school . . . This worthy account offers as much bitter as sweet.” -Publishers WeeklyAll The Young Men is an urgent story that needs to be told about the early years of AIDS in the American South. From her first moving encounter with an abandoned young man hours before he died, Ruth Coker Burks cares for ill gay men and fights homophobia with compassion, wit, courage and righteous anger. Its inspiring and compelling to read of her battles against indignities and intimidation, bigoted families and churches, and demeaning health care. The reader cheers her on when Coker Burks finds both opponents and allies in her work. She writes of Jimmy, Howard, Douglas, Danny, Neil, Tim and Jim, Marc, Bob and Phil, Chip, Luke, Angel, Jerry, Misty, Billy and all her ‘guys’: ‘I wanted them to be counted, to have their lives matter.’ All The Young Men achieves that beautifully, memorably, in their honour.-ROBERT HAMBERGER, author of A Length of Road“This crisp, clear book describes without sentimentality the brave story of a woman who sacrificed her standing in her community for men she didn’t yet know. At great personal hazard, she managed to love people who had been discarded as unlovable and gave them respect, compassion, and dignity. Many so-called ‘inspirational books’ are mawkish; this one is merely honest. It is a compelling book about courage and love.” -Andrew Solomon, author of The Noonday Demon and Far from the Tree “An extraordinary tale.” -The Evening Standard “It’s a brighter story of human nature…this is a paean to making friendships across boundaries, to being kind even when the cost is nearly unbearable.” -The Guardian “Kevin Carr OLeary has taken Burks stories and turned them into a beautiful book, catching her Southern sass and charm.” -The Sunday Times “Burks’s mission, once surreptitious, is no longer a secret.” -People “In those desperate early days, thank God Ruth Coker Burks was there to stand up against fear and stigma.”-President Bill Clinton This astonishing modern-day Good Samaritan story will move you to tears of sadness and outrage, but also buoy you. For Coker Burks is a do-gooder with sass. And hers is a story ...

-Titulo Original : Mukiwa A White Boy In Africa-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Mukiwa opens with Peter Godwin, six years old, describing the murder of his neighbor by African guerillas, in 1964, pre-war Rhodesia. Godwins parents are liberal whites, his mother a governement-employed doctor, his father an engineer. Through his innocent, young eyes, the story of the beginning of the end of white rule in Africa unfolds. The memoir follows Godwins personal journey from the eve of war in Rhodesia to his experience fighting in the civil war that he detests to his adventures as a journalist in the new state of Zimbabwe, covering the bloody return to Black rule. With each transition Godwins voice develops, from that of a boy to a young man to an adult returning to his homeland. This tale of the savage struggle between blacks and whites as the British Colonial period comes to an end is set against the vividly painted background of the myserious world of South Africa...

-Titulo Original : The Lost German Slave Girl The Extraordinary True Story Of Sally Miller And Her Fight For Freedom In Old New Orleans-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: It is a spring morning in New Orleans, 1843. In the Spanish Quarter, on a street lined with flophouses and gambling dens, Madame Carl recognizes a face from her past. It is the face of a German girl, Sally Miller, who disappeared twenty-five years earlier. But the young woman is property, the slave of a nearby cabaret owner. She has no memory of a white past. Yet her resemblance to her mother is striking, and she bears two telltale birthmarks. In brilliant novelistic detail, award-winning historian John Bailey reconstructs the exotic sights, sounds, and smells of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, as well as the incredible twists and turns of Sally Millers celebrated and sensational case. Did Miller, as her relatives sought to prove, arrive from Germany under perilous circumstances as an indentured servant or was she, as her master claimed, part African, and a slave for life? A tour de force of investigative history that reads like a suspense novel, The Lost German Slave Girl is a fascinating exploration of slavery and its laws, a brilliant reconstruction of mid-nineteenth-century New Orleans, and a riveting courtroom drama. It is also an unforgettable portrait of a young woman in pursuit of freedom...

-Titulo Original : Living In A Foreign Language A Memoir Of Food, Wine, And Love In Italy-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: The actor Michael Tucker and his wife, the actress Jill Eikenberry, having sent their last child off to college, were vacationing in Italy when they happened upon a small cottage nestled in the Umbrian countryside. The three-hundred-and-fifty-year-old Rustico sat perched on a hill in the verdant Spoleto valley amid an olive grove and fruit trees of every kind. For the Tuckers, it was literally love at first sight, and the couple purchased the house without testing the water pressure or checking for signs of termites. Shedding the vestiges of their American life, Michael and Jill endeavored to learn the language, understand the nuances of Italian culture, and build a home in this new chapter of their lives. Both a celebration of a good marriage and a careful study of the nature of home, Living in a Foreign Language is a gorgeous, organic travelogue written with an epicurean’s delight in detail and a gourmand’s appreciation for all things fine. Review “A satisfying look into the good life.” -Publisher’s Weekly“Foodies will slaver and bristle with envy at the surfeit of pungently fresh truffles that appear at seemingly every meal.”­­ -Mark Knoblauch, Boolist“Not at all the usual actor’s memoir, but a simple toast to eating, drinking and innocent merriment in old Umbria.” -Kirkus Reviews“If you’ve ever dreamed of living in an ancient stone villa set high above the Italian countryside-and who hasn’t?-Living in a Foreign Language is a seduction, a warning, an encouragement, and a guide to making a dream come true.” - Mary Doria Russell, author of The Sparrow“Michael Tucker’s Living in a Foreign Language is a rollicking, food and fun-filled chronicle of his and his wife Jill’s international traveling circus. From New York to Los Angeles to Marin county to Italy and New York again, it’s an odyssey of change and growth filled with good wine, fine food, and great friends. Infused with love, the Tuckers’ saga of building a home (and a life) in Umbria, Italy, is as warm and irresistible as a freshly baked pizza.” - Steven Bocho, hollywood producer and creator of L.A. Law“[A] charming book. It literally grabbed me by the taste buds and took me for an epicurean excursion.” - Phil Doran, author of The Reluctant Tuscan: How I Discovered My Inner Italian“The ex-L.A. Law star details his and wife Jill Eikenberry’s move to Italy. Viva la dolce vita!”-People“Tucker … writes easily, endearingly and entertainingly about finding a rustico in the Italian countryside and moving there with his wife … Journey with him to Italy; you’ll smell that ravioli con funghi porcini.”-Geeta Sharma Jensen, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel“Reading books on wine provides an invaluable, yet often insufficient, wine education. Without knowledge of the wines’ accompanying food, you’re nothing but a wine geek. Books like Living in a Foreign Language provide such an ideal context for how to truly enjoy wine with food that they should be required reading for all oenophiles.” -The Washington Post“One quarter of the way through I realized this wonderful experience of Italy was going to have a last page, which I couldn’t and didn’t want to happen. I devoured each moment!” - Bernadette Peters“Michael Tucker’s life is full of adventurous, lusty choices. He writes about them with just as much boldness. Whether it’s an Italian lesson in Rome or the first pizza party in his four-hundredyear- old kitchen in Umbria, his descriptions make you feel as if you’re guests in his home.” -John Lithgow“When actor/writer Tucker and his wife, actress Jill Eikenberry, bought a cottage in Umbria, they fell in love with the house, the place, the food, the wine, and each other-all over again. This charming memoir will make you want to hop on the next plane to Italy with the love of your life (or find the love of your life).”-Elisabeth Grant-Gibson, Windows a bookshop, Monroe, LA, Book Sense quot...

-Titulo Original : Thomas Cromwell The Untold Story Of Henry Viiis Most Faithful Servant-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Thomas Cromwell has long been reviled as a Machiavellian schemer who stopped at nothing in his quest for power. As King Henry VIII’s right-hand man, Cromwell was the architect of the English Reformation; secured Henry’s divorce from Catherine of Aragon and plotted the downfall of his second wife, Anne Boleyn; and was fatally accused of trying to usurp the king himself. But in this engrossing new biography, acclaimed British historian Tracy Borman reveals a different side to one of history’s most notorious characters: that of a caring husband and father, a fiercely loyal servant and friend, and a revolutionary who was key in transforming medieval England into a modern state.Born in the mid-1480s to a lowly blacksmith, Cromwell left home at eighteen to make his fortune abroad. He served as a mercenary in the French army, worked for a powerful merchant banker in Florence at the height of the Italian Renaissance, and became a promising young cloth merchant in the Netherlands, then the mercantile capital of the world. But Cromwell decided to return to England and there built a flourishing legal practice. It wasn’t long before Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who was the Archbishop of York and the King’s closest confidant, took note of Cromwell’s immense intelligence, resourcefulness, and wit, turning him into his protege. When Wolsey was put under arrest for overstepping his bounds, Cromwell both protected his mentor and supplanted him. And he accomplished what Wolsey never could: Henry’s divorce from his first wife Catherine of Aragon and a revolution in Britain’s religious life.As Henry’s top aide, Cromwell was at the heart of the most momentous event of his time-from funding the translation and dissemination of the first vernacular Bible to legitimizing Anne Boleyn as queen-and wielded immense power over both church and state. The impact of his seismic political, religious, and social reforms can still be felt today. Grounded in excellent primary source research, Thomas Cromwell gives an inside look at a monarchy that has captured the Western imagination for centuries and tells the story of a controversial and enigmatic man who forever changed the shape of his country. Review Praise for Thomas Cromwell:“An intelligent, sympathetic, and well researched biography.”-Wall Street Journal“Borman unravels the story of Cromwell’s rise to power skillfully . . . If you want the inside story of Thomas Cromwell . . . this is the book for you.”-Weekly Standard“Dr. Tracy Borman has crafted an exceptional and compelling biography about one of the Tudor ages most complex and controversial figures. With expert insights based on a wealth of research, and riveting detail, she has brought Thomas Cromwell to life as never before, and achieved a fair and balanced assessment of his character and his career. Above all, her book is a joy to read-a remarkable tour de force by one of our most accomplished historians.”-Alison Weir“Excellent. . . . This deeply researched and grippingly written biography brings Cromwell to life, probing into his complex personality and exposes the Henrician court in all its brutal, glittering splendor.”-Independent (UK)“Tracy Borman recounts persuasively and engagingly the tale of the meteoric rise of this complex commoner to the highest offices and dominant influence at the court of Henry and his just as meteoric fall from grace and execution.”-America“Should be catnip to fans of Hilary Mantels best-selling Wolf Hall novels about Cromwell.”-USA Today“British historian Tracy Borman has unearthed previously unpublished evidence that casts a brighter light on one of the most ruthless of machiavellians in British history.-Guardian (UK)“An engrossing biography. . . . A fine rags-to-riches-to-executioner’s-block story of a major figure of the English Reformation.”-Kirkus Reviews“An insightful biography of a much-maligned historical figure.”-Booklist“Borman combines a mastery of historical detail with...

-Titulo Original : Agent Storm My Life Inside Al Qaeda And The Cia-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Morten Storm was an unlikely jihadi. A six-foot-one red-haired Dane, Storm spent his teens in and out of trouble. A book about the Prophet Mohammed prompted his conversion to Islam, and Storm sought purpose in a community of believers. He attended a militant madrasah in Yemen, named his son Osama, and became close friends with Anwar al-Awlaki, the American-born terrorist cleric. But after a decade of jihadi life, he not only repudiated extremism but, in a quest for atonement, became a double agent for the CIA and British and Danish intelligence.Agent Storm takes readers inside the jihadist world like never before, showing the daily life of zealous men set on mass murder, from dodging drones with al Qaeda leaders in the Arabian desert to training in extremist gyms in Britain and performing supply drops in Kenya. The book also provides a tantalizing look at his dangerous life undercover, as Storm traveled the world for missions targeting its most dangerous terrorists, and into the most powerful spy agencies: their tradecraft, rivalries, and late-night carousing, as well as their ruthless use of a beautiful blonde in an ambitious honey trap. Agent Storm is a captivating, utterly unique, real-life espionage tale. Review A National BestsellerOne of the Guardian’s Top Ten Books About Spies“Highly credible. . . . Both a rollicking read and a rare insider’s account of Western spying in the age of al Qaeda, where the risk if exposed is not Cold War-style expulsion but gruesome execution. . . . A valuable window on both sides in a lethal underground war.”-New York Times Book Review“This book reads like a screenplay for a James Bond movie written by Joel and Ethan Coen. . . . Anyone interested in the saga of terrorist fanatics will find Agent Storm compelling.”-Washington Post“Morten Storm has done the Western world a great service. . . . And by the way, the CIA owes him 5 million dollars.”-Brian Kilmeade, Fox News“An extraordinary story, well told and convincing.”-Foreign Affairs “[A] gripping firsthand account . . . . Storm’s work provides valuable and fascinating insight into the quiet battle being waged between clandestine national agencies and various terrorist organizations.”-Christian Science Monitor “Agent Storm feels like a James Bond story or one of John Le Carre’s marvelous spy-thrillers. Yet, the story written by CNN’s Paul Cruickshank and Tim Lister is a true account. . . . First-rate.”-War on the Rocks“Morten Storm’s account of his nerve-wracking life spying on Al Qaeda for Western intelligence gives us the most detailed, compelling, and human look at modern espionage in the lethal world of jihadist terrorism that we are likely to get. This ground-level view of the shadowy struggle between these two clandestine groups is truly gripping.”-Mark Stout, former CIA officer and Director, MA in Global Security Studies, Johns Hopkins University“Picture Homeland’s Nicholas Brody getting jacked during his time as a POW and you’ll get an idea of Morten Storm, the 6’1”, red-haired Dane who went from unlikely jihadi to double agent. . . . Storm’s tale of dodging drones and navigating alliances may read like a great espionage thriller (complete with a blonde honey trap), but his deeply personal struggle with extremism and atonement is the real story.”-Maxim“Agent Storm is the remarkable memoir of a Danish convert-turned-extremist who managed not only to infiltrate al Qaeda’s ranks but would later become one of West’s most valued human intelligence assets in the war on terrorism. As a true spy-story, this book brings you incredibly close to what it actually takes to be an extremist and get into a terrorist group while balancing loyalty and treachery in the world of intelligence. Essential reading for everyone interested in how the war on terrorism is actually fought in the shadows.”-Dr. Magnus Ranstorp, a leading expert on international terrorism and Research Director of the Centre for Asymmetric Threat...

-Titulo Original : Every Drop Of Blood The Momentous Second Inauguration Of Abraham Lincoln-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: About the Author Edward Achorn, a Pulitzer Prize finalist for Commentary and winner of the Yankee Quill Award, is the vice president and editorial pages editor of The Providence Journal. He is the author of two acclaimed books about nineteenth century baseball and American culture, Fifty-nine in 84 and The Summer of Beer and Whiskey. He lives in an 1840s farmhouse in Rehoboth, Massachusetts. A brilliantly conceived and vividly drawn story--Washington, D.C. on the eve of Abraham Lincolns historic second inaugural address as the lens through which to understand all the complexities of the Civil WarBy March 4, 1865, the Civil War had slaughtered more than 700,000 Americans and left intractable wounds on the nation. After a morning of rain-drenched fury, tens of thousands crowded Washingtons Capitol grounds that day to see Abraham Lincoln take the oath for a second term. As the sun emerged, Lincoln rose to give perhaps the greatest inaugural address in American history, stunning the nation by arguing, in a brief 701 words, that both sides had been wrong, and that the wars unimaginable horrors--every drop of blood spilled--might well have been Gods just verdict on the national sin of slavery. Edward Achorn reveals the nations capital on that momentous day--with its mud, sewage, and saloons, its prostitutes, spies, reporters, social-climbing spouses and power-hungry politicians--as a microcosm of all the opposing forces that had driven the country apart. A host of characters, unknown and famous, had converged on Washington--from grievously wounded Union colonel Selden Connor in a Washington hospital and the embarrassingly drunk new vice president, Andrew Johnson, to poet-journalist Walt Whitman; from soldiers advocate Clara Barton and African American leader and Lincoln critic-turned-admirer Frederick Douglass (who called the speech a sacred effort) to conflicted actor John Wilkes Booth--all swirling around the complex figure of Lincoln.In indelible scenes, Achorn vividly captures the frenzy in the nations capital at this crucial moment in Americas history and the tension-filled hope and despair afflicting the country as a whole, soon to be heightened by Lincolns assassination. His story offers new understanding of our great national crisis and echoes down the decades to resonate in our own time. Review Praise for Every Drop of Blood: An Economist Best Book of the YearAn Amazon Best Book of the Month (History)Richly detailed . . . In elegant, episodic detail, Mr. Achorn captures both the immediate experiences of those who attended the inaugural and the recent memories that colored everything they saw and felt, heard and said.--Adam Rowe, Wall Street JournalA lively guided tour of Washington during the 24 hours or so around Lincolns swearing-in . . . Achorn has a journalists gift for finding just the right quotation. He deftly fishes memorable descriptions--often less-than-flatting ones--out of 19th-century newspapers and diaries, especially as he introduces the most distinguished residents of the nations capital.--Adam Goodheart, Washington PostA fascinating account of an address which entered the national consciousness . . . Achorn has done Lincoln justice, distilling the essence of the speech in a reflection Lincoln would have understood.--John S. Gardner, GuardianAchorn, a noted editor and author, does a splendid job of recreating the atmosphere and experience of being in Washington on the day before and the day of Lincolns second inauguration. He has a gift for evocative, elaborate detail, and his descriptions of Washington--from a canal of stinking sewage to the new Capitol dome to the brothels and the various social functions--give readers a full flavor of the good and the plentifully ugly.--Steve Forbes, ForbesAchorn has delivered a readable study that breaks new ground, is lively, contains interesting engaging prose, ably illuminates the topic, and makes ...

-Titulo Original : Gaddafis Harem-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Soraya was just fifteen, a schoolgirl in the coastal town of Sirte, when she was given the honor of presenting a bouquet of flowers to Colonel Gaddafi, “the Guide,” on a visit he was making to her school the following week. This one meeting-a presentation of flowers, a pat on the head from Gaddafi-changed Soraya’s life forever. Soon afterwards, she was summoned to Bab al-Azizia, Gaddafi’s palatial compound near Tripoli, where she joined a number of young women who were violently abused, raped and degraded by Gaddafi. Heartwrenchingly tragic but ultimately redemptive, Soraya’s story is the first one of many that are just now beginning to be heard. But sex and rape remain the highest taboo in Libya, and women like Soraya (whose identity is protected by a pseudonym here) risk being disowned or even killed by their dishonored family members.In Gaddafi’s Harem, an instant bestseller on publication in France, where it has already sold more than 100,000 copies in hardcover, Le Monde special correspondent Annick Cojean gives a voice to Soraya’s story, and supplements her investigation into Gaddafi’s abuses of power through interviews with people who knew Soraya, as well as with other women who were abused by Gaddafi, and those who were involved with his regime, including a driver who ferried women to the compound, and Gaddafi’s former Chief of Security. Gaddafi’s Harem is an astonishing portrait of the essence of dictatorship: how power gone unchecked can wreak havoc on the most intensely personal level, as well as a document of great significance to the new Libya. About the Author Annick Cojean, special correspondent for Le Monde, is one of France’s most widely admired journalists. She chairs the committee for the Prix Albert Londres, the French equivalent of the Pulitzer Prize, and won the prize herself in 1996. She is the author of several books...

-Titulo Original : Triangle The Fire That Changed America-Fabricante : Grove Press-Descripcion Original: Review Von Drehle…has written what is sure to become the definitive account of the fire. -The New York Times Book ReviewTriangle carries the reader deep into a portrait of early 20th Century New York…when colorful machine politicians battled socialists, suffragists and upright progressive reformers for the soul of an increasingly immigrant city. Von Drehle paints the young Jewish and Italian immigrants who labored at Triangle…he is clearly captivated by their spirit.- The Chicago Tribune“A strong piece of writing whose edge seems to have been supplied by a haunting sense of Sept. 11, 2001. . . . The heart of Von Drehle’s book is its detailed, nuanced, mesmerizing description of the fire. It’s movement is tracked relentlessly and repeatedly, moment by moment, in context after context, as it sweeps the factory, out of control in a matter of seconds.” -Vivian Gornick, The Los Angeles Times Book Review“Von Drehle paints a vivid portrait of early-20th-century Gotham, full of corrupt Tammany Hall bigwigs, passionate labor reformers, and factory owners whose callous disregard for safety by illegally blocking exists caused the fatalities. . . . Most indelible are the stories of the young victims whose lives were extinguished in just minutes. A-” -Bob Cannon, Entertainment Weekly“An enthralling chronicle . . . which left its own profound mark on the city and taught lessons that we are badly in need of remembering. . . . Von Drehle’s spellbinding and detailed reconstruction of the disaster is complemented by an equally gripping account of the factory owners’ subsequent manslaughter trial.” -Mike Wallace, The New York Times“A superb social history. Von Drehle transforms solid research into graphic detail and gives immediacy to the distant events. Chapters on the fire are so spellbinding that readers will need air at the end. . . . Triangle is a thorough and satisfying read.” -Lyn Milner, USA Today“Von Drehle has provided a gripping account of the tragedy. . . . In addition to the particulars of the Triangle strike, fire and subsequent trial, Von Drehle also deftly sketches the national context of these events.” -Liza Featherstone, Newsday“A fine new account . . . Von Drehle ably describes the growth of the garment industry, the lives of its immigrant work force, the politics of early 20th century New York, and the 1909 strike. But he truly excels in telling the harrowing story of the fire itself. Two gripping chapters put the reader inside the Triangle factory. . . Von Drehles reconstruction of the fire is reminiscent of Norman McCleans Young Men and Fire.” -Joshua B. Freeman, The Washington Post Book World“A vivid portrait of the Dickensian lives of garment workers in the early [1900s]. . . . Von Drehle draws an unforgettable picture of the era that shaped a new course in politics and labor relations.” -Lynn Coulter, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution“Von Drehle transforms the vision of the American melting pot into a seething forge of warring politics, money, and ethnicity, tempering the country on its rise, through the advent of mass production, to the twentieth century. . . . Triangle is an enjoyable and compelling exploration of an influential tragedy, which was the death knell for one era even as it was the herald of another.” -David Carpman, Yale Review of Books“Remarkable. . . . Von Drehle recreates this period with complete mastery. . . . Besides bringing many of these characters to life, Von Drehle shows how pivotal the fire proved to be in the history of labor unions and in the rise of urban liberalism.”-John C. Ensslin, The Rocky Mountain News“Terrific. . . .Von Drehle demonstrates convincingly how the Triangle case produced major pieces of workplace safety legislation and how progressive politicians . . . skillfully used the tragedy to draw into the Democratic Party large numbers of voters who wished to see significant reforms in the American workplace. . . . Von Drehle’s meticulous research furnishes Triangle with...