-Titulo Original : Guantanamo Diary Restored Edition-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: An unprecedented international publishing event: the first and only diary written by a still-imprisoned Guantanamo detainee. Since 2002, Mohamedou Slahi has been imprisoned at the detainee camp at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. In all these years, the United States has never charged him with a crime. Although he was ordered released by a federal judge, the U.S. government fought that decision, and there is no sign that the United States plans to let him go. Three years into his captivity Slahi began a diary, recounting his life before he disappeared into U.S. custody and daily life as a detainee. His diary is not merely a vivid record of a miscarriage of justice, but a deeply personal memoir -- terrifying, darkly humorous, and surprisingly gracious. Published now for the first time, Guantanamo Diary is a document of immense historical importance. Review A longtime captive has written the most profound and disturbing account yet of what its like to be collateral damage in the war against terror. Mark Danner, NYTBR, & Editors ChoiceSlahi is a fluent, engaging and at times eloquent writer, even in his fourth language, English....Slahis book offers a first-person account of the experience of torture. For that reason alone, the book is necessary reading for those seeking to understand the dangers that Guantanamos continued existence poses to Americans in the world. Deborah Pearlstein, Washington PostA riveting new book has emerged from one of the most contentious places in the world, and the U.S. government doesnt want you to read it....You dont have to be convinced of Slahis innocence to be appalled by the incidents he describes. Kevin Canfield, San Francisco ChronicleGuantanamo Diary will leave you shell-shocked. Vanity FairSlahi emerges from the pages of his diary...as a curious and generous personality, observant, witty and devout, but by no means fanatical....Guantanamo Diary forces us to consider why the United States has set aside the cherished idea that a timely trial is the best way to determine who deserves to be in prison. Scott Shane, New York TimesAn historical watershed and a literary triumph....The diary is as close as most of us will ever get to understanding the living hell this man--who has never been charged with a crime, and whom a judge ordered released in 2010--continues to suffer. Elias Isquith, SalonEveryone should read Guantanamo Diary....Just by virtue of having been written inside Guantanamo, Slahis book would be a triumph of humanity over chaos. But Guantanamo Diary turns out to be especially human. Slahi doesnt just humanize himself; he also humanizes his guards and interrogators. Thats not to say that he excuses them. Just the opposite: he presents them as complex individuals who know kindness from cruelty and right from wrong. Joshua Rothman, The New YorkerThe tragedy of Slahis memoir is not just his grave abuse at the hands of U.S. officials. It is that....Slahis account of life--if it can be called that--at Guantanamo is not the exception. It is the rule, and it continues today. Alka Pradhan, ReutersGuantanamo Diary stands as perhaps the most human depiction of an entire post-9/11 system. Omar El Akkad, Globe and MailLiterary history was made today with the publication of the first-ever book by a still-imprisoned Guantanamo detainee....As astonishing as the scope of the abuse is Slahis enduring warmth, even for his torturers and jailers. Noa Yachot, Huffington PostA vision of hell, beyond Orwell, beyond Kafka: perpetual torture prescribed by the mad doctors of Washington. John le CarreThis is an incredible document, and a hell of a story. Steve Kroft, correspondent for 60 MinutesAnyone who reads Guantanamo Diary---and every American with a shred of conscience should do so, now---will be ashamed and appalled. Mohamedou Ould Slahis demand for simple justice should be our call to action. Because whats at stake in this case is not just th...

-Titulo Original : Skeletons On The Zahara A True Story Of Survival-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: Skeletons on the Zahara chronicles the true story of twelve American sailors who were shipwrecked off the coast of Africa in 1815, captured by desert nomads, sold into slavery, and subjected to a hellish two-month journey through the perilous heart of the Sahara. The western Sahara is a baking hot and desolate place, home only to nomads and their camels, and to locusts, snails and thorny scrub -- and its barren and ever-changing coastline has baffled sailors for centuries. In August 1815, the US brig Commerce was dashed against Cape Bojador and lost, although through bravery and quick thinking the ships captain, James Riley, managed to lead all of his crew to safety. What followed was an extraordinary and desperate battle for survival in the face of human hostility, starvation, dehydration, death and despair. Captured, robbed and enslaved, the sailors were dragged and driven through the desert by their new owners, who neither spoke their language nor cared for their plight. Reduced to drinking urine, flayed by the sun, crippled by walking miles across burning stones and sand and losing over half of their body weights, the sailors struggled to hold onto both their humanity and their sanity. To reach safety, they would have to overcome not only the desert but also the greed and anger of those who would keep them in captivity. From the cold waters of the Atlantic to the searing Saharan sands, from the heart of the desert to the heart of man, Skeletons on the Zahara is a spectacular odyssey through the extremes and a gripping account of courage, brotherhood, and survival. Review Dean King has brought to life one of the great true-life adventure stories--a riveting tale of suffering and redemption. About the Author Dean King is the author of the national bestseller Skeletons on the Zahara. He has written for many publications, including Mens Journal, Esquire, Garden & Gun, Granta, Outside, New York Magazine, and the New York Times. He lives in Richmond, Virginia...

-Titulo Original : You Dont Have To Say You Love Me A Memoir-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: A searing, deeply moving memoir about family, love, loss, and forgiveness from the critically acclaimed, bestselling National Book Award-winning author of The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian. Family relationships are never simple. But Sherman Alexies bond with his mother Lillian was more complex than most. She plunged her family into chaos with a drinking habit, but shed her addiction when it was on the brink of costing her everything. She survived a violent past, but created an elaborate facade to hide the truth. She selflessly cared for strangers, but was often incapable of showering her children with the affection that they so desperately craved. She wanted a better life for her son, but it was only by leaving her behind that he could hope to achieve it. Its these contradictions that made Lillian Alexie a beautiful, mercurial, abusive, intelligent, complicated, and very human woman. When she passed away, the incongruities that defined his mother shook Sherman and his remembrance of her. Grappling with the haunting ghosts of the past in the wake of loss, he responded the only way he knew how: he wrote. The result is a stunning memoir filled with raw, angry, funny, profane, tender memories of a childhood few can imagine, much less survive. An unflinching and unforgettable remembrance, You Dont Have to Say You Love Me is a powerful, deeply felt account of a complicated relationship. Review Praise for YOU DONT HAVE TO SAY YOU LOVE ME:An Amazon editors Top 20 books of the yearA Washington Post Best Book of the yearAn LA Times Best Book of of the yearAn NPR Best Book of the YearAlso named a Best Book Of the Year by Library Journal, The Milwaukee Sentinel Journal, Bookpage and The MillionsWith brazen honesty and humor throughout, Alexie writes about the many facets of his mother and her addictions effect on his family and childhood. Jarry Lee, BuzzFeed, 22 Exciting New Books You Need to Read This Summer Blends poetry and prose, and varies widely in tone as he explores old memories and new grief. Entertainment Weekly, Summers 20 Must Read BooksHe specifically focuses on his late mother, showing the many sides of her multifaceted character through dozens of poignant poems and essays. Their relationship is as complicated as Alexies stories are enthralling. Stephanie Topacio Long, Bustle, 14 Best Nonfiction Books Coming Out in June 2017Sherman Alexie makes poetry out of the darkest parts of his (and his mothers) life... Its all a mighty attempt to understand who his mother was, who she is to him, and how to make peace with her. Jaime Green, Google Play, Summer ReadingTheres straight personal history here, as well as fable, poetry, and raw and mordant accounts of life....Unexpected revelations are a constant throughout this memoir Maureen Corrigan, NPRs Fresh Air, 6 Books That Will Carry You AwayResonant and occasionally gut-wrenching. Entertainment WeeklyEvident throughout are humor and rage, respect and loving irreverence. Oprah MagazineThe overwhelming takeaway from Mr. Alexies memoir is triumph, that of one writers ability to overcome hardscrabble roots, medical bad luck and generations of systemic racism--all through an uncommon command of language and metaphor. James Yeh, New York TimesIf candor is Alexies superpower, accuracy might be his nemesis.... Throughout, Alexie is courageous and unflinching, delivering a worthy and honest eulogy by showing us his mother and himself in full, everything spectacular and everything scarred. Michael Kleber-Diggs, The Minneapolis Star TribuneYou Dont Have to Say You Love Me is a marvel of emotional transparency. Beth Kephart, The Chicago TribuneThese pages are scored by resentment, hurt, guilt, anger, fear, but they are also full of gratitude, admiration, and tenderness. Priscilla Gilman, The Boston GlobeAlexie is so aware of his own fallible memory and his own imperfections that this one wont ma...

-Titulo Original : Respect The Life Of Aretha Franklin-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: This comprehensive and illuminating biography of the Queen of Soul (USA Today) was hailed by Rolling Stone as a remarkably complex portrait of Aretha Franklins music and her tumultuous life. Aretha Franklin began life as the golden daughter of a progressive and promiscuous Baptist preacher. Raised without her mother, she was a gospel prodigy who gave birth to two sons in her teens and left them and her native Detroit for New York, where she struggled to find her true voice. It was not until 1967, when a white Jewish producer insisted she return to her gospel-soul roots, that fame and fortune finally came via Respect and a rapidfire string of hits. She continued to evolve for decades, amidst personal tragedy, surprise Grammy performances, and career reinventions. Again and again, Aretha stubbornly found a way to triumph over troubles, even as they continued to build. Her hold on the crown was tenacious, and in Respect, David Ritz gives us the definitive life of one of the greatest talents in all American culture. Review An honest and genuinely respectful portrait of a true diva by a writer who feels the power of her art. Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Ritzs intimate and elegant voice steps from behind the veil of the ghostwriter to tell a tale of genius, dysfunction and blind ambition, describing a world of triumph and tragedy of near mythic proportions. A great read and a really heroic work of biography -- honest, loving, no holds barred. Ben Sidran, author of There Was a FireThe monumental biography weve been waiting for of Lady Soul, our greatest soul singer, from the also very great David Ritz, confidante to an entire generation of soul stars -- Ray, Smokey, B.B., Etta, Marvin, etcetera. He is The Man. This is The Book. Joel Selvin, author of Here Comes the Night: The Dark Soul of Bert Berns and the Dirty Business of Rhythm and BluesThis far surpasses David Ritzs landmark study of Marvin Gaye. People will be reading Respect generations from now to understand our musical culture. Ritz deserves a lifetime achievement award for Most Soul Full Account of Americas Music. Charles Keil, ethnomusicologist, author of Urban BluesOnly someone who had the complete confidence and trust of Arethas family and the elite of the Gospel and Rhythm and Blues communities could have gotten this story. An intimate and thorough account of this phenomenal womans talent and life as only David Ritz could capture. Tommy LiPuma, Grammy-winning producerA bumpy and delicious ride.... Read Respect with a YouTube-playing device near at hand to experience Aretha in a hundred shades of glorious. Claude Peck, Minneapolis Star Tribune About the Author David Ritz is the only four-time winner of the Gleason Music Book Award and won the 2013 ASCAP Timothy White award for outstanding musical biography for his book with Buddy Guy. With Marvin Gaye, he also cowrote the song Sexual Healing. He lives in Los Angeles with his wife...

-Titulo Original : Picnic In Provence A Memoir With Recipes-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: The bestselling author of Lunch in Paris takes us on another delicious journey, this time to the heart of Provence. Ten years ago, New Yorker Elizabeth Bard followed a handsome Frenchman up a spiral staircase to a love nest in the heart of Paris. Now, with a baby on the way and the worlds flakiest croissant around the corner, Elizabeth is sure shes found her forever place. But life has other plans. On a last romantic jaunt before the baby arrives, the couple take a trip to the tiny Provencal village of Cereste. A chance encounter leads them to the wartime home of a famous poet, a tale of a buried manuscript and a garden full of heirloom roses. Under the spell of the house and its unique history, in less time than it takes to flip a crepe, Elizabeth and Gwendal decide to move-lock, stock and Le Creuset-to the French countryside. When the couple and their newborn son arrive in Provence, they discover a land of blue skies, lavender fields and peaches that taste like sunshine. Seduced by the local ingredients, they begin a new adventure as culinary entrepreneurs, starting their own artisanal ice cream shop and experimenting with flavors like saffron, sheeps milk yogurt and fruity olive oil. Filled with enticing recipes for stuffed zucchini flowers, fig tart and honey and thyme ice cream, Picnic in Provence is the story of everything that happens after the happily ever after: an American learning the tricks of French motherhood, a family finding a new professional passion, and a cooks initiation into classic Provencal cuisine. With wit, humor and scoop of wild strawberry sorbet, Bard reminds us that life-in and out of the kitchen-is a rendez-vous with the unexpected. Review Praise for PICNIC IN PROVENCEThis charming follow-up to the authors bestselling Lunch in Paris....bring[s] the tastes of Provence off the page and onto your table. --Womans DayLike the Provençal food and lifestyle it celebrates, Bards book is one to be savored slowly and with care. Delectable reading. --Kirkus ReviewsFunny, sassy, and bittersweet: a heart-warming story with a delightful foodie twist. After all, who wouldnt want to run away, marry a Frenchman, and open an adventurous ice cream store in a medieval Provençal village? --Karen Le Billon, author of French Kids Eat EverythingI was entranced by PICNIC IN PROVENCE from Elizabeth Bards very first encounter with spring asparagus in the French countryside. Her tale of delicious adventure left me drooling-and her sensitive thoughts on marriage and motherhood were like a heartfelt conversation with a true friend. A delightful book, filled with humor, heart, and the heady scent of lavender. --Ann Mah, author of Mastering the Art of French EatingI love Elizabeths brave funny forays into French life. --Diane Johnson, author of Le DivorceA delicious journey through La Belle France...funny, insightful, wicked and wise, and the cherry on top is the delicious recipes. --Jamie Cat Callan, author of French Women Dont Sleep AloneTalk about the sweet life: Elizabeth Bards new chapter is filled with love, parenthood and her very own ice cream shop, and she graciously shares the journey with a salty swirl of intelligence and humor. --Amy Thomas, author of Paris, My SweetOnce again, Elizabeth Bard welcomes us into a fantasy-this time, family life in a charming old house in the south of France. With its sharing of stories and recipes, PICNIC IN PROVENCE is a friendship that deepens with every page. --Suzan Colon, author of Cherries in WinterWith funny, sharp, and insightful writing, not to mention a collection of delectable recipes, Bard reminds us what is important and that nothings perfect. --Michelle Gable, author of A Paris ApartmentA journey to the true heart and soul of living la vie française. Warm, thoughtful, and beautiful--a memoir to be savored one delicious chapter (and recipe) at a time. From truffle hunting to harvesting saffron, read...

-Titulo Original : Service A Navy Seal At War-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: Marcus Luttrell, author of the #1 bestseller Lone Survivor, share war stories about true American heroism from himself and other soldiers who bravely fought alongside him. Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell returned from his star-crossed mission in Afghanistan with his bones shattered and his heart broken. So many had given their lives to save him -- and he would have readily done the same for them. As he recuperated, he wondered why he and others, from Americas founding to today, had been willing to sacrifice everything-including themselves-for the sake of family, nation, and freedom. In Service, we follow Marcus Luttrell to Iraq, where he returns to the battlefield as a member of SEAL Team 5 to help take on the most dangerous city in the world: Ramadi, the capital of war-torn Al Anbar Province. There, in six months of high-intensity urban combat, he would be part of what has been called the greatest victory in the history of U.S. Special Operations forces. We also return to Afghanistan and Operation Redwing, where Luttrell offers powerful new details about his miraculous rescue. Throughout, he reflects on what it really means to take on a higher calling, about the men hes seen lose their lives for their country, and the legacy of those who came and bled before. A thrilling war story, Service is also a profoundly moving tribute to the warrior brotherhood, to the belief that nobody goes it alone, and no one will be left behind. About the Author Marcus Luttrellbecame a combat-trained Navy SEAL in 2002 and served in many dangerous Special Operations assignments around the world. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller Lone Survivor, and is a popular corporate and organizational speaker. He lives near Houston, Texas. James D. Hornfischer is the author of four bestselling books on the U.S. Navy in World War II, The Fleet at Flood Tide, Neptunes Inferno, Ship of Ghosts, and The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors, winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award. He lives in Austin, Texas...

-Titulo Original : The Only Girl In The World A Memoir-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: For readers of Room and The Glass Castle, an astonishing memoir of one womans rise above an unimaginable childhood. Maude Juliens parents were fanatics who believed it was their sacred duty to turn her into the ultimate survivor -- raising her in isolation, tyrannizing her childhood and subjecting her to endless drills designed to eliminate weakness. Maude learned to hold an electric fence for minutes without flinching, and to sit perfectly still in a rat-infested cellar all night long (her mother sewed bells onto her clothes that would give her away if she moved). She endured a life without heat, hot water, adequate food, friendship, or any kind of affectionate treatment. But Maudes parents could not rule her inner life. Befriending the animals on the lonely estate as well as the characters in the novels she read in secret, young Maude nurtured in herself the compassion and love that her parents forbid as weak. And when, after more than a decade, an outsider managed to penetrate her familys paranoid world, Maude seized her opportunity. By turns horrifying and magical, The Only Girl in the World is a story that will grip you from the first page and leave you spellbound, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape. Review New York Times Book ReviewA harrowing yet achingly beautiful tale of a girl imprisoned by her brutal, fanatic family, but whose yearning for wonder and love ultimately drives her toward the improbable light of the world. . . The Only Girl in the World is a story of resilience unlike any I have ever read. Mira Bartok, author of the National Book CriticsCircle Award Winner The Memory PalaceIn the hierarchy of traumatic memoir, Maude Julien has something to write home about. . . The Only Girl in the World is the haunting story of a girl whose survivalist parents locked her away and subjected her to training starting at the age of three. But it is also proof that love is in our nature regardless of our nurture. Vanity FairThe author of this harrowing memoir describes a childhood trapped in her familys grand house on the outskirts of a small French town in the nineteen-sixties...Now working as a therapist specializing in cases of psychological manipulation, she tells her story with the unflinching clarity of someone who is no longer ruled by her trauma. The New YorkerOne of the most original and compelling stories Ive read. A tale of hope and profound courage, The Only Girl in the World illustrates how trusting ourselves and following our hearts can save us from the most oppressive and cruel conditions. Her brave spirit shines as a bright reminder that what lies within us is stronger and more powerful than our circumstances. RuthWariner, New York Times bestselling author of The Sound ofGravel A living testimony of resilience... An account as gripping as it is inspiring. ElleThe years most harrowing memoir...At times the book, in form, resembles the beginnings of Emma Donoghues Room, but this text is necessarily more graphic and frightening...My multiple audible gasps while working through The Only Girl in the World were partly a result of its authors ability to so artfully capture the meaning and depth of her survival. You wonder how anyone who went through what she did could come out functioning on the other side...That The Only Girl in the World exists as it does is a most persuasive argument for Juliens remarkable willpower. Entertainment WeeklyA disturbing, engrossing memoir. . . A startling testament of survival. KirkusChilling. In StyleThis story is never maudlin-it is so absorbing that you have to remind yourself to breathe from time to time. Le PointA harrowing, gripping memoir of abuse and psychopathy...Julien approaches the past with fearless contemplation, veracity, and vivid portrayals of the brutality in her early life. The AV Club About the Author Maude Julien is a therapist special...

-Titulo Original : Cleopatra A Life-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: The Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer brings to life the most intriguing woman in the history of the world: Cleopatra, the last queen of Egypt. Her palace shimmered with onyx, garnets, and gold, but was richer still in political and sexual intrigue. Above all else, Cleopatra was a shrewd strategist and an ingenious negotiator. Though her life spanned fewer than forty years, it reshaped the contours of the ancient world. She was married twice, each time to a brother. She waged a brutal civil war against the first when both were teenagers. She poisoned the second. Ultimately she dispensed with an ambitious sister as well; incest and assassination were family specialties. Cleopatra appears to have had sex with only two men. They happen, however, to have been Julius Caesar and Mark Antony, among the most prominent Romans of the day. Both were married to other women. Cleopatra had a child with Caesar and -- after his murder -- three more with his protege. Already she was the wealthiest ruler in the Mediterranean; the relationship with Antony confirmed her status as the most influential woman of the age. The two would together attempt to forge a new empire, in an alliance that spelled their ends. Cleopatra has lodged herself in our imaginations ever since. Famous long before she was notorious, Cleopatra has gone down in history for all the wrong reasons. Shakespeare and Shaw put words in her mouth. Michelangelo, Tiepolo, and Elizabeth Taylor put a face to her name. Along the way, Cleopatras supple personality and the drama of her circumstances have been lost. In a masterly return to the classical sources, Stacy Schiff here boldly separates fact from fiction to rescue the magnetic queen whose death ushered in a new world order. Rich in detail, epic in scope, Schiff s is a luminous, deeply original reconstruction of a dazzling life. Review Stacy Schiff does a rare thing: She gives us a book wed miss if it didnt exist. Wall Street JournalA masterpiece. Daily Beast About the Author Stacy Schiff is the author of Vera (Mrs. Vladimir Nabokov), winner of the Pulitzer Prize; Saint-Exupery, a Pulitzer Prize finalist; A Great Improvisation: Franklin, France, and the Birth of America, winner of the George Washington Book Prize and the Ambassador Book Award; Cleopatra: A Life, winner of the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for biography; and The Witches: Salem, 1692. Schiff has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the Center for Scholars and Writers at the New York Public Library. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and named a Chevalier des Arts et Lettres by the French Government, she lives in New York City...

-Titulo Original : Sting-ray Afternoons A Memoir-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: This is a story of the 1970s. Of a road trip in a wood-paneled station wagon, with the kids in the way-back, singing along to the Steve Miller Band. Of brothers waking up early on Saturday mornings for five consecutive hours of cartoons. Of growing up in a magical era populated by Bic pens, Mr. Clean and Scrubbing Bubbles, lightsabers and those oh-so-coveted Schwinn Sting-Ray bikes. And of a father -- one of 3Ms greatest and last eight-track salesmen -- traveling across the country on the brand-new Boeing 747, providing for his family but wanting nothing more than to get home. In Sting-Ray Afternoons, Steve Rushin paints an utterly nostalgic, psychedelically vibrant portrait of a decade overflowing with technological evolution, cultural revolution, as well as brotherly, sisterly, and parental love. Funny, elegiac... a remarkably sunny coming-of-age story about growing up in a Midwest world. -- NPR Review Praise for Sting-Ray AfternoonsOne of the Best Books of the Year: Amazon, Gold Digest, Minnesota Public RadioIf you existed in the 1970s and had any awareness of the world around you, Steve Rushins Sting-Ray Afternoons is going to hit you like the smell of Clairol Herbal Essence Shampoo. Smart as heck, laugh out loud funny and warm, Steve Rushin does for 1970s childhoods what Jean Shepherd did for 1940s Christmas. This book is nothing short of a Nadia Comenici Perfect 10. Julie Klam, author of The Stars in Our Eyes and the New York Times bestseller You Had Me at WoofSteve Rushins Sting Ray Afternoons is a fun and often hilarious account of growing up in the midwest in the 1970s. Throughout the book I was pleasantly reminded of things from my own past-Rushin revisits the TV shows, the toys, the games of the era while telling his familys own story. Sting Ray Afternoon captures both the freedom of youth and the universal longing for experience in a bigger, more adult world. If you grew up in the 1970s, prepare to have your memory triggered. Craig Finn, songwriter and guitarist, The Hold SteadyCharming and heartfelt, hilarious and touching, Rushins Sting-Ray Afternoons is a pitch-perfect portrait of growing up in middle America during the Brady Bunch era. A gem of a memoir, a tribute to family, and a delectable slice of American history. Nina Sankovitch, author of Tolstoy and the Purple Chair and The Lowells of Massachusetts [Rushins] childhood, from the ages of 3 to 13, was perfectly encapsulated in the 1970s, and he celebrates the excesses and excitement of the decade with ardor.... Rushins everykid upbringing and the touchstones of childhood he recounts make Sting-Ray Afternoons a fun-filled and charming trip. BooklistRushin may not have been able to compete with his athletic older brothers for glory on the playing field, but he pleased his parents with a talent for puns and other wordplay... The nostalgic sweetness of his memories...provides convincing evidence that life in the 70s wasnt as chaotic as its often made out to be. Kirkus ReviewsRushin uses his family as the books focal point, capturing the nonstop zaniness of growing up with four siblings.... But its Rushins dad, a child of the Depression, who steals the show. Whether quoting his father as he describes his five kids...or retelling stories about him being drunk on what was the then new Boeing 747, its through his father that Rushin captures the mystery and magic of childhood. Publishers WeeklyA wild ride through [Rushins] 70s boyhood in fast-growing Bloomington, Minnesota.... Fiercely funny memoir about family, sports, music, food and fads. Priscilla Kipp, BookPageIn his funny, elegiac memoir Sting-Ray Afternoons, Rushin mines...ineffably familiar terrain with a sense of irony and deep affection, working hard to capture the look and feel of the 1970s...Much of what Rushin writes about - the Sears Christmas Wish Book, leaded gasoline, Johnny Carsons many vacations - will strike a chord with anyon...

-Titulo Original : The Last Voyage Of Columbus Being The Epic Tale Of The Great Captains Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts Of Mutiny, Shipwreck, And Discovery-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: Review A rich, fluent account both a gripping naval adventure and a revealing history. -- New York Times Book ReviewA swashbuckling history. -- Philadelphia InquirerAstonishing adventure stories are interwoven with personalized accounts of dazzling characters, the first of whom is Columbus himself. -- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette The Year is 1500. Christopher Columbus, stripped of his title Admiral of the Ocean Seas, waits in chains in a Caribbean prison built under his orders, looking out at the colony that he founded, nurtured, and ruled for eight years. Less than a decade after discovering the New World, he has fallen into disgrace, accused by the royal court of being a liar, a secret Jew, and a foreigner who sought to steal the riches of the New World for himself. The tall, freckled explorer with the aquiline nose, whose flaming red hair long ago turned gray, passes his days in prayer and rumination, trying to ignore the waterfront gallows that are all too visible from his cell. And he plots for one great escape, one last voyage to the ends of the earth, one final chance to prove himself. What follows is one of historys most epic -- and forgotten -- adventures. Columbus himself would later claim that his fourth voyage was his greatest. It was without doubt his most treacherous. Of the four ships he led into the unknown, none returned. Columbus would face the worst storms a European explorer had ever encountered. He would battle to survive amid mutiny, war, and a shipwreck that left him stranded on a desert isle for almost a year. On his tail were his enemies, sent from Europe to track him down. In front of him: the unknown. Martin Dugards thrilling account of this final voyage brings Columbus to life as never before-adventurer, businessman, father, lover, tyrant, and hero. About the Author Martin Dugard is the New York Times bestselling author of such nonfiction titles as Chasing Lance, The Last Voyage of Columbus, Farther Than Any Man, Knockdown, and Into Africa. He has written for Esquire, Outside, Sports Illustrated, and GQ. Dugard lives in Orange County, California, with his wife and three sons. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The Last Voyage of ColumbusBeing the Epic Tale of the Great Captains Fourth Expedition, Including Accounts of Mutiny, Shipwreck, and DiscoveryBy Martin DugardBack Bay BooksCopyright © 2005 Martin DugardAll right reserved.ISBN: 9780316154567Chapter OneTHE VOYAGE THE WHOLE WORLD REMEMBERS1492 The New World Columbuss problems began, ironically, with his greatest success. It was summer when Columbus first sallied forth across the ocean blue-or ocean dark, as Spains more timid sailors called that vast unknown beyond the Pillars of Hercules. He was a forty-one-year-old Italian vagabond who had seduced the most powerful woman in Europe into paying for his outrageous journey. Spains hierarchy-obsessed nobility considered him a nothing, a no-account foreigner. Somewhere, Columbus had promised, not so far over the western horizon, lay the wealth to finance Spains wars of unification and conquest. The voyage could end either in death and disgrace or in a most sublime glory. Columbus was a cheerful, confident man, prone to the occasional boast. Those traits belied a deep intensity: Columbuss focus was so great while sailing or praying that he was oblivious to events going on around him. Yes, the world was round-of that he had no doubt. But often his world was nothing more than himself. He was sure he would succeed. Commanding a fleet of three small caravels-the Niqa, the Pinta, and the Santa Maria-he departed Spain a half hour before sunrise on August 3, 1492. Just three days out, the Pintas rudder floated loose, the result of sabotage by her fearful owner, who it turned out had been cowed into supporting the journey. The little Niqa, spry and lithe but designed for coastal sailing, was coltish on the high seas....

-Titulo Original : Lucky-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: In a memoir hailed for its searing candor and wit, Alice Sebold reveals how her life was utterly transformed when, as an eighteen-year-old college freshman, she was brutally raped and beaten in a park near campus. What propels this chronicle of her recovery is Sebolds indomitable spirit-as she struggles for understanding (After telling the hard facts to anyone, from lover to friend, I have changed in their eyes); as her dazed family and friends sometimes bungle their efforts to provide comfort and support; and as, ultimately, she triumphs, managing through grit and coincidence to help secure her attackers arrest and conviction. In a narrative by turns disturbing, thrilling, and inspiring, Alice Sebold illuminates the experience of trauma victims even as she imparts wisdom profoundly hard-won: You save yourself or you remain unsaved. From Publishers Weekly When Sebold, the author of the current bestseller The Lovely Bones, was a college freshman at Syracuse University, she was attacked and raped on the last night of school, forced onto the ground in a tunnel among the dead leaves and broken beer bottles. In a ham-handed attempt to mollify her, a policeman later told her that a young woman had been murdered there and, by comparison, Sebold should consider herself lucky. That dubious luck is the focus of this fiercely observed memoir about how an incident of such profound violence can change the course of ones life. Sebold launches her memoir headlong into the rape itself, laying out its visceral physical as well as mental violence, and from there spins a narrative of her life before and after the incident, weaving memories of parental alcoholism together with her post-rape addiction to heroin. In the midst of each wrenching episode, from the initial attack to the ensuing courtroom drama, Sebolds wit is as powerful as her searing candor, as she describes her emotional denial, her addiction and even the rape (her first real sexual experience). She skillfully captures evocative moments, such as, during her girlhood, luring one of her familys basset hounds onto a blue silk sofa (strictly off-limits to both kids and pets) to nettle her father. Addressing rape as a larger social issue, Sebolds account reveals that there are clear emotional boundaries between those who have been victims of violence and those who have not, though the author attempts to blur these lines as much as possible to show that violence touches many more lives than solely the victims. Copyright 2002 Reed Business Information, Inc...

-Titulo Original : Lunch In Paris A Love Story, With Recipes-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: In Paris for a weekend visit, Elizabeth Bard sat down to lunch with a handsome Frenchman -- and never went home again. Was it love at first sight? Or was it the way her knife slid effortlessly through her pave au poivre, the steaks pink juices puddling into the buttery pepper sauce? Lunch in Paris is a memoir about a young American woman caught up in two passionate love affairs -- one with her new beau, Gwendal, the other with French cuisine. Packing her bags for a new life in the worlds most romantic city, Elizabeth is plunged into a world of bustling open-air markets, hipster bistros, and size 2 femmes fatales. She learns to gut her first fish (with a little help from Jane Austen), soothe pangs of homesickness (with the rise of a chocolate souffle), and develops a crush on her local butcher (who bears a striking resemblance to Matt Dillon). Elizabeth finds that the deeper she immerses herself in the world of French cuisine, the more Paris itself begins to translate. French culture, she discovers, is not unlike a well-ripened cheese -- there may be a crusty exterior, until you cut through to the melting, piquant heart. Peppered with mouth-watering recipes for summer ratatouille, swordfish tartare and molten chocolate cakes, Lunch in Paris is a story of falling in love, redefining success and discovering what it truly means to be at home. In the delicious tradition of memoirs like A Year in Provence and Under the Tuscan Sun, this book is the perfect treat for anyone who has dreamed that lunch in Paris could change their life. Review As charming and coquettish as Paris itself, Lunch in Paris reawakens our tired hearts and palates with a deliciously passionate journey through the city of lights. Be prepared to be seduced by french kisses, the richest chocolate, and the sweet charm of Bards prose. Nani Power, author of Crawling at Night and Feed the HungryElizabeth Bards Lunch in Paris is delicious, romantic, and sexy, just as the title indicates. What captivates you is the story of a woman finding herself after she finds love, and the challenge that entails. I devoured this book with all the gusto I would bring to a plate of steak tartare with pommes frites. Giulia Melucci, author of I Loved, I Lost, I Made SpaghettiA love story is always delightful, and one with recipes is also useful in the long run, part and parcel of a real French relationship. Diane Johnson, author of Le Divorce and LAffaireLunch in Paris has got it all: romance in full on the front burner with delicious French recipes for sustenance. Elizabeth Bards voice is filled with lust and longing-its Eat, Stay, Love with a side of spiced apricots. Adriana Trigiani, bestselling author of Very ValentineIn this pleasant memoir about learning to live and eat a la française, an American journalist married to a Frenchman inspires lessons in culinary detente.... Bards memoir is really a celebration of the culinary season as it unfolded in their young lives together.... both sensuous and informative. Publishers WeeklyA charming narrative.... Penetrating insights quickly add a subtle complexity that will captivate readers...She pleasantly details her joys and obstacles...provides poignant revelations about cultural differences ... A cozy, touching story. Kirkus Reviews About the Author Elizabeth Bard is an American journalist and author based in Provence, France, where her second book, Picnic in Provence: A Memoir With Recipes, took place. Her first book, Lunch in Paris: A Love Story with Recipes has been a New York Times and international bestseller, a Barnes & Noble Discover Great New Writers pick, and the recipient of the 2010 Gourmand World Cookbook Award for Best First Cookbook (USA)...

-Titulo Original : The World According To Fannie Davis My Mothers Life In The Detroit Numbers-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: As seen on the Today Show: This true story of an unforgettable mother, her devoted daughter, and their life in the Detroit numbers of the 1960s and 1970s highlights the outstanding humanity of black America (James McBride).In 1958, the very same year that an unknown songwriter named Berry Gordy borrowed $800 to found Motown Records, a pretty young mother from Nashville, Tennessee, borrowed $100 from her brother to run a numbers racket out of her home. That woman was Fannie Davis, Bridgett M. Daviss mother.Part bookie, part banker, mother, wife, and granddaughter of slaves, Fannie ran her numbers business for thirty-four years, doing what it took to survive in a legitimate business that just happened to be illegal. She created a loving, joyful home, sent her children to the best schools, bought them the best clothes, mothered them to the highest standard, and when the tragedy of urban life struck, soldiered on with her stated belief: Dying is easy. Living takes guts.A daughters moving homage to an extraordinary parent, The World According to Fannie Davis is also the suspenseful, unforgettable story about the lengths to which a mother will go to make a way out of no way and provide a prosperous life for her family -- and how those sacrifices resonate over time. Review New York Times Editors ChoiceBuzzfeed Best Book of the YearParade Best Book of 2019Kirkus Best Memoirs of the YearCode Switch Book Club pickWell-Read Black Girl Book Club PickA Buzzfeed Book Club PickNBCs Best African-American Memoirs That Belong On Your BookshelfThe World According to Fannie Davis is a daughters gesture of loving defiance, an act of reclamation, an absorbing portrait of her mother in full. Blending memoir and social history, [Davis] recounts her mothers extraordinary story alongside the larger context of Motor Citys rise and fall. Jennifer Szalai, New York TimesDaviss heartwarming memoir honors her remarkable mother, who made a good life for her family in the 60s and 70s. New York Times, Editors ChoiceA rich and heartwarming memoir honors a remarkable mother....We need more stories like Fannies-the triumph and good life of a lucky black woman in a deeply corrupt world. New York Times Book ReviewThe novelist and teacher illuminates the life of her iron-willed mother, who in the 1960s and 70s spearheadedDetroits shadow economy (through an illegal lottery known as The Numbers) in order to bolster both her family and the citys burgeoning black middle class. O, Oprah Magazine Reading RoomThe author candidly and poignantly transports readers to her formative years in Detroit, where her mother, Fannie, successfully ran numbers-- right from the familys dining room table-- with class, determination and dignity to spare. Bridgette Bartlett Royall, Essence MagazineThe book blends memoir with the compelling social history of the numbers, a lottery game that operated outside of the law but very much inside the context of African-American life and culture. Kate Tuttle, The Boston GlobeThe story of Fannie Davis, as her daughter so thoroughly tells it, is the story of not just one woman, in one city, at one period in time; it is, in many ways, the story of black America, the resilience and solidarity of the marginalized. Entertainment WeeklyNovelist Bridgett M. Davis turned to nonfiction in what started out as the story of her mother...But this memoir turned out to be much more: a panorama of African-American communities in this era, the resolve they demonstrated and the restrictions put upon them in their pursuit of the American dream. Its a family story of nationwide scale. David Canfield, Entertainment WeeklyBridgett M. Davis draws a loving portrait of her unforgettable mother who gamed the system and won. Davis is a witness to the journey of the African American strivers of Detroit, but she is also a witness to the evolution of her own remarkable family history. Combining rigorous r...

-Titulo Original : Lou Reed A Life-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: The essential biography of one of musics most influential icons: Lou Reed. As lead singer and songwriter for the Velvet Underground and a renowned solo artist, Lou Reed invented alternative rock. His music, at once a source of transcendent beauty and coruscating noise, violated all definitions of genre while speaking to millions of fans and inspiring generations of musicians. But while his iconic status may be fixed, the man himself was anything but. Lou Reeds life was a transformers odyssey. Eternally restless and endlessly hungry for new experiences, Reed reinvented his persona, his sound, even his sexuality time and again. A man of contradictions and extremes, he was fiercely independent yet afraid of being alone, artistically fearless yet deeply paranoid, eager for commercial success yet disdainful of his own triumphs. Channeling his jagged energy and literary sensibility into classic songs - like Walk on the Wild Side and Sweet Jane - and radically experimental albums alike, Reed remained desperately true to his artistic vision, wherever it led him. Now, just a few years after Reeds death, Rolling Stone writer Anthony DeCurtis, who knew Reed and interviewed him extensively, tells the provocative story of his complex and chameleonic life. With unparalleled access to dozens of Reeds friends, family, and collaborators, DeCurtis tracks Reeds five-decade career through the accounts of those who knew him and through Reeds most revealing testimony, his music. We travel deep into his defiantly subterranean world, enter the studio as the Velvet Underground record their groundbreaking work, and revel in Reeds relationships with such legendary figures as Andy Warhol, David Bowie, and Laurie Anderson. Gritty, intimate, and unflinching, Lou Reed is an illuminating tribute to one of the most incendiary artists of our time. Review If the goal of a biography is to bring its subject back to life, Lou Reed, DeCurtiss sympathetic but never fawning book, succeeds...Carefully researched and thoughtfully written, Lou Reed is the best Reed biography to date. New York Times Book ReviewDeCurtis has given us a thorough and vivid portrait of an artist who, he shows us, was even darker than we knew. The New York Review of BooksAnthony DeCurtis was one of the few music critics Lou Reed read and whose company he enjoyed. After reading this sublime and subtle book, the mystery of Lous respect for Anthony is revealed. Anthony is a great story teller, a writers writer, turning pain into beauty the way Lou did in his songs. Bono I am personally familiar with the depth, seriousness and sensitivity of Anthony DeCurtiss writing, and, of course, knew Lou Reed and felt the impact of his coruscating work. A brilliant artist has found a biographer with the insight to, as Lou said, pass through fire and be a definitive interpreter of both his music and his life. Sting Lou Reed is Lou Reed! Iggy PopAn eloquent account of a harrowing life transformed by love in the end. Anthony DeCurtis does a brilliant job of synthesizing the disparate parts of Lou Reeds life into an insightful, moving narrative. I highly recommend it. Suzanne VegaWhen most people think of Lou Reed, they picture the black, rotting heart of rock and roll, full of dissonance, decadence and decay. But as Anthony DeCurtis makes clear in his new book, behind the image and the rumors, Lou was one thing: a writer, a man who spent his life telling the absolute, painful truth in his songs - the truth about himself, the scenes he observed, and the world at large. His words were so powerful that the Velvet Underground had to invent a new musical language to match them. Im not the first musician to pledge allegiance to Lou and the Velvets, and I wont be the last. Read this book, and explore the f*cking genius that was Lou Reed. Peter Buck, co-founder and lead guitarist of R.E.M.Anthony DeCurtis captures the soul and the essence of Lo...

-Titulo Original : Showboat The Life Of Kobe Bryant-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: The definitive portrait of Kobe Bryant, from the author of Michael Jordan. Lazenbys detailed research and fantastic writing paint a complex, engaging picture of one of the NBAs greats (Kurt Helin, NBC Sports). Eighteen-time All-Star, scorer of 81 points in a single game, MVP, and one of the best shooting guards in NBA league history: Kobe Bryant is among basketballs absolute greatest players, and his importance to the sport is undeniable. Third on the NBA career scoring list and owner of five championship rings, he is an undisputed all-time great, one deserving of this deep and definitive biography. Even within the flashiest franchise in all of sports -- the Los Angeles Lakers, where he played his entire career -- Bryant always took center stage, and his final game captivated the basketball world, indeed the country. Roland Lazenby delves deep to look behind this public image, using classic basketball reporting and dozens of new interviews to reveal the whole picture, from Bryants childhood through his playing years. Showboatis filled with large personalities and provocative stories, including details of Bryants complicated personal life and explosive relationships on the court, and is a riveting and essential read for every hoops fan. Review A Mens Journal Best Book of the YearFinalist for the SundayTimes Biography of the Year Finalist for the Cross British Sports Book AwardPraise for SHOWBOATWith surgical precision, Roland Lazenby expertly dissects the life of this generations most fascinating basketball player. What made Kobe Bryant tick so loud for so long? Lazenby shows you with a tour de force in reporting and an intimate inspection at Bryants trials, accomplishments and tribulations. Jonathan Abrams, author of Boys Among MenWith the publication of Showboat: The Life of Kobe Bryant, it is high time we recognized author Roland Lazenby for what he has become: the finest sports biographer of our time. First with the astonishing Michael Jordan: The Life and now his having written an incredibly researched, beautifully written biography of this enigmatic Laker superstar, Lazenby has entered rarified air: one is wowed by what one learns and at the same time you cant wait to read what comes next. Peter Golenbock, author of ten New York Times bestsellersLazenby tells Bryants story well...this is bound to be the best biography of Kobe Bryant for some time. KirkusLike [Lazenbys] recent book about Michael Jordan, [Showboat] finds new angles to approach people weve been looking at every day their whole careers. Mr. Lazenby smartly focuses much of the book at the last few years of Mr. Bryants career. Will Leitch, Wall Street JournalThis book is easily going to end up on some definitive must-read list for Lakers books. Ive read Phil Jacksons Eleven Rings, Jeanie Buss Laker Girl, and Madmens Ball, but none of those quite compare to Showboat.Check out the book and grab a copy of it. Lakers OutsiderLazenbys detailed research and fantastic writing paint a complex, engaging picture of one of the NBAs greats. Kurt Helin, Pro Basketball Talk, NBC SportsRoland Lazenbys the David McCullough of the sports biography. Matt Money Smith, Fox Sports RadioThere is more than enough analysis of Bryants on-court accomplishments to satisfy the hard-core hoops fan, but the meatier material is in the Bryant family dynamics....Showboat is an often insightful look at a complicated and still relatively young man. Phil Taylor, Washington PostShowboat is more than just for show. Its a tell all that shows us theres more to a man than the name on the back of his jersey...or even the one on the front. Tim David Harvey, Basketball BuzzA very good biography. Bill Reynolds, Providence JournalStands to be one of the popular go-to sports books on the holiday gift list. Tom Hoffarth, Los Angeles Daily NewsEssential reading. Jeremy Schaap, ESPNRoland Lazenby is one of the preeminen...

-Titulo Original : Rise Of The Rocket Girls The Women Who Propelled Us, From Missiles To The Moon To Mars-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: The riveting true story of the women who launched America into space. In the 1940s and 50s, when the newly minted Jet Propulsion Laboratory needed quick-thinking mathematicians to calculate velocities and plot trajectories, they didnt turn to male graduates. Rather, they recruited an elite group of young women who, with only pencil, paper, and mathematical prowess, transformed rocket design, helped bring about the first American satellites, and made the exploration of the solar system possible. For the first time, Rise of the Rocket Girls tells the stories of these women -- known as human computers -- who broke the boundaries of both gender and science. Based on extensive research and interviews with all the living members of the team, Rise of the Rocket Girls offers a unique perspective on the role of women in science: both where weve been, and the far reaches of space to which were heading. If Hidden Figures has you itching to learn more about the women who worked in the space program, pick up Nathalia Holts lively, immensely readable history, Rise of the Rocket Girls. -- Entertainment Weekly Review A New York Times bestsellerA Los Angeles Times bestsellerAn Amazon Best Book of 2016An Entertainment Weekly 10 Books You Have to Read in AprilAn Elle 8 Books by Women for Bill Gates to Read This SummerGoodreads Choice Awards finalistIlluminating...these women are vividly depicted at work, at play, in and out of love, raising children--and making history. What a team--and what a story! Gene Seymour, USA Today (3.5 stars/4)The womens stories are fun, intense, and endearing, and they give a new perspective on the rise of the space age. Popular ScienceA marvelous book.... When Neil Armstrong made his giant leap for mankind, there was womankind in the control room. Maria Popova, Brain PickingsImmersive, evocative.... Superbly readable.... Holts poignant narrative should be required reading. Maya Gittelman, BookreporterHolt investigates the fascinating lives and important contributions of these women, who defied the sexist stereotypes of their times to play pivotal roles in sending the first rockets beyond Earth. Scientific AmericanAn intriguing account of the young, female human computers who worked at Caltechs JPL. Be inspired by their work on Americas first satellite and other groundbreaking projects, against the social backdrop of the Space Age, slowly changing gender norms, and the dawn of computers. Estelle Tang, Elle, 5 Books That You Can Read With Your MomHolt argues that these womens calculations played an under-appreciated part in NASAs towering achievements.... Here, math is dramatic, not mundane. Calculating is a physical, even athletic, act.... Holt depicts the human computers life stories vividly. Jennifer Light, NatureWomen were obviously just as vital to innovation and progress. Rise of the Rocket Girls proves that by reexamining the space age-specifically, the group of women who redesigned rocket science in the 40s and 50s and made that one small step for man possible in the first place. Isabella Biedenharn, Christian Holub, Dana Getz, Entertainment WeeklyNASAs Rocket Girls are no longer forgotten history. Thanks to a new book, these female pioneers who helped the U.S. win the space race are finally getting their due... Holt documents the lives of these women, who were not only pioneers in their profession, but also in their personal lives. Naomi Shavin, SmithsonianA must read for any women in tech or interested in technology! Girls Who CodeThe JPLs earliest days were fueled by math whizzes who happened to be women.... Holt was clearly smitten while interviewing surviving members of the elite group, and conveys that affection while honoring their story. DiscoverEngaging.... A fresh contribution to womens history.... Besides chronicling the development of Americas space program, Holt recounts the womens private lives-m...

-Titulo Original : Daughters Of The Winter Queen Four Remarkable Sisters, The Crown Of Bohemia, And The Enduring Legacy Of Mary, Queen Of Scots-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: The thrilling family saga of five unforgettable women who remade Europe. From the great courts, glittering palaces, and war-ravaged battlefields of the seventeenth century comes the story of four spirited sisters and their glamorous mother, Elizabeth Stuart, granddaughter of the martyred Mary, Queen of Scots. Upon her fathers ascension to the illustrious throne of England, Elizabeth Stuart was suddenly thrust from the poverty of unruly Scotland into the fairytale existence of a princess of great wealth and splendor. When she was married at sixteen to a German count far below her rank, it was with the understanding that her father would help her husband achieve the kingship of Bohemia. The terrible betrayal of this commitment would ruin the Winter Queen, as Elizabeth would forever be known, imperil the lives of those she loved and launch a war that would last for thirty years. Forced into exile, the Winter Queen and her family found refuge in Holland, where the glorious art and culture of the Dutch Golden Age indelibly shaped her daughters lives. Her eldest, Princess Elizabeth, became a scholar who earned the respect and friendship of the philosopher Rene Descartes. Louisa was a gifted painter whose engaging manner and appealing looks provoked heartache and scandal. Beautiful Henrietta Maria would be the only sister to marry into royalty, although at great cost. But it was the youngest, Sophia, a heroine in the tradition of a Jane Austen novel, whose ready wit and good-natured common sense masked immense strength of character, who fulfilled the promise of her great-grandmother Mary and reshaped the British monarchy, a legacy that endures to this day. Brilliantly researched and captivatingly written, filled with danger, treachery, and adventure but also love, courage, and humor, Daughters of the Winter Queen follows the lives of five remarkable women who, by refusing to surrender to adversity, changed the course of history. Review Goldstones forthright and often witty asides keep this complicated story bowling along at a terrific pace...Lively and well-researched, Daughters of the Winter Queen offers a timely introduction to a turbulent period in Britains past relations with Europe. Miranda Seymour, New York Times Book ReviewGoldstone is a master juggler. She tells a good story, always with a delightfully light touch. In the process, extraordinary women are given the attention they deserve. Gerard DeGroot, The Times of LondonGoldstone is a thrilling narrator of this complicated history. Yet the achievement of a work like this is not merely its command of a vast and dense web of the past, but also its incredible literary merit. Daughters of the Winter Queen is nothing short of page-turning, an exceptional work of scholarship that reads like a favorite novel filled with political intrigue, romantic scandal, and more than one dark-of-night escape. East Hampton StarA fascinating feminist story. The CoilThis rich and complex story of a seventeenth century queen who lost her throne, and her four defiant daughters, is compulsively readable. Combining rigorous research with a vivid writing style, Nancy Goldstone illuminates the women who have often been left in the shadows of history, and reminds us that fascination with royalty is nothing new. Charlotte Gray, author of Reluctant Genius: Alexander GrahamBell and the Passion for Invention and Gold Diggers: Striking It Rich inthe KlondikeGoldstone (The Rival Queens) once again places a much-deserved spotlight on remarkable women from European history...A compulsively readable account of an otherwise unfamiliar royal family. Goldstone writes with knowledge, humor, and ease--a masterly storyteller who steers clear of overly academic language. Ideal for amateur Tudor historians who wish to be introduced to a lesser-known yet equally fascinating royal family. Library Journal (starred review)Goldstone relates the eminently readable tale...

-Titulo Original : Inside Seal Team Six My Life And Missions With Americas Elite Warriors-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: The Inside Story of Americas Ultimate Warriors When Osama bin Laden was assassinated, the entire world was fascinated by the men who had completed the seemingly impossible mission that had dogged the U.S. government for over a decade. SEAL Team 6 became synonymous with heroism, duty, and justice. Only a handful of the elite men who make up the SEALs, the US Navys best and bravest, survive the legendary and grueling selection process that leads to becoming a member of Team 6, a group so classified it technically does not even exist. There are no better warriors on Earth. Don Mann knows what it takes to be a brother in this ultra-selective fraternity. As a member of Seal Team Six for over eight years and a SEAL for over seventeen years, he worked in countless covert operations, operating from land, sea, and air, and facing shootings, decapitations, and stabbings. He was captured by the enemy and lived to tell the tale, and he participated in highly classified missions all over the globe, including Somalia, Panama, El Salvador, Colombia, Afghanistan, and Iraq. As a coordinator for several civilian SEAL training programs, and as a former Training Officer of SEAL Team Six, he was directly responsible for shaping the bodies and minds of SEALs who carried out the assassination of Osama bin Laden. But to become a SEAL, Mann had to overcome his own troubled childhood and push his body to its breaking point -- and beyond. Inside Seal Team 6 is a high octane narrative of physical and mental toughness, giving unprecedented insight to the inner workings of the training and secret missions of the worlds most respected and feared combat unit. About the Author Don Mann (CWO3, USN) is the author of the national bestseller Inside SEAL Team Six and a former Navy SEAL. He lives in Virginia. Ralph Pezzullo is a New York Times bestselling author and award-winning playwright, screenwriter and journalist. His books include Jawbreaker (with CIA operative Gary Berntsen) and Zero Footprint (with military contractor Simon Chase)...

-Titulo Original : Washington The Indispensable Man-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: After more than two decades, this dramatic and concise single-volume distillation of James Thomas Flexners definitive four-volume biography George Washington, which received a Pulitzer Prize citation and a National Book Award for the fourth volume, has itself become an American classic. Now in a new trade paperback edition, this masterful work explores the Father of Our Country - sometimes an unpopular hero, a man of great contradictions, but always a towering historical figure, who remains, as Flexner writes in these pages, a fallible human being made of flesh and blood and spirit - not a statue of marble and wood... a great and good man. The author unflinchingly paints a portrait of Washington: slave owner, brave leader, man of passion, reluctant politician, and fierce general. His complex character and career are neither glorified nor vilified here; rather, Flexner sets up a brilliant counterpoint between Washingtons public and private lives and gives us a challenging look at the man who has become as much a national symbol as the American flag...

-Titulo Original : The Dark Side Of Camelot-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: A monumental work of investigative journalism from one of the greatest reporters in American history, revealing the Kennedy White House as never before. In this widely acclaimed and bestselling book, the award-winning investigative reporter Seymour M. Hersh reveals a John F. Kennedy we have never seen before, a man insulated from the normal consequences of behavior long before he entered the White House. His father, Joe, set the pattern: Kennedys could do exactly what they wanted. There was no secret that money and charm could not hide. Kennedys wrote their own moral code. By the end of Jack Kennedys life, his private recklessness had begun to edge into his public life, putting him -- and his nation -- at risk. Now, for the first time, Seymour Hersh tells the real story of those risks, as he brilliantly re-creates the life and world of a crisis-driven president who maintained a facade of cool toughness while negotiating private compromises unknown to even his closest advisers. Not merely a great read, Much of whats in The Dark Side of Camelot is also 1) new; 2) shocking; 3) well supported; and 4) worth knowing. --Jacob Weisberg, Slate About the Author Seymour M. Hersh is one of Americas premier investigative reporters. In 1969, as a freelance journalist, he wrote the first account of the My Lai massacre in South Vietnam. In the 1970s, he worked at the New York Times in Washington, DC, and New York. He has received more than a dozen major journalism prizes, including the 1970 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting and four George Polk Awards. His books include Cover-up: The Armys Secret Investigation of the Massacre of My Lai 4 and The Price of Power: Kissinger in the Nixon White House, which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Los Angeles Times Book Award...

-Titulo Original : They Cant Kill Us All-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: An indispensable work of journalism that “is electric, because it is so well reported” (Dwight Garner, New York Times) by Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Wesley Lowery that describes the earliest days of #blacklivesmatter and brings to life the quest for justice in the murders by police of Michael Brown, Tamir Rice, and Freddie Gray as well as an intimate, moving portrait of the activists working to dismantle systemic racism in America Conducting hundreds of interviews over the course of one year of reporting on the ground, Washington Post writer Wesley Lowery traveled from Ferguson, Missouri, to Cleveland, Ohio; Charleston, South Carolina; and Baltimore, Maryland; and then back to Ferguson to uncover life inside the most heavily policed, if otherwise neglected, corners of America today. In an effort to grasp the magnitude of the repose to Michael Browns death and understand the scale of the problem police violence represents, Lowery speaks to Browns family and the families of other victims other victims families as well as local activists. By posing the question, What does the loss of any one life mean to the rest of the nation? Lowery examines the cumulative effect of decades of racially biased policing in segregated neighborhoods with failing schools, crumbling infrastructure and too few jobs. Studded with moments of joy, and tragedy, They Cant Kill Us All offers a historically informed look at the standoff between the police and those they are sworn to protect, showing that civil unrest is just one tool of resistance in the broader struggle for justice. As Lowery brings vividly to life, the protests against police killings are also about the black communitys long history on the receiving end of perceived and actual acts of injustice and discrimination.They Cant Kill Us All is a canonical work in the fight against police brutality. Lowery grapples with a persistent if also largely unexamined aspect of the otherwise transformative presidency of Barack Obama: the failure to deliver tangible security and opportunity to those Americans most in need of both. Review Lowerys book is electric, because it is so well reported, so plainly told and so evidently the work of a man who has not grown a callus on his heart.... Lowerys book is valuable for many reasons. He circles slowly and warily around the question of why, during Obamas presidency, so little has happened to improve on the racial front.--Dwight Garner, New York TimesLowerys dispatches from the front lines of this new era in racial justice movement building have proven indispensable, and with They Cant Kill Us All, he further shows just how vital his reporting has become. Part early history of a still growing movement, as well as part critique of the media charged with covering this movement, Lowery also offers a peek into the process of reporting--the structural challenges, unfortunate failures, and personal successes in accurately capturing the politics and personalities involved in the biggest domestic story of the Obama presidency. They Cant Kill Us All proves itself a necessary read for anyone in need of greater understanding of why and how a new generation of young black activists have taken to the streets to demand justice from their country. Mychal Denzel Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Invisible Man, Got the Whole World WatchingFeatured on Anti-Racist Reading Lists by USA Today, Chicago Sun Times, Esquire, Oprah Magazine, Refinery29, InStyle, Publishers Weekly,The Cut, Medium, The Millions, Michigan Daily, and PopSugar Riveting.... A timely, significant book. Kirkus, Starred ReviewWith empathy, anguish, and a superb eye for telling detail, Wesley Lowery chronicles the birth of the new civil rights movement. This book is an urgent, grounds-eye view of the struggle. Chris Hayes, author of A Colony in a NationThey Cant Kill Us All is a wise memoir that chronicles the fatigue of reporting Black deat...

-Titulo Original : The Boys Of My Youth-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: The utterly compelling, uncommonly beautiful collection of personal essays (Newsweek) that established Jo Ann Beard as one of the leading writers of her generation. Cousins, mothers, sisters, dolls, dogs, best friends: these are the fixed points in Jo Ann Beards universe, the constants that remain when the boys of her youth -- and then men who replace them -- are gone. This widely praised collection of autobiographical essays summons back, with astonishing grace and power, moments of childhood epiphany as well as the cataclysms of adult life: betrayal, divorce, death. The Boys of My Youth heralded the arrival of an immensely gifted and influential writer and its essays remain surprising, original, and affecting today. A luminous, funny, heartbreaking book of essays about life and its defining moments. --Harpers Bazaar Review Smart, funny, and moving...A gifted and gutsy writer...This is what a first collection of stories should be. Barbara Fisher, Boston GlobeExtraordinary...Beard is writing not with the romanticism of a girl looking up at the stars, but with the brilliant cold light of the stars looking down on us. Ted Anton, Chicago TribuneBeard remembers (or imagines) her childhood self with an uncanny lucidity that startles. Laura Miller, New York Times Book Review About the Author Jo Ann Beard is also the author of the novel In Zanesville. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, Tin House, and Best American Essays. She has received a Whiting Award and fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the New York Foundation for the Arts...

-Titulo Original : The Death Of A President November 20-november 25, 1963-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: William Manchesters epic and definitive account of President John F. Kennedys assassination. As the world still reeled from the tragic and historic events of November 22, 1963, William Manchester set out, at the request of the Kennedy family, to create a detailed, authoritative record of the days immediately preceding and following President John F. Kennedys death. Through hundreds of interviews, abundant travel and firsthand observation, and with unique access to the proceedings of the Warren Commission, Manchester conducted an exhaustive historical investigation, accumulating forty-five volumes of documents, exhibits, and transcribed tapes. His ultimate objective -- to set down as a whole the national and personal tragedy that was JFKs assassination -- is brilliantly achieved in this galvanizing narrative, a book universally acclaimed as a landmark work of modern history. Review An authoritative, powerful account of the Dallas tragedy. TimeIt seems not at all inconceivable that we have here an American contribution to the great literature on the death of kings. Richard Rovere, The New YorkerAbout the books importance as a historical document, a compelling account, an invaluable compilation of source material on one of the centurys central events, there is no question. Eliot Fremont-Smith, New York Times About the Author William Manchester was a hugely successful popular historian and biographer whose books include The Last Lion, Volumes 1 and 2, Goodbye Darkness, A World Lit Only by Fire, The Glory and the Dream, The Arms of Krupp, American Caesar, The Death of the President, and assorted works of journalism...

-Titulo Original : The Kid The Immortal Life Of Ted Williams-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: From acclaimed journalist Ben Bradlee Jr. comes the epic biography of Boston Red Sox legend Ted Williams that baseball fans have been waiting for. Williams was the best hitter in baseball history. His batting average of .406 in 1941 has not been topped since, and no player who has hit more than 500 home runs has a higher career batting average. Those totals would have been even higher if Williams had not left baseball for nearly five years in the prime of his career to serve as a Marine pilot in WWII and Korea. He hit home runs farther than any player before him -- and traveled a long way himself, as Ben Bradlee, Jr.s grand biography reveals. Born in 1918 in San Diego, Ted would spend most of his life disguising his Mexican heritage. During his 22 years with the Boston Red Sox, Williams electrified crowds across America -- and shocked them, too: His notorious clashes with the press and fans threatened his reputation. Yet while he was a God in the batters box, he was profoundly human once he stepped away from the plate. His ferocity came to define his troubled domestic life. While baseball might have been straightforward for Ted Williams, life was not. The Kid is biography of the highest literary order, a thrilling and honest account of a legend in all his glory and human complexity. In his final at-bat, Williams hit a home run. Bradlees marvelous book clears the fences, too. Review Sumptuous..The Kid reads like an epic....Bradlee has given us the fullest exploration yet of his monumental ego and the best explanation for his vast inferiority complex. Allen Barra, Boston GlobeWhat distinguishes Bradlees The Kid from the rest of Williams lit is, its size and the depth of its reporting....Bradlees expansiveness enables his book to transcend the familiar limits of the sports bio and to become instead a hard-to-put-down account of a fascinating American life. Charles McGrath, New York Times Book ReviewSuperb....Ted Williams hated what he considered invasions of his privacy, but perfectionist that he was, he would probably have to concede that the work ethic that underpins The Kid is exemplary....When I began reading this book, I thought that only baseball fans would find it interesting. But after finishing The Kid, I suspect that even those indifferent to the sport might find its human drama absorbing. Howard Schneider, Wall Street JournalThe prose is breezy, the research and reporting are impeccable....This book very much sets out to be the definitive document of a great, complicated, fascinating person and ultimately, it succeeds. Dave Bry, SlateBradlees brilliant account is required reading for any Red Sox fan. Its also a fascinating portrait of a complex character that a baseball agnostic or even a Yankees fan will find hard to put down. Jerry Harkavy, Associated Press About the Author Ben Bradlee Jr. is the author of the critically acclaimed The Kid: The Immortal Life of Ted Williams (2013) among other books. Bradlee spent 25 years with The Boston Globe as a reporter and editor. As deputy managing editor, he oversaw the Globes Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the sexual abuse scandal in the Catholic Church from July 2001 to August 2002. Bradlee lives with his wife outside Boston...