-Titulo Original : When A Crocodile Eats The Sun A Memoir Of Africa-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: After his fathers heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on his elderly parents, he bore witness to Zimbabwes dramatic spiral downwards into the jaws of violent chaos, presided over by an increasingly enraged dictator. And yet long after their comfortable lifestyle had been shattered and millions were fleeing, his parents refuse to leave, steadfast in their allegiance to the failed state that has been their adopted home for 50 years. Then Godwin discovered a shocking family secret that helped explain their loyalty. Africa was his fathers sanctuary from another identity, another world. When a Crocodile Eats the Sun is a stirring memoir of the disintegration of a family set against the collapse of a country. But it is also a vivid portrait of the profound strength of the human spirit and the enduring power of love. About the Author Peter Godwin is the award-winning author of When a Crocodile Eats the Sun and Mukiwa. Born and raised in Zimbabwe, he was educated at Cambridge and Oxford and became a foreign correspondent, reporting from more than 60 countries. Since moving to Manhattan, he has written for National Geographic, the New York Times Magazine, and Vanity Fair. He has taught at Princeton and Columbia and received a Guggenheim fellowship in 2010...

-Titulo Original : The Life And Legend Of Chris Kyle American Sniper, Navy Seal-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: A New York Times bestseller: The life story of Chris Kyle, the American Sniper. A brutal warrior but a gentle father and husband, Chris Kyle led the life of an American hero. His renowned courage and skill in military service earned him two nicknames -- The Devil among insurgents and The Legend among his Navy SEAL brethren -- but his impact extended beyond that after he came home from combat and began working with fellow veterans. Journalist Michael J. Mooney reveals Kyles life story, from his Texas childhood up through his death in February 2013. Mooney interviews those closest to the late SEAL and also sheds light on the life of the suffering veteran who killed Kyle. The Life and Legend of Chris Kyle is a candid, essential portrait of a celebrated warrior -- a man about whom a movie has only added to the legend. Review An honest portrayal of a man whose memorial service brought thousands of people to Cowboys Stadium-the most celebrated war hero of our time. The BlazeThe Life and Legend of Chris Kyle tells Kyles story.... This is the ending that needed to be written. Publishers Weekly About the Author Michael J. Mooney is a staff writer at D Magazine. He also writes for GQ, ESPN The Magazine, Outside, and Grantland. He is a graduate of the Mayborn School of Journalism, and is on the advisory committee of the Mayborn Literary Nonfiction Conference. His stories have appeared in The Best American Crime Reporting and multiple editions of The Best American Sports Writing. He lives in Dallas with his fiancee, Tara, and their retired racing greyhound...

-Titulo Original : Catch And Kill-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: Now an HBO documentary series streaming on HBO Max. One of the Best Books of the Year Time * NPR * Washington Post * Bloomberg News * Chicago Tribune * Chicago Public Library * Fortune * Los Angeles Times * E! News * The Telegraph * Apple * Library Journal In this newly updated edition of the meticulous and devastating (Associated Press) account of violence and espionage that spent months on the New York Times Bestsellers list, Ronan Farrow exposes serial abusers and a cabal of powerful interests hell-bent on covering up the truth, at any cost - from Hollywood to Washington and beyond. In 2017, a routine network television investigation led to a story only whispered about: one of Hollywoods most power­ful producers was a predator, protected by fear, wealth, and a conspiracy of silence. As Farrow drew closer to the truth, shadowy operatives, from high-priced lawyers to elite war-hardened spies, mounted a secret campaign of intimidation, threatening his career, following his every move, and weaponizing an account of abuse in his own family. This is the untold story of the exotic tactics of surveillance and intimidation deployed by wealthy and connected men to threaten journalists, evade accountability, and silence victims of abuse. And its the story of the women who risked everything to expose the truth and spark a global movement Los Angeles Times Book Prize FinalistFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in AutobiographyIndie Bound #1 BestsellerUSA Today BestsellerWall Street Journal Bestseller Review Time Must-Read Book of 2019 NPR Favorite Book of 2019Washington Post Best Nonfiction Book of 2019Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2019Chicago Tribune Best Book of 2019Fortune Best Business Book of 2019Bloomberg Best Book of the YearTelegraph (U.K) Best Book of 2019Kirkus Best Nonfiction Books of 2019A Chicago Public Library Best Book of 2019Library Journal Best Social Science Book of 2019One of USA Todays Best Books to Read While Stuck at HomeMeticulous and devastating...part All the Presidents Men, part spy thriller. Rasha Madkour, Associated Press At the heart of every great noir is a conspiracy of evil that imbues the initial crime uncovered by the hero with a weightier resonance than was immediately obvious. So it goes with Catch and Kill. Elizabeth Bruenig, TheWashington PostThe connections between presidents, media moguls, and spies described in Catch and Kill are stranger than fiction. As a novel, it would be a page-turner. As a reported piece of nonfiction, its terrifying. Eliana Dockterman, TimeThe years best spy thriller is stranger - and more horrifying - than fiction...He weaves a breathless narrative as compelling as it is disturbing...bracingly exposes the rot thats persisted across elite American institutions for decades. DavidCanfield, Entertainment WeeklyCatch and Killis an important, frightening book...its also a propulsive, cinematic page-turner Erin Keane, Salon Darkly funny and poignant...a winning account of how it feels to be at the centre of the biggest story in the world. It is also, of course, a breathtakingly dogged piece of reporting, in the face of extraordinary opposition. EmmaBrockes, The Guardian (U.K.)Absorbing...The behavior documented in Catch and Kill is obviously and profoundly distressing. ... But there are some hopeful threads, too. Jennifer Szalai, New York TimesMust read: Catch and Kill, by Ronan Farrow. How #sexualabuse stories got suppressed, and how deep-diving, fact-gathering reporting blew the lid off, despite threats, intimidation, and cronymongering at the top. Chilling! Margaret AtwoodReads like a thriller...The reveal in Catch and Kill is not that there are corrupt people; its that corrupt people are in control of our media, politics, and entertainment and that, in fact, many of them remain in control. RebeccaTraister, The CutCatch and Kill is exhaustively reported...and compulsively readable, with n...

-Titulo Original : Bookseller Of Kabul-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: This phenomenal international bestseller is an admirable, revealing portrait of daily life in a country that Washington claims to have liberated but does not begin to understand (Washington Post).This mesmerizing portrait of a proud man who, through three decades and successive repressive regimes, heroically braved persecution to bring books to the people of Kabul has elicited extraordinary praise throughout the world and become a phenomenal international bestseller. The Bookseller of Kabul is startling in its intimacy and its details - a revelation of the plight of Afghan women and a window into the surprising realities of daily life in Afghanistan. The most intimate description of an Afghan household ever produced by a Western journalist...Seierstad is a sharp and often lyrical observer. -New York Times Book Review Review The most intimate description of an Afghan household ever produced by a Western journalist. . . . Seierstad is a sharp and often lyrical observer. Richard McGill Murphy, New York Times Book ReviewAn admirable, revealing portrait of daily life in a country that Washington claims to have liberated but does not begin to understand. Seierstad writes of individuals, but her message is larger. Mark Hertsgaard, Washington Post Book WorldA compelling portrait of a country at a crossroads - desperate for tranquillity, factionalized beyond imagination, struggling both to uphold tradition and to modernize, hoping to prove to itself and the rest of the world that it knows peace and stability. Scott W. Helman, Boston GlobeAn unusually intimate glimpse of a traditional Afghan family. . . . Seierstad imbues a grim story with language of desolate beauty. S. L. Allen, Entertainment WeeklyA compelling book. . . . Seierstad infiltrated a world most readers will never see. Steve Weinberg, Denver Post About the Author Asne Seierstad has reported from such war-torn regions as Chechnya, China, Kosovo, Afghanistan, and Iraq. She has received numerous awards for her journalism. She is the author of A Hundred and One Days as well as The Bookseller of Kabul, an international bestseller that has been translated into twenty-six languages. Seierstad makes her home in Norway and travels frequently to the United States. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The Bookseller of KabulBy Asne SeierstadBack Bay BooksCopyright © 2004 Asne SeierstadAll right reserved.ISBN: 9780316159418Chapter OneThe ProposalWhen Sultan Khan thought the time had come to find himself a newwife, no one wanted to help him. First he approached his mother.You will have to make do with the one you have, she said.Then he went to his eldest sister. Im fond of your first wife,she said. His other sisters replied in the same vein.Its shaming for Sharifa, said his aunt.Sultan needed help. A suitor cannot himself ask for a girls hand.It is an Afghan custom that one of the women of the family conveythe proposal and give the girl the once-over to assure herself thatshe is capable, well brought up, and suitable wife material. Butnone of Sultans close female relations wanted to have anything todo with this offer of marriage.Sultan had picked out three young girls he thought might fit thebill. They were all healthy and good-looking, and of his own tribe.In Sultans family it was rare to marry outside the clan; it wasconsidered prudent and safe to marry relatives, preferably cousins.Sultans first candidate was sixteen-year-old Sonya. Her eyes weredark and almond-shaped and her hair shining black. She was shapely,voluptuous, and it was said of her that she was a good worker. Herfamily was poor and they were reasonably closely related. Hermothers grandmother and Sultans mothers grandmother were sisters.While Sultan ruminated over how to ask for the hand of the chosenone without the help of family women, his first wife was blissfullyignorant that a mere chit of a girl, born the same ...

-Titulo Original : Trials Of The Earth-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: The astonishing first-person account of Mississippi pioneer woman struggling to survive, protect her family, and make a home in the early American South. Near the end of her life, Mary Mann Hamilton (1866 - c.1936) began recording her experiences in the backwoods of the Mississippi Delta. The result is this astonishing first-person account of a pioneer woman who braved grueling work, profound tragedy, and a pitiless wilderness (she and her family faced floods, tornadoes, fires, bears, panthers, and snakes) to protect her home in the early American South. An early draft of Trials of the Earth was submitted to a writers competition sponsored by Little, Brown in 1933. It didnt win, and we almost lost the chance to bring this raw, vivid narrative to readers. Eighty-three years later, in partnership with Mary Mann Hamiltons descendants, were proud to share this irreplaceable piece of American history. Written in spare, rich prose, Trials of the Earth is a precious record of one womans extraordinary endurance and courage that will resonate with readers of history and fiction alike. Review One of the Best Books of the Year, The Chicago TribuneIts the backstory that will first grab a reader, but its Hamiltons gift for storytelling in her blunt voice that makes this memoir such a standout. . . . Beyond everything else, this memoir impresses on readers just how easy it was to vanish in an earlier America.... How fortunate that the manuscript of Trials of the Earth didnt meet that same fate. Maureen Corrigan, NPRs Fresh AirA riveting and instructive read.... Hamilton is a natural-born storyteller.... [Her] first-person accounts are important testimonials about what used to be. Melanie Kirkpatrick, Wall Street JournalMagnificent. Told with precision and searing honesty, Hamiltons captivating and cinematic autobiography deserves to be a classic. Ann Weisgarber, author of The Personal History of Rachel DuPree and The PromiseWherever there is mens work, you can bet womens work is happening invisibly in the background. Trials of the Earth is a firsthand account of this backbreaking labor.... Its impossible not to root for this woman. Amy Gentry, Chicago TribuneA reminder of how punishing the physical struggle could be, and how unspeakably lonely a womans life was when men were clearing the land. Rosellen Brown, New York Times Book Review This compelling, no-frills posthumous memoir...reveals the hidden nature of late 19th century American life.... Marys unsentimental story crackles with personality, putting a face on the unsung, nameless tillers of the soil. Publishers WeeklyDraws the reader right into the hardscrabble minutiae of the daily struggle for survival on an untamed and unforgiving frontier.... Hamiltons rich personal tapestry is a testament to endurance and to the indomitable spirit of the often overlooked American pioneer woman. Margaret Flanagan, BooklistA unique story. Crystal Goldman, Library JournalHamiltons matter-of-factness wins you over almost immediately, and unexpectedly.... Most remarkably, this book somehow enables a reader not to feel abject guilt at complaining about the temperature of their latte, but only a genuine gratefulness and admiration for those who went before. Kim Ode, Minneapolis Star TribuneFast-paced, inspirational and fascinating.... Mary Mann Hamiltons life was an endurance test and Trials of the Earth is her remarkable story.... Modern women will marvel at Hamiltons grueling daily schedule.... There are valuable lessons to be gleaned from Hamiltons pioneer code of conduct. Patricia Dawn Robertson, Toronto StarMuch has been written about the bold, gritty women who helped settle the American West. Much less attention has been paid to the female pioneers who muscled their way into other unsettled regions during the late 1800s. Trials of the Earth...goes far in filling that gap.... [and] underscores the huge power of unvarnish...

-Titulo Original : The Lady Queen The Notorious Reign Of Joanna I, Queen Of Naples, Jerusalem, And Sicily-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: The riveting history of a beautiful queen, a shocking murder, a papal trial -- and a reign as triumphant as any in the Middle Ages. On March 15, 1348, twenty-two-year-old Joanna I, Queen of Naples, stood trial for the murder of her husband before the Pope and his court in Avignon. Determined to defend herself, Joanna won her acquittal against overwhelming odds. Victorious, she returned to Naples and ruled over one of Europes most prestigious courts for the next three decades -- until she herself was killed. Courageous and determined, Joanna was the only female monarch in her time to rule in her own name. She was widely admired: dedicated to the welfare of her subjects, she reduced crime, built hospitals and churches, and encouraged the licensing of female physicians. A procession of the most important artists and writers of the time frequented her glittering court. But she never quite escaped the stain of her husbands death, and the turmoil of the times surrounded her -- war, plague, and treachery would ultimately be her undoing. With skill, passion, and impeccable research and detail, Nancy Goldstone brings to life one of historys most remarkable women. The Lady Queen is a captivating portrait of medieval royalty in all its incandescent complexity. About the Author Nancy Goldstone is the author of six books including Daughters of the Winter Queen: Four Remarkable Sisters, The Crown of Bohemia, and The Enduring Legacy of Mary, Queen of Scots; The Rival Queens: Catherine de Medici, Her Daughter Marguerite de Valois, and The Betrayal that Ignited a Kingdom; and Four Queens: The Provençal Sisters Who Ruled Europe. She has also coauthored five books with her husband, Lawrence Goldstone. She lives in Sagaponack, New York...

-Titulo Original : Paul Mccartney The Life-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: The definitive Paul McCartney biography, written with his approval by bestselling biographer Philip Norman. Since the age of twenty-one, Paul McCartney has lived one of the ultimate rock-n-roll lives played out on the most public of stages. Now, Pauls story is told by rock musics foremost biographer, with McCartneys consent and access to family members and close friends who have never spoken on the record before. Paul McCartney reveals the complex character behind the favßade and sheds new light on his childhood -- blighted by his mothers death but redeemed by the father who introduced him to music. This is the first definitive account of Pauls often troubled partnership with John Lennon, his personal trauma after the Beatles breakup, and his subsequent struggle to get back to the top with Wings -- which nearly got him murdered in Africa and brought him nine days in a Tokyo jail. Readers will learn about his marriage to Linda, including their much-criticized musical collaboration, and a moving account of her death. Packed with new information and critical insights, Paul McCartney will be the definitive biography of a musical legend. Review One of Amazons Best Books of the MonthA San Francisco Chronicle Holiday Gift Guide PickAn enormous and sympathetic book.... Its rich with detail about Mr. McCartneys philanthropy, his knighthood, his taste in country homes, his dabbling as a painter, a poet and a composer of classical music.... The story of its subjects life from his childhood in Liverpool through the breakup of the Beatles in 1970 has lost none of its ability to charm ... One of the best stories the past century has to tell. Dwight Garner, New York TimesNorman offers a fully-fleshed out biography . . . What Norman gets so very right are the feelings: the intense relationship between John and Paul with its curves and angles; the normality being a husband and father brought him; the improbability of being one of the most famous men in the world. The shelves are full of books about the Beatles, but fans will want to make room for this one. Ilene Cooper, Booklist (starred)The most thorough and insightful biography of Paul McCartney to date.... Paul McCartney: The Life is loaded with wonderful passages, fascinating stories and cracking humor... A masterful account, the kind of biography fitting McCartneys continued prowess and genius. Or, as McCartney said at the end of one Beatles take, Keep that one. Mark it FAB. Jeremy Mikula, Chicago TribuneNormans portrait of McCartney is fascinating and exhaustive.... Norman lifts the curtain to show us the real guy. William McKeen, Boston GlobeA thorough, objective telling of McCartneys story--in and out of the most famous band ever. But its also a breezy read, considering the tremendous ground it covers. Jeff Slate, EsquireNorman is an enviably skilled pen-portraitist, with a consummate ability to conjure the presence of [McCartney].... A powerful sense of McCartney the man comes across in this books evocative high points.... A capably executed biography, brimming with detail. John Harris, The GuardianA compelling narrative about a working-class Liverpudlian whose extraordinary musical gifts made him the most successful songwriter in history... McCartney emerges from [the book] as a textured but decent man. Graham Boynton, NewsweekNorman is thorough... and his book gives us a fuller McCartney than youll find anywhere else. Colin Fleming, Washington PostNorman shows McCartney in all his colors: artist, songwriter, genius, family man, and businessman... Even those of us with bookshelves full of Beatles books and libraries of bootleg recordings will be surprised by what they read in The Life. Laurie Ulster, bio.The once-for-all-time record of the lad from Liverpool whose song lyrics and boyish good looks broke hearts and whose career after the Beatles was almost as successful as his time with them. Henry L. Carrigan...

-Titulo Original : The Mauritanian-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: This profound and disturbing (New York Times Book Review) bestseller written by a Guantanamo prisoner is now a major feature film starring Tahar Rahim and Jodie Foster.When The Mauritanian was first published as Guantanamo Diary in 2015-heavily redacted by the U.S. government-Mohamedou Ould Slahi was still imprisoned at the detainee camp in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, despite a federal court ruling ordering his release, and it was unclear when or if he would ever see freedom. In October 2016 he was finally released and reunited with his family. During his fourteen-year imprisonment the United States never charged him with a crime.Now he is able to tell his story in full, with previously censored material restored. This searing diary is not merely a vivid record of a miscarriage of justice, but a deeply personal memoir-terrifying, darkly humorous, and surprisingly gracious. The Mauritanian is a document of immense emotional power and 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, New York Times Book Review, 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 appal...

-Titulo Original : Hank Williams The Biography-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: - Long considered the last word on Hank Williams, this biography has remained continuously in print since its first publication in 1994.- This new edition has been completely updated and includes many previously unpublished photographs, as well as a complete catalog detailing all the songs Hank Williams ever wrote, even those he never recorded.- Colin Escott is codirector and cowriter of the forth-coming two-hour PBS/BBC television documentary on Hank Williams, set to broadcast in spring 2004, and coauthor of Hank Williams: Snapshots from the Lost Highway.- HANK WILLIAMS was the third-prize winner of the prestigious Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award. Review An impressive book....Probably the definitive word on Williamss life....Escott mixes careful reporting, a sympathetic viewpoint, and wry and occasionally cutting humor in a blend that makes for fast and interesting reading...

-Titulo Original : Kids These Days The Making Of Millennials-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: In Kids These Days, early Wall Street occupier Malcolm Harris gets real about why the Millennial generation has been wrongly stereotyped, and dares us to confront and take charge of the consequences now that we are grown up. Millennials have been stereotyped as lazy, entitled, narcissistic, and immature. Weve gotten so used to sloppy generational analysis filled with dumb cliches about young people that weve lost sight of what really unites Millennials. Namely: We are the most educated and hardworking generation in American history. We poured historic and insane amounts of time and money into preparing ourselves for the 21st-century labor market. We have been taught to consider working for free (homework, internships) a privilege for our own benefit. We are poorer, more medicated, and more precariously employed than our parents, grandparents, even our great grandparents, with less of a social safety net to boot. Kids These Days is about why. In brilliant, crackling prose, early Wall Street occupier Malcolm Harris gets mercilessly real about our maligned birth cohort. Examining trends like runaway student debt, the rise of the intern, mass incarceration, social media, and more, Harris gives us a portrait of what it means to be young in America today that will wake you up and piss you off. Millennials were the first generation raised explicitly as investments, Harris argues, and in Kids These Days he dares us to confront and take charge of the consequences now that we are grown up. Review A landmark...Harris is a peerless observer of the harrowing economic costs of meritocracy. n1Malcolm Harris offers up an exciting, persuasive argument that young people are not, in fact, monsters. An excellent gift for NPR-listening elders who appreciate a good debate and could use a little sympathy for the millennial. New York MagazineThe first major accounting of the millennial generation written by someone who belongs to it. Jia Tolentino, The New YorkerWhen will someone stick up for millennials? We have been sheltered by our parents, swindled by our universities, deadened by our therapists, and for all this our reward has been glib condescension from the boomer press. Rising to our defense is Harris, a familiar provocateur from the internets left flank. Harris contends that America has stiffed our generation...He brings a fresh, contrarian eye to some of the usual data points...As generational advocates go, we could do worse than Harris. New York Times Book ReviewMalcolm Harriss thesis is the kind of brilliantly simple idea that instantly clarifies an entire area of culture: Millennials are the way they are-anxious, harried, and narcissistically self-focused, though hardly lazy or entitled-because the neoliberal economy has made them so. When we raise children in a world that reduces people to human capital, then bids down the price of that resource, what else should we expect? Kids These Days is deft, witty, unillusioned, and brutally frank. Read it and weep, puke, scream. WilliamDeresiewicz, New York Times bestselling author of Excellent SheepKids These Days is the best, most comprehensive work of social and economic analysis about our benighted generation. Malcolm Harris matches Naomi Klein for depth of research and Jane Jacobs for systemic vision. If youre a millennial who feels economically jinxed and unfairly spat-upon, but cant say why, cram this book in your brain; if you think millennials are lazy and entitled, cram this book in your mouth. Fascinating, infuriating, and bulging with receipts, Kids These Days shows us why no space is safe. Tony Tulathimutte,author of Private CitizensThis fiercely smart book is not just another millennials killed chain restaurants kind of thing. Instead, Harris dives deep into the ways that the millennial generation has been shaped by the capitalist economic forces at work now in America. . . Its a must read for anyone who cares about...

-Titulo Original : The Seventh Sense-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: Endless terror. Refugee waves. An unfixable global economy. Surprising election results. New billion-dollar fortunes. Miracle medical advances. What if they were all connected? What if you could understand why? The Seventh Sense is the story of what all of todays successful figures see and feel: the forces that are invisible to most of us but explain everything from explosive technological change to uneasy political ripples. The secret to power now is understanding our new age of networks. Not merely the Internet, but also webs of trade, finance, and even DNA. Based on his years of advising generals, CEOs, and politicians, Ramo takes us into the opaque heart of our worlds rapidly connected systems and teaches us what the losers are not yet seeing -- and what the victors of this age already know. Review Praise for The Seventh SenseNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWASHINGTON POST BESTSELLERWinner of the getAbstract 17th International Book AwardA fascinating guide to the way the world is changing. Malcolm Gladwell, author of David and GoliathJoshua Cooper Ramo has a unique intelligence and a unique voice, which illuminate this fascinating book. The central new reality of the world we live in today is connectivity. People, computers, other machines, almost everything is getting linked and these new networks are spewing oceans of information. How should we navigate this brave new world? Ramo writes with ease and authority about the technology, history , and foreign policy of this power shift, giving us an essential guide for the future. Fareed Zakaria, author of In Defense of a Liberal EducationThis book paints an accurate and timely picture of the world we live in and how it is changing. Mareo McCracken, Inc.In this hyper networked world remade fresh every day, with new perils and new opportunities, there is one book to be sure to read: Joshua Ramos new book, a masterpiece, The Seventh Sense. To understand the tsunami of the networked age, you need history, biography, tech, philosophy, politics--and you want a book that has a depth beyond whatever else you could be streaming, podcasting, or wiki-ing. This is that book. Reid Hoffman, Chairman/Founder of LinkedIn and Partner at GreylockJoshua Cooper Ramo has written a book that combines historic sweep and incisive detail. A great book, and a useful one. The Seventh Sense is a concept every businessman, diplomat, or student should aspire to master -- a powerful idea, backed by stories and figures that will be impossible to forget. Walter Isaacson, author of Steve Jobs and The InnovatorsIf this book were read and understood by our next president, America would be a stronger country and the president would have an agenda for global leadership. Ramos fascinating work serves a critical public purpose. Bill BradleyProvocative reading... [Ramo] offers plenty of interesting scenarios for such things as global power shifts, AI-enabled weapons systems, and the like.... For policy wonks with an eye toward the middle term, Ramo provides a good effort to make sense of it all. Kirkus ReviewsThe Seventh Sense ultimately isnt just about witnessing the power of human connections, but also harnessing that power to change the world. Highly recommended. Midwest Book ReviewThis book is the best yet on reviewing the ever more tightly woven, connected, pervasive networks - accelerating due to their interactivity - that now dominate our globalized human societies.... Ramo surveys this new world of interconnected networks in penetrating detail with deep knowledge of current global geopolitics and human history. Hazel Henderson, Seeking Alpha About the Author Joshua Cooper Ramo is the author of the international bestseller The Age of the Unthinkable. He is co-chief executive officer and vice chairman of Kissinger Associates and a member of the board of directors of FedEx and Starbucks. His first book, No Visible Horizon, chronicled his experiences ...

-Titulo Original : The Economists Hour False Prophets, Free Markets, And The Fracture Of Society-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: In this lively and entertaining history of ideas (Liaquat Ahamed, The New Yorker), New York Times editorial writer Binyamin Appelbaum tells the story of the people who sparked four decades of economic revolution. Before the 1960s, American politicians paid little attention to economists. But as the post-World War II boom began to sputter, economists gained influence and power. Binyamin Appelbaum traces the rise of the economists, first in the United States and then around the globe, as their ideas reshaped the modern world, curbing government, unleashing corporations, and hastening globalization. Some leading figures in the field are relatively well-known, such as Milton Friedman and Arthur Laffer, while others stayed out of the limelight but left a lasting impact on modern life: Walter Oi, a blind economist who persuaded President Nixon to end military conscription; Alfred Kahn, who rejoiced in the crowded cabins on commercial flights as proof of his deregulation of air travel; and Thomas Schelling, who put a dollar value on human life. Their fundamental belief? That government should stop trying to manage the economy. Their guiding principle? That markets would deliver steady growth and ensure that all Americans shared in the benefits. But the economists hour failed to deliver on its promise of broad prosperity. And the single-minded embrace of markets has come at the expense of economic equality, the health of liberal democracy, and future generations. Timely, engaging, and expertly researched, The Economists Hour is a reckoning-and a call for people to rewrite the rules of the market. A Wall Street Journal Business BestsellerWinner of the Porchlight Business Book Award in Narrative & Biography Review Winner of the Porchlight Business Book Award in Narrative & Biography A New York Times Editors ChoiceA Wall Street Journal Business Bestseller One of Oprah Magazines Best Political Books to Read Ahead of the 2020 Election One of Book Riots 50 Best Books to Read this Fall One of Five Books Best Political Books of 2019One of Vanity Fairs Best Books of 2019One of MIT Technology Reviews Best Books of the YearHis book is a marvel of popular historical writing, propelled by anecdotes and just the right amount of explanation but also impressively well grounded in the latest academic research by historians, sociologists and others. Much of the territory it covers was familiar to me, but I was constantly learning new twists and nuances. Justin Fox, The New York TimesLively and entertaining...The Economists Hour is a reminder of the power of ideas to shape the course of history. Liaquat Ahamed, The New YorkerIt is, I will tell you - and this is not just me, a Marketplace geek, saying this - its fascinating. Its totally, totally fascinating. Kai Ryssdal, MarketplaceThe rise and fall of the Chicago School is chronicled by Binyamin Appelbaum in his admirable book The Economists Hour. As he shows, economists were treated as little more than backroom statisticians until the late 1960s.... Appelbaum argues that their heyday ended on October 13 2008, when the chief executives of Americas largest banks were marched into the US Treasury for a crisis meeting. He is surely correct. The mother of all Wall Street bailouts shattered the reputation economics had gained over the previous 40 years. Yet economists hubris lingers. Perhaps it is a lagging indicator. Economists might call it sticky. Edward Luce, Financial TimesThe Economists Hour provides a novel perspective on the conservative revolution that dominated the past half-century of American political history. James Kwak, The Washington PostA kind of ur-text, revealing the destructive role of centering economists in shaping public policy. Its not that we dont need economists and economic theory, but The Economists Hour patiently reveals the many times and multiple ways theyve had an outsized influence at key times and have s...

-Titulo Original : The Game Inside The Secret World Of Major League Baseballs Power Brokers-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: The incredible inside story of power, money, and baseballs last twenty years. In the fall of 1992, Americas National Pastime is in crisis and already on the path to the unthinkable: cancelling a World Series for the first time in history. The owners are at war with each other, their decades-long battle with the players has turned America against both sides, and the players growing addiction to steroids will threaten the games very foundation. It is a tipping point for baseball, a crucial moment in the games history that catalyzes a struggle for power by three strong-willed men: Commissioner Bud Selig, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, and union leader Don Fehr. Its their uneasy alliance at the end of decades of struggle that pulls the game back from the brink and turns it into a money-making powerhouse that enriches them all. This is the real story of baseball, played out against a tableau of stunning athletic feats, high-stakes public battles, and backroom political deals -- with a supporting cast that includes Barry Bonds and Mark McGwire, Joe Torre and Derek Jeter, George Bush and George Mitchell, and many more. Drawing from hundreds of extensive, exclusive interviews throughout baseball, The Game is a stunning achievement: a rigorously reported book and the must-read, fly-on-the-wall, definitive account of how an enormous struggle for power turns disaster into baseballs Golden Age. Review Finalist for the 2015 CASEY Award for Best Baseball Book of the Year A compelling, high-stakes look at baseball.... Pessah does a great job of providing glimpses of conversations fans were not privy to, while placing them in context by describing what was happening on the field in that moment. Essential for fans of 1990s- and 2000s-era baseball. Library Journal (starred review) The action is in the boardroom, not the ballpark, in this dramatic account of the business side of baseball.... Pessah includes engaging play-by-play from key games, but his focus is on contract negotiations, revenue models, politics, deal-cutting, and the commercial calculations behind moving a team or injecting steroids. The resulting account of off-field strategizing is as engrossing as any stadium showdown. Publishers Weekly (starred review) Engaging, nitty-gritty account of the Bud Selig era, including backroom battles with George Steinbrenner, Don Fehr and steroids. Sports Illustrated Pessah has made his book read like a great novel.... The author also brilliantly shows the impact the game had and continues to have on American life, and how it maintains its prominent place in the cycle and fabric of our countrys summers. Pessah is adept at revealing the ebb and flow of fan despair, anger, and joy. Russell P. Gantos Jr., New York Journal of Books In clear, accessible prose, [THE GAME] covers strikes, steroids and everything in between. Not an easy task. The most memorable sections are about Steinbrenner. Pessah deftly captures the mans heavy-handed--and often underhanded--leadership. Michael S. Schmidt, New York Times One of The Seasons Best Baseball Books A poignant account of the power struggle between three men: MLB Commissioner Bud Selig, Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, and players union leader Don Fehr. Robert Birnbaum, The Daily Beast This might be the definitive account of how front offices control Major League Baseball.... Pessah crafts freeze-frame descriptions of the most critical backroom moments of the modern era.... Rob Fischer, Mens Journal There are lots of fresh notes, quotes and anecdotes in The Game, but its chief value for those who care is its meticulous reconstruction of the fraught era.... The most compelling parts of The Game deal with baseballs abject failure to confront the steroid plague. Edward Kosner, Wall Street Journal A gritty and sensational history of Americas national pastime... a juicy and engrossing story that reads like a...

-Titulo Original : Girl Land-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: The physical, emotional, and social milestones of every girls life: what weve lost and gained in the 21st century. The physical, emotional, and social milestones of every girls life: what weve lost and gained in the 21st century. Caitlin Flanagans essays about marriage, sex, and families have sparked national debates. Now she turns her attention to girls: the biological and cultural milestones for girls today, and how they shape a girls sense of herself. The transition from girl to woman is an experience that has changed radically over the generations: everything from how a girl learns about her period to how she expects to be treated by boys and men. Girls today observe these passages very differently, and yet the landmarks themselves have remained remarkably constant-proof, Flanagan believes, of their significance. In a world where protections of girls privacy and personal freedom seem to disappear every day, the ultimate challenge modern parents face is finding a way to defend both. About the Author Caitlin Flanagan is a former high school teacher who became a writer; she has been on staff at the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and the Wall Street Journal. A winner of the National Magazine Award, she has also written for Time, O, The Oprah Magazine, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. Her work has been widely anthologized in, among other publications, The Best American Essays and The Best American Magazine Writing series. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons...

-Titulo Original : To Hell With All That Loving And Loathing Our Inner Housewife-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: From The New Yorkers most entertaining and acerbic wit comes a controversial reassessment of the rituals and events that shape womens lives: weddings, sex, housekeeping, and motherhood. About the Author Caitlin Flanagan is a former high school teacher who became a writer; she has been on staff at the Atlantic, the New Yorker, and the Wall Street Journal. A winner of the National Magazine Award, she has also written for Time, O, The Oprah Magazine, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times. Her work has been widely anthologized in, among other publications, The Best American Essays and The Best American Magazine Writing series. She lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two sons. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. To Hell with All That Loving and Loathing Our Inner Housewife By Caitlin Flanagan Back Bay Books Copyright © 2007 Caitlin FlanaganAll right reserved. ISBN: 9780316066273 Chapter One The Virgin Bride I DO NOT PLAN to have another wedding; Im standing pat at two. But I must confess that after spending a pleasant hour gazing at the photographs in a recent crop of wedding guides, I began to feel a bit of the old itch. There is something deeply seductive about a wedding: romance in its great last stand, not yet sullied by routine and responsibility. Even a photograph of that ill-fated girl Diana Spencer, standing on the steps of St. Pauls, her veil caught in a gust of wind and her father waiting to take her hand, can provoke in me a vague yet undeniable longing. But it took only a few minutes of actually reading the texts of these manuals to bring me to my senses. More than fondness for my husband keeps me from getting on the phone to price tea roses and a tent. Planning a wedding is hell. Things are said. Doors are slammed. Quarrels about the most inconsequential things-yellow tablecloths or white? hors doeuvres set out on tables or passed around on trays?-are often pitched at such a level that it seems the combatants may never recover from them. Much of the anxiety, of course, is tribal. It is wrenching to have to open the sacred circle to admit an outsider. If, as Joan Didion once wrote, marriage is the classic betrayal, a wedding is the Judas kiss, public and terrible. But what brings people almost to the breaking point (emotional, social, financial) is that white weddings as they are currently practiced in America-with flocks of attendants, dinner dances for hundreds of guests, and a code governing every moment of the proceedings-dont come naturally to most. Perhaps they dont come naturally to anybody other than the members of the $70-billion-a-year wedding industry, who seem to have all but created the contemporary event, weaving together attractive bits of genuine tradition and bolts of pure invention. Before World War II the idea that a girl of modest means would expect any of todays purchased grandeur would have been laughable. She would have been familiar with the elements of such a ceremony, would have seen lavish movie weddings and photographs of society and royal ones, but she would not have imagined that those events had much to do with her own plans. She would have been married much as her mother had been: with her best friend standing up for her and everyone looking forward to a nice party at the brides home, the two mothers wearing corsages and ladling punch. But times have changed, and middle-class couples are routinely trading the down payment on a first house for a single eye-popping party. Ilene Beckerman ponders the shift in the charming little book Mother of the Bride: The Dream, the Reality, the Search for a Perfect Dress. After being confronted with her daughters hideously complex reception menu, Beckerman cant help herself: When your father and I were married at your grandmothers house in Queens, she tells her aggrieved daughter, we served deli platters. Everybody loved them. Nowaday...

-Titulo Original : Mythology-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: The world-renowned classic that has enthralled and delighted millions of readers with its timeless tales of gods and heroes.Edith Hamiltons mythology succeeds like no other book in bringing to life for the modern reader the Greek, Roman and Norse myths that are the keystone of Western culture-the stories of gods and heroes that have inspired human creativity from antiquity to the present. We follow the drama of the Trojan War and the wanderings of Odysseus. We hear the tales of Jason and the Golden Fleece, Cupid and Psyche, and mighty King Midas. We discover the origins of the names of the constellations. And we recognize reference points for countless works for art, literature and culture inquiry-from Freuds Oedipus complex to Wagners Ring Cycle of operas to Eugene ONeills Mourning Becomes Electra Both a reference text for scholars of all ages and a book to simply enjoy, Mythology is a classic not to be missed. Review Edith Hamilton loved the ancient Western myths with a passion--and this classic compendium is her tribute. The tales of Greek mythology do not throw any clear light upon what early mankind was like, Hamilton explains in her introduction. They do throw an abundance of light upon what early Greeks were like--a matter, it would seem, of more importance to us, who are their descendents intellectually, artistically, and politically. Nothing we learn about them is alien to ourselves. Fans of Greek mythology will find all the great stories and characters here--Perseus, Hercules, and Odysseus--each discussed in generous detail by the voice of an impressively knowledgeable and engaging (with occasional lapses) narrator. This is also an excellent primer for middle- and high-school students who are studying ancient Greek and Roman culture and literature. --Gail Hudson About the Author Edith Hamilton (1868-1963) was born of American parents in Dresden, Germany, and grew up in Indiana. Through the first quarter of the twentieth century she was the headmistress of the Bryn Mawr School in Baltimore. Upon retiring, she began to write about the civilizations of the ancient world and soon gained world renown as a classicist. Her celebrated and bestselling books include Mythology, The Greek Way, The Roman Way, and The Echo of Greece. She regarded as the high point of her life a 1957 ceremony in which King Paul of Greece named her an honorary citizen of Athens...

-Titulo Original : Summer Of 69-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: Four siblings experience the drama, intrigue, and upheaval of the 60s summer when everything changed in Elin Hilderbrands #1 New York Times bestselling historical novel. Welcome to the most tumultuous summer of the twentieth century. Its 1969, and for the Levin family, the times they are a-changing. Every year the children have looked forward to spending the summer at their grandmothers historic home in downtown Nantucket. But like so much else in America, nothing is the same: Blair, the oldest sister, is marooned in Boston, pregnant with twins and unable to travel. Middle sister Kirby, caught up in the thrilling vortex of civil rights protests and determined to be independent, takes a summer job on Marthas Vineyard. Only-son Tiger is an infantry soldier, recently deployed to Vietnam. And thirteen-year-old Jessie suddenly feels like an only child, marooned in the house with her out-of-touch grandmother and her worried mother, while each of them hides a troubling secret. As the summer heats up, Ted Kennedy sinks a car in Chappaquiddick, man flies to the moon, and Jessie and her family experience their own dramatic upheavals along with the rest of the country. In her first historical novel, rich with the details of an era that shaped both a nation and an island thirty miles out to sea, Elin Hilderbrand once again earns her title as queen of the summer novel. Review The grande dame of beach reads...Hilderbrand shifts among characters with her usual ease, weaving a saga that will make you forget the dynamics of your own dysfunctional people as you crowd into a too-small vacation rental. Liz Egan, New York Times Book Review An engrossing tale of an iconic American summer People Magazine Overall this novel is an entertaining bagatelle . . . There wont be a single transistor radio this summer on Singing Beach in Manchester-by-the-Sea, nor on Madaket Beach in Nantucket. But there almost certainly will be multiple copies of Summer of 69. Its this years beach-reading cure for . . . the summertime blues. The Boston Globe Superb...Hilderbrand hits all the right notes about life in a tightly knit family, and this crowd-pleaser is sure to satisfy both her fans and newcomers alike. Publishers Weekly, starred review HIGH-DEMAND BACKSTORY: Hilderbrands first foray into historical fiction will rouse curiosity in new readers as well as devotees of her annual summer smashes. Susan Maguire, Booklist Hilderbrands characters are utterly convincing and immediately draw us into their problems, from petty to grave...To use the parlance of the period, a highly relevant retrospective. Kirkus Misunderstandings, secrets, and wrong choices are revealed in this completely satisfying novel that is the beach read of the summer, sure to appeal to Hilderbrands fans while earning her new readers. A must buy. The Library Journal She presents another breezy yet gritty novel with Summer of 69... Simple, sassy, and continuously engaging, Summer of 69 fits neatly into the nostalgic readers beach bag. NPR Hilderbrands books keep getting better and better. Bookreporter With vivid descriptions of the songs, fashions and other details of the era woven throughout, its a true nostalgia trip. AARP About the Author Elin Hilderbrand was born on July 17, 1969 in Boston, Massachusetts. She has used her fifty years to write twenty-three novels and raise three children on Nantucket Island...

-Titulo Original : The Sweetness Of Water (oprahs Book Club) A Novel-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER / AN OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICKONE OF PRESIDENT OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2021Winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary ExcellenceLonglisted for the Man Booker PrizeLonglisted for the Dylan Thomas PrizeLonglisted for the 2022 Carnegie Medal for ExcellenceLonglisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize In the spirit of The Known World and The Underground Railroad, “a miraculous debut” (Washington Post) and “a towering achievement of imagination” (CBS This Morning)about the unlikely bond between two freedmen who are brothers and the Georgia farmer whose alliance will alter their lives, and his, forever-from “a storyteller with bountiful insight and assurance” (Kirkus) A Best Book of the Year: Oprah Daily, NPR, Washington Post, Time, Smithsonian, Boston Globe, Chicago Public Library, BookBrowse, and the Oregonian A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice A July Indie Next Pick In the waning days of the Civil War, brothers Prentiss and Landry-freed by the Emancipation Proclamation-seek refuge on the homestead of George Walker and his wife, Isabelle. The Walkers, wracked by the loss of their only son to the war, hire the brothers to work their farm, hoping through an unexpected friendship to stanch their grief. Prentiss and Landry, meanwhile, save money for the journey north and a chance to reunite with their mother, who was sold away when they were boys. Parallel to their story runs a forbidden romance between two Confederate soldiers, recently returned to the town of Old Ox, who hold their trysts in the woods. When their secret is discovered, the resulting chaos unleashes convulsive repercussions on the entire community. The Sweetness of Water, as gripping as it is moving, unforgettably depicts Georgia in the violent crucible of Reconstruction. It is an epic whose grandeur locates humanity and love amid the most harrowing circumstances. Review “Harris’s debut novel is remarkable; that he’s only 29 is miraculous. His prose is burnished with an antique patina that evokes the mid-19th century. And he explores this liminal moment in our history with extraordinary sensitivity to the range of responses from Black and White Americans contending with a revolutionary ideal of personhood... All of this is drawn with gorgeous fidelity to these cautious characters, struggling to remake the world, or at least this little patch of it... Harris stacks the timbers of this plot deliberately, and the moment a spark alights, the whole structure begins to burn hot... What’s most impressive about Harris’s novel is how he attends to the lives of these peculiar people while capturing the tectonic tensions at play in the American South.” Ron Charles, Washington Post “Beautiful... An instant classic... This book is profound.” Jenna Bush Hager, Wall Street Journal “This debut novel astonished us as much for its wise, lyrical voice as for its dense realization of a fictional small town in the American South at a rarely written-about moment, the immediate aftermath of the Civil War. We were incredibly impressed by the way it probes themes of trans-historical importance-about race, sexuality, violence, and grief-through meticulously-drawn characters and a patient examination of their relationships.” Booker Prize committee “As I read this masterful novel I kept thinking-this young 29-year-old is a first-time author, so how did he do this?... As the best writers can do, Nathan takes us back in time, and helps us to feel we are right there with Prentiss and Landry as they get their first taste of freedom. I rooted for them, and feared for them too. Oprah Winfrey, Oprah Daily “A historical page-turner about social friction so powerful it ignites a whole town . . . The novel’s questions feel urgent . . . Like a fictional companion to Clint Smith’s history, How the Word Is Passed, The Sweetness of Water joins the national conversation on race and rec...

-Titulo Original : Standing In Another Mans Grave (a Rebus Novel, 18)-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: John Rebus returns to investigate the disappearances of three women from the same road over ten years. For the last decade, Nina Hazlitt has been ready to hear the worst about her daughters disappearance. But with no sightings, no body, and no suspect, the police investigation ground to a halt long ago, and Ninas pleas to the cold case department have led her nowhere. Until she meets the newest member of the team: former Detective John Rebus. Rebus has never shied away from lost causes - one of the many ways he managed to antagonize his bosses when he was on the force. Now hes back as a retired civilian, reviewing abandoned files. Necessary work, but its not exactly scratching the itch he feels to be in the heart of the action. Two more women have gone missing from the same road where Sally Hazlitt was last seen. Unlike his skeptical colleagues, Rebus can sense a connection - but pursuing it leads him into the crosshairs of adversaries both old and new. Rebus may have missed the thrill of the hunt, but hes up against a powerful enemy whos got even less to lose. On the twentieth anniversary of Ian Rankins first American publication comes a novel bursting with the vitality and suspense that made its author one of crime fictions most dazzling stars. Standing in Another Mans Grave is the triumphant return of John Rebus, and a riveting story of sin, redemption, and revenge. About the Author Ian Rankin is a #1 international bestselling author. Winner of an Edgar Award and the recipient of a Gold Dagger for fiction and the Chandler-Fulbright Award, he lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and their two sons...

-Titulo Original : Exit Music (a Rebus Novel, 17)-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: Its late in the fall in Edinburgh and late in the career of Detective Inspector John Rebus. As he is simply trying to tie up some loose ends before his retirement, a new case lands on his desk: a dissident Russian poet has been murdered in what looks like a mugging gone wrong. Rebus discovers that an elite delegation of Russian businessmen is in town, looking to expand its interests. And as Rebuss investigation gains ground, someone brutally assaults a local gangster with whom he has a long history. Has Rebus overstepped his bounds for the last time? Only a few days shy of the end to his long, controversial career, will Rebus even make it that far? Review In the Rebus novels hes provided a portrait of his chosen city thats as rich, detailed and loving as any that any crime writer working today has given us of any city in the world. . . . This has been one of the best police procedural series ever written. Patrick Anderson, Washington Post About the Author Ian Rankin is a #1 international bestselling author. Winner of an Edgar Award and the recipient of a Gold Dagger for fiction and the Chandler-Fulbright Award, he lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and their two sons...

-Titulo Original : The Complaints-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: Nobody likes The Complaints -- theyre the cops who investigate other cops. Its a department known within the force as The Dark Side, and its where Malcolm Fox works. Hes a serious man with a father in a nursing home and a sister who persists in an abusive relationship, frustrating problems about which he cannot seem to do anything. Then the reluctant Fox is given a new case. Theres a cop named Jamie Breck, and hes dirty. The problem is, no one can prove it. As Fox takes on the job, he learns that theres more to Breck than anyone thinks -- dangerous knowledge, especially when a vicious murder takes place far too close to home. In The Complaints, Rankin proves again why he is one of the worlds most beloved and bestselling crime writers, mixing unstoppable pacing with the deeper question of who decides right from wrong. Review Rankin is a master at what, for me, is one of the important aspects of a crime novel: the integration of setting, plot, characters and a theme which, for Rankin, is the moral dimension never far from his writing. . . . Fox is so fully realised and interesting a character, his job in the complaints so fraught with fascinating possibilities, that we can surely hope to meet him again. P.D. James, The Guardian With its Edinburgh setting, suave crime lords and renegade officers, The Complaints will be familiar territory to Rebus fans -- even if its hero isnt. Getting to know this man, an intriguing mix of apathy and action, is almost like a courtship--each new situation reveals something that makes the reader want to know yet more. Rebecca Armstrong, The Independent Rankin delivers . . . an excellent cop novel full of action, good dialogue, well-crafted characters and an authentic backdrop. Marcel Berlins, The Times About the Author Ian Rankin is a #1 international bestselling author. Winner of an Edgar Award and the recipient of a Gold Dagger for fiction and the Chandler-Fulbright Award, he lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and their two sons...

-Titulo Original : Still Midnight (alex Morrow, Book 1) (alex Morrow, 1)-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: The first book in the acclaimed Alex Morrow series of crime novels set in Glasgow, Scotland, from the author of national bestseller Conviction. Alex Morrow is not new to the police force -- or to crime -- but there is nothing familiar about the call she has just received. On a still night in a quiet suburb of Glasgow, Scotland, three armed men have slipped from a van into a house, demanding a man who is not, and has never been, inside the front door. In the confusion that ensues, one family member is shot and another kidnapped, the assailants demanding an impossible ransom. Is this the amateur crime gone horribly wrong that it seems, or something much more unexpected? As Alex falls further into the most challenging case of her career, Denise Mina proves why if you dont read crime novels, Mina is your reason to change- Rocky Mountain News About the Author Denise Mina is the author of more than ten novels, including The Long Drop, winner of the 2017 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish crime book of the year, and the Garnethill trilogy, the first installment of which won the John Creasey Memorial Award for best first crime novel. Mina has twice received the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. She lives in Glasgow...

-Titulo Original : Garnethill-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: Maureen ODonnell wakes up one morning to find her therapist boyfriend murdered in the middle of her living room and herself a prime suspect in a murder case. Desperate to clear her name and to get at the truth, Maureen traces rumors about a similar murder at a local psychiatric hospital, uncovering a trail of deception and repressed scandal that could exonerate her - or make her the next victim. A shattering first novel... You cant look away from it.- New York Times Book Review I cant think of a more interesting - and less likely - crime hero than Maureen ODonnell, the damaged but determined center of Denise Minas marvelous debut mystery. . . . The book bristles with angry energy and the spare urban poetry of its unique language. - Chicago Tribune A groundbreaking book . . . its emotional rawness and visceral honesty pack a punch more potent than any boxer-turned-PI could provide.- Washington Post Book World This raw, powerful story is an exceptional debut. - Kansas City Star A compelling story. . . . This is the reason we read mysteries. - Rocky Mountain News Review This is the book that made me fall in love with Denise Mina. Shes a terrific social commentator and does all the things good crime fiction should always do: talk about characters and how their lives are changed for the better or worse by acts of violence. Karin Slaughter, author of Pretty Girls About the Author Denise Mina is the author of more than ten novels, including The Long Drop, winner of the 2017 McIlvanney Prize for Scottish crime book of the year, and the Garnethill trilogy, the first installment of which won the John Creasey Memorial Award for best first crime novel. Mina has twice received the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. She lives in Glasgow...

-Titulo Original : Even Dogs In The Wild (a Rebus Novel, 20)-Fabricante : Back Bay Books-Descripcion Original: Rebus comes out of retirement...to save his nemesis. Detective Inspector Siobhan Clarke is feeling the heat. Shes investigating the death of a senior government prosecutor, David Minton, who has friends in high places. When one of their own is killed, the powers that be want answers fast. But Clarke is puzzled: if Minton died in a robbery as everyone thinks, why is nothing missing from his home? The answer may lie not in what was taken, but in what was left behind at the scene -- an ominous note. Malcolm Fox is feeling useless. Shunned by his colleagues because of his past in the Complaints bureau, hes been reassigned to a grunt detail, helping a surveillance team -- one that trusts him even less than his own boss does -- track a notorious Glasgow crime family. Helping Clarke with the Minton case is the only thing that makes Fox feel like a real cop. Newly minted civilian John Rebus is feeling restless. Being a cop is in his blood and hes failing miserably at retirement. So when Clarke and Fox ask for his help, Rebus doesnt need long to consider his options. But before he can get his bearings, a call comes from Rebuss old nemesis -- Big Ger Cafferty. Someone just fired a bullet through his front window -- and sent him a note identical to Mintons. The normally unflappable old gangster is on edge, but for the life of him Cafferty cant figure out who hes wronged. And the only man he trusts with his life is Rebus. As the cases collide, its up to Clarke, Fox, and Rebus to connect the dots and save their unlikely ally Cafferty, whose past harbors a shocking secret that implicates Mintons friends in an unspeakable crime. Even Dogs in the Wild reunites crime fiction legend Ian Rankins greatest characters in an explosive story exploring the darkest corners of our desires. Review PRAISE FOR THE BEAT GOES ON: Rankins canny cop is as gray and dour as his Edinburgh beat, but hes in fine form in these clever, occasionally touching, and often wryly funny vignettes. Kirkus Reviews All of the stories are tightly wrought and entertaining. He moves ahead at great speed to deliver work that is potently inspiring, bringing readers a gem in each one...Rankin fans should add this tome to their other books in the series immediately. Barbara Lipkien Gershenbaum, BookReporter Its a very welcome return for Rebus that should tide fans over--until his next full novel comes out. Laura DeMarco, Cleveland Plain Dealer ...one of the great literary crime solvers of our time...Rebus is a Van Morrison kind of detective...Put THE BEAT GOES ON in your guest room for the pleasure of a traveler, weary or insomniac, who needs a stout companion for an evenings adventure. Jim Higgins, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel ...sharply crafted...the book has a pleasing, offbeat rhythm of its own. Lloyd Sachs, Chicago Tribune sharply observed, economically written stories...for Rankin fans used to a regular diet of Rebus, this collection makes up for the year off the author took after the 2013 novel Saints of the Shadow Bible. For the uninitiated with short attention spans interested in sampling one of the finest crime fiction practitioners going, its an excellent place to start. Dan DeLuca, Philadelphia Inquirer About the Author Ian Rankin is a #1 international bestselling author. Winner of an Edgar Award and the recipient of a Gold Dagger for fiction and the Chandler-Fulbright Award, he lives in Edinburgh, Scotland, with his wife and their two sons...