![]() ![]() THE CITY OF FALLING ANGELS opens on the evening of January 29, 1996, when a dramatic fire destroys the historic Fenice opera house. Its architectural treasures crumble-foundations shift, marble ornaments fall-even as efforts to preserve them are underway. ![]() ![]() Venice, a city steeped in a thousand years of history, art and architecture, teeters in precarious balance between endurance and decay. It is Berendt and only Berendt who can capture Venice-a city of masks, a city of riddles, where the narrow, meandering passageways form a giant maze, confounding all who have not grown up wandering into its depths. John Berendt's inimitable brand of nonfiction brought the dark mystique of Savannah so startlingly to life for millions of people that tourism to Savannah increased by 46%. It was seven years ago that Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil achieved a record-breaking four-year run on the New York Times bestseller list. ![]()
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![]() ![]() In the tradition of her bestselling novel, Nefertiti, and through her strong, independent heroines fighting to make their way in a male dominated world, Michelle Moran brings nineteenth-century India to rich, vibrant life. Told from the unexpected perspective of Sita-Queen Lakshmi's most favored companion and most trusted soldier in the all-female army-Rebel Queen shines a light on a time and place rarely explored in historical fiction. Although her soldiers may not appear at first to be formidable against superior British weaponry and training, Lakshmi refuses to back down from the empire determined to take away the land she loves. ![]() ![]() Instead of surrendering, Queen Lakshmi raises two armies-one male and one female-and rides into battle, determined to protect her country and her people. But when they arrive in the Kingdom of Jhansi, the British army is met with a surprising challenge. India is fractured and divided into kingdoms, each independent and wary of one another, seemingly no match for the might of the English. From the internationally best-selling author of Nefertitiand Cleopat. ![]() From the internationally bestselling author of Nefertiti and Cleopatra's Daughter comes the breathtaking story of Queen Lakshmi-India's Joan of Arc-who against all odds defied the mighty British invasion to defend her beloved kingdom.When the British Empire sets its sights on India in the mid-nineteenth century, it expects a quick and easy conquest. Read 1,273 reviews from the worlds largest community for readers. ![]() ![]() He visits the homes of bereft, bewildered families, where photos of more vanished or murdered relatives appear as months pass. Goldman accompanies an intrepid journalist friend investigating the disappearances. Corruption and savagery have reached the Distrito Federal. The police investigation is incompetent, uninterested. In mid-2013, a dozen apparently innocent young people are abducted ("levitated") from an inner city nightclub ironically called Heavens. Then, halfway through, the book darkens with shocking abruptness. He threads its nearly-100,000 streets, eats at its restaurants specialising in protein-rich beetles and worms. In an account that's travelogue, memoir and social commentary, he evokes its police on rollerblades, fire-eaters at traffic lights, elderly men who never leave home without collar and tie. It's a delight and a solace to Goldman, in spite of its overflowing sewers, imminent earthquakes and summer thunderstorms "like cosmic sledgehammers". ![]() ![]() ![]() The book’s 10th edition, published in late April, promises readers new topics, examples, and writing prompts. ![]() Universally praised by teachers, students, and fellow writers, it takes you through the process of creating a narrative, covering everything from getting started with journaling to strategies for revision.” The Writer praised a previous edition, writing that “Burroway’s Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft is one of the most widely used textbooks in fiction-writing classes across the country. It’s “the most widely used creative writing text in America,” according to its publisher, The University of Chicago Press, and it’s sold more than a quarter million copies worldwide. If you’ve ever studied creative writing, there’s a good chance you’ve already come across Janet Burroway’s Writing Fiction: A Guide to Narrative Craft. ![]() ![]() And yet, having been made as body and soul, we are also creatures of sense and imagination. This should not surprise us, for we walk by faith and not by sight. Yet, while we know these things in faith, we may not always find it easy to picture what awaits us. We know, in faith, that we are destined either for heaven, eternal union with God and the fulfillment of all our hopes… or else eternal separation from God, which is hell. Yet, what comes after that death is not always easy to imagine. That we will meet our own end someday is one of the few certainties in an uncertain life. ![]() At the same time, the readings at Mass directed our eyes toward our own deaths, and to the Second Coming. In the month of November, we remembered especially the dead, praying for the souls of the faithful departed. ![]() ![]() ![]() Across the generations, even when they face less-than-perfect circumstances, women geniuses have created brilliant and original work. It's about having that talent recognized, nurtured, and celebrated. Through interviews with neuroscientists, psychologists, and dozens of women geniuses at work in the world today-including Nobel Prize winner Frances Arnold and AI expert Fei-Fei Li-she proves that genius isn't just about talent. ![]() Using her unique mix of memoir, narrative, and inspiration, she makes surprising discoveries about women geniuses now and throughout history, in fields from music to robotics. Janice Kaplan, the New York Times bestselling author of The Gratitude Diaries, set out to determine why the extraordinary work of so many women has been brushed aside. ![]() As for great women? In one survey, the only female genius anyone listed was Marie Curie. When asked to name a genius, people mention Albert Einstein, Leonardo da Vinci, and Steve Jobs. ![]() Even in this time of rethinking women's roles, we define genius almost exclusively through male achievement. We tell girls that they can be anything, so why do 90 percent of Americans believe that geniuses are almost always men? New York Times bestselling journalist and creator and host of the podcast The Gratitude Diaries Janice Kaplan explores the powerful forces that have rigged the system-and celebrates the women geniuses, past and present, who have triumphed anyway. ![]() ![]() The result was a remarkably resilient movement forged in a racist world that had little tolerance for radicals.Īfter discussing the book's origins and impact in a new preface written for this twenty-fifth-anniversary edition, Kelley reflects on what a militantly antiracist, radical movement in the heart of Dixie might teach contemporary social movements confronting rampant inequality, police violence, mass incarceration, and neoliberalism. ![]() ![]() Kelley reveals how the experiences and identities of these people from Alabama's farms, factories, mines, kitchens, and city streets shaped the Party's tactics and unique political culture. Hammer And Hoe: Alabama Communists During The Great Depression by Robin D.G. The Alabama Communist Party was made up of working people without a Euro-American radical political tradition: devoutly religious and semiliterate black laborers and sharecroppers, and a handful of whites, including unemployed industrial workers, housewives, youth, and renegade liberals. including unemployed industrial workers, housewives, youth, and renegade liberals. ![]() ![]() A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the "long Civil Rights movement," Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and '40s, Communists took on Alabama's repressive, racist police state to fight for economic justice, civil and political rights, and racial equality. A groundbreaking contribution to the history of the 'long Civil Rights movement,' Hammer and Hoe tells the story of how, during the 1930s and 40s, Communists. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though not the first fictional detective, Sherlock Holmes is arguably the best known. Watson, who usually accompanies Holmes during his investigations and often shares quarters with him at the address of 221B Baker Street, London, where many of the stories begin. Most are narrated by the character of Holmes's friend and biographer Dr. All but one are set in the Victorian or Edwardian eras, between about 18. Holmes first appeared in print in 1887's A Study in Scarlet, the character's popularity became widespread with the first series of short stories in The Strand Magazine, beginning with "A Scandal in Bohemia" in 1891 additional tales appeared from then until 1927, eventually totaling four novels and 56 short stories. ![]() Referring to himself as a "consulting detective" in the stories, Holmes is known for his proficiency with observation, deduction, forensic science, and logical reasoning that borders on the fantastic, which he employs when investigating cases for a wide variety of clients, including Scotland Yard. ![]() Sherlock Holmes was created by British author Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. ![]() |