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Content: " For fans of Radium Girls and history and WWII buffs, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line takes you inside the lives and experiences of 15 unknown women heroes from the Greatest Generation, the women who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen during WWII—in and out of uniform, for theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women to come. The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line are the heroes of the Greatest Generation that you hardly ever hear about. These women who did extraordinary things didn't expect thanks and shied away from medals and recognition. Despite their amazing accomplishments, they've gone mostly unheralded and unrewarded. No longer. These are the women of World War II who served, fought, struggled, and made things happen—in and out of uniform. Young Hilda Eisen was captured twice by the Nazis and twice escaped, going on to fight with the Resistance in Poland. Determined to survive, she and her husband later emigrated to the U.S. where they became entrepreneurs and successful business leaders. Ola Mildred Rexroat was the only Native American woman pilot to serve with the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) in World War II. She persisted against all odds—to earn her silver wings and fly, helping train other pilots and gunners. Ida and Louise Cook  were British sisters and opera buffs who smuggled Jews out of Germany, often wearing their jewelry and furs, to help with their finances. They served as sponsors for refugees, and established temporary housing for immigrant families in London. Alice Marble was a grand-slam winning tennis star who found her own path to serve during the war—she was an editor with Wonder Woman comics, played tennis exhibitions for the troops, and undertook a dangerous undercover mission to expose Nazi theft. After the war she was instrumental in desegregating women's professional tennis. Others also stepped out of line—as cartographers, spies, combat nurses, and troop commanders. Retired U.S. Army Major General Mari K. Eder wrote this book because she knew their stories needed to be told—and the sooner the better. For theirs is a legacy destined to embolden generations of women to come. "

Content: Rezension(1): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: March 1, 2021 Drawing on fresh documents and exclusive interviews with family members and associates, CNN analyst Bergen ( The United States of Jihad ) limns The Rise and Fall of Osama bin Laden (60,000-copy first printing). From retired U.S. Army Major General Eder, The Girls Who Stepped Out of Line chronicles 15 mostly unacknowledged women, from a Dutch resistance fighter to an American tennis champion, who made a difference during World War II. In The Gallery of Miracles and Madness , former Guardian journalist English shows how a Weimar-era doctor's collection of artwork by psychiatric patients inspired emerging artists, which led to a Nazi backlash against so-called degenerate art and the patient-artists themselves, who were eventually gassed in a run-up to the Final Solution. Evans's Maiden Voyages moves from celebrities in first class to professional women in second class to desperate �migr�s in steerage--not to mention crew members--to reveal how the golden age of ocean liner travel changed women's lives (60,000-copy first printing). As seen in Costa biography finalist Kavanagh's The Irish Assassins , republican militants in 1882 Dublin murdered Lord Frederick Cavendish and Thomas Burke--Britain's chief secretary and undersecretary for Ireland, respectively--which ended their secret negotiations to achieve peace and independence for Ireland. Distinguished University Professor at the University of Maryland, College Park, Levine details the battle that raged between Frederick Douglass and President Andrew Johnson as The Failed Promise of Reconstruction became evident. In Once More to the Sky , Raab collects the 10 Esquire pieces he wrote between 2005 and 2015 about the construction of One World Trade Center, adding an epilogue and including Woolhead's four-color photographs throughout. In The Ambassador , British American biographer Ronald ( Cond� Nast ) digs deep into Joseph P. Kennedy's controversial tenure as U.S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James's (75,000-copy first printing). Former curator of timekeeping at the Royal Observatory Greenwich and director of the Antiquarian Horological Society, Rooney is the author to tell us About Time --that is, the history of timekeeping worldwide. Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: April 12, 2021 Retired U.S. Army Maj. Gen. Eder ( American Cyberspace ) profiles women who broke gender barriers to help the Allied war effort during WWII in this breezy history. Her subjects include tennis player Alice Marble, who won 18 Grand Slam championships in the 1930s and, after her husband was killed in action over Germany, helped U.S. Army intelligence to obtain Nazi financial records from her former lover, a Swiss banker. Journalist Ruth Gruber guided nearly 1,000 Jewish war refugees to safety in the U.S. in 1944, while opera-loving British sisters Ida and Louise Cook helped 29 people escape Nazi Germany before war was declared. Polish American spy Stephanie Czech Rader, who gathered intelligence of Polish and Soviet security services in postwar Poland, was posthumously awarded the Legion of Merit in 2016. Cartographer Marion Armstrong Frieswyk created three-dimensional topographical maps to aid U.S. military commanders in planning troop movements. Eder notes that though many of her subjects “shied away from medals and recognition,” they influenced the desegregation of the U.S. armed forces and served as role models for younger women in the military and intelligence services. This brisk and informative survey is a worthy tribute to the trailblazing women of WWII." Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: June 15, 2021 A chronicle of a group of courageous women whose contributions to World War II put comic book heroines to shame. The story of the war will never be fully or fairly written if the achievement of women in it are untold, writes Eder, a retired Army major general, in the introduction to this enthusiastic collection of their exploits. Most did not seek fame and were not trailblazers by choice, but readers will share the author's outrage upon learning that many were deliberately written out of history and treated badly even as they served. When the Air Force began accepting women for flight training in 1976, it announced proudly that this was the first time it had permitted women to fly,angry Women Airforce Service Pilot veterans pointed out the error. These included Ola Mildred Rexroat, who joined in 1944, trained, and flew for the Air Force within the U.S. Like all WASPs, she was denied military status, paid less than male pilots, and ineligible for veteran's benefits until 1977. Perhaps Eder's most famous character, Virginia Hall, risked her life in Nazi-occupied Europe, first for Britain's Secret Operations Executive, and then the U.S. Office of Strategic Services, despite being easily identifiable because of her limp. Alice Marble, the world's amateur tennis champion, was shot while carrying out a successful espionage operation in Switzerland. Throughout the war, nurses played an essential role, and Katherine Nolan's experiences in a field hospital make gripping reading. Other important women assembled the first computers that cracked complex Axis codes (see Liza Mundy's Code Girls), drew essential maps, or risked and often lost their lives in the resistance. Several of Eder's women simply survived imprisonment or concentration camps, no mean feat. The author fills her accounts with invented dialogue and novelistic thoughts, but her subjects worked hard, often behaving heroically and suffering for it, so that's a minor quibble. Inspiring stories of women warriors who deserve greater attention. COPYRIGHT(2021) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(4): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: June 1, 2021 In this straightforward, eye-opening, and invaluable collection of concise biographies, Eder, a retired U.S. Army major general, shares the stories of 15 women who played heroic roles in WWII yet have been largely overlooked. Highlighting the lives of both civilians and military personnel, Eder draws on a vast array of previously published materials (all documented in thorough endnotes), including the reminiscences of the women themselves, to give readers an appreciative look at courageous and generous individuals she easily proves deserve a place in history. The women were from different countries with different backgrounds and callings and include spies, members of the Women's Army Corps, resisters from behind enemy lines, a scientist, and a tennis player with a surprising past. Based on presentations the author has made over the years to a variety of audiences, this group biography offers a breezy tone, historic photographs, and plenty of lively anecdotes to bring its subjects to vivid life. While primarily focusing on the women's wartime activities, these portraits also include welcome and compelling coverage of their postwar lives. COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "

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ISBN: 9781250860514

Content: " The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set on Jupiter, by Malka Older, author of the critically-acclaimed Centenal Cycle.Every once in a while, a book comes along that is both a comfort read and a rousing, fist-pumping adventure, and The Mimicking of Known Successes absolutely is both of those things. An utter triumph.8212 Charlie Jane AndersA Most Anticipated in 2023 Pick for Today.com | Buzzfeed | Polygon | Book Riot| Ms. Magazine On a remote, gas-wreathed outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, a man goes missing. The enigmatic Investigator Mossa follows his trail to Valdegeld, home to the colony's erudite university8212 and Mossa's former girlfriend, a scholar of Earth's pre-collapse ecosystems. Pleiti has dedicated her research and her career to aiding the larger effort towards a possible return to Earth. When Mossa unexpectedly arrives and requests Pleiti's assistance in her latest investigation, the two of them embark on a twisting path in which the future of life on Earth is at stake8212 and, perhaps, their futures, together. The Centenal Cycle by Malka Older Infomocracy Null States State Tectonics At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. "

Content: Biographisches: "Malka Older is a writer, aid worker, and sociologist. Her science-fiction political thriller Infomocracy was named one of the best books of 2016 by Kirkus Reviews , Book Riot , and The Washington Post . She is the creator of the serial Ninth Step Station , currently running on Realm, and her short story collection And Other Disasters came out in November 2019. She is a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University's School for the Future of Innovation in Society and teaches in the genre fiction MFA at Western Colorado University. Her opinions can be found in The New York Times , The Nation , and Foreign Policy , among others." Rezension(2): "Charlie Jane Anders: Every once in a while, a book comes along that is both a comfort read and a rousing, fist-pumping adventure, and The Mimicking of Known Successes absolutely is both of those things. An utter triumph ." Rezension(3): "Freya Marske:Older has created a wonderfully sci-fi take on the gaslamp mystery. Add in the wry depiction of academia and the warmly authentic portrayal of a relationship in the process of rekindling, and this is exactly my kind of story! " Rezension(4): "K. J. Charles:A magnificently imaginative setting, a nicely developed and satisfyingly resolved mystery, a beautifully understated central romance, and a lot of thought-provoking ideas make this an immensely satisfying read [that] does more at novella length than many books manage in three times as much ." Rezension(5): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: October 1, 2022 In this sf/mystery mix, set on the forbidding outpost of a human colony on Jupiter, Investigator Mossa searches for a missing man, heading first to the university town Valdegeld. There, he links up with former girlfriend Pleiti, a scholar of Earth's pre-collapse ecosystems, and together they try to crack a mystery that places life on Earth at stake. From the author of the multi-best-booked Infomocracy ,with a 60,000-copy first printing. Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(6): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from December 5, 2022 Older ( ...and Other Disasters ) packs a punch in this slim volume, delivering a romantic sci-fi mystery replete with ruminations on environmentalism and the importance of adapting to change. Life on Earth has ended and the survivors have fled to Jupiter, where they’ve been living on an elaborate railway system surrounding the planet for generations while dreaming of one day making Earth habitable once more and returning there. Classics scholar Pleiti has dedicated her life to studying the lost flora and fauna of pre-collapse Earth ecosystems. It’s a quiet life—until one of her colleagues throws himself off the rails in an apparent suicide. Investigating the case is Mossa, Pleiti’s ex-girlfriend, who storms back into her life with a request for help. Together, the two uncover a far deeper mystery with wide-ranging implications for the fate of Jupiter’s society and the future of Earth. Despite the post–climate collapse setting, Older keeps the tone largely upbeat throughout this charming Gaslamp romp, focusing more on characterization and the leads’ rekindling love than on the dystopian worldbuilding until the heavy-hitting philosophical questions raised in the final pages. Combining an old-timey aesthetic and a powerful message, this sapphic genre-bender is a treat." Rezension(7): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: December 1, 2022 World building is a vital part of sf, but sometimes world building is more about what the author doesn't say. There's no exposition about why humanity had to leave Earth and move to Jupiter in Older's novella. The name Jupiter is replaced by Giant, and there are tantalizing glimpses of how Earth was ruined and how the people who live on Giant are looking to restore humanity's first home. However, the more things change, the more they stay the same, and humans will get up to trouble no matter where they settle. Pleiti, a classical scholar, is content to do research on Earth ecosystems until an old flame, Mossa, shows up asking for help investigating the disappearance of an unpopular academic. Pleiti still has feelings for Mossa, but she won't let her emotions get in the way of work. The two main characters have an engaging chemistry, and the investigation explains life on Giant and the work to recapture some of Earth's glory. This quiet yet compelling whodunit will attract fans of Becky Chambers or Connie Willis. COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "

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Content: " A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREsquire Best Book of 2017Remember when presidents spoke in complete sentences instead of in unhinged tweets? Former Obama speechwriter David Litt does. In his comic, coming-of-age memoir, he takes us back to the Obama years – and charts a path forward in the age of Trump.More than any other presidency, Barack Obama's eight years in the White House were defined by young people – twenty-somethings who didn't have much experience in politics (or anything else, for that matter), yet suddenly found themselves in the most high-stakes office building on earth. David Litt was one of those twenty-somethings. After graduating from college in 2008, he went straight to the Obama campaign. In 2011, he became one of the youngest White House speechwriters in history. Until leaving the White House in 2016, he wrote on topics from healthcare to climate change to criminal justice reform. As President Obama's go-to comedy writer, he also took the lead on the White House Correspondents' Dinner, the so-called State of the Union of jokes. Now, in this refreshingly honest memoir, Litt brings us inside Obamaworld. With a humorists' eye for detail, he describes what it's like to accidentally trigger an international incident or nearly set a president's hair aflame. He answers questions you never knew you had: Which White House men's room is the classiest? What do you do when the commander in chief gets your name wrong? Where should you never, under any circumstances, change clothes on Air Force One? With nearly a decade of stories to tell, Litt makes clear that politics is completely, hopelessly absurd. But it's also important. For all the moments of chaos, frustration, and yes, disillusionment, Litt remains a believer in the words that first drew him to the Obama campaign: People who love this country can change it. In telling his own story, Litt sheds fresh light on his former boss's legacy. And he argues that, despite the current political climate, the politics championed by Barack Obama will outlive the presidency of Donald Trump. Full of hilarious stories and told in a truly original voice, Thanks, Obama is an exciting debut about what it means – personally, professionally, and politically – to grow up. "

Content: Biographisches: " David Litt is the New York Times best-selling author of Thanks, Obama: My Hopey Changey White House Years . From 2011-2016, David wrote speeches for President Obama, and was described as the comic muse for the president for his work on the White House Correspondents' Dinner. Since leaving the White House, he served as the head writer and producer for Funny Or Die's office in Washington, with a focus on improving youth turnout in the 2018 election, and developed a sitcom based on his life in D.C. He frequently appears on CNN and MSNBC to discuss current events. " Rezension(2): "New York Times Book Review:Litt is a funny and skillful storyteller... While the first half of the book is enjoyable, the second half is masterly, rising to a crescendo that is as rousing as, well, a particularly inspiring campaign speech." Rezension(3): "The Atlantic:Graceful, instructive, wry speechwriter memoirs like Litt's are the exception rather than the norm. . Thanks, Obama will join the ranks of lasting works about the texture of political life, and of coming-of-age accounts by staffers who grow up personally and politically at the same time." Rezension(4): "Elle, Best of the Month:His time [in the White House] was as 'hopey changey' as advertised—" Rezension(5): "New Republic:Serve[s] as a more devastating indictment of the current administration than a campaign-style book ever could . limber, funny and illuminating." Rezension(6): "Pacific Standard:Highly entertaining . much more than a scrapbook of Beltway gossip and Obama idolatry." Rezension(7): "Bustle, Best of the Month:Litt also offers both humor and optimism, two things many of us sorely need these days." Rezension(8): "Paste Magazine:What Litt understands and what Thanks, Obama makes clear may very soon be forgotten: The finest presidential speeches can heal the nation." Rezension(9): "USA Today, *** 1/2:A thoughtful and funny account of life as a minnow surrounded by Washington's self-important whales . ranks with other classics from former White House speechwriters, such as Peggy Noonan's What I Saw at the Revolution." Rezension(10): "Washington Monthly:Funny and unexpectedly moving . a powerful reminder that true fulfillment can come from wielding even the smallest bit of influence on behalf of those who have none." Rezension(11): "Publishers Weekly:Veering between tragedy and comedy, between self-doubt and hubris, Litt vividly recreates a period during which he saw his words sometimes become the words of a nation." Rezension(12): "David Axelrod, former Senior Advisor to Barack Obama and author of Believer: My Forty Years in Politics:By turns moving and hilarious, David Litt's rollicking account of his journey from campaign field grunt to presidential speechwriter is an irresistible read." Rezension(13): "Judd Apatow:David Litt has done the impossible: written a smart, insightful, and funny White House memoir you don't have to be a political junkie to love. Even better, he takes us back to a saner more compassionate time when our president liked to read." Rezension(14): "Keegan-Michael Key:Terrific—" Rezension(15): "Billy Eichner:David Litt is brilliant. I've gotten to witness firsthand some of the work he did for President Obama at past White House Correspondents Dinners and it's always intelligent, razor sharp and hilarious." Rezension(16): "John Mulaney, co-creator and star of Oh, Hello:An outstanding, hilarious, and precise memoir . I laughed again and again. This is an excellent account of what it felt like to work for the Second to Last President of The United States." Rezension(17): "Matt Walsh, HBO’" Rezension(18): "Tig Notaro, author of I’" Rezension(19): "Anne Fadiman, author of Ex Libris:Thanks, Obama is a wonderful book for the same reasons David Litt's speeches for the White House were wonderful: it's well-written, it's funny, it tells us exactly what we're curious about, and. it reminds us that a great president galvanizes not only his staff but his country." Rezension(20): "Mike Birbiglia, author of Sleepwalk With Me: And Other Painfully True Stories:Funny and warm, David Litt knows how to make people laugh regardless of their political affiliation." Rezension(21): "Adam Grant, author of Originals and coauthor of Option B:A magnificent memoir on the Obama presidency. You'll walk away with another kind of hope that's needed now more than ever: the belief that..." Rezension(22): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: July 31, 2017 In this entertaining memoir, Litt recounts becoming, in 2011, one of eight speechwriters for President Obama. Two years later, he held the title “special assistant to the president” and was Obama’s go-to guy for funny lines, with an ever-larger role in the president’s remarks for the annual Correspondents’ Dinner. His career culminated in 2015 with the famous Correspondents’ Dinner featuring “Obama’s Anger Translator,” Keegan-Michael Key’s sketch-comedy character. Litt’s tale shares a starry-eyed sensibility and gratification in personal good fortune—in his case, landing a dream job soon after graduating from Yale—with other accounts published by former Obama staffers. However, he manages to come off as not (too) privileged or self-important, candidly recollecting some of his biggest gaffes as a White House speechwriter (for instance, gravely offending the government and people of Kenya with a single, thoughtlessly written line.) He also does an excellent job describing the genesis and performance of several of Obama’s most powerful speeches, including one made following the Charleston church shootings in 2015: “Then, without warning, he paused, looked down, and shook his head Then, softly, the most powerful person on earth began to sing.” Veering between tragedy and comedy, between self-doubt and hubris, Litt vividly recreates a period during which he saw his words sometimes become the words of a nation. " Rezension(23): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: April 1, 2017 At age 24 one of the youngest presidential speechwriters ever, Litt was a special assistant to the president and senior presidential speechwriter when he left the White House in 2016, and he was also President Obama's special comedy writer. With a 60,000-copy first printing. Copyright 2017 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(24): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: August 1, 2017 President Barack Obama's speechwriter offers his take on an extraordinary tenure inside the White House.There's an interesting subcategory of memoirs emerging from the Obama years. Unlike the heavy hitters from the Cabinet, we're hearing from the young professionals who propelled the senator to power and bore witness to his legacy. They also happen to be some of the funniest workplace comedies on the shelves. In a memoir following closely on the heels of former Deputy Chief of Staff Alyssa Mastromonaco's book, Who Thought This Was a Good Idea? (2017), Litt, one of the youngest speechwriters in the history of the White House, delivers a fast, funny ride through the halls of power. Haunted by the specter of Sarah Palin (So, how's that whole hopey, changey thing workin' out for ya?), the author offers a stark contrast in leadership between then and now. Working first for senior adviser Valerie Jarrett before becoming senior presidential speechwriter, Litt admits his impressions were colored by The West Wing: Like every Democrat under the age of thirty-five, I was raised, in part, by Aaron Sorkin. He reveals what it's like to write four White House Correspondents' Association dinner speeches for the president, and he chronicles some strange encounters with the likes of Scarlett Johansson, Harvey Weinstein, and the comedy duo Key & Peele. But for every White House men's room anecdote or gee-whiz moment (Air Force One is exactly as cool as you would expect), Litt offers piercing assessments of the nature of our politics. Gridlock is an accident, an inconvenience, he writes. What happened on Capitol Hill was a strategy, and its architect was Kentucky senator Mitch McConnell. His final thoughts, written as the next administration begins its reign, are telling: But here, beyond a shadow of a doubt, is the single most valuable lesson I learned in public service: There are no grown-ups, at least not in the way I imagined as a kid. President Obama's running question to Litt was, so, are we funny? Yes, they are--and insightful, too. COPYRIGHT(2017) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. 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ISBN: 9780062879318

Content: " The first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company looks back at her life and her career at Xerox, sharing unique insights on American business and corporate life, the workers she has always valued, racial and economic justice, how greed is threatening democracy, and the obstacles she's conquered being Black and a woman. I am a black woman, I do not play golf, I do not belong to or go to country clubs, I do not like NASCAR, I do not listen to country music, and I have a masters degree in engineering. I, like a typical New Yorker, speak very fast, with an accent and vernacular that is definitely New York City, definitely Black. So when someone says I'm going to introduce you to the next CEO of Xerox, and the options are lined up against a wall, I would be the first one voted off the island. In 2009, when she was appointed the Chief Executive Officer of the Xerox Corporation, Ursula Burns shattered the glass ceiling and made headlines. But the media missed the real story, she insists. It should have been 'how did this happen? How did Xerox Corporation produce the first African American woman CEO?' Not this spectacular story titled, Oh, my God, a Black woman making it. In this smart, no-nonsense book, part memoir and part cultural critique, Burns writes movingly about her journey from tenement housing on Manhattan's Lower East Side to the highest echelons of the corporate world. She credits her success to her poor single Panamanian mother, Olga Racquel Burns a licensed child-care provider whose highest annual income was $4,400 who set no limits on what her children could achieve. Ursula recounts her own dedication to education and hard work, and how she took advantage of the opportunities and social programs created by the Civil Rights and Women's movements to pursue engineering at Polytechnic Institute of New York. Burns writes about overcoming the barriers she faced, as well as the challenges and realities of the corporate world. Her classmates and colleagues almost all white males couldn't comprehend how a Black girl could be as smart, and in some cases, smarter than they were. They made a developed category for me. Unique. Amazing. Spectacular. That way they could accept me. Her thirty-five-year career at Xerox was all about fixing things, from cutting millions to save the company from bankruptcy to a daring $6 billion acquisition to secure its future. Ursula also worked closely with President Barack Obama as a lead on his STEM initiative and Chair of his Export council, where she traveled with him on an official trade mission to Cuba, and became one of his greatest admirers. Candid and outspoken, Ursula offers a remarkable look inside the c-suites of corporate America through the eyes of a Black woman someone who puts humanity over greed and justice over power. She compares the impact of the pandemic to the financial crisis of 2007, condemns how corporate culture is destroying the spirit of democracy, and worries about the workers whose lives are being upended by technology. Empathetic and dedicated, idealistic and pragmatic, Ursula demonstrates that, no matter your circumstances, hard work, grit and a bit of help along the way can change your life and the world. "

Content: Biographisches: " Ursula M. Burns was the chair and CEO of VEON from mid 2019 to early 2020, a senior advisor to Teneo LTD, Nestlé" Rezension(2): "—" Rezension(3): "—" Rezension(4): "—" Rezension(5): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: January 1, 2021 Host of the popular advice column �Hola Papi! on Substack, Brammer offers a memoir-in-essays, tracking what it's like to grow up as a queer, mixed-race Chicano kid in America's heartlands (75,000-copy first printing). In The Profession , originally scheduled for fall 2020 and written with Turnaround coauthor Knobler, Bratton tracks a career that led to his being police commissioner in New York City. Burns proclaims Where You Are Is Not Who You Are , sharing where she's been and what she's learned as the first Black female CEO of a Fortune 500 company (75,000-copy first printing). Former teen model Diamond ( Naked Rome ) reveals a childhood both wacky and cliff-hanging in Nowhere Girl ,on the run with an outlaw family, she lived in more than a dozen countries, on five continents, under six assumed identities, by age nine (50,000-copy first printing). Twitter-famous Henderson offers The Ugly Cry to tell us about being raised Black in a mostly white community by tough grandparents after her mother abandoned her. Today show news anchor Melvin uses Pops to explore issues of race and fatherhood while recalling his own dad (100,000-copy first printing). Founder of Chicago's Dreamcatcher Foundation, which assists young people in disadvantaged areas, Myers-Powell recalls a childhood fractured by her mother's death and a life of pimps and parties before finally Leaving Breezy Street (75,000-copy first printing). Growing up scary smart if poor and emotionally unsupported, James Edward Plummer renamed himself Hakeem Muata Oluseyi to honor his African heritage and now leads A Quantum Life as a NASA physicist. In House of Sticks , Tran recalls leaving Vietnam as a toddler in 1993 and growing up in Queens, helping her mom as a manicurist and eventually graduating from Columbia (100,000-copy first printing). In As a Woman , Williams, a celebrated speaker on gender equity and LGTBQ+ issues, describes the decision to transition from male to female as a 60-year-old husband, father, and pastor (60,000-copy first printing). Copyright 2021 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(6): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: May 1, 2021 This memoir from Burns, who was most recently CEO and chair of VEON, focuses on her time spent working for Xerox, where she served as CEO from 2009-2016, the first Black woman to lead a Fortune 500 company. Recounting her experiences in and out of the workplace, Burns shares anecdotes from growing up and experiences of both barriers and successes, offering advice and lessons on running a business along the way. Throughout the book, readers will find important discussions and reflections centering on race, gender, class, and intersectionality. With its focus on business and leadership, Burns' writing is refreshingly lucid, crisp, and jargon-free, making readers feel as if in conversation with the author, hearing about her time at Xerox and other fascinating stories, such as her meetings with former President Obama. Readers will find this business memoir through the lens of a Black woman to be both engrossing and eye-opening. COPYRIGHT(2021) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "

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Content: " A poignant, heartwarming, and charmingly funny debut novel about how a discovered box in the attic leads one Bengali American family down a path toward understanding the importance of family, even when splintered. Shantanu Das is living in the shadows of his past. In his fifties, he finds himself isolated from his traditional Bengali community after a devastating divorce from his wife, Chaitali,he hasn't spoken to his eldest daughter Mitali in months,and most painfully, he lives each day with the regret that he didn't accept his teenaged daughter Keya after she came out as gay. As the anniversary of Keya's death approaches, Shantanu wakes up one morning utterly alone in his suburban New Jersey home and realizes it's finally time to move on. This is when Shantanu discovers a tucked-away box in the attic that could change everything. He calls Mitali and pleads with her to come home. She does so out of pity, not realizing that her life is about to shift. Inside the box is an unfinished manuscript that Keya and her girlfriend were writing. It's a surprising discovery that brings Keya to life briefly. But Neesh Desai, a new love interest for Mitali with regrets of his own, comes up with a wild idea, one that would give Keya more permanence: what if they are to stage the play? It could be an homage to Keya's memory, and a way to make amends. But first, the Dases need to convince Pamela Moore, Keya's girlfriend, to give her blessing. And they have to overcome ghosts from the past they haven't met yet. A story of redemption and righting the wrongs of the past, Keya Das's Second Act is a warmly drawn homage to family, creativity, and second chances. Set in the vibrant world of Bengalis in the New Jersey suburbs, this debut novel is both poignant and, at times, a surprising hilarious testament to the unexpected ways we build family and find love, old and new."

Content: Biographisches: "Sopan Deb is a writer for The New York Times, where his topics have included sports and culture. He is also the author of the memoir Missed Translations: Meeting the Immigrant Parents Who Raised Me . Before joining the Times , Deb was one of a handful of reporters who covered Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign from start to finish as a campaign embed for CBS News. He was named a breakout media star of the election by Politico . At The New York Times , Deb has interviewed high profile subjects such as Denzel Washington, Stephen Colbert, the cast of Arrested Development, Kyrie Irving, and Bill Murray. He lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and dog." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: February 1, 2022 Fiftyish Bengali American Shantanu Das is divorced from his wife, estranged from elder daughter Mitali, and deeply regretful that he rejected teenage daughter Keya, now deceased, after she came out. Then he discovers an unfinished manuscript that Keya was writing with her girlfriend, and as the anniversary of Keya's death approaches, the entire family becomes involved with a suggestion from Mitali's new boyfriend: to reconnect and make amends, they could stage the manuscript as a play. A fiction debut from New York Times reporter Deb ( Missed Translations ),with a 60,000-copy first printing. Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: May 1, 2022 Years after a young woman's death in a car crash, a hidden trove of her belongings kick-starts a Bengali American family's healing. Five years after his teenage daughter's untimely death, middle-aged anthropology professor Shantanu Das finds a box in his attic. The box is full of notes passed between his late daughter, Keya, and her high school girlfriend, Pamela, along with a play they wrote together. Although Shantanu has tried to bury the shame of his homophobic reaction to Keya's coming out, he's haunted by the fact that he didn't reconcile with her before her death. After he tells his other daughter, Mitali, about the play, her new boyfriend suggests they stage it. Despite an initial bout of reluctance, Shantanu gets on board, but Mitali and Keya's newly remarried mother, Chaitali, wants to leave the past in the past...and then there's the question of what Pamela thinks. This debut novel from Deb, a writer at the New York Times who has previously published a memoir, is a modest, readable effort that barely scratches the surface of its dark, complex premise. The novel is enjoyably stuffed with specific detail pulled from the author's own life--he grew up in the Bengali community in the New Jersey town where the story takes place and draws on his experience reporting on New York City's culture scene when writing about Broadway--but the characters remain stiff and two-dimensional. Though their explanations of their own feelings make sense, Deb has trouble conveying those feelings on a visceral level. Their grief is particularly difficult to access since Keya, despite being the novel's title character, remains a vague presence. And it's frustrating to read a novel about a young queer woman who died prematurely told primarily from the perspectives of straight people. A story about grief that never fully comes to life. COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(4): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: May 30, 2022 Deb’s charming if not always credible debut novel (after the memoir Missed Translations ) charts a middle-class Bengali family’s grief and gradual recovery in a New Jersey suburb. When high school student Keya Das dies in a car accident, her mother, father and, older sister are stricken with sorrow and guilt. Keya had been estranged from her family for two months before her death, after she had come out to them about being gay, to which the family members responded less than enthusiastically. The novel begins five years after Keya’s death. Keya’s mom and dad, because of the strain of the tragedy, have divorced. Her anthropology professor dad, Shantanu, still grieving, is cleaning out the family home before moving. He discovers an unfinished play about their relationship cowritten by Keya and her girlfriend, Pamela, and shares it with his ex-wife, Chaitali, and older daughter, Mitali. Together, they decide to honor Keya by mounting a production in New Brunswick. A melodramatic subplot involving Mitali’s mildly unhinged drummer boyfriend, complete with cocaine addiction and underworld chicanery, threatens to derail the novel, but Deb packs in plenty of well-observed domestic details. Though it’s mixed bag, Deb knows how to craft a family narrative. Agent: David Larabell, CAA. " Rezension(5): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: June 1, 2022 Aging professor Shantanu Das' life is empty. Filled with photos and other treasures that bring back memories he tries to forget, his suburban home feels too large for one person. Now he relives the day when, five years ago, his daughter, Keya, shared a secret that changed their lives forever, and wishes he could do it all again differently. Devastated by grief, the family tried to move forward but instead steadily drifted apart. When Shantanu discovers notes Keya wrote in high school, including the script for a play, the Das family decides to finish what Keya started and bring her play to life, with the help of friends. Along the way, Shantanu and his family slowly begin to rebuild themselves and reconnect with each other in new and surprising ways. Full of regret, mistakes, love, redemption, and second chances, New York Times reporter Deb's (Missed Translations, 2020) first novel is a painfully beautiful story that gives hope to all who have lost a loved one and wished for a second act of their own. COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "

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Content: " A splendid and luminous celebration of one of nature's most perfect and mysterious creatures8212 the hawk8212 from the New York Times bestselling author of the astoundingly beautiful (NPR) The Soul of an Octopus . When Sy Montgomery went to spend a day at falconer Nancy Cowan's farm, home to a dozen magnificent birds of prey, it was the start of a deep love affair. Nancy allowed her to work with Jazz, a feisty, four-year-old, female Harris's hawk with a wingspan of more than four feet. Not a pet, Jazz was a fierce predator with talons that could pierce skin and bone and yet, she was willing to work with a human to hunt. From the first moment Jazz swept down from a tree and landed on Sy's leather gloved fist, Sy fell under the hawk's magnetic spell.Over the next few years, Sy spent more time with these magnificent creatures, getting to know their extraordinary abilities and instincts. They are deeply emotional animals, quick to show anger and frustration, and can hold a grudge for years. But they are also loyal and intensely aware of their surroundings. In this mesmerizing account, featuring sixteen pages of gorgeous color photographs, Sy passionately and vividly reveals the wonderous world of hawks and what they can teach us about nature, life, and love."

Content: Biographisches: "Sy Montgomery is a naturalist, documentary scriptwriter, and author of thirty-one acclaimed books of nonfiction for adults and children, including The Hummingbirds' Gift , the National Book Award finalist The Soul of an Octopus , and the memoir The Good Good Pig , which was a New York Times bestseller. The recipient of numerous honors, including lifetime achievement awards from the Humane Society and the New England Booksellers Association, she lives in New Hampshire with her husband, writer Howard Mansfield, and a border collie." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: January 1, 2022 Leading paleontologist Brusatte follows up the New York Times best-selling TheRise and Fall of the Dinosaurs with The Rise and Fall of the Mammals , summing up a next act that includes humans, whose world dominance has caused an extinction event costing an estimated 80 percent of wild mammals in the last century alone (75,000-copy first printing). In A Portrait of the Scientist as a Young Woman , Elkins-Tanton--principal investigator of NASA's $800 million Psyche mission--tells her story and that of the nearly all-metal protoplanet 16 Psyche, located in an asteroid belt 589 million kilometers from Earth and optimum not just for mining but more crucially for imparting the story of how planets like ours were formed (50,000-copy first printing). In What Your Food Ate , MacArthur-honored geologist Montgomery joins with biologist Bikl� to argue that good health starts with good soil and good farming practices. A National Book Award finalist for The Soul of an Octopus and New York Times best-selling author of The Good Good Pig , Montgomery returns with The Hawk's Way to describe her work with Jazz, a bright-eyed female Harris's hawk with a four-foot-plus wingspan and decidedly a predator rather than a pet (60,000-copy printing). Award-winning theoretical physicist and cosmologist Padilla explains Fantastic Numbers and Where To Find Them , plumbing nine numbers explaining how the universe works, from the impossibly large Graham's number to 10^{-120}, which measures the unlikely balance of energy needed to allow the universe to exist for more than a blink of the eye (100,000-copy first printing). By detailing the discovery of Tyrannosaurus Rex in the Montana wilderness, the New York Times best-selling Randall explains the triumphant emergence of New York's American Museum of Natural History while also showing how The Monster's Bones inspired an ongoing fascination with dinosaurs and their role in shaping Earth. Multi-award-winning sf author Robinson recounts everything he's learned in the more than 100 trips he has taken to The High Sierra since his first, life-changing sojourn in 1973 (50,000-copy first printing). From a theoretical physicist whose international best sellers have gracefully explained to lay readers how the universe works, Rovelli's There Are Places in the World Where Rules Are Less Important Than Kindness offers essays embracing not just science but literature, philosophy, and politics. Copyright 2022 Library Journal, LLC Used with permission. " Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: March 1, 2022 The bestselling author of The Soul of an Octopus and The Good Good Pig turns her attention to hawks. Montgomery hooks readers with a striking opening line--Inches from my face, I hold a living dinosaur--the first hint of her passion for the subject. This slender, graceful work, featuring Strombeck's vivid photos, is more a monograph than a book, though scientific rigor is not its strong suit. Throughout, the author displays her abundant enthusiasm for this unique predator, but she sometimes gets carried away, giving the impression that working with the hyperfocused hawk is like playing Russian roulette with a fully loaded gun. Not that devotees will complain. Montgomery offers a good amount of stimulating information about raptor behavior, a primer on the language of falconry, and some surprising insights into what is thought to be a hawk's mindset. Montgomery's fervor echoes that of her mentor, the late master falconer Nancy Cowan, whose 2016 book Peregrine Spring possessed some of the same merits and deficiencies--most notably, too many flights of fancy. This is not to say that Montgomery isn't factual on the basics of humans hunting with hawks, including proven stratagems. She also explores at length, with admiring acceptance, what it means to be the bird's subordinate partner in the hunt. Occasionally, Montgomery's lyrical bent finds her indulging in the sort of dramatics and anthropomorphism that are more romantic than empirical: On my hand, I hold a waterfall, an eclipse, a lightning storm. No, more than that. Jazz is wildness itself, vividly, almost blindingly alive in a way we humans may never experience. It's a lovely thought but overwrought. Yet the author helps us forgive these excesses, and a rather selective love of animals, with her powers of observation and total absorption. Not Montgomery's best but mostly enjoyable reading on a consistently intriguing raptor. COPYRIGHT(2022) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(4): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: March 14, 2022 Naturalist Montgomery ( The Soul of an Octopus ) explores what can be learned from birds of prey in this impassioned introduction to falconry. Blending memoir and research, Montgomery shares stories from her own experiences with raptors while weaving in thoughts from other naturalists, wildlife conservationists, friends, and her falconry instructor, the late Nancy Cowan. Montgomery began taking courses in falconry because of her love of birds, and she soon realized she’d entered “a strange new world” when she watched Cowan get bitten. With flowing, intimate, occasionally humorous prose—“A bird of prey, in fact, is so rarefied that it doesn’t even shit like the rest of us”—Montgomery reveals the uniqueness of falconry and the birds it involves. As she travels from upstate New York to parks in New Hampshire to visit raptors, she reveals them to be enigmatic, sensitive animals that are prone to outbursts of violence. She also finds them alluring creatures, and conveys vividly their hold on her: “My whole soul feels like a yawning hole that only this bird can fill.” The result is a heartfelt and informative primer, just right for adventure- and animal-loving readers. Photos. Agent: Molly Friedrich, Friedrich Agency. " Rezension(5): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: April 15, 2022 Montgomery famously loves all animals, but she is especially in awe of birds. Like The Hummingbird's Gift (2021), this is a succinct, intimate, and captivating chronicle graced with color photographs, but here she focuses on a very different bird-human relationship, the ancient bond between hawk and falconer. Raptors remain inexorably wild, Montgomery reports, no matter how close a hawk and handler become. If you do everything right, a hawk will allow you to act as its servant. And for this, the falconer is profoundly grateful. Hawks are vigilant, easily angered, and dangerous. They are also, Montgomery rhapsodizes: Magnificent, graceful, strong, big, brave, and smart. Montgomery recounts her lessons with falconer Nancy Cowan, describing gear, techniques, and the experience of having a hawk fly straight at you, land on your arm, and grip you hard with its sharp talons, its lacerating beak inches from one's face. Hawks have the sharpest vision on the planet,the tigers of the air, they hunt like no other predator. Montgomery's rapture in the presence of hawks and their fierce, wild glory is gorgeously illuminating and deeply affecting. COPYRIGHT(2022) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "

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Content: " NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER &bull,&ldquo,ext to impossible to put down . exciting, mysterious, and totally satisfying.&rdquo,mdash,TEPHEN KING 160 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage comes a riveting standalone novel about a group of survivors on a hidden island utopia&mdash,here the truth isn't what it seems. Founded by the mysterious genius known as the Designer, the archipelago of Prospera lies hidden from the horrors of a deteriorating outside world. In this island paradise, Prospera&rsquo, lucky citizens enjoy long, fulfilling lives until the monitors embedded in their forearms, meant to measure their physical health and psychological well-being, fall below 10 percent. Then they retire themselves, embarking on a ferry ride to the island known as the Nursery, where their failing bodies are renewed, their memories are wiped clean, and they are readied to restart life afresh.160 Proctor Bennett, of the Department of Social Contracts, has a satisfying career as a ferryman, gently shepherding people through the retirement process&mdash,nd, when necessary, enforcing it. But all is not well with Proctor. For one thing, he&rsquo, been dreaming&mdash,hich is supposed to be impossible in Prospera. For another, his monitor percentage has begun to drop alarmingly fast. And then comes the day he is summoned to retire his own father, who gives him a disturbing and cryptic message before being wrestled onto the ferry. Meanwhile, something is stirring. The Support Staff, ordinary men and women who provide the labor to keep Prospera running, have begun to question their place in the social order. Unrest is building, and there are rumors spreading of a resistance group&mdash,nown as &ldquo,rrivalists&rdquo,mdash,ho may be fomenting revolution.160 Soon Proctor finds himself questioning everything he once believed, entangled with a much bigger cause than he realized&mdash,nd on a desperate mission to uncover the truth."

Content: Biographisches: " Justin Cronin is the New York Times bestselling author of The Passage, The Twelve, The City of Mirrors, The Summer Guest, and Mary and O&rsquo,eil . His work has been published in over forty-five languages and has sold more than three million copies worldwide. A writer in residence at Rice University, he divides his time between Houston, Texas, and Cape Cod, Massachusetts." Rezension(2): "〈a href=http://lj.libraryjournal.com/ target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/libraryjournal_logo.png alt=Library Journal border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from December 1, 2022 In The Lock-Up , Booker Prize winner Banville returns to 1950s Dublin, where pathologist Dr. Quirke and DI St. John Strafford are investigating the murder of a young history scholar when her sister points them to a powerful German family newly arrived in town after World War II (100,000-copy first printing). In Barclay's The Lie Maker , struggling author Jack is offered big money to write false histories for people in the witness protection program and now has the means to find his father, who vanished into the program when Jack was just a child (100,000-copy first printing). Bentley's Tom Clancy Flash Point gives Jack Ryan Jr. a terrorist plot to crack, but it turns out to be part of a larger, grimmer scheme. On the island paradise of Prospera, residents live contentedly until they're warned by a monitor embedded in their forearms that it's time for renewal and board the ferry for the Nursery, but The Ferryman (and some island resisters) begin to suspect that all is not as benevolent as it seems,a stand-alone from Cronin, seven years after he wrapped up his Passage series. With Bad, Bad Seymour Brown , New York Times best-selling author Isaacs brings back former FBI agent Corie Geller and her father, a retired NYPD cop, who must solve a cold case to prevent the murder of the crime's only survivor--unassuming professor April Brown, whose father laundered money for the Russian mob. Lawton's Moscow Exile moves from 1950s Washington, DC, where British-born socialite Charlotte has a pack of secrets to pass on to old flame Charlie Leigh Hunt at the British embassy, and 1969, with Joe Wilderness trapped behind the Iron Curtain and the stories converging in Berlin. Maden's Untitled new Cussler adventure brings back Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon for more fun and games. In Nakamura's latest, two detectives investigate the murder of The Rope Artist --an instructor in kinbaku, a form of rope bondage with both spiritual and sexual overtones--with Togashi finding himself pulled toward his own unorthodox desires and straight-arrow colleague Hayama seeking the truth in a case that's getting out of control. In The 23rd Midnight , Patterson and Paetro team up for another visit with the Women's Murder Club, as someone copycats the methods of a serial killer jailed by Det. Lindsay Boxer and profiled in a best seller by reporter Cindy Thomas, both women's murder clubbers. In multi-award-finalist Pochada's Sing Her Down , the imprisoned Diosmary Sandoval suspects that cellmate Florence Florida Baum isn't the innocent victim she claims to be and hounds her relentlessly when both are unexpectedly released (100,000-copy first printing). National Book Award finalist Powers ( The Yellow Birds ) draws A Line in the Sand with his first thriller, about former Iraqi interpreter Arman Bajalan, working at the Sea Breeze Motel in Norfolk, VA, after having barely survived the assassination attempt that killed his wife and child, who discovers a dead body on the beach (60,000-copy first printing). When her roommate is killed at the first party they throw at their Baltimore-area apartment, Morgan learns that she was the intended victim of the assailant, who steals each target's Identity and then kills her,a million-copy first printing for Roberts. After more than four decades of thrillers reflecting Soviet/Russian events, Smith drops longtime protagonist Arkady Renko in Independence Square in Kyiv, where Renko has gone to find the anti-Putin daughter of an acquaintance. Meanwhile, Renko discovers that he has Parkinson's Disease, as does... " Rezension(3): "〈a href=http://www.publishersweekly.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/pw_logo.png alt=Publisher's Weekly border=0 /〉〈/a〉: Starred review from March 27, 2023 Bestseller Cronin’s first novel since his Passage trilogy is a fantastic extravaganza all its own, with a plot that hinges on unpredictable twists that run far ahead of reader expectations. Proctor Bennett, an elite resident of the socially regimented archipelago world of Prospera, works as a “ferryman,” assisting aging fellow Prosperans to transition peacefully to their next “iteration,” the reconstitution of their personalities in younger bodies. Proctor discharges his duties with great professionalism—until the ferrying of his own father goes dramatically awry, exposing cracks in Prospera’s edenic veneer. Now a dangerous fugitive on the run from his own forced iteration, Proctor enters an unlikely alliance with rebellious subversives inhabiting the Annex, the island that is home to Prospera’s disgruntled working class. Having established the foundations for what appears to be a classic dystopian tale, Cronin then pulls the rug out from under his story, audaciously expanding its scope far beyond the hermetic parameters that have shaped Proctor’s account up to that point and pushing it into the realm of provocative conceptual science fiction. Cronin’s firm command of the plot’s sinuous dynamics, and his creation of believable characters shaped by well-wrought strengths and flaws, make this bold gesture work. The result is a sensational speculative tale that is sure to get people talking. Agent: Ellen Levine, Trident Media. " Rezension(4): "〈a href=https://www.booklistonline.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/booklist_logo.png alt=Booklist border=0 /〉〈/a〉: April 1, 2023 Fans of the Passage series have been waiting for a new Cronin since 2016, and thankfully, it was worth it,he delivers a chilling, original, and immersive stand-alone sf tale perfectly rendered for our tumultuous times. Proctor Bennett lives on the island of Prospera, where everyone is protected from the horrors unfolding on the mainland. The people of Prospera are healthy and wealthy, everyone spends their time pursuing their passions, and when their time is up, they retire to the Nursery, an island where they are reiterated, their minds erased before being reintroduced back into society. As the head Ferryman, Proctor is in charge of this journey, until he is called to the home of his estranged father to facilitate a rare, forced retirement, at which point this unsettling and sinister dystopia begins to implode. At its heart, however, this is a novel about storytelling, a meticulously built tale that begs the reader to allow themselves to be swept away, greatly rewarding those who surrender and trust the designer to sail them to the finish. A great option for fans of the accessible, compelling, and thought- provoking sf of authors such as Blake Crouch, Cherie Dimaline, and Neal Stephenson. COPYRIGHT(2023) Booklist, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. " Rezension(5): "〈a href=http://www.kirkusreviews.com target=blank〉〈img src=https://images.contentreserve.com/kirkus_logo.png alt=Kirkus border=0 /〉〈/a〉: May 1, 2023 Things aren't what they seem in the supposedly idyllic state of Prospera. Cronin's latest takes place in Prospera, an archipelago state that exists in splendid isolation, hidden from the world. The main island is designed to be something of a paradise, free of all want and distraction, where residents are urged to pursue art and personal betterment. The Annex, another island, is home to the support staff--men and women of lesser biological and social endowments. Proctor Bennett lives on the main island and works as a ferryman--when his fellow residents become older or infirm, he escorts them to a boat that will carry them to the Nursery Isle, where they are reborn as teenagers who will then rejoin Prospera. One day, Proctor learns that the next person he's in charge of ferrying is his father, and it turns out the old man doesn't go quietly--on the way to the pier, he begins muttering seemingly incomprehensible phrases, telling his son, The world is not the world, and You're not...you. Then things get even more complicated: Proctor meets art dealer Thea, who's tight with a group of dissatisfied Annex residents, and then he gets fired from his job, which leads him to believe Prospera might not be everything he's thought it was. He's also trying to navigate his increasingly rocky marriage to Elise, a fashion designer whose mother, Callista, is the chair of the Board of Overseers for All Prospera--the boss of everything. The twists in this novel are plentiful and authentically surprising, and although there are tons of moving parts, Cronin does a wonderful job handling them. This is a dystopian novel that doubles as a detective story, and Proctor is an appealing protagonist, semi-hard-boiled but never descending into clich�. Cronin's prose is solid, and he handles the dialogue, sometimes leavened with humor, expertly. It's a hefty book that moves with an astounding quickness--yet another excellent offering from an author with a boundless imagination and talent to spare. Twisty, thrilling, and beautifully written. COPYRIGHT(2023) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. "

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