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![]() So after her grandmother's death, they left for the promised land – America. Elias's father was a farmer and landowner, and knew he had to get out. ![]() The Ba'ath party was in the ascendant, and businesses, land, banks and agriculture were being nationalised. The Elias family were Orthodox Christians, previous escapees from Turkey and now Syria began to make them feel unwelcome. She became brooding, angry, distant and even more determined to act out. She argues, a little simplistically perhaps, that this tendency was exacerbated by two serious accidents – one where, aged two, she leapt off the top of a wardrobe and was not caught, as she confidently expected, by her brother another where she broke her leg disobeying orders and had to lie in bed while her family went away to the beach for the summer. She was the fourth of four children, and found, early on, that her need "to be the centre of attention, no matter what" was answered most quickly by "being bad". ![]() ![]() All are dovekeepers, and all are also keeping secrets-about who they are, where they come from, who fathered them, and whom they love. The lives of these four complex and fiercely independent women intersect in the desperate days of the siege. Shirah, born in Alexandria, is wise in the ways of ancient magic and medicine, a woman with uncanny insight and power. Aziza is a warrior’s daughter, raised as a boy, a fearless rider and expert marksman who finds passion with a fellow soldier. ![]() Revka, a village baker’s wife, watched the murder of her daughter by Roman soldiers she brings to Masada her young grandsons, rendered mute by what they have witnessed. Yael’s mother died in childbirth, and her father, an expert assassin, never forgave her for that death. Based on this tragic and iconic event, Hoffman’s novel is a spellbinding tale of four extraordinarily bold, resourceful, and sensuous women, each of whom has come to Masada by a different path. According to the ancient historian Josephus, two women and five children survived. Nearly two thousand years ago, nine hundred Jews held out for months against armies of Romans on Masada, a mountain in the Judean desert. ![]() ![]() The Dovekeepers is Alice Hoffman’s most ambitious and mesmerizing novel, a tour de force of research and imagination. ![]() ![]() ![]() The experience became the point of departure for Thoreau's much broader reflection on the duty of civil disobedience. But it also highlighted the importance of individual moral conscience. (It is interesting to note that the term "civil disobedience" does not appear in the actual essay.) Thoreau's incarceration brought him firsthand knowledge of the coercive and oppressive tactics used by government to compel its citizens into support of immoral and unjust policies. He composed a letter from jail that he would later integrate into Civil Disobedience, published in 1849 under the title Resistance to Civil Government. During his stay at Walden Pond (later to become the subject of his published journal Walden, or Life in the Woods), Thoreau spent one night in jail for refusing to pay a poll tax meant to support America's war with Mexico. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Miguel enters into a partnership with a seductive Dutchwoman who offers him one last chance at success - a daring plot to corner the market of an astonishing new commodity called "coffee." To succeed, Miguel must risk everything he values and test the limits of his commercial guile, facing not only the chaos of the markets and the greed of his competitors, but also a powerful enemy who will stop at nothing to see him ruined. Now, impoverished and humiliated, living on the charity of his petty younger brother, Miguel must find a way to restore his wealth and reputation. Once among the city’s most envied merchants, Miguel has lost everything in a sudden shift in the sugar markets. ![]() Miguel Lienzo, a sharp-witted trader in the city's close-knit community of Portuguese Jews, knows this only too well. On the world’s first commodities exchange, fortunes are won and lost in an instant. ![]() His destination: Amsterdam, 1659 - a mysterious world of trade populated by schemers and rogues, where deception rules the day. In his richly suspenseful second novel, author David Liss once again travels back in time to a crucial moment in cultural and financial history. The Edgar Award–winning novel A Conspiracy of Paper was one of the most acclaimed debuts of 2000. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Late at night, it was possible to imagine you were all alone in the world.Īnd now I smelled tobacco, a familiar brand.ĭon’t get your hopes up, I told myself. Our 7,000-square-foot lake house sat on four acres of property. The moon was full enough to light up the backyard. The motion light over the back porch should have kicked on, but the bulb was burnt out. Instead I opened the back door.Īs soon as I did, Champ raced across the lawn and tore off into the woods. I could hear the TV playing in our bedroom. ![]() I called to my wife: “I’m letting Champ out,” but she didn’t answer back. ![]() The nerve! Then, he notices something odd as he looks out of the window into the darkness beyond his office window and decides to check it out. And the idea of Barack Obama and Joe Biden teaming up to solve a mystery is irresistible, at least for me.īiden narrates, and the opening finds Joe in an irascible mood, obsessively watching videos of Barack having the time of his life and seething that his best friend hasn’t even called him once in the six months or so since they left office. Hope has been in short supply lately with all the terrible things happening in the world, so the title alone is a bit of a pick me up. I admit that when I saw this book was coming out, I was psyched. Part noir thriller and part bromance, Hope Never Dies by Andrew Shaffer is a high-stakes thriller that teams up Vice President Joe Biden and President Barack Obama in a mystery worthy of Watson and Holmes-a cathartic read for anyone distressed by the current state of affairs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Delving into the origins of this mythic tale, Haynes revitalizes and reconstructs Medusa's story with her passion and fierce wit, offering a timely retelling of this classic myth that speaks to us today. In Stone Blind, classicist and comedian Natalie Haynes turns our understanding of this legendary myth on its head, bringing empathy and nuance to one of the earliest stories in which a woman-injured by a powerful man-is blamed, punished, and monstered for the assault. Until Perseus embarks upon a fateful quest to fetch the head of a Gorgon. Cursed with the power to destroy all she loves with one look, Medusa condemns herself to a life of solitude. Writhing snakes replace her hair and her gaze will turn any living creature to stone. Punished for Poseidon's actions, Medusa is forever transformed. Furious by the violation of her sacred space, Athene takes revenge-on the young woman. ![]() When the sea god Poseidon assaults Medusa in Athene's temple, the goddess is enraged. Her mortal lifespan gives her an urgency that her family will never know. Unlike her siblings, Medusa grows older, experiences change, feels weakness. The only mortal in a family of gods, Medusa is the youngest of the Gorgon sisters. They will fear you and flee you and call you a monster. A fresh take on the story of Medusa, the original monstered woman. ![]() ![]() ![]() That’s on the same mentality of “a warrior in shining armor is the one who has never had their metal truly tested.” Being a warrior is about absolute vulnerability.” “Being a warrior is not about perfection. This virtuous cycle means that achieving great results leads us to fuller lives fuller lives result in achieving even greater outcomes.ģ. “A warrior does not give up what he loves. This Mantra reflects throughout the film:Ģ. ![]() Socrates’ main affirmation is Stoicism’s core value: the power of now. Then you will nod your head with a smile on the below Mantras, Meditations, and Ideas.ġ. Thanks to him, Dan learns a new way of life, strength, and awareness that he could have never imagined.Īre you familiar with Bushido, Buddhism, and Stoicism? A mysterious stranger, Socrates (Nick Nolte), gradually becomes his mentor. The story is about Dan Millman (Scott Mechlowicz), a gifted, unhappy, and ambitious athlete. ![]() Still, the film contains meaningful and actionable life lessons and meditations. Some viewers argue that something is lost in the transition from page to screen. “ blends fact and fiction, memoir and invention, autobiography and imagination. The novel is a distillation of the author’s life as a gymnast athlete, and quoting him: Peaceful Warrior is a 2006 film based on the 1980 best-selling novel Way of the Peaceful Warrior by Dan Millman. ![]() ![]() He is known for writing and illustrating more than 60 books under the pen name Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel (1904 -1991) was an American children's author, cartoonist, illustrator, poet, animator, and filmmaker. The reverse side has darkened in a mottled fashion. ![]() The front and back panels are a little darkened, in a mottled fashion, have a little water stain along part of the top and bottom edges, and one 1/4 in. The spine panel and flaps' folds have darkened and are chipped on the ends. The back flap lists ten other titles of Beginner Books, each $1.95. distributed by Random House on the bottom end. DJ: The back panel has three quotes of experts and has Beginner Books, Inc. Eight pages have a stain(s), from one pinpoint size one to a 2 3/4 in. ![]() Rubbed spots are on the top and bottom edges of the spine strip and the front board. 63 pages color illustrations, including on the endpapers publisher's B-13 on the bottom end of the spine panel. The cover is glossy yellow with black and red letters and color illustrations. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was a work of sardonic wit in the post-9/11 climate of magical earnestness, and one narrow in scope during a moment that saw the reemergence of big social novels by men named Jonathan. of Speculation, Rachel Khong’s diaristic Alzheimer’s comedy Goodbye, Vitamin, and the entirety of Tao Lin’s hoodie-clad oeuvre.ĭespite a positive reception (it won the LA Times Book Prize for fiction and drew praise from Cathleen Schine in the New York Times Book Review), Robison’s novel had the bad luck of wrong place and time. It would be bold to claim that Why Did I Ever, Mary Robison’s 2001 novel in 536 short chapters, both predicted Twitter and precociously perfected the form, so I’ll start with an easier proposition: Robison’s novel-reissued this month-is an American classic, the spiritual spawn of Elizabeth Hardwick’s Sleepless Nights and Renata Adler’s Speedboat, and the missing generational link between those and recent works like Jenny Offill’s aphoristic divorce drama Dept. ![]() Why Did I Ever, by Mary Robison, Counterpoint Press, 205 pages, $16.95 ![]() |