With this latest title, Meyer continues her trend in writing engaging, historical fiction. Narrating with the poise and confidence of a born leader, this Cleopatra should win readers over. The arrival of Marcus Antonius midway through the novel (and later of Julius Caesar) provides only the briefest hint of romance-Meyer (The Bad Queen) roots her heroine squarely in the realm of politics. This is sibling rivalry at its most vicious: crossing her sisters could cost Cleopatra her life, let alone her throne. During this time, readers are treated to royal intrigue and the cutthroat politics of Cleopatra's two older sisters, Tryphaena and Berenike, who are desperate to prevent Cleopatra's rule, since she is the favorite daughter of their father, King Ptolemy XII. Meyer's short chapters can occasionally make the narrative feel choppy, but her lush, detail-rich prose ably evokes Cleopatra's life as a young princess, beginning at age 10 and continuing on until she turns 22. S&S/Wiseman, $16.99 (304p) ISBN 978-1-4169-8727-7īefore she was a queen, Cleopatra was a girl, and Meyer's incarnation of the future monarch longs to be treated as normal-wandering the marketplace, learning to dance-even as she secretly hopes to someday rule Egypt.
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But war, loss, and the impossible pressure of secrecy will tear the three apart. Both Osla and Mab are quick to see the potential in local village spinster Beth, whose shyness conceals a brilliant facility with puzzles, and soon Beth spreads her wings as one of the Park's few female cryptanalysts. Imperious self-made Mab, product of east-end London poverty, works the legendary codebreaking machines as she conceals old wounds and looks for a socially advantageous husband. Vivacious debutante Osla is the girl who has everything-beauty, wealth, and the dashing Prince Philip of Greece sending her roses-but she burns to prove herself as more than a society girl, and puts her fluent German to use as a translator of decoded enemy secrets. As England prepares to fight the Nazis, three very different women answer the call to mysterious country estate Bletchley Park, where the best minds in Britain train to break German military codes. "The reigning queen of historical fiction" - Fiona Davis, New York Times bestselling author of The Lions of Fifth Avenue The New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of The Huntress and The Alice Network returns with another heart-stopping World War II story of three female code breakers at Bletchley Park and the spy they must root out after the war is over. Listen to This Is Horror Podcast on iTunes.
Newsweek A gorgeous and sensitive novel. Skillfully weaves fact and fiction, building to a gut-wrenching climax. Julia Alvarezs new novel, Afterlife, is available now. Through the art and magic of Julia Alvarezs imagination, the martyred Butterflies live again in this novel of courage and love, and the human costs of political oppression. In this extraordinary novel, the voices of all four sisters-Minerva, Patria, Mara Teresa, and the survivor, Ded-speak across the decades to tell their own stories, from secret crushes to gunrunning, and to describe the everyday horrors of life under Trujillos rule. Everybody knows of Las Mariposas-the Butterflies. Nor does it explain that the sisters were among the leading opponents of Gen. It does not mention that a fourth sister lives. The official state newspaper reports their deaths as accidental. Petersburg Times It is November 25, 1960, and three beautiful sisters have been found near their wrecked Jeep at the bottom of a 150-foot cliff on the north coast of the Dominican Republic. Book Synopsis 25th Anniversary Edition A magnificent treasure for all cultures and all time. About the Book Set during the waning days of the Trujillo dictatorship in the Dominican Republica in 1960, this extraordinary novel tells the story the Mirabal sisters, three young wives and mothers who are assassinated after visiting their jailed husbands. Seuss come together to create a new, delirious American Tall Tale. "Sticks `n Stones" is a ripping yarn, full of adventure and deceit, in which dinosaurs and Dr. Newland's) "Unhinged History"series of quirky-but-true science / history books. Sticks 'n Stones 'n Dinosaur Bones INTERNATIONAL BOOK AWARD & USA BOOK NEWS 2014 FINALIST - CHILDREN'S NON-FICTION New book for Juvenile Readers (and Dinosaur Fans of all ages) celebrates and embellishes the best-known public spat in all Paleontology: the cutthroat rivalry between Edward Cope and Charles Marsh that became known as "The Bone Wars." Sticks 'n Stones 'n Dinosaur Bones is the first book in popular illustrator Ted Enik's (and artist G.F. Newland's) "Unhinged History"series of quirky-but-true science / history. I would have let the rest of the dishes wait until it was done, but Auriele, Darryl’s mate, wouldn’t hear of it. The dishwasher was running, stuffed full and then some. Darryl, Adam’s second, who usually prepared the meals, was a hellaciously good cook, and his food attracted anyone who could manage to come. The breakfasts weren’t mandatory because that would have ruined the intent. Sunday breakfasts weren’t attended by the whole pack-some of them had families just like regular people or jobs they worked on the Sabbath. “I’ll get it,” said my stepdaughter, Jesse, hastily dumping two glasses and a fork in my sink.Ī werewolf pack that eats together stays together, I thought, scrubbing stubborn egg off a plate. The phone rang while I was elbow-deep in sudsy dishwater. Sabrina Vourvoulias is an award-winning Latina news editor, writer and digital storyteller. A story of how the power of love and community out-survives even the grimmest times. As the nightmare unfolds before them, unforeseen alliances between the inked?like Mari, Meche, and Toño?and non-immigrants?Finn, Del, and Abbie?are formed, all in the desperate hope to confront it. The tattoos have marked them for horrors they could not have imagined within US borders. For the ?inked?those whose immigration status has been permanently tattooed on their wrists?those famous words on the Statue of Liberty are starting to ring hollow. All across the United States, people scramble to survive new, draconian policies that mark and track immigrants and their children (citizens or not) as their freedoms rapidly erode around them. The future of the entire country will depend on them. The strongest of people can be found in the unlikeliest of places. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me." America has lost its way. "Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses. From her beacon-hand glows world-wide welcome. His father - the Roosevelt family was in the plateglass business and made millions - is the perfect humanitarian. The frail, squeaky-voiced myopic and asthmatic older son goes to doctors, Europe, Harvard and the Dakota Badlands, to make himself a man. Teddy's story, of course, has been told before although never better. But he seems to want to tell a different story. He sticks in ''Mornings on Horseback'' to his period - the cusp of our two unruly centuries - and he is incapable of writing a page of bad prose. McCullough is the author of two previous splendid social histories, one devoted to the creation of the Brooklyn Bridge and the other to the Panama Canal. Young Teddy from about age 10 until, at age 28, he runs for Mayor of New York against, of all people, Henry George, is the ostensible subject of David McCullough's new book. Old families - and the Roosevelts have been around here since the 17th century - have deep passions they don't talk about them they just shoot dogs and birds. No wonder he went out later on horseback and shot and killed a dog that chased him. Alice, in fact, died on the same day that Theodore's mother did. Clover Adams and Alice Lee Roosevelt both died before they were supposed to. LIKE Henry Adams, Theodore Roosevelt never got around to mentioning his first wife in his autobiography. Kinsella doesn’t merely treat baseball as a subject in and of itself instead, he uses it as a metaphor to discuss larger issues such as innocence, belief, and perhaps above all of these things, America. Kinsella has been called a great writer of baseball novels but this title transcends that description. Kinsella which was the inspiration for the incredibly popular film Field of Dreams starring Kevin Costner. He knows that digging up the corn field in the back of his house will inspire the return of baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson, a man whose reputation was forever tarnished by the scandalous 1919 World Series. The voice will speak only two other things to Ray: "Ease his pain" and "Go the distance," and yet the dreaming, idealistic man knows just what he is supposed to do. Ray Kinsella is sitting quietly on the back porch of his Iowa farm one evening when he hears the ghostly voice of a baseball announcer who says to him, "If you build it, he will come." Needing no further explanation, Kinsella immediately sees in his mind’s eye a baseball field that he is being asked to create in the middle of a corn field. On Sunday, October 30, 2011, just before midnight, Danica May Camacho entered the world in a crowded Manila hospital, bringing the human population of our planet to seven billion. ( From The Reading ListĮxcerpt from "Empty Planet" by Darrell Bricker and John Ibbitson Vice president and distinguished scholar at the Population Council. ( Bricker, CEO of IPSOS Public Affairs, a global market research and consulting firm. Co-author of " Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline," among other books. Co-author of " Empty Planet: The Shock of Global Population Decline," among other books. John Ibbitson, political journalist, columnist and author. Want more from the show? You can get messages right from our hosts (and more opportunities to engage with the show) sent directly to your inbox with the On Point newsletter. But what if that prediction is … all wrong? A pair of researchers argues the population is headed for a steep decline, and bring with it a whole new set of challenges. (John Locher/AP) This article is more than 4 years old. Houses line streets near the edge of the Las Vegas valley in Las Vegas. |