Where had they gone? Could we—we who were, after all, the point of Creation—suddenly vanish, too? What was going on?
The story is tightly focused, both in time—looking at the years from to the mids—and in space—in England, with brief forays into the US and France. The cast of characters is extraordinary. It opens with the discovery of mysterious footprints.
Then the plot thickens as scientists face up to a flurry of jarring discoveries. Rowan Ricardo Phillips is a multi-award-winning poet, author, screenwriter, academic, translator, and journalist. An engrossing book that expertly weaves a tale about how Black baseball survived and thrived from to and beyond.
While integrating baseball was seen as a step forward for equality, it left most of the Black players in the Negro Leagues relegated to a slow abandonment of the league they had pioneered and cultivated, and, more painfully, left out of the game they loved and helped create. While a history of the Negro Leagues and Black baseball more generally have been covered, there have been no really monumental books on the subject—that is, until now.
Clinically, she is focused on providing Medical Assistance in Dying in and around Vancouver Island and making Canada a leader in this new field of medicine. Agent: Neeti Madan. After a decade in general practice, and a dozen years as a maternity doctor, a devastating family illness drove Stefanie into a two-year sabbatical: an intensely personal confrontation with pain and suffering from the other side of the gurney.
When Stefanie returned to medicine—newly impassioned and with a goal to empower patients who are suffering—she realized what she must do. While sidelined by family commitments, she had followed with fascination a story dominating national headlines: The Supreme Court had finally struck down the law against assisted suicide. The public was greatly in favor of the decision, but where were the doctors who would step forward to help terminally ill patients end their lives?
In June , just days after the creation of Canadian law, Stefanie performed the first medically assisted death on Vancouver Island. Since then, she has helped well over patients end their lives There are currently seven states in the U.
This Is Assisted Dying amplifies the universal duets of joy and suffering, patient and healer, nature and nurture. As Stefanie is invited into the most intimate time in the lives of courageous, fascinating people, we experience with her searing instants of emotion, touching expressions of love and unpredictable moments of crazy beauty.
Barry Lopez Barry Lopez was the author of thirteen books of essays, short stories, and nonfiction. He was a recipient of the National Book Award, the Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and numerous other literary and cultural honors and awards. An ardent steward of the land, fearless traveler, and unrivaled observer of nature and culture in all its forms, Lopez lost much of the Oregon property where he had lived for over fifty years when it was consumed by wildfire, likely caused by climate change.
Fortunately, some of his papers survived, including four never-before published pieces that are gathered here, along with essays written in the final years of his life; these essays appear now for the first time in book form.
Written in his signature observant and vivid prose, these essays offer an autobiography in pieces that a reader can assemble while journeying with Lopez along his many roads. And with striking poignancy and searing candor, he confronts the challenges of his last years as he contends with the knowledge of his mortality, as well as with the dangers the Earth—and all of its people—are facing.
This deeply moving final work of nonfiction from an icon whose writing, fieldwork, and mentorship inspired generations of writers and activists is an urgent cri de coeur about the natural world and a memoir of both immense pain and tremendous wonder—one that opens our minds and souls to the urgency of being wholly present for, and preserving, the beauty of life all around us.
Horizon unfolds with the logic of memories, one thing leading to the next according to subtle connections. The Loneliest Americans A riveting blend of family history and original reportage by a conversation-starting writer for The New York Times Magazine that explores—and reimagines—Asian American identity in a Black and white world.
In , a new immigration law lifted a century of restrictions against Asian immigrants to the United States. The Loneliest Americans is the unforgettable story of Kang and his family as they move from a housing project in Cambridge to an idyllic college town in the South and eventually to the West Coast.
Their story unfolds against the backdrop of a rapidly expanding Asian America, as millions more immigrants, many of them working-class or undocumented, stream into the country. Jeremiah Moss, a pen name of Griffin Hansbury, is the acclaimed author of Vanishing New York Dey Street, , based on the celebrated blog of the same name.
Feral City Jeremiah Moss, the acclaimed author of Vanishing New York, returns with an intimate, fierce, and timely work of memoir and cultural criticism about how life during the pandemic, one of the worst periods in recent history, holds the potential for personal and collective liberation. Moss arrived in New York City in the early s. A young queer, transgender, counterculture poet, he came to the city to escape the suffocating norms of his working-class upbringing, and to find a new chosen family.
Then the pandemic hits, and its most powerful hyper-gentrifiers leave all at once, changing the emotional fabric of the city in a way that feels freeing and intoxicating. Furthermore, when the city begins to buzz with protests after the murder of George Floyd, Moss dives in head first, feeling a community with the city and its inhabitants that he has been missing for years, even reveling in some of the most intense riots and destruction.
Or was this just a moment where Moss felt alive and energized while others were dealing with the trauma of a world changed forever? Writing intimately from the intersection of his multiple selves—urban critic, psychoanalyst, and queer, transgender man—Moss is a writer whose work will be studied and cherished for years to come. He is married to Alicia Keys. She has sold more than 15 million albums and 30 million singles worldwide. As the sole female member of the Notorious B. But she was determined to make an even greater name for herself and emerged as a solo superstar.
In , she dropped her solo debut album, Hard Core, which topped the Billboard charts, went double-platinum, and is now widely considered to be one of the most influential rap albums of all-time. Twenty-five years later, this Grammy award-winning superstar has released five studio albums, sold millions of records, topped the Billboard charts, performed all over the world, and remains at the top of her game.
And yet few people ever knew about the hard work, hustle, and heartbreak that went into securing her place on the throne—until now. From her earliest rap beginnings growing up in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, and her teenage years spent with the Notorious B.
Raquel Willis Raquel Willis is a Black queer transgender activist, writer, and speaker who has dedicated her life to inspiring and elevating marginalized individuals, particularly transgender women of color. Lessons From The Last World The story of a transgender trailblazer, reflecting on masculinity, blackness, community, and the American South—told in her own words. Raquel Willis is a powerful woman. But growing up as a young boy in the South made being herself almost impossible.
In this moving and provocative memoir, Raquel relives the many risks she faced in her struggle to become a fierce advocate for her community—and the powerful woman—that she is today. She offers intimate reflections on masculinity and blackness, informed by a tumultuous relationship with her father. From a childhood built in opposition to expectations, all the way through her transition at a flagship Southern university, Raquel demonstrates that her story is but one thread in the larger tapestry of Black trans American life; a tapestry that has never truly been chronicled from this millennial, Southern perspective.
For five years of his career in law enforcement, he was an undercover agent, operating in deep cover within the underworld as a high-level money launderer for senior members of Colombian drug cartels. He not only dealt directly with cartel leaders, but also functioned as their counduit to corrupt international bankers around the world.
He is court-certified in both the U. He was now Robert Baldasare, money launderer and president of an international trade finance company.
But as his underworld reputation skyrocketed, the operation started going dangerously off the rails. On US soil, drug money en route to Mazur was seized. Contacts were being assassinated, and Mazur was being tailed. His identity had been compromised. Refusing to acknowledge the threats ahead, Mazur was obsessed with seeing the mission through to its treacherous end: expose the Cali cartel, find out who betrayed him, and escape with his life.
As with its predecessor, The Infiltrator, Mazur artfully takes the reader through the harrowing account of life as an undercover cop embedded in the drug cartels.
Read it and find out. I highly recommend it. Agent: Jenny Stephens. A Philanthropic Guide for the Rest of Us From Go Fund Me to philanthropy: the everyday ways that we can give our money, our time, and even our data to help our communities and seek justice.
For most of us—the non-wealthy givers—philanthropy can be a way of living our values and fully participating in society. We give in all kinds of way—-shopping at certain businesses, canvassing for candidates, donating money, and making conscious choices with our retirement funds. We give our cash, our time, and even our data to make the world a better place.
Bernholz takes readers on a tour of the often-overlooked worlds of participatory philanthropy, learning from a diverse group of forty resourceful givers. Giving is a form of participation. Philanthropy by the rest of us—across geographies and cultural traditions—begins with and builds on active commitment to our communities.
It is about enacting our values in the world. A vitally needed book, How We Give Now offers a fuller understanding of generosity, the foundation of our shared future, giving us a lot to consider, to be wary of—and to hope for.
Paco de Leon Paco de Leon is a musician and artist who also happens to be killer at finance. As founder of the Hell Yeah Group, Paco has spent most of her career as a consultant, financial planner, and wealth manager inspiring creatives to engage with their personal and business finances. Paco is co-founder of the nonprofit organization Allies in the Arts and lives in Los Angeles with her wife.
Getting a Grip on Your Finances An illustrated, practical guide to navigating your financial life, no matter your financial situation.
We are all weird about money. Whether you have a lot or a little, your feelings and beliefs about money have been shaped by a combination of silence or even shame around talking about money, personal experiences, family and societal expectations, and a whole big complex system rigged against many of us from the start.
Unlike most personal finance books that focus on skills and behaviors, Finance for the People asks you to examine your beliefs and experiences around money— blending extremely practical exercises with mindfulness, and including more than 50 illustrations and diagrams to make the concepts accessible and even fun. With deep insider expertise from years spent in many different corners of the financial industry, Paco de Leon is a friendly, approachable, and wise guide who invites readers to change their relationship with money.
Discovered in a pile of rubble in , this slab of stone proved to be the key to unlocking a lost language that baffled scholars for centuries. Carved in ancient Egypt, the Rosetta Stone carried the same message in different languages—in Greek using Greek letters, and in Egyptian using picture-writing called hieroglyphs. Until its discovery, no one in the world knew how to read the hieroglyphs that covered every temple and text and statue in Egypt.
Dominating the world for thirty centuries, ancient Egypt was the mightiest empire the world had ever known, yet everything about it—the pyramids, mummies, the Sphinx—was shrouded in mystery.
Whoever was able to decipher the Rosetta Stone, and learn how to read hieroglyphs, would solve that mystery and fling open a door that had been locked for two thousand years.
Two brilliant rivals set out to win that prize. The Writing of the Gods is a riveting portrait of empires both ancient and modern. This is an unparalleled look at the culture and history of ancient Egypt and a fascinating, fast-paced story of human folly and discovery unlike any other. Agent: Laurie Liss. Trauma, Illness, and Healing in a Toxic Culture By the acclaimed author of In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts, a groundbreaking investigation into the causes of illness, a bracing critique of how our society breeds disease, and a pathway to health and healing.
Nearly 70 percent of Americans are on at least one prescription drug; more than half take two. In Canada, every fifth person has high blood pressure. In Europe, hypertension is diagnosed in more than 30 percent of the population. And everywhere, adolescent mental illness is on the rise.
Yana Tallon-Hicks Yana Tallon-Hicks is a sex columnist, relationships therapist, and a consent-based, pleasure-positive sex educator. Tallon-Hicks is a sex columnist, relationships therapist, and consent-based, pleasure-positive sex educator. In this book, she will guide readers through how to think and talk about what they want from their sexual lives.
This book encourages readers to investigate their hang-ups, move past them, and into the wild wonder of their own unique sexuality. John Holl John Holl is an award-winning journalist and beer expert whose work explores the multifaceted world of the beer industry. He frequently speaks about beer to audiences around the world, both for industry events as well as with organizations such as Google and WNYC.
John hosts the podcast Steal This Beer, with a dedicated following of over 50, weekly listeners, and lives in New Jersey with his wife and daughter. John Holl invites the average eater into the complex art of pairing food and drink. Through imaginative and daring suggestions, he equips readers to create a new understanding of eleven different types of beer and their possibilities. The ish recipes that will be included in the book are inspired by menus from an array of featured American breweries and their food partners who reimagine classic pub fare to reflect what consumers look for in their beer as well as their food: a focus on fresh and local ingredients.
The Craft Brewery Cookbook is both a love letter to the art of beer and a practical guide to eating while drinking, an accessible yet inspiring cookbook for seasoned home cooks as well as beer enthusiasts looking to experiment more in the kitchen. They live in Arizona with their two daughters. A spiritual, emotional, and physical guide offering a holistic model for modern living rooted in Native American practices and cultural teachings that are both ancient and timeless.
She is also the author of the critically acclaimed novel The TwelveMile Straight. Eleanor met Aaron when she was just a teenager and he was working at a local record store—older, cool, experienced, and with an electric personality.
From the outside looking in, their life had all the trappings of what most would consider a success story.
Then, when burning lesions appeared on his body overnight, Eleanor was as baffled as his doctors. There seemed to be no obvious diagnosis, let alone a cure. A new fissure ruptured in their marriage, and new questions piled onto old ones: Where does physical illness end and mental illness begin?
Where does one person end and another begin? Everything I Have Is Yours is not a traditional love story, but it is a love story—one as heart-wrenching as it is heart-filling. Jonathan Ned Katz Jonathan Ned Katz is the author of numerous books on the history of sexuality and intimacy.
He is the founder of outhistory. Eve Adams was a rebel. She befriended anarchists, sold radical publications, took on a new name, and ran lesbian-and-gay-friendly speakeasies in Chicago and New York. Then, in , Adams risked it all to write and publish a book titled Lesbian Love. Edgar Hoover, the first Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, leading to her surveillance and arrest.
In a case that gained national attention, Adams was convicted of publishing an obscene book and attempting sex with a policewoman sent to entrap her.
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This guide to beating writer's block comes packaged in the shape of an actual block: 3" x 3" x 3", with pages and more than photographs. The Writer's Block Journal is designed to help fiction writers work through writer's block in an intuitive way. This edition has a more heart-centered theme. Feeling Stuck? Let it all out! This journal features pages where you can write about what's going wrong with your story and how you feel.
Fresh, fun, and irreverent, The Writer's Block also features advice from contemporary editors and literary agents, lessons from the awful novels of Joan Collins and Robert James Waller, a filmography of movies concerning writer's block e. With this chunky little book at your side, you may never experience writer's block again! About us.
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