Some Friends of Dorothy
There are of course scores more, but this list will set you on the right track! --Dave Wheeler, associate editor, Shelf Awareness
There are of course scores more, but this list will set you on the right track! --Dave Wheeler, associate editor, Shelf Awareness
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Winthrop Jordan, Tumult and Silence at Second Creek: An Inquiry into a Civil War Slave Conspiracy
Wallace Stegner, Beyond the Hundredth Meridian: John Wesley Powell and the Second Opening of the West
Marjorie J. Spruill, Divided We Stand: The Battle over Women's Rights and Family Values That Polarized American Politics
Johnny Cash, Man in Black: His Own Story in His Own Words
Jonathan Franzen, Purity
Timur Vermes, Look Who's Back
W.G. Sebald, The Rings of Saturn
George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo
Flannery O'Connor
John Williams
Richard White
Elena Ferrante
Tim O'Brien
C. Vann Woodward, Tom Watson: Agrarian Rebel
Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man
Will Campbell, Brother to a Dragonfly
Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory
Richard Ford, The Sportswriter
Alex Patout, Patout's Cajun Home Cooking. It was my mother's, and I don't know that she ever cracked the spine, but everything I've cooked from it has been absolutely delicious.
Bustle posed "5 literary mysteries that have never been solved but are seriously fascinating."
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To honor the late, great Anthony Bourdain, "who was as passionate a cinephile as he was a chef," IndieWire featured "the 15 best food movies ever made."
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Oxford Children's Dictionaries announced the Oxford Children's Word of the Year is "plastic."
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Who will survive? Electric Lit invited readers to "discover the plot of your post-apocalyptic novel with our handy chart."
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Bookish headline of the day: "Dealing with a Little Free Library Book Thief: A North Chicago Case Study."
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Introducing "the 10 creepiest neighbors in modern suspense," CrimeReads showed "why your neighbors are noir's favorite new villain."
Anthony Bourdain's sudden death last Friday marked a tragic end to a life that inspired and touched the many people who read his bestselling books and watched his engaging TV series. Although we ran an item about his career here recently, we want again to pay tribute to one of our favorite authors.
Just last month, Anthony Bourdain's food travelogue Parts Unknown returned for its 11th season on CNN. It was Bourdain's fourth such series, after the Travel Channel's No Reservations (2005-2012) and The Layover (2011-2013), and the Food Network's A Cook's Tour (2002-2003). Prior to TV stardom, Bourdain earned his chops as the bestselling author of Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly (Bloomsbury), his darkly funny memoir about life behind the stove. With scalding wit and honesty, he relates his road to becoming a chef and his hectic, often drug-fueled work in high-end New York City kitchens during the 1980s as well as shares inside restaurateur tips, like not to order fish on Monday (it's leftover from the weekend) and never order steak well done (overcooking masks low-quality cuts).
In 2011, Bourdain peeled his celebrity chefdom into his own imprint under Ecco, which has published books by chefs, musicians, athletes and others. Bourdain's own literary career continued after Kitchen Confidential with A Cook's Tour (2001), The Nasty Bits (2006), No Reservations (2007), Medium Raw (2010) and Appetites: A Cookbook (2016). Bourdain wrote several fiction books in the 1990s prior to Kitchen Confidential and returned to that genre in 2012 as co-author of the graphic novel Get Jiro! for DC Comics/Vertigo. Another co-authored comic, Hungry Ghosts, comes out this October. An updated edition of Kitchen Confidential was last published in 2007 by Ecco ($16.99, 9780060899226).
Ecco president and publisher Daniel Halpern paid tribute to Bourdain, saying, "I've known Tony as an author and friend for many years. He not only revolutionized the memoir genre with his groundbreaking and iconic work Kitchen Confidential, he supported emerging voices and chefs with his imprint Anthony Bourdain Books. His death is a great personal tragedy. Our thoughts are with his daughter and family at this difficult time." --Tobias Mutter
Discover: An extraordinary first novel of powerful prose, Bearskin captures the blurry line between studying primordial nature and being a part of it.
Discover: The story of a mother's abandonment and her son's search for the truth set in London just after the end of World War II.
Discover: The nine stories in A Lucky Man present profound and nuanced takes on masculinity, family, trauma and healing.
Discover: Randall Klein's first novel reverberates, featuring New Yorkers on the edge of personal family dissolution and collective urban disaster.
Discover: In this compelling memoir, Iranian American author Porochista Khakpour confronts Lyme disease and her own sense of alienation.
Discover: Queer City is a witty history-cum-tribute to gay London, from the Roman "wolf dens" through Oscar Wilde and Gay Pride marches to the present day.
Discover: The fragility of democratic institutions and the rise of tyranny is examined through the lens of Shakespeare's many portrayals of tyrants and corrupt government leaders.
Discover: The chief medical officer for the largest state mental health agency in the U.S. provides insight and opinions on how to start winning the war on drugs.
Discover: A political cartoonist reflects on journalistic integrity in a chronicle of national politics whose lessons continue to reverberate.
Discover: The king of Scandinavian noir retells Shakespeare's Macbeth in a 1970s town suffering from a major drug crisis.
Discover: An orphan who's grown up in a mostly silent monastery rides a bicycle cross-country to prove to her guardian she can make friends on her own.
Discover: Philip C. Stead's toad protagonist from A Home for Bird returns in three stories that reinforce Vernon's sweetheart character.
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The Challenger (Phantom Stallion #6)by Terri Farley
Dear Reader, Filmmaker and friend Ashley Avis says, "Storytelling carries great power in educating people about what is really happening in our natural world." I totally agree! Storytelling and STEM are natural companions. On the cover of THE CHALLENGER, you'll see a crouched cougar and a young stallion in danger. The scene is rooted in truth. Because I love wild horses, it's not always easy to love their predators. But I do. In THE CHALLENGER, ranch girl Samantha Forster is torn between wanting to protect both the wild horses she loves and the orphaned cougar stalking them. My books are fact-based. Samantha's encounter with a fictional cougar grew from talking with a friend whose daughter survived a cougar attack. I write to bring my readers adventure, empowerment, empathy and the fun of riding the range with best friends. Come and ride along! Terri Farley |
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