A Woman's Lot: The Second Meonbridge Chronicle (The Meonbridge Chronicles) by Carolyn Hughes

 

 

 

How can mere women resist the misogyny of men?
1352. In Meonbridge, a resentful peasant rages against Eleanor Titherige’s efforts to build up her flock of sheep. Susanna Miller’s husband, grown melancholy and ill-tempered, succumbs to idle gossip that his wife’s a scold. Agnes Sawyer’s yearning to be a craftsman is met with scorn. And the village priest, fearful of what he considers women’s “unnatural” ambitions, is determined to keep them firmly in their place.
Many men hold fast to the teachings of the Church and fear the havoc the “daughters of Eve” might wreak if they’re allowed to usurp men’s roles and gain control over their own lives.
Not all men in Meonbridge resist the women’s desire for change – indeed, they want it for themselves. Yet it takes only one or two misogynists to unleash the hounds of hostility and hatred…

“I didn’t so much feel as if I were reading about mediaeval England as actually experiencing it first hand.” Linda’s Book Bag @Lindahill50Hill

If you enjoy immersive historical fiction with a strong authentic feel, set in a time of change and challenge, especially for women, you’ll love A Woman’s Lot, the second MEONBRIDGE CHRONICLE. Find out for yourself if Meonbridge’s “unnatural” women stand up to their abusers.

 

Seasons of Darkness by Belinda G. Buchanan

 

 

Ethan Harrington's innocence was lost seven years ago when his mother took her own life. Forced to grow up in a hurry, he quickly learns to build a wall around his heart, vowing never to let it be hurt again. Left alone with his controlling and abusive father in an isolated farmhouse, Ethan struggles to live among the shattered remains of a family that was never functional to begin with.

A kindhearted doctor, a beautiful girl, and a caring nanny all love him in different ways, but Ethan, now sixteen and still ravaged by his mother's suicide, turns to what he has seen his father take comfort in time and time again - thus giving rise to an inner demon that will not turn him loose.

A story of hope - even in the darkest of times, this is a coming-of-age novel that depicts the sometimes difficult, and oftentimes complex, relationship experienced between fathers and sons when tragedy strikes.

 

A Global Heart-Coherent Energy Field of Love by Danny Skyfeather

 

 

Welcome to A Global Heart-Coherent Energy Field of Love… This is a growing network of open hearts who are committed to awakening and manifesting the energy of love within and through our minds and bodies – in service to all life everywhere.

Connecting to this Global Heart-Coherent Energy Field of Love is as simple as passionately anchoring the core affirmation, or “heart-command,” into your chest and subconscious mind every day. 

With every repetition you are automatically connected with all others who repeat this command – while receiving the waves of love-energy flowing through it. Love is the energy that is present in all moments of time and all places at once. 

A Global Heart-Coherent Energy Field of Love has 4 basic parts: 

**Part One: Instruction on how to anchor the core affirmation into the deepest regions of your heart, body, and subconscious mind. Further, how to expand and raise your heart-center above your head – and to flood the energy of love through your mind-body.

**Part Two: This has 108 repetitions of the affirmation with other heart-commands between them. Going through this section over and over again will firmly plant & reinforce the love-infused affirmation into the furthest regions of your mind and body. 

**Part Three: This is 90 days of further insights and affirmations to help you stay focused and driven to awaken the divine love within and AS your very self.

**Part Four: The Thought-Intention-Energy-Love transmission pages. Here you can write the names or paste the photos of people whom you wish to receive the energy of love flowing through this global heart-coherent energy field. The energy of love that flows into ONE book flows into ALL books. The effect is beautiful and exponential.

If you KNOW that you are on this planet to make love more real and manifest, then this book was written especially for you. 

The Global Heart-Coherent Energy Field of Love is not for the spiritual faint of heart. It is for warriors of love who are here to do the real internal work of manifesting love in our cells… communities… countries… and the world.

 

ATHANOR: The Secret Science of the Heart (I Quaderni del Bardo Edizioni di Stefano Donno)

The time of our civilisation, which is only one of the possible civilisations, can be transcribed synthetically through the categories of thought that specified axiologically its structure and continually remodelled it. Passages never clearly marked, if anything connoted, by that “barbarian residue” which, due to a certain instinctual pertinacity, were painstakingly exceeded. The border between reality and appearance is always very subtle, we find it so, even today in the persistence of certain scientifically anachronistic expressions; let us say, for example, that the sun rises and sets, instead of referring to the horizon. We need some time to get used to something that differs from the perception that we had of the world that is, we need time to change.This, for what it’s worth, is what we believe. In fact, however, it is only the persistences that weaken our conscious presence, which, in turn, manifests itself in a wealth of forms commensurate with the capacity we have to intuit them. Every achievement is as if a new mental being is produced, almost incapable of empathy with the past self. Ultimately, the shift over time determines a change of perspective, by regressing in the memory, we lose the sharpness of the state of mind that led to the choice or for which we risked that move. We simply change our mind and this has the effect of no longer permitting us to be that which we once were. It’s as if they slowly vanish, all the humours or moods that we have experienced converge here - there is no other time and if every shift creates a different vision of the world, everything can be changed in a single instant.

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Era meglio il libro di Valerio Lundini (Rizzoli Lizard)

 

 

"Adesso ti spiego che cos'è questo libro. Facciamo una cosa breve, anche perché lo spazio è poco. Da anni Valerio Lundini dirige e interpreta corti, sketch e spettacoli, lavora in radio e in televisione. In pratica, Lundini scrive cose che fanno ridere. Scrive parecchio, ma senza ordine: sparge fogli in giro e tra una cosa e l'altra c'è sempre il rischio che si perda qualcosa. Per questo ha deciso di scegliere le sue pagine migliori e stamparle in un certo numero di copie. Uno dice: «Potevi mettere tutto su una chiavetta usb», ma non è la stessa cosa. Il libro raccoglie una serie di racconti su killer perbene, coppie che vivono su diversi piani temporali, critici cinematografici sbrigativi, editorialisti problematici, la nostra bella Napoli, il ruolo del clacson e dell'incesto nella società civile e i gradi di separazione che ci dividono da Franco Califano. Che Lundini è surreale lo hanno già scritto in tanti, quindi su questa cosa non mi dilungherei. Anche perché qui lo spazio è finito e il libro è molto meglio dentro. No, veramente".

Poesie (2020-1997) di Vittorino Curci (Autore), Milo De Angelis (Prefazione) edito da La Vita Felice

 

 

"L'infanzia percorre tutte queste pagine, con le sue scene antiche e il suo eterno «primo ottobre nel cortile della scuola», il suo giocare «a morra con le ore della notte». Ma non è l'infanzia crepuscolare del rimpianto. È una stagione vivissima che non possiamo situare nel passato, che ci raggiunge e ci supera, a volte ci aspetta. È un inizio incessante in cui siamo immersi, quello che ha ispirato un momento esemplare di quest'opera («Se penso al mattino del creato/ quando le cose furono toccate da uno sguardo per la prima volta/ io sono contento di tornare sui miei/ passi...») e sollecita nel profondo la sua ispirazione, ponendosi come continuo esordio o come rinascita dopo la caduta e accendendo una corrente impetuosa che scorre tra le righe nei momenti dello sconforto, della sconfitta, dell'essere vulnerabili alle potenze del cosmo: quando «il tuo mandala sarà disfatto/ al primo sogno di vento», ecco che un altro vento misterioso scuote il disfacimento e lo consegna alla metamorfosi. Così il fascino di questa poesia è un soffio polifonico che raccoglie in sé diverse tonalità – dall'elegia alla riflessione sapiente, dall'invettiva alla supplica – per ricrearsi continuamente dalle sue ceneri, che sono le ceneri personali ma anche quelle della Storia: è una prospettiva vasta e generale, un'inquadratura in campo lungo, uno sguardo nitido e insieme visionario". (dalla prefazione di Milo De Angelis)

On Love by Charles Bukowski

 

 

A companion to On Writing and On Cats: A raw and tender poetry collection that captures the Dirty Old Man of American letters at his fiercest and most vulnerable, on a subject that hits home with all of us.

Charles Bukowski was a man of intense emotions, someone an editor once called a “passionate madman.” In On Love, we see Bukowski reckoning with the complications and exaltations of love, lust, and desire. Alternating between tough and gentle, sensitive and gritty, Bukowski lays bare the myriad facets of love—its selfishness and its narcissism, its randomness, its mystery and its misery, and, ultimately, its true joyfulness, endurance, and redemptive power.

Bukowski is brilliant on love—often amusing, sometimes playful, and fleetingly sweet. On Love offers deep insight into Bukowski the man and the artist; whether writing about his daughter, his lover, his friends, or his work, he is piercingly honest and poignantly reflective, using love as a prism to see the world in all its beauty and cruelty, and his own fragile place in it. “My love is a hummingbird sitting that quiet moment on the bough,” he writes, “as the same cat crouches.”

Brutally honest, flecked with humor and pathos, On Love reveals Bukowski at his most candid and affecting.

 

 

Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am by Julia Cooke

 

 

Glamour, danger, liberation: in a Mad Men–era of commercial flight, Pan Am World Airways attracted the kind of young woman who wanted out, and wanted up

Required to have a college education, speak two languages, and possess the political savvy of a Foreign Service officer, a jet-age stewardess serving on iconic Pan Am between 1966 and 1975 also had to be between 5′3" and 5′9", between 105 and 140 pounds, and under 26 years of age at the time of hire.Cooke’s intimate storytelling weaves together the real-life stories of a memorable cast of characters, from small-town girl Lynne Totten, a science major who decided life in a lab was not for her, to Hazel Bowie, one of the relatively few Black stewardesses of the era, as they embraced the liberation of their new jet-set life. Cooke brings to light the story of Pan Am stewardesses’ role in the Vietnam War, as the airline added runs from Saigon to Hong Kong for planeloads of weary young soldiers straight from the battlefields, who were off for five days of R&R, and then flown back to war. Finally, with Operation Babylift—the dramatic evacuation of 2,000 children during the fall of Saigon—the book’s special cast of stewardesses unites to play an extraordinary role on the world stage.

 

The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency by Tove Ditlevsen

 

 

Called "a masterpiece" by The New York Times, the acclaimed trilogy from Tove Ditlevsen, a pioneer in the field of genre-bending confessional writing

Tove Ditlevsen is today celebrated as one of the most important and unique voices in twentieth-century Danish literature, and The Copenhagen Trilogy (1969–71) is her acknowledged masterpiece. Childhood tells the story of a misfit child’s single-minded determination to become a poet; Youth describes her early experiences of sex, work, and independence. Dependency picks up the story as the narrator embarks on the first of her four marriages and goes on to describe her horrible descent into drug addiction, enabled by her sinister, gaslighting doctor-husband.

Throughout, the narrator grapples with the tension between her vocation as a writer and her competing roles as daughter, wife, mother, and drug addict, and she writes about female experience and identity in a way that feels very fresh and pertinent to today’s discussions around feminism. Ditlevsen’s trilogy is remarkable for its intensity and its immersive depiction of a world of complex female friendships, family and growing up―in this sense, it’s Copenhagen's answer to Elena Ferrante's Neapolitan Novels. She can also be seen as a spiritual forerunner of confessional writers like Karl Ove Knausgaard, Annie Ernaux, Rachel Cusk and Deborah Levy. Her trilogy is drawn from her own experiences but reads like the most compelling kind of fiction.

Born in a working-class neighborhood in Copenhagen in 1917, Ditlevsen became famous for her poetry while still a teenager, and went on to write novels, stories and memoirs before committing suicide in 1976. Having been dismissed by the critical establishment in her lifetime as a working-class, female writer, she is now being rediscovered and championed as one of Denmark's most important modern authors, with "Tove fever" gripping readers.

Jack Kerouac: Collected Poems (LOA #231) (Library of America Jack Kerouac Edition) by Jack Kerouac

 

 

 

Poetry was at the center of Jack Kerouac’s sense of mission as a writer. This landmark edition brings together for the first time all Kerouac’s major poetic works—Mexico City Blues, The Scripture of the Golden Eternity, Book of Blues, Pomes All Sizes, Old Angel Midnight, Book of Haikus—along with a rich assortment of his uncollected poems, six published here for the first time. He wrote poetry in every period of his life, in forms as diverse as the classical Japanese haiku, the Buddhist sutra, the spontaneous prose poetry of Old Angel Midnight, and the poetic “blues” he developed in Mexico City Blues and other serial works, seeing himself as “a jazz poet blowing a long blues in an afternoon jam session on Sunday.” Many poets found Kerouac a liberating influence on their work: Robert Creeley called him “a genius at the register of the speaking voice”; for Allen Ginsberg he was “a poetic influence over the entire planet”; and Bob Dylan said that Mexico City Blues was crucial to his own artistic development.

Also available in specially-designed jacket (978-1-59853-194-7)

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

 

 

 

 

Fall Of A King: Book One, The False Prince (Volume 1) by James Fuller

 

 

An epic journey of deceit, betrayal, magic and a treasonous love sets sail as Meath, a young apprentice to the formidable wizard, Ursa, escapes certain death while a freshly united Kingdom is held captive by a false Prince. In hope of relaying the truth of the usurper who now threatens the throne, Meath embarks on a dangerous journey with the true heiress, Nicolette, in an attempt to reach her Uncle before they too are entangled in the lie that has wound itself deep into the lands. Amidst the soldiers dispatched to return the princess and capture Meath and his friends, they must avoid the barbarian clans who have begun a savage war on the Kingdom of Draco; evading what seems like fate has become a perilous game they may not be able to win…

Rubies and Other Gems by Joyce DeBacco

 

 

Lily’s life isn’t going well. Her husband is clueless; her children are rudderless. It's little wonder she seeks comfort in her dreams, unaware that her grandmother’s rubies have transported her back through time to a safer, saner existence. When she learns her dream lover is not a dream after all, but a real man who lived and died years before she was born, family problems mount. Because she can’t repair the damage from the past, she vows to stay in the here and now. She almost succeeds when she accidentally sends herself back in time without her return ticket, the rubies.

A Moment in Time: A Romantic-Suspense Novel by J.G. MacLeod

 

 

He's an ex con; she's his teacher. Will their secret pasts destroy them, or be the key to their redemption?

Lily Macarthur teaches psychology at an adult ed. school by day, and runs from her past every chance she gets. When she attends course registration the last week of summer break, she never imagines she'll meet a student with a past as mysterious as her own.

Chad Anderson is instantly attracted to Lily, but he's been in prison so long he knows better than to expect such an intelligent woman to fall for a guy like him. He takes a risk and signs up for her class, hoping to get to know her better, and to start over.

A chance encounter one fall night throws the unlikely pair together for survival, friendship, and perhaps something more. But forces beyond their control threaten to destroy more than just their reputations. In a world full of bystanders, will someone take a stand against the powers of evil?

Everything can change in A Moment in Time.

Based on a true beginning, this romantic-suspense novel contains a psychological twist that will leave you questioning everything. Reviews appreciated. Recommended for 18+ for some steamy scenes & language.

 

Deadly Fears by Jessie McClure

 

 

Deadly Fears contains eight creepy tales that will linger in your mind long after they’ve ended. Stories where the unexpected should be expected. Where an ebony-clawed demon is a friend and a doting mother is the monster. Where fear is sometimes broken by humor.

• FATHER - Something lives in the luminescent fog, something that spirits away all who encounter it. A girl will come face to face with the unknown when she leaves her home to save her family.

• PLOP Industries - A deadly mistake at one of Hell’s premier human-possession facilitation agencies has occurred. With screams echoing in the halls and blood oozing under doors, can the demons handle the situation or will Hell-land Security need to save the day?

• REVENGE – Separated from her parents during the zombie apocalypse, Nora survives when a mysterious creature swoops in to kill her attackers. Unfortunately for her, there’s a disturbing price to pay for its help, and it won’t go down easily.

• ORB C68 - A large alien orb, dormant for months, has activated. Cracks form on its surface as its temperature rises and a wild scent fills the air. Do scientists know enough to save themselves, much less humanity?

• THE TRANSFORMATION – Maggie wakes to a world that is not her own and a life she doesn’t understand. With nowhere to go, she wanders aimlessly until an uncontrollable urge has her step into an empty house. Inside lives a creature of nightmares.

• THE APOCALYPSE –The monster apocalypse has arrived and most of humanity is dead. Preppers Todd and Gordon feel safe until they hear scratching coming from the apartment upstairs. Can they put aside their differences and defeat the monster? Or will they become its next victims?

• DORIS & ERVIN –Ervin is a demon studying humans in their natural habitat. As a vegetarian, he forbids any consumption of human flesh. With his health in jeopardy, Doris commits the ultimate betrayal to save him, chancing her own demise.

• THE REAPER - A grim reaper obsessed with collecting the flesh of his victims is hunted by an entity with an obsession of its own—him. Will he be able to solve the mystery before he loses his own desiccated hide?

Enjoy Deadly Fears and hope the stories don't haunt you.

 

Return to the Streets (Children from the Streets) by Maria Gibbs (Author), R E Hargrave (Editor), Tammy Clarke (Illustrator)

 

 

From the outside, Marcos and Jasmine Martinez seem to have everything. Their days are filled with dream jobs, perfect health, and untold wealth, yet underneath it all, something is broken. Something money won’t fix, but neither have a clue as to what will.Honourable to a fault, Cristian Matos is trapped in a loveless marriage to his best friend’s sister. A siren, Leticia Martinez fulfills his desires whilst making him feel dirty. Leaving her is very much on Cristian’s mind, as are his relationships with Marcos and Jasmine, but what kind of man would take the steps he’s considering when his wife is so emotionally unstable?The fun-loving celebration of Carnival is over. As we return to the streets of Rio, love, lies, and betrayal rock the Martinez family once again. With so much devastation, surely all that’s left now is destruction, especially when vengeance brings the family full circle.Can enough happiness still be found to overcome all their heartaches? Or is the Martinez family forever cursed?

Sapphire by Bryan W. Alaspa

 

 

Jimmy Parker is a typical high school student. Unpopular with the girls and picked on by the boys, he’s just trying to survive long enough to escape the tiny Pennsylvanian town of Knorr. With Jimmy and his friend, George, heading to the school dance, they expect nothing but the usual ritual humiliation from their peers. But when a girl in a brilliant blue dress enters their lives at the side of a lonely old bridge…everything changes. Her name is Sapphire, and she is the most alluring girl that Jimmy has ever met. Yet, there is something strange about her; something different. Why has he never seen her at school? Why does she only want to meet up near the bridge? And why does everybody keep warning Jimmy to stay away from her? Before long, Jimmy is plunged into a decades-old mystery. The town of Knorr has many secrets; some held by powerful men. Men that would do anything to keep them from getting out. Something dark happened one night in Knorr, and now Jimmy is a part of it whether he likes it or not. And Sapphire holds the key to understanding it all. Jimmy discovers that his bond with the mysterious girl creates a unique power between them. A power that bridges time, space, and even dimensions. It is the one thing that could save them both. Because sometimes the most powerful force on Earth is love.

Not Dead by Anita Dickason

 

 

A small-town Texas cop who is haunted by his past.A reporter who risks it all, even her life. A kidnapping that crosses into an unearthly realm. Focused on the abduction of four-year-old Mandy Norton, Chad Bishop, Meridian’s Police Chief, ignores the twinges of foreboding triggered by an eerie fog that shrouds his town. What he can’t ignore is the editor of the Tribune. When Ashley Logan becomes embroiled in the search, nothing stops the hard-hitting, investigative reporter, including Chad’s threats to throw her in jail. She’s Mandy’s aunt. As the mystery of Mandy’s disappearance deepens, unnerving details emerge. Chad refuses to believe they’re connected to his past until the case turns deadly. He’s forced to face the terror that haunts him. It’s waiting in the shadowy depths of the unearthly fog. This time, it could cost Chad more than his sanity.

Consequences by Peter C Bradbury

 

 

Bullying is a huge problem that plenty is said about, but little is done. James would prefer to be apologized to, but if his bullies, or those who did him wrong as he grew up refuse to do so, then they will face the "CONSEQUENCES" of their actions. At first, James isn't worried about himself, he's reached the end of his tether and he's all alone. Yet after meeting up with another victim who attended the same school, his tactics change, and he wants to help others who are also bullied and belittled.Although "CONSEQUENCES" is a novel, I hope it will bring more awareness to the huge problem of bullying, and that people will think about how they treat and act toward others.James is able to deal with his tormentors eventually, but he has the tools to do so. Many millions of other don't.

Prospects by Peter C Bradbury

 

 

Beautiful, young, professional women, believe that they are being courted by a very handsome rich man.Little do they know that it's a part of his plan.For years, Alec has wanted to take one of their lives but ultimately pulled out, fearing discovery and arrest.When he gets an unexpected opportunity with a total stranger, he takes it, and it sets off a cycle of murder. Alec also has a brother, George, a former rapist who is more than happy to do his brother's killing once he has his own time with the victims.Thousands of women go missing every year in the U.S., and unless there is evidence to suggest otherwise, then they remain classed as missing persons.Detective Garcia believes that the women are being murdered, but she needs to find some evidence before the wealthy and educated brothers disappear.Set in San Francisco and its East Bay, this story will make you realize that even if you're very careful, very bad things can happy to you by the ones you would least suspect.

Deadlock by Stephen Hudler

 

 

The Eoch and Thiar have chosen earth as the final battle ground in their eons old war. Detective Eddie Solomon is hiding a dark secret that’s tearing him up inside. It causes him to bury his past and return to his childhood home of Philadelphia. While he tries to rebuild his life and his relationship with his brother, he’s hit by an alien beam that gives him super powers.In what seems like a dream, the Eoch tell Eddie of their war with the Thiar and the stalemate they are in. To settle it once and for all, both sides have chosen a champion to fight to the death.Now Eddie must master his new abilities and face an opponent that is hellbent on finding him by any means necessary. If you enjoy action packed superhero sci fi, then you'll love Deadlock.

The Isthmus Company: Part II by Samantha Boulton

 

 

For years, he had been employed as a puppet of Isthmus. Why this girl should think differently of him was simply baffling. She had seen everything that he had done in the past few months. True, he was here of his own accord, not Ishmus's, but she could not possibly know that. Pondering the thought, he nearly tripped over another crack in the sidewalk. If Isthmus knew exactly what he was doing right now... he did not want to finish the thought.

"That and my dad still owes Isthmus a few million dollars. It's not like he's going to forget that debt. Not to mention, he wouldn't send just you to recollect the Collateral," she said darkly. As much as she hated it, she knew it was never going to end until her father could pay. As far as she knew, that was not going to be any time soon.

The second installment in The Isthmus Company series picks up the action right where the first one left off.

 

In The Image of Man (Unseen Dominion) (Volume 1) 1st Edition by Robert Roush

 

 

The eyes are the window to the soul . . .

. . . but what if the eyes are empty?

When Officer Chris Davis, of Arrow Springs, Missouri, rescues a young woman from a mysterious attacker, he steps into the center of a spiritual showdown. Following his heart, and a trace of circumstantial evidence, he embarks on a collision course with a government research facility and an unseen foe.

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One Year before Dolly the Sheep, three humans were cloned in a small town in Missouri.

Twenty-five years later, THEY'RE READY!

 

Le novità a fumetti della settimana

L'era della suscettibilità di Guia Soncini (Marsilio)

 

 

Basta un niente: una canzone di cinquant’anni fa, un film ambientato a metà dell’Ottocento, una battuta di oggi – eccola che arriva, l’indignazione di giornata, passatempo mondiale, monopolizzatrice delle conversazioni e degli umori. Ogni mattina l’essere umano contemporaneo si sveglia e sa che, al mercato degli scandali passeggeri, troverà un offeso fresco di giornata, una nuova angolazione filosofica del diritto alla suscettibilità, un Robespierre della settimana. La morte del contesto, il prepotente feticismo della fragilità, per cui «poverino» è diventato l’unico approccio concesso, e l’epistemologia identitaria, per cui l’appartenenza prevale su qualunque curriculum di studioso, sono solo alcuni tra i fenomeni più evidenti e dirompenti degli ultimi anni, con effetti pericolosi e grotteschi che in altri secoli erano occasionale damnatio memoriae e ora sono quotidiana cancel culture. Guia Soncini si interroga sulle origini di quest’eterno presente in cui tutto ciò che non ci rispecchia alla perfezione sembra una violazione della nostra identità. Ricorda le opere che avevano previsto la dittatura del perbenismo, dal solito Orwell al romanzo di Philip Roth La macchia umana, «la matrice di tutti i disastri d’incomprensione e suscettibilità»; contesta il ruolo dei social come amplificatori di dissenso e indignazione; individua alcune preoccupanti implicazioni politiche: se a sinistra si perde la capacità di non considerare la fine del mondo ogni parola sbagliata, che ne sarà della libertà d’espressione? Rimarrà solo alla destra lo spazio per dire di tutto, e non passare le giornate a sentirsi feriti da ogni maleducazione? È ora di ricostruire come siamo arrivati fin qui. Al diritto di offenderci, al dovere di indignarci.

I vestiti che ami vivono a lungo. Riparare, riadattare e rindossare i tuoi abiti è una scelta rivoluzionaria di Orsola de Castro (Corbaccio)

 

 

«La moda non dev'essere spreco di risorse, ma tutela della bellezza. Un libro utile e interessante» (Rossella Migliaccio, autrice di Armocromia). Non abbiamo più spazio per i vestiti che acquistiamo compulsivamente? Siamo curiosi di sapere come possiamo fare la differenza nella battaglia sul cambiamento climatico? Partecipiamo alla rivoluzione di Orsola de Castro e impariamo a vestirci con abiti belli, a farli durare a lungo, in armonia con la nostra personalità e con il pianeta. Nei "Vestiti che ami vivono a lungo", Orsola de Castro, stilista e fondatrice di Fashion Revolution, ci parla di moda, di estetica, di taglia-e-cuci, del piacere di vestirci costruendo al contempo una nostra identità. Ma il suo è anche un libro politico, scritto da una donna che per decenni ha operato nel fashion system, che da dentro ne ha potuto conoscere la volatilità, le contraddizioni, gli sprechi, addirittura i crimini, e che ha deciso di lavorare per trasformarlo radicalmente. E la sua forza sta nel farci capire che la vera politica incomincia da scelte individuali, da gesti quotidiani che appartengono al nostro vissuto collettivo, come prendere in mano un ago e un filo per riparare qualcosa che altrimenti siamo costretti a buttare. E scoprire che è un gesto non solo necessario, ma anche bello: perché rimanda a saperi perduti e capaci di rendere tutto ciò che è standardizzato e impersonale incredibilmente unico e simile a noi.

Hollywood by Charles Bukowski

 

 

From iconic tortured artist/everyman Charles Bukowski, Hollywood is the fictionalization of his experience adapting his novel Barfly into a movie by the same name.

Henry Chinaski, Bukowski’s alter-ego, is pushed to translate a semi-autobiographical book into a screenplay for John Pinchot.  He reluctantly agrees, and is thrust into the otherworld called Hollywood, with its parade of eccentric and maddening characters: producers, artists, actors and actresses, film executives and journalists.  In this world, the artistry of books and film is lost to the dollar, and Chinaski struggles to keep his footing in the tangle of cons that comprise movie making.

Hollywood is Dirty Old Man Bukowski at his most lucid.  It overflows with curses, sex, and alcohol.  And through it all, or from it all, Bukowski finds flashes of truth about the human condition. 

 

Infinite Country: A Novel by Patricia Engel

 

 

A REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK AND INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

“A knockout of a novel…we predict [Infinite Country] will be viewed as one of 2021’s best.” —O, The Oprah Magazine

Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 from Esquire, O, The Oprah Magazine, Elle, GMA, New York Post, Ms. Magazine, The Millions, Electric Literature, LitHub, AARP, Refinery29, BuzzFeed, Autostraddle, She Reads, Alma, and more.

I often wonder if we are living the wrong life in the wrong country.

Talia is being held at a correctional facility for adolescent girls in the forested mountains of Colombia after committing an impulsive act of violence that may or may not have been warranted. She urgently needs to get out and get back home to Bogotá, where her father and a plane ticket to the United States are waiting for her. If she misses her flight, she might also miss her chance to finally be reunited with her family in the north.

How this family came to occupy two different countries, two different worlds, comes into focus like twists of a kaleidoscope. We see Talia’s parents, Mauro and Elena, fall in love in a market stall as teenagers against a backdrop of civil war and social unrest. We see them leave Bogotá with their firstborn, Karina, in pursuit of safety and opportunity in the United States on a temporary visa, and we see the births of two more children, Nando and Talia, on American soil. We witness the decisions and indecisions that lead to Mauro’s deportation and the family’s splintering—the costs they’ve all been living with ever since.

Award-winning, internationally acclaimed author Patricia Engel, herself a dual citizen and the daughter of Colombian immigrants, gives voice to all five family members as they navigate the particulars of their respective circumstances. And all the while, the metronome ticks: Will Talia make it to Bogotá in time? And if she does, can she bring herself to trade the solid facts of her father and life in Colombia for the distant vision of her mother and siblings in America?

Rich with Bogotá urban life, steeped in Andean myth, and tense with the daily reality of the undocumented in America, Infinite Country is the story of two countries and one mixed-status family—for whom every triumph is stitched with regret, and every dream pursued bears the weight of a dream deferred.

Two Paths (Adventures of Lady Ellen Montagu) by J.G. MacLeod

 

 

What would you do if you were secretly pregnant with another man's child in 19th-century Ireland?

Nineteen-year-old Ellen Montagu attempts to adjust to life in County Galway after spending several months in exile on the Aran Islands. She is burdened by secrets, including her feelings for Grady, that haunt her every day. To complicate things further, famine arrives in Ireland in the winter of 1845. Soon, Lady Ellen must make an enormous decision between two paths that will affect not only her own life, but her unborn child's future as well.

Two Paths combines humour, romance, travel, family drama, and history into one unforgettable story. 18+ advised for some steamy scenes.

The Mis-Adventures of Phillip Isaac Penn by Donna Peterson

 

 

Everybody calls Phillip Isaac Penn, Pip. And usually they yell it at the top of their lungs. Sure he might forget to close the classroom mice's cage door, or leave his mother's hair dryer in bathtub (hey, it's unplugged), and he might even make it so that Liar Lizzy gets caught, but that doesn't make him bad. It's just not easy being a kid.

Ghost Hunter: A Matter of Faith (Volume 2) by Mr Martin J Best

 

 

Single mother Teena Maunder’s orderly life is abruptly turned upside down by a seemingly inexplicable haunting. Desperate for help, she turns to amateur paranormal investigator Malachi Hunter. Mal quickly finds himself battling with an unusually aggressive supernatural being, the situation complicated by his unexpected attraction to Teena. As the consequences of the haunting become increasingly far-reaching, Mal is forced to confront the entity on its own terms, the outcome far from certain.