“A knockout of a story, written by the reigning queen of historical fiction. Quinn’s trio of heroines practically leap off the page in this stunning novel, which melds spy-hunting with love stories that will stir your soul. A book for the ages.”—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 Networkreturns with a new heart-stopping World
Watch | Ken Burns | Hemingway | Ken Burns | PBS https://kenburns.console.pbs.org/kenburns/hemingway/watch Ken Burns, Lynn Novick and Sarah Botstein give us a behind-the-scenes look at the production of Hemingway. We explore where Ernest Hemingway lived and traveled as the team visits his home in Cuba,…
Submitted by Linda Malcolm, owner of Indigo Books at Freshfields The literary world lost a few of its stars over the past year, Larry McMurtry and Beverly Cleary most recently. The author whose passing touched me most was Sharon Kay Penman who passed away earlier this year at 75. She was one of my favorite historical fiction authors, a writer whose detailed, precise prose enhanced
It’s about time for book clubs to choose books for the next year starting in September. Want to read books that are ‘hot off the press’ and really good? Of course you do, so take a look at the following books and read a few so you can suggest them to your group. I’ve picked some that I really want to read. Infinte Country by
(submitted by Madeleine Kaye) How literature — yes, literature — can help you better connect with others Mar 9, 2021 This post is part of TED’s “How to Be a Better Human” series, each of which contains a piece of helpful advice from people in the TED community; browse through all the posts here. Pete Ryan Greetings from an evangelist for a declining field: literature! English majors,
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Weather by Jenny Offill “Voted, that the earth is the Lord’s and the fullness thereof;voted,that the earth is given to the Saints; voted that we are the Saints.” Weather, a novel by Jenny Offill, opens with the above quotation from a 1640 Connecticut town meeting. If indeed Earth “belongs” to us, are we compelled to protect (or salvage) our planet? This novel answers with a
First of all, several questions: 1. What is a utopian novel? 2. What is a dystopian novel? 3. What is AI? The answers: A science fiction or other form of speculative fiction that portrays a pleasant reality. A science fiction or other form of speculative fiction that portrays an unpleasant reality. Artificial intelligence or intelligence manufactured by a machine that is programmed to think and
REGISTER Author and historian Walter Isaacson is known for his biographies on the world’s greatest thinkers and innovators. Now, he focuses on history in the making with the story of biochemist Jennifer Doudna, PhD, of the University of California, Berkeley, who jointly received the 2020 Nobel Prize in chemistry for developing the gene-editing technology CRISPR, which is based on a virus-fighting trick used by bacteria
