“A colorful cast of characters descended on Paris for the 1889 World’s Fair, and Jonnes offers an atmospheric overview of the celebrities who made Belle Époque Paris their stage during the memorable event…The fair’s undisputed main attraction, both at the fair and in Jonnes’ account, was the controversial wrought-iron tower of unprecedented height that, Jonnes says, appeals for both its technological genius and its ‘aerial playfulness and charm.’ It perfectly embodies ‘the triumph of the modern’ that Jonnes so well captures in her sprightly account.” It shouldn’t be missed.” - Telegraph (London) “A remarkable feat of popular history…It’s hard to imagine a better account of all this than Jonnes’ book…This is a work of deep research and thorough organization, an account of crucial stage in the birth of European modernity that jogs along at the confident pace of a good novel. “With splendid attention to detail…Jonnes, the author of Conquering Gotham and Empires of Light, takes a remarkable cast of characters and documents their respective experiences at the fair.” - New York Times Book Review
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It's a kind of oxygen treatment said to improve everything from male infertility to autism, and the author has personal experience with it. On the night in question, she dropped her son off for his HBOT treatment and purportedly left to drink wine and smoke cigarettes nearby- the same cigarettes responsible for the blast that killed her son while she was absent. Elizabeth, the single mother of one of the victims, is on trial for murder. It's now a year since the night that took two lives and injured several others. The trial and the mystery are the compelling backdrop here, but this book explores so many things that it's hard to know where to begin describing it. It's a fantastic, utterly thrilling courtroom drama it's a mystery, perhaps a murder mystery and alongside these things, it's also a powerful character study that examines immigration, parenthood, grief, disability and caregiving. Miracle Creek absolutely ripped my heart out. I had to take some time away to really process this book. Perhaps she had been a monster all along. Perhaps Elizabeth had been desperate to get rid of her son, and now that he was dead, she finally had a measure of peace. We Should All Be Feminists, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie Warning: reading these books may result in heterodox thoughts! Proceed at your own risk. You can skip the Big Tech and make a direct tax-deductible donation this holiday season to WoLF here. Many of these books are available in thrift shops, local bookstores, or even as downloadable PDFs online. You can also add WoLF as your Amazon Smile Charity to ensure that a portion of every dollar you spend this holiday season supports women’s rights.įor those opposed to using Amazon, we get it. If you would like to help support WoLF while you shop, using the Amazon Affiliate links we’ve included means that a small portion of the money you spend will go to support our radical feminist work. But these books have brought us value, and we believe they could bring value to you, too! We don’t necessarily agree with every word in every book, nor with everything that every author here has ever said or done. The books don’t have much in common, but they’re all written by women (or, at least one woman in the case of books with multiple authors), and we believe that each of them can help inform a radical feminist perspective in one way or another. These books have been hand-selected by WoLF volunteers and staff to represent a range of views on issues that matter to us. Are you ready to cozy up with a good book this winter? Looking for the perfect gift for the radical feminist in your life? Or maybe you just want to expand your world-view with a variety of new ideas? We have the ultimate reading list for you! Personally, I felt Niall and Irial deserved more of a woman to fall in love with. I also felt the love connections in this book were more one sided, whereas the relationship between Aislinn (who, to me, sounded far less mature and queen-like in this story than she did in her own novel and wasn't a very likeable character in this either) and Seth felt genuine and un-forced. It was practically over before it began, leaving me unsatisfied with the 'ending', if you can call it that. The flow of Ink Exchange was really erratic and seemed to jump all over the place at the expense of the characters beginning to sound 'inauthentic' - the dialogue became merely a means to quickly steer the story to a particular scene or direction that inevitably, didn't really lead anywhere. The main character, Leslie, wasn't the strong lead I was hoping for, and her fixation on a tattoo 'changing her life' didn't really feel plausible for me. In this case, for me, it was for the lovely Niall and Irial, two men whom I would personally love to spend some more time with. Once again, you don't read this series for its spectacular writing or even its ability to neatly start and finish a story - its purely for the theme and perhaps the characters. Plagued by nightmares, with darkness spreading through the house, Sean must finally face the truth if he’s to have a chance to free himself and his grandfather from the grip of the Baku.īoyle really works hard on the character of Sean, who has become mute since the loss of his mother under mysterious circumstances. Sean finds one of his stories about ‘The Baku’, a creature that eats the fears of children. But his grandad has secrets of his own in his past. Suddenly living an affluent life, nothing like the world of the estate he grew up in, Sean spends his time drawing and sculpting. Sean hasn’t been able to speak a word since he was put into care, and is sent to live with his grandad, a retired author whom he has never met before. While R.L Boyle’s The Book of the Baku may seem fantastical from the outside looking in it is a tale very grounded in the story of generational trauma. Meg Cabot married financial writer and poet Benjamin D. Her books have sold millions of copies round the world - and two million in the UK alone.Ĭabot was born in Bloomington, Indiana, to college professor C. Meg Cabot is the author of The Princess Diaries series as well as several other novels for teenagers. 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Shortlist announced for the 2023 Klaus Flugge Prize for the most exciting newcomer to children’s picture book illustration. “Readers, including housewives who used a lot of these chemicals, were shocked with what they learned." “She wrote for the general public, not the scientific community,” says Linda Lear, author of Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature. Though the scientific community already knew of the dangers, Carson was the first to make the information accessible and palatable to a mass audience in her groundbreaking book. She focused mainly on the insecticide DDT, which had been dubbed “one of the greatest discoveries of World War II” by Time magazine for its ability to kill insects that spread malaria and typhus and was routinely sprayed in homes and on crops.Ĭarson called for much greater caution against these “elixirs of death” and wrote, “If we are living so intimately with chemicals-eating and drinking them, taking them into the very marrow of our bones-we had better know something about their power.” In what she referred to as her “poison book,” Carson revealed the damaging effects of the indiscriminate use of chemical pesticides on the environment. But rather than introducing readers to more of the natural world, the mild-mannered 55-year-old’s latest book warned they could be destroying it. When Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring was published in September 1962, she was already a celebrated American biologist and author best known for her trilogy of lyrical books on the ocean. "You have rightly chosen," said God, "for in my garden of Paradise this little bird shall sing for evermore, and in my city of gold the Happy Prince shall praise me. "Bring me the two most precious things in the city," said God to one of His Angels and the Angel brought Him the leaden heart and the dead bird. We must throw it away." So they threw it on a dust-heap where the dead Swallow was also lying. "This broken lead heart will not melt in the furnace. "What a strange thing!" said the overseer of the workmen at the foundry. When I last heard of them they were quarrelling still. "Of myself," said each of the Town Councillors, and they quarrelled. You must not lie here, shouted the Watchman, and they wandered out into the rain. Under the archway of a bridge two little boys were lying in one another’s arms to try and keep themselves warm. "We must have another statue, of course," he said, "and it shall be a statue of myself." He flew into dark lanes, and saw the white faces of starving children looking out listlessly at the black streets. Then they melted the statue in a furnace, and the Mayor held a meeting of the Corporation to decide what was to be done with the metal. "As he is no longer beautiful he is no longer useful," said the Art Professor at the University. “So they pulled down the statue of the Happy Prince. Delivery with Standard Australia Post usually happens within 2-10 business days from time of dispatch.You can track your delivery by going to AusPost tracking and entering your tracking number - your Order Shipped email will contain this information for each parcel. Tracking delivery Saver Delivery: Australia postĪustralia Post deliveries can be tracked on route with eParcel. NB All our estimates are based on business days and assume that shipping and delivery don't occur on holidays and weekends. 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According to the director of the National Institutes of Health, Dr. She says this type of treatment would be more effective, cheaper and less toxic. Instead, she says, the focus should be on the very first stages - the first cell, as her book is titled. Azra Raza, author of the new book, “The First Cell: And the Human Costs of Pursuing Cancer to the Last.” She argues that experiments and the funding for eradicating cancer look at the disease when it is in its later stages, when the cancer has grown and spread. Today we spend the hour with renowned cancer doctor, Dr. We spend $150 billion each year treating cancer, yet a patient with cancer is as likely to die of it today - with a few exceptions - as one was 50 years ago. That’s what a leading cancer doctor calls the protocol of surgery, chemotherapy and radiation. |