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A young couple's painful, buried past is brought to the surface when they become the caretakers of an abandoned lighthouse.
How to raise a baby with a low, or even zero, carbon footprint.
Timely expos of Russias vast disinformation campaign from a Finnish journalist persecuted for her persistent reporting of its brazen abuses...a damning portrait of Putin and his autocratic, manipulative regime.KirkusJessikka Aro has written a frightening and fascinating book, chronicling Russian information warfare in irrefutable detail. Exposing Putins trolls is dangerous, vital, and ultimately heroic work.Anne-Marie SlaughterBy exposing Putins institutionalized trolling operations Jessikka Aro has gone where no one has had the courage to go before and has done so at great peril. Ms. Aro has done the world a huge service by showing us how these tactics work so we can better defend ourselves going forward.Bill BrowderAn important book for those who want to understand the complex and confusing ways reality is manufactured in the digital era. Aro's story shines a bright light on the dark world of online information manipulation operations that can upend the lives of individuals and the health of democracies.Liz WahlA chilling account of Russian information warfare,Putin's Trollsexposes the individuals and organizations behind the Kremlins coordinated, military-style social media operations against the West.In this courageous and unflinching book, award-winning journalist Jessikka Aro interweaves her own dramatic story as a target of Russian social media propaganda with accounts from many internationally known critics of the Kremlin, who share their own stories of being targeted by Russias multifaceted cyber warfare campaigns.As Jessikka began to investigate the impact of the Kremlins troll operations outside of Russia, she learned that private citizens in many other countries were being victimized by Kremlin-designed information campaigns. These actions were frequently conducted through an organized troll factory led by Russias security and intelligence apparatus, using unregulated social media platforms including YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Many of the disinformation campaigns were centered around the 2014 Russian invasion of Ukraine and subsequent occupation of the Crimean Peninsula.
The first-ever children's book from legendary cartoonist Tom Tomorrow.
First ever single volume English language edition of Karl Marx's doctoral dissertation.
A photographic journey through that particular American shopping institution, the thrift store.
"When I have to figure if what I mean is what I say, I consult The Real Republican Dictionary."— George W. Bush
This astonishing new book, by the brilliant Robin Black is an intimate meditation on reading and writing, aftermath and possibility, the tension between the never-stable, endlessly interpretable depths of a book and the fragility of life, the finality of death. I emerged from this breathtaking work with a transformed understanding of both Woolfs masterpiece and the stream of consciousness in which we swim, together and alone.Karen RussellReading Robin Blacks astute and enlightening meditation onMrs. Dallowayis like eavesdropping on a mesmerizing literary conversation, but one in which the participants are not two readers but a reader and a masterpiece. Black threads the very moving story of her own evolution as a writer through the exquisite fabric of Woolfs great novel, and the result will fascinate everyone who cares about the craft of fiction.Ann PackerI loved reading Robin Blacks take onMrs. Dalloway. She generously shares details of her own life that offer an example of how a great book stays with a person, and goes deep into the intricacies of important craft aspects of the text, illuminating its brilliance. Its a privilege to read alongside her.Alice Elliot DarkThrough Blacks gorgeous blend of personal narrative and incisive close reading, Virginia Woolfs novel becomes again fresh and contemporary, while at the same time deeper in its mysteries. I finished this Bookmarked knowing more about myself as a woman, reader, and writer. Pamela ErensAt fifty-nine, I am now the age Virginia Woolf was when she took that final, heavy-pocketed walk into The River Ouse. I am the age at which she killed herself, and I am not going to kill myself; but I was by no means always sure of that.Considered Virginia Woolf's greatest novel,Mrs. Dallowaytells the story of a single day in the life of Clarissa Dalloway, a high society woman in post World War I England. As she is preoccupied with the last-minute details of dinner party, Clarissa is flooded with remembrances of the past, in the process reexamining the choices she has made, as well as looking toward old age. Written in a stream of consciousness style,Mrs. Dallowayis one of the most important novels in literature.In this deeply personal volume, Robin Black writes about WoolfsMrs. Dalloway, a book she returned to again and again when she began writing at nearly forty and found herself gaining a sense of emotional stability for the first time in her life. For two decades,Mrs. Dallowayhas been Blacks partner in a crucial, ongoing conversation about writing and about the emotional life. Now, Black takes a deep dive into both the craft of the book, what a writer might learn from its mechanics, and also into the humanity to be found on every page.
In this trenchant memoir of reading and writing, Pamela Erens returns over a lifetime to George Eliot'sMiddlemarch.The calm, understanding, and generosity that shefinds in Eliot's masterpiecealbeit differently, at different moments in her own lifeinflects Erenssown account of becoming, and being, a mother and a writer. This short bookis filled with wisdom.Claire Messud, author ofKant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I WriteandThe Woman UpstairsErens makes an engaging andconvincing case for the value of readingMiddlemarchtoday, when we are still struggling to answer the questions it raisesabout marriage, about community, about society, and especially about how to balance our individual needs and desires against the claims of sympathy and conscience.Rohan Maitzen,author,Widening the Skirts of Light: Essays on George EliotandMiddlemarchfor Book ClubsThoughtful, frank, and always artful,Middlemarch and the Imperfect Lifeis an involving and deeply satisfying account of the reading and writing life.Rebecca Mead, author,My Life in MiddlemarchandHome/LandA masterly evocation of life in a provincial English community,Middlemarchis considered perhaps the greatestnovel of the Victorian era, praisedby writers from Emily Dickinson to Virginia Woolf.In the latest volume in Ig's acclaimed Bookmarked series, critically lauded author Pamela Erens talks about howMiddlemarchrescued her, first as a distressed college student, and then during the tragic events of the global pandemic.
A darkly funny meditation on creativity and family,Be Brief and Tell Them Everythingtracks the life of a middle-aged author who is struggling to write his next novel while trying to come to grips with his sons disabilities, set against a backdrop of ecological catastrophe and escalating human insanity in contemporary Los Angeles. A beautiful, powerful, concise work of autofiction that is reminiscent ofMy StruggleandGrief is the Thing with Feathers,Be Briefdocuments the stops and starts of adulthood and marriage, and the joys and challenges of parenting, while defining what it means to be a good man, and a good writer.
Lost stories and buried truths will challenge the comfortable order of Stella's life and ultimately her sense of self.
In his entry in Ig's Bookmarked series, best-selling author Steve Almond takes on John Willams's classic American novel, Stoner.
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