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Benjamin Resnick – Next Stop

Benjamin Resnick Next Stop recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse dystopische roman. Op 17 september 2024 verschijnt bij Avid Reader Press de nieuwe roman van de uit de Verenigde Staten afkomstige schrijver Benjamin Resnick. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijver en over de uitgave.

Benjamin Resnick Next Stop recensie, review en informatie

  • “Resnick­’s prose is lucid and moves at a steady clip, nev­er dwelling any­where too long, avoid­ing the kind of teeth-gnash­ing mis­ery one might expect in a nov­el about per­se­cu­tion and eth­nic cleans­ing. For all its futur­is­tic ter­rors, this is real­ly a sto­ry about a fam­i­ly.” (Jewish Book Council)
  • “A striking debut. . . Resnick skillfully uses the raw materials of postapocalyptic fiction and speaks lucidly to his Jewish characters’ legacy of displacement. This timely tale will appeal to fans of speculative fantasies by Michael Chabon and Lavie Tidhar.” (Publishers Weekly)

Benjamin Resnick Next Stop

Next Stop

  • Auteur: Benjamin Resnick (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: dystopische roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Avid Reader Press
  • Verschijnt: 17 september 2024
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Benjamin Resnick

For readers of Leave the World Behind and Exit West, an astonishingly resonant novel that explores the precariousness of Jewish American life through one family after a black hole consumes the State of Israel and similar strange events occur in major cities around the world, ushering in a time of chaos as well as miracles.

When a black hole suddenly consumes Israel and as similar anomalies spread across the globe, a conspiracy takes hold: will the holes swallow the Jews, or will they swallow the earth?

Against a backdrop of antisemitic paranoia, restrictions on Jewish life, and spasms of violence, Ethan and Ella, Jewish citizens of a nameless American city, meet and fall in love. Ella, a photojournalist, documents the changes in daily life, particularly among the city’s Jewish residents. Some Jews, feeling inexplicably drawn to the unusual events, go underground to an abandoned subway system that seems to connect the entire world. Others leave for the south, forming militias and stockpiling weapons. But most, like Ethan, Ella, and her young son Michael, stay and try to make their way amid the hostility and small joys of the ever-changing landscape.

But then thousands of commercial planes are sucked from the sky. Air travel stops. Borders close. Refugees pour into the capital. Eventually all Jews in the city are forced to relocate to the Pale, an area sandwiched between a park and a river. There, under the watchful eye of border guards, drones, and robotic dogs, they form a fragile new society.

Suspenseful, thought-provoking, and brilliantly conceived, Next Stop is an enthralling novel that explores the fault lines between our collective, national, and individual memories and how our deepest bonds can be unexpectedly reshaped in moments of crisis.

Benjamin Resnick is the rabbi of the Pelham Jewish Center in New York. Ordained at the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, he lives in Pelham with his family. Next Stop is his first novel.

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Anupreeta Das Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King Bill Gates biografie

Anupreeta Das Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King recensie, review en informatie nieuwe Bill Gates biografie. Op 13 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Avid Reader Press het nieuwe boek over Bill Gates van de Indiase journalist en finance editor van The New York Times. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Anupreeta Das Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King recensie en review

  • “Das widens the lens through which Gates’ life and career is viewed. Each facet of his reputation is couched within a larger framework of capitalism, social justice, and entrepreneurship to question the outsized sway Gates and others of his rank hold over society writ large. Venturing deep into every aspect of Gates’ professional and private spheres, Das offers a balanced, perceptive, and thought-provoking portrait of a man and his times.” (Booklist)

Anupreeta Das Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King

Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King

Bill Gates and His Quest to Shape Our World

  • Auteur: Anupreeta Das (India)
  • Soort boek: journalistieke biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Avid Reader Press
  • Verschijnt: 13 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: 336 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 32.00 / $ 16.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol 

Flaptekst van het boek over Bill Gates van Anupreeta Das

From the finance editor of The New York Times, an examination of Bill Gates—one of the most powerful, fascinating, and contradictory figures of the past four decades—and an eye-opening exploration of our national fixation on billionaires.

Few billionaires have been in the public eye for as long, and in as many guises, as Bill Gates. At first heralded as a tech visionary, the Microsoft cofounder next morphed into a ruthless capitalist, only to change yet again when he fashioned himself into a global do-gooder. Along the way, Gates forever influenced how we think about tech founders, as the products they make and the ideas they sell continue to dominate our lives. Through the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, he also set a new standard for high-profile, billionaire philanthropy. But there is more to Gates’s story, and here, Das’s revelatory reporting shows us that billionaires have secrets and philanthropy can have a dark side.

Drawing upon hundreds of interviews with current and former employees of the Gates Foundation, Microsoft, academics, nonprofits, and those with insight into the Gates universe, Das delves into Gates’s relationships with Warren Buffett, Jeffrey Epstein, Melinda French Gates, and others, to uncover the truths behind the public persona. In telling Gates’s story, Das also provides a new way to think about how billionaires wield their power, manipulate their image, and pursue philanthropy to become heroes, repair damaged reputations, and direct policy to achieve their preferred outcomes.

Insightful, illuminating, and timely, Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King is an important story of money and government, wealth and power, and media and image, and the ways in which the world’s richest people hold us in their thrall.

Anupreeta Das is the finance editor of The New York Times, overseeing coverage of Wall Street, including banking, investing, markets, insurance, and consumer finance. Previously, Das spent nearly a decade at the Wall Street Journal, where she helped run the paper’s coverage of business and technology, focusing on corporations and the issues affecting them. Das was also a reporter at the Journal. She wrote stories about finance, investing, and Wall Street, including a groundbreaking series she conceived and coauthored about family offices, the private investment firms of the extremely wealthy. She holds degrees from Boston University, the London School of Economics, and the University of Delhi. She is an avid hiker, having hiked across a Himalayan glacier as a teenager and summiting Mount Kilimanjaro. She is the author of Billionaire, Nerd, Savior, King.

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Natuur, Natuurboeken, Vogels

Kenn Kaufman – The Birds That Audubon Missed

Kenn Kaufman The Birds That Audubon Missed recensie en informatie en informatie boek over de negentiende-eeuwse Amerikaanse ornitholoog en vogeltekenaar John James Audubon. Op 7 mei 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Avid Reader Press het nieuwste boek van de Amerikaanse naturalist en schrijver Kenn Kaufman. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Kenn Kaufman The Birds That Audubon Missed recensie

Als er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnt van The Birds That Audubon Missed, Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness, het nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse naturalist en schrijver Kenn Kaufman, dan besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

  • “A must-read for birders curious about so much that lies hidden behind the names in our pastime… The Birds That Audubon Missed isn’t a dry history; it’s as alive as the birds it describes, thanks to the personal aspect Kaufman weaves into the narrative…The era of great discovery never ends if all discovery is personal. One’s own revelatory experiences in the natural world are what truly matter.” (Christian Cooper, Washington Post)
  • “Splendid… A high-flying study of Audubon’s scientific contributions and major missteps . . . The discerning attention Kaufman pays to overlooked corners of his subject’s biography reveals Audubon’s fabulist streak (he ginned up funds for his first book by inventing an eagle with a rumored 10-foot wingspan) and ethical lapses (he once passed off a hawk specimen from a fellow Academy of Natural Sciences member as his own). Kaufman includes his own illustrations of the birds discussed, gamely mimicking Audubon’s style while bringing a sensibility distinctly his own.” (Publishers Weekly)

Kenn Kaufman The Birds That Audubon Missed

The Birds That Audubon Missed

Discovery and Desire in the American Wilderness

  • Auteur: Kenn Kaufman (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: vogelboek, natuurboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Avid Reader Press
  • Verschijnt: 7 mei 2024
  • Omvang: 400 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $32.50 / $16.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst vogelboek over ornitholoog John James Audubon van Kenn Kaufman

Renowned naturalist Kenn Kaufman examines the scientific discoveries of John James Audubon and his artistic and ornithologist peers to show how what they saw (and what they missed) reflects how we perceive and understand the natural world.

Raging ambition. Towering egos. Competition under a veneer of courtesy. Heroic effort combined with plagiarism, theft, exaggeration, and fraud. This was the state of bird study in eastern North America during the early 1800s, as a handful of intrepid men raced to find the last few birds that were still unknown to science.

The most famous name in the bird world was John James Audubon, who painted spectacular portraits of birds. But although his images were beautiful, creating great art was not his main goal. Instead, he aimed to illustrate (and write about) as many different species as possible, obsessed with trying to outdo his rival, Alexander Wilson. George Ord, a fan and protégé of Wilson, held a bitter grudge against Audubon for years, claiming he had faked much of his information and his scientific claims. A few of Audubon’s birds were pure fiction, and some of his writing was invented or plagiarized. Other naturalists of the era, including Charles Bonaparte (nephew of Napoleon), John Townsend, and Thomas Nuttall, also became entangled in the scientific derby, as they stumbled toward an understanding of the natural world—an endeavor that continues to this day.

Despite this intense competition, a few species—including some surprisingly common songbirds, hawks, sandpipers, and more—managed to evade discovery for years. Here, renowned bird expert and artist Kenn Kaufman explores this period in history from a new angle, by considering the birds these people discovered and, especially, the ones they missed. Kaufman has created portraits of the birds that Audubon never saw, attempting to paint them in that artist’s own stunning style, as a way of examining the history of natural sciences and nature art. He shows how our understanding of birds continues to gain clarity, even as some mysteries persist from Audubon’s time until ours.

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Biografie, Sport, Sportbiografie

Jeff Benedict – LeBron

Jeff Benedict LeBron recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de biografie van de beroemde Amerikaanse basketballer LeBron James. Op 11 april 2023 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Avid Reader Press het boek over basketballegende LeBron James. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Jeff Benedict LeBron recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van LeBron. Het boek is geschreven door Jeff Benedict. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de van de biografie van LeBron James, geschreven door de Amerikaanse sportbiograaf Jeff Benedict.

Jeff Benedict LeBron James biografie

LeBron

  • Schrijver: Jeff Benedict (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: sportbiografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Avid Reader Press/Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 11 april 2023
  • Omvang: 576 pagina’s
  • Prijs: $ 32,00
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook

Flaptekst van de biografie van basketballer LeBron James

LeBron James is the greatest basketball player of the twenty-first century, and he’s in the conversation with Michael Jordan as the greatest of all time. The reigning king of the game and the first active NBA player to become a billionaire, LeBron wears the crown like he was born with it. Yet his ascent has been anything but effortless and predetermined— the truth is vastly more interesting than that.

What makes LeBron’s story so compelling is how he won his destiny despite overwhelmingly long odds, in a drama worthy of a Dickens novel. As a child, he was a scared and lonely little boy living a nomadic existence in Akron, Ohio. His mother, who had LeBron when she was sixteen, would sometimes leave him on his own. Destitute and fatherless, he missed close to one hundred days of school in the fourth grade. Desperate, his mother placed him with a family that gave him stability and put a basketball in his hands.

LeBron tells the full, riveting saga of how a child adrift found the will to become a titan. Jeff Benedict, the most celebrated sports biographer of our time, paints a vivid picture of LeBron’s epic origin story, showing the gradual rise of a star who, surrounded by a tight-knit group of teenage friends and adult mentors, accelerated into a speeding comet during high school. Today LeBron produces Hollywood films and television shows, has a social media presence that includes more than one hundred million followers, engages in political activism, takes outspoken stances on racism and social injustice, and transforms lives through his visionary philanthropy. He went from a lost boy in Akron to a beloved hero who uses his fortune to educate underprivileged children and lift up needy families—and brought home Cleveland’s first NBA championship.

But LeBron is more than just the origin story of a GOAT or a recap of his multi-championship, multi-MVP, gold medal–decorated career on the court. Benedict delves into LeBron’s relationship with fame and power: how he has cultivated it, harnessed it, suffered from it, and leveraged it. In these pages, we go behind the scenes of LeBron’s grappling with his seismic celebrity, from appearing on the cover of Sports Illustrated as a high school junior to The Decision, which briefly turned the nation against him. We also watch his evolution from a player who avoided politics and was widely criticized for not joining his teammates in protesting China’s role in the Darfur genocide to becoming an athlete who partnered with President Obama; campaigned for Hillary Clinton; became an advocate against gun violence, racism, and voter suppression; and openly clashed with President Trump, empowering other athletes to speak out against social injustice.

To capture LeBron’s extraordinary life, Benedict conducted hundreds of interviews with the people who were involved with LeBron at different stages of his life. He also obtained thousands of pages of primary source documents and mined hundreds of hours of video footage. Destined to be the authoritative account of LeBron’s life, LeBron is a gripping, inspiring, and unprecedented portrait of one of the world’s most captivating figures.

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Geschiedenisboeken, Reisverhalen

Rinker Buck – Life on the Mississippi

Rinker Buck Life on the Mississippi recensie en informatie van dit Amerikaanse reisverhaal. Op 9 augustus 2022 verschijnt bij Avid Reader Press het boek over leven en werken op de rivier Mississippi aan het begin van de 19e eeuw, geschreven door de Amerikaanse historicus Rinker Buck. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Rinker Buck Life on the Mississippi recensie en informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van Life on the Mississippi, An Epic American Adventure. Het boek is geschreven door Rinker Buck. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van dit boek over het leven op en aan de Mississippi River in de Verenigde Staten in de 19e eeuw.

Rinker Buck Life on the Mississippi Recensie

Life on the Mississippi

An Epic American Adventure

  • Schrijver: Rinker Buck (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaans reisverhaal
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Avid Reader Press
  • Verschijnt: 9 augustus 2022
  • Omvang: 416 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over de Mississippi rivier van Ronker Buck

Seven years ago, readers around the country fell in love with a singular American voice: Rinker Buck, whose infectious curiosity about history launched him across the West in a covered wagon pulled by mules and propelled his book about the trip, The Oregon Trail, to ten weeks on the New York Times bestseller list. Now, Buck returns to chronicle his latest incredible adventure: building a wooden flatboat from the bygone era of the early 1800s and journeying down the Mississippi River to New Orleans.

A modern-day Huck Finn, Buck casts off down the river on the flatboat Patience accompanied by an eccentric crew of daring shipmates. Over the course of his voyage, Buck steers his fragile wooden craft through narrow channels dominated by massive cargo barges, rescues his first mate gone overboard, sails blindly through fog, breaks his ribs not once but twice, and camps every night on sandbars, remote islands, and steep levees. As he charts his own journey, he also delivers a richly satisfying work of history that brings to life a lost era.

The role of the flatboat in our country’s evolution is far more significant than most Americans realize. Between 1800 and 1840, millions of farmers, merchants, and teenage adventurers embarked from states like Pennsylvania and Virginia on flatboats headed beyond the Appalachians to Kentucky, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Like the Nile, the Thames, or the Seine before them, the western rivers in America became a floating supply chain that fueled national growth. Settler families repurposed the wood from their boats to build their first cabins in the wilderness; cargo boats were broken apart and sold to build the boomtowns along the water route. Joining the river traffic were floating brothels, called “gun boats”; “smithy boats” for blacksmiths; even “whiskey boats” with taverns mounted on jaunty rafts. In the present day, America’s inland rivers are a superhighway dominated by leviathan barges—carrying $80 billion of cargo annually—all descended from flatboats like the ramshackle Patience, which must avoid being crushed alongside their metal hulls.

As a historian, Buck resurrects the era’s adventurous spirit, but he also challenges familiar myths about American expansion, confronting the bloody truth behind settlers’ push for land and wealth. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 forced more than 125,000 members of the Cherokee, Choctaw, and several other tribes to travel the Mississippi on a brutal journey en route to the barrens of Oklahoma. Simultaneously, almost a million enslaved African Americans were carried in flatboats and marched by foot 1,000 miles over the Appalachians to the cotton and cane fields of Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana, birthing the term “sold down the river.” Weaving together a tapestry of first-person histories, Buck portrays this watershed era of American expansion as it was really lived.

With a rare narrative power that blends stirring adventure with absorbing untold history, Life on the Mississippi is a mus­cular and majestic feat of storytelling from a writer who may be the closest that we have today to Mark Twain.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster

Emily Gould – Perfect Tunes

Emily Gould Perfect Tunes recensie en informatie over dit boek over de inhoud van deze nieuwe Amerikaanse roman. Op 14 april 2020 verschijnt bij Uitgeverij Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster de nieuwe roman van Emily Gould.

Emily Gould Perfect Tunes Recensie en Informatie

Als de redactie het boek leest, kun je op deze pagina de recensie en waardering vinden van de Amerikaanse roman, Perfect Tunes van Emily Gould. Daarnaast zijn hier gegevens van de uitgave en bestelmogelijkheden opgenomen. Bovendien kun je op deze pagina informatie lezen over de inhoud van deze roman van schrijfster Emily Gould.

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Perfect Tunes

  • Schrijfster: Emily Gould (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Avid Reader Press / Simon & Schuster
  • Verschijnt: 14 april 2020
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: Gebonden Boek / Ebook

Flaptekst van de nieuwe roman van Emily Gould

It’s the early days of the new millennium, and Laura has arrived in New York City’s East Village in the hopes of recording her first album. A songwriter with a one-of-a-kind talent, she’s just beginning to book gigs with her beautiful best friend when she falls hard for a troubled but magnetic musician whose star is on the rise. Their time together is stormy and short-lived—but will reverberate for the rest of Laura’s life.

Fifteen years later, Laura’s teenage daughter, Marie, is asking questions about her father, questions that Laura does not want to answer. Laura has built a stable life in Brooklyn that bears little resemblance to the one she envisioned when she left Ohio all those years ago, and she’s taken pains to close the door on what was and what might have been. But neither her best friend, now a famous musician who relies on Laura’s songwriting skills, nor her depressed and searching daughter will let her give up on her dreams.

Funny, wise, and tenderhearted, Perfect Tunes explores the fault lines in our most important relationships, and asks whether dreams deferred can ever be reclaimed. It is a delightful and poignant tale of music and motherhood, ambition and com­promise—of life, in all its dissonance and harmony.

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