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Letland, Letse schrijvers, Spionagethriller

Michael Idov – The Collaborators

Michael Idov The Collaborators review, recensie en informatie over de thriller van de uit Letland afkomstige schrijver. Op 19 november 2024 verschijnt bij Scribner de spionageroman The Collaborators van de Letse schrijver Michael Idov. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de thriller is niet verkrijgbaar.

Michael Idov The Collaborators review, recensie en informatie

  • “What the ever expanding world of espionage fiction needs, it turns out, is a Yale-educated Millennial field operative who dresses in Weezer t-shirts and knows his way around a semi-automatic… [The Collaborators is a] slim, well-paced, deceptively complex novel of American and Russian intelligence… a novel as cool as it is accomplished, that knits together action, tradecraft and quippy dialogue with flair.” (Vogue)

Michael Idov The Collaborators

The Collaborators

  • Auteur: Michael Idov (Letland)
  • Soort boek: Letse thriller, spionageroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner Books
  • Verschijnt: 19 november 2024
  • Omvang: 272 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Boekhandel / Bol

Flaptekst van de spionagethriller over Rusland van Michael Idov

Combining realistic thrills with sophisticated spycraft and witty dialogue, The Collaborators delivers a gut-punch answer to the biggest geopolitical question of our time: how, exactly, did post-Soviet Russia turn down the wrong path?

Crisscrossing the globe on the way to this shocking revelation are disaffected millennial CIA officer Ari Falk, thrown into a moral and professional crisis by the death of his best asset; and brash, troubled LA heiress Maya Chou, spiraling after the disappearance of her Russian American billionaire father. The duo’s adventures take us to both classic and surprising locales—from Berlin, to Latvia, Belarus, and an abandoned technopark outside Moscow.

Dynamic, fast-paced, and filled with captivating details that provide a window into a secretive world, The Collaborators is a first-rate thriller “with a propulsive plot and fantastic twists” (Chris Pavone, author of The Expats) that pays homage to both meanings of “intelligence.”

Michael Idov (9 July 1976, Riga Letland) is a novelist, director, and screenwriter. A Latvian-born American raised in Riga under Soviet occupation, he moved to New York after graduating from the University of Michigan. Michael’s writing career began at New York magazine, where his features won three National Magazine Awards, and he has also been the editor-in-chief of GQ Russia. He is also the author of Ground Up and Dressed Up for a Riot. Michael has worked on numerous film and TV projects, including Londongrad, Deutschland 83, Leto, and The Humorist. He and his wife and screenwriting partner, Lily, divide their time between Los Angeles, Berlin, and Portugal.

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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Geschiedenisboeken, Verenigde Staten

David S. Brown – A Hell of a Storm

David S. Brown A Hell of a Storm recensie, review en informatie boek over The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War. Op 17 september 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Scribner het boek over het ontstaan van de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog in 1854, geschreven door de Amerikaanse historicus David S. Brown. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het geschiedenisboek is niet verkrijgbaar.

David S. Brown A Hell of a Storm recensie, review en informatie

  • “Engaging . . . intriguing and persuasive . . . Brown’s ultimate conclusions are apt, compelling, and memorably expressed. . . . A lively, incisive examination of the social and political background of a tumultuous era.” (Kirkus)
  • “David S. Brown has crafted a fascinating narrative web, one that expertly interweaves the well-known with the little-remembered. The book abounds in compelling portraits of the great and not-so-great. A Hell of a Storm is a hell of a book, insightfully revealing how America’s best minds could not avert America’s greatest calamity.” (John Matteson, Pulitzer Prize-winning author)

David S. Brown A Hell of a Storm

A Hell of a Storm

The Battle for Kansas, the End of Compromise, and the Coming of the Civil War

  • Auteur: David S. Brown (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner
  • Verschijnt: 17 september 2024
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over het begin van de Amerikaanse Burgeroorlog

From popular historian and author of the “marvelous” (The New York Times Book Review) The Last American Aristocrat comes the fascinating story of how in 1854, a new law—the Kansas-Nebraska Act—unexpectedly became the greatest miscalculation in American history, dividing North and South, creating the Republican party, and paving the way for the Civil War.

The history of the United States includes a series of sectional compromises—the Constitutional Convention, the Missouri Compromise in 1820, and the Compromise of 1850. While these accords created an imperfect republic, or “a house divided,” as Lincoln put it, the country remained united. But then in 1854, this three-generations system suddenly blew up with the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, and here, David Brown explores in riveting detail how the Act led to the sudden division of North and South.

The Act declared that planters, if permitted by territorial laws, could bring their enslaved peoples to the land extending from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains—the core of Jefferson’s old Louisiana Purchase which had been reserved for free labor. Northerners were shocked that free soil might now be turned over to slavery and responded with unprecedented backlash. In the bill’s wake the conservative Whig Party (winners of multiple presidential elections) collapsed, and the radical Republican Party was born—in six years it would take control of the central government, provoking Southern secession.

In A Hell of a Storm, Brown brings history to life in a way that resonates with the events of present. Through chapters on Lincoln, Emerson, Stowe, Thoreau, and Tubman, along with a cast of presidents, poets, abolitionists, and black emigrationists, Brown weaves a political, cultural, and literary history that chronicles the Republican party’s creation and rise, the collapse of antebellum compromises, and the coming of the Civil War, all topics that mirror current discussions about polarization in our nation today. By illuminating the personalities and the platforms, the writings and ideas that upended an older America and made space for its successor, A Hell of a Storm reminds us that American history is always being made, and it can be both dynamic and dangerous, both then and now.

David S. Brown (29 September 1966, Troy, Ohio) teaches history at Elizabethtown College in Pennsylvania. He is the author of seven books, among them four biographies: The First Populist: The Defiant Life of Andrew Jackson, The Last American Aristocrat: The Brilliant Life and Improbable Education of Henry Adams, Paradise Lost: A Life of F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Richard Hofstadter: An Intellectual Biography.

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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Geschiedenisboeken, Populair Wetenschappelijke Boeken

Edward Dolnick – Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party

Edward Dolnick Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van het nieuwe populair wetenschappelijke boek van de Amerikaanse historicus en schrijver. Op 6 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Scribner het nieuwe boek van historicus Edward Dolnick over een groep excentrieke Victorianen die botten van dinosauriërs ontdekten. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Edward Dolnick Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party recensie en review

  • “Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party got at three major concepts I feel like we often take for granted … life is very, very old, almost incomprehensibly old; extinction is a reality; and evolution is a reality tied to extinction. It’s also cut up and retold in such a way that it’s great for the beach—you can read a chapter or two, jump in the ocean, come back out, pick up where you left off.” (NPR’s Science Friday)
  • “Offers a wealth of context … These include forays into historical astronomy and philosophy, as well as contemporary science, and their sum creates a lively and engrossing narrative … Dolnick is evidently at home in this subject, and he succeeds in creating an engagingly broad story.” (Science)

Edward Dolnick Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party

Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party

How an Eccentric Group of Victorians Discovered Prehistoric Creatures and Accidentally Upended the World

  • Auteur: Edward Dolnick (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner
  • Verschijnt: 6 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: 352 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse historicus Edward Dolnick

From the bestselling author of The Clockwork Universe and The Writing of the Gods, a historical adventure story about the eccentric Victorians who discovered dinosaur bones, leading to a whole new understanding of human history.

In the early 1800s the world was a safe and cozy place. But then a twelve-year-old farm boy in Massachusetts stumbled on a row of fossilized three-toed footprints the size of dinner plates—the first dinosaur tracks ever found. Soon, in England, Victorians unearthed enormous bones—bones that reached as high as a man’s head. No one had ever seen such things. Outside of myths and fairy tales, no one had even imagined that creatures like three-toed giants had once lumbered across the land. And if anyone had somehow conjured up such a scene, they would never have imagined that all those animals could have vanished, hundreds of millions years ago. The thought of sudden, arbitrary disappearance from life was unnerving and forced the Victorians to rethink everything they knew about the world.

Now, in Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, celebrated storyteller and historian Edward Dolnick leads us through a compelling true adventure as the paleontologists of the first half of the 19th century puzzled their way through the fossil record to create the story of dinosaurs we know today. The tale begins with Mary Anning, a poor, uneducated woman who had a sixth sense for finding fossils buried deep inside cliffs; and moves to a brilliant, eccentric geologist named William Buckland, a kind of Doctor Doolittle on a mission to eat his way through the entire animal kingdom; and then on to Richard Owen, the most respected and the most despised scientist of his generation.

Entertaining, erudite, and featuring an unconventional cast of characters, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party tells the story of how the accidental discovery of prehistoric creatures upended humanity’s understanding of the world and their place in it, and how a group of paleontologists worked to bring it back into focus again.

Edward Dolnick (10 november 1952) is the author of Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, The Writing of the Gods, The Clockwork Universe, The Forger’s Spell, and the Edgar Award–winning The Rescue Artist, among other books. A former chief science writer at The Boston Globe, he has written for The Atlantic, The New York Times Magazine, and many other publications. He lives with his wife near Washington, DC.

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Amerikaanse roman, Amerikaanse schrijfster, Debuutroman

Kat Tang Five-Star Stranger

Kat Tang Five-Star Stranger recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de debuutroman van de Chinees-Amerikaanse schrijfster. Op 6 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Scribner de eerste roman van de in China geboren maar in de Verenigde Staten woonachtige schrijfster Kat Tang. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de roman is niet verkrijgbaar.

Kat Tang Five-Star Stranger recensie en review

  • “Provocative, self-assured…Tang plays deftly with the conventions of romantic comedy… A smart look at people-pleasing taken to its illogical extreme.” (Kirkus)
  • “Moving…Tang uses clean prose to bring complex characters to life. An emotional character study that doesn’t rely on easy answers to complicated questions of identity, isolation, and familial love.” (Library Journal)
  • “Tang’s debut shines, marrying hurt and heart in a character readers will root for and connect with…In smooth and affecting prose, Tang draws a sharp portrait.” (Booklist)

Kat Tang Five-Star Stranger

Five-Star Stranger

  • Auteur: Kat Tang (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse roman, debuutroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner
  • Verschijnt: 6 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: 240 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $27,00 / $12,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van de Chinees-Amerikaanse schrijfster Kat Tang

Would you hire someone to be the best man at your wedding? Your stand-in brother? Your husband?

In an age where online ratings are all-powerful, Five-Star Stranger follows the adventures of a top-rated man on the Rental Stranger app—a place where users can hire a pretend fiancé, a wingman, or an extra mourner for a funeral. Referred to only as Stranger, the narrator navigates New York City under the guise of characters he plays, always maintaining a professional distance from his clients.

But, when a nosy patron threatens to upend his long-term role as father to a young girl, Stranger begins to reckon with his attachment to his pretend daughter, her mother, and his own fraught past. Now, he must confront the boundaries he has drawn and explore the legacy of abandonment that shaped his life.

Five-Star Stranger is a strikingly vivid novel about the commodification of relationships in a gig economy, isolation in a hyperconnected world, and the risk of asking for what we want from those who cannot give. This is the story of a man who finds out who he is by being anyone but himself.

Kat Tang is a graduate of Columbia’s MFA program where she taught as an Undergraduate Writing Fellow. Born in China, relocated to Japan, and raised in California, she is fascinated by how we make and fake human connection in a technologically evolving world. Her short stories and graphic narratives have appeared in Electric Literature, The Margins, Pigeon Pages, and elsewhere. She currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri.

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Amerikaanse thrillers

Kathy Reichs – Fire and Bones

Kathy Reichs Fire and Bones recensie, review en informatie over de inhoud van de nieuwe Temperance Brennan thriller. Op 6 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Scribner de nieuwe thriller van de Amerikaanse thrillerschrijfster Kathy Reichs. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de thriller verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Kathy Reichs Fire and Bones recensie en review

  • “I loved Kathy Reichs’s Fire and Bones in which the iconic Temperance Brennan brings her forensic expertise, dogged detection skills, and wry sense of humor to Washington, DC to investigate a harrowing fire scene. The twists and turns in the case come fast and furious, but Tempe handles each with her trademark aplomb, and every entry in this landmark series is a must-read for me! If you haven’t read Reichs, start now!” (Lisa Scottoline, Amerikaanse schrijfster)
  • “In this excellent new Temperance Brennan novel unsolved mysteries of the past converge with an arson investigation in the present. I absolutely devoured Fire and Bones, just as I have every one of Reichs’s books to date—but this one may just be my favorite yet! With her trademark blend of intrigue, forensics, and the pursuit of justice, Reichs always delivers an incredible thriller.” (Megan Miranda, Amerikaanse schrijfster)

Kathy Reichs Fire and Bones

Fire and Bones

Temperance Brennan thriller 2

  • Auteur: Kathy Reichs (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse thriller
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner Books
  • Verschijnt: 6 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: 288 pagina’s
  • Prijs: $27.99 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe Temperance Brennan thriller van Kathy Reichs

Author Kathy Reichs returns with a twisty, unputdownable thriller featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, who finds herself at the center of a Washington, DC, arson investigation that spawns deepening levels of mystery and, ultimately, violence.

Always apprehensive about working fire scenes, Tempe is called to Washington, DC, to analyze the victims of a deadly blaze and sees her misgivings justified. The devastated building is in Foggy Bottom, a neighborhood with a colorful past and present, and Tempe becomes suspicious about the property’s ownership when she delves into its history.

The pieces start falling into place strangely and quickly, and, sensing a good story, Tempe teams with a new ally, telejournalist Ivy Doyle. Soon the duo learns that back in the thirties and forties the home was the hangout of a group of bootleggers and racketeers known as the Foggy Bottom Gang. Though interesting, this fact seems irrelevant—until the son of a Foggy Bottom gang member is shot dead at his home in an affluent part of the district. Coincidence? Targeted attacks? So many questions.

As Tempe and Ivy dig deeper, an arrest is finally made. Then another Foggy Bottom Gang-linked property burns to the ground, claiming one more victim. Slowly, Tempe’s instincts begin pointing to the obvious: somehow, her moves since coming to Washington have been anticipated, and every path forward seems to bring with it a lethal threat.

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Amerikaanse thrillers, China

Joseph Kanon – Shanghai

Joseph Kanon Shanghai recensie, review en informatie van de historische spionagethriller gesitueerd in de vooroorlogse havenstad in China. Op 25 juni 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Scribner de nieuwe thriller van de Amerikaanse schrijver Joseph Kanon. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek aangekondigd of verkrijgbaar.

Joseph Kanon Shanghai recensie en review

  • “As in his spy novels, Kanon demonstrates a mastery of closed-in drama. Such is the jabbing understatement of the dialogue–what’s withheld matters more than what’s said–that it holds you in suspense as much as any action scene. The contrast between his impeccable control and the nightmarish chaos of this time and place gives things a powerful edge. Kanon goes to China with stirring results.” (Kirkus)
  • “Edgar-winning Kanon plays global and personal intrigues to perfection here. Fans of historical thrillers will appreciate Kanon’s ability to cloak betrayals with the period’s looming uncertainty and evoke Shanghai’s particular vitality.” (Booklist)

Joseph Kanon Shanghai

Shanghai

  • Auteur: Joseph Kanon (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: historische thriller, spionagethriller
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $28.99 / $14.99 / $25.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de nieuwe historische spionagethriller van Joseph Kanon

In this dazzling thriller, New York Times bestselling author Joseph Kanon gives us his richest setting yet: pre-World War II Shanghai, where glamour and squalor exist side by side and murder is just a cost of doing business. A love affair against all odds, a city dancing on the rim of a volcano—Shanghai is the story of a political haven that becomes a minefield of conflicting loyalties.

After the violence of Kristallnacht (1938), European Jews, now desperate to emigrate, found the consular doors of the world closed to them. Only one port required no entry visa: Shanghai, a self-governing Western trading enclave in what was technically Chinese territory, a political anomaly that became an escape hatch—if you were lucky enough to afford a ticket on one of the great Lloyd liners sailing to the East and safety.

Daniel Lohr was one of the lucky ones—lucky enough to have escaped the Gestapo when his colleagues in the resistance were caught, lucky to have an uncle waiting in Shanghai, lucky to find a casual shipboard flirtation turn unexpectedly passionate. But even lucky refugees have to confront the reality of Shanghai. With all their assets, and passports confiscated by the Nazis, they arrive penniless and stateless in a tumultuous, nearly lawless city notorious for vice. When you can sink fast, how far are you willing to go to survive? What lines do you cross? As Daniel tries to navigate his way through his uncle’s world in Shanghai’s fabled nightlife, he finds himself increasingly ensnared in a maze where politics and crime are two sides of the same shiny coin. The trick, his uncle tells him, is to stay one step ahead. But how do you stay ahead of murder? How do you outrun your own past?

Joseph Kanon The Berlin Exchange RecensieJoseph Kanon (Verenigde Staten) – The Berlin Exchange
historische spionagethriller over Berlijn
Uitgever: Scribner
Verschijnt: 22 februari 2022

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Amerikaanse politiek, Memoir

Jen Psaki – Say More

Jen Psaki Say More recensie en informatie boek van de White House Press Secretary onder Barack Obama en huidige MSNBC host. Op 7 mei 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Scribner de memoir van Jen Psaki. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Jen Psaki Say More recensie

Wanneer er in de media een boekbespreking, review of recensie verschijnen van Say More, het boek van Jen Psaki, dan besteed onze redactie er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

  • “Psaki’s memoir of swimming in the deep end of the world’s most analyzed press pool is as forthright and reassuring as her behind-the-podium personae. The lessons she shares with readers often landed first with her toughest audience, her children. It is precisely this balance of political and journalistic strategies and general life advice that elevates Psaki’s narrative beyond the standard Washington insider tell-all. A helpful resource for anyone who knows how much words matter.” (Booklist)
  • “Psaki combines the personal and the professional in her enjoyable debut . . . Sprinkled throughout are self-deprecating jabs that highlight her own occasional blunders . . . Such levity helps the book breeze by. Readers need not be political obsessives to appreciate the practical wisdom on offer here.” (Publishers Weekly)

Jen Psaki Say More

Say More

Lessons from Work, the White House, and the World

  • Auteur: Jen Psaki (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: memoir
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner Books
  • Verschijnt: 7 mei 2024
  • Omvang: 240 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $28.99 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van de voormalige White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki

Former White House Press Secretary and current MSNBC host Jen Psaki shares the surprising lessons she’s learned on her path to success and offers unique yet universal advice about how to be a more effective communicator in any situation.

Not many White House Press Secretaries capture the nation’s interest the way Jen Psaki did. Refreshingly candid and clear, Psaki quickly became known for her ability to break through the noise and successfully deliver her message. In her highly anticipated book, Psaki shares her journey to the Briefing Room and beyond, taking readers along the campaign trail, to the State Department, and inside the White House under two Presidents. With her signature wit, Psaki writes about reporting to bosses from the hot-tempered Rahm Emanuel to the coolly intellectual Barack Obama to the surprisingly tenderhearted John Kerry. She also talks about her time working closely with President Joe Biden from the start of his administration to set a new tone for the country, restoring a sense of calm and respect for the role of the media in our Democracy.

Since leaving the White House, Psaki’s star has continued to rise. She launched a highly rated show on MSNBC and was so successful that in just six months she was given an additional primetime Monday slot, ahead of Rachel Maddow. And Psaki’s work doesn’t end at the office. She is the mother of two young children and shares her stories about the journey of communicating as a parent: During one bedtime briefing, her young daughter asked the question, “Why do wars start?”, which Jen carefully explained and then got a follow up: “Have you ever seen a unicorn?”

In Say More, Psaki explains her straightforward approach to communication, walking readers through difficult conversations as well as moments where humor saves the day—whether it is with preschoolers, partners, or presidents. She addresses the best ways to give and receive feedback, how to connect with your audience, how to listen actively, and much more. Say More is the book Psaki wishes she had when she started her career, and is a trove of entertaining, essential lessons from one of the most prominent voices in American politics today.

Jen Psaki is the host of MSNBC’s Sunday afternoon and Monday evening program, Inside with Jen Psaki. She served as the thirty-fourth White House Press Secretary under President Biden until May 2022. Over the course of her twenty years in public service, Psaki also served as White House Communications Director under President Obama, as the spokesperson for the State Department under then Secretary of State John Kerry, and worked on three presidential campaigns. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband and two children.

Jen Psaki (1 december 1978, Stamford, Connecticut) is the host of MSNBC’s Sunday afternoon and Monday evening program, Inside with Jen Psaki. She served as the thirty-fourth White House Press Secretary under President Biden until May 2022. Over the course of her twenty years in public service, Psaki also served as White House Communications Director under President Obama, as the spokesperson for the State Department under then Secretary of State John Kerry, and worked on three presidential campaigns. She lives in Arlington, Virginia, with her husband and two children.

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Dieren, Dierenboeken, Natuurboeken, Populair Wetenschappelijke Boeken

David Toomey – Kingdom of Play

David Toomey Kingdom of Play recensie en informatie over de inhoud van het populair wetenschappelijke boek over dierengedrag. Op 19 maart 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Scribner Books het nieuwe boek van van de professor van de University of Massachusetts, David Toomey. Hier lees je uitgebreide informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek aangekondigd of verkrijgbaar.

David Toomey Kingdom of Play recensie

De redactie besteed hier aandacht aan de boekbespreking en recensie van Kingdom of Play, het nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse auteur David Toomey.

  • “Wry…In the end, the belief that animals are no less complex and mysterious than humans prevails in Kingdom of Play. Toomey understands that if we always reduce play to some form of utility, we are returning animals to the status of automatons. As the book winds down, his own enjoyment of the subject comes to the fore.” (The Atlantic)
  • “Delightful . . . Toomey makes a compelling case that not only does play offer advantages in natural selection and serve as a potential generator of animal evolution, but the innovation it sparks may even help primates like us influence our own evolution.” (Scientific American)

David Toomey Kingdom of Play

Kingdom of Play

  • Auteur: David Toomey (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: dierenboek, natuurboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner Books
  • Verschijnt: 19 maart 2024
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook / luisterboek
  • Prijs: $29,00 / $14,99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst boek over dierengedrag van David Toomey

In Kingdom of Play, critically acclaimed science writer David Toomey takes us on a fast-paced and entertaining tour of playful animals and the scientists who study them. From octopuses on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef to meerkats in the Kalahari Desert to brown bears on Alaska’s Aleutian Islands, we follow adventurous researchers as they design and conduct experiments seeking answers to new, intriguing questions: When did play first appear in animals? How does play develop the brain, and how did it evolve? Are the songs and aerial acrobatics of birds the beginning of avian culture? Is fairness in dog play the foundation of canine ethics? And does play direct and possibly accelerate evolution?

Monkeys belly-flop, dolphins tail-walk, elephants mud-slide, crows dive-bomb, and octopuses bounce balls. These activities are various, but all are play, and as Toomey explains, animal play can be seen as a distinct behavior—one that is ongoing and open-ended, purposeless and provisional—rather like natural selection. Through a close examination of both natural selection and play, Toomey argues that life itself is fundamentally playful.

A globe-spanning journey and a scientific detective story filled with lively animal anecdotes, Kingdom of Play is an illuminating—and yes, playful—look at a little-known aspect of the animal kingdom.

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Amerikaanse Schrijvers, Amerikaanse thrillers

Stephen King – You Like It Darker

Stephen King You Like It Darker recensie en informatie over de inhoud van het nieuwe boek met verhalen. Op 21 mei 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Scribner Books het nieuwe boek van de Amerikaanse horror- en thrillerschrijver Stephen King. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Wanneer de Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verschijnt is nog onbekend.

Stephen King You Like It Darker recensie

Als er een boekbespreking van You Like It Darker, het nieuwste boek van Stephen King in de media verschijnt, besteden we er op deze pagina aandacht aan.

  • “Absolutely spellbinding stories about love, loss, tragedy, resilience, and—this is Stephen King, after all—unearthly creatures and the strange, unpredictable overlap between this world and another. A character from a classic early King novel makes a welcome return, too, in a beautifully imagined tale that will move readers to tears. This book features some of the author’s most engaging writing…King’s first book, Carrie, was published 50 years ago. He’s had a remarkable career, and You Like It Darker proves that he is still at the height of his powers. A triumph. With so many new and exceptional stories, this collection will have King’s legions of fans clamoring.” (Booklist)
  • “King is writing some of the best work of his long career. Could this collection of short stories continue his remarkable winning streak?” (Seattle Times)

Stephen King You Like It Darker

You Like It Darker

  • Auteur: Stephen King (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: verhalen
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner Books
  • Verschijnt: 21 mei 2024
  • Omvang: 512 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $30.00 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het nieuwe boek met verhalen van Stephen King

“You like it darker? Fine, so do I,” writes Stephen King in the afterword to this magnificent new collection of twelve stories that delve into the darker part of life—both metaphorical and literal. King has, for half a century, been a master of the form, and these stories, about fate, mortality, luck, and the folds in reality where anything can happen, are as rich and riveting as his novels, both weighty in theme and a huge pleasure to read. King writes to feel “the exhilaration of leaving ordinary day-to-day life behind,” and in You Like It Darker, readers will feel that exhilaration too, again and again.

“Two Talented Bastids” explores the long-hidden secret of how the eponymous gentlemen got their skills. In “Danny Coughlin’s Bad Dream,” a brief and unprecedented psychic flash upends dozens of lives, Danny’s most catastrophically. In “Rattlesnakes,” a sequel to Cujo, a grieving widower travels to Florida for respite and instead receives an unexpected inheritance—with major strings attached. In “The Dreamers,” a taciturn Vietnam vet answers a job ad and learns that there are some corners of the universe best left unexplored. “The Answer Man” asks if prescience is good luck or bad and reminds us that a life marked by unbearable tragedy can still be meaningful.

King’s ability to surprise, amaze, and bring us both terror and solace remains unsurpassed. Each of these stories holds its own thrills, joys, and mysteries; each feels iconic. You like it darker? You got it.

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Rachel Lyon – Fruit of the Dead

Rachel Lyon Fruit of the Dead recensie en informatie over de inhoud van de Amerikaanse debuutroman. Op 5 maart 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Scribner Books de eerste roman van de Amerikaanse schrijfster Rachel Lyon. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de roman, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van de roman verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Rachel Lyon Fruit of the Dead recensie

  • “In lush, hallucinatory prose, Lyon narrates from the perspectives of both mother and daughter and evokes the classic myth without distracting readers from the striking contemporary setting and subject matter.” (Booklist, Starred Review)
  • “Irresistible… brilliantly told… an affecting, engrossing, and resonant tale about lost innocence and the enduring bond between a mother and daughter.” (Publisher’s Weekly, Starred Review)
  • “Lyon’s skillful and luscious prose encourages empathy… an affecting novel with touches of the fantastical, weaving explorations of power, youth, wealth, and familial love.” (Kirkus, Starred Review)

Rachel Lyon Fruit of the Dead

Fruit of the Dead

  • Auteur: Rachel Lyon (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: Amerikaanse debuutroman
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Scribner Books
  • Verschijnt: 5 maart 2024
  • Omvang: 320 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $28.00 / $14.99
  • Boek bestellen bij: Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de eerste roman van Rachel Lyon

An electric contemporary reimagining of the myth of Persephone and Demeter set over the course of one summer on a lush private island, about addiction and sex, family and independence, and who holds the power in a modern underworld.

Camp counselor Cory Ansel, eighteen and aimless, afraid to face her high-strung single mother in New York, is no longer sure where home is when the father of one of her campers offers an alternative. The CEO of a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, Rolo Picazo is middle-aged, divorced, magnetic. He is also intoxicated by Cory. When Rolo proffers a childcare job (and an NDA), Cory quiets an internal warning and allows herself to be ferried to his private island. Plied with luxury and opiates manufactured by his company, she continues to tell herself she’s in charge. Her mother, Emer, head of a teetering agricultural NGO, senses otherwise. With her daughter seemingly vanished, Emer crosses land and sea to heed a cry for help she alone is convinced she hears.

Alternating between the two women’s perspectives, Rachel Lyon’s Fruit of the Dead incorporates its mythic inspiration with a light touch and devastating precision. The result is a tale that explores love, control, obliteration, and America’s own late capitalist mythos. Lyon’s reinvention of Persephone and Demeter’s story makes for a haunting and ecstatic novel that vibrates with lush abandon. Readers will not soon forget it.

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