We meet Lena Rusch, an appealing but harried mother of two whose surgeon husband has been trying, with middling success, to found his own medical device company. This legendary Silicon Valley mogul - a diabolically clever cross between Steve Jobs and Donald Trump - sets the pages on fire every time he shows up." -Jocelyn McClurg, USA Today, ""In what may well be the most serious and the most entertaining domestic novel of the year, San Francisco writer Carol Edgarian delivers a new turn on Tolstoy's old chestnut: "Happy families are alike, but every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way." She calls her book Three Stages of Amazement and sets it in San Francisco toward the end of the "dot com" craze. "What really got my literary pulse racing is Edgarian's most fascinating creation, Lena's estranged uncle, 79-year-old Cal Rusch.
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Leaving behind Sophie, his newly pregnant wife, Colonel Forrester records his extraordinary experiences in hopes that his journal will reach her if he doesn't return-once he passes beyond the edge of the known world, there's no telling what awaits him. In the winter of 1885, decorated war hero Colonel Allen Forrester leads a small band of men on an expedition that has been deemed impossible: to venture up the Wolverine River and pierce the vast, untamed Alaska Territory. About the Book Includes questions and topics for discussion.īook Synopsis An atmospheric, transporting tale of adventure, love, and survival from the bestselling author of The Snow Child, finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. “Sammy? I’m Liza.” She sticks out her hand and is pleasantly surprised at the strength of Sammy’s grip. Liza strides over, cringing at the squeaking of her glittered Converse sneakers. There she is, sitting in the far corner, wearing the silver wing necklace just like she’d said. 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The Astor’s luxurious guest rooms boasted ornate furnishings more significantly, it served as a theater of the wealthy for anyone who had a natty enough suit to sit in the lobby. He became America’s first millionaire with his fur-trading business and began the tradition of building magnificent hotels as personal tribute in 1834 with his Astor on Broadway, built at a time when “hotels” were mostly “roadside inns” where guests often shared beds as “snuggly” as Ishmael and Queequeg in the opening chapter of Moby-Dick. Their forebear, John Jacob Astor, was born in 1763, the son of a butcher in Waldorf, Germany. The financiers of the Waldorf-Astoria were members of the dynastic Astor family. But running his father’s plantation, Saint Lazare, is neither glamorous nor easy.Īgainst the merciless backdrop of sugar cane fields, the lives of Tété and Valmorain grow ever more intertwined. When twenty-year-old Toulouse Valmorain arrives on the island in 1770, it’s with powdered wigs in his trunks and dreams of financial success in his mind. Though her childhood is one of brutality and fear, Tété finds solace in the traditional rhythms of African drums and the voodoo loas she discovers through her fellow slaves. From the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans at the turn of the 19th century, Isabel Allende’s latest novel tells the story of a mulatta woman, a slave and concubine, determined to take control of her own destiny in a society where that would seem impossible.īorn a slave on the island of Saint-Domingue, Zarité – known as Tété – is the daughter of an African mother she never knew and one of the white sailors who brought her into bondage. With many of her stories reflecting this, she would manage to create detailed accounts almost that, whilst being fictionalized, would neither-less relate the hardships of the times in great detail. Giving her opinion on such subjects as the ‘Great Depression’ she would come to make herself heard, as she would also opine on topics such as slavery too, examining the economic crisis of the times. This has lead to many championing her as very much a writer of her time and background, bringing to life the past, allowing it to essentially remain unforgotten by future generations to follow. Over the course of her life this would come to shape much of her work as an author, as she would essentially collect and collate these anecdotes together, relating her experiences to others. Living through segregation as an African-American woman, she would write about many of her experiences that she would witness growing up under such circumstances. Taylor has been putting out work for a long time now on a regular basis, having become one of the most prominent voices within the industry over the years, creating much loved stories that recollect her past as well as that of her culture growing up in the United States. An American author of children’s literature, the writer Mildred D. Her work stretched fifty years from the early 1920s into the 1970s her writing about Ishi was based primarily on her husband's experiences working with him at the Museum of Anthropology from 1911 to Ishi's death in 1915. Theodora spent much of her life writing about Ishi and creating published story collections of folktales and myths from a number of tribes from northern California. Theodora and Alfred Kroeber were both anthropologists. Once he began his work with California anthropologists, however, he became a resource on the Yahi way of life, teaching academics and museum visitors about his culture, which, without his efforts and the efforts of the anthropologists who helped translate his words, would have been completely lost. Ishi, found outside a slaughterhouse in 1911, was unable to communicate and an enigma to local authorities. Ishi in Two Worlds: A Biography of the Last Wild Indian in North America (1961), a biography by Theodora Kroeber, tells the story of Ishi, the last known Native American of the Yahi tribe of Northern California, who worked closely with Kroeber's husband, Alfred, at the Museum of Anthropology at the University of California Berkeley. |