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It was named a bestseller by The Los Angeles Times. [7] The book also landed on IndieBound's Indie Next List February 2018 and Summer 2019. [5] NPR considered How to Stop Time "a meditation on the tick and tock of time and mortality." [4] The Guardian reviewer said, "The energy and zip of this book are hard to resist." [3]
Hell Followed With Us was ranked #10 on the New York Times Young Adult Bestseller list in August 2022, [2] and was included in The Year-To-Date 2023 Indie Bestsellers List by the American Booksellers Association. [9] Paste Magazine listed it as one of the Best YA Books of 2022. [10]
The Library Policeman tells of Sam Peebles and his battle against an age-old fear. Peebles is asked to give a speech to his local Rotary Club. An office assistant named Naomi Higgins directs him to the public library to check out books that might help with his speechwriting. At the library, he receives a library card and assistance in finding ...
Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987–1993 is a 2021 oral history written by former ACT UP activist Sarah Schulman. [1] Using 188 interviews conducted as part of the ACT UP Oral History Project, [2] Schulman shows how the activist group was successful, due to its decentralized, dramatic actions, and emphasizes the contributions of people of color and women to the ...
The book is about "one of the most compelling paradoxes of history: the pursuit by governments of policies contrary to their own interests". [1] It details four major instances of government folly in human history: the Trojans' decision to move the Greek horse into their city, the failure of the Renaissance popes to address the factors that would lead to the Protestant Reformation in the early ...
Orlean in 2018. The Library Book received strongly favorable reviews and was selected as a "PW Pick" by Publishers Weekly. [4] Reviewing the book for The New York Times, Michael Lewis wrote, "Susan Orlean has once again found rich material where no one else has bothered to look for it…Once again, she's demonstrated that the feelings of a writer, if that writer is sufficiently talented and ...
It is the first book in The Library Trilogy, with a second book, The Book That Broke the World, was released in April 2024. Lawrence is also the author of the Broken Empire trilogy . The book follows the story of Livira, a young and brilliant orphan from the Dust, and Evar, one of five children who were separated from their time and raised ...
How to Blow Up a Pipeline: Learning to Fight in a World on Fire is a nonfiction book written by Andreas Malm and published in 2021 by Verso Books. In the book, Malm argues that sabotage is a logical form of climate activism , and criticizes both pacifism within the climate movement and "climate fatalism " outside it.