![]() ![]() We are transported to vistas of rugged beauty-densely wooded forests, open expanses of tundra, soaring volcanoes, and the glassy seas that border Japan and Alaska-and into a region as complex as it is alluring, where social and ethnic tensions have long simmered, and where outsiders are often the first to be accused. Taking us through a year in Kamchatka, Disappearing Earth enters with astonishing emotional acuity the worlds of a cast of richly drawn characters, all connected by the crime: a witness, a neighbor, a detective, a mother. ![]() Echoes of the disappearance reverberate across a tightly woven community, with the fear and loss felt most deeply among its women. In the ensuing weeks, then months, the police investigation turns up nothing. One August afternoon, on the shoreline of the Kamchatka peninsula at the northeastern edge of Russia, two girls-sisters, eight and eleven-go missing. Thrilling -Simon WinchesterĪ genuine masterpiece -Gary Shteyngart Spellbinding, moving-evoking a fascinating region on the other side of the world-this suspenseful and haunting story announces the debut of a profoundly gifted writer. One of The New York Times 10 Best Books of the Yearįinalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Prizeįinalist for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prizeįinalist for the New York Public Library's Young Lions Fiction Award National Best Seller ![]()
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![]() ![]() I think of Melville the prophet, warning of the starkness of the coming metropolis and the small brutalities of cubicle capitalism. I think of Melville the innovative writer, his popularity-and income-waning as his daring increased, contemplating the act of writing considered in itself as a bleak task performed for money. ![]() I think of Melville the sailor, accustomed to wide sea vistas and many sea duties, recoiling at the confined, reduced lives of New York City office workers. What a pleasure it is to return to a work of genius and find it inexhaustible! What a host of insights, what a web of subtleties, are contained within this short account of the breakdown of one man in a five man office! ![]() ![]() Sandberg was named the fifth most powerful woman in the world by Forbes magazine - all this, in addition to raising two young children in concert with a totally supportive spouse.) (She has two Harvard degrees and a personal worth just shy of $1 billion. Lean In, which Sandberg describes as "sort of a feminist manifesto," has been slammed by Maureen Dowd, Jodi Kantor, Judith Shulevitz and others for its elitism, for being hard on women and soft on institutional sexism and for making an unfair exemplar of the 43-year-old Sandberg's own Amazonian accomplishments. ![]() Zuckerberg told her that her "desire to be liked by everybody would hold back." I hope she's worked on that problem because over the past few weeks, there sure have been a lot of people hating on Sheryl Sandberg. Sheryl Sandberg tells an anecdote in her new book, Lean In, about sitting down with her boss, Mark Zuckerberg, for her first performance review as chief operating officer at Facebook. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Lean In Subtitle Women, Work, and the Will to Lead Author Sheryl Sandberg ![]() ![]() But her efforts are upstaged by shocking allegations from a local teen in her North Carolina hometown. Always the protected daughter, she must now relinquish that role and prepare to be a mother herself. Thirty-nine and pregnant by a man she's decided to leave behind in California, Jules' life is changing. From Jean Reynolds Page-the critically acclaimed author of The Space Between Before and After and one of the most compelling voices in contemporary women's fiction-comes a dazzling novel of loss and redemption, of relationships that damage and those that heal. ![]() ![]() And then the first murder takes place.Īlmost unwillingly, Holmes and Watson find themselves being drawn ever deeper into an international conspiracy connected to the teeming criminal underworld of Boston, the gaslit streets of London, opium dens and much, much more. In the days that follow, his home is robbed, his family is threatened. ![]() ![]() He is being menaced by a strange man in a flat cap - a wanted criminal who seems to have followed him all the way from America. A fine art dealer named Edmund Carstairs visits Sherlock Holmes and Dr John Watson to beg for their help. ![]() For the first time in its one-hundred-and-twenty-five-year history, the Arthur Conan Doyle Estate has authorized a new Sherlock Holmes novel. ![]() |