Ayelet Waldman

"In an effort to treat a debilitating mood disorder, Ayelet Waldman undertook a very private experiment, ingesting 10 micrograms of LSD every three days for a month. This is the story--by turns revealing, courageous, fascinating and funny--of her quietly psychedelic spring, her quest to understand one of our most feared drugs, and her search for a really good day"--

How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life

A Really Good Day

Robin Levi

"Inside this place, not of it reveals some of the most egregious human rights violations within women's prisons in the United States. In their own words, the thirteen narrators in this book recount their lives leading up to incarceration and their experiences inside--ranging from forced sterilization and shackling during childbirth, to physical and sexual abuse by prison staff. Together, their testimonies illustrate the harrowing struggles for survival that women in prison must endure"--P. [4] of cover.

Narratives from Women's Prisons

Inside this Place, Not of it

Michael Chabon

A groundbreaking collection of essays by celebrated international writers bears witness to the human cost of fifty years of Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. In Kingdom of Olives and Ash, Michael Chabon and Ayelet Waldman, two of today's most renowned novelists and essayists, have teamed up with the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence—an organization comprised of former Israeli soldiers who served in the occupied territories and saw firsthand the injustice there—and a host of illustrious writers to tell the stories of the people on the ground in the contested territories. Kingdom of Olives and Ash includes contributions from several of today’s most esteemed storytellers including: Colum McCann, Jacqueline Woodson, Colm Toibin, Geraldine Brooks, Dave Eggers, Hari Kunzru, Raja Shehadeh, Mario Vargas Llosa and Assaf Gavron, as well as from editors Chabon and Waldman. Through these incisive, perceptive, and poignant essays, readers will gain unique insight into the narratives behind the litany of grim destruction broadcasted nightly on the news, as well as deeper understanding of the conflict as experienced by the people who live in the occupied territories. Together, these stories stand witness to the human cost of the occupation.

Writers Confront the Occupation

Kingdom of Olives and Ash

A tale inspired by the World War II Hungarian Gold Train follows the 1945 American capture of a locomotive filled with riches and the efforts of a Jewish-American lieutenant's granddaughter to track down a mysterious woman 70 years later. By the author of Red Hook Road. 60,000 first printing.

Love and Treasure

Former public defender Juliet Applebaum escapes the trials of being a stay-at-home mother when her old friend, actress Lily Green, asks for her help in clearing her brother's name when he is accused of killing their stepmother. Reprint.

Death Gets a Time-Out

When the principal of Hollywood's premier preschool is killed in a hit-and-run accident, public defender turned stay-at-home mom Juliet Applebaum gets off the mommy track to track down a murderer. Mystery Guild Selection.

Nursery Crimes

Stay-at-home mother Juliet Applebaum, a former public defender, once again returns to the world of crime when she finds herself investigating the mysterious murder of her personal trainer. Reprint.

A Playdate with Death

A former public defender, stay-at-home mom Juliet Applebaum is plunged back into a world of crime when her newborn son's babysitter, a lovely young Chasidic woman, mysteriously vanishes without a trace. By the author of Nursery Crimes. Reprint.

The Big Nap

Harvard Law graduate Emilia Greenleaf's perfect life with her beloved Jack is turned upside down by her new preschool-age stepson, William, a situation that is further complicated when she loses her own newborn daughter, but it is through William that she begins to heal and to discover what family really means. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 50,000 first printing.

Love and Other Impossible Pursuits

Traces the lives of the Tetherly and Copaken families in the aftermath of a child's tragic death, which results in a broken marriage, a bonding between bereaved siblings and healing in the form of an adopted girl's prodigious violin talent. By the author of the best-selling Bad Mother.

A Novel

Red Hook Road

Examines current expectations of motherhood through anecdotes and examples, explaining that no one can be a perfect mother, and that what some would call bad mothers are actually pretty good.

A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace

Bad Mother

Former public defender Juliet Applebaum finds her new life as a stay-at-home mother, her anticipation of a new arrival in the household, and a search for a larger home interrupted by her investigation into a local murder.

Murder Plays House

Juliet Applebaum juggles the demands of her two young children while investigating the disappearance of her young Hasidic woman babysitter.

Dave Eggers

Colum McCann

Colm Tóibín

A fugitive train loaded with the plunder of a doomed people. A dazzling jewelled pendant in the form of a stylized peacock. And three men - an American infantry captain in World War II, an Israeli-born dealer in art stolen by the Nazis, and a pioneering psychiatrist in fin-de-siecle Budapest - who find their carefully-wrought lives turned upside-down by three fierce women, each locked in a struggle against her own history and the history of our times. And at the centre of Love and Treasure, nested like a photograph hidden in a locket, a mystery: where does the worth of a people and its treasures truly lie? What is the value of a gift, when giver and recipient have been lost - of a love offering when the beloved is no more? In an intricately constructed narrative that is by turns funny and tragic, thrilling and harrowing, with all the expertise and narrative drive that readers have come to expect from her work, Waldman traces the unlikely journey, from 1914 Budapest to post-war Salzburg to present-day New York, of the peacock pendant whose significance changes - token of friendship, love-offering, unlucky talisman with the changes of fortune undergone by her characters as they find themselves caught up in the ebb and flow of modern European history.

Love and treasure

Juliet's and Al's fledgling detective agency gets its most challenging case to date when they take on an investigation into the murder of an addict and prostitute who is the sister of Heavenly, a tall, gorgeous transsexual who will do anything to bring the killer to justice. Reprint.

Bye-Bye, Black Sheep

Married, mother-of-two sleuth Juliet Applebaum gets more than she bargained for when she is hired by Sandra Lorgeree, an inmate at Dartmore State Prison, to find the child she had surrendered to foster care and his missing foster parents, but her case takes a bizarre turn when her client is knifed to death in prison. Reprint.

The Cradle Robbers

Um deslumbrante medalhão e três homens: um capitão de infantaria americano, um israelense negociador de obras de arte roubadas pelos nazistas; um psiquiatra pioneiro de Budapeste do fim do século XIX. Suas vidas pacatas são viradas de cabeça para baixo por três mulheres fortes e independentes. Em 1945, na Áustria, os vitoriosos soldados americanos capturam um trem repleto de riquezas indescritíveis – objetos que haviam sido confiscados dos judeus pelos nazistas. Entre os tesouros estão pilhas de relógios de ouro; montanhas de casacos de pele; caixas cheias de alianças de casamento; porta-retratos de prata; castiçais de Shabat e heranças de família repassadas por gerações. Jack, um inteligente nova-iorquino judeu, é o oficial encarregado de guardar o trem, uma responsabilidade que fica ainda mais complicada quando conhece Ilona, uma bela húngara que perdeu tudo em meio às devastações do Holocausto. Setenta anos depois, Natalie recebe de Jack, seu avô, um lindo colar com o desenho de um pavão com penas de pedras preciosas, que fora achado no trem. Dentro do medalhão, está a fotografia de uma mulher desconhecida. Encarregada de devolver a joia à mulher da foto, Natalie deve mergulhar num submundo sombrio de negociantes de arte para descobrir a história por trás do medalhão. Mas se surpreende ao aprender sobre a vida fascinante de uma mulher feminista que lutou pelo direito de voto no final do século XIX em Budapeste. Uma história de personagens brilhantes, Amor e memória é o melhor romance de Ayelet Waldman: uma obra ricamente detalhada que levanta questões difíceis sobre o valor das coisas preciosas em um momento em que a própria vida parece sem valor, e sobre as correntes invisíveis que nos prendem aos sofrimentos e às paixões do passado.

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