Buzzy Jackson

A Novel

To Die Beautiful

Like all people, atheists contemplate issues of love, death, and morality, and in times of stress we long for solace and inspiration. A collection of uplifting quotations from some of mankind’s most important philosophers, scientists, writers, and even comedians, THE INSPIRATIONAL ATHEIST will be a treasured daily companion for the growing demographic of humanists who believe that life has meaning when we live it meaningfully, independent of the existence of a higher power. With words from Carl Sagan, D. H. Lawrence, Julia Child, Douglas Adams, Charlotte Bronte, Bertrand Russell, Ralph Waldo Emerson, George Carlin, Joan Didion, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Thomas Jefferson and dozens of others on topics ranging from Love and Nature to Wisdom and Beauty, this book is a celebration of the sublime without the divine.

Wise Words on the Wonder and Meaning of Life

The Inspirational Atheist

Girl with the Red Hair

LA RESISTENCIA LA ADORA. LOS NAZIS LA TEMEN. Basada en la historia real de amor y lealtad de Hannie Schaft, La joven del pelo rojo es una novela sobre los límites a los que nos enfrentamos cuando se ponen a prueba nuestros valores. Ámsterdam, 1940. Hannie es una estudiante de diecinueve años y, a pesar de que vive en los Países Bajos ocupados, tiene grandes ambiciones de futuro. No obstante, no tarda en descubrir que, mientras el fascismo se extiende por su país, sus seres queridos ya no están a salvo. Movida por el amor y la indignación, se une a la Resistencia y descubre en su interior una ferocidad que la empuja a usar todas sus armas, incluida su sensualidad, para ejecutar a sus enemigos. Y aunque su humanidad se resiente, Hannie encuentra entre los rebeldes una nueva familia y un romance inesperado. Conforme se adentra en un mundo de conspiraciones, engaños y asesinatos, los rumores corren como la pólvora entre enemigos y aliados. Todos saben de su existencia, pero desconocen su nombre: para ellos es «la joven del pelo rojo». Una rival digna ante cualquier nazi. Una auténtica amenaza. Y un objetivo a abatir. La crítica ha dicho: «Con un equilibrio exquisito entre el secretismo, la clandestinidad, la aplastante realidad de lo que supone acechar a tu objetivo y el temor paralizante por ser descubierto, La joven del pelo rojo nos muestra el coraje y el poder de una mujer comprometida con hacer lo correcto en un mundo retorcido». Booklist «Buzzy Jackson recrea la vida incendiaria de Hannie Shaft, y lo hace a partir de un puñado de cenizas y unas pocas chispas. Es una novela emocionante sobre la resiliencia». Elizabeth Wein, autora de Nombre en clave: Verity «Una novela cautivadora y apasionante sobre el coraje necesario para hacer lo correcto. Hannie Schaft es toda una inspiración». Judy Batalion, autora de Hijas de la resistencia «Sí, La joven del pelo rojo es una novela inspiradora, empoderadora y oportuna, llena de detalles convincentes y perfectamente documentada, pero es más que eso: es una historia inmersiva sobre una momento histórico aterrador, a través del cual nos guía la heroína que todos necesitamos». Laurie Frankel, autora de Tú, hoy y siempre «Esta novela no es solo brillante: es una vara con la que medir adónde estaríamos dispuestos a llegar para proteger a los que amamos. ¿Qué riesgos asumiríamos? ¿Hasta dónde aguantaríamos?». Jamie Ford, autora de Hasta que volvamos a vernos «Esta es una historia sobre una joven que se enfrenta, jugándose la vida, al nazismo... Una lectura absorbente». Gwen Strauss, autora de The Nine

La joven del pelo rojo

The women who broke the rules, creating their own legacy of how to live and sing the blues. An exciting lineage of women singers—originating with Ma Rainey and her protégée Bessie Smith—shaped the blues, launching it as a powerful, expressive vehicle of emotional liberation. Along with their successors Billie Holiday, Etta James, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner, and Janis Joplin, they injected a dose of reality into the often trivial world of popular song, bringing their message of higher expectations and broader horizons to their audiences. These women passed their image, their rhythms, and their toughness on to the next generation of blues women, which has its contemporary incarnation in singers like Bonnie Raitt and Lucinda Williams (with whom the author has done an in-depth interview). Buzzy Jackson combines biography, an appreciation of music, and a sweeping view of American history to illuminate the pivotal role of blues women in a powerful musical tradition. Musician Thomas Dorsey said, "The blues is a good woman feeling bad." But these women show by their style that he had it backward: The blues is a bad woman feeling good.

A Bad Woman Feeling Good: Blues and the Women Who Sing Them

Effie comes to San Francisco on the hunt for work and her long-lost father, so when she's offered a job at a detective agency she figures it's a two-birds-one-stone situation. But when her strange new boss invites her into a world of hardboiled mystery, the line between real life and film noir fantasy becomes as foggy as a San Francisco summer - and Effie's future happiness is at stake. A novel of mystery and love as well as a coming-of-age story, Effie Perine crosses the genres of fantasy, mystery, and metafiction. Effie Perine tells the story of a young woman just starting out in the world. Raised in rural Northern California, Effie's mission to find her lost father gives her a sense of purpose as she tries to find her bearings in the big city. But she soon discovers that San Francisco's familiar landmarks might not be as solid as they first appear. As she's seduced by her ever-shifting surroundings, Effie starts to wonder if she's losing the ability to separate dreams from reality. Readers of slipstream fiction and fantasy will appreciate Effie's journey through changing historical eras, while mystery fans will enjoy meeting their favorite hardboiled types in wholly new settings. For everyone who ever wondered, Who was Effie Perine?... here is your answer.

Effie Perine

“WHO ARE YOU AND WHERE DO YOU COME FROM? ” As a historian, Buzzy Jackson thought she knew the answers to these simple questions—that is, until she took a look at her scrawny family tree. With a name like Jackson (the twentieth most common American surname), she knew she must have more relatives and more family history out there, somewhere. Her first visit to the Boulder Genealogy Society brought her more questions than answers . . . but it also gave her a tantalizing peek into the fascinating (and enormous) community of family-tree huggers and after-hours Alex Haleys. In Shaking the Family Tree, Jackson dives headfirst into her family gene pool: flying cross-country to locate an ancient family graveyard, embarking on a weeklong genealogy Caribbean cruise, and even submitting her DNA for testing to try to find her Jacksons. And in the process of researching her own family lore (Who was Bullwhip Jackson?) she meets legions of other genealogy buffs who are as interesting as they are driven—from the boy who saved his allowance so he could order his great-grandfather’s death certificate to the woman who spends her free time documenting the cemeteries of Colorado ghost towns. Through Jackson’s research she connects with distant relatives, traces her roots back more than 250 years and in the process comes to discover—genetically, historically, and emotionally—the true meaning of “family” for herself.

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