has created a character as iconic, engaging and memorable as Madame Bovary or
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The Innovators: How a Group of Hackers,
Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital
Revolution
Following his blockbuster biography of
Steve Jobs, The Innovators is Walter
Isaacson’s revealing story of the people who
created the computer and the Internet. It
is destined to be the standard history of
the digital revolution and an indispensable
guide to how innovation really happens.
Full of eye-opening research and riveting
storytelling, Being Mortal asserts that medicine can comfort and enhance our experience even to the end, providing not only a
good life but also a good end.
What were the talents that allowed certain
inventors and entrepreneurs to turn their
visionary ideas into disruptive realities?
What led to their creative leaps? Why did
some succeed and others fail?
In his masterly saga, Isaacson begins with
Ada Lovelace, Lord Byron’s daughter, who
pioneered computer programming in the
1840s. He explores the fascinating personalities that created our current digital
revolution, such as Vannevar Bush, Alan
Turing, John von Neumann, J.C.R. Licklider, Doug Engelbart, Robert Noyce, Bill
Gates, Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, Tim
Berners-Lee, and Larry Page.
Being Mortal: Medicine and What
Matters in the End
In Being Mortal, bestselling author Atul
Gawande tackles the hardest challenge
of his profession: how medicine can not
only improve life but also the process of its
ending
Medicine has triumphed in modern times,
transforming birth, injury, and infectious
disease from harrowing to manageable.
But in the inevitable condition of aging
and death, the goals of medicine seem too
frequently to run counter to the interest of
the human spirit. Nursing homes, preoccupied with safety, pin patients into railed
beds and wheelchairs. Hospitals isolate the
dying, checking for vital signs long after the
goals of cure have become moot. Doctors,
committed to extending life, continue to
carry out devastating procedures that in the
end extend suffering.
Gawande, a practicing surgeon, addresses
his profession’s ultimate limitation, arguing that quality of life is the desired goal
for patients and families. Gawande offers
examples of freer, more socially fulfilling
models for assisting the infirm and dependent elderly, and he explores the varieties of
hospice care to demonstrate that a person’s
last weeks or months may be rich and
dignified.w
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Nora Webster: A Novel
The Assassination of Margaret
Thatcher: Stories
One of the most accomplished, acclaimed,
and garlanded writers, Hilary Mantel delivers a brilliant collection of contemporary
stories
In The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher,
Hilary Mantel’s trademark gifts of penetrating characterization, unsparing eye, and
rascally intelligence are once again fully on
display.
Stories of dislocation and family fracture,
of whimsical infidelities and sudden deaths
with sinister causes, brilliantly unsettle the
reader in that unmistakably Mantel way.
Cutting to the core of human experience,
Mantel brutally and acutely writes about
marriage, class, family, and sex. Unpredictable, diverse, and sometimes shocking,
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
displays a magnificent writer at the peak of
her powers.
From one of contemporary literature’s
bestselling, critically acclaimed and beloved
authors, a magnificent new novel set in
Ireland, about a fiercely compelling young
widow and mother of four, navigating grief
and fear, struggling for hope.
This is the story of how their minds worked
and what made them so inventive. It’s also
a narrative of how their ability to collaborate and master the art of teamwork made
them even more creative.
On December 3, 1976, just before the
Jamaican general election and two days
before Bob Marley was to play the Smile
Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his
house, machine guns blazing. The attack
nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife,
and his manager, and injured several others.
Marley would go on to perform at the free
concert on December 5, but he left the
country the next day, not to return for two
years.
Deftly spanning decades and continents
and peopled with a wide range of characters—assassins, journalists, drug dealers,
and even ghosts—A Brief History of Seven
Killings is the fictional exploration of that
dangerous and unstable time and its bloody
aftermath, from the streets and slums of
Kingston in the ‘70s, to the crack wars
in ‘80s New York, to a radically altered
Jamaica in the ‘90s. Brilliantly inventive
and stunningly ambitious, this novel is a
revealing modern epic that will secure Marlon James’ place among the great literary
talents of his generation.
For an era that seeks to foster innovation,
creativity, and teamwork, The Innovators
shows how they happen.
Set in Wexford, Ireland, Colm Tóibín’s
superb seventh novel introduces the formidable, memorable and deeply moving
Nora Webster. Widowed at forty, with four
children and not enough money, Nora has
lost the love of her life, Maurice, the man
who rescued her from the stifling worl d to
which she was born. And now she fears
she may be drawn back into it. Wounded,
strong-willed, clinging to secrecy in a tiny
community where everyone knows your
business, Nora is drowning in her own sorrow and blind to the suffering of her young
sons, who have lost their father. Yet she has
moments of stunning empathy and kindness, and when she begins to sing again,
after decades, she finds solace, engagement,
a haven—herself.
Nora Webster is a masterpiece in character
study by a writer at the zenith of his career,
“beautiful and daring” (The New York
Times Book Review) and able to “sneak up
on readers and capture their imaginations”
(USA TODAY). In Nora Webster, Tóibín
Night Women comes one of the year’s most
anticipated novels, a lyrical, masterfully
written epic that explores the attempted assassination of Bob Marley in the late 1970s.
Major General Mark Graham was a decorated two-star officer whose integrity and
patriotism inspired his sons, Jeff and Kevin,
to pursue military careers of their own. His
wife Carol was a teacher who held the family together while Mark’s career took them
to bases around the world. When Kevin and
Jeff die within nine months of each other—
Kevin commits suicide and Jeff is killed by
a roadside bomb in Iraq—Mark and Carol
are astonished by the drastically different
responses their sons’ deaths receive from
the Army. While Jeff is lauded as a hero,
Kevin’s death is met with silence, evidence
of the terrible stigma that surrounds suicide
and mental illness in the military. Convinced that their sons died fighting different
battles, Mark and Carol commit themselves
to transforming the institution that is the
cornerstone of their lives.
The Invisible Front is the story of how one
family tries to set aside their grief and find
purpose in almost unimaginable loss. The
Grahams work to change how the Army
treats those with PTSD and to erase the
stigma that prevents suicidal troops from
getting the help they need before making
the darkest of choices. Their fight offers
a window into the military’s institutional
shortcomings and its resistance to change –
failures that have allowed more than 2,000
troops to take their own lives since 2001.
Yochi Dreazen, an award-winning journalist who has covered the military since 2003,
has been granted remarkable access to the
Graham family and tells their story in the
full context of two of America’s longest
wars. Dreazen places Mark and Carol’s
personal journey, which begins when they
fall in love in college and continues through
the end of Mark’s thirty-four year career in
the Army, against the backdrop of the military’s ongoing suicide spike, which shows
no signs of slowing.
With great sympathy and profound insight,
The Invisible Front details America’s problematic treatment of the troops who return
from war far different than when they’d
left and uses the Graham family’s work as
a new way of understanding the human
cost of war and its lingering effects off the
battlefield.
The Invisible Front: Love and Loss
in an Era of Endless War
Brief History of Seven Killings: A Novel
From the acclaimed author of The Book of
The unforgettable story of a military family
that lost two sons—one to suicide and one
in combat—and channeled their grief into
fighting the armed forces’ suicide epidemic.
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