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Still, when detectives asked for victims to come forward, she sent a note. With her criminal case file reopened, she saw for the first time evidence that corroborated her memories. Here were depictions of the naïve, hardworking girl she'd been, a chorister and debater, the daughter of a priest; of the two senior athletes who assaulted her and were allowed to graduate with awards; and of the faculty, doctors, and priests who had known about Crawford's assault and gone to great lengths to bury it. Now a wife, mother, and writer living on the other side of the country, Crawford learned that police had uncovered astonishing proof of an institutional silencing years before, and that unnamed powers were still trying to block her case. The slander, innuendo, and lack of adult concern that Crawford had experienced as a student hadn't been the imagined effects of trauma, after all: these were the actions of a school that prized its reputation above anything, even a child. This revelation launched Crawford on an extraordinary inquiry into the ways gender, privilege, and power shaped her experience as a girl at the gates of America's elite. Her investigation looks beyond the sprawling playing fields and soaring chapel towers of crucibles of power like St. Paul's, whose reckoning is still to come. And it runs deep into the channels of shame and guilt, witness and silencing, that dictate who can speak and who is heard in American society. An insightful, mature, beautifully written memoir, Notes on a Silencing is an arresting coming-of-age story that wrestles with an essential question for our time: what telling of a survivor's story will finally force a remedy?\" --","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx27x101a6ywejp2trpeyt23.jpg?v=195a73f9bc","LEBp5w_0Ipt6~n?FxDs.^%t7D+Rk",2020,"3.00",400,[99],{"id":100,"slug":101,"name":102},"01kx27x0zrw9wv52302kf5f000","lacy-crawford-9d4g","Lacy Crawford",[104,105,109,113],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":19},{"id":106,"name":107,"slug":108,"is_fiction":19},104,"True Crime","true-crime",{"id":110,"name":111,"slug":112,"is_fiction":19},88,"Biography","biography",{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":116,"complexity":7,"audience":73,"mood":117,"themes":119,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},"slow",[77,76,118],"tense",[],{"id":121,"slug":122,"title":123,"description":124,"primary_cover_url":125,"cover_blurhash":126,"first_publish_year":127,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":15,"authors":128,"genres":133,"series":137,"enrichment":138},"01kx2ezfad0feqns54rgfbq9m2","aftershocks-3a5e","Aftershocks","In the tradition of The Glass Castle, this “gorgeous” (The New York Times, Editors’ Choice) and deeply felt memoir from Whiting Award winner Nadia Owusu tells the “incredible story” (Malala Yousafzai) about the push and pull of belonging, the seismic emotional toll of family secrets, and the heart it takes to pull through. “In Aftershocks, Nadia Owusu tells the incredible story of her young life. How does a girl—abandoned by her mother at age two and orphaned at thirteen when her beloved father dies—find her place in the world? This memoir is the story of Nadia creating her own solid ground across countries and continents. I know the struggle of rebuilding your life in an unfamiliar place. While some of you might be familiar with that and some might not, I hope you’ll take as much inspiration and hope from her story as I did.” —MALALA YOUSAFZAI ​ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF 2021 SELECTED BY VULTURE, TIME, ESQUIRE, NPR, AND VOGUE! Young Nadia Owusu followed her father, a United Nations official, from Europe to Africa and back again. Just as she and her family settled into a new home, her father would tell them it was time to say their goodbyes. The instability wrought by Nadia’s nomadic childhood was deepened by family secrets and fractures, both lived and inherited. Her Armenian American mother, who abandoned Nadia when she was two, would periodically reappear, only to vanish again. Her father, a Ghanaian, the great hero of her life, died when she was thirteen. After his passing, Nadia’s stepmother weighed her down with a revelation that was either a bombshell secret or a lie, rife with shaming innuendo. With these and other ruptures, Nadia arrived in New York as a young woman feeling stateless, motherless, and uncertain about her future, yet eager to find her own identity. 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Jen Lancaster is here to take a hard look at our elevating anxieties, and with self-deprecating wit and levelheaded wisdom, she charts a path out of the quagmire that keeps us frightened of the future and ashamed of our imperfectly perfect human lives. 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From the New York Times–bestselling author Sloane Crosley comes Look Alive Out There—a brand-new collection of essays filled with her trademark hilarity, wit, and charm. The characteristic heart and punch-packing observations are back, but with a newfound coat of maturity. A thin coat. More of a blazer, really. Fans of I Was Told There’d Be Cake and How Did You Get This Number know Sloane Crosley’s life as a series of relatable but madcap misadventures. In Look Alive Out There, whether it’s scaling active volcanoes, crashing shivas, playing herself on Gossip Girl, befriending swingers, or staring down the barrel of the fertility gun, Crosley continues to rise to the occasion with unmatchable nerve and electric one-liners. And as her subjects become more serious, her essays deliver not just laughs but lasting emotional heft and insight. Crosley has taken up the gauntlets thrown by her predecessors—Dorothy Parker, Nora Ephron, David Sedaris—and crafted something rare, affecting, and true. Look Alive Out There arrives on the tenth anniversary of I Was Told There’d be Cake, and Crosley’s essays have managed to grow simultaneously more sophisticated and even funnier. And yet she’s still very much herself, and it’s great to have her back—and not a moment too soon (or late, for that matter).","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx2bfznk43ek21ynnnnw9my9.jpg?v=44a8ee593e","LJLE._xX%%tS%$krMxi]xpV=R4o~",2018,257,[181],{"id":182,"slug":183,"name":184},"01kp6bp47w9safdqgdwwkjyevb","sloane-crosley-poem","Sloane Crosley",[186,187,188],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":19},{"id":162,"name":163,"slug":164,"is_fiction":18},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":191,"complexity":7,"audience":73,"mood":192,"themes":193,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},"fast",[168,76],[],{"id":195,"slug":196,"title":197,"description":198,"primary_cover_url":199,"cover_blurhash":200,"first_publish_year":201,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":202,"authors":203,"genres":208,"series":219,"enrichment":220},"01kx243x2f47xn3vcn12s3bamv","starcrossed-699d","Starcrossed,","Her parents said, \"You're marrying a seventeen-year-old Jewish high school student?\" His parents said, \"You're in love with a twenty-one-year-old Catholic senior in college?\" And then the fun began . . . . 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It's a hell of a ride! 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We already know that E. Jean Carroll looked smashing when she went to court versus Donald J. Trump. But her irrepressible voice was, necessarily, repressed...Now she is saying pretty much everything.\" —The New York Times Book Review \"Buoyant.\" —The New York Times A hilarious, hopeful, revelatory behind the scenes account of the trials that riveted the nation You’ve heard about the tantrums, the seething, the storming out of court, yes. But what about E. Jean’s side of the story? What about the flight suits, the bottle of green Chartreuse, and the bob? Not My Type puts you in a better seat than the jury box. You will hear Alina Habba, Esq., “Trump’s most beautiful attorney,” asking E. Jean to “list” the people she has “slept with”—a list which turns out to be so marvelous, it is worth twice the price of this book. You will experience the fear and loathing of E. 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As a child, Madden lived a life of extravagance, from her exclusive private school to her equestrian trophies and designer shoe-brand name. But under the surface was a wild instability. The only child of parents continually battling drug and alcohol addictions, Madden confronted her environment alone. Facing a culture of assault and objectification, she found lifelines in the desperately loving friendships of fatherless girls. With unflinching honesty and lyrical prose, spanning from 1960s Hawai'i to the present-day struggle of a young woman mourning the loss of a father while unearthing truths that reframe her reality, Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls is equal parts eulogy and love letter. It's a story about trauma and forgiveness, about families of blood and affinity, both lost and found, unmade and rebuilt, crooked and beautiful. 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As featured in When They See Us—the Netflix limited series created, written, and directed by Ava DuVernay that retells the story of the Central Park Five, the young men wrongly accused of this crime. Shortly after 9:00 p.m. on April 19, 1989, a young woman jogs alone near 102nd Street in New York City's Central Park. She is attacked, raped, savagely beaten, and left for dead. Hours later she arrives at the emergency room—comatose—she has lost so much blood that her doctors believe it’s a miracle she's still alive. Meet Trisha Meili, the Central Park Jogger. I Am the Central Park Jogger recounts the mesmerizing, inspiring, often wrenching story of human strength and transcendent recovery. Called “Hero of the Month” by Glamour magazine, Meili tells us who she was before the attack—a young Wall Street professional with a promising future—and who she has become: a woman who learned how to read, write, walk, talk, and love again...and turn horrifying violence and certain death into extraordinary healing and victorious life. With “moments of unexpected grace and insights into life’s challenges….Meili’s story—the story the public never knew—is unforgettable” (The Buffalo News).","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx23jntf5755fe2s0raaj2zw.jpg?v=02d0d32171","LVPP_hyCXlMd.TRksWo}tnVsVstR",2003,280,[329],{"id":330,"slug":331,"name":332},"01kx23jnt94mkg614b97mbk48t","trisha-meili-nggg","Trisha Meili",[334,335,336,337],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":19},{"id":106,"name":107,"slug":108,"is_fiction":19},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":19},{"id":338,"name":339,"slug":340,"is_fiction":19},95,"Self-Help","self-help",[],{"pace":116,"complexity":7,"audience":73,"mood":343,"themes":344,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[78,76],[],[346,422,497],{"key":347,"params":348,"works":349},"genre_year",{"genre":33,"year":9},[350,362,381,402],{"id":227,"slug":228,"title":229,"description":230,"primary_cover_url":231,"cover_blurhash":232,"first_publish_year":233,"community_rating_avg":234,"community_rating_count":72,"page_count":235,"authors":351,"genres":353,"series":358,"enrichment":359},[352],{"id":238,"slug":239,"name":240},[354,355,356,357],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":19},{"id":106,"name":107,"slug":108,"is_fiction":19},{"id":216,"name":217,"slug":218,"is_fiction":19},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":191,"complexity":7,"audience":73,"mood":360,"themes":361,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[118,78],[],{"id":363,"slug":364,"title":365,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":366,"cover_blurhash":367,"first_publish_year":233,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":368,"authors":369,"genres":374,"series":377,"enrichment":378},"01kx28gq6cnkzcr5xgccmr3tnm","feral-and-hysterical-4d0a","Feral and Hysterical","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx28gq7dx4ryfm4age6ykv93.jpg?v=8772d74b0c","L3EB+?BW01,V00%0~99u0kibDj-;",200,[370],{"id":371,"slug":372,"name":373},"01kp9g3t093z592kxbyz63aayr","sadie-hartmann-bl2c","Sadie Hartmann",[375,376],{"id":110,"name":111,"slug":112,"is_fiction":19},{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":116,"complexity":7,"audience":73,"mood":379,"themes":380,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[76,317],[],{"id":382,"slug":383,"title":384,"description":385,"primary_cover_url":386,"cover_blurhash":387,"first_publish_year":388,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":389,"authors":390,"genres":395,"series":398,"enrichment":399},"01kx28qf7dsgnzakjmwpdntb5g","seventy-times-seven-4s7v","Seventy Times Seven","“Alex Mar’s bold yet sensitive account of one of America’s youngest death row inmates—and the people whose lives she forever changed—is intimately reported, deeply moving, and unforgettable.” —Robert Kolker, New York Times bestselling author of Hidden Valley Road “An absorbing work of social history and a story about the mystery and miracle of forgiveness. This is a book of awesome scope, and it deserves to be read with attention.” —Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize–winning author of the Wolf Hall trilogy A masterful, revelatory work of literary non-fiction about a teenage girl’s shocking crime—and its extraordinary aftermath On a spring afternoon in 1985 in Gary, Indiana, a fifteen-year-old girl kills an elderly woman in a violent home invasion. In a city with a history of racial tensions and white flight, the girl, Paula Cooper, is Black, and her victim, Ruth Pelke, is white and a beloved Bible teacher. The press swoops in. When Paula is sentenced to death, no one decries the impending execution of a tenth grader. But the tide begins to shift when the victim’s grandson Bill forgives the girl, against the wishes of his family, and campaigns to spare her life. This tragedy in a midwestern steel town soon reverberates across the United States and around the world—reaching as far away as the Vatican—as newspapers cover the story on their front pages and millions sign petitions in support of Paula. As Paula waits on death row, her fate sparks a debate that not only animates legal circles but raises vital questions about the value of human life: What are we demanding when we call for justice? Is forgiveness an act of desperation or of profound bravery? As Bill and Paula’s friendship deepens, and as Bill discovers others who have chosen to forgive after terrible violence, their story asks us to consider what radical acts of empathy we might be capable of. In Seventy Times Seven, Alex Mar weaves an unforgettable narrative of an act of violence and its aftermath. This is a story about the will to live—to survive, to grow, to change—and about what we are willing to accept as justice. Tirelessly researched and told with intimacy and precision, this book brings a haunting chapter in the history of our criminal justice system to astonishing life.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx28qf7zwjkbf4m7am9bw5bs.jpg?v=cae0cb3e1c","L7F$hUs%0t$|~nxu%K%LE9M{axjX",2023,385,[391],{"id":392,"slug":393,"name":394},"01kx28qf7vrcbe8zxbkdkrknb9","alex-mar-y9we","Alex Mar",[396,397],{"id":106,"name":107,"slug":108,"is_fiction":19},{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":70,"complexity":7,"audience":73,"mood":400,"themes":401,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[77,76],[],{"id":403,"slug":404,"title":405,"description":7,"primary_cover_url":406,"cover_blurhash":407,"first_publish_year":408,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":7,"authors":409,"genres":414,"series":417,"enrichment":418},"01kwzx8rbjje80jjefheyb8aec","mother-island-qeuo","Mother Island","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kwzx8rcbyc71c90qbmahvd22.jpg?v=b796d93159","L5B4C6$_0tAgB5g4=Kv|2^M,}8?9",2024,[410],{"id":411,"slug":412,"name":413},"01kwzx8rc4d3f8e77sqc1cf2e0","jamie-figueroa-edmu","Jamie Figueroa",[415,416],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":19},{"id":110,"name":111,"slug":112,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":116,"complexity":7,"audience":73,"mood":419,"themes":421,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[76,317,420],"hopeful",[],{"key":423,"params":424,"works":425},"genre_mood",{"genre":29,"mood":75},[426,452,475],{"id":427,"slug":428,"title":429,"description":430,"primary_cover_url":431,"cover_blurhash":432,"first_publish_year":256,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":433,"authors":434,"genres":439,"series":448,"enrichment":449},"01kx25x5b7dzycv91qa7bx1kf1","things-ive-been-silent-about-memories-krrj","Things I've Been Silent about Memories","I started making a list in my diary entitled “Things I Have Been Silent About.” Under it I wrote: “Falling in Love in Tehran. Going to Parties in Tehran. Watching the Marx Brothers in Tehran. ReadingLolitain Tehran.” I wrote about repressive laws and executions, about public and political abominations. Eventually I drifted into writing about private betrayals, implicating myself and those close to me in ways I had never imagined. --FromThings I Have Been Silent About Azar Nafisi, author of the beloved international bestsellerReading Lolita in Tehran, now gives us a stunning personal story of growing up in Iran, memories of her life lived in thrall to a powerful and complex mother, against the background of a country’s political revolution. A girl’s pain over family secrets; a young woman’s discovery of the power of sensuality in literature; the price a family pays for freedom in a country beset by political upheaval–these and other threads are woven together in this beautiful memoir, as a gifted storyteller once again transforms the way we see the world and “reminds us of why we read in the first place” (Newsday). Nafisi’s intelligent and complicated mother, disappointed in her dreams of leading an important and romantic life, created mesmerizing fictions about herself, her family, and her past. But her daughter soon learned that these narratives of triumph hid as much as they revealed. Nafisi’s father escaped into narratives of another kind, enchanting his children with the classic tales like the Shahnamah, the Persian Book of Kings. When her father started seeing other women, young Azar began to keep his secrets from her mother. Nafisi’s complicity in these childhood dramas ultimately led her to resist remaining silent about other personal, as well as political, cultural, and social, injustices. Reaching back in time to reflect on other generations in the Nafisi family,Things I’ve Been Silent Aboutis also a powerful historical portrait of a family that spans many periods of change leading up to the Islamic Revolution of 1978-79, which turned Azar Nafisi’s beloved Iran into a religious dictatorship. Writing of her mother’s historic term in Parliament, even while her father, once mayor of Tehran, was in jail, Nafisi explores the remarkable “coffee hours” her mother presided over, where at first women came together to gossip, to tell fortunes, and to give silent acknowledgment of things never spoken about, and which then evolved into gatherings where men and women would meet to openly discuss the unfolding revolution. Things I’ve Been Silent Aboutis, finally, a deeply personal reflection on women’s choices, and on how Azar Nafisi found the inspiration for a different kind of life. This unforgettable portrait of a woman, a family, and a troubled homeland is a stunning book that readers will embrace, a new triumph from an author who is a modern master of the memoir.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx25x5bn1k9fxsbnce4a8acr.jpg?v=5b58a6e597","LuNmc-s;t7t7~qbHWBjaI9f6ofWV",352,[435],{"id":436,"slug":437,"name":438},"01kjtmqk5cxq3h0pf50v43vqd0","azar-nafisi-5wth","Azar Nafisi",[440,441,442,443,447],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":19},{"id":110,"name":111,"slug":112,"is_fiction":19},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":19},{"id":444,"name":445,"slug":446,"is_fiction":19},79,"Education","education",{"id":216,"name":217,"slug":218,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":116,"complexity":7,"audience":73,"mood":450,"themes":451,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[76,75],[],{"id":453,"slug":454,"title":455,"description":456,"primary_cover_url":457,"cover_blurhash":458,"first_publish_year":256,"community_rating_avg":7,"community_rating_count":14,"page_count":7,"authors":459,"genres":464,"series":471,"enrichment":472},"01kx26j166rymhd2x1hx3q0pdd","the-middle-place-4t8p","The Middle Place","For Kelly Corrigan, family is everything. At thirty-six, she had a marriage that worked, two funny, active kids, and a weekly newspaper column. But even as a thriving adult, Kelly still saw herself as the daughter of garrulous Irish-American charmer George Corrigan. She was living deep within what she calls the Middle Place--\"that sliver of time when parenthood and childhood overlap\"--comfortably wedged between her adult duties and her parents' care. But Kelly is abruptly shoved into coming-of-age when she finds a lump in her breast--and gets the diagnosis no one wants to hear. When George, too, learns that he has late-stage cancer, it is Kelly's turn to take care of the man who had always taken care of her--and to show us a woman who finally takes the leap and grows up.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx26j1963n7vkkemmzyz9d0j.jpg?v=3686fbbf80","L7D2XgD402Yk00xJ:OVE4TXB{Kr;",[460],{"id":461,"slug":462,"name":463},"01kx26j193bgmc2pzx3gm5h0a0","kelly-corrigan-gg1c","Kelly Corrigan",[465,466,470],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":19},{"id":467,"name":468,"slug":469,"is_fiction":18},144,"Women's Fiction","womens-fiction",{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":70,"complexity":7,"audience":73,"mood":473,"themes":474,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[75,76],[],{"id":476,"slug":477,"title":478,"description":479,"primary_cover_url":480,"cover_blurhash":481,"first_publish_year":482,"community_rating_avg":234,"community_rating_count":72,"page_count":483,"authors":484,"genres":489,"series":493,"enrichment":494},"01kx26sr9k4y112zjeezj2ej3k","tales-from-the-bed-uh05","Tales from the Bed","Jenifer Estess is a woman on the verge: She's about to launch her own company; she's looking buff and dating vigorously; she's driving in the fast lane -- with the top down. At the age of thirty-five, Jenifer dreams of falling in love and starting a family. Then she notices muscle twitches in her legs. Walking down a city block feels exhausting. At first, doctors write off Jenifer's symptoms to stress, but she is quickly diagnosed with ALS, a fatal brain disease that is absolutely untreatable. Max out your credit cards and see Paris, suggests one doctor. Instead of preparing to die, Jenifer gets busy. She dreams deeper, works harder, and loves endlessly. For Jenifer, being fatally ill is not about letting go. It's about holding on and reaching -- for family, friends, goals. Jenifer's girlhood pact with her sisters Valerie and Meredith -- nothing will ever break us apart -- guides them as Jenifer faces down one of the most devastating illnesses known to humankind. That same enduring pact inspires the creation of Project A.L.S., a movement started by the sisters that changes the way science and medicine approach research for ALS and the related diseases Parkinson's and Alzheimer's, and which has already raised more than $18 million. Will Project A.L.S. help scientists discover medicine in time for her? Jenifer answers these questions and others in this beautifully written and wholly inspiring memoir that celebrates a life fuelled by memory. Tales from the Bed forces us to reconsider society's notion of \"having it all,\" and illustrates, more than anything, the importance of endurance, hope, and, most of all, love.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx26sra2yzybkykb7sgbdx5d.jpg?v=a08a7d0d56","LADSzXIUf4Rj00t7ogWX~TWAWBae",2005,256,[485],{"id":486,"slug":487,"name":488},"01kx26sr9xg16swz528apnqc3e","jenifer-estess-dxas","Jenifer Estess",[490,491,492],{"id":110,"name":111,"slug":112,"is_fiction":19},{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":19},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":70,"complexity":7,"audience":73,"mood":495,"themes":496,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[78,75],[],{"key":498,"params":499,"works":500},"genre",{"genre":29},[501,513,538,559,588,600],{"id":89,"slug":90,"title":91,"description":92,"primary_cover_url":93,"cover_blurhash":94,"first_publish_year":95,"community_rating_avg":96,"community_rating_count":72,"page_count":97,"authors":502,"genres":504,"series":509,"enrichment":510},[503],{"id":100,"slug":101,"name":102},[505,506,507,508],{"id":32,"name":33,"slug":34,"is_fiction":19},{"id":106,"name":107,"slug":108,"is_fiction":19},{"id":110,"name":111,"slug":112,"is_fiction":19},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":116,"complexity":7,"audience":73,"mood":511,"themes":512,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[77,76,118],[],{"id":514,"slug":515,"title":516,"description":517,"primary_cover_url":518,"cover_blurhash":519,"first_publish_year":520,"community_rating_avg":234,"community_rating_count":72,"page_count":235,"authors":521,"genres":526,"series":532,"enrichment":533},"01kx27vt93abm1mswyac5thvv0","mockingbird-ic4g","Mockingbird","In the 1930s Southern United States, young Scout Finch watches her father Atticus take on a case that will expose the rot beneath their small Alabama town's polite surface: defending Tom Robinson, a Black man falsely accused of raping a white woman. Told through Scout's eyes as she grows from childhood into adolescence, the novel is a quiet reckoning with racism, injustice, and the loss of innocence in the face of prejudice that runs too deep to be ignored.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx27vt9jr0phcdbpgywwqwr9.jpg?v=bf09b7ee1d","LLP?pckV^%-o_NxHIWNHM{R*M|WC",2007,[522],{"id":523,"slug":524,"name":525},"01kx27vt9dft02aejrn3w36k4j","charles-j-shields-oupa","Charles J. 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On a fateful day in February 2002, campaign manager Clara Rojas accompanied longtime friend and presidential hopeful Ingrid Betancourt into an area controlled by the powerful leftist guerrilla group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC). Armed with machine guns and grenades, the FARC took them hostage and kept them in the jungle for the next six years. After more than two years of captivity deep in the Colombian jungle, surrounded by jaguars, snakes, and tarantulas, miles from any town or hospital, Clara Rojas prepared to give birth in a muddy tent surrounded by heavily armed guerrillas. Her captors promised that a doctor would be brought to the camp to help her. But when Rojas went into labor and began to suffer complications, the only person on hand was a guerrilla wielding a kitchen knife. The guerrillas drugged Rojas with anesthetic while one of them slit open her abdomen. Her son, Emmanuel, was born by amateur cesarean section in April 2004. His survival was miraculous, but her joy was soon cut short when the FARC took him from her when he was only eight months old. For the next three years, Clara was given no information about him, but her desire to one day see him again kept her alive. 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She has been back to London countless times since, through the pages of books and in person, and now, in Imagined London, she takes her own readers on a tour of this greatest of literary cities.While New York, Paris, and Dublin are also vividly portrayed in fiction, it is London, Quindlen argues, that has always been the star, both because of the primacy of English literature and the specificity of city descriptions. She bases her view of the city on her own detailed literary map, tracking the footsteps of her favorite characters: the places where Evelyn Waugh's bright young things danced until dawn, or where Lydia Bennett eloped with the dastardly Wickham.In Imagined London, Quindlen walks through the city, moving within blocks from the great books of the 19th century to the detective novels of the 20th to the new modernist tradition of the 21st. 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With a suitcase full of Jane Austen novels en espanol, Amy Elizabeth Smith set off on a yearlong Latin American adventure: a traveling book club with Jane. In six unique, unforgettable countries, she gathered book-loving new friends-- taxi drivers and teachers, poets and politicians-- to read Emma, Sense and Sensibility, and Pride and Prejudice. Whether sharing rooster beer with Guatemalans, joining the crowd at a Mexican boxing match, feeding a horde of tame iguanas with Ecuadorean children, or tangling with argumentative booksellers in Argentina, Amy came to learn what Austen knew all along: that we're not always speaking the same language-- even when we're speaking the same language. But with true Austen instinct, she could recognize when, unexpectedly, she'd found her own Senor Darcy. All Roads Lead to Austen celebrates the best of what we love about books and revels in the pleasure of sharing a good book-- with good friends.","https:\u002F\u002Fapi.seekquel.app\u002Fstorage\u002Fcovers\u002Feditions\u002F01\u002F01kx25mnasv62zcfa6rek3nqvv.jpg?v=0fcae0c87c","LNQ9TLjDx]sA~njYado}8wtSf+V?",2012,334,[610,614],{"id":611,"slug":612,"name":613},"01kx25mnakeeqssnhtd8yby27w","amy-elizabeth-smith-lh2y","Amy Elizabeth Smith",{"id":615,"slug":616,"name":617},"01kx25mnanxxqynegpvvj3arns","smith-amy-azx3","Smith, Amy",[619,620,621],{"id":110,"name":111,"slug":112,"is_fiction":19},{"id":575,"name":576,"slug":577,"is_fiction":19},{"id":28,"name":29,"slug":30,"is_fiction":19},[],{"pace":70,"complexity":7,"audience":73,"mood":624,"themes":626,"setting_period":7,"summary":7,"content_warnings":7},[625,76],"adventurous",[627],"fish-out-of-water",[]]