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![]() There exists a small subgenre of gourmand-with-an-eating-disorder accounts, including Hannah Howard’s books “ Feast” (2018) and “ Plenty” (2021). ![]() What, then, to make of Shaina Loew-Banayan’s new book, “Elegy for an Appetite,” a memoir of a young chef with an eating disorder? Shaina Loew-Banayan, now the chef and owner of Café Mutton, in Hudson, New York, isn’t the first writer to scramble the notion that food obsession can be either professionally constructive or personally destructive. Others get eating disorders.” From that neat and logical dichotomy one might envision two opposite genres of food memoir: the warts-and-all chronicle of life as a restaurant chef and the self-searching literature of life with an eating disorder. ![]() ![]() In her 1998 book, “ Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia,” Marya Hornbacher writes that “some people who are obsessed with food become gourmet chefs. ![]() ![]() ![]() So, I purchased the DVD set via the internet, got it delivered, and started watching. I’ve watched a few episodes of the Cosmos remake on Netflix (it released in 2014), but then I decided - after watching a few clips on YouTube - that I wanted to own the DVD version of the original Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, since there’s no way to buy the series digitally as far as I can tell. Since then, I’ve learned a bit more about the series, and Sagan’s wonderful legacy. ![]() Carl SaganĪ year or two ago I took notice of Cosmos: A Spacetime Odyssey, where I learned that it was a remake of a television series from the 80’s, where Carl Sagan hosted Cosmos: A Personal Voyage. We know we are approaching the grandest of mysteries. There’s a tingling in the spine, a catch in the voice - a faint sensation, as if a distant memory - of falling from a great height. Our contemplations of the cosmos stir us. The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And as Maisie delves deeper into the killings of the dispossessed from the “last war," a new kind of refugee - an evacuee from London - appears in Maisie's life. In a London shadowed by barrage balloons, bomb shelters and the threat of invasion, within days another former Belgian refugee is found murdered. Francesca Thomas has an urgent assignment for Maisie: to find the killer of a man who escaped occupied Belgium as a boy, some twenty-three years earlier during the Great War. At the moment Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain broadcasts to the nation Britain’s declaration of war with Germany, a senior Secret Service agent breaks into Maisie Dobbs' flat to await her return. "A female investigator every bit as brainy and battle-hardened as Lisbeth Salander." - Maureen Corrigan, NPR's Fresh Air, on Maisie Dobbs ![]() ![]() ![]() Examining navigation and shipbuilding cultural analogies between Native Americans and Africans the transportation of plants, animals, and textiles between the continents and the diaries, journals, and oral accounts of the explorers themselves, Ivan Van Sertima builds a pyramid of evidence to support his claim of an African presence in the New World centuries before Columbus.Ĭombining impressive scholarship with a novelist’s gift for storytelling, Van Sertima re-creates some of the most powerful scenes of human history: the launching of the great ships of Mali in 1310 (two hundred master boats and two hundred supply boats), the sea expedition of the Mandingo king in 1311, and many others. ![]() They Came Before Columbus reveals a compelling, dramatic, and superbly detailed documentation of the presence and legacy of Africans in ancient America. “A landmark…brilliantly has that there is far more to black history than the slave trade.”-John A. ![]() ![]() Her own hypochondria (“I fell prey to patterns of terrible thinking, imagined myself crowded with cysts, with cancer”), along with the dread of the heritable condition that killed her mother, mean deterioration looms as large in Miri’s psyche as it does in Leah’s body. Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah. Its a story of falling in love, loss, grief, and what life there is in the deep, deep sea. Our Wives Under The Sea is the debut novel from the critically acclaimed author of Salt Slow. Whatever happened in that vessel, whatever it was they were supposed to be studying before they were stranded on the ocean floor, Leah. Named as a book to look out for by Guardian, i-D, Autostraddle, Bustle, Good Housekeeping, Stylist and DAZED. ![]() It soon becomes clear, though, that Leah may have come back wrong. “The way that anyone who sneezes more than four times abruptly loses the sympathy of an audience, so it was with me and Leah.” Miri thinks she has got her wife back, when Leah finally returns after a deep sea mission that ended in catastrophe. “It went on too long and too helplessly,” Miri explains. ![]() To her wife, Leah’s initial symptoms – bleeding gums, strange sensitivities, lack of appetite – characterise a change that feels almost like betrayal. Seeking to answer it herself, Miri spends hours on hold to the shadowy “Centre for Marine Enquiry”, which organised the expedition – though as Leah’s ordeal comes into focus, so do the reasons staff might not have felt equipped to explain it over the phone.ĭeprived of natural light and stimulation, tortured by sounds that test her sanity, Leah’s time in the submarine sets off a chain of events she is powerless to halt. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Veterans” contrasts two Korean War vets. There are two very long stories among the lot. Key to the story are the lucky charms that accompany him into war zones trinkets and artifacts that may offer more protection than an unknowable God. Just as entertaining is “Correspondent,” in which a woman schemes to preserve her marriage to a charismatic war reporter. He then hires a detective to find the long-lost Jean. Years later, he discovers her role and goes crazy. William’s conniving mother interferes and, through soap-opera machinations, manages to detach her son from the relationship. ![]() He falls passionately in love with fellow student Jean and impregnates her. He longs for that world of high emotions and, cruelly, his wish is granted. It concerns William, a high-school student with an unusual passion: Italian opera. The opening story (“Last Act: The Madhouse”) is classic Ingalls, a finely spun web that’s suspenseful, creepy and droll. Madness, mayhem and murder stalk these eight stories, the latest collection from a veteran American storyteller now living in London ( Mrs. ![]() ![]() ![]() Though he does not try to be all-inclusive, Pesic presents a broad range of ideas, building toward a specific point of view: that the crux of modern quantum theory is its clash with our ordinary concept of individuality. He draws on literary and historical examples that open the mind (from Homer to Martin Guerre to Kafka), philosophical analyses that have helped to make our thinking and speech more precise, and scientific work that has enabled us to characterize the phenomena of nature. ![]() From where, then, does our individuality come? In Seeing Double, Peter Pesic invites readers to explore this intriguing set of questions. All aspects of chemistry depend on this lack of individuality, as do many branches of physics. The separateness and connection of individuals is perhaps the central question of human life: What, exactly, is my individuality? To what degree is it unique? To what degree can it be shared, and how? To the many philosophical and literary speculations about these topics over time, modern science has added the curious twist of quantum theory, which requires that the elementary particles of which everything consists have no individuality at all. The unknown history of surveillance in relation to changing systems of representation and visual arts practice. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The adage that California is a glimpse of the nation's future has become a cautionary tale. Nowhere is this more visible than in the San Francisco Bay Area, where fleets of private buses ferry software engineers past the tarp-and-plywood shanties of the homeless. Today, however, punishing rents and the increasingly prohibitive cost of ownership have turned housing into the foremost symbol of inequality and an economy gone wrong. Spacious and affordable homes used to be the hallmark of American prosperity. "Tells the story of housing in all its complexity." -NPR A Time 100 Must-Read Book of 2020 - A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice - California Book Award Silver Medal in Nonfiction - Finalist for The New York Public Library Helen Bernstein Book Award for Excellence in Journalism -Named a top 30 must-read Book of 2020 by the New York Post - Named one of the 10 Best Business Books of 2020 by Fortune - Named A Must-Read Book of 2020 by Apartment Therapy - Runner-Up General Nonfiction: San Francisco Book Festival - A Planetizen Top Urban Planning Book of 2020 -Shortlisted for the Goddard Riverside Stephan Russo Book Prize for Social Justice ![]() ![]() ![]() A sortable list in reading order and chronological order with publication date, genre. Life on the Banshee may be tumultuous, but as Solara and Doran are forced to question everything they once believed about their world – and each other – the ship becomes home, and the eccentric crew family. Series list: A Starflight Novel (2 Books) by Melissa Landers. As he pursues a set of mysterious coordinates rumored to hold the key to clearing his name, he and Solara must get past their enmity to work together and evade those out for their arrest. Starflight Melissa Landers Feb 2016 Sold by Little, Brown Books for Young Readers 4.2 star 32 reviews Ebook 368 Pages familyhome Eligible info 6.99 Ebook Free sample Switch to the. ![]() When a twist of fate lands them instead on the Banshee, a vessel of dubious repute, Doran learns he's been framed on Earth for conspiracy. ![]() Solara has no family, no connections, and knuckle tattoos advertising her criminal record. ![]() She's so desperate to reach the realm that she's willing to indenture herself to Doran Spaulding, the rich and popular quarterback who made her life miserable all through high school, in exchange for passage aboard the spaceliner Zenith. STARFLIGHT by Melissa Landers Age Range: 12 - 16 BUY NOW FROM AMAZON BARNES & NOBLE GET WEEKLY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS: KIRKUS REVIEW A penniless girl and a wealthy boy, enemies, are stuck together on an outer-space journey. Just out of the orphanage, she needs a fresh start in a place where nobody cares about the engine grease beneath her fingernails or the felony tattoos across her knuckles. Life in the outer realm is a lawless, dirty, hard existence, and Solara Brooks is hungry for it. ![]() |