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ALL THE NICE GIRLS 《所有美好的女孩儿》
by JOAN BAKEWELL
《所有美好的女孩儿》是一部精彩而浪漫的战争题材的小说，以利物浦港，广阔的大西洋海域，烟雾缭绕的茶室，舞厅，弥漫着粉笔灰的教室和昏暗的旅馆为故事背景。由于战争的原因，阿什沃斯女子文理学校签署了商船队领养计划。校长辛西娅·梅特兰女士在一战争中失去了爱人，她是一个可爱但骨子里很严肃的人。她她相信这个计划可以开拓学校女孩子们的视野，尤其是波莉和珍。船长乔希·波希瓦尔无论是在甲板上还是世界的任何其他地方，他都能应付自如。他的任务是打破敌方船队的封锁，将食品和物资运回到英国。他的妻子杰西卡是一个军官，在利物浦的德比库房工作，大西洋战争就是在那儿酝酿的。他们的儿子彼得也深陷战争，在皇家海军服役。一切都按常规运行着，乔希·波希瓦尔和SS Treverran的军官都按部就班地履行着自己的职责，直到他们访问了阿什沃斯，一切都改变了。他们随后作出的选择将会彻底毁了他们，甚至会波及后代，几十年后，生命和人们之间的爱会再一次陷入水深火热之中。《所有美好的女孩儿》通过讲述英雄的事迹和痛苦的分离，以及海上不法的战争，揭示了不为人们接受的爱情，尤其是憧憬和希望落空的辛酸和痛楚，捕捉到了战时的危险和刺激。
POVIDKY: SHORT STORIES BY CZECH WOMEN
by NANCY HAWKER
A lyrical, mysterious tour through Prague mixes history and legend with everyday reality, a child’s reflections on the Christian concept of sinfulness lead him to resolve to sin “just a little bit,” drunken men banter over interminable card games, and a woman’s salvation comes in the unexpected form of pickled buttocks.
Bringing together authors of different generations, styles, and backgrounds-including, for the first time in English, two stories by Czech Roma-this collection expresses women’s multiple perspectives on social and intimate issues with by turns caustic and sensitive insight into human nature.
SCEALTA: SHORT STORIES BY IRISH WOMEN
by REBECCA O’CONNOR
“An interesting and distinctive read . . . yet another barometer of the current health of the Irish short story.”-Evening Herald
The short story is one of Ireland’s national treasures, and within these pages are some of its finest practitioners-from such established names as Julia O’Faolain, Claire Keegan, and Christine Dwyer Hickey to the exciting new voices of Judy Kravis, Eithne McGuinness, and Cherry Smyth.
The stories are bold, unsentimental, often very funny, and always deeply affecting.
AMERICAN REVOLUTION by KATE JENNINGS
This is a dazzling and perceptive look at the United States between hope and despair: an election-year kaleidoscope.
Completed immediately after the November 2008 election, it offers a series of memorable snapshots of America in fascinating flux – sub-prime meltdowns; markets, trust and community; the saga of Sarah Palin and the meaning of Obama.
The essay attached is as yet unedited and incomplete. The 23,000 words here will be added to as the story develops. We anticipate a final length of about 30,000 words.
TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN by PRISCILA UPPAL
Hardev Dange is suffering through a tumultuous year. He’s just been informed that the bank is going to foreclose on his house. His fickle daughter Birendra is on the verge of marriage, his son Emile is studying curses (while falling in love with a fellow male grad student), and his younger daughter, Dorothy, who’s deaf, is working at a tattoo and body piercing parlour and collecting stories from the older men languishing at her local hangout. And because he’s confined to a wheelchair, Hardev is dependent on his homecare worker, the kleptomaniac Rodriguez, to help him devise a plan to keep house and home together.
In this modern, multicultural re-telling of King Lear, Uppal explores the vulnerability and complexity of family and inheritance. She exposes the tragic and comedic dimensions of our failures to communicate and the consequences of our betrayals, which result in disappointment and disillusionment, but also, unexpectedly, in moments of compassion and love.
Ysabel
by Guy Gavriel Kay
Publication date: November 10, 2007
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Ysabel is now available from Penguin
In Ysabel, fifteen year old Ned Marriner has accompanied his photographer father to
About the author:
Guy Gavriel Kay is the internationally bestselling author of nine previous novels and a volume of poetry. Among numerous honours and distinctions, he has been awarded the International Goliardos Prize for his work in the literature of the fantastic, is a two-time winner of the Aurora Award, and has been nominated three previous times for the World Fantasy Award. His works have been translated into more than twenty languages and his books have sold over 2 million copies worldwide. His novel, The Lions of Al-Rassan, is currently being developed in
SAY IT LIKE OBAMA: THE POWER OF SPEAKING WITH PURPOSE AND VISION
by SHEL LEANNE
BNET Business Network endorsed Say it Like Obama saying that the book “will improve your ability to give a speech, if you practice its techniques.” (see below).
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Barack Obama speaks with such power that while most corporate executives said they wouldn’t vote for him, they would surely like to speak like him. That might seem impossible, but a well-timed book by Shel Leanne says ‘yes you can.’
In “Say It Like Obama,” Leanne analyzes how Obama makes speeches, from his body language as he approaches the podium and his rhetorical style to his unusual use of gestures. Her aim is to make readers conscious of classic rhetorical techniques that anyone can use to make their own speaking better.
She starts the book with a breakdown of his 2004 acceptance speech, which would be worth watching while looking at her analysis. There are numerous slinks to the speech on the Web.
She has eight chapters on his style:
- Earning trust and confidence: through body language, intonation, gestures and strong beginnings;
- Breaking Down Audience barriers: dealing well with whatever elephant is in the room, finding common dreams and values, shared history, and using words that resonate;
- Winning hearts and minds: Know your audience, personalize your message for you, and for it;
- Conveying vision: Using descriptive words ,familiar references, anecdotes and symbols to spread your message;
- Driving points home: know your themes, develop and focus them; use repetition effectively, and tone and pace;
- Persuading: how to get a nod from an audience, how to sequence ideas and address objections;
- Facing and Overcoming controversy: know your goals, change the tone through humility, graciousness and choice of language, accept responsibility;
- Motivating others: build to a crescendo, repeat your takeaways and slogans, end strong.
She caps each chapter with a summary of what was discussed.
You can learn to make better speeches by studying his techniques, or those of other great speechmakers, like Winston Churchill. Churchill would annotate his remarks, noting places where he should cough, take a sip of water, or even stumble over wording to appear more spontaneous. Obviously, he also practiced.
THE DISASTROUS HISTORY OF THE WORLD: CHRONICLES OF WAR, EARTHQUAKE, PLAGUE AND FLOOD
《世界災難史》
by JOHN WITHINGTON
POVIDKY: SHORT STORIES BY CZECH WOMEN
by NANCY HAWKER
SCEALTA: SHORT STORIES BY IRISH WOMEN
by REBECCA O’CONNOR
THROWING SHEEP IN THE BOARDROOM: HOW SOCIAL NETWORKING IS TRANSFORMING YOUR LIFE, YOUR WORK & YOUR WORLD
by MATTHEW FRASER AND SOUMITRA DUTTA
THE BUSINESS
by Martina Cole