This book taught me a lot about the history of Indigenous Americans, but it felt personal. Reading the book feels like a long great talk with a friend who has a hard story to tell and tells it well.
Le Carre said that when this book came out people hated it. I'm a big fan of his and I wanted to read this book that he felt very attached to, but critics and the public loathed. It does not disappoint--cynical, human, and oh-so-smart about all the ways that bureaucrats and government officials can lie to themselves. But George Smiley (the beloved recurring spymaster) is there to offer redemption.
From the New York Times bestselling author of A Legacy of Spies.
"You are either good or bad, and both are dangerous."
It would have been an easy job for the Circus: a can of film couriered from Helsinki to London. In the past the Circus handled all things political, while the Department dealt with matters military. But the Department has been moribund since the War, its resources siphoned away. Now, one of their agents is dead, and vital evidence verifying the presence of Soviet missiles near the West German border is gone. John Avery is the Department's younger member…
I was living in Spain when I re-read this novel and wanted to learn more about the Spanish civil war. The book tells a great story with memorable characters, plus it's so very human.
Inspired by his experiences as a reporter during the Spanish Civil War, Ernest Hemingway's For Whom the Bell Tolls tells the story of Robert Jordan, an American volunteer in the International Brigades fighting to defend the Spanish Republic against Franco. After being ordered to work with guerrilla fighters to destroy a bridge, Jordan finds himself falling in love with a young Spanish woman and clashing with the guerrilla leader over the risks of their mission.
One of the great novels of the twentieth century, For Whom the Bell Tolls was first published in 1940. It powerfully explores the brutality of…
This memoir by an oncology nurse working in bone-marrow transplant shows not just a day-in-the-life of the hospital, but all the life in one hospital day. It's a story of hopes fulfilled and expectations turned upside down, all in the context of a busy nurse's shift. This book was a New York Times Bestseller.
