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The first half of the book was absolutely enthralling, packed with tense drama and emotional depictions of front-line medical care during the Vietnam War. The second half, after the main character returns home from war, drags a bit in places and fixates on some toxic relationships. Despite those rough patches, I picked it as a favorite this year for its unique take on the nurses' story, an often-overlooked part of history.
From master storyteller Kristin Hannah, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Nightingale and The Four Winds, comes the story of a turbulent, transformative era in America: the 1960s. The Women is that rarest of novels—at once an intimate portrait of a woman coming of age in a dangerous time and an epic tale of a nation divided by war and broken by politics, of a generation both fueled by dreams and lost on the battlefield.
“Women can be heroes, too.”
When twenty-year-old nursing student Frances “Frankie” McGrath hears these unexpected…
It is April 1st, 2038. Day 60 of China's blockade of the rebel island of Taiwan.
The US government has agreed to provide Taiwan with a weapons system so advanced that it can disrupt the balance of power in the region. But what pilot would be crazy enough to run…
By far, this is my non-fiction book of the year. Intelligent, informative and cogently argued by an expert in global public health. I love to read about the long sweep of human history and muse on how, why and when the great revolutionary changes occurred. Paleolithic migrations and the ultimate dominance of Homo sapiens, from nomadic foragers to settled farmers, village to city-life, the rise and fall of empires, kick-starting the age of enlightenment and industrial revolution, from feudalism to capitalism… and much more. Kennedy argues that plague and pestilence have been responsible for such momentous transformations. The world is dominated by bacteria and viruses – both good and bad. For me, the greatest global crisis of today is the plague of poverty, for “pathogens thrive on inequality and injustice.” I believe our collective human ingenuity should be directed, first and foremost, to gaining the upper hand in the fight…
A “gripping” (The Washington Post) account of how the major transformations in history—from the rise of Homo sapiens to the birth of capitalism—have been shaped not by humans but by germs
“Superbly written . . . Kennedy seamlessly weaves together scientific and historical research, and his confident authorial voice is sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger Bregman.”—The Times (U.K.)
According to the accepted narrative of progress, humans have thrived thanks to their brains and brawn, collectively bending the arc of history. But in this revelatory book, Professor Jonathan Kennedy argues that the myth of human exceptionalism…
