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Language
English
Description
The effects of COVID and COVID management have had serious and far reaching long term effects. This book is a set of short stories exploring COVID and COVID management particularly in Ireland and worldwide."The essays and thoughts, reflections, observations are superb!"Lissa Oliver Best Selling Author and Journalist "I am in agreement with you on possibly every point. I am not even sure there are any points I would disagree with! Your sincerity and...
Author
Publisher
PublicAffairs
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"In 1880 in Vienna, young Bertha Pappenheim lost her ability to control her voice and body and was treated by Sigmund Freud's mentor, Josef Breuer, who diagnosed her with "hysteria." Pappenheim and Breuer developed what she called "the talking cure"-talking out memories so that symptoms go away-which became the basis for psychoanalysis. Brownstein describes Pappenheim as a brilliant feminist thinker, a crusader against human trafficking, and a pioneer...
Author
Publisher
Deep Vellum
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Told in three distinct voices, Short War brings together a rapturous teenage love story set in Chile, the hunt for the author of an eye-opening literary detective story, and a complex reckoning with American political intervention in South America. When sixteen-year-old Gabriel Lazris-an American in Santiago, Chile-meets Caro Ravest, something clicks. Caro, who is Chilean, is charming, curious, and deeply herself. Gabriel dreams of their future together....
4) Marmalade
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Recently incarcerated Baron strikes up a friendship with his cellmate Otis, a man with a well-versed history of prison breaks. As the pair hatch an escape plan together, Baron recolls the story of how he met Marmalade, the love of his life, and their "Bonnie and Clyde" style scheme to rob a bank in order to care for his sick mother and give the couple the life they've always dreamed of.