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The Best of Friends, Two Sisters, One Journey
"The older one got away, the younger one didn't. This is a story of two Greek-American sisters and their journey toward and intimate life and death. Christine was a fifteen-year-old bride in an arranged marriage; there was nothing her older sister Connie could have done to stop the hard times ahead. Once Christine was diagnosed with the HIV virus, the sisters banded together to try and make sense of the nonsensical. How could a working class, non-smoking, non-drinking mother of three contract AIDS? How could an older sister help her younger sister be the first to die?"--Back cover
Bram
On September 5, 2008, Abraham Lambrechtse died of a massive stroke. I was overwhelmed with sadness for the lost of my friend, Bram. I was honored to be asked to write his obituary, and after his memorial service, I decided that the test way to me, a writer, to honor Bram further would be to write a book about him. I interviewed his partner, his friends and siblings. I read everything I could find about the history of The Netherlands. I wanted to understand the history and culture from which Bram came. I made long lists of everything that I knew about him. And then I put together this book, a tribute to my friend's life. It is my hope to share this memory with his family and friends... and perhaps even those that enjoy a description of a fascinating soul.
The Invention of Prehistory: Empire, Violence, and Our Obsession with Human Origins
“[A]n incisive and captivating reassessment of prehistory . . . In lucid prose, Geroulanos unspools an enthralling and detailed history of the development of modern natural science. It’s a must-read.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review “An astute, powerfully rendered history of humanity.” —Kirkus Reviews, starred review An eminent historian tells the story of how we came to obsess over the origins of humanity—and how, for three centuries, ideas of prehistory have been used to justify devastating violence against others. Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings and specul...
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The Hour of the Furnaces
"Too often in revolutionary wars, it is the selfless -- those who defend the powerless, who risk their lives for others, who give up their food, water, and shelter so that others might be fed and sheltered -- who are the first to die. Unfortunately, those who are the first to die are often the first to be forgotten. This book remembers, and, in doing so, takes us to a plac eof such profound risk that everything, everything, must be called into question. 'What did you do,' asks the slain Guatemalan poet, Otto Rene Castillo, 'when the poor burned out like a dying flame?' This collection of poems aspires to be both poetry and social history. The voices in these poems -- clergy, human rights workers, peasants, and guerrillas caught up in the wars that plagued Central America over the last couple of decades -- speak from Salvadoran graves, from Guatemalan highlands, from dank jails, from primitive hide-outs, from ghost towns, from country churches. The poems are divided into two main sections: martyr poems and peasant poems. Each martyr and each peasant is presented first in a brief prose account, then in a poem." -- From the introduction.
