When night falls
Where do you run when your fears come to life?
The Wife’s Tale: A Personal History Author: Aida Edemariam
Publisher: 4th Estate, biography
AN Ethiopian journalist working in Britain tells the story of the life of her grandmother, Yetemegnu, allowing the old woman’s distinctive voice and point of view carry the tale of growing up surrounded by soldiers and proscriptive male priests. When her husband is imprisoned, Yetemegnu fights for justice even as war comes to Ethiopia, brought by its former European ally, Italy. After her husband’s death Yetemegnu fights for her own justice, regaining land taken away from her, and then sending her children off to faraway countries and new lives.
How To Read Poetry Like A Professor: A Quippy And Sonorous Guide To Verse Author: Thomas C. Foster Publisher: Harper, nonfiction
AUTHOR Thomas Foster, who retired from teaching literature for 30 years, offers to teach readers not familiar with poetry how to get the most out of poems while avoiding intimidation. The book explains basic technical things like meter, diction, rhyme, and line structures, while also explaining how to see these elements as allies rather than adversaries. The book takes you through a wide array of poems, showing how to hear the music in poems, and the poetry in songs.
The Rabbit Hunter Author: Lars Kepler
Publisher: Harper Collins, crime fiction
TWO years is too long to spend in a high-security prison, especially when you are Joona Linna, the former detective who has fallen from grace. But now the police need his help to stop a mysterious killer who goes by the name of the Rabbit Hunter. His victims are diverse; the only thing that they all have in common with each other is a rhyme about rabbits which they hear just before he strikes.
Adrift Author: Tami Oldham Ashcraft with Susea McGearhart
Publisher: William Collins, nonfiction memoir
WHEN they set sail from Tahiti, it was under brilliant blue skies with not a cloud in sight. How would Oldham and her fiance, Richard Sharp, know that they were destined to meet one of the most catastrophic hurricanes in recorded history? After the rain, Oldham awakens to an eerie silence and with Sharp nowhere in sight. Based on a true story, this book tells the story of Oldham’s 41-day journey on a boat ravaged by the storm.
The Wives Author: Lauren Weisberger Publisher: Harper Collins, chick lit
EMILY Charlton is now an image consultant to Hollywood stars, but is slowly losing her grip on the industry thanks to millennials who are wooing all her clients. When she catches up with old friend Miriam, she sniffs out an opportunity in model Karolina, who just got publicly dumped by her high-profile husband. Karolina’s reputation hangs in the balance, and Emily is determined to help her get back at him. Now the women are out for blood, and they won’t let anything stand in their way.
Daylight Dialogues: Poems and Short Stories Author: Charissa Ong T.Y. Publisher: Penwings Publishing, poetry
POETRY and emotions come together in this compilation of thoughts and ruminations on life, love and loss. What is the craziest thing you have done for love? The author offers her take in five words. She has also included a collection of short stories that touch on single parents, life as a pencil, the (metaphorical) battle of the ants and the butterflies, with a few coming of age tales thrown in for good measure.
The Water Cure Author: Sophie Mackintosh Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, contemporary fiction
IN this surreal story of a world very close to our own, women are not safe in their own bodies. Grace, Lia and Sky are taught about love in the only way that is possible under these circumstances. But then there are three men who come into the picture: insistent, persistent men who trail destruction in their wake. The girls have been warned, but these strangers are too enticing to cast aside ....