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Atop the Windmill, I Could See Forever

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A childhood in the American southwest is brought to life by author and linguist María Dolores Gonzales in this sparkling, bilingual memoir. Read More

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In a series of vignettes, this creative memoir narrated by a female voice draws on childhood memories of Dolores, the fourth-born daughter in a family of five girls, growing up in rural northeastern New Mexico. Themes of family life, cultural customs, language use, cross-cultural encounters and isolation provide the backdrop against which the narrator describes her observations and experiences from an early age to pre-adolescence. Because of its reflective themes, ATOP THE WINDMILL will appeal to both adult and young readers who have an interest in the rich Nuevomexicano linguistic and cultural heritage.

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In a series of vignettes, this creative memoir narrated by a female voice draws on childhood memories of Dolores, the fourth-born daughter in a family of five girls, growing up in rural northeastern New Mexico. Themes of family life, cultural customs, language use, cross-cultural encounters and isolation provide the backdrop against which the narrator describes her observations and experiences from an early age to pre-adolescence. Because of its reflective themes, ATOP THE WINDMILL will appeal to both adult and young readers who have an interest in the rich Nuevomexicano linguistic and cultural heritage.

About the Book

This creative nonfiction memoir narrated by a female voice, in a series of vignettes, draws on childhood memories of Dolores, the fourth-born daughter in a family of five girls, growing up in rural northeastern New Mexico. Themes of family life, cultural customs, language use, cross-cultural encounters and isolation provide the backdrop against which the narrator describes her observations and experiences from an early age to pre-adolescence. ATOP THE WINDMILL, because of its reflective themes, will appeal to both adult and young readers who have an interest in the rich Nuevomexicano linguistic and cultural heritage.

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Jacqueline Winspear, author of This Time Next Year We'll Be Laughing: A Memoir

After 16 novels, Jacqueline Winspear has taken the bold step of turning to memoir, revealing the hardships and joys of her family history. Both shockingly frank and deftly restrained, her story tackles the difficult, poignant and fascinating family accounts of her paternal grandfather’s shellshock; her mother’s evacuation from London during the Blitz; her soft-spoken animal-loving father’s torturous assignment to an explosives team during WWII; her parents’ years living with Romany Gypsies; and Winspear’s own childhood picking hops and fruit on farms in rural Kent, capturing her ties to the land and her dream of being a writer at its very inception.

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Becky Cooper, author of We Keep the Dead Close: A Murder at Harvard and a Half Century of Silence

1969: the height of counterculture and the year universities would seek to curb the unruly spectacle of student protest; the winter that Harvard University would begin the tumultuous process of merging with Radcliffe, its all-female sister school; and the year that Jane Britton, an ambitious 23-year-old graduate student in Harvard's Anthropology Department and daughter of Radcliffe Vice President J. Boyd Britton, would be found bludgeoned to death. Forty years later, a curious undergrad named Becky Cooper will hear the first whispers of the story --- a tale of gender inequality in academia, a “cowboy culture” among empowered male elites, the silencing effect of institutions, and our compulsion to rewrite the stories of female victims.

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Jo Nesbø, author of The Kingdom

Roy has never left the quiet mountain town he grew up in, unlike his little brother Carl, who couldn't wait to get out and escape his troubled past. But Carl has big plans for his hometown. And when he returns with a mysterious new wife and a business opportunity that seems too good to be true, simmering tensions begin to surface and unexplained deaths in the town's past come under new scrutiny. Soon powerful players set their sights on taking the brothers down by exposing their role in the town's sordid history. As the body count rises, Roy's loyalty to family is tested. And then he finds himself inextricably drawn to Carl's wife, Shannon, an attraction that will have devastating consequences.

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Michael Connelly, author of The Law of Innocence: A Lincoln Lawyer Novel

On the night he celebrates a big win, defense attorney Mickey Haller is pulled over by police, who find the body of a former client in the trunk of his Lincoln. He is immediately charged with murder but can’t post the exorbitant $5 million bail slapped on him by a vindictive judge. Haller elects to represent himself and is forced to mount his defense from his jail cell in the Twin Towers Correctional Center in downtown Los Angeles. He knows he’s been framed, whether by a new enemy or an old one. As his trusted team, including his half-brother, Harry Bosch, investigates, Haller must use all his skills in the courtroom to counter the damning evidence against him.

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Interview: Andrea Carter, author of The Well of Ice: An Inishowen Mystery

Nov 13, 2020

Set on the Inishowen Peninsula, in Ireland’s northwest County Donegal, Andrea Carter revived the Agatha Christie amateur sleuth genre, in the younger incarnation of barrister Benedicta “Ben” O’Keeffe. Ben swims against the current and encounters a shoal of red herrings in her quest to solve murder and mayhem mysteries. In THE WELL OF ICE, Ben confronts Luke Kirby, who killed her sister and is now paroled. But nefarious events --- including arson and murder --- occur in Glendara while Luke is in Dublin. Who is responsible for this criminality? In this interview, Carter chats with Bookreporter.com’s Dean Murphy (Ó Murchadha) about her career, future books, the Inishowen Peninsula and the television adaption of her novels.

Jack Lemmon

Stay humble. Always answer your phone --- no matter who else is in the car.

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Jack Lemmon

November 12, 2020

This year, as Thanksgiving rolls around, we are giving thanks to our readers who are in book groups. We know this year has been super challenging for book group discussions, but we are seeing increased traffic on our site, leading us to believe that more people are trying to connect with their groups in new ways. We hear over and over again that people are reading more than ever for escape --- and then finding connection with fellow booklovers. Thank you for making the time for reading…and book discussion!

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Dorothea Lange

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.

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Dorothea Lange

Holiday Cheer 2020

At Bookreporter.com, we've been celebrating the holiday season in style with our Holiday Cheer Contests and Feature. As our gift to you, we've been spotlighting a book and giving five lucky readers a chance to win it.

Although the contests have ended, we encourage you to take a look at this year's featured titles. These are books you'll want to read during the holidays --- and throughout the new year as well!

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