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  Pain Parties Work - Sylvia Plath...

  Elizabeth Winder

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  “An illuminating biography . . . which floods clarifying light on a chapter of the poet’s early life that Plath painted in jaundiced tones in The Bell Jar.” —The New York Times, Sunday Styles Feature 
   
  On May 31, 1953, twenty-year-old Sylvia Plath arrived in New York City for a one-month stint at “the intellectual fashion magazine” Mademoiselle to be a guest editor for its prestigious annual college issue. Over the next twenty-six days, the bright, blond New England collegian lived at the Barbizon Hotel, attended Balanchine ballets, watched a game at Yankee Stadium, and danced at the West Side Tennis Club. She typed rejection letters to writers from The New Yorker and ate an entire bowl of caviar at an advertising luncheon. She stalked Dylan Thomas and fought off an aggressive diamond-wielding delegate from the United Nations. She took hot baths, had her hair done, and discovered her signature drink (vodka, no ice). Young, beautiful, and on the cusp of an advantageous career, she was supposed to be having the time of her life. 
   
  Drawing on in-depth interviews with fellow guest editors whose memories infuse these pages, Elizabeth Winder reveals how these twenty-six days indelibly altered how Plath saw herself, her mother, her friendships, and her romantic relationships, and how this period shaped her emerging identity as a woman and as a writer. Pain, Parties, Work—the three words Plath used to describe that time—shows how Manhattan’s alien atmosphere unleashed an anxiety that would stay with her for the rest of her all-too-short life. 
   
  Thoughtful and illuminating, this captivating portrait invites us to see Sylvia Plath before The Bell Jar, before she became an icon—a young woman with everything to live for.

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  The Global Messenger

  Umm Muhammad

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  Focusing on the personality of Muhammad (صلى الله عليه وسلم) and his global mission, this audiobook acquaints the listener with the man who is loved so much by some and misunderstood so much by others. It addresses questions such as:“Was Muhammad really a prophet?”“What did Muhammad teach?”“Did he live up to his claims?”“Did Muhammad encourage war and terrorism?” 
  Umm Muhammad is an Islamic author who is well known across the globe. Hailing from southern California, she grew up in a family of atheists but became a Muslim after her open minded study of Arabic and Islam. Her works number over eighty including one of the most widely circulated English translations of the Qur’aan, a collaborative effort with other writers under the brand Saheeh International. 
  © 2021 Islamic Audiobooks Central

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  Amazon Book Description Hacks -...

  Alex Wong

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  How to Create Compelling Amazon Book Descriptions That Boost Your Ranking, Sales, and Profits 
  Are you an author that is struggling to make an impact? 
  Is the competition strong and eating into your sales? 
  Do you want to learn their secrets and beat them at their own game? 
  Writing books and selling them has never been easier. With online platforms, like Amazon, almost anyone can write a book and publish it for a worldwide audience to read. But writing and publishing is one thing; making sales is another altogether. 
  Inside the pages of Amazon Book Description Hacks: An Author’s Guide to Boosting your Ranking and Sales, you will discover the secrets that others already know and put to good use, like: 
  •	The secret to standing out on Amazon 
  •	How to learn about your customers 
  •	How to rank your books 
  •	10+ FREE resources for finding keywords 
  •	Tips to optimize your search terms  
  •	How to write compelling book descriptions 
  •	Writing an effective headline/tagline 
  •	Formatting book descriptions 
  •	Action plans to practice what you learn 
  •	And much more… 
  This comprehensive guide teaches authors how to write and optimize their Amazon book descriptions and listings. Suitable for both nonfiction and fiction books, it includes many examples and tips that are designed so you can quickly implement them to get results right away.  
  So, if you want better sales for your book, look no further and get a copy of Amazon Book Description Hacks now! Get it now!

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  Disarmed - The Radical Life and...

  Marshall V. King

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  A powerful story of one man’s radical commitment to peacemaking. Michael “MJ” Sharp was a modern Mennonite armed with wit and intellect, but not a gun. The son of a Mennonite pastor, he demonstrated a gift for listening and persuading early in life. His efforts to approach others with acknowledgement rather than judgement gave him the ability to connect on a level very few managed. He also honed a deep commitment to peace, and after college he joined the Mennonite Mission Network and moved to Germany, where he persuaded soldiers to choose peace and free them of their violent systems. At 34 years old, MJ was working for the United Nations Group of Experts in the Democratic Republic of the Congo—urging rebels to lay down their weapons—when he was murdered, likely assassinated alongside his colleague Zaida Catalán by those with government ties. This compelling account of MJ’s life, death, and legacy from longtime journalist Marshall V. King explores what compelled Sharp to travel the world working for peace and the ongoing impact of his life and death in the ongoing story of Christian peacemaking in a war-torn world.  

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  The Men Who Lost America -...

  Andrew Jackson O'Shaughnessy

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  Questioning popular belief, a historian and re-examines what exactly led to the British Empire’s loss of the American Revolution.The loss of America was an unexpected defeat for the powerful British Empire. Common wisdom has held that incompetent military commanders and political leaders in Britain must have been to blame, but were they? This intriguing book makes a different argument. Weaving together the personal stories of ten prominent men who directed the British dimension of the war, historian Andrew O’Shaughnessy dispels the incompetence myth and uncovers the real reasons that rebellious colonials were able to achieve their surprising victory. In interlinked biographical chapters, the author follows the course of the war from the perspectives of King George III, Prime Minister Lord North, military leaders including General Burgoyne, the Earl of Sandwich, and others who, for the most part, led ably and even brilliantly. Victories were frequent, and in fact the British conquered every American city at some stage of the Revolutionary War. Yet roiling political complexities at home, combined with the fervency of the fighting Americans, proved fatal to the British war effort. The book concludes with a penetrating assessment of the years after Yorktown, when the British achieved victories against the French and Spanish, thereby keeping intact what remained of the British Empire.“A remarkable book about an important but curiously underappreciated subject: the British side of the American Revolution. With meticulous scholarship and an eloquent writing style, O'Shaughnessy gives us a fresh and compelling view of a critical aspect of the struggle that changed the world.”—Jon Meacham, author of Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power

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  Denis Compton - The Authorized...

  Tim Heald

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  Description Denis Compton was one of England's -indeed cricket's -greatest batsmen. In the summer of 1947 alone he scored 18 hundreds. A flashing strokeplayer who could take any bowling attack apart, he also played football at the highest level, winning an FA Cup-winners medal with Arsenal. The original 'Brylcreem Boy', perhaps British sport's first true media personality, Compton cut a dashing figure, and when he died was mourned as the kind of cricketer whose like we shall never see again. 'Never have I been so deeply touched on a cricket ground as I was in this heavenly summer when I went to Lord's to see a pale-faced crowd existing on rations, the rocket bomb still in the ears of most folk -see this worn, dowdy crowd watching Compton. The strain of long years of anxiety and affliction passed from all hearts at the sight of Compton in full sail... There were no rations in an innings by Compton' Neville Cardus 'Compton was not the last of the double internationals, but he was the greatest' Michael Parkinson

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