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Art hurts. Art urges voyages —- and it is easier to stay at home.
I am interested in telling my particular truth as I have seen it.
Gwendolyn Brooks
http://womenshistory.about.com/...
brazen
adjective
bold, forward, defiant, brash, saucy, audacious, pushy (informal), shameless, unabashed, pert, unashamed, insolent, impudent, immodest, barefaced, brassy
brazen it out be unashamed, persevere, be defiant, put a brave face on it, stand your ground, confront something, be impenitent, outface, outstare.
http://www.thefreedictionary.com/...
What is a brazen book? Bold might be a better word, but I like the sound of brazen.
What makes a book or a character defiant? Is a bold book one where the author is shaking his/her fist at the world by writing such a story? Do your favorite characters act brazenly?
I am presently reading this wonderfully brassy and brazen book:
Bill of Wrongs: The Executive Branch's Assault on America's Fundamental Rights by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
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Synopsis
In this, her final and perhaps greatest book, Molly Ivins launches a counterattack on the executive branch’s shredding of our cherished Bill of Rights. From illegal wiretaps and the unlawful imprisonment of American citizens to the creeping influence of religious extremism on our national agenda and the erosion of the checks and balances that prevent a president from seizing unitary powers, Ivins and her longtime collaborator, Lou Dubose, describe the attacks on America’s vital constitutional guarantees. With devastating humor and keen eyes for deceit and hypocrisy, they show how severe these incursions have become, and they ask us all to take an active role in protecting the Bill of Rights.
Messing about at Barnes and Noble, I found these books that looked interesting and I put some of them on my wish list:
Bold Women in Michigan History: Inspiring Tales of Women Who Dared by Virginia Burns
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Synopsis
Michigan women engraved their names in history in dozens of different ways: Madame de Cadillac paddled a lone canoe across two Great Lakes to help her husband found Detroit. Brave Emma Edmonds donned a male disguise and served for two years as a Union soldier and spy. Myra Wolfgang, the Battling Belle of Detroit, picked her fights in the local labor movement, while Pearl Kendrick and Grace Eldering spilled their sweat perfecting a vaccine that saved millions. Virginia Burns's Bold Women of Michigan History offers a moving tribute to 13 Great Lakes States women who dared.
Mixt Salads: A Chef's Bold Creations by Andrew Swallow, Ann Volkwein
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Synopsis
Dare to get more out of your greens!
From healthy, superfood packed entrée salads to indulgent affairs featuring premium ingredients, this bold collection of more than 60 recipes for voracious omnivores and vivacious salad lovers features unusual and dynamic ingredient pairings that take salads to a whole new level.
Fool's Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe by Gillian Tett
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Synopsis
The fascinating, unknown story at the heart of the current financial crisis by the award-winning journalist who warned of the crash well in advance.
Breaking the Sound Barrier by Amy Goodman
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Synopsis
Amy Goodman gives voice to the heroic stories of people the corporate media exclude and ignore.
That Takes Ovaries!: Bold Females and Their Brazen Acts by Rivka Solomon (Editor)
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Synopsis
Having ovaries: unabashed, gutsy, feisty, playful, challenging, full of chutzpah, mettlesome, naughty, victorious, straight from the hip, full-flavored, outrageous, righteous, loving, inspiring, bold as brass, self-assured, self-confident, self-possessed, daring, heroic, wild, wanton, crazy, optimistic, unflappable, pushy, unstoppable, impressive, rebellious, kick-ass, carefree, having moxie, having heart, having no fear . . .
That Takes Ovaries! is a lively, fun, and often touching celebration of women and girls doing their thing their way:
Kathleen, who reduced a would-be burglar to tears by lecturing him about black pride (all while standing in her underwear)
Elaine, a sky surfer who plunges from airplanes on a 30-inch surfboard
Rachel, a high school junior who organized 100 high school girls to take on the boys who harassed them
Denise, a teenage cashier who faced down an irate, gun-wielding gangbanger in an inner-city fast-food joint
Eva, who made the dangerous, illegal journey from Central America to the United States in order to give her children a better life.
Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition: Bold-faced Thoughts on the Power and Pleasure of Self-expression by Walt Whitman, Laura Ross
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Synopsis
"Of Life immense in passion, pulse, and power,
Cheerful, for freest action form'd under the laws divine,
The Modern Man I sing."
—from Leaves of Grass The newest in our series of bold-faced thoughts on classic works! This pocket-size, volume offers an innovative take on a beloved American masterpiece: the first (1855) edition of Leaves of Grass, which consisted of an introduction by Whitman and merely twelve untitled poems. Though it has now passed its 155th anniversary, Walt Whitman’s powerful poetry continues to inspire with its rich language, all-embracing populism, and boundless spirit.
Whitman took it upon himself to establish a bold, sensual, new literary tradition that was distinctly American—and consciously set out to be at once the quintessential American poet and the voice of the common man. Leaves of Grass remains an enduring touchstone for writers everywhere, and for anyone who wants to get in touch with his or her own creative spirit. In addition to the text, this compact volume features highlighted passages, an introduction that relates the poems to today's perspective, and reflective writing exercises (with lined pages to write on).
A Grand and Bold Thing: An Extraordinary New Map of the Universe Ushering In A New Era of Discovery by Ann K. Finkbeiner
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LATE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY, what had been a fevered pace of discovery in astronomy for many years had slowed. The Hubble Space Telescope continued to produce an astonishing array of images, but the study of the universe was still fractured into domains: measuring the universe’s expansion rate, the evolution of galaxies in the early universe, the life and death of stars, the search for extrasolar planets, the quest to understand the nature of the elusive dark matter. So little was understood, still, about so many of the most fundamental questions, foremost among them: What was the overall structure of the universe? Why had stars formed into galaxies, and galaxies into massive clusters?
What was needed, thought visionary astronomer Jim Gunn, recently awarded the National Medal of Science, was a massive survey of the sky, a kind of new map of the universe that would be so rich in detail and cover such a wide swath of space, be so grand and bold, that it would allow astronomers to see the big picture in a whole new way. So was born the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, a remarkable undertaking bringing together hundreds of astronomers and launching a new era of supercharged astronomical discovery, an era of "e-science" that has taken astronomy from the lonely mountaintop observatory to the touch of your fingertips...
Being Bold with Watercolour by Annette Kane, Robin Capon (With)
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Synopsis
"Bold" isn’t a word generally associated with watercolor, but that’s because most artists don’t know the secrets of using them to create bright, vibrant works. Internationally renowned painter and instructor Annette Kane reveals her three secrets for intensifying this popular medium: special methods of mixing colors; brushstrokes that maximize the power of a composition; and fresh ways of combining other elements like ink, acrylic, and gouache. She covers each move toward boldness with start-to-finish demonstrations that lead to stunning finished paintings in a variety of forms—including still life, sun and shadow studies, window and doorway scenes, landscapes, and water features.
The Bold and the Brave: A History of Women in Science and Engineering by Monique Frize
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Synopsis
The Bold and the Brave investigates how women have striven throughout history to gain access to education and careers in science and engineering. Author Monique Frize, herself an engineer for over 40 years, introduces the reader to key concepts and debates that contextualize the obstacles women have faced and continue to face in the fields of science and engineering. She focuses on the history of women's education in mathematics and science through the ages, from antiquity to the Enlightenment.
West with the Night by Beryl Markham
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Synopsis
Growing up in East Africa, the author describes her life as a pioneer aviator, a horse breeder, pilot of passengers and supplies in a small plane to remote corners of Africa, and became the first person to fly solo across the Atlantic from east to west.
The Heart of a Woman by Maya Angelou
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Synopsis
In The Heart of a Woman Maya Angelou leaves California with her son, Guy, to go to New York. There she enters the society and world of black artists and writers. Not since her childhood has she lived in an almost black environment, and she is surprised at the obsession her new friends have with the white world around them. She stays for a while with John and Grace Killens and begins to read her writing at the Harlem Writers Guild. She continues to sing, most notably at the Apollo Theatre in Harlem, but more and more she begins to take part in the struggle of black Americans for their rightful place in the world. She helps organize a benefit cabaret for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and then is appointed Martin Luther Kings Northern Coordinator.
Shortly after that, through her friend Abbey Lincoln, she takes one of the lead parts in Genet's The Blacks (it was a remarkable cast, including Godfrey Cambridge, Roscoe Lee Brown, James Earl Jones, Cicely Tyson, Raymond St. Jacques, and Lou Gossett), and even writes music for the production.
In the meantime her personal life has taken a tempestuous turn. She has left the New York bail bondsman she was intending to marry and has fallen in love with a South African freedom fighter named Vusumzi Make, who sweeps her off her feet and eventually takes her to London and then to Cairo, where, as her marriage begins to break up, she becomes the first female editor of the English-language magazine.
The Heart of a Woman is filled with unforgettable vignettes of famous people, from Billie Holiday to Malcolm X, but perhaps most important is the story of Maya Angelou's relationship with her son. Because this book chronicles, finally, the joys and the burdens of a black mother in America and how the son she had cherished so intensely and worked for so devotedly finally grows to be a man.
Catch Me If You Can by Frank W. Abagnale, Stan Redding
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Synopsis
Frank W. Abagnale, alias Frank Williams, Robert Conrad, Frank Adams, and Robert Monjo, was one of the most daring con men, forgers, imposters, and escape artists in history.
Film Catch Me If You Can
Director: Steven Spielberg
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tom Hanks, Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen
Editorial Reviews
A gifted forger and confidence man attempts to stay one step ahead of the lawman determined to bring him to justice in this comedy-drama from Steven Spielberg, based on a true story. Frank W. Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a 16-year-old high school student who finds himself emotionally cut adrift when his mother, Paula (Nathalie Baye), leaves his father, Frank Abagnale Sr. (Christopher Walken), after Frank Sr. falls into arrears with the Internal Revenue Service.
One day at school, Frank Jr. attempts to pass himself off as a substitute teacher, and easily makes the subterfuge work. His small-scale success gives Frank some ideas, and he soon discovers bigger and more profitable ways of hoaxing others, passing himself off as an airline pilot, a doctor, and an attorney. Along the way, Frank learns how to become a master forger, and uses his talent and charm to pass over 2.5 million dollars in phony checks.
Lincoln for President: An Unlikely Candidate, An Audacious Strategy, and the Victory No One Saw Coming by Bruce Chadwick
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Synopsis
Lincoln for President is the incredible story of how Lincoln overcame overwhelming odds to not only capture his party's nomination but win the presidency.
His bold tactics changed forever the way presidential campaigns are won not to mention the course of American history.
Gabriela Mistral
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Selected Poems of Gabriela Mistral Edition 1 by Gabriela Mistral, Ursula K. Le Guin (Translator)
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Gabriela Mistral: The Audacious Traveler by Marjorie Agosin (Editor)
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Synopsis
Sixteen contributions from scholars and critics explore the life and work of Chilean poet Gabriela Mistral (1889-1957). They seek to understand aspects of her life that have not previously been explored in depth, such as her stays in Mexico and Brazil. Other topics include Mistral's condemnation of the militaristic policies of the U.S. Government toward Central America; her role as an educational visionary; and her place in the poetic vanguard of the early twentieth century.
Too Close to the Sun: The Audacious Life and Times of Denys Finch Hatton by Sara Wheeler
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Synopsis
A champion of Africa, legendary for his good looks, his charm, and his prowess as a soldier, lover, and hunter, Denys Finch Hatton inspired Karen Blixen to write the unforgettable Out of Africa. Now esteemed British biographer Sara Wheeler tells the truth about this extraordinarily charismatic adventurer.
Buffalo Afternoon by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
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Synopsis
"Remarkable....The entire Vietnam experience [in] one epic narrative."—New York Times Book Review
Books that begin with B
Backwater by Joan Bauer
Bad Prince Charlie by John Moore
Bad News by Donald Westlake
and Bank Shot
Baghdad Burning I and II by Riverbend
Balance of Trade by Lee and Miller (Liaden series)
Ballad of Frankie Silver by Sharyn McCrumb
Bambi by Felix Salten
Banner in the Sky by James Ramsey Ullman
Bard by Morgan Llywelyn
Bartimaeus Trilogy by Jonathan Stroud
Amulet of Samarkind
Golem’s Eye
Ptolemy’s Gate
Battle Cry of Freedom by James McPherson
Hallowed Ground
Battle for Brinkerhoff’s Ridge and East Cavalry Field at Gettysburg by Eric Wittenburg
Bean Tree by Barbara Kingsolver
Beauty by Robin McKinley
Beauty and the Beast by Jeanne-Marie LePrince de Beaumont
The story is here:
http://www.pitt.edu/...
Becoming Evil: How Ordinary People Commit Genocide and Mass Killing by James Waller 2002
Beekeeper’s Apprentice and sequels by Laurie R. King
Monstrous Regiment of Women
Letter of Mary
Moor
O Jerusalem
Justice Hall
Game
Locked Rooms
Language of Bees
God of the Hive
The Beggar's Opera by John Gay
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Behind Enemy Lines by Marthe Conn with Wendy Holden
Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
Belgariad series by David Eddings
Pawn of Prophecy
Queen of Sorcery
Magician’s Gambit
Castle of Wizardry
Enchanter’s End Game
Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Ben-Hur by Lewis Wallace
Beowulf
The Better Angel: Walt Whitman in the Civil War by Roy Morris
Between Silk and Cyanide by Leo Marks
Bill of Wrongs by Molly Ivins and Lou Dubose
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Birds of a Feather by Jacqueline Winspear (Maisie Dobbs series)
Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks
Birds without Wings by Louis de Bernieres
Black Boy by Richard Wright
Black Like Me by John Howard Griffin
Blacklist by Sarah Paretsky
Blackout by Connie Willis
Black Prince by Irish Murdoch
also The Bell, and Bruno’s Dream
Black Tower by P.D. James
The Blessing Way by Tony Hillerman
The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood
and Bluebeard’s Egg and Other Stories
Blue Diary by Alice Hoffman
and Blackbird House
Blue Shoe by Anne Lamott
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith (Precious series)
The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley
Bold Sons of Erin by Owen Parry
Bondwoman’s Narrative by Hannah Crafts...ed. Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Bonfire of the Vanities by Tom Wolfe
Booked to Die by John Dunning
Bookman’s Wake
Bookman’s Promise
Sign of the Book
Bookwoman’s Last Fling
Book of Dragons by Edith Nesbitt
Book of the Heart by Andres Rodriguez (study of Keats letters and poems)
Bookseller of Kabul by Asne Seierstad
Book Thief by Markus Zusak
Born on a Blue Day by Daniel Tammet, memoir
Boxcar Children by Gertrude Chandler Warner
Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Bravest Battle: 28 Days of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising by Dan Kurzman
Breaking Clean by Judy Blunt
Breaking the Sound Barrier by Amy Goodman
Break Up by Dana Stabenow
Brigadoon by Alan Jay Lerner (script and lyrics) and Frederick Loewe
Bridge of Sighs by Richard Russo
BFBC review http://www.dailykos.com/...
Bridge to the Sky by Margaret Ball
Brightness Reef and sequels, second series in Uplift series by David Brin
Infinity’s Shore
Heaven’s Reach
http://www.davidbrin.com/...
Brotherhood of Joseph: A Father's Memoir of
Infertility and Adoption in the 21rst Century by Brooks Hansen
Brother, I Am Dying by Edwidge Danticat
see Literature for Kossacks - Edwidge Danticat by pico
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Broken for You by Stephanie Kallos
Bronze Horseman and sequels by Paullina Simons
Tatiana and Alexander
The Summer Garden
Bud, Not Buddy by Christopher Paul Curtis
Buffalo Afternoon by Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
Bull from the Sea by Mary Renault
Burning Up by Caroline Cooney
Burnt Sienna by David Morrill
Bury the Lead by David Rosenfelt
Bushwhacked by Molly Ivins
By the Rivers of Babylon by Nelson DeMille
Byzantium by Stephen Lawhead
Diaries of the Week
Write On! Give us a character moment.
by SensibleShoes
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Thursday Classical Music OPUS 9: Tchaikovsky Symphony #6 "Pathetique" (pt1)
by Dumbo
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Archeologists Find Gateway to the Viking Empire
By Matthias Schulz
http://www.spiegel.de/...
For a century, archeologists have been looking for a gate through a wall built by the Vikings in northern Europe. This summer, it was found. Researchers now believe the extensive barrier was built to protect an important trading route.
Making a switch in SEGO
by Mark Sumner
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Mark says that on the last Saturday of September there will be a book discussion:
The selection for the Daily Kos Saturday Evening Book Club is...
Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer.
Into the Wild tells the story of Christopher McCandless, who disappeared only weeks after his graduation from college. A few months later, McCandless' body was found in Alaska. On first blush, the story of Chris McCandless appeared to be nothing but an eye-rolling example of a greenhorn who wandered into the woods unprepared. But Krakauer's examination of McCandless' papers reveals a moving portrait of someone searching to reconnect with themselves, and with others, by seeking out challenge and solitude.
To Tell The Truth: Illustrate This
by Word Alchemy
http://www.dailykos.com/...
A Week In Letters - Intro to a New Series
by angelajean
http://www.dailykos.com/...
NOTE: plf515 has book talk on Wednesday mornings early. Watch for extra editions on Sundays!
sarahnity’s list of DKos authors has grown so much that she has her own diary.
http://www.dailykos.com/...
sarahnity says:
It turns out that we have quite a few authors hanging out here who have published books in the real world. A while ago, I started keeping a list of books by Kossacks, former Kossacks and Kossacks-once-removed. I was posting it each week to the diary series What Are You Reading and Bookflurries, but the list has grown long enough, that I've decided to turn it into a diary and post it as a weekly series on Tuesday evenings.
Not all Kossack authors may wish to lose their anonymity, so I am only including the author's UID if he has outed herself here (gender confusion intended). If you'd like to be included on the list, or if you know of an author who is left off, please leave a comment or email me.
(sarahnity@gmail.com)