Shuggie Bain: Winner of the Booker Prize 2020

 

NATIONAL BESTSELLER
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD

Shuggie Bain is the unforgettable story of young Hugh “Shuggie” Bain, a sweet and lonely boy who spends his 1980s childhood in run-down public housing in Glasgow, Scotland. Thatcher’s policies have put husbands and sons out of work, and the city’s notorious drugs epidemic is waiting in the wings.

Shuggie’s mother Agnes walks a wayward path: she is Shuggie’s guiding light but a burden for him and his siblings. She dreams of a house with its own front door while she flicks through the pages of the Freemans catalogue, ordering a little happiness on credit, anything to brighten up her grey life. 

Married to a philandering taxi-driver husband, Agnes keeps her pride by looking good—her beehive, make-up, and pearly-white false teeth offer a glamorous image of a Glaswegian Elizabeth Taylor. But under the surface, Agnes finds increasing solace in drink, and she drains away the lion’s share of each week’s benefits—all the family has to live on—on cans of extra-strong lager hidden in handbags and poured into tea mugs. Agnes’s older children find their own ways to get a safe distance from their mother, abandoning Shuggie to care for her as she swings between alcoholic binges and sobriety. 

Shuggie is meanwhile struggling to somehow become the normal boy he desperately longs to be, but everyone has realized that he is “no right,” a boy with a secret that all but him can see. Agnes is supportive of her son, but her addiction has the power to eclipse everyone close to her—even her beloved Shuggie.

A heartbreaking story of addiction, sexuality, and love, Shuggie Bain is an epic portrayal of a working-class family that is rarely seen in fiction. Recalling the work of Édouard Louis, Alan Hollinghurst, Frank McCourt, and Hanya Yanagihara, it is a blistering debut by a brilliant novelist who has a powerful and important story to tell.

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Optimize Your Immune System: Create Health and Resilience with a Kitchen Pharmacy

SHERMAN, Conn. - Oct. 11, 2020 Forty years ago, Marie Ruggles got her start researching nutrition and working in the public health sector managing chronic disease and maximizing wellness.

Today, she teaches people how to be proactive about their health, but there was a lack of reliable information for the layperson to learn from. So, she decided to write a home reference guide people could use to learn about natural options for preventative health care and everyday wellness challenges.

Thus began her journey to teach people how to build their own kitchen pharmacies and make the best use of them.

She breaks personal self-care down into three phases:

1. Building a strong foundation.
2. What to do after exposure to an unhealthy person or environment.
3. Immune-boosting support when you feel like you're coming down with something.

To make this food-as-medicine pharmacy accessible to everyone, she focuses on whole foods, super foods and nutrients that are readily accessible, as well as a few key supplements for those on a budget.

These details, and more, are covered in the latest release from Emerald Lake Books, "Optimize Your Immune System: Create Health and Resilience with a Kitchen Pharmacy" (ISBN: 978-194584730-1), released on September 29, 2020.

Diana Noland, co-editor of Integrative and Functional Medical Nutrition Therapy, described the book as "A treasure trove of practical information arriving at such a time of global urgency to strengthen our immune systems."

While the book was not written specifically to address COVID-19, the author had been thinking about writing it for some time and felt the need became more urgent as she heard from people how afraid they were of getting sick. Often, people seemed to think there was nothing they could do to prevent it, when Ruggles knew that a healthy immune system will fend off many more viral attacks than a weakened one ever could.

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The Return by Nicholas Sparks

 

In the romantic tradition of Dear John, Nicholas Sparks returns with the story of an injured Navy doctor -- and two women whose secrets will change the course of his life in this #1 New York Times bestseller.

Trevor Benson never intended to move back to New Bern, North Carolina. But when a mortar blast outside the hospital where he worked sent him home from Afghanistan with devastating injuries, the dilapidated cabin he'd inherited from his grandfather seemed as good a place to regroup as any.

Tending to his grandfather's beloved beehives, Trevor isn't prepared to fall in love with a local . . . yet, from their very first encounter, Trevor feels a connection with deputy sheriff Natalie Masterson that he can't ignore. But even as she seems to reciprocate his feelings, she remains frustratingly distant, making Trevor wonder what she's hiding.

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Further complicating his stay in New Bern is the presence of a sullen teenage girl, Callie, who lives in the trailer park down the road. Trevor hopes Callie can shed light on the mysterious circumstances of his grandfather's death, but she offers few clues -- until a crisis triggers a race to uncover the true nature of Callie's past, one more intertwined with the elderly man's passing than Trevor could ever have imagined.

In his quest to unravel Natalie and Callie's secrets, Trevor will learn the true meaning of love and forgiveness . . . and that in life, to move forward, we must often return to the place where it all began.

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My Brother, Muhammad Ali - The Definitive Biography

My Brother, Muhammad Ali: The Definitive Biography Hardcover – Illustrated, October 9, 2020

ATLANTA - Nov. 20, 2020 - Rahaman Ali, the younger brother of the late, "The Greatest of All Time" Muhammad Ali, who is managed and promoted by ROCKBRASH PROMOTIONS, will have his new book, TESTVEREM, MUHAMMAD ALI, which is the Hungarian translation of MY BROTHER, MUHAMMAD ALI – THE DEFINITIVE BIOGRAPHY By Rahaman Ali with Fiaz Rafiq and foreword by NFL Legend Jim Brown, along with an endorsement by former Heavyweight Champion of the World, Mike Tyson, released in Hungary on November 20, 2020.

Originally published (British English) by London-based John Blake Publishing, an imprint of Bonnier Books UK on October 17, 2019.
After a very successful launch in the United Kingdom last October, which yielded rave reviews from practically all of the Top British National Papers, and the book winning a prestigious SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD, My Brother, Muhammad Ali – The Definitive Biography made its USA release debut on Friday, October 09, 2020! The USA edition (American English) is published by Rowman & Littlefield. Then on October 20^th, 2020, the French Edition of the book titled MOHAMED ALI, MON FRERE which is published by Editions Alisio was released in France.
Now comes the Hungarian Edition of the book titled TESTVEREM, MUHAMMAD ALI which is published by Cartaphilus Publishing in Hungary.
More words have been written about Muhammad Ali than almost anyone else. He was, without doubt, the world's most-loved sportsman. At the height of his celebrity he was the most famous person in the world. And yet, until now, the one voice missing belonged to the man who knew him best - his only sibling, and best friend, Rahaman Ali.

When asked what it means to have his new book released in the UK, the USA, translated in the French language and released in France, & now translated in Hungarian and released in Hungary, Rahaman stated, "I am overwhelmed with joy and I am thrilled to see how my book is drawing interest from all of these different countries and being translated into their languages."
Ron Brashear followed with, "It's such a blessing to witness this happening for Mr. Rahaman Ali! We thank Cartaphilus Publishing House for bringing this book to the market place for the wonderful people of Hungary and for all of the Hungarian folks to learn more about the Global Icon – Muhammad Ali, through the lens of his only sibling – Rahaman Ali." Get your copy now at amazon

Greenlights - Matthew McConaughey (Author, Narrator), Random House Audio (Publisher)

 

From the Academy Award-winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction.

“Unflinchingly honest and remarkably candid, Matthew McConaughey’s book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did - and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand.” 

I’ve been in this life for 50 years, been trying to work out its riddle for 42, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last 35. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. 

How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me. 

Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers.

I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life’s challenges - how to get relative with the inevitable - you can enjoy a state of success I call “catching greenlights”. So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. 

This is 50 years of my sights and seems, felts and figured-outs, cools and shameful. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away with, getting coughs, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops. 

Hopefully, it’s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears. It’s a love letter. To life. 

It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights - and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green, too. Good luck.

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