FEASTING WILD de GinaRae LaCerva

A writer and anthropologist searches for wild foods―and reveals what we lose in a world where wildness itself is misunderstood, commodified, and hotly pursued.

FEASTING WILD:
In Search of the Last Untamed Food
by GinaRae LaCerva
Greystone Books, May 2020

Anthropologist and geographer GinaRae LaCerva’s fascination with hunting and gathering quickly exploded into a personal obsession that sent her on a quest to taste the wild foods we still eat and the ones we have forgotten: from wild boar in Borneo, to a lobster bake on an island in Maine, to gathering herbs near Kierkegaard’s grave in Copenhagen. She didn’t expect to find something much more profound—an untamable love affair and the elusive pleasure of simple sustenance. Along the way, she illuminates that the history of food is also the history of environmental conservation, examines the rapid transformation of wild food from nutritional necessity to luxury good, explores how this shift reflects our attempts to tame and commodify “natures” of all kinds, and ultimately finds that her own sense of adventure is just as unruly as the natural places she explores.
This impeccably researched narrative history uncovers something essential about what it means to love the planet in the age of extinction. Equal parts environmental history and adventure narrative, FEASTING WILD weaves together extensive field research and personal narrative to interrogate our concept of nature, investigate how our insatiable appetites have contributed to the current landscape of environmental crisis, and question what we might do about it now.

GinaRae LaCerva is a geographer, environmental anthropologist, and award-winning writer who has traveled extensively to research a variety of environmental and food-related topics. A National Science Foundation Graduate Fellow, La Cerva holds a Master of Environmental Science from Yale University’s School of Forestry and Environmental Studies and a Master of Philosophy from the University of Cambridge. Originally from New Mexico, she lives in New York.

NEW KID de Jerry Craft remporte le Kirkus Prize !

★“An engrossing, humorous, and vitally important graphic novel that should be required reading in every middle school in America.” — Kirkus Reviews

Le roman graphique jeunesse NEW KID de Jerry Craft a été récompensé par le Kirkus Prize ! Ce prix vient s’ajouter aux autres distinctions déjà reçues : il fait partie de la sélection des meilleurs livres de 2019 de Publishers Weekly et a également été en lice pour le Harvey Award for Best Children’s Book of the Year.

Un nouveau titre de Jerry Craft, CLASS ACT, paraîtra chez HarperCollins à l’automne 2020.

MORD IN SUNSET HALL de Leonie Swann

The first volume of the forthcoming SUNSET HALL crime series!

MORD IN SUNSET HALL
(Murder in Sunset Hall)
by Leonie Swann
Goldmann Verlag, Spring 2020

Photo credit: Mark Bassett

Agnes Sharp has enough to worry about, thank you very much! There’s the hip, the broken stairlift and of course her unruly housemates, a bunch of eccentric fellow pensioners. However, now there’s a dead old lady in the potting shed. And another dead old lady in the neighboring garden. Idyllic English village life suddenly has a crack and someone is out to get them. A perfidious murderer is on the loose!

Agnes and her feisty housemates roll up their sleeves, grab their trusty tortoise and set out in pursuit of the murderer. The hunt for the killer will lead them onto the slippery parquet of the local Community Coffee Club, to the sinister Limetree House and – most frighteningly – deep into their own past. Turns out that Agnes and her crew have their own old secrets to guard…

Leonie Swann was born near Munich in 1975. She studied philosophy, psychology and English literature at the universities of Munich and Berlin. Her first two novels, GLENNKILL (THREE BAGS FULL) and GAROU, were an immediate and sensational success: both books topped the bestseller lists for months and have been sold to twenty-five countries, often gracing those bestseller lists, too. Leonie Swann lives in Berlin and in England. Her third novel, DUNKELSPRUNG, was published in 2014 and translated as well. GRAY is Leonie’s newest book, published in 2017.

DIE IM DUNKELN SIEHT MAN NICHT de Andreas Götz

A historical thriller set in Munich in 1950 about a journalist trying to find the paintings that the Nazis had stolen during the war. While investigating, he suddenly finds himself trapped in a dangerous net of lies and deception.

DIE IM DUNKELN SIEHT MAN NICHT
(Those In the Dark Remain Unseen)
by Andreas Götz
Fischer Scherz Verlag, August 2019

Munich 1950. Karl Wieners, previously a writer, returns to his hometown Munich – a city where smugglers are successful in doing their business, where old Nazis sees new chances coming up, and where the lost finally lose all their hopes. Karl‘s last hope is a career as a journalist. If only he found out where the Nazis had hidden the works of art they had accumulated in the “Führerbau” (Hitler’s palace) during the war – this would be the very sensation he needs! He begins his research, together with his niece, Magda, who is also his secret love. They find out that the paintings, worth millions of dollars, are supposed to be sold secretly to an unknown buyer. During their investigations, however, Karl and Magda are not only disturbing the activities of inspector Ludwig Gruber, who is at his wits’ end in finding a murderer. They also get into the focus of some dubious people doing their business on the black market, and find themselves being trapped in a dangerous net of deception that seems not to let them go.

Andreas Götz, born in 1965, studied German, theatre studies, and American literature, and is now a freelance writer living close to Munich. He has worked as a translator and a journalist and has written radio plays for various radio stations. He has been writing several thrillers for young adults: STIRB LEISE, MEIN ENGEL (‘Die Gently, My Angel’), HÖRST DU DEN TOD? (‘Do You Hear Death’s Call?’), DENN MORGEN SIND WIR TOT (‘Tommorow We’ll be dead’), and BAD BOYS AND LITTLE BITCHES, all published by Oetinger. DIE IM DUNKELN SIEHT MAN NICHT is his first novel for an adult readership.

THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN de Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray

Given unmatched power in New York society as J.P. Morgan’s personal librarian, Belle daCosta Greene’s carefree and privileged lifestyle belies the carefully hidden secret that she is passing as a white woman.

THE PERSONAL LIBRARIAN
by Marie Benedict & Victoria Christopher Murray
Berkley/PRH, Summer 2021

The Personal Librarian is the stunning story of Belle da Costa Greene, a young woman who is hired by J. Pierpont Morgan to curate a collection of rare manuscripts, books, and artwork for his newly-built Morgan Library. In this position, Belle becomes a fixture in New York society and the most influential woman in the art and book world. But Belle has a secret. She was not born Belle da Costa Greene, but Belle Marion Greener. She is the daughter of Richard Greener, the first black graduate of Harvard. Belle’s complexion isn’t dark because of her alleged Portuguese heritage, but because she is African-American.

This riveting novel shares the life of a woman, famous for her bohemian lifestyle and for bold statements like “just because I’m a librarian doesn’t mean I have to dress like one”—and how far she will go to protect her carefully crafted white identity from a racist world. It also explores the irony that the world-famous Morgan Library was due to the expertise and prowess of a woman of color.

Marie Benedict is the author of the USA Today bestselling The Other Einstein, Carnegie’s Maid, and of The Only Woman in the Room which spent 4 weeks on the New York Times list earlier this year. With over one million books in print, Marie’s co-author, Victoria Christopher Murray is one of the country’s top African American contemporary authors. She has written more than twenty novels and is also a four-time NAACP Image Award Nominee for Outstanding Fiction, winning in 2016 for Stand Your Ground.