Bay Harbour: July 28, 2021

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SOME
HOT
NEW BOOKS
To get you
through
the Winter
months
INSTORE NEW RELEASES NOW!
The Nine
The True Story of a Band of Women Who Survived the Worst of
Nazi Germany by Gwen Strauss
The Nine follows the true story of the author’s great aunt Hélène Podliasky, who led a band
of nine female resistance fighters as they escaped a German forced labor camp and made a
ten-day journey across the front lines of WWII from Germany back to Paris.
The nine women were all under thirty when they joined the resistance. They smuggled arms
through Europe, harbored parachuting agents, coordinated communications between regional
sectors, trekked escape routes to Spain and hid Jewish children in scattered apartments. They
were arrested by French police, interrogated and tortured by the Gestapo. They were subjected to
a series of French prisons and deported to Germany. The group formed along the way, meeting
at different points, in prison, in transit, and at Ravensbrück. By the time they were enslaved
at the labor camp in Leipzig, they were a close-knit group of friends. During the final days of
the war, forced onto a death march, the nine chose their moment and made a daring escape.
Drawing on incredible research, this powerful, heart-stopping narrative from Gwen Strauss is
a moving tribute to the power of humanity and friendship in the darkest of times.
House of Kwa
Wild Swans meets educated in this riveting true story spanning
four generations by Mimi Kwa
Mimi Kwa ignored the letter for days. When she finally opened it, the news was so shocking
her hair turned grey. Why would a father sue his own daughter? The collision was over the
estate of Mimi’s beloved Aunt Theresa, but its seed had been sown long ago. In an attempt to
understand how it had come to this, Mimi unspools her rich family history in House of Kwa.
One of a wealthy silk merchant’s 32 children, Mimi’s father, Francis, was just a little boy when
the Kwa family became caught up in the brutal and devastating Japanese occupation of
Hong Kong during World War II. Years later, he was sent to study in Australia by his now
independent and successful older sister Theresa. There he met and married Mimi’s mother,
a nineteen-year-old with an undiagnosed, chronic mental illness. Soon after, ‘tiger’ Mimi
arrived, and her struggle with the past - and the dragon - began ... Riveting, colourful and
often darkly humorous, House of Kwa is an epic family drama spanning four generations, and
an unforgettable story about how one woman finds the courage to stand up for her freedom
and independence, squaring off against the ghosts of the past and finally putting them to rest.
True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee
by Abraham riesman
Stan Lee—born Stanley Martin Lieber in 1922—was one of the most beloved and influential
entertainers to emerge from the twentieth century. He served as head editor of Marvel for three
decades and, in that time, launched more pieces of internationally recognizable intellectual
property than anyone other than Walt Disney: Spider-Man, the Avengers, the X-Men, Black
Panther, the Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, Thor . . . the list seems to never end. On top of that,
his carnival-barker marketing prowess more or less single-handedly saved the comic-book
industry and superhero fiction. Without him, the global entertainment industry would be
wildly different—and a great deal poorer. But Lee’s unprecedented career was also filled with
spectacular failures, controversy, and bitter disputes. Lee was dogged by accusations over
who really created Marvel’s signature characters—for whom Lee had always been suspected
of taking more than his proper share of credit. A major business venture, Stan Lee Media,
resulted in stock manipulation, bankruptcy, and criminal charges. And in his final years, after
the death of his beloved wife, Joan, rumors swirled that Lee was a virtual prisoner in his own
home, beset by abusive grifters and issuing cryptic video recordings as a battle to control his
fortune and legacy ensued.
A Runner’s High
by dean Karnazes
The iconic superhuman endurance runner embarks on his toughest challenge yet-the Western
States 100-offering insights into why running is so challenging and rewarding.
Dean Karnazes has pushed his body and mind to inconceivable limits, from running in the
shoe-melting heat of Death Valley to the lung-freezing cold of the South Pole. He’s raced and
competed across the globe and once ran 50 marathons, in 50 states, in 50 consecutive days.
In A Runner’s High, Karnazes chronicles his return to the Western States 100-Mile Endurance
Run in his mid-fifties after first completing the race decades ago. The Western States, infamous
for its rugged terrain and extreme temperatures, becomes the most demanding competition
of his life, a physical and emotional reckoning and a battle to stay true to one’s purpose.
Confronting his age, wearying body, career path and life choices, we see Karnazes as we
never have before, raw and exposed. A Runner’s High is both an endorphin-fuelled page-turner
and a love letter to the sport from one of its most celebrated ambassadors.
Ethel Rosenberg: A Cold War Tragedy
by Anne Sebba
Ethel Rosenberg’s story has been called America’s Dreyfus Affair: a catastrophic failure of
humanity and justice that continues to haunt the national conscience, and is still being played
out with different actors in the lead roles today.
On 19th June 1953 Ethel Rosenberg became the first woman in the US to be executed for a
crime other than murder. She was thirty-seven years old and the mother of two small children.
Yet even today, at a time when the Cold War seems all too resonant, Ethel’s conviction for
conspiracy to commit espionage on behalf of the Soviet Union makes her story still controversial.
This is an important moment to recount not simply what FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover called
the ‘trial of the century’, but also a timeless human story of a supportive wife, loving mother
and courageous idealist who grew up during the Depression with aspirations to become an
opera singer. Instead, she found herself battling the social mores of the 1950s and had her
life barbarically cut short on the basis of tainted evidence for a crime she almost certainly did
not commit. Ethel’s tragic story lays bare a nation deeply divided and reveals what happens
when a government motivated by fear tramples on the rights of its citizens.
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