Series in Historical Events
Books in Historical Events
A Love Episode / A Page of Love / A Love Story
A Love Episode is the eighth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola, set among the petite bourgeoisie in Second Empire suburban Paris. It was first serialized between December 11, 1877, and April 4, 1878, in Le Bien public, before being published in novel form by Charpentier in April 1878. The central character of the novel is Hélène Grandjean née Mouret (b. 1824), first introduced briefly in La fortune des Rougon. Hélène is the daughter of Ursule Mouret née Macquart, the illegitimate daughter of Adelaïde Fouque (Tante Dide), the ancestress of the Rougon-Macquart family. Hélène's brothers are François Mouret, the central character of La conquête de Plassans, and Silvère Mouret, whose story is told in La fortune des Rougon.
A Love Episode / A Page of Love / A Love Story
A Love Episode is the eighth novel in the Rougon-Macquart series by Émile Zola, set among the petite bourgeoisie in Second Empire suburban Paris. It was first serialized between December 11, 1877, and April 4, 1878, in Le Bien public, before being published in novel form by Charpentier in April 1878. The central character of the novel is Hélène Grandjean née Mouret (b. 1824), first introduced briefly in La fortune des Rougon. Hélène is the daughter of Ursule Mouret née Macquart, the illegitimate daughter of Adelaïde Fouque (Tante Dide), the ancestress of the Rougon-Macquart family. Hélène's brothers are François Mouret, the central character of La conquête de Plassans, and Silvère Mouret, whose story is told in La fortune des Rougon.
Deadly Coast
"McDermott hooked me in the opening pages. Once again, he delivers everything I've come to expect from this subject matter expert and master storyteller. Trust me. He nails it." Steven Konkoly, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Garrett Mann Thrillers Plunge into a high-octane maritime thriller that races from Somalia’s pirate-infested waters to a top secret World War II ‘Doomsday’ weapon lying forgotten on the sea floor. When Dugan’s ship is hijacked by Somali pirates, he mounts a life-or-death mission to rescue the crew. But the situation takes an even more chilling turn with the discovery of a long-lost German U-boat resting on the ocean floor nearby — a biological weapon of unspeakable devastation in its rusting hull. As far away governments and local jihadis scramble to control the deadly find, Dugan is pressed on all sides. With time running out and the stakes climbing higher, he must outmaneuver modern-day pirates and ruthless jihadi terrorists, not only to save his crew, but to secure a weapon that could unleash uncontrollable death and destruction across the globe. Danger is on the horizon. And Tom Dugan has no choice but to steer straight for it. AN INTENSE READ INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS. FANS OF CLIVE CUSSLER, DAN BROWN, AND VINTAGE CLANCY WILL LOVE THIS LIGHTNING-PACED TALE. NOTE: THE TOM DUGAN THRILLERS ARE STANDALONE STORIES. THEY MAY BE READ IN ANY ORDER.
Deadly Coast
"McDermott hooked me in the opening pages. Once again, he delivers everything I've come to expect from this subject matter expert and master storyteller. Trust me. He nails it." Steven Konkoly, Wall Street Journal bestselling author of The Garrett Mann Thrillers Plunge into a high-octane maritime thriller that races from Somalia’s pirate-infested waters to a top secret World War II ‘Doomsday’ weapon lying forgotten on the sea floor. When Dugan’s ship is hijacked by Somali pirates, he mounts a life-or-death mission to rescue the crew. But the situation takes an even more chilling turn with the discovery of a long-lost German U-boat resting on the ocean floor nearby — a biological weapon of unspeakable devastation in its rusting hull. As far away governments and local jihadis scramble to control the deadly find, Dugan is pressed on all sides. With time running out and the stakes climbing higher, he must outmaneuver modern-day pirates and ruthless jihadi terrorists, not only to save his crew, but to secure a weapon that could unleash uncontrollable death and destruction across the globe. Danger is on the horizon. And Tom Dugan has no choice but to steer straight for it. AN INTENSE READ INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS. FANS OF CLIVE CUSSLER, DAN BROWN, AND VINTAGE CLANCY WILL LOVE THIS LIGHTNING-PACED TALE. NOTE: THE TOM DUGAN THRILLERS ARE STANDALONE STORIES. THEY MAY BE READ IN ANY ORDER.
Nana
Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Émile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series. A year before he started to write Nana, Zola did not know anything yet about the Variétés. It was Ludovic Halévy who invited him to see an operetta with him on February 15, 1878, and took him backstage. Halévy told him innumerable stories about the amorous life of the star — Anna Judic, whose ménage à trois would become the model for Rose Mignon, her husband, and Steiner — and also about famous cocottes such as Blanche d'Antigny, Anna Deslions, Delphine de Lizy, and Hortense Schneider, an amalgam of which was to serve the writer as the basis for his principal character.
Nana
Nana is a novel by the French naturalist author Émile Zola. Completed in 1880, Nana is the ninth installment in the 20-volume Les Rougon-Macquart series. A year before he started to write Nana, Zola did not know anything yet about the Variétés. It was Ludovic Halévy who invited him to see an operetta with him on February 15, 1878, and took him backstage. Halévy told him innumerable stories about the amorous life of the star — Anna Judic, whose ménage à trois would become the model for Rose Mignon, her husband, and Steiner — and also about famous cocottes such as Blanche d'Antigny, Anna Deslions, Delphine de Lizy, and Hortense Schneider, an amalgam of which was to serve the writer as the basis for his principal character.
Red Lands Outlaw
An honorable thief with the Wild West stacked against him. Can he wrangle up riches before they see him hang? Oklahoma, 1915. Henry Starr had modest ambitions to be a rancher. But when his Cherokee blood becomes a perpetual guilty sentence in the eyes of lawmen, he decides to embrace his undeserved reputation. And with his gang’s infamy growing, the charismatic outlaw saddles up for his most ambitious score yet: Be the first to rob two banks at once without getting sent to the gallows. After a nearly fatal close shave that prompts his childhood sweetheart to beg him to quit, Henry swears off his life of crime in exchange for marital bliss. But with disastrous lies and the constant temptation of one last lucrative raid, his only escape could be through a hail of bullets. Can the audacious desperado outride the long arm of the law and live to see another day? Red Lands Outlaw, the Ballad of Henry Starr is a magnificent semi-biographical historical Western. If you like charming gunslingers, touching surprises, and thrilling blends of fact and fiction, then you’ll love Phil Truman’s trailblazing tale. Buy Red Lands Outlaw to hightail it into action today!
The Nutmeg's Curse
In this ambitious successor to The Great Derangement, acclaimed writer Amitav Ghosh finds the origins of our contemporary climate crisis in Western colonialism’s violent exploitation of human life and the natural environment. A powerful work of history, essay, testimony, and polemic, Amitav Ghosh’s new book traces our contemporary planetary crisis back to the discovery of the New World and the sea route to the Indian Ocean. The Nutmeg’s Curse argues that the dynamics of climate change today are rooted in a centuries-old geopolitical order constructed by Western colonialism. At the center of Ghosh’s narrative is the now-ubiquitous spice nutmeg. The history of the nutmeg is one of conquest and exploitation—of both human life and the natural environment. In Ghosh’s hands, the story of the nutmeg becomes a parable for our environmental crisis, revealing the ways human history has always been entangled with earthly materials such as spices, tea, sugarcane, opium, and fossil fuels. Our crisis, he shows, is ultimately the result of a mechanistic view of the earth, where nature exists only as a resource for humans to use for our own ends, rather than a force of its own, full of agency and meaning. Writing against the backdrop of the global pandemic and the Black Lives Matter protests, Ghosh frames these historical stories in a way that connects our shared colonial histories with the deep inequality we see around us today. By interweaving discussions on everything from the global history of the oil trade to the migrant crisis and the animist spirituality of Indigenous communities around the world, The Nutmeg’s Curse offers a sharp critique of Western society and speaks to the profoundly remarkable ways in which human history is shaped by non-human forces.
Up, Simba!
The Director's Cut (three times longer than the RS article) is an incisive, funny, thoughtful piece about life on "Bullshit One" -- the nickname for the press bus that followed McCain's Straight Talk Express . This piece becomes ever more relevant, as we discuss what we know, don't know, and don't want to know about the way our political campaigns work.