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The major new book from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Handmaid's Tale

'She's taken our times and made us wise to them' ALI SMITH
'She's Margaret Atwood and she can do anything' ANN PATCHETT
'She saw it all coming' TIME
'The outstanding novelist of our age' **SUNDAY TIMES

Immerse yourself in the creative universe of Margaret Atwood for a riot of life, art and everything in between:** the greatest writer of our time tells her own story

Raised by scientifically minded parents, Atwood spent most of each year in the wild forest of northern Quebec: a vast playground for her entomologist father and independent, resourceful mother. It was an unfettered and nomadic childhood, sometimes isolated but also thrilling and beautiful.

From this unconventional start, Atwood unfolds the story of her life, linking key moments to the books that have shaped our literary landscape, from the cruel school year that would become Cat’s Eye to the unease of 1980s Berlin, where she began The Handmaid’s Tale. In pages alive with the natural world, reading and books, major political turning points and her lifelong love for the charismatic writer Graeme Gibson, we meet poets, bears, Hollywood stars and larger-than-life characters straight from the pages of an Atwood novel.

**As she explores her past, Atwood reveals more and more about her writing, the connections between real life and art – and the workings of one of our boldest imaginations.

** THE ULTIMATE GIFT FOR ALL THE MARGARET ATWOOD FANS IN YOUR LIFE ****

After Trump: The Republican Partys Next Chapter

The Key to the Post-Trump World Lies in the Life, Thought, and Rise of Vice President JD Vance

Who is JD Vance? And why does it matter?

Before 2016, JD Vance was virtually unknown. A poor kid from a troubled family in Middletown, Ohio, he was lifted up by the fierce love of his grandmother and a few others who believed in him. From a broken home and community, he joined the Marines, graduated from Yale Law School, and entered the elite professional world of Silicon Valley, working alongside some of the worlds most powerful minds before moving back to his native Ohio.

Today, Vance is one of the most influential Republicans in America. But unlike many politicians, he is a public intellectual. Long before holding office, he was a prolific writer and speaker, wrestling with the core issues facing the GOP and the nation.

Legal and political analyst Frank DeVito examines JD Vances body of intellectual and political work, finding in Vance a leader with rare clarity about the Republican Partys past and a vision for its future. Vance not only understands the Partys internal tensions and shifting coalitions; he envisions how the Party can evolve into a truly pro-family, pro-worker movement rooted in the middle class. As the post-Trump era unfolds, Vance may be the most capable figure to guide the GOP—and the nation—into what comes next.

Unit 669, Israel's elite Air Force rescue unit, is a top-tier commando force of the IDF and one of the most formidable rescue units in the world. Deployed daily into chaos and danger, its teams rush into combat zones, disaster sites, and special ops deep behind enemy lines.

Whether evacuating wounded soldiers under fire from Gaza or Lebanon, retrieving a downed pilot, or saving a Syrian infant on a humanitarian mission, 669 operates where everything has gone wrong—and when failure is not an option.

Full Throttle is the gripping true story of life inside this legendary unit, told from the front lines by combat paramedic Guy M. Through daring extractions and heart-stopping moments under fire, Guy thrusts the reader, with raw and unflinching honesty, into the relentless world of combat rescue.

Originally published in Hebrew, the book became an instant bestseller and is now a modern classic for young Israelis. Full Throttle offers an intimate, action-packed, look inside one of the world's most distinguished special forces units.

Within these pages are never-before-published accounts of real missions, revealing the sacrifices, moral stakes, and unbreakable brotherhood of those who answer the call when no one else can.

I won an international literary award. Then they told me what it would cost to claim it. Oxymoron Life is a darkly funny memoir about what happens when sincere effort collides with systems designed to monetize hope rather than reward integrity. It's the story of writing books while caregiving, chasing visibility that never came, and slowly realizing the game was …
I won an international literary award. Then they told me what it would cost to claim it. Oxymoron Life is a darkly funny memoir about what happens when sincere effort collides with systems designed to monetize hope rather than reward integrity. It's the story of writing books while caregiving, chasing visibility that never came, and slowly realizing the game was rigged from the start. I did everything right.
I showed up consistently. I followed the advice. I optimized, marketed, and hustled until my soul felt like a product I no longer recognized. The result? A perfect record of spectacular non-performance. Sales that flatlined. Algorithms that yawned. And a growing stack of invoices for courses, coaching, and exposure that promised breakthrough but delivered only more debt. Somewhere along the way, I lost count of how many books I'd written.
Not dramatically. I just... forgot. Was it forty-two? Fifty? Sixty? The number stopped mattering because the result was always the same: a perfect, immaculate record of not mattering. This isn't a guide to success. It's a record of what it costs to keep hoping inside systems that charge for hope by the month. It's about the moment you realize effort and progress aren't the same thing. That visibility is something you rent, not earn.
That community is just audience in a softer jacket. That the suffering you document can become the product they sell back to you at a markup. Written with razor-sharp wit and unflinching honesty, Oxymoron Life dismantles the toxic fairy tales of the creator economy. It's for anyone who's ever felt like they were doing everything right while somehow still losing. For caregivers who became invisible while writing about isolation.
For artists told to "just try harder" when the math stopped mathing. For everyone who built something meaningful and watched it disappear into the algorithm's indifferent void. This is what happens when you refuse to lie with better lighting. When you choose the whisper in a hurricane. When you finally stop paying for permission and start keeping the change. No breakthrough promised. No transformation guaranteed.
Just the quiet, subversive truth about what it costs to care in a world that only values what converts.

In the rugged landscape of Southwest Virginia, the history of the coal industry is often told through the lens of the men in the mines. Matriarchs of St. Charles shifts the focus to the sunlight above the shafts, documenting the lives of the women who built the foundation of the St. Charles coal camps. This work is an intimate exploration of the "unseen labor" that kept the region alive...
In the rugged landscape of Southwest Virginia, the history of the coal industry is often told through the lens of the men in the mines. Matriarchs of St. Charles shifts the focus to the sunlight above the shafts, documenting the lives of the women who built the foundation of the St. Charles coal camps.

This work is an intimate exploration of the "unseen labor" that kept the region alive. Through a collection of oral histories, community records, and personal reflections, Jerry Buchanan honors the resilience of the women of Lee County. From the company store to the one-room schoolhouse, these stories highlight the mothers, healers, and educators who transformed a harsh industrial environment into a home.