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04.22: Mark Mazzetti
2013-03-15 00:36:47| Powells Books Events Calendar
The most momentous change in American warfare over the past decade has taken place away from the battlefields of Afghanistan and Iraq, in the corners of the world where large armies can't go. The Way of the Knife: The CIA, a Secret Army, and a War at the Ends of the Earth (Penguin Press) is the untold story of that shadow war: a campaign that has blurred the lines between soldiers and spies and lowered the bar for waging war across the globe. America has pursued its enemies with killer drones and special operations troops; trained privateers for assassination missions and used them to set up clandestine spying networks; and relied on mercurial dictators, untrustworthy foreign intelligence services, and proxy armies. Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Mark Mazzetti's The Way of the Knife is an explosive, gripping account of the transformation of the CIA and America's special forces into competing covert man-hunting and killing operations.
04.22: Kate Atkinson
2013-03-15 00:36:46| Powells Books Events Calendar
"What if you could live again and again, until you got it right?" On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies, repeatedly, in a variety of ways, while the young century marches on toward its second cataclysmic world war. Does Ursula's apparently infinite number of lives give her the power to save the world from its inevitable destiny? And if she can — will she? Darkly comic, startlingly poignant, and utterly original, Life after Life (Reagan Arthur) is Kate Atkinson at her absolute best.
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