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March 2022 Virtual Book Tour for THEY CALLED US GIRLS by Kathleen C. Stone

Just in time for Women’s History Month, THEY CALLED US GIRLS by Kathleen C. Stone is a fascinating and inspirational book about female ambition and unorthodox paths toward fulfillment that is essential reading for women and girls today. Stone interviews seven unconventional women, all born before 1935, who broke the mold, defying expectations—as doctor, lawyer, artist, physicist, executive director, and intelligence officer. In insightful, personalized portraits that span a half-century, Stone weaves stories of female ambition, uncovering the families, teachers, mentors, and historical events that led to unexpected paths.

Join us in March for the virtual book tour on behalf of THEY CALLED US GIRLS as we share features, book giveaways, spotlights and reviews.

“They Called Us Girls, riveting and inspiring, illuminates the remarkable lives of amazing women born in the first half of the last century. Kathleen Stone’s subjects are diverse in their backgrounds and professions, but all are trailblazers whose quiet triumphs opened doors for us who follow behind. This is an important book.”

— Claire Messud, author of The Emperor’s Children and The Woman Upstairs

 “They Called Us Girls is a reminder of what talented women once endured, and the stories it tells so deftly should continue to inspire us today. Not every barrier has disappeared.”

— Louis Menand, author of The Free World and Pulitzer Prize-winning The Metaphysical Club

Tuesday, March 1 – We Break For Books

Wednesday, March 2 – The Book Club Mom

Thursday, March 3 – Nurse Bookie

Friday, March 4 – Suzy Approved Book Reviews

Saturday, March 5 – Diaries of a Bibliophile

Monday, March 7 – Book Pairings

Tuesday, March 8 – Just Another Chapter and Tea AND Well Read Traveler

Wednesday, March 9 – Amy’s Book Nook

Thursday, March 10 – Bookalong

Friday, March 11 – Kim Reads and Reads

Monday, March 14 – Aimee Dars Reads

Tuesday, March 15 – Rozie Reads and Wine                                                                                                                          

Wednesday, March 16 – Earl Grey Reads

Thursday, March 17 – Mel Reads All The Things AND Bujos ‘N Books 

Friday, March 18 – Tina May Reads

Sunday, March 20 – Girl Who Reads

Monday, March 21 – Secret Reading Life

Tuesday, March 22 – The Salty Book Worm

Wednesday, March 23 – We Love Big Books and We Cannot Lie

Thursday, March 24 – A Bookworm With Wine

Friday, March 25 – Subakka Bookstuff

Monday, March 28 – What Is That Book About

Tuesday, March 29 – Angel’s Mom Reads

Wednesday, March 30 – Books and Coffee Mx

Thursday, March 31 – It’s Bibliotherapy 

Filed Under: Blog Tours Tagged With: blog tour, Cynren Press, Female Ambition, March Blog Tour, nonfiction, Women's History Month

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DEATH TANGO: Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat and Three Fateful Days in March

by Yossi Alpher

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Contact: Rachel Tarlow Gul, rachel@otrpr.com 

ADVANCE PRAISE:

“Anyone seeking to understand how Israelis and Palestinians traded the hopes of Oslo for something approaching hopelessness is well-advised to read this book. With penetrating analysis and elegant prose, Yossi Alpher has told the gripping story of three days nearly two decades ago that continue to haunt would-be peacemakers. Yossi’s faithful readers will not be disappointed with his latest effort.”

— Ambassador Frederic C. Hof, Bard College

 “A riveting account of the crucial days in March 2002 when the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was profoundly changed for the worse. The peace camp has never recovered from those wrenching days, and we live now without any hope of a just settlement. Alpher is a highly respected expert who has spent decades studying this conflict from both sides.”

— Bruce Riedel, director of the Brookings Intelligence Project

“A critical assessment of a key period in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict never before presented in such detail. The best and most capable players at the executive and political levels proved unable to forge any resolution, final or partial, because both parties continued to maintain an insurmountable gulf between themselves. This is a MUST read for anyone daring to tackle the future of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and of Israel-Arab relations in general.”

— Efraim Halevy, former Head of the Mossad (1998-2002)

In his latest book, DEATH TANGO: Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat, and Three Fateful Days in March, Yossi Alpher, a former Mossad official and one of Israel’s foremost analysts of Israeli strategic issues, traces the current fraught relationship between Israel and Palestine to three dramatic events that occurred in March 2002. First, there was a bloody suicide bombing at the Park Hotel in Netanya, Israel on March 27th at a Passover celebration. Then, the Arab League met in Beirut on March 28th and approved the Arab Peace Initiative. Finally, on March 29th, Israel reinvaded the West Bank in Operation Defensive Shield. Taken together, Alpher argues, these three events were a catalyst for extensive change in the Middle East.

Based on many interviews and the author’s unique experience and inside knowledge, DEATH TANGO is filled with thorough and thoughtful analysis that has never before been published. Rowman & Littlefield will release Alpher’s new book on February 15th (Hardcover, 978-1538162071, $36; Ebook, 978-1538162088, $34).

Why write this book twenty years after the events took place? “It took time for the significance of these events to sink in, and for me to recognize their strategic impact on Israel and the region,” Alpher explains. “The chronological distance was helpful in understanding what went on in late March 2002 among Israel, the Palestinians, the Arab world and the United States. Taken alone, each of the three major events described in the book is not so exceptional. When viewed as a three-day continuum, however, something exceptional is seen to have happened—even in Middle East terms.”

DEATH TANGO is about the interaction among these three critical events, and the key personalities involved. It moves from Israel’s Prime Minister’s Office where Ariel Sharon rants against Yasser Arafat, to Washington, DC where the US fumbles and misunderstands the dynamics at work, to the Jenin refugee camp, the “suicide capital of Palestine,” where Israeli soldiers win a bloody military battle but lose in the war of public opinion.  The book also includes:

  • An exclusive interview with New York Time’s commentator Tom Friedman, in which he explains how he sold the Saudis a peace plan.
  • Why Sharon invited himself to the Arab League meeting in Beirut and why the Arabs, who saw him as Genghis Khan incarnate, turned him down.
  • A blow-by-blow account of the worst terrorist attack in Israel’s history.
  • What Sharon and Arafat had in common and what they did not.
  • Why the Arab Peace Initiative of March 2002 delivered a measure of stability and co-existence, but not peace.
  • Why there won’t be a two-state solution anytime soon between Israel and the Palestinians – but there won’t be all-out war either.

Alpher concludes that the new Arab-Israel and Palestinian-Israeli realities forged by these three pivotal events are here to stay. The combination of Palestinian overreach, Israeli security concerns and territorial greed, and Arab state indifference ensures that a two-state solution will not happen. In parallel, the Arabs need Israel as a partner against Iran and militant Islam. When pressured on any of these issues, their leaders fall back on the Arab Peace Initiative as the authoritative legitimizer of the status quo. Palestinians and Israelis, like Arafat and Sharon in their day, are dancing “a kind of death tango.”

A must read for anyone interested in history, Middle East politics, Israel, the United States in the Middle East, and international strategic affairs.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

Yossi (Joseph) Alpher is a consultant and writer on Israel-related strategic issues. He is the author of the prize-winning Periphery: Israel’s Search For Middle East Allies and No End Of Conflict: Rethinking Israel-Palestine (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015 and 2016, respectively). His latest book is Winners and Losers in the ‘Arab Spring’: Profiles in Chaos (Routledge, 2020), which won the Chaikin Prize in 2021.

Born in Washington, DC, Alpher served in the Israel Defense Forces as an intelligence officer in the late 1960s, followed by service in the Mossad in the ‘70s.  From 1981 to 1995 he was associated with the Jaffee Center for Strategic Studies at Tel Aviv University, ultimately serving as director of center.  From 1995 to 2000 he served as director of the American Jewish Committee’s Israel/Middle East Office in Jerusalem. In July 2000 (during the Camp David talks) he served as Special Adviser to the Prime Minister of Israel. From 2001 to 2012 he was coeditor, with Ghassan Khatib (until recently vice-president of Bir Zeit University) of the bitterlemons.net family of internet publications.

DEATH TANGO:

Ariel Sharon, Yasser Arafat, and Three Fateful Days in March

By Yossi Alpher

Rowman & Littlefield; February 15, 2022

(Hardcover, 978-1538162071, $36, 224 Pages; Ebook, 978-1538162088, $34)

Filed Under: News & Announcements, Uncategorized Tagged With: Ariel Sharon, Middle East, nonfiction, OTRPR, Over the River PR, Over the River Public Relations, Rowman & Littlefield, Yasser Arafat, Yossi Alpher

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CITIZEN 865: The Hunt for Hitler’s Hidden Soldiers in America by Debbie Cenziper

CITIZEN 865 by the Washington Post investigative journalist Debbie Cenziper (Hachette Books; 9780316449656, $28) is the powerful, character-driven story of the search for the men of an obscure SS training camp in Trawniki, Poland who helped the SS murder 1.7 million Polish Jews. The Office of Special Investigations (OSI), a small unit in a far-flung office inside the Department of Justice, would identify more than a dozen men who were hiding in plain sight in cities and suburbs across America, including Miami, Chicago, and New York.

Cenziper interviewed many of the unheralded and heroic government historians and lawyers – including former director of the Office of Special Investigations Eli Rosenbaum and historians Peter Black and Elizabeth “Barry” White – who relentlessly pursued these so-called “Trawniki Men” and, nearly five decades after the war’s end, helped uncover the details behind the school for mass murder where they were trained, armed and empowered by the Third Reich. She juxtaposes this hunt with the story of 2 of only 200 Jews from Lublin, Poland who evaded this same killing force and settled in the United States unknowingly alongside their former captors, and whose children contributed to Cenziper’s research. It is “a story about darkness, but also about light,” Cenziper writes.

The book has received great media attention. Here are some highlights:

The Washington Post

Washington Independent Review of Books

Forward.com

The Jewish Exponent

The Times of Israel

The Jewish Book Council

Too Jewish Radio Podcast

Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Citizen 865, Debbie Cenziper, Holocaust, Investigative journalism, nonfiction

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Marilyn Dahl/Shelf Awareness discusses Debra Monroe’s writer’s life

Marilyn Dahl, Book Editor at Shelf Awareness, recently sat down with Debra Monroe to discuss her new memoir, MY UNSENTIMENTAL EDUCATION (University of Georgia Press/Crux Series; October 1, 2015). In this enlightening interview, which is posted in today’s Shelf Awareness, Debra touches upon a few of the topics that make MY UNSENTIMENTAL EDUCATION such an engrossing read. Boyfriends, careers, feminism, parenting — Debra discusses how these particular elements inform her writer’s life.

You can catch the entire interview here:

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Filed Under: Books, Memoir, Reviews & Features Tagged With: Debra Monroe, feminism, memoirs, My Unsentimental Education, nonfiction, Shelf-Awareness

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Salvatore Basile’s book COOL hits Library Journal bestseller list at #7

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Cool: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything by Salvatore Basile A Library Journal bestselling book

We’ve been big “fans” of Salvatore Basile’s delightful social history on the birth of the air conditioner for some time now. Really! We rate it right up there with Devil in the White City, The Pencil by Henry Petroski, and Salt by Mark Kurlansky.

Well, it seems we’re not alone in our enthusiasm for this quirky book. Library Journal just released their 2015 bestseller list for engineering and technology titles, and COOL: How Air Conditioning Changed Everything is sitting pretty at #7. Congrats, Sal!

You can check out the entire list here: Library Journal 2015 Engineering & Technology Bestsellers

 

Filed Under: Books, Reviews & Features, Uncategorized Tagged With: air conditioning, bestseller, books, cool, engineering, Fordham University Press, Library Journal, nonfiction, Salvatore Basile, social history, technology

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