“The next apocalypse will be brutal, tragic, and costly. “We should not understate the severity of the impact of climate change that we have been ignoring for 50 years or more,” writes Begley. He looks at what happened with previous doomed civilisations – including the Maya, the Roman Empire, and Native American societies – to evaluate what can help us in a future collapse. Begley, a professor of anthropology, is a survival coach. You might not start 2022 in an optimistic frame of mind if you read Chris Begley’s The Next Apocalypse: The Art & Science of Survival (Basic Books). The fighters were older, bearded and armed.” The women were young – many of them girls really, in their teens – who were in shock, tears running down their faces, powerless. “I could not believe that a slave market was taking place in the 21st century,” writes Di Giovanni, who worked with women’s groups trying to help sex-trafficked women. She recounts the tale of the Isis terrorist groups in Syria and Iraq who sell Christian women into sex slavery, sometimes using live video markets.
As well as reporting on small hardy religious communities and their ancient rituals, Di Giovanni also details the horrendous persecution they face.
Hinton has long been a high school favorite, but the book has also been compared to 'The Catcher in the Rye. The Vanishing: The Twilight of Christianity in the Middle East (Bloomsbury) looks at the plight of Christian communities in the Middle East. Yes, this is another book about teenagers. Janine di Giovanni, a former winner of the Courage in Journalism prize, is a shining example of the dwindling band of investigative reporters. “It’s been the hardest thing I’ve ever written.” “I wanted to pen a reckoning with the communal grief wrought by the pandemic,” she commented. Gorman, the 23-year-old whose reading at Joe Biden’s presidential inauguration proved such a moving moment in early 2021, says the 80-page collection explores themes of memory and loss.
Alex Michaelides’ debut novel that tells the story of a well-known artist’s brutal act and the forensic psychotherapist’s determination to uncover the motivation behind her actions it became a quick New York Times bestseller and received the award for Best Mystery & Thriller in. One of the month’s top audiobooks is certain to be Amanda Gorman narrating her own debut poetry collection Call Us What We Carry (Chatto & Windus). The Silent patient is one of the most intriguing psychological thrillers to hit the shelves in recent times.