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As another year comes to a close, our already-laden bookshelves have no doubt gotten just a little fuller with freshly penned titles from 2024. Many of the new book releases from this most recent trip around the sun have made a lasting impact on the avid readers of HuffPost’s newsroom, and we wanted to round up some of our favorites from these past 12 months.
She’s a mother and a wife, but rootless in both of these roles, as well as an artist who, though relatively well-known, is dissatisfied and anxious about her work. She is emboldened to make her cross-country trek after her husband convinces her to take several weeks away to hopefully reignite a variety of passions, including her interest in her own life.
Prior to the death of the family’s patriarch, the brothers Peter and Ivan Koubek haven’t seen one another in 10 years. Peter is a progressive lawyer who lives in Dublin while Ivan, a recent college grad and one-time child chess prodigy, is now a beleaguered freelance data analyst. When they finally end the relationship, Aima threatens to leave for London. Kalu, heartbroken, begins to unravel and agrees to attend a sex party thrown by his close friend, Ahmed. But it’s at the party that Kalu discovers an even seedier and more brutal side of the city’s corrupt underworld.
Cortés is a codependent mess, and Moctezuma is drug-addled and volatile. The conquistador's arrival into the city is a clumsy affair, but the Aztecs greet Cortés and his Spanish consorts with a ceremonial welcome orchestrated by the pertinacious princess Atotoxtli, who happens to be the sister and wife of Moctezuma .
Carl never overcame the trauma, Ruth, his wife, was equally broken, and their three children have grown up to be varying degrees of walking dysfunction.author Ta-Nehisi Coates brings his most recent work, “The Message,” a text that takes readers on a journey through historical and present conflicts and oppressions in order to better understand and define experiences of racism.
The book is both a political and philosophical examination of what freedom is and how to maintain it by attempting to explain that freedom doesn’t just mean a simplified absence of state power or control, but also freedom to thrive and to live in a world with an optimism toward the future.
As Kimmerer explains, “Serviceberries show us another model, one based upon reciprocity, where wealth comes from the quality of your relationships, not from the illusion of self-sufficiency.”The collection, which features anonymous stories from hundreds of women describing their intimate desires, inspired more than just Anderson’s on screen character, but also a book of her own.
A factually supported conversation about toxic productivity, labor exploitation and neoliberal trickle-down feminism, Mukhopadhyay’s memoir-of-sorts calls for a “workplace reckoning” if any of us are to survive in a time when, statistically, we’re working more than ever before, and wealth gaps are widening.
The focus shifts onto the foul-mouthed Lowry, an investigator who’s not only investigating the region but also the disappearances of several of his colleagues. Once Arton is brought to Kiln, he uncovers a secret the Mandate would like to stay hidden — that the prisoners and their captives are not the first intelligent life forms to live there. The remains of a past civilization, a volatile ecosystem and the severe conditions of the prison labor camps are just a few of the dangers Arton must survive.
The civil servant’s role is to be a sort of guide or “bridge” for time travelers, and she’s tasked with none other than the expat Commander Graham Gore, a Victorian polar explorer who is said to have perished in 1845 during an Arctic expedition. But the very alive Commander is presently pulled into modern living with his assigned “bridge,” — a woman who is not married, lives alone and even uses things like Spotify.
When Phoebe meets the bride-to-be, Lila, Lila decides that having a woman kill herself would ruin her expertly planned nuptials so, instead, invites Phoebe to join in the festivities. And when a chance dropout occurs, Phoebe is even more invested in the wedding than Lila planned.
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