{"id":199867,"date":"2023-07-27T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lavendermagazine.com\/?p=199867"},"modified":"2023-07-27T10:04:56","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T15:04:56","slug":"books-735","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lavendermagazine.com\/our-affairs\/books-735\/","title":{"rendered":"Books: 735"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Light Come Out of the Closet: Memoir of a Gay Soul<\/strong><\/em>
Roger Leslie, PhD
Paradise Publishing House
$19.95<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Leslie grew up in a close-knit, Polish-American family with parents committed to their children\u2019s Catholic schooling. His firmly held three absolutes: \u201cI love God; I love my family; I am gay.\u201d He adroitly leads the reader through the fear and dread experienced when an intelligent child realizes that should his parents not unconditionally love a gay child, God, too, might withhold His affection. Burden enough for an adult, the conflict was overwhelming for the youngster. Now at peace and author of some seventeen books including Isaac Dinesen: Gothic Storyteller<\/em>, spiritual inspiration volumes Divine Destiny<\/em> and My First Last Year,<\/em> this memoir is an inspirational recounting of his struggle to find love, discovering that \u201cIn the dark night of the soul we find our own happiness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My Friend Anne Frank: The Inspiring and Heartbreaking True Story of Best Friends Torn Apart and Reunited Against All Odds<\/strong><\/em>
Hannah Pick-Goslar
Little, Brown and Company
$29<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 1933, Hannah Pick-Goslar\u2019s Jewish family fled Nazi Germany for Amsterdam, settling next door to the Franks, also relocated, with a daughter Hannah\u2019s age. Hannah, tall and shy, and Anne, slight and sprightly, became fast friends in nursery school. The power of this memoir is Hannah\u2019s presence. She was with Anne through the last nearly normal days, kids going about their daily activities. On 12 June, 1942, Hannah attended Anne\u2019s thirteenth birthday party; the roomful of classmates watched a rented Rin-Tin-Tin film and Anne, among many other gifts, received that red, tan, and cream plaid diary in which she began writing her thoughts now shared worldwide. It was to be Anne\u2019s last childhood party. The darkness was nearly upon them. Heartfelt, heartbreaking; an extraordinary tribute to friendship.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Tomb of Sand<\/strong><\/em>
Geetan Jali Shree tr. Daisy Rockwell
HarperVia
$29.99<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Following her husband\u2019s death, eighty-year-old Ma has begun to slide. Intransigently depressed, she has relinquished joy, and even, fear her responsible eldest son and dutiful daughter, the will to live. Hope is nearly abandoned when Serious Son, her youngest grandson, gives her a golden cane studded with butterflies. The cane\u2019s magic draws her out of bed and into a hedonistic, carefree life as alien to her children as was her previous withdrawal. Escapades with her feminist daughter Beti, friendship with a hijra, even jettisoning her traditional saris, unchain her spirits while dumbfounding the rest of the family. Playful, fantastical, free with wordplay and matters temporal, Tomb<\/em> encompasses Partition and gender anomaly, ecstasy and tragedy\u2013what it means to live a life. Winner 2022 International Booker Prize.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Anatomy of a Breakthrough: How to Get Unstuck When It Matters Most<\/strong><\/em>
Adam Alter
Simon and Schuster
$28.99<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Alter, professor of marketing at NYU\u2019s Stern School of Business tackles \u201cstuckness,\u201d the dreaded place for anyone who\u2019s wanted, needed, or been on deadline to produce. Using a large number of case studies of well-known individuals in wide spectrum of undertakings, Alter segues skillfully from one to the next, the swiftness of the changes providing a tour-de-force of \u201cunsticking\u201d right before your eyes. Changing your habit patterns can override inertia; defining your goal then breaking it into segments provides both better understanding and movement. Seek out different people  to shake up your thinking, change your perspectives, release the Stuck Thing. Alter\u2019s own brisk pacing and barrage of suggestions offer a glimmer of hope\u2013\u201cMaybe I can <\/em>do this!\u201d keeping one turning the pages. Worth a try!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Light Come Out of the Closet: Memoir of a Gay SoulRoger Leslie, PhDParadise Publishing House$19.95 Leslie grew up in a close-knit, Polish-American family with parents committed to their children\u2019s Catholic schooling. His firmly held three absolutes: \u201cI love God; I love my family; I am gay.\u201d He adroitly leads the reader through the fear and…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","wds_primary_category":278},"categories":[225,137],"tags":[17621],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavendermagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199867"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavendermagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavendermagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavendermagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavendermagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=199867"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/lavendermagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199867\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":200900,"href":"https:\/\/lavendermagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199867\/revisions\/200900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lavendermagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=199867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavendermagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=199867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lavendermagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=199867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}