Bessie
Chris Albertson
A definitive biography of Bessie Smith, known as the 'Empress of the Blues debunks many of the myths that circulated after her untimely death in 1937.
Read Time: ~5.6 hr
Eveless Eden
by Marianne Wiggins (1995)
About this book
Eveless Eden tells the story of a passionate love affair between a foreign correspondent for an American newspaper and the tough, sexy, talented photographer he meets at the site of an ecological disaster in Africa. Noah swings between disillusion and romanticism, cynicism and faith, despair and hope, as he and Lilith pursue their adventure in Paris, London, at the fall of the Berlin Wall, and through the scandal of AIDS tainted blood in the orphanages of Nicolai Ceausescu's Romania. Lilith's fateful attraction to danger makes her vulnerable to the seductive appeal of a mysterious Romanian, Adam Pentru, a man of evil genius, Minister of Trade in the Ceausescu government and a spy for the British. When Adam enters the picture, the story darkens and narrative suspense mounts, as Noah struggles to piece together a story more horrifying than any he has ever covered. . Eveless Eden offers a sweeping vision of individual, political, and global evil in the modern world.
Setting / LocationGlobal
Story EraLate 20th Century
Protagonist / CoreNotable Characters
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