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The Reykjavik Assignment (Adam LeBor) & Lady Claire is All That (Maya Rodale), Thriller & Romance with brilliant superwomen, who are also every woman

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  These two novels could not be more unalike, yet there is an affinity worth considering. Both feature brilliant heroines, kind of super women, who are also every woman. Yael Azoulay in Adam LeBor's thriller, THE REYKJAVIK ASSIGNMENT (Harper Collins) lives in the world of geopolitics. A covert United Nations negotiator, who happens to be beautiful, she is highly trained in combat and negotiations with an insider's knowledge of diplomacy and media. Dedicated to her boss, the U.N. Secretary General, she is hyper-aware that his survival, as well as her own, hinges on her ability to counter fast-moving plots and players. They surround her in this novel. Yael's in the cross-hairs of a dangerous ex-lover and the leader of a shadowy corporate group, which thrives on political chaos. A deadly sniper wreaks havoc and people close to her boss die. When she learns of a plot against him, Yael decides to go to a conference in Reykjavik. She's following a hunch. Though Yael&#

NY out of control? "Day is Saved" by The Anarchist's Girlfriend (Pelekinesis, 2nd edition) Intro, blog interview, Dostoyevsky's The Idiot and the AG

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Amazon was only showing the not so readable1st Edition, published by an online publisher of serials. BUT THIS 2nd  VERSION is well edited. PELEKINESIS PRESS agreed. After a year of rewriting and their editorial work, the Second edition is the best experience of the book. Amazon agreed not to push 1st version (that publisher removed files) yet it was only one shown!  2nd edition is now more visible. . And can be bought from  Pelekinesis Press, SPD (Small Press Distributors) or Barnes and Noble.  May be less convenient, a little more money than Amazon but they take 60% of every sale. Besos is financing a vehicle to go to Mars. Pelekinesis is publishing good books for love. Thank you. Susan I. Weinstein. , Our headlines-fears of alien terrorists, NY out of control, happen in The Anarchist's Girlfriend, yet the "day is saved" by an unlikely heroine in a real world strange to us today. She is transformed from innocence to action. https://www.facebook.com/the

The Anarchist's Girlfriend New Edition Photos from Dixon Place & intro

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Small Press Distribution  recommends  The Anarchist's Girlfriend ,  New Edition by Susan I. Weinstein http://www.spdbooks.org/…/97…/the-anarchists-girlfriend.aspx Dixon Place Readings from The Anarchist’s Girlfriend and Autobiography Without Words. December 8th.. Peter Cherches from Autobiography, Susan Weinstein read AG, chap. at Federal Hall and Incident at Phebe’s.  Projections of Bowery and Lower Manhattan, late 70s and early 80s.  http://www.dreventphotography.com/   Diana Rivera research and photos New Review! The Anarchist’s Girlfriend, a novel by Susan Weinstein; Pelekinesis Publishing Group Known only as the AG, the anarchist’s girlfriend is a fey beauty with ESP, and an unlikely Go-Go Dancer in an out-of-the-way Brooklyn bar. The Anarchist, an Irishman who wants to fix the Irish troubles through organic food, having founded Food for Vendettas, plasters his subversive silkscreened posters all over the streets of 1980’s New