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A New York Times New and Noteworthy Book&#160;&bull;&#160;A Wall Street Journal Best Book to Read This Summer &bull; A Bustle Must-Read Book &ldquo;Inspired by Joni Mitchell and James Taylor&rsquo;s romance and creative collaboration, this alluring debut has an Almost Famous vibe as it explores the gritty&mdash;and sometimes chauvinistic&mdash;side of the music industry.&rdquo; &mdash;People, Book of the Week &#160; &ldquo;In the vein of Daisy Jones and the Six and The Final Revival of Opal and Nev, Songs In Ursa Major is an intoxicating&#160;chronicle of the music industry, inspired largely by&#160;the love affair between artists&#160;Joni Mitchell and James Taylor.&rdquo;&#160;&mdash;Elle "A&#160;delightfully engaging novel about music and chasing after your dreams... Brodie plays all the right chords in her debut...&#160;we could all use a bit of carefree fun as temperatures warm up this year. So whether you&rsquo;re not quite ready to rip off your mask and go sway in the middle of a festival crowd, or you just need a break from all your post-vaccination celebrations, Songs in Ursa Major is a great opening act to the summer."&mdash;Cory Oldweiler, The Boston Globe"Brodie works with big themes &mdash; individuation, mental illness, legacy, self-destruction and redemption &mdash; but her touch is lighter than an onshore breeze. Little surprise that Village Roadshow has scooped the novel up for development as a movie... You can tell when a novelist truly loves her heroes and despises her villains... Ursa Major is plotted so tightly, its characters so vividly rendered, that you barely notice the author&rsquo;s thumb on the scale."&mdash;Chris Vognar, Los Angeles Times"Emma Brodie's debut lilts easily between the power chords of a rock anthem and the soulful nostalgia of a blues ballad, evoking the seventies rock scene through two compelling protagonists: Jesse Reid, charismatic rock star on the rise, and Jane Quinn, electrically gifted songstress struggling to get her foot on the ladder of the music world. Their passion for each other, for performing, and above all for their music makes for splashy, engrossing reading. 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This book would make a wonderful movie; readers will long for an album of Jane&rsquo;s songs to go with it.&rdquo; &mdash;Library Journal, starred"Inspired by the folk rock scene of the late 1960s and '70s, Brodie&rsquo;s debut novel follows Jane Quinn, an ethereal and talented musician, as she navigates love, loss, and stardom... Brodie thoughtfully probes the different ways men and women were treated in the music industry: the men coddled and protected in the face of their faults while the women (especially rule breakers like Jane) were taken advantage of, undercut, and vilified... Brodie&rsquo;s writing&mdash;about music, family, and grief&mdash;elevates the novel. An enjoyable debut that will appeal to fans of this iconic era."&mdash;Kirkus"Moving from New York to Los Angeles to Greece to the Grammys... Brodie's debut is a furious page turner, meditating on the glittering beast of fame."&mdash;Booklist&ldquo;In this spirited and fearless debut, Emma Brodie gets right to the heart of the matter: what&mdash;and who&mdash;will we sacrifice for art? Who has power over the stories we tell? What secrets will we keep for the people who love us? Like a perfect summer song, Songs in Ursa Major breathes new life into a familiar tune and will work its way into your heart and not let go.&rdquo; &#160;&mdash;Cynthia D&rsquo;Aprix Sweeney, New York Times bestselling author of The Nest and Good Company"Emma Brodie is a gifted storyteller, taking us from exhilaration to heartbreak and back again, all the while tackling issues of sexism in the music industry, the stigma of mental illness, and the way artistry can cost us fame and vice versa. I loved this book." &mdash;Angie Kim, author of Miracle Creek"Songs in Ursa Major reads like sexy, confessional liner notes to the age of the singer-songwriter. Emma Brodie sieves through history to give us a behind-the-scenes, behind-closed-doors view of an aspiring singer&rsquo;s tumultuous rise to fame. But if Jane Quinn and Jesse Reid will be familiar to fans of Joni Mitchell and James Taylor, they are also intimate and sparklingly original. 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Thomas Hauser should be given credit for assimilating and then processing so much of Charles Dickens' life&#151;an enormous task by any standards." &#151;Counterpunch&#147;Hauser has taken some liberties with Dickens's timeline, but has also included key biographical details&#151;such as his unhappy marriage to Catherine Hogarth&#151;that will delight devoted students of the writer. What is even more delightful is how truly Dickensian Hauser's novel proves to be, exploring not only this imagined incident but also the real man's favorite themes of London life and class inequalities.&#8221; &#151;Shelf Awareness&#147;Hauser brings the culture and vibrant personalities of Dickens&#8217;s world back to life&#8221; &#151;The New CriterionPraise for Thomas Hauser&#147;For the last few years Booklist has heaped praise on Hauser&#8217;s annual look back at the previous year in boxing. This year is no different. Why is Hauser one of the best sports journalists working today? He is an unashamed lover of boxing but never hesitates in exposing its flaws&#133; Wonderful writing from a world-class journalist.&#8221; &#151;Booklist, Starred ReviewPraise for Muhammad Ali: His Life and Times&#147;Hauser compiles opinions from a wide-ranging roster of interviewees to create a portrait of the controversial boxing champ that bristles with insights, jabs and tributes.&#8221; &#151;Publishers Weekly&#147;A detailed, if hagiographic, account of Ali's public career and private life. Hauser (author of one of the best books ever on the fight game, 1985's Black Lights) is an obvious and uncritical fan of Ali's, whom he apotheosizes early on as the most recognizable person on earth.' &#133;Hauser does a good job of marshaling a wealth of facts into a cohesive whole and providing behind-the-scenes glimpses of a ring lion in the autumn, if not winter, of his years.&#8221; &#151;Kirkus &#147;The first definitive biography of...the boxer who transcended sports as no other athlete ever has.&#8221; &#151;The New York Times Book Review&#147;How many Muhammad Ali's have we seen during his tempestuous ride through 30 years of roller-coaster American history? 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The Great Chicago Fire

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