JoanneLeedomAckerman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Novelist/Journalist, Author of The Dark Path to the River, No Marble Angels and PEN Journeys: Memoir of Literature on the Line, Vice President PEN International

The Photographer
Mary Dixie Carter
The Photographer by @MaryDixieCarter, a haunting story & excellent narration by the author who read the book on audio. I moved between words on the page & narration of the audio. The novel speaks to where truth lies in a plastic, shifting world of avatars & images. #fridayreads https://t.co/exdTcAj5yM
Paperback, 2022
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
As Kingfishers Catch Fire: Birds & Books
Alex Preston
Hope you’ll enjoy my Nov. blog “Birds, Books, and the Sky Above…This spring 2023 I have a new novel BURNING DISTANCE coming out…”https://t.co/w1GqPM4HYF #NewBook #newblog #Readers @pen_int @PENamerica
Hardcover, 2018
$28.99$14.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Disturbing the Peace: A Conversation with Karel Huizdala
Vaclav Havel
Privileged to judge award going to distinguished & courageous Ukranian writer. Andrey Kurkov Wins the 2022 Disturbing the Peace Award to a Courageous Writer at Risk – The Vaclav Havel Library Foundation https://t.co/lRV7CuILQv @pen_int @PENamerica @PENCanada @englishpen #free
Paperback, 1991
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Life and Wrightings of Frederick Douglass, Volume 1: Early Years
Frederick Douglass
Excellent program by @jeff_mcguiness and Lance Morris w/ @talbothistory featuring the early years of Frederick Douglass on the Eastern Shore of MD, celebrating Douglass & Jeff’s moving book, Bear Me Into Freedom. #BlackHistoryMonth #EasternShore #frederickdouglass https://t.co/Rnxk5LslAD
Paperback, 2020
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Halcyon
Elliot Ackerman
Thank you to @TheIvyBookshop in Baltimore for the fun reading in their charming outside patio on an almost-summer evening w/ @elliotackerman & me, our one & only mother & son appearance on the pub day for Elliot’s provocative & compelling HALCYON & my novel BURNING DISTANCE.… https://t.co/ZsGj2Dh1Ut https://t.co/OAu6X6s9vO
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Jackie & Me
Louis Bayard
“Jackie & Me” is a story perfectly tuned to our ongoing fascination with the Kennedy marriage — and a novel, like Jackie herself, with charm to spare.” Congratulations, Lou! Jackie & Me by Louis Bayard review @washingtonpost @LouisBayard https://t.co/dI1J5Ijevm
Paperback, 2023
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
Azar Nafisi
“Imagination has been my way of survival.” “Reading Lolita in Tehran” Author Azar Nafisi on How Freddie Mercury of Queen Helped Her Survive Life in Iran @azarnafisi #Iran #music https://t.co/rbVucuJRV3
Paperback, 2003
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Reef Road
Deborah Goodrich Royce
Just finished Deborah Goodrich Royce’s Reef Road, an intelligent mystery. @royce_deborah #FridayReads https://t.co/MKCZnhIFZW
Hardcover, 2023
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Fifth ACT: America's End in Afghanistan
Elliot Ackerman
“Elliot Ackerman’s The Fifth Act may be the first great book about the Afghanistan war.”@elliotackerman @penguinpress @JanklowNesbit #Afghanistan https://t.co/Nli5tX4PTd
Hardcover, 2022
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Read Dangerously: The Subversive Power of Literature in Troubled Times
Azar Nafisi
Thank you, Azar, and mutual admiration for @azarnafisi book READ DANGEROUSLY, tribute to the power of literature! @pen_int @PENamerica #pen https://t.co/doDkUcYWEL
Hardcover, 2022
$26.99$13.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book