Elizabeth James

Jul 23, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Elizabeth James

I remember watching federal agents storming the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas. For some inexplicable reason, my fifth-grade teacher wheeled a television into our classroom in Banquete, 300 miles away, that afternoon on April 19, 1993, so we could watch together as tanks rolled into the buildings, the subsequent fire raged, and the reporters lamented the men, women, and children who burned to death. In the following years the horrors of that day have largely subsided from American memory.

Jun 12, 2024 | bostonglobe.com | Elizabeth James

“Wrestling is the spectacle of excess,” wrote French literary critic Roland Barthes in his iconic 1957 essay about the sport. Anyone even casually familiar with professional wrestling knows that spectacle — the costumes, the story lines, the insults, and the chair throwing — is the point.

Mar 6, 2024 | bookbrowse.com | Elizabeth James |Rose Rankin

BookBrowse: A redemption tale set across eras, exploring how a family can atone for its own atrocities in a world where they're perpetrated on all sides. Is a son responsible for the sins of his father? Is it possible to escape your family's legacy, and can one ever truly right the wrongs of the past?

Mar 4, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Elizabeth James

Based loosely on author Elizabeth Gonzalez James’ family history, The Bullet Swallower is a mesmerizing tale of greed, revenge, and the yearning for redemption set in the shifting borderlands between Mexico and Texas. Decades after Alferez Antonio Sonoro brings calamity on his family and neighbors at the beginning of the 19th century through his insatiable appetite for gold, his descendant Antonio lives in poverty in Dorado, Mexico. The year is 1895.

Feb 6, 2024 | prlog.org | Elizabeth James |Children's books

How one children's author was inspired to help kids suffering from anxiety through her new children's book that weaves proven therapy techniques into a White House adventure! By: Elizabeth James, children's author and illustrator CINCINNATI - Feb. 6, 2024 - -- Children's author and illustrator Elizabeth James published her groundbreaking illustrated chapter book, Pippa Speaks Up! on January 9, 2024.