Literature
Literature
Good Material: A novel
“Like Nora Ephron, with a British twist….Delivers the most delightful aspects of classic romantic comedy—snappy dialogue, realistic relationship dynamics, humorous meet-cutes and misunderstandings—and leaves behind the clichéd gender roles and traditional marriage plot.”—The New York TimesAndy loves Jen. Jen loved...
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The Brave Little Parrot
How can you save a burning forest with just sprinkles of water? This timeless Buddhist tale may just have the answer!In this ancient tale of one of the Buddha’s past lives, the Buddha is born as a little gray parrot...
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The Good Lord Bird: A Novel
Now a Showtime limited series starring Ethan Hawke and Daveed DiggsWinner of the National Book Award for FictionFrom the bestselling author of The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, Deacon King Kong (an Oprah Book Club pick) and The Color of Water comes the story of a...
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Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wisdom and Spirit of Maya Angelou
“Words mean more than what is set down on paper,” Maya Angelou wrote in her groundbreaking memoir I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings. Indeed, Angelou’s words have traveled the world and transformed lives—inspiring, strengthening, healing. Through a long and prolific...
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White Widow (used)
Some bus drivers never meet a "white widow"--a wild card, a woman traveling alone who can change the course of a driver's life, and not always for the best. In this subtle, poignant novel, based on the true experiences of...
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Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation
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Too Much Too Young, the 2 Tone Records Story: Rude Boys, Racism, and the Soundtrack of a Generation
The definitive and remarkable story of 2 Tone Records, featuring an introduction by Pauline Black ―A Times/Sunday Times Book of the Year―An Uncut Book of the Year―Long-Listed for the Penderyn Music Book Prize―A Louder Than War Book of the Year―A Blitzed Magazine Book of the Year In 1979,...
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Cloud Atlas: A Novel
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE • By the New York Times bestselling author of The Bone Clocks. . .A postmodern visionary and one of the leading voices in twenty-first-century fiction, David Mitchell combines flat-out adventure, a Nabokovian love of puzzles, a keen...
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Opacities: On Writing and the Writing Life (Coming soon-August 13, 2024)
Opacities is a book about writing, publishing, and friendship. Rooted in an epistolary relationship between Sofia Samatar and a friend and fellow writer, this collection of meditations traces Samatar's attempt to rediscover the intimacy of writingIn a series of compressed, dynamic...
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On James Baldwin (Coming Soon-August 2, 2024)
Colm Tóibín’s personal account of encountering James Baldwin’s work, published in Baldwin’s centenary year. Acclaimed Irish novelist Colm Tóibín first read James Baldwin just after turning eighteen. He had completed his first year at an Irish university and was struggling to...
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Clyde's
“A deceptively simple flavor-bomb of a new comedy about survival, second chances, and digesting whatever life serves up.” —Naveen Kumar, Variety With a chance at reclaiming their lives, the formerly incarcerated people working at Clyde’s, a roadside sandwich stop, strive hard...
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Dear Bi Men: A Black Man's Perspective on Power, Consent, Breaking Down Binaries, and Combating Erasure
An unapologetic guide for readers who are Black, masc, and bi—unlearning biphobia, coming out, combatting erasure, and embodying your whole selfThrough cutting social analysis, personal stories, and need-to-know advice, Dear Bi Men reclaims bi+ visibility in a culture of erasure—and unapologetically centers...
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Wild Words: Rituals, Routines, and Rhythms for Braving the Writer's Path
A guide for the next generation of writers—self-care rituals, creativity-generating rhythms, and personalized strategies for embracing a creative lifeWild Words is an invitation to explore the intersection of your writing practice with everything else in your busy life. Through personal stories...
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1,000 Books to Read Before You Die: A Life-Changing List
Celebrate the pleasure of reading and the thrill of discovering new titles in an extraordinary book that’s as compulsively readable, entertaining, surprising, and enlightening as the 1,000-plus titles it recommends.Covering fiction, poetry, science and science fiction, memoir, travel writing, biography,...
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Nothing Special
Selected as a Top Ten Children's Book of 2022 the New York Public Library; a selection of Social Justice Books (a Teach for Change project); Winner of the 2023 Paterson Prize Books for Young People; selected by the Association for...
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Hindsight
Set in the 90s India, Hindsight traces the life of Sandhya, Surya, and Aditya at college until a horrific incident tears them asunder. Fourteen years later, set in current day USA, as India debates assault and the antiquated mindsets, Aditya...
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Someone Birthed Them Broken: Stories
A visceral and candid portrait of today’s Ghanaian youth, told in interconnected short stories by acclaimed spoken-word artist and author of the poetry collection Woman, Eat Me Whole Ama Asantewa Diaka. In this startling collection of short fiction, Ama Asantewa Diaka creates...
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The Joyful Song of the Partridge
A roiling chronicle of motherhood and colonization from a writer who “alternates between a dramatic, high-octane style and a terse and humorous frankness” (Sheila Heti)Recipient of the 2021 Camões Prize, the most important award for literature in the Portuguese languageA...
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Afterlives: A Novel
From the winner of the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature, a sweeping, multi-generational saga of displacement, loss, and love, set against the brutal colonization of east Africa.When he was just a boy, Ilyas was stolen from his parents on the...
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Seraph on the Suwanee: A Novel
This novel of turn-of-the-century white “Florida Crackers” marks a daring departure for Zora Neale Hurston, the author famous for her complex accounts of Black culture and heritage. Full of insights into the nature of love, attraction, faith, and loyalty, Seraph on...
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation: A Novel
A New York Times Bestseller“One of the most compelling protagonists modern fiction has offered in years: a loopy, quietly furious pillhead whose Ambien ramblings and Xanaxed b*tcheries somehow wend their way through sad and funny and strange toward something genuinely profound.”...
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A Kì Í: Yorùbá Proscriptive and Prescriptive Proverbs
This collection of Yoruba proverbs is the most complete and authoritative study that has ever been made available to the reading public and the scholarly community. It is written in standard modern Yoruba orthography, offering both the contracted and uncontracted...
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Requiem for Harlem (Mercy of a Rude Stream)
Completed just months before Henry Roth's death, the four-volume works of Mercy of a Rude Stream has become an epic American literary event. Here, in Requiem for Harlem, Roth tells the psychologically lacerating love story of Ira Stigman, a senior at City College,...
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Chaka
Chaka is a genuine masterpiece that represents one of the earliest major contributions from black Africa to the corpus of modern world literature. Mofolo's fictionalized life-story account of Chaka (Shaka), translated from Sesotho by D. P. Kunene, begins with the future...
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The Kebra Nagast
The Kebra Negast is the holy book of Ethiopian Christians and Jamaican Rastafarians.
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Abbeokuta Or Sunrise Within The Tropics: An Outline Of The Origin And Progress Of The Yoruba Mission (1855) paperback
Abbeokuta Or Sunrise Within The Tropics: An Outline Of The Origin And Progress Of The Yoruba Mission is a book written by Sarah Tucker and published in 1855. The book provides a comprehensive account of the Yoruba mission, which was...
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Sephora: a Hebrew Tale: Descriptive of the Country of Palestine and of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Israelites; VOL. II (hardcover)
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of...
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Sephora: a Hebrew Tale: Descriptive of the Country of Palestine and of the Manners and Customs of the Ancient Israelites; VOL. II (paperback)
Nineteenth Century Collections Online: European Literature, 1790-1840: The Corvey Collection includes the full-text of more than 9,500 English, French and German titles. The collection is sourced from the remarkable library of Victor Amadeus, whose Castle Corvey collection was one of...
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Expiration Dates: A Novel
From the New York Times bestselling author of In Five Years and One Italian Summer comes a love story that will define a generation.Being single is like playing the lottery. There’s always the chance that with one piece of paper you could win it all.Daphne Bell...
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All the Light We Cannot See: A Novel
*NOW A NETFLIX LIMITED SERIES—from producer and director Shawn Levy (Stranger Things) starring Mark Ruffalo, Hugh Laurie, and newcomer Aria Mia Loberti*Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist, the beloved instant New York Times bestseller and New York Times Book Review Top 10...
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