Literature
Literature
Remarkably Bright Creatures: A Read with Jenna Pick
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Read With Jenna Today Show Book Club Pick! NAMED A BEST BOOK OF SUMMER by: Chicago Tribune * The View * Southern Living * USA Today “Remarkably Bright Creatures [is] an ultimately feel-good but deceptively sensitive debut. ....
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their stories are better than the bestsellers
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The Secret Lives of Booksellers and Librarians: Their stories are better than the bestsellers
This “celebration of the world of books” (Kirkus) is filled with true stories from the booksellers and librarians—the superheroes of reading—as told to the greatest storyteller of our time, James Patterson. To be a bookseller or librarian… You have to play detective. Be...
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James: A Novel
A brilliant, action-packed reimagining of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, both harrowing and ferociously funny, told from the enslaved Jim's point of view. • From the “literary icon” (Oprah Daily), Pulitzer Prize Finalist, and one of the most decorated writers of our...
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We Were the Lucky Ones
The New York Times bestseller with more than 1 million copies sold worldwide | Now a Hulu limited series starring Joey King and Logan LermanInspired by the incredible true story of one Jewish family separated at the start of World War II,...
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Why Do You Dance When You Walk
One morning in Paris on the way to kindergarten, a little girl asks her father “Papa, why do you dance when you walk?” The question is innocent and serious. Why does her father limp, why can’t he ride a bicycle...
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When We Speak of Nothing
Best mates Karl and Abu are both 17 and live near King’s Cross. It’s 2011 and racial tensions are set to explode across London. Abu is infatuated with gorgeous classmate Nalini but dares not speak to her. Meanwhile, Karl is...
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A Small Silence
Prof is an ex-prisoner, activist and retired academic, who resolves to live a life of darkness after his release from prison. He holes up in his apartment, pushing away friends and family, and embraces his status as an urban legend...
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Nairobi Noir
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o anchors this truly fascinating first East African installment in the Akashic Noir Series.Akashic Books continues its award-winning series of original noir anthologies, launched in 2004 with Brooklyn Noir. Each book comprises all new stories, each one set in...
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A Mind to Silence and other stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2021-22
A woman who carries her fate and that of her community in her hair is beguiled by the deceptive designs of Europeans out to colonize her most prized possession. A man finds happiness in the reincarnation of a lost love....
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A Man Who Is Not A Man
A Man Who Is Not A Man recounts the personal trauma of a young Xhosa initiate after a rite-of-passage circumcision goes wrong. With frankness and courage, this powerful novel details the pain and lifelong shame this protagonist experiences as a...
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Like Water Like Sea
LIKE WATER LIKE SEA is an immersive novel of self-discovery, resilience, and the unifying power of love. It follows the life of Nia, a queer, bi/pansexual naturopath in London, as her life unfolds across three pivotal moments, spanning from her...
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Like a Mule Bringing Ice Cream to the Sun
Dr. Morayo Da Silva is one of the most memorable characters you are likely to encounter on the page intelligent, indomitable, author and survivor of a large life. In dreamlike prose, Manyika dips in and out of her present,...
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The Lazarus Effect: A Vee Johnson Mystery
A gripping new addition to the African crime genre, from a talented debut author. Vee Johnson is an investigative journalist for the Cape Town magazine Urban. When she spots a photo of a familiar-looking girl at a local hospital, Vee launches...
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Lagos Noir
West Africa enters the Noir Series arena, meticulously edited by one of Nigeria's best-known authors. “This anthology stands out because of its unique approach to crime and punishment, and its intense focus on the sociological aspects of crime in one...
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Born on a Tuesday: A Novel (paperback)
From two-time Caine Prize finalist Elnathan John, a dynamic young voice from Nigeria, Born on a Tuesday is a stirring, starkly rendered first novel about a young boy struggling to find his place in a society that is fracturing along religious and...
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Avenues By Train (Hardcover)
When seven-year-old Jedza witnesses a tragic incident involving a train and the death of his close boyhood friend in his hometown Miner’s Drift, he is convinced that his life is haunted. Now in his mid-20s, Jedza is a down-and-out electrician,...
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Addis Ababa Noir
Addis Ababa is a sprawling melting pot of cultures where rich and poor live side by side in relative harmony―until they don't. Maaza Mengiste’s story “Dust, Ash, Flight” has won the 2021 Edgar Award for Best Short Story, presented by the...
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Accra Noir
Accra joins Lagos, Nairobi, Marrakech, and Addis Ababa in representing the African continent in the Noir Series arena. “Superb . . . Each story reaffirms how fundamental ‘place’ is to the noir genre and how the locale shapes the story...
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Surprise Party
Samantha is planning a spectacular party for her husband’s birthday. It would be great, she thinks, if she could go back over Marty’s life, find the people who’ve meant the most to him, and bring them to the party. But...
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The Count of Monte Cristo: Book Two: Volumes III, IV & V
Embark on a spellbinding journey through the labyrinthine twists of revenge, love, and redemption in Alexandre Dumas' timeless saga, "The Count of Monte Cristo." This epic tale, divided into two volumes, introduces Edmond Dantès, a young sailor betrayed by envy...
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The Count of Monte Cristo: Book One: Volumes I & II
Embark on a spellbinding journey through the labyrinthine twists of revenge, love, and redemption in Alexandre Dumas' timeless saga, "The Count of Monte Cristo." This epic tale, divided into two volumes, introduces Edmond Dantès, a young sailor betrayed by envy...
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The Parenthood Dilemma
Our Culture Magazine Best Book of 2023“Rushton's work is generous, thoughtful, and honest, taking care neither to romanticize nor to disparage the choice to become a parent.”—Jenny Hamilton, Booklist (starred review)A bold feminist investigation into the mother of all questions; whether or not...
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Forbidden Notebook
“Powerful.” —The New Yorker“Brilliant.” —The Wall Street Journal"Astounding." —NPRNow in paperback, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, New Statesmen Best Book of the Year, and Mother Jones favorite book of the year, Forbidden Notebook is a classic domestic novel by the Italian-Cuban feminist writer Alba...
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Emergency
For readers of Rachel Cusk and Jenny Odell, a lyrical work of autofiction that explores the dissolution of boundaries between the self and our earth as we head towards ecological catastrophe.“Emergency is an incisive kaleidoscope of past and present, nature and...
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Do You Remember Being Born?
A Best Book of 2023 - Marie Claire, Inside Hook, Our Culture Magazine, WIRED"[A] timely and lovely new novel." —Lincoln Michel, The New York Times Book Review"A compassionate and lyrical portrait . . . Do You Remember Being Born? far outshines its peers." —Terry Nguyen, Boston...
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Deceit
“This is . . . real literature, pure and honest.”—Vladimir Nabokov"The scintillating English-language debut from Felsen . . . [is] a fittingly volatile record of ruinous desire. —Publishers WeeklyOnce considered the 'Russian Proust', Yuri Felsen tells the story of an obsessive love...
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Astra Magazine, Filth (Issue 2)
Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra Magazine connects readers and writers from New York to Mexico City, Lagos to Berlin, Copenhagen to Singapore...
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Astra Magazine, Ecstasy (Issue 1)
Astra Magazine is the new literary magazine of the moment, a must-read for anyone interested in the most vital contemporary literature from around the world. Astra Magazine connects readers and writers from New York to Mexico City, Lagos to Berlin, Copenhagen to Singapore...
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Writing Rumba: The Afrocubanista Movement in Poetry
Arising in the heyday of the music recently made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club, afrocubanismo was an artistic and intellectual movement in Cuba in the 1920s and 1930s that tried to convey a national and racial identity. Through...
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Writing Rumba: The Afro-Cubanista Movement in Poetry
Arising in the heyday of the music recently made famous by the Buena Vista Social Club, afrocubanismo was an artistic and intellectual movement in Cuba in the 1920s and 1930s that tried to convey a national and racial identity. Through...
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