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'Truly extraordinary books are rare, and this is one of them' – Roddy Doyle 'His [Dominic Hofman] performance is terrific: variously wry, poignant and thoughtful as he imbues Jim with the humanity and agency denied to him by Twain' – The Guardian, Audiobook of the Week James is a profound...

Ashira, a belle from the suburbs, is the wealthy acting CEO of her father’s booming building firm. That's when she’s not the dancer on the Gram and TikTok, dating the latest Black Hollywood shooting star. To her, Jas, a construction laborer, is a walking conundrum. He’s fruitlessly ambitious yet steadfast in his spiritual convictions. He’s enigmatic, well-read, regimented, and poor. Oh, and a felon. An incredibly disarming parolee who wants no connection to her. Until he does.

Honey Williams doesn’t trust men. Between her father and last lover, a part of her struggles with resenting the entire species. She’s spent the past six months hidden in the safety of her parents’s home hoping her kind heart will never be the cause of pain and misfortune again. That seems possible until a cranky client causes chaos … which leads to her meeting Mr. Librarian.

From the Booker-prize shortlisted author of Erasure, adapted into the Oscar-winning film American Fiction 'This is the work of an American master at the peak of his powers' – Financial Times Enthralling and ferociously funny, James by Percival Everett is a profound meditation on identity...

‘Everyone’s life begins on a level where races, armies, and churches stop. And yet everyone’s life is always shaped by races, churches, and armies’ In these eight extraordinary stories of love, conflict, desperation and fear, James Baldwin shows people trapped by the roles they must play...

Femte bind i den populære krimiserie med kriminalkommissær Roy Grace, der foregår i en af Englands travleste politikredse omkring Brighton på den engelske sydkyst. Liget af en teenager bliver fundet i havet ud for Brighton, og politiet må til deres forfærdelse konstatere, at drengen er...

« Ces gamins blancs, Huck et Tom, m’observaient. Ils imaginaient toujours des jeux dans lesquels j’étais soit le méchant soit une proie, mais à coup sûr leur jouet. [...] On gagne toujours à donner aux Blancs ce qu’ils veulent. » Qui est James ? Le jeune esclave illettré qui a fui...

It turned out that my music had never left me. It had been stolen, yes, but not stolen away. I had simply never been free to play it . . . When Arthur Champion, a gifted young music scholar, is sent away to war, he experiences the horrors of the Somme trenches. Surviving the slaughter, he begins...

Having earned starred reviews and a fervent following for her urban Christian fiction, Leslie J. Sherrod delivers the first in a riveting new series. In Losing Hope, Sienna St. James thinks she’s finally close to getting over her long-lost, globetrotting husband. Or so she thinks. One Tuesday, everything begins to come apart when a succession of strange events - including the mystery surrounding a girl named Hope - brings her past, present, and future into question.

Heading to her nursing school graduation with a heart full of bruises didn't exactly feel like the beginning of a happily ever after to Graysen Charles. All she knew was after the past few years, she was ready for a fresh start. Doctor Jameer St. John is everything she should avoid. He's...

‘American literature’s philosopher king – and its sharpest satirist’ – The New Yorker In Watershed, Percival Everett, author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel James, turns his focus once again to the injustices of recent American history, exploring the relationship between Native...

A searing indictment of racial injustice in America - inspired by the life and work of James Baldwin - to help us understand the present moment and imagine a new future into being. The struggles of Black Lives Matter and the attempt to achieve a new America have been challenged by the presidency of Donald Trump, a president whose time in the White House represents the latest failure of America to face the lies it tells itself about race.

Jaxon Daniels was supposed to be my forever. I've loved him since I was thirteen years old, and like a foolish little girl, I believed that our love would carry us through everything. Every challenge. Every obstacle. Every heartbreak. But that was before I knew anything about pain and the challenge of overcoming crushing disappointment. Before I knew that loving someone doesn't always mean you get to have them, sometimes it means you have to let them go. Now, thanks to my sister marrying his brother at a romantic resort in Mexico, he's back in my orbit.

She was the star that the world adored. He was the protector she didn't know she needed. She sang about love. He didn't believe the hype. One night changed everything, bringing them one step closer to destroying everything. Carteay Hoyt is one of the biggest names in R&B. She's beautiful. She's...

Chandler Hammond's wife says he and his hot Iraqi girlfriend skipped out of their Maine town of Finderne with his company's millions. But his sister thinks his wife murdered him and hires detective James Early and his teenage son Tikki to find the truth. A Scandal at Crystalline follows them through an intriguing maze of unexpected encounters: financial shenanigans, two beautiful women who were sleeping with each other (and with Chandler Hammond), a police psychic, and a runaway kid in a remote mountain cabin.

Ten years ago, Ayva Lenox did something she never does: she stopped planning and said yes. A Bentley arrived. A stranger waited. And for two days, she remembered what it meant to feel alive. Now, success surrounds her, but satisfaction does not. Between company launches and late-night loneliness...

“Masterfully flips the first installment on its head... James makes the mythic tantalizingly real.’” —Esquire "Even more brilliant than the first.” —Buzzfeed An Instant New York Times Bestseller and NPR Best Book of 2022 pick From Marlon James, author of the bestselling National Book...

After Crew learns that his newest enemy is much closer than he ever imagined, he's forced into a war between what his heart wants and what his mind is telling him. While dealing with Gio, he doesn't realize the real threat has already struck, with Pernelle being taken by enemies who plan to hurt...

For the past year, Evonne "Vonnie" Ross has been living with the man she thought she would spend the rest of her life with. As she likes to tell her friends, he checks all of her boxes. Her man is handsome, successful, and takes pride in being a provider. When Vonnie's skilled hand at makeup...

Jim spielt den Dummen. Es wäre zu gefährlich, wenn die Weißen wüssten, wie intelligent und gebildet er ist. Als man ihn nach New Orleans verkaufen will, flieht er mit Huck gen Norden in die Freiheit. Auf dem Mississippi jagt ein Abenteuer das nächste: Stürme, Überschwemmungen, Begegnungen mit Betrügern und Blackface-Sängern. Immer wieder muss Jim mit seiner Schwarzen Identität jonglieren, um sich und seinen jugendlichen Freund zu retten. Percival Everetts »James« ist einer der maßgeblichen Romane unserer Zeit, eine unerhörte Provokation, die an den Grundfesten des amerikanischen Mythos rüttelt.