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Following the success of At Blackwater Pond, this second audio reccording from bestselling poet Mary Oliver contains a selection of thirty-seven previously published poems and four new, read by the poet in her steady, magnetic voice. Oliver recites from the full range of her poetry—from her...

Miles Morales as Spider-Man is a coming-of-age tale of a smart, affable teen coming into his power. From his reluctance to becoming a super hero to his desire to help others, to the rocky balance between his school life and super hero responsibilities, Miles is always at the precipice of making tough decisions—choices whose consequences are as weighted in his personal life as they often are for the survival of the world.

Young Adam, who has been raised in Harlem by his white father, George, and Black mother, Thelma, goes back to his parents' home state of Alabama to participate in the voting rights campaign, only to be brutalized in the Bloody Sunday melee. He is still recovering from this when he is struck a heavy emotional blow, learning for the first time—and in the cruelest way imaginable—of a family secret that sends him spiraling and plunging further into danger. To save him, and any hope for their relationship, Thelma is drawn back, for the first time in twenty years, to the South.

In 1939, Hitler's tyranny approaches western Poland. A prosperous Jewish family - Julius and Josefina Kohn and their two teenage children Peter and Suzanna - flee their homeland, embarking on an unexpected odyssey of 6,000 arduous miles. They evade Nazi capture, only to be arrested by the Soviets, who have invaded Poland from the east. Deported to northern Russia, they endure savage conditions during 18 months of forced labor in a prison camp, where death lurks around every corner.

WINNER OF THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD BEST YOUNG NOVELISTS AWARD 2025 WINNER OF THE KATHLEEN MITCHELL AWARD 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MILES FRANKLIN LITERARY AWARD 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE MULTICULTURAL NSW AWARD 2025 SHORTLISTED FOR THE UTS GLENDA ADAMS AWARD FOR NEW WRITING 2025 'Islanders must...

26, 211 Miles is the story of a 22-year-old as he travels for a year after graduating from college and is titled as such because that's how far the lead character needs to go in order to be able to say "I love you."

A Liu Zhenyun le llevó tres años escribir esta novela, la más grande y madura de su acervo literario. La primera parte describe el pasado: Moisés Wu salió de Yanjin para encontrar a la única persona con quien "podía hablar", su hijastra. La segunda parte narra el presente: Niu Aiguo...

Ryan Collins is isolated. A thousand miles from friends or family, his days are spent working while his nights are shared with women whose names he won’t remember, all in an attempt to drown reminders of a past prison sentence and the cynical love he abandoned years ago. Now, as he closes in on thirty, he finds his life uplifted by a career promotion and the addition of a new romantic interest. Ryan believes that these changes will lead to a life free from his past grief, but isn’t long before his idyllic life becomes upended.

La familia De Villalta, burgueses acomodados de Santa Cruz de Tenerife, recibe una carta preocupante y misteriosa en medio de la noche. Tiene que ver con los tristes eventos que han asolado a la familia en los últimos tiempos. Inés, la hija mediana, emprenderá un viaje a la península con la única intención de salvar a su familia.

The journey of a thousand miles begins with sequins and a beehive wig in this sharply funny and achingly tender debut novel about mothers, daughters, and the surprising power of Elvis. Grace Johnson can’t escape the feeling that her life is on autopilot—until her husband announces he’s...

When a woman Clark Thomas has never seen before sits down across from him in his bookstore, she gives him an invitation to dinner . . . and murder. He takes the beautiful stranger up on her offer. Her father is the host. He is a retired Hollywood music composer and lover of puzzles. What Clark doesn’t know is that someone wants the host dead, and the host wants Clark to figure out who before it’s too late.

Complete and unabridged, and read with meticulous care, in this story Miles Standish and John Alden both seek the hand of the fair Priscilla. See the Mayflower abandon the first settlers as it returns to England. Feel the heated vision of the Indians, perpetually keeping their watch in the dark forest. Love and adventure collide in one of Longfellow's most famous works