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Shortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022 Longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Nonfiction The Cold War was not just a contest of power. It was also about ideas, in the broadest sense – economic and political, artistic and personal. In The Free World, the acclaimed Pulitzer...

Sometimes family is found in the most unlikely of places . . . In the small college town of Troy, Alabama, amidst the backdrop of 1967, Katia Daniels lives a life steeped in responsibility. At the Pike County Group Home for Negro Boys, she pours her heart into nurturing the young lives under her...

THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'I am loving Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. Maybe my favorite novel I've read this year' John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars 'To say I love this book is an understatement. It's a deep psychological mystery about the power of motherhood, the...

The sixth Dave Robicheaux novel from SUNDAY TIMES bestselling author James Lee Burke. Hunting a sadistic killer who targets young prostitutes, Detective Dave Robicheaux has no mind to be sidetracked into persuading ex-schoolmate mobster Julie 'Baby Feet' Balboni to leave town. And it turns out...

Fern’s dream of becoming a published author is finally coming true. After years of rejection, her debut novel has sold, and she’s ready to join the supportive online community of fellow debuts. But when she discovers her high school bully, Haven, has landed a major book deal and will be debuting alongside her, old wounds reopen.

Cuando Eufrasia Vela empieza a trabajar como cuidadora de ancianos, no sospecha que su oficio la llevará a una encrucijada existencial. La íntima relación que mantiene con doña Carmen, el doctor Harrison y Los Siete Magníficos —entrañables personajes que se apoderan de su pensamiento y su cariño— la obliga a replantearse su papel de madre y hermana, las vicisitudes de la longevidad, las formas de la compasión y el sorpresivo valor que los cuyes, esos conejillos de Indias tan peculiares, adquieren en su presupuesto moral.

“Beautiful, vivid, and atmospheric.” Fiona Valpy A forgotten photograph. A trailblazing ancestor. And a modern woman about to discover that her family’s past holds the key to her future. When overworked surgeon Jaanvi Chowdhury finds a mysterious photograph and a small stack of letters...

Montgomery, Alabama. 1973. Fresh out of nursing school, Civil Townsend has big plans to make a difference in her community. She wants to help women make their own choices for their lives and bodies. But when her first week on the job takes her down a dusty country road to a tumbledown cabin and into the heart of the Williams family, Civil learns there is more to her new role than she bargained for.

Don't miss the extraordinary new novel from Sue Monk Kidd, The Book of Longings - published on 21st April 2020, and available to pre-order now. Sue Monk Kidd's internationally bestselling first novel THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES has delighted many millions of readers around the world. 'Charming...

When Ingram is forced by overwhelming poverty and spiritual exhaustion to walk away from his home, he leaves behind a neglectful childhood on a dirt farm on a dead-end road. With no family, no resources, and no practical understanding of the world, Ingram’s only compass is the daily fight to survive and the narrow dream of one day owning a truck.

The million-copy-selling No. 1 New York Times bestseller, Sunday Times Thriller of the Month, and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick 2024. Soon to be a major TV series. __________________ There's an old saying: The first lie wins... At a party with her fiancé Ryan Sumner, Evie Porter is not...

Brought to you by Penguin. How else do we return to ourselves but to fold The page so it points to the good part In this deeply intimate second poetry collection, Ocean Vuong searches for life among the aftershocks of his mother's death, embodying the paradox of sitting within grief while being...

A weight-losing recipe sends a portly Victorian housemaid literally sky-high. Mrs Next-Door, the queen of copycats, drives her patient neighbour mad with rage; the tragic tale of the ghost of Fairacre; the touch-and-go romance of Elsie Parker. In Over the Gate, Miss Read, the village schoolmistress, continues to remember odd incidents and excellent stories and to retell them with characteristic grace and compassion.

Five husbands. One book club. And enough secrets to fill a lifetime. Edna Stone, eighty-something and the reigning queen of Searcy, Arkansas, invites eight women, ages twenty to eighty-something, to talk about books. They think they're just coming for wine and paperbacks. They're wrong. The best...

Cordelia and the Chicks kick up dust as they rush to solve another murder in the charming small town of Sarsaparilla Falls, Texas, in this delightful follow-up mystery from the USA Today bestselling author of The Best Little Motel in Texas. Sarsaparilla Falls is in an uproar after its new pastor...

Mantener viva la tradición oral ha sido una de las principales labores de los escritores y eso es precisamente lo que logran los veintidós cuentos que conforman Espantos y aparecidos: Cuentos de Guatemala. Es así como encontramos en este libro a personajes como el Cadejo, la Siguanaba, la...

＜モービィ・ディック＞との遭遇をまえにして，さまざまな国籍の多岐にわたる人種をのせた，アメリカを象徴するような捕鯨船＜ピークオッド号＞の航海はつづく．ほかの船との＜出あい＞を織りまぜながら，鯨と捕鯨に関する＜百科全書的＞な博識が，倦むことなく，衒学的なまでに次から次へと開陳されていく．新訳．(全3冊)

Some monsters are not found in the dark.They live inside our thoughts.The Weight on My Chest is a haunting collection of psychological horror poetry exploring anxiety, depression, grief, trauma, self-image, and the invisible battles we fight every day.Through raw and emotional verses, these...

The poems in this book range from short and silly to longer and deeper. Some have Christian themes, some are odes to people to whom the poet is close, others are simply shallow and fun (but they rhyme!). Parts of Mother Nature are reveled in; parts of the inner self are explored. There is...

Innocence is a rare thing these days. Those who chose to be that way often experience angst and existential agony...