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Essie Chambers
What if the price of moving forward is losing the only family you've ever known?
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Elif Shafak
The new novel from the Booker-shortlisted, internationally bestselling author of The Island of Missing Trees and 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World.
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Anna Downes
The dangerous thrills of solo travel come into focus in this full-throttle twist on outback noir by the bestselling author of The Safe Place and The Shadow House.
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Ann Liang
A love story that transcends time and place.
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Fourth annual edition of the best-selling New York City Almanac. Includes all-new content from cover to cover, and doubles as a mini planner: each week with its own page, and…
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Yoko Tawada, Susan Bernofsky (trans.)
The highly anticipated new novel from award-winning, critically acclaimed novelist Yoko Tawada.
Brigitta Olubas (ed.), Susan Wyndham (ed.)
Two extraordinary writers, one difficult mother and a vanished literary world.
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Sunita Kumar Nair
Long blonde hair, an iconic red lip, and effortless style-all signatures of fashion icon Carolyn Bessette Kennedy. Carolyn used fashion as her medium. She hadn't found her voice yet in…
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Susan Sontag's Tangential Classics examines the role the Greco-Roman classics play in Susan Sontag's intellectual and literary achievement. The collected chapters consider Sontag as a case of a thinker in…
This volume is the first published selection of the writings of Susan Stebbing (1885-1943, an important figure in the development of analytic philosophy. Siobhan Chapman provides notes and an introduction…
Bronwyn Rivers
They'll wish they never went back . . . Force of Nature meets The Hunting Party in this tense, atmospheric thriller set in the isolated bush of the Blue Mountains.
River Adams
Dinah would be dancing lead roles with the famous Kirov ballet, but growing antisemitism threatens her career and her life, forcing her to flee to Philadelphia, which seems like her…
Carolyn Goodwin
Play is the key to learning. The Read + Play series of books harnesses the power of literature through the innovation of play.
Carolyn MacDonald
Encounters with Greek Art sheds new light on the invention of ancient identities by focusing on encounters between viewers and artworks swept to Italy on the tides of Roman imperialism…
Carolyn Ramzy
These poems by an author of Coptic (Egyptian Christian Orthodox) daughter of immigrants, depict, explore, and question the burden of Taslim ("Commandments") on Coptic girls.
Carolyn Dailey
Ten creative icons share advice and wisdom for building a successful business and a blueprint for achieving your goals.
An essential guide on how to build and run a creative…
Carolyn Jack
With his father dead, a gifted, fourteen-year-old pianist finds himself sent away from his Caribbean home against his will, to study classical music in the U.S. with a family friend…
Carolyn Day
Remembering Anne Beach explores illness, love, and scandal in eighteenth-century Britain through the eyes of one doomed couple.
Carolyn Wright
The Ready, Steady, Grow! Activity Book provides further practice and consolidation of the Pupil's Book vocabulary, language, and skills. It includes more personalisation activities and a range of activities to…
Carolyn Click
On August 13, 1946, George Elmore arrived at his regular polling place in Columbia, South Carolina. He requested a ballot to vote in the Democratic Party primary but was turned…
Carolyn Mackler
From the award-winning, bestselling author of Not If I Can Help It, a story about reaching across time to find the support you need against bullies, bad friends, and antisemitism.
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"This is a handbook of incalculable brilliance. You'll instinctively know the lessons that resonate with you." Nile Rodgers
"I wish I had this book years ago when I started my…
Carolyn Schlam
"Find Even More Joy in Exploring and Appreciating Art, Guided by an Award-Winning Artist's Insights. Perhaps the best quality of art is that it challenges presumptions and forces a second…
Carolyn Korsmeyer
In contemporary Buffalo, Dan's world is upended when he unearths a young woman's skeleton while replacing the gas main in a city neighborhood. Using the meager clues available, he and…
Carolyn Keene
Nancy investigates a string of accidents at the theater in the twenty-sixth Nancy Drew Diaries.
Nancy investigates a string of accidents at the theater in the twenty-sixth Nancy Drew Diaries, a fresh approach to a classic series.
When Ned is cast in a stage production…
Carolyn Huynh
From the author of the "sharp, smart, and gloriously extra" (Nancy Jooyoun Kim, New York Times bestselling author) Good Morning America Book Club Pick The Fortunes of Jaded Women, a…
Carolyn Dever
Why a monumental diary by an aunt and niece who published poetry together as 'Michael Field' - and who were partners and lovers for decades - is one of the…
Carolyn Boyd
'A perfect balance of history, food, anecdotes and recommendations ... Carolyn's enthusiasm for French gastronomy is legendary' Michel Roux Jr
'Wondrous, witty, delicious and fun. Every page made me hungry'…
Carolyn Forster
20 stunning, quick-and-easy one-patch quilt designs with full-size templates included.
Carolyn Sharp
Let's face it-modern life is stressful. With constant demands on your time and attention, it's not surprising that you've neglected what used to be your North Star: your relationship. You…
Connor B
In this graphic novel debut, Connor B. uses absurdist dark humor to craft a hilarious queer enemies-to-something-more story perfect for fans of The Addams Family.
Susan Lomond must be defeated…
Laura Vinogradova
Winner of the 2021 European Union Prize for Literature
Sis, I want to tell you about the river. About me in the river. It makes me shiver, tremble. It makes…
Aube Rey Lescure
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE
"Smart, confident storytelling. . . has perceptive things to say about the explosion of wealth in China and the fraught, totemic influence Americans have on…
Carolyn Ridder Aspenson
Find my killer.
Rachel Ryder's world is catapulted into chaos with the discovery of a dire note on her front door begging her to solve the murder of former MLB…
Carolyn Marie Souaid
Set in Montreal, Ottawa and Nunavik (Northern Quebec), Looking for Her explores the intersecting lives of women in search of themselves. Cate, 43, is a university professor in an unfulfilling…
Carolyn Lee Adams
Emma Montgomery has been experiencing nightmares of gruesome murders. In fact, all of the students in Dr. Beecher's secret society have been having terrible dreams and sleepwalking. Now, as their…
A spine-tingling debut thriller about the ultimate game of cat and mouse as a teen struggles to hold onto hope, and her sanity, while attempting to escape a cunning and…
Carolyn Handler Miller
Digital Storytelling: A Creator's Guide to Interactive Entertainment 5th edition delves into the fascinating and groundbreaking stories enabled by interactive digital media, examining both fictional and non-fiction narratives.
Shelley Read
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
Colorado Public Radio 2023 Books We Love
"Beautiful . . . A striking first novel of love and strength and growth, set against the forests and rivers of…
Michael Skafidas
A lavishly illustrated volume is the authoritative biography of a consummate self-portraitist and a riveting depiction of a paradoxical personality.
Frank Bures
Tales of ambition, terror, rivalry, adventure, endurance, friendship, and love on the waters of the Mississippi River and beyond.
In this collection, award-winning writer Frank Bures tells true stories as…
Kurt D Fausch
In A Reverence for Rivers, Kurt Fausch draws on his experience as a stream ecologist, his interest in Indigenous cultures, and a thoughtful consideration of environmental ethics to explore human…
Steve Nicholls
An evocative and richly informative account of a journey along the river Tees, presenting its valley as a microcosm of an environmentally damaged and endangered world.
Liz Kellebrew
The River People by Liz Kellebrew is a haunting and lyrical exploration of 19th-century westward expansion into the Pacific Northwest. Through the intertwined journeys of Marilla, John, and Walter-each navigating…
Robert Macfarlane
From the celebrated writer, observer and naturalist Robert Macfarlane comes a brilliant, perspective-shifting new book, which answers a resounding "yes" to the question of its title.
At the heart of…
Benjamin Morris
Drifting along the Mississippi Gulf Coast, The Singing River asks what can be saved in a place of shifting landscapes and ancient memory. Benjamin Morris' debut collection meditates on the…
