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Lan Samantha Chang
A modern classic of American fiction: a haunting collection of stories that explore the lost loves and complex desires of Chinese-American immigrant families
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Roxane Gay
From the New York Times bestselling author of Bad Feminist: a searingly honest memoir of food, weight, self-image, and learning how to feed your hunger while taking care of yourself.
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Volunteer as tribute for a year full of some of the best moments from the Hunger Games. Based on the best-selling books by Suzanne Collins, the fil trilogy starring Jennifer…
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Dana Simmons
A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.
In this book, Dana Simmons explores…
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Choi Jin-young
ROMEO & JULIET meets THE VEGETARIAN in the cult classic phenomenon that sold half a million copies - by one of Korea's best literary authors
Phoebe Farag Mikhail
"Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled." Matthew 5:6
How do we hunger for righteousness? Readers are given a fresh opportunity to reconsider…
Paul Richards
Originally published in 1986, Coping with Hunger demonstrates that effective agricultural development in resource-poor regions must be based in a respect for the indigenous farmer's understanding of the environment. The…
Zahran Alqasmi
A breathtaking novel of longing, uncertainty, and ultimately of hope, written by an International Prize for Arabic Fiction-winning author and an International Booker-prize winning translator
Azzan is a beekeeper in…
Christine Wu
b>Poems that reckon with identity, race, and fractured relationships through the lens of food.
Bittersweet, numbingly spicy, herbal and milky, Familial Hungersis a lyric feast. Ginger scallion fish, Sichuan peppercorns…
Jessica Turcat
Hunger House is a single author chapbook of poetry celebrating the interaction of women with the rural isolation of the Midwest in the USA. Hunger House is the 2023 Winner…
Judson Brewer
A neuroscience-based programme proven to heal our relationship with food and our bodies, from the world-renowned addiction psychiatrist and New York Times bestselling author of Unwinding Anxiety.
Helene J. Sinnreich
During World War II, German racial policy designated Jews 'useless eaters', and denied them sufficient food for survival. This book reveals how the hunger which resulted from this intentional starvation…
Nicholas Pullen
A spine-tingling, queer gothic horror debut where two men are drawn into an otherworldly spiral, and a journey that will only end when they reach the darkest part of the…
Mansel G. Blackford
Land Hunger narrates a history of frontiers in the Ohio Country, the Great Plains, and the Oregon Country. It examines how Native Americans, African Americans, and Euro Americans interacted on…
Taylor Robin
A specter is haunting the Atlantic!
After growing up together on the luxurious SS Lark, Neeta Pandey and Emery Botwright are ready to start their lives. Emery wants to follow…
Suzanne Collins
In a dark vision of the near future, twelve boys and twelve girls are forced to appear in a live TV show called the Hunger Games. There is only one…
Paul C. Vitz
Renowned psychologist Paul Vitz addresses the troubling fact that scientific progress is no longer making human beings happy. In fact, the reverse trend is taking hold: individuals are more distressed…
A stunning deluxe edition of The Hunger Games, the international bestseller! This paperback edition features gorgeous sprayed edges with stenciled artwork and an iconic new cover. This is a breathtaking…
As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honour of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be…
Besha Rodell
The phenomenal fifth book in the Hunger Games series!
When you've been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?
As the day dawns…
Katniss Everdeen has survived the Hunger Games twice. But she's still not safe. A revolution is unfolding, and everyone, it seems, has had a hand in the carefully laid plans…
A stunning deluxe edition of Mockingjay, book three in the Hunger Games series! This paperback edition features gorgeous sprayed edges with stenciled artwork and an iconic new cover. This is…
After winning the brutal Hunger Games, Katniss and Peeta return to their district, hoping for a peaceful future. But their victory has caused rebellion to break out ... and the…
Coriolanus Snow has one shot at glory as a mentor in the tenth annual Hunger Games. He plans to outcharm, outwit and outmanoeuvre his fellow students to mentor the winning…
A stunning deluxe edition of Catching Fire, book two in the Hunger Games series! This paperback edition features gorgeous sprayed edges with stenciled artwork and an iconic new cover. This…
A stunning deluxe edition of The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes! This paperback edition features gorgeous sprayed edges with stenciled artwork and an iconic new cover. This is a breathtaking…
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Lili Wilkinson
Be swept up in this brilliant witchy tale about forbidden magic and missing girls who don't need handsome princes to rescue them.
Kresley Cole
A stunning brand new edition of a bestselling classic in paranormal romance, featuring a vampire and werewolf fated mates romance, for fans of Ali Hazelwood's Bride.
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John Schu
A powerful, authentic verse novel exploring a teen boy’s experience with disordered eating, charting the successes and setbacks of his journey toward recovery.
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Even at the age of sixteen, Katniss Everdeen knows it takes hard work, keen observation, and inner fortitude to survive in the world. Her home, District 12, is under the…
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G. Willow Wilson, Chris Wildgoose
Hugo- and World Fantasy Award-winning writer G. Willow Wilson (Ms. Marvel, Wonder Woman, Poison Ivy) and all-star artist Chris Wildgoose invite readers to experience love on the brink of extinction…
Lisa Knopp
When the restrictive eating that left Lisa Knopp sick when she was young returned in midlife, she embarked on a quest to understand her malady and how to heal herself…
Bonny Reichert
A moving culinary memoir about the relationship between food and family-sustenance and survival-from a chef, award-winning journalist, and daughter of a Holocaust survivor.
"Beautifully written, heartbreaking and hopeful."-Ruth Reichl, New…
Nathan F. Alleman, Cara Cliburn Allen, Sarah Madsen
How exceptional low-income students navigate and pursue opportunity in prestige-oriented universities at the personal cost of hunger.
Beneath the veneer of prestige and promise, a hidden issue pervades the campuses…
Emmeline Clein
Fusing memoir and cultural history, this is an essential exploration of disordered eating in the internet era.
Stephanie Land
From the New York Times bestselling author who inspired the hit Netflix series about a struggling mother barely making ends meet as a housecleaner — a gripping memoir about college…
Juan Verastegui Vasquez
It is an obligatory and unavoidable prelude to state that in our glorious and extraordinary Inca Empire there was never HUNGER and, even less, INFANTILE MALNUTRITION, moreover, there was enough…
Rebecca Rivard
A steamy vampire mafia romance set in Rebecca Rivard's award-wining Vampire Syndicate world
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Knut Hamsun, Tore Rem, Terence Cave
Hunger is the first-person story of a young man desperately trying to establish himself in the city as a writer, living in shabby lodgings where he can seldom afford to…
Michael Grant
Welcome back to the FAYZ! This is Book 2 in the series that Stephen King calls a ‘driving, torrential narrative’.
