In Count the Ways: A Novel, bestselling author Joyce Maynard follows the arc of the lives of Eleanor and Cam. From their meeting at a crafts fair in Vermont in the early 1970s, to having three children and a family life of softball games in the summer, snow days by the fire, and small traditions …
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Set in Vienna from 1910 to 1946, Beatrice Hitchman’s All Of You Every Single One: A Novel explores – through the lives of its queer characters in one of the greatest cities of the age – what it’s like living through oppression, how personal decisions become political, and how far one will go to protect …
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Coconut trees. Carnival. Rum and Coke. To outsiders, these idyllic images represent the so-called easy life in Caribbean nations such as Trinidad and Tobago. For those who live there the reality is very different, and in Pleasantview: A Novel in Stories, Trinidadian lawyer-turned-writer Celeste Mohammed reveals a society where poverty and patriarchy savagely rule – …
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Fernando Butazzoni, narrador, ensayista, periodista, guionista cinematográfico y dramaturgo uruguayo, presenta Las cenizas del Cóndor, novela inspirada en acontecimientos reales ocurridos en Uruguay, Chile y Argentina durante las dictaduras militares. Conversa con el autor Julián Ubiría, director editorial de Penguin Random House Uruguay.
Robert Jones Jr.’s The Prophets – his debut novel – tells the story of Samuel and Isaiah, slaves whose love creates a refuge in a world ruled by vicious masters. But when an older man, a fellow slave, seeks to gain favor by preaching the master’s gospel on the plantation, the enslaved begin to turn on …
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After three books, Anthony Horowitz, the central character in Anthony Horowitz’s The Twist of a Knife: A Novel splits from ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne. He has a new play opening in London’s West End to attend to. But when Sunday Times critic Margaret Throsby pans the production and then winds up stabbed in the heart with …
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Nikki May’s debut novel, Wahala: A Novel, follows three Anglo Nigerian best friends. Ronke, who wants happily ever after and 2.2. kids, is dating Kayode, who her friends think is just another in a long line of dodgy Nigerian boyfriends. Boo, who has everything Ronke wants but is frustrated, unfulfilled, plagued by guilt, and desperate …
This first and only YA biography of the great American novelist and humanist comes out on the 100th anniversary of his birth. Kurt Vonnegut, author of Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat’s Cradle, and many other brilliant novels and short stories, is one of our greatest American writers. Born in 1922, Vonnegut’s life was full …
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Tres autoras argentinas que vienen pisando fuerte en el mapa literario: Mariana Sández, narradora, periodista y ensayista, presenta Una casa llena de gente, relato que se sumerge en los espacios privados y comunes de un edificio y sus habitantes para reconstruir una memoria personal y colectiva. Periodista y escritora, Dolores Gil llega con Parte de …
Set in Amsterdam in 1705, Jessie Burton’s The House Fortune: A Novel follows Thea Brandt, a young Dutch African woman coming of age as she’s trying to grapple with her family’s secrets and her own identity. This is a novel about love and obsession, family and loyalty, and the fantastic power of secrets. Joining to …
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Alan Moore is widely regarded as the best and most influential writer in the history of comics. Illuminations: Stories is his first short story collection and spans 40 years of his work. In "A Hypothetical Lizard," two concubines in a brothel of fantastical specialists fall in love with tragic ramifications. In "Not Even Legend," a …
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In Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch: A Novel, Rivka Galchen tells the story of Katharina Kepler, an illiterate widow living in a small town in the German duchy of Württemberg in 1618 who is accused of being a witch. And as the tale of a community becoming implicated in collective aggression and hysterical …
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