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I never asked for a younger brother. The house smelled different after he arrived, and that backpack made my skin crawl: dead rabbits, a squirrel, maybe something else... I tried to go along with it and act like everything was just fine.But deep down inside, I was terrified to close my eyes at...

The year is 1889. Set in a small Louisiana parish, deep in the segregated South, Rootwork follows school-age sisters, Betty, Ann, and Pee Wee during one life-changing summer when the three of them head off to stay with their hoodoo-practicing aunt, Theodora, a powerful woman feared by the local...

Ugly divorce. Messy ex. An earthquake. Will they get in the way of true love's possibility? Rhiyan Carson has had a rough go of it lately. After her divorce, she's nearly fired from her job as an executive at a prestigious architectural firm. In an effort to get away and start fresh, she takes a...

Experience an intimate, three-part journey through the foster care system. This compelling series captures the full spectrum of the experience—from tumultuous challenges to triumphant moments. It is an essential, inspiring resource for educators, counselors, and anyone connected to the foster...

Can US Marine Ty Johnson keep a young reporter alive long enough to uncover a gruesome secret hidden deep in the Florida Everglades?Nominated for the 2020 International Thriller Writers Award.Retired US Marine Ty Johnson is hired as the bodyguard for a young reporter investigating the brutal...

Sparked by an indigo sun, Nat Turner stormed into history with a sword in one hand and a Bible in the other. Thirty years before the advent of the Civil War—in the predawn hours of August 22, 1831, commanding a small army of slaves, Nat Turner led a bloody fight for freedom that shined a...

Bigger Thomas, the central figure in Richard Wright’s novel Native Son (1940), eludes easy categorization. A violent and troubled character who rejects the rules of society, Bigger is both victim and perpetrator, damaged by racism and segregation on the South Side of Chicago, seemingly raping and killing without regrets. His story has electrified readers for more than eight decades, and it continues to galvanize debates around representation, respectability, social justice, and racism in American life.

Aspiring comedian Abi has always been told that she’s too much, but never felt like enough. Until she meets Will, who changes everything she’s been made to believe by men, the media and her mum. He loves her just the way she is. But Will is a package deal and comes with two daughters from a previous relationship. Suddenly Abi finds herself thrown into the spotlight, and not just on the stage… Abi is used to playing to difficult audiences, but step-parenting, and winning over the girls, is going to be her toughest challenge yet.

Bound by fate, torn by pride—nothing will keep me from claiming what's mine. Torin Fifteen years have passed since Meekah of Zohar Pride took Nala away from me. My fated mate, my reason for breathing. The separation was necessary—she needed to learn control over her lion—but the loss has...

శివ ట్రయాలజితో ప్రపంచప్రసిద్ధి గాంచిన అమిష్ త్రిపాఠి రచించిన అద్భుతమైన పుస్తకం- "ధర్మ" ఆధునిక పాఠకుడి...

ಅವಿಭಜಿತ ಪಂಜಾಬಿನ ಒಂದು ನಗರದಲ್ಲಿ, ಹಂದಿಯನ್ನು ಕೊಲ್ಲಲು ನಾಥ್ ಎಂಬ ಟ್ಯಾನರ್ ಲಂಚ ಪಡೆದಿದ್ದಾನೆ. ಮರುದಿನ ಬೆಳಿಗ್ಗೆ ಸ್ಥಳೀಯ...

The Secret Lives of Church Ladies explores the raw and tender places where Black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and passions.  

Brought to you by Penguin. A dark and witty work of hardboiled detective fiction set in the mean streets of New York, Chester Himes's A Rage in Harlem includes an introduction by Luc Sante in Penguin Modern Classics. Jackson's woman has found him a foolproof way to make money - a technique for...

चारशे वर्षांपूर्वी संत कवी तुलसीदासांनी अवधी भाषेमध्ये हनुमान चालीसाची रचना केली. देवदत्त पट्टनायकांनी यातील...

From the author of Sisters in Arms comes the incredible, untold story of Effa Manley, a black businesswoman in the male dominated baseball industry, and, currently, the only woman inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame. 1930s, New York City An ambitious Harlem woman’s husband upends her...

A 2025 Audie Awards WINNER | A WOMAN EVOLVE BOOK CLUB PICK | A NORTH CAROLINA READS PICK | A Christy Award WINNER | A 2024 American Fiction Award WINNER | Best Historical Fiction of 2024 (She Reads) | FEATURED IN GMA, WASHINGTON POST, AND ESSENCE | There is only one known queen who truly ruled a...

Brought to you by Penguin. Jade isn't even my real name. Jade began as my Starbucks name, because all children of immigrants have a Starbucks name. Jade has done all the right things. She's curated herself to fit right in at her law firm, but tells herself she has no choice. She's with a man who...

Sometimes the power of love . . . A.J. Grayson has come a long way from adopted orphan to fast-rising executive at a cutting-edge technology firm. Now an anti-terrorist agency wants to use the revolutionary artificial intelligence system she developed to thwart a plot against Jafir's...

সাবির ও চিত্রা দুজন ছিল গাড়িতে। হঠাৎ বিয়েবাড়ির গাড়ি থেকে নেমে দাঁড়ালো চারজন অজানা ব্যক্তি। একজন ঝাটকা দিয়ে...

Fresh off the success of her groundbreaking first play, A Raisin in the Sun, Lorraine Hansberry's The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window tells the tragicomic story of a young bohemian couple in New York's Greenwich Village, struggling to do what's right in a world that rewards everything that's wrong. Sidney is a dreamer who wants his own Walden Pond; Iris is a budding actress whose own backstory is a performance. They're caught in a moment where, "the world is about to crack right down the middle," as the play tackles racism, sexism, antisemitism, homophobia, liberal complacency, and more.