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WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016 AMAZON.COM #1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AND A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR SHORTLISTED FOR THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 'Whitehead is on a roll: the reviews have been sublime' Guardian...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time Ralph Elllison's Invisible Man is a monumental novel, one that can well be called an epic of modern American Negro life. It is a strange story, in which many extraordinary things happen, some of them shocking and brutal...

Bloomsbury presents Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid, read by Nicole Lewis. ‘Essential. This year’s hit debut' – Guardian ‘A biting tale of race and class’ – Sunday Times 'I couldn't put this down' – Jojo Moyes _______________ The instant Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller...

Newlyweds Celestial and Roy are the embodiment of both the American Dream and the New South. He is a young executive, and she is an artist on the brink of an exciting career. But as they settle into the routine of their life together, they are ripped apart by circumstances neither could have imagined. Roy is arrested and sentenced to 12 years for a crime Celestial knows he didn't commit. Though fiercely independent, Celestial finds herself bereft and unmoored, taking comfort in Andre, her childhood friend, and best man at their wedding.

Roots is a groundbreaking story of history and family that spanned continents and touched generations. One of the most important books and television series ever to appear, Roots galvanized the nation and created an extraordinary political, racial, social, and cultural dialogue that hadn’t been seen since the publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. The book sold more than one million copies in the first year, and the miniseries was watched by an astonishing 130 million people. It also won both the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award.

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner, a passionate, profound story of love and obsession based on the hopes, fears, and deep realities of Black urban life. With a foreword by the author. “As rich in themes and poetic images as her Pulitzer Prize–winning Beloved.... Morrison conjures up the...

O homem negro tem espaço para ser vulnerável? Esse homem pode chorar e existir ao mesmo tempo? Com três contos inéditos, nesta nova edição de Homens pretos (não) choram, Stefano Volp joga luz sobre as feridas, os medos e a solidão do homem, sobretudo o negro, para buscar respostas sobre...

När Cecilia vaknar upp på sjukhuset efter en mindre hjärtinfarkt vet hon med isande visshet att hennes liv måste förändras. Det känns omöjligt att gå vidare i äktenskapet, drömmen om en familj som håller ihop för alltid går i kras. Även för systern Susanna väntar dramatiska...

Gränslös passion, oväntade avslöjanden och en kamp mot de inre demonerna. Efter dramatiska händelser och djupa insikter ställs Max och Freja inför avgörande val i sin stormiga relation. När det förflutna fortsätter att göra sig påmint och rädslan för att bli sårad ställs på sin...

Vad är du beredd att offra för att nå dina drömmars mål? Och hur mycket av det du ser är egentligen en illusion? När journalisten Jane kliver in i den mytomspunna Madam Dubens överdådiga slott kliver hon samtidigt rakt in i ett farligt spel om makt och inflytande. Omgiven av guld...

In the aftermath of the Arab Spring, an Egyptian American woman and a man from the village of Shobrakheit meet at a café in Cairo. He was a photographer of the revolution, but now finds himself unemployed and addicted to cocaine, living in a rooftop shack. She is a nostalgic daughter of immigrants “returning” to a country she’s never been to before, teaching English and living in a light-filled flat with balconies on all sides. They fall in love and he moves in. But soon their desire takes a violent turn that neither of them expected.  

സി.വി. രാമന്‍പിള്ളയുടെ 1891ല്‍ പ്രസിദ്ധീകരിച്ച ഒരു മലയാള നോവലാണ് മാര്‍ത്താണ്ഡവര്‍മ്മ. പരിണാമദിശയിലെത്തിയ...

In 1972, when workers in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, were digging the foundations for a new development, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill, the dilapidated neighbourhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows.

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...

The new audiobook from number one best-selling author Jodi Picoult, with the biggest of themes: birth, death, and responsibility. When a newborn baby dies after a routine hospital procedure, there is no doubt about who will be held responsible: the nurse who had been banned from looking after him by his father. What the nurse, her lawyer and the father of the child cannot know is how this death will irrevocably change all of their lives, in ways both expected and not.

The beloved classic that turned Carson McCullers into an overnight literary sensation and one of the Modern Library's top 20 novels of the 20th century. “A remarkable book…From the opening page, brilliant in its establishment of mood, character, and suspense, the book takes hold of the...

1001 CE. Chōḷa king Rājarāja is on his way to Pāṇḍya capital Madurai. Enroute, he decides to stay at Kodumbālūr, the city of Vēlirs and meet his old merchant friend who is well versed with the political situation at Mahōdayapura, capital of Chēras. What he doesn't realize yet is...

'കോഫീ ഹൗസിൽ അഞ്ചുപേർ അതിദാരുണമായി കൊല്ലപ്പെടുന്നു. ബെഞ്ചമിൻ ഈ കുറ്റത്തിന്റെ പേരിൽ വധശിക്ഷയ്ക്ക്...

Det är höst när Sophie återvänder till Älvdalen och bosätter sig på den gård hon köpt djupt inne i skogen. Nya vänner och kärleken till Christer får henne att lämna västkusten för gott. Hon fyller gården med vanskötta djur som en avliden släkting lämnar efter sig. Samtidigt...

Hon. Han. Måsen. Chief Big Foot. Gérard Philipe. Och några till. Men mest den där döden. När romanen Hon, han och dödenbörjar är det med en mås som iakttar ett par. Paret är Han och Hon och de ska i den här berättelsen komma att samtala om sina liv och om döden, då mannen har...