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Grand Central Publishing Over and Over
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Library of America Ernest J. Gaines Four Novels LOA 383
Book SynopsisThe best black writer in America (Time) joins the Library of America with a volume collecting 4 landmark novels about race and the legacy of slavery in America Includes A Lesson Before Dying, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and an early Oprah Book Club selectionBorn in 1933, the oldest of twelve children in a family of sharecroppers in Oscar, Louisiana, Ernest J. Gaines wrote novels and stories, set on and around the former slave plantation he called home, that are modern classics—nuanced, compassionate portraits of women and men, both Black and white, caught in the vortex of race in America. He joins the Library of America with this volume gathering his four greatest novels. The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1971), the story of an elderly woman born into slavery who witnesses Reconstruction, Jim Crow, and the Civil Rights Movement. A living testament to the history, hopes, courage, and survival of her people, Miss Jane is one of the most indelible and unforgettable characters in American fiction. In My Father’s House (1978) finds an activist minister organizing a civil rights protest in his town when his estranged son suddenly appears on the scene, threatening to expose his family's secret past. A Gathering of Old Men (1983) sees a group of elderly Black men with nothing left to lose decide to make a last stand against the racism that has defined and delimited their lives. A Lesson Before Dying (1993, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction and an Oprah Book Club selection), in which a local schoolteacher attempts to help a young man falsely convicted of the murder of a white man face execution with dignity. A fitting tribute to a still underappreciated American genius, this volume also includes a chronology of Gaines’s life and career written by his authorized biographer, John Wharton Lowe, and helpful notes.
£27.83
Bancroft Press Ring
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Crooked Lane Books The Lonely Hearts Trivia Night
Book SynopsisFive lonely strangers join a bar trivia team in an effort to find friends, but end up on a path that will change each of their lives forever, in this heartwarming debut perfect for fans of Beth O’Leary and Sophie Kinsella.How do you make friends as an adult? That’s one question lonely Londoners Bryony, Harry, Jaime, Luke, and Donna would really like the answer to. They tend to do better with questions of a different variety—trivia questions like How did prosecco get its name? and Which Mariah Carey song has topped the charts in twenty-six countries?In an effort to meet new people, the five not-yet-friends answer an ad seeking members of a bar trivia team—the Red Hot Quizzy Peppers. As the weeks go on, the disparate band of unhappy strangers becomes swept up in both the buzz of winning and the way quiz nights start to bond them together in friendship . . . to the detriment of other parts of their lives. Despite all odds, the Quizzy Peppers might just have a shot at making the London Pub Quiz League’s Grand Final, if only they can get past the Golden Girls, the Banana Splits, and the Bombay Bad Boys.Utterly charming and uplifting, The Lonely Hearts Trivia Night is a story of finding friendship, love, confidence, and purpose—just right for fans of Jennifer Weiner.
£21.79
Bloomsbury USA The Tiny Things Are Heavier
£23.19
Counterpoint Mercy
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Soho Press Inc Summer Fun
Book SynopsisWinner of the 2022 Lammy Award for Transgender Fiction From acclaimed author Jeanne Thornton, an epic, singular look at fandom, creativity, longing, and trans identity. Gala, a young trans woman, works at a hostel in Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. She is obsessed with the Get Happies, the quintessential 1960s Californian band, helmed by its resident genius, B----. Gala needs to know: Why did the band stop making music? Why did they never release their rumored album, Summer Fun? And so she writes letters to B---- that shed light not only on the Get Happies, but paint an extraordinary portrait of Gala. The parallel narratives of B---- and Gala form a dialogue about creation—of music, identity, self, culture, and counterculture. Summer Fun is a brilliant and magical work of trans literature that marks Thornton as one of our most exciting and original novelists.
£16.15
Little Brown and Company Wolf Bells
£22.12
Graywolf Press Thats All I Know
£14.45
Regal House Publishing American Still Life
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Regal House Publishing Peace Like a River
£17.20
Catapult The Dance and the Fire
£18.41
Catapult The Hearing Test
Book SynopsisA young woman reorients her relationship to the world in the wake of sudden deafness in this mesmerizing debut novel for readers of Rachel Cusk, Clarice Lispector, and Fleur JaeggyWhen the narrator of The Hearing Test, an artist in her late twenties, awakens one morning to a deep drone in her right ear, she is diagnosed with Sudden Deafness, but is offered no explanation for its cause. As the specter of total deafness looms, she keeps a record of her year—a score of estrangement and enchantment, of luck and loneliness, of the chance occurrences to which she becomes attuned—while living alone in a New York City studio apartment with her dog.Through a series of fleeting and often humorous encounters—with neighbors, an ex-lover, doctors, strangers, family members, faraway friends, and with the lives and works of artists, filmmakers, musicians, and philosophers—making meaning becomes a form of consolation and curiosity, a form of survival. At once a rumination on silence and a novel on seeing, The Hearing Test is a work of vitalizing intellect and playfulness which marks the arrival of a major new literary writer with a rare command of form, compression, and intent.
£12.11
Catapult The Liquid Eye of the Moon
£13.84
Severn River Publishing LLC Dangerous Betrayals
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Amazon Publishing Please Dont Lie
£23.55
Amazon Publishing Young Fools
£23.92
Astra Publishing House Early Sobrieties
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£21.60
New York Review of Books Star 111
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£14.77
Sourcebooks Lauryn Harper Falls Apart
£17.64
Sourcebooks The Resort
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£16.81
Sourcebooks The Night the River Wept
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£15.99
Sourcebooks Falling for Gage
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£16.14
New Door Books Partly Strong Partly Broken
£18.62
Book*hug Letters to Amelia
Book SynopsisGrace Porter is reeling from grief after her partner of seven years unexpectedly leaves. Amidst her heartache, the 30 year-old library tech is tasked with reading newly discovered letters that Amelia Earhart wrote to her lover, Gene Vidal. She becomes captivated by the famous pilot who disappeared in 1937. Letter by letter, she understands more about the aviation hero while piecing her own life back together.When Grace discovers she is pregnant, her life becomes more intertwined with the mysterious pilot and Grace begins to write her own letters to Amelia. While navigating her third trimester, amidst new conspiracy theories about Amelia’s disappearance, the search for her remains, and the impending publication of her private letters, Grace goes on a pilgrimage of her own.Letters to Amelia is a stunning, contemporary epistolary novel from the creator of the internationally acclaimed Love Lettering Project. It underscores the power of reading and writing letters for both connection and self-discovery, and celebrates the unwritten, undocumented parts of our lives.Above all, Letters to Amelia is a story of the essential need for connection—and our universal ability to find hope in the face of fear.Praise for Letters to Amelia:"Brimming over with Lindsay Zier-Vogel's obvious love for the story of Amelia Earhart, Letters to Amelia is a wonderful novel about flight and passion, about love-letters and reaching out; a novel about how we never know quite what's coming next, but still keep launching ourselves into the blue tomorrow."—Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13"A tender portrait of heartbreak and a thoughtful ode to new motherhood. Letters to Amelia is an endorsement of finding our own ways to heal, and a celebration of that big, messy, wonderful journey of coming into one's own. Charming and beautifully rendered, this is a big-hearted hopeful novel, full of life and love." —Stacey May Fowles, author of Baseball Life Advice: Loving the Game that Saved Me"When we think of Amelia Earhart, we think enigmatic adventurer and feminist pioneer—and, of course, of her mysterious disappearance. But in Letters to Amelia, we meet a different Amelia Earhart, as seen through the eyes of Grace, the novel’s protagonist, a young library tech tasked with reading her letters: an Amelia who is funny, charming, joyful, sad, and most of all, full of life. Zier-Vogel writes with uncanny empathy about heartbreak, friendship, motherhood, and the common threads that connect women across time, geography, and even between earth and sky. Letters to Amelia is a gorgeous, big-hearted debut that will make you feel like you are flying, and Zier-Vogel is a writer whose career is about to soar." —Amy Jones, author of Every Little Piece of Me"Letters to Amelia invites us to hold our heroines close and to take heart – it is gentle and joyous, full of tenderness, alive and sturdy with hope." —Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces and The Winter VaultTrade Review"A tender portrait of heartbreak and a thoughtful ode to new motherhood. Letters to Amelia is an endorsement of finding our own ways to heal, and a celebration of that big, messy, wonderful journey of coming into one's own. Charming and beautifully rendered, this is a big-hearted hopeful novel, full of life and love." Stacey May Fowles, author of Baseball Life Advice: Loving the Game that Saved Me"A wonderful novel about flight and passion, about love-letters and reaching out; a novel about how we never know quite what's coming next, but still keep launching ourselves into the blue tomorrow." Jon McGregor, author of Reservoir 13"Zier-Vogel writes with uncanny empathy about heartbreak, friendship, motherhood, and the common threads that connect women across time, geography, and even between earth and sky. Letters to Amelia is a gorgeous, big-hearted debut." Amy Jones, author of Every Little Piece of Me" Letters to Amelia invites us to hold our heroines close and to take heart -- it is gentle and joyous, full of tenderness, alive and sturdy with hope." Anne Michaels, author of Fugitive Pieces and The Winter Vault"An understated literary work with a historical underpinning, Letters to Amelia celebrates singular desires and pays homage to intimacy in the face of social scrutiny." Foreword Reviews"Letters to Amelia made for a charming read... This was an absolutely lovely, lighthearted, and beautifully written story." - Avocado Diaries
£16.16
Book*hug Press You Crushed It
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£17.00
Johnny Magory Business Lily-May Foul faeries 2nd Edition
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£13.29
Sternberg Press Fear and Money
£20.42
Two Dollar Radio Absence
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£15.26
Belle Point Press, LLC The Diamondbacks
£14.65
Unnamed Press Henry Henry
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£999.99
Running Wild Press Breakdown Recovery and the Outdoors
£18.36
Little Creek Press Cranberry Red
£17.10
University Press of Kentucky Tore All to Pieces
£27.36
Latitude 46 The Haunting of Modesto OBrien
£999.99
V&R unipress GmbH Briefe als Laboratorium der Literatur im
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£49.91
Editorial Mexicanos 1984 Be
£8.05
Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Focsa PREMIO LUMEN 2025 Gloomy 2025 LUMEN AWARD
£15.27
Planeta Publishing Corp El Día Que No Paró de Llover The Day It Never Stopped Raining
£999.99
Planeta Publishing Corp Vírgenes Y Toxicómanos Virgins and Addicts
£19.10
Planeta Publishing Corp MIS Tardes En El Pequeño Café de Tokio Novela Hot Chocolate on Thursday a Novel
£12.42
Planeta Publishing Corp Los Amantes de la Noche Novela All the Lovers in the Night A Novel
£17.62
El cantar del petirrojo
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£23.80
REPUBLICA LUMINOSA
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£25.69
La reina del baile
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£25.36
Editorial Anagrama DICCIONARIO DE NOMBRES PROPIOS
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£16.86
LA CENTRAL
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