World Literature

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In the not too distant future, the US has been taken over by white nationalists, and the institutionalized racism that has underscored the country’s entire history has once again been codified. California has seceded from the US, and a band of strong women plan to start the next civil war following the death of their friend at the hands of the police. This is BLM-PD.

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Blossom Baker has watched her sisters find love one by one. And just when she began to wonder when her Prince Charming would show his face, Roman Fields, entered the picture, helping to bring all of her deepest desires to fruition. *Please note, this is book five of five in an interconnected series. This novel will contain spoilers from previous books.

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A ballerina at the height of her powers becomes consumed with finding her missing brother in this “striking debut” (Oprah Daily).

“A compelling novel about the spiritual and bodily costs of the dogged pursuit of art.”—Raven Leilani, author of Luster

At twenty-two years old, Cece Cordell reaches the pinnacle of her career as a ballet dancer when she’s promoted to principal at the New York City Ballet. She’s instantly catapulted into celebrity, heralded for her “inspirational” role as the first Black ballerina in the famed company’s history. Even as she celebrates the achievement of a lifelong dream, Cece remains haunted by the feeling that she doesn’t belong. As she waits for some feeling of rightness that doesn’t arrive, she begins to unravel the loose threads of her past—an absent father, a pragmatic mother who dismisses Cece’s ambitions, and a missing older brother who stoked her childhood love of ballet but disappeared to deal with his own demons.

Soon after her promotion, Cece is faced with a choice that has the potential to derail her career and shatter the life she’s cultivated for herself, sending her on a pilgrimage to both find her brother and reclaim the parts of herself lost in the grinding machinery of the traditional ballet world.

Written with spellbinding beauty and ballet’s precise structure, Dances centers around women, art, and power, and how we come to define freedom for ourselves.

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The gorgeously illustrated contemporary edition of an ancient Chinese text—for fans of fantastic beasts everywhere
 
Fantastic Creatures of the Mountains and Seas is a new translation for contemporary readers of a classic Chinese text that is at once the geography of an ancient world, a bestiary of mythical creatures, and a book of cultural and medicinal lore. Illustrated throughout with more than 180 two-color drawings that are so sinuous they move on the page, it is a work for lovers of fantasy and mythology, ancient knowledge, fabulous beasts, and inspired art.
 
The beings catalogued within these pages come from the regions of the known world, from the mountains and seas, the Great Wastelands, and the Lands Within the Seas that became China. They include spirits and deities and all sorts of strange creatures—dragons and phoenixes, hybrid beasts, some with human features, some hideous or with a call like wood splitting, or that portend drought or flood or bounty; others whose flesh cures disease or fends off nightmares, or whose pelt guarantees many progeny.
 
Drawn from The Classic of Mountains and Seas, Fantastic Creatures is the work of two members of China’s millennial generation, a young scholar and writer once known as the youngest “Genius of Chinese Cultural Studies” and an inspired illustrator trained in China and the United States, who together managed to communicate with the soul of a 4,000-year-old beast and have brought forth its strange beauty. Their work has been rendered into English by the foremost translator of modern Chinese literature in the West.

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How do you fix a broken woman? How do you change her way of life? How do you undo what someone else destroyed? You don’t!

Risma has been trying to figure out if her past was ever going to let her go, so she could see the future before her. Riddled with heartache she avoids love at all costs while bringing anyone she could into her life to fill the void, but when Dro gives her an ultimatum. Risma will have to fold under his request or revert to her old ways. Risma’s city-girl mentality will always keep her pockets laced, even if she never allows love in her heart! With Dro being The Plug he needs a solid woman on his team, but after finally being tired of Risma’s ways. Dro has an unexpected old flame to resurface and drive a wedge between him and Risma further and further!

Cai’s love triangle has put him in a daring position that could cost him his life if he keeps playing with fire. Cai’s love for April is what he thinks he needs in his life, but when Amber shows that two can play that game, he is rethinking who is the person he is in love with. As Cai tries to navigate maturing into a grown man he has to figure out which woman brings out the best in him. Even though he knows he is wrong what is a man to do when his heart is split in two?

These lovers have a lot to learn and figure out while they gamble with loving the wrong person.

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Jaida James, a high school senior, barely scrapes by in her history class. It’s not that she harbors any dislike for the subject; it’s just that the stories of the past don’t captivate her interest. After all, she’s more focused on writing her own tale.

Currently, Jaida is consumed by the pursuit of launching her own business—a task that has proven to be more challenging than she’d initially anticipated. Adding fuel to her frustration, her best friend Halley has a thriving business and leverages her existing wealth to outdo Jaida. To Jaida, this appears to be a clear case of the rich getting richer—an unfair game.

However, Halley sees things differently. She tells Jaida, without mincing words, that the business world is no place for the thin-skinned. If Jaida wants to join the ranks of successful entrepreneurs, she must toughen up and brace herself for the intense competition ahead.

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THE WORLDWIDE #1 BESTSELLER BEHIND NETFLIX’S THE LINCOLN LAWYER

THE PATH TO JUSTICE CAN BE PAVED WITH LIES

Defense attorney Mickey Haller – The Lincoln Lawyer – rides the wave of freeing a wrongfully convicted man from prison.

Inundated with pleas from incarcerated people claiming innocence, Haller enlists the help of ex-LAPD detective Harry Bosch to find the next case which could result in a resurrection walk.

When Bosch finds a needle in the haystack – a woman imprisoned for murdering her husband, a sheriff’s deputy – they discover evidence that doesn’t add up, and a department pushed for quick closure in the killing of one of its own.

But is this rushed justice – or something more sinister?

As they face a David versus Goliath court battle, the secrets which could lead to an innocent woman walking free could also mark the end of the Haller-Bosch dream team. . .

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CRIME DOESN’T COME BETTER THAN CONNELLY:

‘The pre-eminent detective novelist of his generation’
IAN RANKIN

‘The best mystery writer in the world’
GQ

‘A superb natural storyteller’
LEE CHILD

‘A master’
STEPHEN KING

‘America’s greatest living crime writer’
DAILY EXPRESS

‘One of the great storytellers of crime fiction’
SUNDAY TELEGRAPH

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‘The best thriller writer alive’ – Ken Follett

Sometimes you have to fight dirty to get clean.

Sebastian Rudd takes the cases no one else wants to take: the drug-addled punk accused of murdering two little girls; a crime lord on death row; a homeowner accused of shooting at a SWAT team.

Rudd believes that every person accused of a crime is entitled to a fair trial – even if he has to cheat to get one. He antagonises people from both sides of the law: his last office was firebombed, either by drug dealers or cops. He doesn’t know or care which.

But things are about to get even more complicated for Sebastian. Arch Swanger is the prime suspect in the abduction and presumed murder of 21-year-old Jiliana Kemp, the daughter of the assistant chief of police. When Swanger asks Sebastian to represent him, he lets Sebastian in on a terrible secret . . . one that will threaten everything Sebastian holds dear.

What readers are saying about ROGUE LAWYER

‘Brilliant and Blistering!’ – 5 STARS

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350+ million copies, 45 languages, 9 blockbuster films:
NO ONE WRITES DRAMA LIKE JOHN GRISHAM

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PLEASE NOTE: This book is a re-release.

When Gabriel forgets their anniversary, it’s the final straw for Kameron Blue. Lately, the only time she sees her husband is in bed. Kameron desperately misses her husband, but nothing she says to Gabriel seems to make him understand. Leaving him is the hardest thing she’s ever done, but it’s the only way she can save her marriage.

Gabriel loves his wife and can’t believe that she would leave him. He’s in charge of saving his family’s company and he thought Kameron understood. When he receives an inheritance, he has what he needs to save his family’s department stores and his marriage. Unfortunately, the only deal his formerly loving wife is interested in involves him giving her a divorce.

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Originally published in Weird Tales in 1933 as part of the Cthulhu Mythos cycle, “The Dreams in the Witch House” by American horror master Howard Phillips Lovecraft is described as “a story of mathematics, witchcraft and Walpurgis Night, in which the horror creeps and grows.” 
This work may have been inspired by Nathaniel Hawthorne’s unfinished novel, “Septimius Felton”.

The story follows Walter Gilman, who takes a room in the Witch House, an accursed house in Arkham, Lovecraft’s fictional New England town. The house once harboured Keziah Mason, a witch who disappeared mysteriously from a Salem jail in 1692. Gilman discovers that over the centuries most of its occupants have died prematurely. In his dreams while at the house, Gilman travels to the city of Elder Things and communes with the evil witch and her henchmen.

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Helen Eustis’s The Horizontal Man (1946) won an Edgar Award for best first novel and continues to fascinate as a singular mixture of detection, satire, and psychological portraiture. A poet on the faculty of an Ivy League school is found murdered, setting off ripple effects of anxiety, suspicion, and panic in the hot house atmosphere of an English department rife with talk of Freud and Kafka. This classic novel is one of eight works included in The Library of America’s two-volume edition Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s, edited by Sarah Weinman.

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It began with The Notebook . . .

After thirty years of marriage, Wilson is forced to face a painful truth. His wife, Jane, has fallen out of love with him.

Despite the shining example of his in-laws, Noah and Allie Calhoun (originally recounted in The Notebook), and their fifty-year love affair, Wilson is unable to express his true feelings. With his daughter about to marry, and his wife thinking about leaving him, Wilson knows it is time to act. He will do anything he can to save his marriage. With the memories of Noah and Allie’s inspiring life together as his guide, he vows to make his wife fall in love with him . . . all over again.

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Only good girls get to sleep in my bed.

Getting laid before the big game should be easy.

Chicks at Laguna Grove dig hockey players…

Except the one woman Jayce wants.

His African American lab partner, Makeba Winston.

It’s nothing he can’t solve with tequila, a thick leather leash, and a pillow at the foot of his bed.

Makeba won’t become his girlfriend right away, but a few days tied to the bed ought to change her mind…

Right?

Book #2 of the Laguna Grove Vipers BWWM Hockey Romance Series by bestselling African American interracial romance author Jamila Jasper. If you enjoy romantic love stories between black women and white men, and appreciate diverse, multicultural bully romance stories, check your high-waisted undies at the door and take a peek inside this sizzling full-length steamy romance. (No cheating, dark romance.)

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A sassy but sweet-as-pie African American freshman receives her sorority initiation instructions.

Drop to your knees and please the mysterious hockey player behind the wall.

She doesn’t know the identity of the thick, eleven-inch stranger poking through the hole.

But he knows her.

One night activates the hot hockey captain Jesse Rousseau’s obsession with Peyton.

He demands more…

Peyton can’t avoid the cruel campus king’s tangled web of dark rituals and darker obsessions.

Jesse doesn’t mess around with what belongs to him.

From the second Peyton’s lips touched his skin, she sealed her fate.

His. Forever.

This is the first book in a dark white man/black woman interracial romance trilogy with triggers. If you enjoy books with morally grey alpha heroes, black female leads, hockey teams, college drama and spicy enemies-to-lovers heroes, check your undies at the door and dive in.

Book #1 of 3

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