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An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigorous interrogation and beautiful style. Joan Didion was a writer's writer; not only a groundbreaking journalist, essayist, novelist and screenwriter, but a keen observer who honed her sights on life's telling details. Her insights continue to influence...
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"A memoir of survival, self-discovery, and forgiveness. For decades, Rachel Louise Snyder has been a fierce advocate reporting on the darkest social issues that impact women's lives. Women We Buried, Women We Burned is her own story. Snyder was eight years old when her mother died, and her distraught father thrust the family into an evangelical, cult-like existence halfway across the country. Furiously rebellious, she was expelled from school and...
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Gallery Books
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2024.
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"The #1 New York Times bestselling author and "king of Christmas fiction" (The New York Times) delivers a charming and inspirational collection of personal essays. Before he was the #1 New York Times bestselling author of holiday classics such as The Christmas Box, Richard Paul Evans was a young boy being raised by a suicidal mother and dealing with relentless bullying. He could not fathom what the future held for him. Now, in this intimate and heartfelt...
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From acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and future. Choi's third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsibilities to each other and visions for our collective survival.
Many have called our time dystopian. But The World Keeps Ending, and the World Goes On reminds us that apocalypse has already come in myriad ways for marginalized peoples.
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A showcase of poetry from some of the darkest and most lyrical voices of women in horror. A follow-up to the award-winning poetry showcase Under Her Skin, UNDER HER EYE features the best in never-before-published dark verse and lyrical prose from the voices of Women in Horror, themed on domestic horror and the terror women too often experience in their own homes. Edited by Lindy Ryan and Lee Murray, UNDER HER EYE celebrates women in horror from cover...
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Ecco
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2023.
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"The late Anthony Veasna So's debut story collection, Afterparties, was a landmark publication, hailed as a "bittersweet triumph for a fresh voice silenced too soon" (Fresh Air). And he was equally known for his comic, soulful essays, published in n+1, the New Yorker, and The Millions. Songs on Endless Repeat gathers those essays together, along with previously unpublished fiction. Written with razor-sharp wit and an unflinching eye, the essays examine...
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Bergman brothers volume 7
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"Viggo Bergman, hopeless romantic, is thoroughly weary of waiting for his happily ever after. But between opening a romance bookstore, running a romance book club, coaching kids' soccer, and adopting a household of pets-just maybe, he's overcommitted himself?-Viggo's chaotic life has made finding his forever love seem downright improbable. Enter Tallulah Clarke, chilly cynic with a massive case of writer's block. Tallulah needs help with her thriller's...
9) The rowan
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Severn House
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2023.
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A rowan tree with mysterious and unique powers is extending its grip over humanity, and investigative writer Valentina Garnier is caught up in a battle between supernatural forces and the federal government.
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To promote her memoir, widow Mia, to find her spark, embarks on a book tour during which she visits her three best friends and discovers if she can rewrite who she is now by revisiting who she was then, maybe she can reignite the spark for all of them.
Three years after the death of her husband, widow Mia is going on a book tour to promote her memoir. Her path will take her to the three friends who have supported her through her darkest hours.
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Scarlet
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[2023]
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"Murderpalooza, the premier thriller writers conference, is meant to be an exciting celebration of the genre and its preeminent writers. But when bestselling author and industry favorite Kristin Bailey is found dead in her hotel room, four rival authors--a midlister, an egomaniac, a has-been, and a newbie--also get targeted by an anonymous social media account and wonder if they're next"--
12) Psythur
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psithurism [sith-yuh-riz-uhm] noun:a rustling or whispering sound, such as leaves in the wind; susurration Psythur is a collections of works selected by the editors throughout the year. Poems that were misfits for our other collections, but nonetheless stirred our mind, heart, or soul.
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From the Ashes collects solo plays by Black Canadian women and womxn that together celebrate the hope, humour, and healing that can come after devastation and loss. From lighthearted comedies to heavy dramas, this anthology contains a multitude of stories on Blackness, love, motherhood, sexuality, trauma, racism, mythology, and more.
From the Ashes collects solo plays by Black Canadian women and womxn that together celebrate the hope, humour,...
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Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
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[2023]
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"A painfully revealing and hilariously honest debut memoir that chronicles Sarah Cooper's rise from lip-synching in church to lip-synching to the president of the United States. As the youngest of four in a tight-knit Jamaican family, Cooper cut her teeth in the mean cornfields of suburban Maryland. Soon she became a charmingly neurotic woman trying to break her worst patterns and reclaim her linen closet. From an early obsession with hair bands to...
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"As a young woman, Maud had dreams bigger than the whole of Prince Edward Island. Her exuberant spirit had always drawn frowns from her grandmother and their neighbors, but she knew she was meant to create, to capture and share the way she saw the world. And the young girl in Maud's mind became more and more persistent: Here is my story, she said. Here is how my name should be spelled--Anne with an "e." But the day Maud writes the first lines of Anne...
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Mi cabeza está en otra parte reúne una selección de todos los libros publicados por Damaris Calderón en Chile. El título de esta antología corresponde al título de uno de los poemas de Sílabas (2000).
El compromiso con la escritura por parte de Damaris Calderón no es otra cosa que la persistencia de sondear en el abismo; una especie de activismo del que no se hace alarde, pero del que se extrae toda la luz que puede caber en el poema...
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Immerse yourself in the captivating world of "The Bindings: The Girl with Cerebral Palsy and the Experiences that Hold Me Together," an extraordinary book of poetry by April Williams. In this heartfelt collection, April, a self-taught poet with cerebral palsy and scoliosis, opens her soul and shares her remarkable journey through melodic, emotional, and profoundly touching verses.
Within the pages of this book, April's evocative words paint a vivid...
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Internationally acclaimed author Carolyn Gammon conjures a kind and unflinching portrait of her mother's dementia-ultimately revealing the love, joy and life which remain even as memory and past fade. Learning to speak in maybes-perhaps I told you? Were you there? and to let a mother direct memory as memory vanishes, Gammon threads a path through time, bringing us into the heart and heat of a mother-daughter relationship that is changing as each day...
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"you cannot know who you'll bewhen you will be so many differentversions of yourself in this lifetime.you cannot find the roadyou are craving, not yet.it's waiting for you to pave it."In her Letters to the Universe Series Goodreads Choice Nominated poet J.R. Rogue shares intimate poems written lovingly for her readers. Take a journey through the eyes of author and reader as Rogue shares a glimpse into the private task of writing poetry dedicated to...
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