![]() ![]() “Masterful…a winning romance.”- Kirkus, starred review The Fated Mates Podcast Best Romances of the Year.The New York Public Library Best Romances of the Year.Entertainment Weekly Best Romances of 2022.Because while sleeping with the enemy is one thing, falling for him is definitely not part of the plan. ![]() Worse, Drew is doing everything he can to show her that he’s a decent guy who actually cares. Because she’s found out the real reason Drew’s back in Austin: to decide whether her beloved hospital remains open. Now London is certain the road to hell is paved with good sex. But no one-least of all London-expected it to go down at her high school reunion with Drew Sullivan, millionaire, owner of delicious abs, and oh yes, her archnemesis. According to her friends Samiah and Taylor, what London really needs is a casual hookup. Successful pediatric surgeon London Kelley just needs to find some balance and de-stress. ![]() "Pure romance gold that ticks all my favorite boxes: enemies to lovers, sexual chemistry, competence kink, delicious banter." –Ali Hazelwood, New York Times bestselling author of Love on the Brain ![]()
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![]() Citizen weaves essays, images and poetry together to form a powerful testament to the individual and collective effects of racism in an ostensibly 'post-race' society. ![]() In this moving, critical and fiercely intelligent collection of prose poems, Claudia Rankine examines the experience of race and racism in Western society through sharp vignettes of everyday discrimination and prejudice, and longer meditations on the violence - whether linguistic or physical - which has impacted the lives of Serena Williams, Zinedine Zidane, Mark Duggan and others. And you are not the guy and still you fit the description because there is only one guy who is always the guy fitting the description. ![]() Everywhere were flashes, a siren sounding and a stretched-out roar. ![]() ![]() ![]() I always get more than what I would expect when it comes to Penelope Ward. There’s so much to laugh, cry, swoon, and laugh some more with each turn of the page. We get to witness the beautiful growth of these two characters as they make their way into each other’s hearts. They had chemistry you could feel and it was intoxicating. The smile on my face, and the excitement that hit me whenever these two were in the same place was the absolute BEST. And that funny continued throughout the book. It was impossible to put this story down!įelicity and Leo are wonderful characters. ![]() Absolutely sexy with a bunch of sweet, touching and OMG I didn't see that one coming moments. The Aristocrat is another shining example of Penelope Ward’s trademark trifecta -angst, humour, and swoon-worthy romance a captivating combination that ensures an entertaining read from beginning to end. ![]() ![]() ![]() Roe and her new and considerably older husband Martin are settled into their new life quite nicely when everything changes with the arrival of Martin’s niece Regina. Now she returns to her cozy roots with her first Aurora–Roe–Teagarden mystery since Dead Over Heels. ![]() *Walker 1990, ISBN-10: 0802757693 ISBN-13: 978-0802757692 (H)Ĭharlaine Harris has charmed audiences recently with her noirish cozy series starring Lily Bard. And as other brutal “copycat” killings follow, Roe will have to uncover the person behind the terrifying game, one that casts all the members of Real Murders, herself included, as prime suspects-or potential victims… It’s a harmless pastime-until the night she finds a member dead, killed in a manner that eerily resembles the crime the club was about to discuss. With those fellow crime buffs, Roe belongs to a club called Real Murders, which meets once a month to analyze famous cases. Librarian Aurora “Roe” Teagarden grew up there and knows more than enough about her fellow townsfolk, including which ones share her interest in the darker side of human nature. Lawrenceton, Georgia, may be a growing suburb of Atlanta, but it’s still a small town at heart. #1 New York Times bestselling author Charlaine Harris introduces a Southern librarian whose bookish bent for murder gets her involved in a real-life killing spree… ![]() ![]() ![]() Then I moved to Bombay and lived there nine years. I was born in a city in extremis, Calcutta. I went back to look for that city with a simple question: Can you go home again? In the looking, I found the cities within me. “Where’re you from?” Searching for an answer-in Paris, in London, in Manhattan-I always fall back on “Bombay.” Somewhere, buried beneath the wreck of its current condition-one of urban catastrophe-is the city that has a tight claim on my heart, a beautiful city by the sea, an island-state of hope in a very old country. I speak like a Bombay boy it is how I am identified in Kanpur and Kansas. In all that time, I hadn’t lost my accent. Twenty-one years: enough time for a human being to be born, get an education, be eligible to drink, get married, drive, vote, go to war, and kill a man. I left Bombay in 1977 and came back twenty-one years later, when it had grown up to become Mumbai. ![]() ![]() Bombay is the future of urban civilization on the planet. With 14 million people, Bombay is the biggest city on the planet of a race of city dwellers. It is also the Urbs Prima in Mundis, at least in one area, the first test of the vitality of a city: the number of people living in it. Urbs Prima in Indis reads the plaque outside the Gateway of India. ![]() There will soon be more people living in the city of Bombay than on the continent of Australia. Excerpt from Suketu Mehta’s MAXIMUM CITY: Bombay Lost and Found ![]() ![]() ![]() With a new foreword by acclaimed womanist theologian Kelly Brown Douglas, this edition of Jesus and the Disinherited is a timeless testimony of faith that demonstrates how to thrive and flourish in a world that attempts to destroy one’s humanity from the inside out. Only by recognizing fear, deception, contempt, and love of one another can God’s justice prevail. ![]() In this view, the example of Jesus’s life shows us that hatred does not empower-it decays. Thurman lifts Jesus up as a partner in the pain of the oppressed and reveals the gospel as a manual of resistance for the poor and disenfranchised. In this beautiful gift edition of the classic theological treatise, complete with a place-marker ribbon and silver gilded edges, celebrated theologian and religious leader Howard Thurman (1899–1981) revolutionizes the way we read the gospel. and helped shape the civil rights movement Otis Moss III, author of Blue Note Preaching in a Post-Soul World and senior pastor at Trinity United Church of ChristĪ commemorative edition of the work that inspired Martin Luther King Jr. ![]() Thurman’s work keeps showing up on the desk of anti-apartheid activists, South American human rights workers, civil rights champions, and now Black Lives Matter advocates.” –Rev. “No other publication in the twentieth century has upended antiquated theological notions, truncated political ideas, and socially constructed racial fallacies like Jesus and the Disinherited. ![]() ![]() Romance is a world of escapism, but I think what makes it such a popular and powerful genre is that it’s a hopeful escape. All three books exist in the same universe how did you first dream up this world? ![]() Love & Other Disasters is your first traditionally-published novel, and it joins your two self-published novellas, Sing Anyway (2021) and Our Favorite Songs (2021). ![]() This interview has been edited and condensed for clarity. The friendship quickly spins into love (and heat), and I had the chance to speak with Kelly about all of this love (and surmountable disasters). ![]() Recently-divorced Dahlia is trying to discover her new place in the world, and where better to do that than the stage of Chef’s Special? She also finds friendship with nonbinary contestant London, who is navigating coming out so publicly. Kelly’s characters are engaging, lovable, quirky, and real. It only stands to reason, then, that novels can do the same thing for readers, and Anita Kelly delivers and then some in their first traditionally-published novel, Love & Other Disasters. ![]() They have also been safe havens for queer people to find representation. Cooking competition shows are beloved for their delightful cast of characters, methodical rhythm, and delicious artistry. ![]() ![]() ![]() Why Not Me? will certainly follow in its footsteps."- Associated Press Her first memoir, Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns), spent time on several best-seller lists. "Mindy Kaling may be gearing up for the fourth season of her TV show, The Mindy Project, but that didn't deter her from writing another wildly entertaining and completely relatable book. But this time around, things are just little more grown-up.This is Kaling at the height of her power."- USA Today "Funny, thoughtful essays and anecdotes written in the star's trademark voice. Even the title of that initial effort implied that Kaling was trying to find her place the tone of this new one announces that she's found it and is more than comfortable inviting people to spend time with her there."- Washington Post "Kaling has written a second book that's funnier, sharper and more confident than her 2011 collection of personal essays and pop culture riffs called Is Everyone Hanging Out Without Me? (And Other Concerns). ![]() ![]() His most recent novel, The Woods, spent more time on the New York Times bestseller list than his previous books and sales reached his highest levels to date. She thinks it is Adam Baye standing just outside the camera’s range but when Adam goes missing, it soon becomes clear that something deep and sinister has infected their community. 1 bestselling author Harlan Coben has become an unstoppable force in suspense fiction. The series is a sequel of sorts to The Woods it shares multiple characters and is the sixth of Coben’s books to be adapted for Netflix. Meanwhile, browsing through an online memorial for Spencer put together by his classmates, Betsy Hill is struck by a photo that appears to have been taken on the night of her son’s death and he wasn’t alone. Debuting in April 2022, Hold Tight follows a woman on a harrowing search for her son, who disappears after his friend is found dead. They install a sophisticated spy program on Adam’s computer, and within days they are jolted by a message from an unknown correspondent addressed to their son – ‘Just stay quiet and all safe.’ But their sixteen-year-old son Adam has been unusually distant lately, and after the suicide of his classmate Spencer Hill – the latest in a string of issues at school – they can’t help but worry. ![]() ![]() ![]() Tia and Mike Baye never imagined they’d become the type of overprotective parents who spy on their kids. Harlan Coben delivers a #1 New York Times bestseller that asks how well parents really know their children-and puts them on a technological roller coaster of their worst fears. ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s knowing, with a winking tone that belies Isa’s youth and (relative) inexperience. This opening establishes the tone and priorities of the novel: it’s mannered, full of old-fashioned syntax like “one must” and an understanding of gender relations that could have emerged in 1890 or 1957 or last week. A person should never take on a city with an empty stomach, and I am always hungry.” “Before landing at JFK, I had three Bloody Marys and an extra piece of cake that fell apart in my mouth. Full of verve and authority and aphorisms, Isa’s narration is charming and appropriately Mid-Atlantic - she’s just arrived in New York from London, after all, even if it is 2012. “My mother always told me that to be a girl one must be especially clever,” she says in the opening line. The protagonist is Isa Epley, worldly and motherless at twenty-one, who seems to have learned everything she knows about womanhood from 1940s film stars and midcentury screwball novels. Happy Hour, Marlowe Granados’s debut novel, is about that kind of cultivated femininity. Early 2000s tabloid culture and YouTube makeup tutorials must have played a hand as well - it certainly wasn’t my mother’s influence that had me attempting a cateye and red lip at the age of twelve. ![]() Where did you learn how to be a woman? Was it from your mother, your sister? An older friend? A diva on TV? I sometimes joke that I learned how to be a woman from Wong Kar-Wai movies and the Wikipedia article on Mae West. ![]() |