Reni Eddo-Lodge

Light Hardcover (1 lb or less)

Puerto Rico

"This is a book that was begging to be written . . . Essential." --Marlon James

Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People about Race

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John C. Iannone

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

New Scientific Evidence

This book will intrigue you and increase your sense of awe and wonder as you contemplate the message of the shroud.

The Mystery of the Shroud of Turin

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Jill Bolte Taylor

A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

A brain scientists recounts her experiences after suffering a stroke at the age of thirty-seven, describing her discovery of differences in the left and right side of the brain and the steps she took over a period of eight years to recover her health.

My Stroke of Insight

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William Makepeace Thackeray

With an Introduction and Notes by Owen Knowles, University of Hull.

Thackeray's upper-class Regency world is a noisy and jostling commercial fairground, predominantly driven by acquisitive greed and soulless materialism, in which the narrator himself plays a brilliantly versatile role as a serio-comic observer.

Although subtitled A Novel without a Hero, Vanity Fair follows the fortunes of two contrasting but inter-linked lives: through the retiring Amelia Sedley and the brilliant Becky Sharp, Thackeray examines the position of women in an intensely exploitative male world.

When Vanity Fair was published in 1848, Charlotte Brontë commented: 'The more I read Thackeray'sworks the more certain I am that he stands alone - alone in his sagacity, alone in his truth, alone in his feeling... Thackeray is a Titan.'

Vanity Fair

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Malala Yousafzai

Christina Lamb

Hardcover (1 to 2 lbs)

The Girl Who Stood up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban

Describes the life of a young Pakistani student who advocated for women's rights and education in the Taliban-controlled Swat Valley who survived an assassination attempt and became the youngest nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize. (This book was listed in a previous Forecast.)

I Am Malala

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Un libro que recoge el trascendental y emblemático discurso que dio la autora en su TEDx Talk sobre lo que significa ser feminista en el siglo XXI. Ser feminista no es solo cosa de mujeres. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie lo demuestra en este elocuente y perspicaz texto, en el que nos brinda una definición singular de lo que significa ser feminista en el siglo XXI. Con un estilo claro y directo, y sin dejar de lado el humor, esta carismática autora explora el papel de la mujer actual y apunta ideas para hacer de este mundo un lugar más justo. «Hoy me gustaría pedir que empecemos a soñar con un plan para un mundo distinto. Un mundo más justo. Un mundo de hombres y mujeres más felices y más honestos consigo mismos. Y esta es la forma de empezar: tenemos que criar a nuestras hijas de otra forma. Y también a nuestros hijos.» ENGLSIH DESCRIPTION What does "feminism" mean today? That is the question at the heart of We Should All Be Feminists, a personal, eloquently-argued essay—adapted from her much-viewed Tedx talk of the same name—by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the award-winning author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun. With humor and levity, here Adichie offers readers a unique definition of feminism for the twenty-first century—one rooted in inclusion and awareness. She shines a light not only on blatant discrimination, but also the more insidious, institutional behaviors that marginalize women around the world, in order to help readers of all walks of life better understand the often masked realities of sexual politics. Throughout, she draws extensively on her own experiences—in the U.S., in her native Nigeria, and abroad—offering an artfully nuanced explanation of why the gender divide is harmful for women and men, alike. Argued in the same observant, witty and clever prose that has made Adichie a bestselling novelist, here is one remarkable author's exploration of what it means to be a woman today—and an of-the-moment rallying cry for why we should all be feminists.

Todos Deberíamos Ser Feministas / We Should All Be Feminists

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Jaime Bayly

Libro en español.
Las páginas se ven amarillas. 

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

El primer gran �xito de Jaime Bayly, que lo dio a conocer como narrador excepcional y como avanzado de la generaci�n latinoamericana que toma el relevo de los Vargas Llosa y Garc�a M�rquez. La vida de Joaqu�n Camilo es una suma de desencuentros y malentendidos: su necesidad de amar y sus deseos homosexuales no encajan en su familia ni en el ambiente conservador, machista y pacato de la clase media. La b�squeda de su lugar en el mundo es una espiral de fracasos, entre ciudades extra�as, afectos quebradizos y dosis de coca�na. Esa suma de batallas perdidas de pronto parece cambiar a su favor cuando comprende que, ante todo, necesita aceptarse a s� mismo, aunque en su ruta, finalmente, algo se pierde. �Hoy no podr�a escribir esta novela. Pero hace quince a�os o m�s no pude dejar de escribirla. Esta era la novela que, para bien o para mal, me sent�a urgido, desesperado por escribir. Si algo salva a esta novela, me parece, es que al menos fui fiel a mis demonios literarios, a mis fantasmas y obsesiones, a los temas m�s o menos s�rdidos que azuzaban mi imaginaci�n y hac�an impostergable la tarea de volcarlos en una ficci�n�. Jaime Bayly �Esta excelente novela describe con desenvoltura y desde dentro la filosof�a desencantada, nihilista y sensual de la nueva generaci�n�.Mario Vargas Llosa

No Sé lo Digas a Nadie

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Sue Monk Kidd

A Novel

“An extraordinary novel . . . a triumph of insight and storytelling.” —Associated Press “A true masterpiece.” —Glennon Doyle, author of Untamed An extraordinary story set in the first century about a woman who finds her voice and her destiny, from the celebrated number one New York Times bestselling author of The Secret Life of Bees and The Invention of Wings In her mesmerizing fourth work of fiction, Sue Monk Kidd takes an audacious approach to history and brings her acclaimed narrative gifts to imagine the story of a young woman named Ana. Raised in a wealthy family with ties to the ruler of Galilee, she is rebellious and ambitious, with a brilliant mind and a daring spirit. She engages in furtive scholarly pursuits and writes narratives about neglected and silenced women. Ana is expected to marry an older widower, a prospect that horrifies her. An encounter with eighteen-year-old Jesus changes everything. Their marriage evolves with love and conflict, humor and pathos in Nazareth, where Ana makes a home with Jesus, his brothers, and their mother, Mary. Ana's pent-up longings intensify amid the turbulent resistance to Rome's occupation of Israel, partially led by her brother, Judas. She is sustained by her fearless aunt Yaltha, who harbors a compelling secret. When Ana commits a brazen act that puts her in peril, she flees to Alexandria, where startling revelations and greater dangers unfold, and she finds refuge in unexpected surroundings. Ana determines her fate during a stunning convergence of events considered among the most impactful in human history. Grounded in meticulous research and written with a reverential approach to Jesus's life that focuses on his humanity, The Book of Longings is an inspiring, unforgettable account of one woman's bold struggle to realize the passion and potential inside her, while living in a time, place and culture devised to silence her. It is a triumph of storytelling both timely and timeless, from a masterful writer at the height of her powers.

The Book of Longings

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Santiago H. Amigorena

El libro que inspiró la película con Charlotte Rampling and Nick Nolte Año 2086. Un virus ha terminado con el planeta y los últimos supervivientes contemplan las ruinas de la humanidad. Junio de 2086. Un virus ha terminado con la humanidad y no quedan más que dos personas en todo el planeta: un joven y un anciano que pronto dejará de existir. Estos dos últimos supervivientes contemplan las ruinas de la humanidad. Las guerras han terminado, ya no hay hambre en el mundo y las bestias creadas por el hombre fueron desapareciendo. ¿Hacía falta una gran destrucción para que alguien se emocione de nuevo ante una puesta de sol? ¿Hará falta que desaparezca el hombre para ser conscientes de lo que llegó a ser? Amigorena firma una novela de gran carga poética y nos sitúa cara a cara con un futuro cada vez más cercano mientras se pregunta por los errores del hombre que podrían acabar con la humanidad. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION Adapted for the big screen with Charlotte Rampling and Nick Nolte Year 2086. A virus has done away with the planet and the last survivors contemplate the ruins of humanity. June 2086. A virus has done away with humanity and there are only two people left on the entire planet: a young man and an old man who will soon cease to exist. These last two survivors contemplate the ruins of humanity. All wars are over, there is no more famine in the world, and the beasts created by man have disappeared. Did it take a major world destruction for someone to get excited about a sunset again? Will it take for mankind to disappear in order to be aware of what he became? Amigorena offers a highly poetic novel and brings us face to face with the future while he ponders about the mistakes man made that could end all of humanity.

Mis últimas Palabras / My Last Words

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Kahlil Gibran

La edición de Diana cuenta con un emotivo prólogo de Rupi Kaur y con una nueva y magnífica traducción de la premiada poeta Andrea Cote. Tras doce años de exilio y meditación en la ciudad de Orfalese, el místico sufí Almustafa regresa a su hogar. El día de la partida, ante la llegada inminente de su barco, la gente de Orfalese le pide al profeta que les hable sobre los asuntos fundamentales de la condición humana: el amor, el trabajo, la alegría, la amistad, el dolor, la belleza... A lo largo de la jornada, el profeta les responde con reflexiones que, en su aparente sencillez, desprenden una profunda comprensión de la condición humana. Obra maestra del poeta libanés Kahlil Gibran, El profeta es una obra de una frescura, sensibilidad y belleza poética incomparables. Un clásico del siglo XX cuyo mensaje de serenidad y sabiduría universal sigue vigente hoy día.

El Profeta

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Julio Cortázar

Que cada cosa cruel sea tú que vuelves, de la colección «Poesía portátil» constituye una ventana a la poesía de uno de los escritores argentinos más relevantes del siglo XX. La obra de Julio Cortázar es uno de los pilares de la literatura de habla hispana del siglo XX. Conocido especialmente por sus cuentos y novelas, el autor argentino era un poeta hasta cuando escribía en prosa y supo imprimir en sus versos la misma emoción que conmocionó en obras como Rayuela. ------- «No me des tregua, no me perdones nunca. Hostígame en la sangre, que cada cosa cruel sea tú que vuelves. ¡No me dejes dormir, no me des paz! Entonces ganaré mi reino, naceré lentamente. No me pierdas como una música fácil, no seas caricia ni guante; tállame como un sílex, desespérame.» ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "An inside look into the poetry of one of the most important Argentine writers of the 20th century. Julio Cortazar’s work is one of the great pillars in Spanish-language literature of the 20th century. Renowned for his short stories and novels, the Argentine author was a poet even when writing prose and knew how to infuse in his verses the same emotion evident in works like Hopscotch."

Cortázar. Que Cada Cosa Cruel Sea Tú Que Vuelves / May You Return to My Life with Every Misfortune

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Terese Marie Mailhot

A Memoir

A powerful, poetic memoir of an Indigenous woman's coming of age on the Seabird Island Band in the Pacific Northwest—this New York Times bestseller and Emma Watson Book Club pick is “an illuminating account of grief, abuse and the complex nature of the Native experience . . . at once raw and achingly beautiful (NPR). Having survived a profoundly dysfunctional upbringing only to find herself hospitalized and facing a dual diagnosis of post traumatic stress disorder and bipolar II disorder, Terese Marie Mailhot is given a notebook and begins to write her way out of trauma. The triumphant result is Heart Berries, a memorial for Mailhot's mother, a social worker and activist who had a thing for prisoners; a story of reconciliation with her father―an abusive drunk and a brilliant artist―who was murdered under mysterious circumstances; and an elegy on how difficult it is to love someone while dragging the long shadows of shame. Mailhot trusts the reader to understand that memory isn't exact, but melded to imagination, pain, and what we can bring ourselves to accept. Her unique and at times unsettling voice graphically illustrates her mental state. As she writes, she discovers her own true voice, seizes control of her story, and, in so doing, reestablishes her connection to her family, to her people, and to her place in the world.

Heart Berries

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Angie Thomas

A powerful and brave YA novel about what prejudice looks like in the 21st century. Sixteen-year-old Starr lives in two worlds: the poor neighbourhood where she was born and raised and her posh high school in the suburbs. The uneasy balance between them is shattered when Starr is the only witness to the fatal shooting of her unarmed best friend, Khalil, by a police officer. Now what Starr says could destroy her community. It could also get her killed. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement, this is a powerful and gripping YA novel about one girl's struggle for justice. Movie rights have been sold to Fox, with Amandla Stenberg (The Hunger Games) to star. Inspired by the Black Lives Matter movement. Movie rights sold to Fox 2000 after a heated bidding war. George Tillman Jr is to direct (Men of Honor) and Amandla Stenberg (The Hunger Games) to star. To date rights have sold in 12 territories, with multiple-way auctions in the UK and the US.

The Hate U Give

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Kai Cheng Thom

A Dangerous Trans Girl's Confabulous Memoir

At once a love letter and challenge to the traditional transgender memoir, Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars is a playful, surrealist dance through queer coming of age.

A haunted young girl (who happens to be a kung-fu expert and pathological liar) runsaway from an oppressive city, where the sky is always grey, in search of love and sisterhood--and finds herself in a magical place known only as the Street of Miracles.There, she is quickly adopted into a vigilante gang of glamorous warrior femmes called the Lipstick Lacerators, whose mission is to scour the Street of violent men and avenge murdered trans women everywhere. But when disaster strikes, can our intrepid heroine find the truth within herself in order to protect her new family and heal her broken heart?

Fierce Femmes and Notorious Liars

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Miranda July

Cheryl est� en la cuarentena, vive sola y es reservada. Por extra�o que parezca, suele mantener conversaciones con cualquier reci�n nacido que se encuentra. Hace tiempo que trabaja en una empresa que mezcla videos de autodefensa femenina con el fitness, y ahora est� enamorada de uno de los miembros del consejo de administraci�n. Un d�a, Cheryl se ve obligada a acoger en su casa, y por un tiempo indeterminado, a Clee, la hija veintea�era de sus jefes. El antagonismo entre ambas, patente desde el principio, deriva en enfrentamientos f�sicos y violentos en los que Cheryl siempre es la v�ctima; un bullying dom�stico consentido con connotaciones sexuales. En este marco surrealista, llega el d�a en que Clee confiesa estar embarazada y esto lo cambia todo. La aclamada cineasta, artista y escritora Miranda July nos presenta su primera novela. Un debut novel�stico espectacular, lleno del universo exc�ntrico y surrealista por el que la autora ya ha sido reconocida. Una novela fascinante, llena de ternura y astutamente divertida que conecta emocionalmente al lector con comportamientos que se alejan de lo convencional. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The instant New York Times bestseller is "astonishing...In one novel, Miranda July tells us more about our universal need to be loved, and our ability to love and be loved, than most earthbound authors will in a lifetime" (Vanity Fair). In The First Bad Man, Miranda July tells the story of Cheryl, a vulnerable, uptight woman in her early forties who lives alone, with a perpetual lump in her throat, unable to cry. Cheryl is haunted by a baby boy she met when she was six; she also believes she has a profound connection with Phillip, a philandering board member at Open Palm, the women's self-defense studio where she has worked for twenty years. When Cheryl's bosses ask if their twenty-one-year-old daughter Clee can move into her house for a little while, Cheryl's eccentrically ordered world explodes. And yet it is Clee--the selfish, cruel blond bombshell--who teaches Cheryl what it means to love and be loved and, inadvertently, provides the solace of a lifetime. "Brilliant, hilarious, irreverent, piercing--The First Bad Man powers past sexual boundaries and gender identification into the surprising galaxy of primal connection" (O, The Oprah Magazine). This is a spectacularly original, unsettling, accomplished, and moving first novel with a tender and beguiling happy ending.

El Primer Hombre Malo / the First Bad Man: a Novel

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Carrie Brownstein

Before Carrie Brownstein became a music icon, she was a young girl growing up in the Pacific Northwest just as it was becoming the setting for one of the most important movements in rock history. This book is an intimate and revealing narrative of her escape from a turbulent family life into a world where music was the means toward self-invention, community, and rescue

Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl HB

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Juan Jose Millas

Juan Luis Arsuaga

El ingenio de Millás y la sabiduría de Arsuaga unidos para contar la vida como la mejor de las historias. «-Tú y yo podríamos asociarnos para hablar de la vida; levantaríamos un gran relato sobre la existencia. ¿Lo hacemos? -dijo el escritor. -Lo hacemos -contestó el paleontólogo.» Hace años que el interés por entender la vida, sus orígenes y su evolución resuena en la cabeza de Juan José Millás, de manera que se dispuso a conocer, junto a uno de los mayores especialistas de este país en la materia, Juan Luis Arsuaga, por qué somos como somos y qué nos ha llevado hasta donde estamos. La sabiduría del paleontólogo se combina en este libro con el ingenio y la mirada personal y sorprendente que tiene el escritor sobre la realidad. Porque Millás es un neandertal (o eso dice), y Arsuaga, a sus ojos, un sapiens. Así, a lo largo de muchos meses, los dos visitaron distintos lugares, muchos de ellos escenarios comunes de nuestra vida cotidiana, y otros, emplazamientos únicos donde todavía se pueden ver los vestigios de lo que fuimos, del lugar del que venimos. En esas salidas, que al lector pueden recordarle a las de don Quijote y Sancho, el sapiens trató de enseñar al neandertal cómo pensar como un sapiens y, sobre todo, que la prehistoria no es cosa del pasado: las huellas de la humanidad a través de los milenios se pueden encontrar en cualquier lugar, desde una cueva o un paisaje hasta un parque infantil o una tienda de peluches. Es la vida lo que late en este libro. La mejor de las historias. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION "The ingenuity of Millás and the wisdom of Arsuaga united to tell life as the best of stories. ‘You and I could get together to talk about life; we would create a great story about existence. Should we? said the writer. "We should," replied the paleontologist.’ For years, the interest in understanding life, its origins, and its evolution has resonated in Juan José Millás' head, so he set out to discover, along with one of the country's leading specialists in the field, Juan Luis Arsuaga, why we are the way we are and what has led us to the place we are. In this book, the wisdom of the paleontologist is combined with the wit and surprising outlook that the writer has on life. Because Millás is a Neanderthal (or so he says), and Arsuaga, in his eyes, a sapiens. Thus, over the course of many months, the two visited different places, many of them common backgrounds of our daily lives, and others, unique locations where you can still see the vestiges of what we were, of the place we came from. During these outings, which may remind the reader of those of Don Quixote and Sancho, the sapiens tried to teach the Neanderthal how to think like a sapiens and, above all, that prehistory is not a thing of the past: the traces of humanity through the millennia can be found anywhere from a cave or landscape to a playground or a stuffed animal store. It is life that beats in this book. The best of stories. "

La Vida Contada Por un Sapiens a un Neandertal / Life As Told by a Sapiens to a Neanderthal

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Carmen Maria Machado

Stories

Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction “[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”—Roxane Gay “In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”—Karen Russell In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In this electric and provocative debut, Machado bends genre to shape startling narratives that map the realities of women’s lives and the violence visited upon their bodies. A wife refuses her husband’s entreaties to remove the green ribbon from around her neck. A woman recounts her sexual encounters as a plague slowly consumes humanity. A salesclerk in a mall makes a horrifying discovery within the seams of the store’s prom dresses. One woman’s surgery-induced weight loss results in an unwanted houseguest. And in the bravura novella “Especially Heinous,” Machado reimagines every episode of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, a show we naïvely assumed had shown it all, generating a phantasmagoric police procedural full of doppelgängers, ghosts, and girls with bells for eyes. Earthy and otherworldly, antic and sexy, queer and caustic, comic and deadly serious, Her Body and Other Parties swings from horrific violence to the most exquisite sentiment. In their explosive originality, these stories enlarge the possibilities of contemporary fiction.

Her Body and Other Parties

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Naomi Alderman

One of the New York Times's Ten Best Books of 2017A Los Angeles Times Best Book of 2017One of the Washington Post's Ten Best Books of 2017An NPR Best Book of 2017One of Entertainment Weekly's Ten Best Books of 2017A Bustle Best Book of 2017A Paste Magazine Best Novel of 2017A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2017Winner of the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction One of President Obama's favorite reads of 2017 "The Power is our era's The Handmaid's Tale." --Ron Charles, Washington Post "Novels based on premises like the one at the core of The Power can quickly become little more than thought experiments, but Alderman dodges this trap deftly -- her writing is beautiful, and her intelligence seems almost limitless. She also has a pitch-dark sense of humor that she wields perfectly." --Michael Schaub, NPR A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice An Amazon Best Book of 2017 **WINNER OF THE 2017 BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION** What would happen if women suddenly possessed a fierce new power? In THE POWER, the world is a recognizable place: there's a rich Nigerian boy who lounges around the family pool; a foster kid whose religious parents hide their true nature; an ambitious American politician; a tough London girl from a tricky family. But then a vital new force takes root and flourishes, causing their lives to converge with devastating effect. Teenage girls now have immense physical power--they can cause agonizing pain and even death. And, with this small twist of nature, the world drastically resets. From award-winning author Naomi Alderman, THE POWER is speculative fiction at its most ambitious and provocative, at once taking us on a thrilling journey to an alternate reality, and exposing our own world in bold and surprising ways.

The Power

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Min Jin Lee

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST * A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN OF THE YEAR * NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2017 *A USA TODAY TOP TEN OF 2017 Roxane Gay's Favorite Book of 2017, Washington Post NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * #1 BOSTON GLOBE BESTSELLER * USA TODAY BESTSELLER In this gorgeous, page-turning saga, four generations of a poor Korean immigrant family fight to control their destiny in 20th-century Japan, exiled from a home they never knew. "There could only be a few winners, and a lot of losers. And yet we played on, because we had hope that we might be the lucky ones." In the early 1900s, teenaged Sunja, the adored daughter of a crippled fisherman, falls for a wealthy stranger at the seashore near her home in Korea. He promises her the world, but when she discovers she is pregnant--and that her lover is married--she refuses to be bought. Instead, she accepts an offer of marriage from a gentle, sickly minister passing through on his way to Japan. But her decision to abandon her home, and to reject her son's powerful father, sets off a dramatic saga that will echo down through the generations. Richly told and profoundly moving, Pachinko is a story of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty. From bustling street markets to the halls of Japan's finest universities to the pachinko parlors of the criminal underworld, Lee's complex and passionate characters--strong, stubborn women, devoted sisters and sons, fathers shaken by moral crisis--survive and thrive against the indifferent arc of history. *Includes reading group guide*

Pachinko (National Book Award Finalist)

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Jennifer Mathieu

Time to Fight Like a Girl

'I LOVE THIS BOOK SO MUCH!' Zoella '... this is my new favorite book. I'm proud to be a Moxie girl!' Jennifer Niven, author of All the Bright Places and Holding Up the Universe Vivian Carter is fed up. Fed up with her high school teachers who think the football team can do no wrong. Fed up with sexist dress codes, hallway harassment and gross comments from guys during class. But most of all, Viv Carter is fed up with always following the rules. Viv's mum was a tough-as-nails, punk rock Riot Grrrl in the '90s, and now Viv takes a page from her mother's past and creates Moxie, a feminist zine that she distributes anonymously to her classmates. She's just blowing off steam, but other girls respond and spread the Moxie message. As Viv forges friendships with other young women across the divides of cliques and popularity rankings, she realises that what she has started is nothing short of a girl revolution. TIME TO FIGHT LIKE A GIRL A page-turning read with a feminist message, for anyone who has ever had to deal with #everydaysexism 'MOXIE is sweet funny and fierce. Read this and then join the fight!' AMY POEHLER

Moxie

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Caitlin Moran

Piecing together common-sense observations with scenes from her own life, the author sheds new light on feminism, discussing the reasons why female rights and empowerment are essential issues for both women and society itself.

How to Be a Woman

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Maggie Nelson

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family Maggie Nelson's The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, offers a firsthand account of the complexities and joys of (queer) family-making. Writing in the spirit of public intellectuals such as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Nelson binds her personal experience to a rigorous exploration of what iconic theorists have said about sexuality, gender, and the vexed institutions of marriage and child-rearing. Nelson's insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry of this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.

The Argonauts

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Ahdaf Souief

Writings by British Muslim Women

The Things I Would Tell Youbrings together the works of over thirty established women writers of Muslim heritage, as well as young emerging artists currently leading the way on the UK's spoken word scene. Adhaf Soueif, Leila Aboulela, Warsan Shire, Kamila Shamsie and many others explore the universal themes of love, loss, identity, belonging and freedom in new fiction, poetry and prose specially written for this unique and timely anthology. Edited by award-winning poet and playwright Sabrina Mahfouz,The Things I Would Tell Youshowcases the talent and variety of female voices and is a creative call to arms for young women struggling to be heard. Sabrina Mahfouz is a British Egyptian playwright, poet and screenwriter. She was awarded the 2014 Fringe First Award forChef, and her most recent work,Clean, was produced by Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh) and transferred to New York in 2014. In 2012, David Schwimmer made his directorial stage debut with a production of Mahfouz's monologue,Dry Ice. Her first book,The Clean Collection, was published by Bloomsbury in 2014.

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