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Julia Song, CEO of Starlight Cosmetics, is at the height of her career. Then why does she feel like such a failure? Maybe because she's thirty and single, with a terrible track record at dating. And in the eyes of her Korean family, that is just unacceptable. It never really bothered her—that is, until her beloved grandmother drops the bomb that she is sick, and her dying wish is for Julia to get married. Impossible. So in a moment of weakness, Julia asks her family for help. Set her up on three dates to help her find The One. But it will never work—Julia is undateable.

Girlie, a thirty-something Filipinx-American, works a day job at a social-media moderation centre, flagging and removing the very worst that makes it on to the internet. She's good at it, too—dispassionate, unflinching, maybe because she learned by necessity to cauterise all her emotions when she was still a kid—so it's no surprise to anyone when the social-media company for which she works offers her a big pay rise and an office to start moderating its new venture: virtual-reality theme parks, stunning simulations of civilizations long-since dead.

Richly textured, compassionate, and at times hilarious, Cowboys and East Indians traces a journey from India to Wyoming and back again, introducing us along the way to characters who seem not quite to fit the circumstances in which they find themselves, but who nevertheless search for belonging—through unexpected common ground with their human neighbors or the abiding, if isolating, openness of the vast landscape of the West.

It’s 2015 and Maxine Thomas, the founder and creative director of the cult makeup company Reveal, has just been suspended by her own Board for a scandalous transgression. Housebound in her New York City apartment, where she awaits the verdict on her future, Max recounts her version of the events that have brought her to this moment.

Ning is a retired boxer, but to the customers who visit her nail salon, she is just another worker named Susan. On this summer's day, much like any other, the Susans buff and clip and polish and tweeze. They listen and smile and nod. But beneath this superficial veneer, Ning is a woman of rigorous intellect and profound complexity. A woman enthralled by the intricacy and rhythms of her work, but also haunted by memories of paths not taken and opportunities lost. A woman navigating the complex power dynamics among her fellow Susans, whose greatest fears and desires lie just behind the gossip they exchange.

From the bestselling author of Superfan comes a haunting novel about the long-unacknowledged demons that are passed down through four generations of women in a Chinese Canadian family, and what it might take for them to finally break free of the past.

Een indringend portret van een van Amerika's meest bepalende tijdperken: de Grote Depressie van de jaren dertig. Texas, 1934. Miljoenen mensen zitten zonder werk en langdurige droogte heeft het leven op de Great Plains stevig in zijn greep. Boeren vechten om hun land en hun inkomsten te behouden aangezien de oogsten schraal zijn, het water opdroogt en stofstormen hen dreigen te begraven. Een van de donkerste episodes van de -Grote Depressie, de periode van de Dust Bowl, is aangebroken.

A boy wakes up with a knife in his hand. It’s the early ’90s in Stockton, CA, when Christian is caught sleepwalking in the kitchen by his family—the beginning of a curse unleashed by an aunt. To save Christian and the family from the curse, the family seeks out a curandero who promises salvation, but at a price Christian wishes he didn’t have to pay.

Harper Lee remains a landmark figure in the American canon – thanks to Scout, Jem, Atticus, and the other indelible characters in her Pulitzer-winning debut, To Kill a Mockingbird; as well as for the darker, late-’50s version of small-town Alabama that emerged in Go Set a Watchman, her only other novel, published in 2015 after its rediscovery. The Land of Sweet Forever combines Lee’s early short fiction and later nonfiction in a volume offering an unprecedented look at the development of her inimitable voice.

Con la concesión del premio Nobel de Literatura a Bob Dylan quedó de manifiesto algo que millones de lectores ya sabíamos desde hace tiempo: muchos de los grandes compositores contemporáneos son también grandes poetas. En el caso de Johnny Cash, no solamente su música y su voz son sin duda referentes indiscutibles de la cultura contemporánea, sino que sus canciones a menudo retratan pequeñas historias contadas en verso, como si pertenecieran a la añeja tradición de la poesía oral musicalizada.

Cambridge, 2018. La relación de Ana y Luis está en crisis, a pesar de sus muchas similitudes, entre ellas, sus madres que huyeron de El Salvador durante la guerra. En su búsqueda de respuestas, y en contra de su mejor juicio, Ana utiliza El Defractor, un dispositivo experimental que permite a los usuarios echar un vistazo a versiones alternativas de sus vidas. Lo que ve, los lleva a ella y a Luis por La Habana y San Salvador en búsqueda de las historias familiares que están desesperados por conocer y ansiosos por saber si lo que podría haber sido arreglaría lo que es.

Lola Treasure Gold can’t figure out her life. She’s broke, she’s unemployed, she’s back in her childhood home, a crumbling cottage in the Hollywood Hills. Worse, unspeakably worse, one of her closest friends has just died. So nobody is more surprised than Lola when a jackpot falls in her lap: she stars in an accidental Very Viral Video, opening a path for her to become an even more accidental self-help guru.

Lola Treasure Gold can’t figure out her life. She’s broke, she’s unemployed, she’s back in her childhood home, a crumbling cottage in the Hollywood Hills. Worse, unspeakably worse, one of her closest friends has just died. So nobody is more surprised than Lola when a jackpot falls in her lap: she stars in an accidental Very Viral Video, opening a path for her to become an even more accidental self-help guru.

May 1998: Mimi Traung and her baby daughter Ngan wait restlessly at the gates of Philadelphia airport. There is still a day’s travelling left before they would land back home on Vietnamese soil. While they prepare to board, the unimaginable happens. Seventeen years later, two best friends are discussing their summer plans before college over a piece of mooncake. Both have trips ahead in search of their roots: Sabrina is preparing to travel to China to meet her mother’s family.

Freedom reverberates in Skye Jackson’s breathtaking debut, Libre, with evocative poems that are heart-wrenching, haunting, sensual, and tender. This collection explores the experiences of a young Black woman in New Orleans as she navigates the pull of familial and romantic relationships, celebrating the joys of Blackness, art, and friendship. Libre also includes Jackson’s award-winning poem “can we touch your hair?” which was hand selected by former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins for inclusion in the Library of Congress Poetry 180 Project.

A long poem in Kerouac’s freewheeling and spontaneous improvisational style, Mexico City Blues is a unique epic of sound, rhythm, and religion. Called superb sensory meditations, the poetry takes in life, death, and spirituality but roams widely across continents and cultures. Memories, fantasies, dreams, and surrealistic free association are all lyrically combined in the loose format inspired by jazz and the blues.

Für Betty war er die Rettung aus existenzieller Not. Für Florence eine Bürde und der Ort ihrer schlimmsten Niederlage. Für Mariel ist er ein Traum, in dem sie sich selbst verwirklicht. Für Julia ist er eine bloße Legende, die nichts mehr mit ihr zu tun hat: Im ›Lakeside Supper Club‹ am Bear Jaw Lake in Minnesota trotzen vier Frauen dem Leben auf ganz unterschiedliche Weise ihr Quäntchen Glück ab.

Mesopotopia explores the vast sweep of our accelerating, precipitous world. From the cradle to the grave, from the mysterious poetic origins of Mesopotamia to our own dystopias of the twenty-first century, Anne Waldman crafts a singular, radical investigation into the syncretic layers of quantum space and dreamtime.