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Praiseworthy is an epic set in the north of Australia, told with
the richness of language and scale of imagery for which Alexis
Wright has become renowned. In a small Aboriginal town dominated by
a haze cloud, which heralds both an ecological catastrophe and a
gathering of the ancestors, a crazed visionary seeks out a solution
to the global climate crisis and the economic dependency of the
Aboriginal people. His wife seeks solace from his madness in
following the dance of butterflies and scouring the internet to
find out how she can seek repatriation for her Aboriginal and
Chinese family to China. One of their sons, called Aboriginal
Sovereignty, is determined to commit suicide. The other, Tommyhawk,
wishes his brother dead so that he can pursue his dream of becoming
white and powerful. This is a novel which pushes allegory and
language to its limits, a cry of outrage against oppression and
disadvantage, and both a sharp satire and a thoughtful fable for
the end of days.
The highly anticipated second volume to the widely acclaimed and
celebrated self-portrait series, Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark
Lioness
In Somnyama Ngonyama, Hail the Dark Lioness, Volume II, Zanele Muholi
explores and expands upon new personas and poetic interpretations of
personhood, queerness, Blackness, and the possibilities of self. Since
the publication of the first volume in 2018, Muholi has continued to
photograph themself in a range of new international locations. Drawing
on material props found in each environment, Muholi boldly explores
their own image and innate possibilities as a Black individual in
today’s global society, and—most important—speaks emphatically in
response to contemporary and historical racisms. Renée Mussai, curator
and historian, brings together written contributions from more than ten
curators, poets, and authors, building a poetic and experimental
framework that extends the idea of speculative futures and the
potentiality of multivalent selves. Powerfully arresting, this
collection further amplifies Muholi’s expressive and radical manifesto.
As they state in the first volume, “My practice as a visual activist
looks at Black resistance—existence as well as insistence.”
Is life getting on top of you? Do you dream of being stranded on an
island just for some alone time? Are you currently standing on a
chair, screaming, â€Enough is enough!’? I get it. Your diary is
full and your brain is racing. The hectic world we live in demands
so much of you, it can be exhausting to keep up. You crave spa days
and holidays to recharge but, while they offer short-term respite,
they don’t give you the long-term rejuvenation you really need.
Well, come down off that chair, open up this book, and feel your
stress float away. To achieve complete rest, we need to
develop eight different rest habits. Packed with simple activities,
backed by science and personal experiences, calmism takes a fresh
look at the eight essential habits for rest and offers a menu of
easy-fit options to give you the variety that’s key to wellbeing.
With just a few minutes’ attention each day, you can cultivate
positive, daily habits that stick, to help you feel ultimately
revitalised. Welcome to calmism – a restful way to take
control of your energy and find that tranquil island within.
Liyah, a young Congolese woman, living in Johannesburg, takes on the responsibility of supporting her mother and siblings after the passing of her father.
Frustrated from struggling and working minimum wage jobs, Liyah takes a chance and responds to an online advertisement for a surrogate. Rick, a wealthy American, who is known for his impulsive and carefree playboy behaviour, faces losing his inheritance and his family business if he does not produce an heir. Liyah and Rick are the complete opposite of one another, indomitable forces that collide with each other, yet they are about to change each other’s lives.
Dappling in lust, love and lies; Traded is a gamble of the unexpected, a dangerous crossing of boundaries and infinite treachery. Not everyone makes it out alive.
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When in Rome (DVD)
Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel, Anjelica Huston, Will Arnett, Jon Heder, …
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Romantic comedy starring Kristen Bell, Josh Duhamel and Danny
DeVito. Beth Harper (Bell) is a young, career-driven New Yorker who
has hitherto been very unlucky in love. While on a whirlwind trip
to Rome for her sister's wedding, she is attracted to the best man,
Nick (Duhamel), but is dismayed to see him with another woman and
turns to drink to drown her disappointment. In her drunken state
she delves for coins in the famed 'Fontana de Amore', and is amazed
on her return to New York to find herself being pursued by not one
but five love-crazed men - including the delectable Nick. But is he
really in love with her, or simply under the fountain's spell?
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Laid in America (DVD)
Ksi, Caspar Lee, Bobby Lee, Angela Trimbur, Madison Iseman, …
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KSI and Caspar Lee star in this comedy co-written and directed by
Sam Milman and Peter Vass. Foreign exchange students Duncan (KSI)
and Jack (Lee) have one night remaining in America and one final
chance to lose their virginity with the girls of their dreams. With
the girls at a party they aren't invited to, the boys must come up
with an alternative way of getting in. As they embark on a
desperate adventure which sees them cross paths with dangerous
gangsters and sleazy drug dealers along the way, the friends must
work together in order to achieve their goal before catching the
flight home.
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Mercenaries (DVD)
Nicole Bilderback, Alexis Raich, Kristanna Loken, Cynthia Rothrock, Gerald Webb, …
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Action thriller about an all-female team of mercenaries. When the
president's daughter is kidnapped during a visit to war-ravaged
Tajikistan, four disgraced soldiers are offered release from prison
if they agree to help the CIA in their rescue mission. The agency
select to form an elite female team including: the tough Raven
(Vivica A. Fox), sniper specialist Kat Morgan (Kristanna Loken) and
explosive expert Mei-Lin Fong (Nicole Bilderback) with Cassandra
Clay (Zoë Bell) as the group's leader. But after one of their own
unit turns against them during the escape, the girls are forced to
tackle kidnapper and aspiring dictator Ulrika (Brigitte Nielsen)
head on.
FAKE AMNESIA. REAL FEELINGS? REAL PROBLEMS.
Sam Becker loves―or, okay, likes―his job. Sure, managing a bed and bath retailer isn't exactly glamorous, but it's good work and he gets on well with the band of misfits who keep the store running. He could see himself being content here for the long haul. Too bad, then, that the owner is an infuriating git.
Jonathan Forest should never have hired Sam. It was a sentimental decision, and Jonathan didn't get where he is by following his heart. Determined to set things right, Jonathan orders Sam down to London for a difficult talk…only for a panicking Sam to trip, bump his head, and maybe accidentally imply he doesn't remember anything?
Faking amnesia seemed like a good idea when Sam was afraid he was getting sacked, but now he has to deal with the reality of Jonathan's guilt―as well as the unsettling fact that his surly boss might have a softer side to him. There's an unexpected freedom in getting a second shot at a first impression…but as Sam and Jonathan grow closer, can Sam really bring himself to tell the truth, or will their future be built entirely on one impulsive lie?
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Patina (Spanish Edition)
Jason Reynolds; Translated by Alexis Romay
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House of Hunger
Alexis Henderson
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Your Step-by-Step Guide for Bold, Brilliant Mosaic Crochet
Masterpieces Capture the art of mosaic crochet and craft gothic
colorwork creations with ease! From Alexis Sixel, the creator of
Sixel Design, comes the ultimate all-in-one resource for the
addictive technique of overlay mosaic crochet. Under Alexis's
expert guidance, you'll effortlessly master all the essential
skills in no time. Learn to read mosaic charts, crochet border
stitches and create the unique special stitches that Alexis has
personally spent years developing and perfecting--all before moving
on to the edgy, eye-catching works of crochet art on every page.
From quick, exciting projects like the Heartbreaker Zipper Pouch to
wearable designs like the Poison Skull Cap to dramatic home décor
like the damask-style Victorian Pillow, you'll never run out of
vibrant creations to crochet. Perfect for beginners, each of these
dazzling designs is quick to come together and is paired with clear
step-by-step images and encouraging instructions to guarantee your
stitching success. So, grab your hooks and get started! Your dark
and dramatic side has never looked so good.
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Gnat vs. Spyder (Hardcover)
Andrea Towers; Illustrated by Alexis Jauregui
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Thirteen-year-old Natalie lives a double life. By day, she's an
average eighth grader at Golden Trails Middle. At night, she's
Gnat112, a streamer for her favorite video game, Alienlord. But
when the new girl moves in next door, will Natalie's double life be
revealed? Natalie has a secret. She's a gamer. By day, Natalie is
an average eighth grade student. At night, she's Gnat112! Living a
double life is hard . . . and keeping a secret from your friends is
even harder. In this illustrated middle grade book (the first of an
all-new series, Gamer Girls), Natalie and her three BFFs learn to
navigate the gamer world together, one girl at a time. This series
is a great read for gamers and gamer enthusiasts of all kinds.
Plus, there's the occasional middle school drama . . . if only
Natalie could battle math teachers like video game aliens!
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Saint X (Paperback)
Alexis Schaitkin
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The Gamer Girls love playing their newest racing video
game, Fast Pursuit Horizon, together. But what happens
when Lucy's cousin comes to visit and throws every thing out of
control? This is the third book in the illustrated Gamer Girls
series! Lucy is the newest member of the Gamer Girls. She loves her
new school, her family, and her friends, but she misses her old
life in California, too. After unsuccessfully trying to convince
her parents to let her visit California, they decide to bring her
aunt and cousin Jordan to HER! +10 XP for awesome parents.
Unfortunately, Jordan's presence causes a stir with the Gamer Girls
. . . suddenly, like Lucy's race car in her newest video game
obsession Fast Pursuit Horizon, she feels totally OUT OF
CONTROL! In this third book of the series Gamer Girls, four
friends navigate the video game world and the middle
school world . . . if only they could solve drama as easily as they
defeat monsters! This series is perfect for readers who love video
games. Out of Control includes 25 black-and-white illustrations
throughout.
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Here in the Dark
Alexis Soloski
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By night, Vivian Parry performs the role of Manhattan’s sharpest
theatre critic, immersing herself fully in every show she sees. By
day, she uses work, sex, and psychotropic drugs to keep her
comfortably numb. Desperate for a promotion and at the urging of
her editor, she agrees to an interview with David Adler, an
enigmatic graduate student. When he later disappears, Vivian soon
learns from his devastated fiancée that she was the last person to
have seen him alive. The police refuse to investigate his
disappearance and Vivian finds herself obsessed with what happened,
assuming the role of amateur investigator. But as she gets closer
to the truth about David Adler, she finds that the boundaries
between theatre and reality are more tenuous than even she could
have believed.
The abridged edition of the enduring masterwork--a classic
portrait of America's culture and people
Originally penned in the mid-nineteenth century by Frenchman
Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy in America" remains the most
comprehensive, penetrating, and astute picture of American life,
politics, and morals ever written, as relevant today as when it
first appeared in print nearly two hundred years ago.
This abridged edition by scholar and historian Scott A. Sandage
includes a new introduction and editorial notes, and offers
students and the general reader alike easy access to the preeminent
translation by George Lawrence, widely recognized as the best
translation based on the second revised and corrected text of the
1961 French edition, edited by J. P. Mayer.
Winner of the Pushkin House Russian Book Prize Winner of the
University of Southern California Book Prize Honorable Mention,
Reginald Zelnik Book Prize “Fascinating and perceptive.”
—Antony Beevor, New York Review of Books “Stand aside, Homer. I
doubt whether even the author of the Iliad could have matched
Alexis Peri’s account of the 872-day siege which Leningrad
endured.” —Jonathan Mirsky, The Spectator “Powerful and
illuminating…A fascinating, insightful, and nuanced work.”
—Anna Reid, Times Literary Supplement “Much has been written
about Leningrad’s heroic resistance. But the remarkable aspect of
[Peri’s] book is that she tells a very different story:
recounting the internal struggles of ordinary people desperately
trying to survive and make sense of their fate.” —John
Thornhill, Financial Times “A sensitive, at times almost poetic
examination of their emotions and disordered mental states. It both
contrasts with and complements the equally accurate official Soviet
portrait of a stalwart population standing firm in the face of evil
and in defense of Soviet ideals.” —Robert Legvold, Foreign
Affairs In September 1941, two and a half months after the Nazis
invaded the Soviet Union, the German Wehrmacht encircled Leningrad.
Cut off from the rest of Russia, the city remained blockaded for
872 days, at a cost of almost a million lives. It was one of the
longest and deadliest sieges in modern history. The War Within
chronicles the Leningrad blockade from the perspective of those who
endured it. Drawing on unpublished diaries, Alexis Peri tells the
tragic story of how young and old struggled to make sense of a
world collapsing around them. When the blockade was lifted in 1944,
Kremlin officials censored publications describing the ordeal and
arrested many of Leningrad’s wartime leaders. Some were executed.
Diaries—now dangerous to their authors—were concealed, shelved
in archives, and forgotten. The War Within recovers these lost
accounts, shedding light on one of World War II’s darkest
episodes while paying tribute the resilience of the human spirit.
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER AN NPR CONCIERGE BEST BOOK OF
THE YEAR "In her form-shattering and myth-crushing book....Coe
examines myths with mirth, and writes history with humor... [You
Never Forget Your First] is an accessible look at a president who
always finishes in the first ranks of our leaders." -Boston Globe
Alexis Coe takes a closer look at our first--and finds he is not
quite the man we remember Young George Washington was raised by a
struggling single mother, demanded military promotions, caused an
international incident, and never backed down--even when his
dysentery got so bad he had to ride with a cushion on his saddle.
But after he married Martha, everything changed. Washington became
the kind of man who named his dog Sweetlips and hated to leave
home. He took up arms against the British only when there was no
other way, though he lost more battles than he won. After an
unlikely victory in the Revolutionary War cast him as the nation's
hero, he was desperate to retire, but the founders pressured him
into the presidency--twice. When he retired years later, no one
talked him out of it. He left the highest office heartbroken over
the partisan nightmare his backstabbing cabinet had created. Back
on his plantation, the man who fought for liberty must confront his
greatest hypocrisy--what to do with the men, women, and children he
owns--before he succumbs to death. With irresistible style and warm
humor, You Never Forget Your First combines rigorous research and
lively storytelling that will have readers--including those who
thought presidential biographies were just for dads--inhaling every
page.
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