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In a powerful confluence of history, culture and color, poet and author Jackie Kay tells the story of the legendary American singer and songwriter Bessie Smith, known in her day as the Empress of the Blues. As an orphaned child, born in 1894 (or 1895; statistics about Black Americans were not considered important enough to
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by Robert Greene ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 1, 1998 The authors have created a sort of anti-Book of Virtues in this encyclopedic compendium of the ways and means of power. Everyone wants power and everyone is in a constant duplicitous game to gain more power at the expense of others, according to Greene, a screenwriter
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In this thriller, an investigative journalist gets unwittingly caught up in a conspiracy when someone seems to be killing misogynistic Silicon Valley men. Lou McCarthy prides herself on reporting the truth, even if it means exposing a man with power and connections. Her latest article for the Bay Area Herald centers on the CTO of Raum,
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Today’s Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals Reincarnation Blues by Michael Poore for $1.99 I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong for $1.99 The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness for $1.99 Pitch Dark by Courtney Alameda for $2.99 The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur
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by Suzanne Lang ; illustrated by Max Lang ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 15, 2018 It’s a wonderful day in the jungle, so why’s Jim Panzee so grumpy? When Jim woke up, nothing was right: “The sun was too bright, the sky was too blue, and bananas were too sweet.” Norman the gorilla asks Jim why
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Today’s Featured Deals In Case You Missed Yesterday’s Most Popular Deals Previous Daily Deals The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness for $1.99 Pitch Dark by Courtney Alameda for $2.99 The Unlikely Adventures of the Shergill Sisters by Balli Kaur Jaswal for $1.99 Dorothy Must Die by Danielle Paige for $1.99 Vita Nostra by Marina
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by Anthony Doerr ‧ RELEASE DATE: Sept. 28, 2021 An ancient Greek manuscript connects humanity’s past, present, and future. “Stranger, whoever you are, open this to learn what will amaze you” wrote Antonius Diogenes at the end of the first century C.E.—and millennia later, Pulitzer Prize winner Doerr is his fitting heir. Around Diogenes’ manuscript,
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On Wednesday, Deadline announced that Sue Grafton’s beloved Alphabet Series, which tragically ended with Y Is for Yesterday after Grafton’s unexpected passing in late 2017, will be adapted for television by A + E Studios. Book-to-screen adaptations, with the rise of streaming service production companies, have certainly grown in popularity, making this a prime property
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by Caroline Adderson ; illustrated by Stéphane Jorisch ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 7, 2020 Sweet Street had just one baker, Monsieur Oliphant, until two new confectionists move in, bringing a sugar rush of competition and customers. First comes “Cookie Concocter par excellence” Mademoiselle Fee and then a pie maker, who opens “the divine Patisserie Clotilde!”
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Is keeping up with all of the attacks on intellectual freedom getting tiring? Of course it is. But to keep these conversations going and ignite change, we need to continue bringing up challenges and books being pulled in order to highlight exactly how wide spread and endemic this is. Each of these stories hit the
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The Swedish Academy has awarded the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature to the novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah for his “uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of the refugee in the gulf between cultures and continents.” The Tanzanian author, who now resides in the United Kingdom, is the author of 10
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