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The anti-rom-com debut collection that took Nigeria by storm, featuring twelve outrageous, bold, and laugh-out-loud stories about the perils and pitfalls of dating men in Lagos, from a rising star of Nollywood. One night, you will calmly put a knife to your husband's penis and promise to cut it off. It will scare him so much that the next day, he will call his family members for a meeting in the house. He will not call your family members, but you will not care. You won't need them. In this remarkable short story collection, Damilare Kuku takes us deep into the heart of modern Lagos, Nigeria's largest city, and the lives of a collection of audacious women who cope with romantic difficulties by brilliantly turning the tables on the men who wrong them.One hardworking married woman calmly threatens sharp-edged revenge on her lazy, hypocritical husband. Another skillfully protects her own business interests by shielding her pastor-husband from allegations of cheating that may or may not be true. A group of wealthy wives deceived by their husbands join forces in a WhatsApp support group called the Virtuous Wives Guild. And a discerning dater fed up with Nigerian men makes a vow to only date oyibos, only to discover that white men can act just as badly.A runaway bestseller in Damilare Kuku's native Nigeria, Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad is a raunchy, satisfying, and outrageous read steeped in the chaos and allure of sub-Saharan Africa's largest city. It's also a love letter to Nigerian women: the women in these stories may be confronted at every turn with liars, scammers, and cheaters in their quests for love, but they always figure out how to come out victorious.

Two feuding neighbors unite to resurrect a neglected city garden in this uplifting and quietly joyful novel by Sara Nisha Adams, author of the beloved The Reading List.

Nur die Ruhe und die frische Herbstluft am Ufer des Lechs genießen. Auf dieses seit längerem erste, wieder einmal freie Wochenende hatte sich der Chef der Augsburger Kripo schon gefreut.Der leitende Kriminalhauptkommissar wird aber plötzlich dazu gezwungen, die Leiche von Erna Gebinger aus dem Wasser zu fischen.Die Ermittlungen der Umstände, die zum bizarren Tod der alten Dame aus Rain führten, entwickeln sich letztendlich zu einem echten Rain-Fall.

A GIRL SICK OF THE BIG CITY. After losing both her financier boyfriend and her internship at a fashion magazine, Jessica feels her urban chick-lit life is beginning to fall apart. Then… A SINGLE PHONE CALL CHANGES EVERYTHING. Her grandmother has suffered a stroke, and the family homestead needs Jessica's help to survive. Ditching the fancy heels, Jessica heads back home. Soon she finds that life on the farm isn't quite what she'd remembered. She's got new responsibilities to meet, new technologies to learn, and new battles to win for respect. AND THE HARDEST TASK OF ALL. Will Jessica come to terms with the secrets of her own past? Or will she continue to avoid facing the difficult question that troubles her? Roll up your sleeves and begin a journey into the story of one woman who returned to a different, more traditional way of life.It's down-to-earth. It's real. It's Girl Seeking Farm.

In the third and final novel in the Lund sibling series, Where We Live continues the story of four siblings, separated in childhood, reunited and now middle-aged, as they navigate urban Vancouver life, work, relationships, and parenting in the late 2010s. With their familial bond shaped by their divergent adult experiences as well as their shared early childhood in a rural West Coast community, the lives of these siblings cross, separate, and rejoin yet again, in paths informed by nature and by nurture. Subject to the pressures of their environment and remembered or forgotten family history each sibling struggles to realize their aspirations in their search for a true home.

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • This magisterial, intimate look at Black womanhood "follows three women whose various traumas haunt them literally and metaphorically, as it explores what it means to be a Black woman in America today" (The New York Times Book Review, Editor's Choice).A middle-aged woman feed slots at a secret back-room parlor. A new mother descends into a devastating postpartum depression, wracked with the fear that she is unable to protect her children. A daughter returns home to join the other women in her family waging spiritual combat with the ghosts of their past. An Autobiography of Skin is a dazzling and masterful portrait of interconnected generations in the South from a singular new voice, offering a raw and tender view into the interior lives of Black women. It is at once a powerful look at how experiences are carried inside the body, inside the flesh and skin, and a joyous testament to how healing can be found within—in love, mercy, gratitude, and freedom.

"Woke up no light is a Black girl's saunter turned to a woman's defiant strut. These are the hymns of a new generation of poetry. Young, alive, yearning. A mouth swung open and ready to devour. A quest for home in a world that knows only wasteland and wanting. Moving in sections from "girlhood" to "neighborhood" to "falsehood" to, finally, "womanhood," these poems reckon with themes of reparations, restitution, and desire. The collection is sharp and raw, wise and rhythmic, a combination that lights up each page. From unearthing histories to searching for ways to dream of a future in a world constantly on the brink of disaster, this young poet sets forth personal and political revelation with piercing detail"--

A WASHINGTON POST BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR • Through the curious life of Dick Kallman—a real-life celebrity striver, poisonously charming actor, and eventual murder victim—the unforgiving worlds of postwar showbiz and down-low gay sexuality are thrown into stark relief in this “page-turning blast” (James Ellroy, author of Widespread Panic)"Engrossing…[A] keen portrait of 1980s New York…a pensive, often gorgeous depiction of…gay life in Manhattan before Stonewall and life on the cusp of the AIDS epidemic." —The Washington PostDick Kallman was an up-and-coming actor in the fifties and sixties—until he wasn’t. A costar on Broadway, a member of Lucille Ball’s historic Desilu workshop, and finally a primetime TV actor, Dick had hustled to get his big break. But just as soon as his star began to rise, his roles began to dry up and he faded from the spotlight, his name out of tabloids and newspapers until his sensational murder in 1980.Through the eyes of his occasional pianist and longtime acquaintance Matt Liannetto, a tenderhearted but wry observer often on the fringes of Broadway’s big moments, Kallman’s life and death come into appallingly sharp focus. The actor’s yearslong, unrequited love for a fellow performer brings out a competitive, vindictive edge in him. Whenever a new door opens, Kallman rushes unwittingly to close it.  Even as he walks over other people, he can never get out of his own way.As Matt pores over the life of this handsome could-have-been, Up With the Sun re-creates the brassy, sometimes brutal world that shaped Kallman, capturing his collisions with not only Lucille Ball, but an array of stars from Sophie Tucker to Judy Garland and Johnny Carson. Part crime story, part showbiz history, and part love story, this is a crackling novel about personal demons and dangerously suppressed passions that spans thirty years of gay life—the whole tumultuous era from the Kinsey Report through Stonewall and, finally, AIDS.

Drei Kinder. Ein Schiff. Ein tragisches Ereignis.1965. Kapitän Bremel befährt zusammen mit seiner Familie den Rhein. Hanne, Markus und Ben wachsen auf dem Küstenmotorschiff auf und sind voller Träume - bis ein dramatischer Unfall ihr Leben vom Kurs abkommen lässt. Bei dem Versuch, mit der Tragödie fertig zu werden, droht ein jeder daran zu zerbrechen.Als Jahre später ein Mord geschieht, ahnt Hanne nicht, dass sie sich den Ereignissen ihrer Kindheit stellen muss.Die bewegende Geschichte einer Familie vom Niederrhein, deren Schicksal eng mit dem mächtigen Wasserlauf verflochten ist.

'You ask what they are looking for, those keen-eyed girls who comb the shore?It's pretty shells tossed onto land, small bits of glass smoothed by the sand,and any other awesome find of the odd or surprising kind.You might see trash; they see a gem. I know, because I'm one of them.'Girls Who Comb the Shore, the second collaboration of artist Christina Gray and poet Silke Stein, is a beautiful homage to the joys and thrills of beachcombing, perfect for everyone who feels drawn to the shore and its treasures.48 pages, full color, 8 x 8 inches

"Together, schoolteacher Rachelle Lapp and auctioneer Toby Miller must face their hardest battle yet: trusting God's plan for their uncertain future. At twenty-nine, auctioneer Toby Miller is a notorious bachelor. But his job keeps him on the road for months out of the year, and he knows no Plain woman could want a marriage that would force her to live and raise children alone. Thankfully, Toby's content to dedicate his life to the family business, especially now that his grandfather is retiring. So why does his heart keep longing for something--or more specifically, someone--he can't have? Rachelle Lapp has already turned down two marriage proposals. Neither promised a future that would bring her more joy than her job as a teacher to Amish children with developmental disabilities, including her brother, Jonah, and Toby's sister, Sadie. But when the parents' committee votes to send her students to the English schools, where they will have access to many more resources, Rachelle finds herself out of a job. She's forced to decide between pursuing her calling far from home and staying near to the man she can't get off her mind. As their families matchmake, Toby and Rachelle realize their jobs may not be all that's holding them back from a future together. They both must learn not only to trust each other, but also trust God's plans for them. But do those plans involve a lifetime together or them going their separate ways?"--

"This is a ghost story. A junkie has gone to El Zapotal to die - to rent a room in this crumbling backwater, melt into one last fix, and not come back. For someone so ready to no longer be alive, though, he can't stop clinging to the past. His old dog, Kid, who he abandoned. His love, Valerie, who he introduced to drugs. There's no such thing as a good memory. El Zapotal doesn't want him either. The people aren't welcoming, the streets are empty except for strays, and he's having trouble pacing his supply. As the drugs run out, the line between what's real and what's not blurs to the point of illegibility, and we're left wandering a tenderly described hinterland of despair, hunger, and regret."--

Tradition Isn't the Only Thing on the Line This Christmas As Christmas rounds the bend, Eliza Lee Elliott struggles with her grandfather's death. Though her faith has carried her through the grief, working at the Appalachian Express has kept her sane, especially her new task of coordinating The Santa Run. Pine Valley's oldest tradition not only serves the community, the run gives her purpose. Bennett Olsen is tired of city life. Something's got to give, and when McCoy Railway purchases the Appalachian Express, it gives in a big way. Supervising the Kentucky acquisition is his chance to slow down and win back the attention of his boss--and father--with a job well done. When an accident threatens the Santa Run, Eliza and Bennett are pushed together at every turn, making their growing attraction impossible to ignore. As time ticks down to the event, tradition isn't the only thing in jeopardy. Hearts are on the line, with or without a train on the tracks.

In her first novel since Insurrecto, Gina Apostol assembles a vision of Philippine history from the 19th century to present day in the fragmented story of the Delgados, a family surviving across generations of colonization, catastrophe, and war.Rosario, a Filipina novelist in New York City, has just learned of her mother’s death in the Philippines. Instead of rushing home, she puts off her return by embarking on a remote investigation into her family’s history and her mother’s supposed inheritance, a place called La Tercera, which may or may not exist. Rosario catalogs generations of Delgado family bequests and detritus: maps of uncertain purpose, rusted chicken coops, a secret journal, the words to songs sung at the family home during visits from Imelda Marcos.Each life Rosario explores opens onto an array of other lives and raises a multitude of new questions. But as the search for La Tercera becomes increasingly labyrinthine, Rosario’s mother and the entire Delgado family emerge in all their dizzying complexity: traitors and heroes, reactionaries and revolutionaries. Meanwhile, another narrative takes shape—of the country’s erased history of exploitation and slaughter at the hands of American occupying forces.La Tercera is Gina Apostol’s most ambitious, personal, and encompassing novel: a story about what seems impossible—capturing the truth of the past—and the terrible cost to a family, or a country, that fails to try.

Inspektor Meininger ermittelt in drei verschiedenen Fällen. Schafft er es alle drei Fälle mit seinem detektivischen Gespür zu lösen?

**Winner of the 2024 National Book Foundation Science + Literature Award**An affordable paperback edition of Arthur Sze's Collected Works—which includes many new poems—by one of the most astonishing poets writing today.The Glass Constellation is a triumph spanning five decades, including ten poetry collections and twenty-six new poems, from National Book Award winner Arthur Sze. Sze began his career writing compressed, lyrical poems influenced by classical Chinese poetry; he later made a leap into powerful polysemous sequences, honing a distinct stylistic signature that harnesses luminous particulars, and is sharply focused, emotionally resonant, and structurally complex. Fusing elements of Chinese, Japanese, Native American, and various Western experimental traditions―employing startling juxtapositions that are always on target, deeply informed by concern for our endangered planet and troubled species―Sze presents experience in all its multiplicities, in singular book after book. This collection is an invitation to immerse in a visionary body of work, mapping the evolution of one of our finest American poets.

Tauche ein in einen fesselnden Mystery-Thriller, in dem eine Liebe alle Grenzen überwindet - sogar den Tod!Liebe ist stärker als alles! Im kleinen Küstenort Büsum an der Nordsee spielt sich eine fesselnde Geschichte voller Spannung und Mysterien ab.Der Tod zweier junger Menschen steht im Mittelpunkt dieser packenden Erzählung. Inmitten der idyllischen Nordsee-Kulisse wird wahr, was der gesunde Menschenverstand nicht für möglich hält.Zwei beste Freundinnen kämpfen um die Rehabilitierung ihres wegen Mordes verurteilten Freundes. Ihre Suche führt sie zu einem mysteriösen Kontakt mit dem Jenseits, der sie dazu zwingt, eine geheime Akte zu erstellen und weiter nach dem wahren Mörder zu forschen. Ist die Polizei in diesem Fall Freund oder Feind? Werden sie es schaffen, ihren Freund zu retten und die Wahrheit ans Licht zu bringen?

A wealthy Australian mining magnate with Welsh ancestry plans to construct the world's greatest golf course on the west Wales coast. Supported by politicians in Cardiff but opposed by the local community, the Australian is prepared to go to any lengths to realise his ambition. Finally overcoming all obstacles, including an organised green lobby and a nature warden determined not to be bullied out of his home, his goal is in reach when a meeting with an unlikely source delivers a surprising outcome.The Cardigan Cuckoos is a one act comedy drama with contemporary themes of identity, privilege, community spirit, the distorting power of wealth and redemption for performance by up to 17 character parts.

From Jordan Peele, the director of Get Out, comes an anthology of brand new stories showcasing the best Black talent from across contemporary horror writing.