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Link : https://ipookselalu.blogspot.com/?abi=1984898876 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD WINNER&#8226 NATIONAL BESTSELLER&#8226&#8220Of all the stories that argue and speculate about Shakespeare&#8217 life ... here is a novel ... so gorgeously written that it transports you. &#8212The Boston GlobeEngland, 1580: The Black Death creeps across the land, an ever-present threat, infecting the healthy, the sick, the old and the young alike. The end of days is near, but life always goes on. A young Latin tutor&#8212penniless and bullied by a violent father&#8212falls in love with an extraordinary, eccentric young woman. Agnes is a wild creature who walks her family&#8217 land with a falcon on her glove and is known throughout the countryside for her unusual gifts as a healer, understanding

Link : https://ipookselalu.blogspot.com/?abi=183976385X National Book Critics Circle Award FinalistBest Book of Fall (Esquire) and a Most Anticipated Book of 2021 (Lit Hub)What Has Happened to Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism?Since it was first launched in 1994, Amazon has changed the world of literature. The &#8220Everything Store&#8221 has not just transformed how we buy books it has affected what we buy, and even what we read. In Everything and Less, acclaimed critic Mark McGurl explores this new world where writing is no longer categorized as high or lowbrow, literature or popular fiction. Charting a course spanning from Henry James to E. L. James, McGurl shows that contemporary writing has less to do with writing per se than with the manner of its distribution. This cons

Link : https://ipookselalu.blogspot.com/?abi=1400095204 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FINALIST&#8226 From the award-winning, bestselling author of Americanah and We Should All Be Feminists&#8212a haunting story of love and war. &#8226 Recipient of theWomen&#8217 Prize for Fiction &#8220Winner of Winners&#8221 award.With effortless grace, celebrated author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie illuminates a seminal moment in modern African history: Biafra's impassioned struggle to establish an independent republic in southeastern Nigeria during the late 1960s. We experience this tumultuous decade alongside five unforgettable characters: Ugwu, a thirteen-year-old houseboy who works for Odenigbo, a university professor full of revolutionary zeal Olanna, the professor&#8217 beautiful young mistre

Link : https://ipookselalu.blogspot.com/?abi=B09J4ZQ4QL National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 2022'Mieko Kawakami is a genius' - Naoise Dolan, author of Exciting Times'Compact and supple, it&#8217 a strikingly intelligent feat.' &#8212 The New York Times Book ReviewFrom international literary sensation Mieko Kawakami comes All The Lovers In The Night, an extraordinary, deeply moving and insightful story set in contemporary Tokyo.Fuyuko Irie is a freelance proofreader in her thirties. Living alone, and unable to form meaningful relationships, she has little contact with anyone other than Hijiri, someone she works with. When she sees her reflection, she&#8217 confronted with a tired and spiritless woman who has failed to take control of her own life. Her one source of solace: ligh

Link : https://ipookselalu.blogspot.com/?abi=B009KEZ2Y6 National Book Award, Fiction, 2012One Sunday in the spring of 1988, a woman living on a reservation in North Dakota is attacked. The details of the crime are slow to surface as Geraldine Coutts is traumatized and reluctant to relive or reveal what happened, either to the police or to her husband, Bazil, and 13-year-old son, Joe. In one day, Joe's life is irrevocably transformed. He tries to heal his mother, but she will not leave her bed and slips into an abyss of solitude. Increasingly alone, Joe finds himself thrust prematurely into an adult world for which he is ill prepared. While his father, who is a tribal judge, endeavors to wrest justice from a situation that defies his efforts, Joe becomes frustrated with the official in

Link : https://ipookselalu.blogspot.com/?abi=B004GB0NTW NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER&#8226 Is love between equals possible? This modern classic is a delightful intellectual love story that explores the deepest canyons of romantic loveeven as it asks large questions about society, geopolitics, and the mystery of what men and women really want.&#8220Luminous&#8230Few books evoke the state of love at its apogee.&#8221 &#8212The New York Times Book Review &#8220The best rendering of erotic politics&#8230ince D.H. Lawrence&#8230The voice of Rush&#8217 narrator is immediate, instructive and endearing.&#8221&#8212The New York Review of BooksThe narrator of this splendidly expansive novel of high intellect and grand passion is an American anthropologist at loose ends in the South African repub

Link : https://ipookselalu.blogspot.com/?abi=0385539258 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTSHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEBrace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly an amazement&#8212and a great gift for its readers.When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world Malcolm, a frus

Link : https://ipookselalu.blogspot.com/?abi=B0BJ7W5RTH NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTSHORT-LISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEBrace yourself for the most astonishing, challenging, upsetting, and profoundly moving book in many a season. An epic about love and friendship in the twenty-first century that goes into some of the darkest places fiction has ever traveled and yet somehow improbably breaks through into the light. Truly an amazement&#8212and a great gift for its audiences.When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world Malcolm, a fr

Link : https://ipookselalu.blogspot.com/?abi=B079H3PXC8 National best-selling authors Carl Weber and Treasure Hernandez are back with their latest installment in the wildly popular Family Business series.LC Duncan, patriarch and leader of the Duncan clan is alive and well after being shot by a mysterious gunman. His near death experience has caused him and his wife Chippy to reflect on both the past and present, and together they decide that it's time to return to Waycross, Georgia for a long overdue family reunion.But wherever the Duncans go, trouble and drama are never too far behind, and this time it comes in the form of longtime Duncan enemy Vinnie Dash, and Ruby, the mother of Orlando Duncan's baby who disappeared before the child was born.

Link : https://ipookselalu.blogspot.com/?abi=B00RKO3THA NATIONAL BESTSELLERWind/Pinball, a unique two-in-one volume, includes, on one side, Murakami&#8217 first novelHear the Wind Sing. When you flip the book over, you can read his second novel,Pinball, 1973. Each book has its own stunning cover.In the spring of 1978, a young Haruki Murakami sat down at his kitchen table and began to write. The result: two remarkable short novels&#8212Hear the Wind SingandPinball, 1973&#8212that launched the career of one of the most acclaimed authors of our time. These powerful, at times surreal, works about two young men coming of age&#8212the unnamed narrator and his friend the Rat&#8212are stories of loneliness, obsession, and eroticism. They bear all the hallmarks of Murakami&#8217 later books, a

Link : https://ipookselalu.blogspot.com/?abi=B099BJZL23 NATIONAL BESTSELLERThe masterful story of a lifelong friendship between two very different women with shared histories and buried secrets, tested in the twilight of their lives, set across the arc of the 20th century.Celebrated children&#8217 book author Agnes Lee is determined to secure her legacy&#8212to complete what she knows will be the final volume of her pseudonymously written Franklin Square novels and even more consuming, to permanently protect the peninsula of majestic coast in Maine known as Fellowship Point. To donate the land to a trust, Agnes must convince shareholders to dissolve a generations-old partnership. And one of those shareholders is her best friend, Polly.Polly Wister has led a different kind of life than

Link : https://ipookselalu.blogspot.com/?abi=1573225142 NATIONAL BESTSELLERNOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD&#8220Heroically brave, formidably learned&#8230The Western Canonis a passionate demonstration of why some writers have triumphantly escaped the oblivion in which time buries almost all human effort. It inspires hope&#8230 that what humanity has long cherished, posterity will also.&#8221 &#8211The New York Times Book ReviewLiterary critic Harold Bloom's The Western Canon is more than a required reading list -- it is a vision. Infused with a love of learning, compelling in its arguments for a unifying written culture, it argues brilliantly against the politicization of literature and presents a guide to the great works ofthe western literary traditionand essent

Link : https://ipookselalu.blogspot.com/?abi=0062913506 NATIONAL BESTSELLERNamed a Best Book of the Year by: Time * Kirkus Reviews * USA Today * Entertainment Weekly * Garden &amp Gun * Vox * Atlanta Journal-ConstitutionA Most Anticipated Book of Fall from: Associated Press * Atlanta Journal-Constitution * BookPage * Book Riot * The Boston Globe * Entertainment Weekly * Esquire * Garden &amp Gun * LitHub * St. Louis Post-Dispatch * Sunset Magazine * Time * Town &amp Country * The Millions * USA Today * Vogue * Vulture * The WeekAn exuberant, bighearted novel about two teenage misfits who spectacularly collide one fateful summer, and the art they make that changes their lives foreverSixteen-year-old Frankie Budge&#8212aspiring writer, indifferent student, offbeat loner&#8212is determin

Link : https://ipookselalu.blogspot.com/?abi=0063065401 NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the Year&#8220Gorgeous.... With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War.&#8221&#8212Madeline Miller, author ofCirceShortlisted for the Women&#8217 Prize for Fiction, a gorgeous retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of the many women involved in its causes and consequences&#8212for fans of Madeline Miller.This is the women&#8217 war, just as much as it is the men&#8217. They have waited long enough for their turn . . .This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all . . .In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seeming

Link : https://ipookselalu.blogspot.com/?abi=B0894VDYFC NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the Year&#8220Gorgeous.... With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War.&#8221&#8212Madeline Miller, author ofCirceShortlisted for the Women&#8217 Prize for Fiction, a gorgeous retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of the many women involved in its causes and consequences&#8212for fans of Madeline Miller.This is the women&#8217 war, just as much as it is the men&#8217. They have waited long enough for their turn . . .This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all . . .In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seeming

Link : https://ipookselalu.blogspot.com/?abi=B0896TD2ZR NATIONAL BESTSELLERAn NPR Best Book of the Year&#8220Gorgeous.... With her trademark passion, wit, and fierce feminism, Natalie Haynes gives much-needed voice to the silenced women of the Trojan War.&#8221&#8212Madeline Miller, author ofCirceShortlisted for the Women&#8217 Prize for Fiction, a gorgeous retelling of the Trojan War from the perspectives of the many women involved in its causes and consequences&#8212for fans of Madeline Miller.This is the women&#8217 war, just as much as it is the men&#8217. They have waited long enough for their turn . . .This was never the story of one woman, or two. It was the story of them all . . .In the middle of the night, a woman wakes to find her beloved city engulfed in flames. Ten seeming

Link : https://ipookselalu.blogspot.com/?abi=0062946943 National BestsellerA Historical Novels Review Editors' Choice &#8226 A Jewish Book Award Finalist&#8220An absolutely fascinating, beautifully rendered story of love, loss, and heroism in the dark days leading up to World War II. . . . A glowing portrait of women rising up against impossible odds to save children.&#8221 &#8212Kristin Hannah, New York Times bestselling author of The Great Alone and The NightingaleThe New York Times bestselling author of Beautiful Exiles conjures her best novel yet, a pre-World War II-era story with the emotional resonance of Orphan Train and All the Light We Cannot See, centering on the Kindertransports that carried thousands of children out of Nazi-occupied Europe&#8212and one brave woman who help

Link : https://ipookselalu.blogspot.com/?abi=0385418868 NATIONAL BESTSELLER&#8226An extraordinary book that reveals how the themes and symbols of ancient narratives continue to bring meaning to birth, death, love, and war. The Power of Myth launched an extraordinary resurgence of interest in Joseph Campbell and his work. A preeminent scholar, writer, and teacher, he has had a profound influence on millions of people&#8212including Star Wars creator George Lucas. To Campbell, mythology was the &#8220ong of the universe, the music of the spheres.&#8221 With Bill Moyers, one of America&#8217 most prominent journalists, as his thoughtful and engaging interviewer, The Power of Myth touches on subjects from modern marriage to virgin births, from Jesus to John Lennon, offering a brilliant co

Link : https://ipookselalu.blogspot.com/?abi=0525542302 National Bestseller&#8226 Wall Street Journal Bestseller&#8226 USA Today BestsellerAn NPR Book of the YearFinalist for the Thurber Prize for American HumorFinalist for the 2021 Goodreads Choice AwardsFrom the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer.Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. But in terms of caretaking and relating to two children, no

Link : https://ipookselalu.blogspot.com/?abi=B08H17JJCK National Bestseller&#8226 Wall Street Journal Bestseller&#8226 USA Today BestsellerAn NPR Book of the YearFinalist for the Thurber Prize for American HumorFinalist for the 2021 Goodreads Choice AwardsFrom the bestselling author of Lily and the Octopus and The Editor comes a warm and deeply funny novel about a once-famous gay sitcom star whose unexpected family tragedy leaves him with his niece and nephew for the summer.Patrick, or Gay Uncle Patrick (GUP, for short), has always loved his niece, Maisie, and nephew, Grant. That is, he loves spending time with them when they come out to Palm Springs for weeklong visits, or when he heads home to Connecticut for the holidays. But in terms of caretaking and relating to two children, no