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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER "A wake-up call for the entire planet . . . [ A New Earth ] helps us to stop creating our own suffering and obsessing over the past and what the future might be, and to put ourselves in the now." --Oprah Winfrey With...
Yejide is hoping for a miracle, for a child. It is all her husband wants, all her mother-in-law wants, and she has tried everything arduous pilgrimages, medical consultations, dances with prophets, appeals to God. But when her in-laws insist upon...
"A 'Chocolat' soldier with the French army during World War I, Senegalese Alfa Ndiaye's friend Mademba Diop is in the same regiment. Injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Man's...
Ruprecht Van Doren is an overweight genius whose hobbies include very difficult maths and the Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence. Daniel 'Skippy' Juster is his roommate. In the grand old Dublin institution that is Seabrook College for Boys,...
Taking in the jazz and blues icons whom Jefferson idolised as a child in the 1950s, ideas of what the female body could be as incarnated by trailblazing Black dancers and athletes Harriet Beecher Stowe's Topsy reimagined in the artworks of Kara...