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Shaped around moments of puncture and release, The Rupture Tense registers what leaks across the breached borders between past and future, background and foreground, silence and utterance. In polyphonic and formally restless sequences, Jenny Xie cracks open reverberant, vexed experiences of diasporic homecoming, intergenerational memory, transfer, state-enforced amnesia, public secrecies, and the psychic fallout of the Chinese Cultural Revolution....
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An intimate exploration of the life, craft, and legacy of one of the most revered and influential writers, an artist who continues to inspire fans and creatives to cultivate practices of deep attention, rigorous interrogation and beautiful style. Joan Didion was a writer's writer; not only a groundbreaking journalist, essayist, novelist and screenwriter, but a keen observer who honed her sights on life's telling details. Her insights continue to influence...
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Charlotte's fear of her husband sent her went in search of her father's sister, Josephine McPherson. The last thing she thought she would find was love.When the white woman came to the reservation, Talk Elk couldn't help the hatred growing in his heart. How things changed, he never knew.
4) Another Love
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Some promises are made to be broken. Caught in a web of political intrigue, graft and threats to a beloved child, Meg Warren and Drew Larkin hunt the men threatening the downfall of President Cleveland and the economic fabric of America. From a poor farm to the ostentatious world of New York's elite, they sift lies, discover trust and an attraction they cannot resist. The last thing they expect to find is a love worth more than gold.
6) I Want Us
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Jazlyn Mackie and Rome Ellis were platonic best buddies…until they're snowed in together during a blizzard and end up keeping each other warm all night. After that, they're feeling anything but platonic about each other. All would be beautiful except for the fact that they were both in relationships, however imperfect, and only one of them is feeling the guilt over what they did. Then Rome's jilted girlfriend Nell hits Jazlyn with a strange request:...
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"Phillis Wheatley: Complete Writings. Poems and Letters. Illustrated" is a comprehensive collection that celebrates the life and literary legacy of Phillis Wheatley, one of the most significant figures in African American literature. This anthology features a wide range of Wheatley's works, including her celebrated poems and insightful letters, accompanied by beautiful illustrations.
As the first African American woman to publish a book of poetry...
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Two hearts on the mend and one adorable mutt get a new leash on love in this romantic short story from award-winning author Rebekah Weatherspoon.Andre Monroe is ready to move on from heartbreak, and the first step is bringing home his rescue pup. He'd bonded instantly with the playful Zeus and was already planning their first adventures. But one thing he definitely hadn't daydreamed about was Zeus accidentally being promised to someone else - or that...
9) Freedom Trumps Socialism: How the Democrat Party Is Using Hitler's Playbook to Make America Socia
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Do you fear expressing your political views?Why Socialism destroyed every country it governed?Why is Socialism appealing?How Socialist is the United States of America?How to prevent Socialism?Who is responsible for the upcoming demise of America?Who created the WOKE Zombies?What is the World Great Reset?What is Socialism, or Communism, and what the future holds for America?Why the Critical Race Theory is racist and demeaning to the black race?Why...
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En el rincón de cada alma, sin importar cuán lejos nos encontremos de nuestras raíces, reside una chispa inextinguible. Es la esencia de Venezuela, nuestra tierra amada, que llevamos con nosotros a donde sea que vayamos. Es el amor que se cuenta en cada historia, en cada canción, en cada paisaje que evoca susurros de la patria que dejamos atrás. Este libro es un viaje a través de esa chispa, una travesía poética a través de la riqueza de...
11) Shanty Gold
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"Charters interweaves many important topics-immigration, civil rights, women's rights-into her exciting novel . . . An evocative portrait of South Boston." -Kirkus Reviews
After the deaths of her mother and infant sister during Ireland's Great Famine, thirteen-year-old Mary Boland makes her way to the Queenstown harbor and onto a coffin ship bound for America. But what happens during her transatlantic passage is enough to quash the strongest of...
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Poetry has the power to touch our hearts, stir our souls, and expand our minds. It can titillate our senses in beautiful ways to bring us to the depths of sadness or the heights of elation. A great poem can be a transcendental, life-changing experience. Our poems? These ones here? They're fine. Good, even. I dunno, I like 'em. Collected from years of offbeat writing practice and the occasional weird brain worm that demanded something be done with...
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In an Age of American Empire What Real Hope is There for Black People?On Cultural Islam: A Godbody Sociology of 1990s Black America Shahidi Collection Vol 3 takes a novel look at life in late modernity, with specific focus on the 1990s and the global events that occurred during that momentous decade. It also investigates the godbody movement and seeks to find ways to define the power of the godbody movement so as to create an Islamic Reformation,...
14) Oh Witness Dey!
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Two-timer I am, infatuated With the country in which I love Yearning in corners, around bends For the one I grew up in Shani Mootoo' s great-great-grandparents were brought to Trinidad as indentured labourers by the British. There is no record of where they were from in India or whether it was kidnapping, trickery, or false promises of wealth that took them to the Caribbean. In Oh Witness Dey! Mootoo expands the question of origins, from...
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In high school, she was the mean girl and he was the nerd. They couldn't stand to be in the same room together. Now they're sharing a bed… Chemistry sizzles in Niobia Bryant's newest Cress Brothers book.
Handsome, successful chef Lucas Cress is ready for marriage and he has a deadline. Eve Villar, former mean girl, should be the last person on his seduction list. But when the two come together at a class reunion, the chemistry ignites!
The chase...
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Roberta, Bride of Wisconsin is #30 in the unprecedented 50-book American Mail-Order Brides series.After a fire which burned the factory where she was manager to the ground, Roberta McDaniel feels responsible for all the women who lost their jobs. She contacts a matchmaker and suggests all of them become mail-order brides-answering an advertisement for a widower in Wisconsin herself. Bobbie worries that her independence will cause problems in her new...
17) Tainted Too
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Tainted Too is the second installment in a three-part series full of juicy drama, lust, and revenge.
Monica Deitrich is back in this thrilling, pulse-pounding novel. As an FBI profiler, Monica never assumed that her job would be easy, but after the murder of a close friend, Special Agent in Charge, Monica is thrown headfirst into a case that will change her life forever. A ruthless string of murders spanning the continental United States has Monica...
18) One Final Shot
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When their love is put to the ultimate test and their foundation is cracked, can they repair the damages to their covenant, or will their life together be over as quickly as it began?
Young and deeply in love, Mone't and Austin have the world at their fingertips. They were the beacon of love in the hood of Ganton Hills; a couple worth protecting. But the hood politics don't exist outside of the nine blocks. With a sudden thrust into success, Mone't...
19) Jane's Journal
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Jane Davies-a new pregnant widow on the Oregon Trail-spends too much of her time thinking about what could have been. To help herself as well as others, she offers to help a family with three young children whose mother has passed by cooking their meals for them. Her only intention is to help the other family. Soon she finds herself falling in love with the three children in the family she helps.Matthew Henderson cannot believe his bad luck. His wife...
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One night of insatiable pleasure was supposed to be enough…until she discovers she's pregnant! Only in Yahrah St. John's latest Six Gems romance.
Free-spirited Asia Reynolds dreams of opening her own jewelry store-but her inheritance alone won't cover the cost. When she meets sexy billionaire Blake Coleman, everything changes. They spend one sensational night together and then he's gone…and aspiring businesswoman Asia discovers she's pregnant!
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