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Locked away in solitary confinement, Nahr spends her days reflecting on the events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. Born in Kuwait to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love, raising children, and opening her own beauty salon. Instead, the man she thinks she loves jilts her, her family teeters on the brink of poverty, she''s forced to prostitute herself, and the US invasion of Iraq makes her a refugee. She arrives in Palestine, where she finally makes a home, falls in love, and her destiny unfolds under Israeli occupation. Against the Loveless World presents a searing, darkly funny, and unique portrait of a woman who refuses to be a victim.
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SOMEONE SINISTER THIS WAY COMES..
You meets Fatal Attraction, in this up-all-night psychological thriller about a lonely empty-nester's
growing obsession with a young mother who shares her name.
"The plot takes some murderous turns along the way to the unexpected ending. Fans of tricky tales of obsession and revenge will be well satisfied." - Publishers Weekly
Available Now!
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Born just ten months apart, July and September are thick as thieves, never needing anyone but each other. The teens have moved away with their single mother to a long-abandoned family home near the shore, where July finds that the deep bond she has always shared with September is shifting in ways she cannot understand. Meanwhile, outside, the sisters push boundaries of behavior-until a series of shocking encounters tests the limits of their shared experience, and forces shocking revelations about the girls'' past and future. Sisters is a taut, powerful, and deeply moving account of sibling love and what happens when two sisters must face each other''s darkest impulses.
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Joe Sanderson died in pursuit of a life worth writing about. He was, in his words, a "road bum," an adventurer and a storyteller, belonging to no place, people, or set of ideas. He was born into a childhood of middle-class contentment in Urbana, Illinois and died fighting with guerillas in Central America. With these facts, acclaimed novelist and journalist H?ctor Tobar set out to write what would become The Last Great Road Bum. A decade ago, Tobar came into possession of the late Sanderson''s personal writings, which chart his freewheeling course across the known world-a life determinedly an adventure, ending in unlikely, anonymous heroism.
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Vesper Flights collects Helen Macdonald''s essays on topics ranging from nostalgia for a vanishing countryside to her own private vespers while trying to fall asleep. Meditating on notions of captivity and freedom, immigration and flight, Macdonald invites us into her most intimate experiences: observing the migration of songbirds from the top of the Empire State Building, watching thousands of cranes in Hungary, seeking the last golden orioles in Suffolk. She writes with heart-tugging clarity about mushroom hunting, migraines, the strangeness of birds'' nests, and the unexpected guidance and comfort we find when watching wildlife.
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The Southern Wildlife Watcher:
Notes of a Naturalist
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"Fall in love with the world, one wonderful, intricate living thing at a time." (Margaret Renkl, author of Late Migrations)
One of the Southeast's most widely read naturalists combines a poet's voice with a journalist's rigor in offering readers an intimate introduction to the creatures around us. "Engaging and filled with surprising facts" (Foreword Reviews), this colorful look at 36 animals-from the hummingbird to the bald eagle and from the bullfrog to the bobcat-offers accessible information supported by quotes from noted naturalists and biologists.
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For decades the suburbs have been where art happens despite: despite the conformity, the emptiness, the sameness. But what if, contrary to that, the suburb has actually been an incubator for distinctly American art, as positively and as surely as in any other cultural hothouse? Mixing personal experience, cultural reportage, and history while rejecting clich?s, The Sprawl stretches across the country in an effort to show that this uniquely American milieu deserves another look.
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When the Light of the World Was Subdued, Our Songs Came Through celebrates the indigenous peoples of North America, the first poets of this country, whose literary traditions stretch back centuries. Opening with a blessing from Pulitzer Prize-winner N. Scott Momaday, the book contains five geographically organized sections. Each section begins with a poem from traditional oral literatures and closes with emerging poets, from Eleazar to Jake Skeets, and including renowned writers such as Luci Tapahonso, Natalie Diaz, Layli Long Soldier, and Ray Young Bear.
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Bookshop and America''s Test Kitchen invite you to a virtual afternoon with Q&A and cooking tips from Cooking for One, with Jack Bishop.
Taking care to prepare a meal for yourself is a different experience than cooking for others. It can be a fun, casual, and (of course) delicious affair, but there are challenges, from avoiding a fridge full of half-used ingredients to ending up with leftovers that become boring after the third reheat.
Weds., September 2 at 4pm ET, via Zoom.
Free with Zoom registration.
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ABOUT BOOKSHOP
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All book sales made through Bookshop directly benefit independent bookstores. If you want to find a specific local bookstore to support, find them on our map and they'll receive the full profit off your order. Otherwise, your order will contribute to an earnings pool evenly distributed among independent bookstores (even those that don't use Bookshop).
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