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"THIS BOOK HAS MY ENTIRE HEART!!" Reader review, 5 stars "One of my all-time favorite reads" Reader review, 5 stars "I fell completely, stupidly in love" Reader review, 5 stars "Gave me all the warm and fuzzies!" Reader review, 5 stars Kit Forrest is officially the saddest man in Cedar Falls. A...

Para escribir esta magnífica historia, merecedora del Premio Pulitzer, Toni Morrison se inspiró en la vida real de una esclava afroamericana, Margaret Garner, que en 1856 escapó de una plantación en Kentucky y consiguió llegar al estado libre de Ohio. A punto de ser recapturada, Margaret tomó la trágica decisión de sacrificar a su hija para salvarla de una vida en cautiverio.

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Are you drowning in "context pollution," where your AI assistant forgets your database schema halfway through coding, suggests frontend solutions for backend problems, and generally behaves like an overwhelmed junior developer juggling six different...

Pecola es una niña pequeña que vive con sus padres y tiene una prima que se llama Claudia. Le gustan las muñecas y las caléndulas, que no le gustan a nadie excepto a ella. Pecola es negra y cree que es fea porque no se parece a Shirley Temple. Y tiene un truco para desaparecer cuando sus padres se pelean o su padre la molesta por las noches: piensa que tiene unos preciosos ojos azules, que todo el mundo admira su belleza y que las otras niñas la envidian. Pero ese sueño nunca se convertirá en realidad y Pecola seguirá atrapada en la triste vida que le ha tocado en suerte.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race, class, and gender with characteristic subtlety and grace. With a new introduction by...

Esta es la historia de Sula y Nel, dos niñas que crecen juntas en un barrio de negros, compartiendo sus sueños e ilusiones. Ambas son precoces y curiosas, hijas de familias pobres. Pero el tiempo pasa y, cuando Nel se casa, Sula se marcha del suburbio para ir a la universidad y viajar por el país. Diez años después, Sula regresa e involuntariamente destruye la familia y la felicidad de Nel. A partir de entonces, los pintorescos habitantes del suburbio la consideran una bruja malvada...

Antes de la ciencia forense moderna, un detective ya resolvía crímenes con lógica, observación y pruebas científicas. Mucho antes de los laboratorios policiales actuales, Martin Hewitt enfrentó los misterios más desconcertantes de Inglaterra. En esta colección de diez casos clásicos...

PULITZER PRIZE WINNER NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER This "powerful, mesmerizing story” (People) is an unflinching look into the abyss of slavery, from the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner. With an afterword by the author and a new introduction by Honorée Fanonne Jeffers. “A masterwork...

A young hospital security guard with a disturbingly unique taste in women. A maternity doctor with a horrifically unusual appetite. When the two of them meet, they embark on a journey of self-discovery while shattering societal norms and engaging in destructively aberrant behavior. As they unwittingly help each other understand a world in which neither seems to belong, they begin to realize what it truly means to be alive...and that it might not always a good thing.

London, 1922. Between gallivanting in his Rolls-Royce and darkening the doorways of London's hotspots, Lord Reginald "Rex" Bankes-Fernsby has almost succeeded in banishing the battlefield nightmares that plague his sleep. Pity he can't say the same about that nagging lack of direction in his life. If only he were like his best friend Freddie—self-assured, suave, and up to his ears in secrets. But when Freddie is murdered, Rex doubts the verdict. Was Freddie really cut down while up to no good, or was he killed in the line of duty?

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A country house. A dangerous secret. And a fiancé Etty Redgrave definitely cannot trust. England, 1868: Newly engaged, Etty Redgrave should be planning her wedding. Instead, she travels to the countryside for Lady Darby’s summer house party, determined to uncover why her fiancé lied to secure her hand. When Tristan Bankes-Fernsby, Duke of Rockingham, arrives asking questions of his own, Etty finds herself under scrutiny. He has no faith in the match and every intention of uncovering the truth behind it.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER A New York Times Notable Book From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner: an emotional powerhouse of a novel about a modern Odysseus returning to a 1950s America mined with lethal pitfalls for an unwary Black man "Powerful. . . . Jaw-dropping in its beauty and audacity...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER An official Oprah Winfrey’s “The Books That Help Me Through” selection The acclaimed Nobel Prize winner transfigures the coming-of-age story with this brilliantly imagined novel. Includes a foreword by the author and a new introduction by Tayari Jones. One...

Visible thinking is a research-based approach to teaching thinking, begun at Harvard's Project Zero, that develops students' thinking dispositions while at the same time deepening their understanding of the topics they study. Rather than a set of fixed lessons, visible thinking is a varied collection of practices, including thinking routines, small sets of questions, or a short sequence of steps as well as the documentation of student thinking. Using this process, thinking becomes visible as the students' different viewpoints are expressed, documented, discussed, and reflected upon.

Tchaikovsky is famous for all the wrong reasons. Portrayed as a hopeless romantic, a suffering melancholic, or a morbid obsessive, the Tchaikovsky we think we know is a shadow of the fascinating reality. It is all too easy to forget that he composed an empire's worth of music, and navigated the imperial Russian court to great advantage. In this iconoclastic biography, celebrated author Simon Morrison recreates Tchaikovsky's complex world. 

Available for the first time in audio, America’s most revered novelist reflects on the themes that preoccupy her work and increasingly dominate national and world politics: race, fear, borders, the mass movement of peoples, the desire for belonging. What is race and why does it matter? What motivates the human tendency to construct Others? Why does the presence of Others make us so afraid?

Welcome to Maple Hollow, where the hayrides are haunted, the gossip is juicier than the apple cider, and the town’s favorite slow-burn romance is finally about to ignite. For years, café owner Willow has harbored a not-so-secret crush on the town’s flour-dusted heartthrob: Wyatt. Everyone in town thinks they go together like a cinnamon latte and a maple scone. But despite the obvious sparks, Wyatt keeps Willow at arm’s length.

Karen Kay is 28, unmarried, in a dull job and thinks of herself as ‘Audrey Hepburn with a muffin top’. Longing for glamour, culture and something to spice up her flagging relationship with the slightly dull but reliable Steve, she books an all-inclusive holiday to the sun-soaked island of San Itairi. Upon arrival, Karen is shocked by the prejudice, squalor and violence she encounters—and that’s just the other British tourists!

This murder mystery novel depicts the adventures of private detective James Long as he becomes immersed in the world of high society while getting to the bottom of several unique cases in the Greater Los Angeles area. Follow along as James uses his intuition and investigative prowess to navigate the streets of Riverside and beyond while death, danger and despair lurk around every corner.