For Want of Water - And Other Poems by Sasha Pimentel
$29.99 NZD
Category: Open Book Award | Series: National Poetry Ser.
Searing verses set on the Mexican border about war and addiction, love and sexual violence, grief and loss, from an American Book Award-winning author. Selected by Gregory Pardlo as winner of the National Poetry Series. El Paso is one of the safest cities in the United States, while across the river, C ...Show more
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi
$0.00 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction
A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" HonoreeShortlisted for the Center for Fiction First Novel Prize One of the most anticipated and best reviewed novels of 2018, Freshwater is the remarkable debut of an astonishing young writer. Ada has always been unusual. As an infant in southern Nigeria, she ...Show more
Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
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Category: Book Award
INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" honoree, chosen by Colson Whitehead "An unbelievable debut, one that announces a new and necessary American voice." --Tommy Orange, New York Times Book Review "An excitement and a wonder: strange, crazed, urgent and funny." -- ...Show more
Grant by Ron Chernow
$28.58 NZD
Category: Biography
A #1 New York Times BestsellerA Pulitzer Prize-Winning AuthorWith lucidity, breadth, and meticulousness, Ron Chernow sheds new light on the man whom Walt Whitman described as "nothing heroic . . . and yet the greatest hero." This is America's greatest biographer bringing movingly to life one of our fine ...Show more
Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life by David R. Montgomery
$43.99 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing
The problem of agriculture is as old as civilization. Throughout history, great societies that abused their land withered into poverty or disappeared entirely. Now we risk repeating this ancient story on a global scale due to ongoing soil degradation, a changing climate, and a rising population.But ther ...Show more
Half Gods by Akil Kumarasamy
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Category: Debut Short Story Collection
A startlingly beautiful debut, Akil Kumarasamy's Half Gods brings together the exiled, the disappeared, the seekers. Following the fractured origins and destines of two brothers named after demigods from the ancient epic the Mahabharata, we meet a family struggling with the reverberations of the past in ...Show more
Heads of the Colored People by Nafissa Thompson-Spires
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Category: Open Book Award
Longlisted for the National Book Award for Fiction Calling to mind the best works of Paul Beatty and Junot Díaz, this collection of moving, timely, and darkly funny stories examines the concept of black identity in this so-called post-racial era. A stunning new talent in literary fiction, Nafissa Thom ...Show more
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado
$38.00 NZD
Category: Debut Fiction
In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is all her own. In thi ...Show more
Homing Instincts - Early Motherhood on a Midwestern Farm by Sarah Menkedick
$50.00 NZD
Category: Art of the Essay
At thirty-one, Sarah Menkedick undergoes the biggest and most transformative adventure that she never anticipated: she moves into the tiny cabin on her family's form and begins the journey into motherhood. In vivid and bold prose, Menkedick explores the luminous, disorienting time just before and after ...Show more
Housman Country: Into the Heart of England by Peter Parker
$19.29 NZD
Category: Biography
A New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice and Nominated for the 2017 PEN/Bograd Weld Prize for BiographyA captivating exploration of A. E. Housman and the influence of his particular brand of EnglishnessA. E. Housman’s A Shropshire Lad made little impression when it was first published in 1896 but ha ...Show more
How Emotions Are Made - The New Science of the Mind and Brain by Lisa Feldman Barrett
$20.72 NZD
Category: Literary Science Writing
"Fascinating . . . A thought-provoking journey into emotion science." -- Wall Street Journal "A singular book, remarkable for the freshness of its ideas and the boldness and clarity with which they are presented." -- Scientific American "A brilliant and original book on the science of emotion, by the ...Show more