“I Do Not Come to You by Chance” is Adaobi Tricia Nwaubani’s debut novel set against the backdrop of modern Nigeria. Kingsley is fresh out of university, eager to find an engineering job so he can support his family & marry the girl of his dreams. Being the opara of the family, he is entitled to certain privileges
- a piece of meat in his egusi soup, a party to celebrate his graduation. But times are hard in Nigeria & jobs are not easy to come by. For much of his young life, Kingsley believed that education was everything, that through wisdom, all things were possible. But when a tragedy befalls his family, Kingsley learns the hardest lesson of all: education may be the language of success in his country, but it is money that does the talking. In desperation he turns to his uncle, Boniface-aka Cash Daddy-an exuberant character who suffers from elephantiasis of the pocket. He is also rumoured to run a successful empire of email scams. But he can help. With Cash Daddy`s intervention, Kingsley & his family can be as safe as a tortoise under its shell. It is up to Kingsley now, to reconcile his passion for knowledge with his hunger for money, to fully assume his role of first son. But can he do it without being drawn into this outlandish milieu?
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Kuki Gallmann’s I Dreamed of Africa is a haunting memoir of bringing up a family in Kenya in the 1970s first with her husband Paulo, & then alone; & is part elegiac celebration, tragedy & love letter to the magical spirit of Africa. Kuki engages the reader with tales of elephants in her garden & the very real threat of lions that can kill in one moment of carelessness. The book is filled with wonderful descriptions of the African landscape & the struggles of daily life in Kenya, including the raising of her children, the food, the different tribes & how they interacted with Kuki & her family in their daily lives. ...

Relatively Neutral About New York.' The creators of the shirt, who also happen to be the hilarious guys behind All My Friends Are Dead, have tapped into a sentiment that is shared by New Yorkers & non-New Yorkers alike. Sure, a lot of the hype is true--New York is a great city. But it's also kind of like a lot of cities, in a lot of places. In this hilarious send-up of the cult of New York, our savvy authors perform a comprehensive survey of what makes NYC just ok. From graphs (laughter by year, as stimulated by Saturday Night Live vs. Tickling) to games (match the slice of pizza with its city of origin---clue: they're all the same) to maps (alternative, more exciting, non-grid city plans for New York), this clever, whip-smart, fully illustrated book will appeal to everyone who has an opinion about New York. Which is, really, everyone. ...

Ruth`s tribe are her lively children & her filmmaker husb&, Simon, who has Motor Neurone Disease & can only communicate with his eyes. Ruth`s other `tribe` are the friends who gather at the cove in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, & regularly throw themselves into the freezing cold water, just for kicks. ` The Tragic Wives` Swimming Club`, as they jokingly call themselves, meet to cope with the extreme challenges life puts in their way, not to mention the monster waves rolling over the horizon. Swimming is just one of the daily coping strategies as Ruth fights to preserve the strong but now silent connection with her husb&. As she tells the story of their marriage, via diagnosis to their current precarious situation, Ruth also charts her passion for sea swimming
- culminating in a midnight swim under the full moon on her wedding anniversary. An invocation to all of us to love as hard as we can, & live even harder, I Found My Tribe is an urgent & uplifting letter to a husb&, family, friends, the natural world & the brightness of life.
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Ruth`s tribe are her lively children & her filmmaker husb&, Simon, who has Motor Neurone Disease & can only communicate with his eyes. Ruth`s other ” Tribe” are the friends who gather at the cove in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, & regularly throw themselves into the freezing cold water, just for kicks. ” The Tragic Wives” Swimming Club`, as they jokingly call themselves, meet to cope with the extreme challenges life puts in their way, not to mention the monster waves rolling over the horizon. Swimming is just one of the daily coping strategies as Ruth fights to preserve the strong but now silent connection with her husb&. As she tells the story of their marriage, via diagnosis to their current precarious situation, Ruth also charts her passion for sea swimming
- culminating in a midnight swim under the full moon on her wedding anniversary. An invocation to all of us to love as hard as we can, & live even harder, I Found My Tribe is an urgent & uplifting letter to a husb&, family, friends, the natural world & the brightness of life.
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From the team that made PARROT CARROT comes a very clever & funny rhyming tale about the surprisingly large world of hats. I got this hat in China I got this hat from a miner I got this hat from a deep-sea diver I got this hat from a racing-car driver... Hats. Only the headless dislike them. Everyone else loves wearing them! In this fun title we take a peek at the world around us through the playful medium of hats. Ages: 4-8 ...

On 12 October 1972, a Uruguayan Air Force plane carrying members of the ` Old Christians` rugby team (and many of their friends & family members) crashed into the Andes mountains. I Had to Survive offers a gripping & heartrending recollection of the harrowing brink-of-death experience that propelled survivor Roberto Canessa to become one of the world`s leading paediatric cardiologists. Canessa, a second-year medical student at the time, tended to his wounded teammates amidst the devastating carnage of the wreck & played a key role in safeguarding his fellow survivors, eventually trekking with a companion across the hostile mountain range for help. This fine line between life & death became the catalyst for the rest of his life. This uplifting tale of hope & determination, solidarity & ingenuity gives vivid insight into a world famous story. Canessa also draws a unique & fascinating parallel between his work as a doctor performing arduous heart surgeries on infants & unborn babies & the difficult life-changing decisions he was forced to make in the Andes. With grace & humanity, Canessa prompts us to ask ourselves: what do you do when all the odds are stacked against you? ...

In New York in the middle of the twentieth century, comic book companies figured out how to make millions from comics without paying their creators anything. In San Francisco at the start of the twenty-first century, tech companies figured out how to make millions from online abuse without paying its creators anything. In the 1990s, Adeline drew a successful comic book series that ended up making her kind-of famous. In 2013, Adeline aired some unfashionable opinions that made their way onto the Internet. The reaction of the Internet, being a tool for making millions in advertising revenue from online abuse, was predictable. The reaction of the Internet, being part of a culture that hates women, was to send Adeline messages like ` Drp slut.. .hope u get gang rape.` Set in a San Francisco hollowed out by tech money, greed & rampant gentrification, I Hate the Internet is a savage indictment of the intolerable bullshit of unregulated capitalism & an uproarious, hilarious but above all furious satire of our Internet Age. ...

A br&-new, heart-wrenching novel from the bestselling author of If I Stay & I Was Here, Gayle Forman Around the time that Freya loses her voice while recording her debut album, Harun is making plans to run away from home to find the boy that he loves, & Nathaniel is arriving in New York City after a family tragedy leaves him isolated on the outskirts of Washington state. After the three of them collide in Central Park, they slowly reveal the parts of their past that they haven`t been able to confront, and together, they find their way back to who they`re supposed to be. Told over the course of a single day from three different perspectives, this is a story about the power of friendship & being true to who you are. PRAISE for I Was Here: `I Was Here is a pitch-perfect blend of mystery, tragedy, & romance. Gayle Forman has given us an unflinchingly honest portrait of the bravery it takes to live after devastating loss` Stephen Chbosky, author of The Perks of Being a Wallflower ` Not only beautifully written & heartwrenching, but IMPORTANT. Wow. Just, wow` Sarah Dessen `A potent rite-of-passage tale` Sunday Times ` Irresistible tear-jerker` New York Times ...

There is no greater misunderstanding than to think that one travels alone. On this epic journey through China, Cambodia & Vietnam, political columnist Carsten Jensen travels in order to find out about the Tiananmen Square massacre, the killing fields of Cambodia & the operations of Khmer Rouge. His constant questioning makes him friends & enemies, but he never settles for half-truths. With a profound sense of the sweep of history, Jensen contemplates the rise & fall of empires & cultures, the birth of new generations, new societies, & indeed a whole new world. ...