THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER`I`ve been wondering who might fill the intellectual void after James Baldwin died. Clearly it is Ta-Nehisi Coates` Toni Morrison` Searing. One of the foremost essayists on race in the West... [ He] is responsible for some of the most important writing about what it is to be black in America today` Nikesh Shukla, editor of The Good Immigrant An essential account of modern America, from Obama to Trump, from black lives matter to white supremacists rising
- by the bestselling author of Between the World & Me Obama`s presidency was a watershed moment in American history. From 2008-2016, the leader of the free world was a black man. In those eight years, Obama transformed the conversation around race, gender, class & wealth
- inspiring hope but also attracting criticism & breeding discontent. In this unflinching book, Ta-Nehisi Coates takes stock of Obama`s eight years in power, through such iconic, unmissable essays as ` Fear of a Black President` & ` The Case for Reparations`. His account traverses the intersections of the political, the ideological & the cultural, presenting an America in radical flux & yet still in the grip of racial injustice, class warfare & institutional conspiracy. & it reflects on the author`s own journey through these eight years, charting the public through the private in passages of startling intimate & piercingly relevant memoir. Ta-Nehisi Coates is one of our most brilliant, most fearless & most essential living writers
- & his work is crucial to understanding race in America today. Finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize 2018 Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence 2018RAVE READER REVIEWS:` Brilliantly written, incisive, & extremely relevant. Read it with your families, use it in your classrooms, give copies to your friends` (Liz)` Coates thinks more deeply & writes more clearly about the national tragedy & disgrace that is our collective failure to confront the legacy of White Supremacy than just about anyone... I can`t recommend it highly enough` (Worddancer Redux)` Every white person who wants to really know how it looks from `the other side` should take on the responsibility of reading Coates` eye-opening, informative book... A must read for everyone of every colour` (Indy JV)`A masterful understanding of how the USA really works` (shedgirl)` If you want to know the wellsprings of racism in America
- then read this book!` (David C. R. Hancock)



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In 1950s Boston, the best way to survive is keep your head down & your mouth shut. But Cal & Dante prefer to do the right thing, not the sensible one. When a body is discovered tarred, feathered & shot, it is dismissed as a gangland killing. But Cal O` Brien`s cousin, detective Owen Lackey, recognises the murder as the typical retribution for IRA informers. Owen knows that no one in the tight-knit Boston Irish community will talk. He turns to Cal & Dante for help, sending them into the city`s shadowy underbelly. But there`s a war on its way
- & they`re walking straight into the middle of it.
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”E. Lockhart is one of our most important novelists, & she has given us her best book yet. Thrilling, beautiful, & blisteringly smart, We were Liars is utterly unforgettable”. (John Green, number 1 New York Times bestselling author of The Fault In Our Stars). ” Irresistible.” (The New York Times Book Review). ” Haunting, sophisticated.” (The Wall Street Journal). ” Bowl-you-over.” (Cosmopolitan). ” So freaking good.” (Sarah Dessen). ” Such beautiful writing.” (Libba Bray). ” Beautiful & disturbing.” (Justine Larbalestier). ” Better than the hype.” (Lauren Oliver). We are the Liars. We are beautiful, privileged & live a life of carefree luxury. We are cracked & broken. It is a story of love & romance. It is a tale of tragedy. Which are lies? Which is truth? ...

The kibbutzim are collective settlements in Israel which have been written about extensively over the years, & are praised as the only example in world history of entire communities attempting, voluntarily, to live in total equality. Conceived as a socialist utopia by its early pioneers, the kibbutz was a radical experiment in communal living, gender equality, economic egalitarianism, & the reorganisation of family life. But in spite of its progressive ideals, there is a dark side to the kibbutz which is being told in the accounts of children who were raised in the communal `children`s houses`, suggesting this was an institution which victimised its offspring for the sake of ideology. In this spare & lucid memoir, Neeman
- a child of the kibbutz in the `60s
- draws on the collective memory of the hundreds of thousands of people who grew up in kibbutzim during their height & who have intimately shared their memories with her. We Were the Future is more than merely a compelling personal account of growing up in a kibbutz: it is an unstintingly honest examination of the perils of organising society & a new lens through which to see the history of Israel.

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As Montrealer Catherine Day sets foot in a remote fishing village & starts asking around about her birth mother, the body of a woman dredges up in a fisherman`s nets. Not just any woman, though: Marie Garant, an elusive, nomadic sailor & unbridled beauty who once tied many a man`s heart in knots. Detective Sergeant Joaquin Morales, newly drafted to the area from the suburbs of Montreal, barely has time to unpack his suitcase before he`s thrown into the deep end of the investigation. On Quebec`s outlying Gaspe Peninsula, the truth can be slippery, especially down on the fishermen`s wharves. Interviews drift into idle chit-chat, evidence floats off with the tide & the truth lingers in murky waters. It`s enough to make DS Morales reach straight for a large whisky... Both a dark & consuming crime thriller & a lyrical, poetic ode to the sea, We Were the Salt of the Sea is a stunning, page-turning novel, from one of the most exciting new names in crime fiction. ...

An account of a people's response to genocide & what it tells us about humanity. It chronicles what has happened in Rwanda since 1994, when the government called on the Hutu majority to murder the Tutsi minority. Some 800, 000 people were exterminated in a hundred days. A Tutsi pastor, in a letter to his church president, a Hutu, used the chilling phrase that gives the book its title. ...

For more than a century, Americans & Britons have been arriving hopefully in Paris. Most were tourists, but a significant number had other motives, ranging from learning to paint or write, to finding a rich husband; from escaping racism & politics to gaining a sexual education. John Baxter arrived because he had fallen in love with a French woman. All of these people arrived because they were re-making their lives. We'll Always Have Paris is a personal view of Paris as it appeared to the emotionally & intellectually hungry of the world. It is a guided tour of the people & places associated with the Parisian legend. It

Includes:: interviews with painters, film-makers, actresses, writers, poets. There are visits to the cafes of Montparnasse where Hemingway, Fitzgerald & Man Ray hung out. It explores the old brothels
- temples of sensuality in 18th century Paris
- & an erotic bookshop. Above all, it is John Baxter's personal history of Europe's most romantic capital city.



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We're going on a bear hunt! Through the long wavy grass, the thick oozy mud & the swirling, whirling snowstorm
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Three children embark on a day-long trek through the rainforest, discovering all sorts of exotic creatures in their natural habitats. The charming, rhyming text highlights an adjective for each creature, from chattering monkeys to crouching jaguars. The story is complemented by educational endnotes about the creatures featured in the story, & the peoples of the rainforest. ...

There is so much in store on this incredible journey: enormous statues & temples, the legendary Sphinx, tombs & mummies, & of course the Great Pyramids. With hieroglyphs on each page, a god or goddess associated with every destination, & informative notes at the end, you will be an Egypt expert in no time! This book has been selected by DCSF for 2008 ' Book Ahead' scheme. ...