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Language
English
Description
"From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Me Before You and After You, a sensational collection featuring the title novella and eight other stories. Quintessential Jojo Moyes, Paris for One and Other Stories is an irresistibly romantic collection filled with humor and heart. Nell is twenty-six and has never been to Paris. She's never even been on a romantic weekend away--to anywhere--before. Everyone knows travelling abroad isn't really her...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this 1983 short story about race and the relationships that shape us through life, Twyla and Roberta, friends since childhood who are seemingly at opposite ends of every problem as they grow older, cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them. Includes a lengthy introduction and critique by Zadie Smith.
Author
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"[This book] explores the raw and tender places where black women and girls dare to follow their desires and pursue a momentary reprieve from being good. The nine stories in this collection feature four generations of characters grappling with who they want to be in the world, caught as they are between the church's double standards and their own needs and passions"--
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A thoughtfully curated collection of classic and groundbreaking works from some of literature's bravest and most talented women. The literary selections feature brief introductory biographical sketches of these revolutionary women writers and details the greater historical value of their work.
Author
Publisher
Soft Skull
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
"In this witty and exuberant collection of linked stories, [the author] takes the rich, millenia-old tradition of Japanese folktales--shapeshifting wives and foxes, magical trees and wells--and wholly reinvents them, presenting a world in which humans are consoled, guided, challenged, and transformed by the only sometimes visible forces that surround them. A busybody aunt who disapproves of hair removal; a pair of door-to-door saleswomen hawking portable...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In her first collection of stories since the acclaimed Who's Irish?, the beloved author of The Resisters refracts the fifty years since the opening of China through the lives of ordinary people. Beginning with a cheery, kindly letter penned by a Chinese girl in heaven to 'poor Mr. Nixon' in hell, Gish Jen embarks on an eleven-story journey through U.S.-Chinese relations, capturing not only the excitement of a world on the brink of tectonic change,...
9) Hidden heart
Author
Publisher
Brilliance Audio
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A collection of two fan-favorite stories by multi-award-winning author Nora Roberts about unraveling the mysteries of the heart and learning to trust again after heartbreak.
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2021.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG+ - BL: 5.4 - AR Pts: 13
Language
English
Description
"Evoking Beyonč's Lemonade for a teen audience, these authors who are truly Octavia Butler's heirs, have woven worlds to create a stunning narrative that centers Black women and gender nonconforming individuals. A Phoenix First Must Burn will take you on a journey from folktales retold to futuristic societies and everything in between. Filled with stories of love and betrayal, strength and resistance, this collection contains an array of complex...
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