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"Fumi may have already resolved to give up on Akatsuki, but her heart clearly hasn't gotten the memo yet. And unfortunately, summer vacation has started...which means staying home all day...which means being around the novelist 24-7! To make matters worse, Gorou invites Fumi along on his and Akatsuki's research trip--but promptly returns to Tokyo on urgent business, leaving the two housemates alone in Kyoto! As the unfamiliar city reveals facets of...
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"Akatsuki Kibikino may be a celebrated novelist, but putting his feelings into words has always been a struggle. Kaneishi's blatant advances toward Fumi put Akatsuki in the foulest mood--that much is obvious. The reason he's bothered by the thought of Fumi liking someone else, however, continues to elude him...That is, until there is an unexpected confession from Fumi at the summer festival! With her feelings finally out in the open, how will he respond?"--Provided...
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After receiving what seems to be a silent rejection to her confession, Fumi had resolved to erase her feelings and power through her heartbreak Akatsuki finally answers--by asking her out! Despite the change in their relationship, however, their daily lives seem to remain largely the same except for one key aspect-- if living with her crush was bad for Fumi's heart, it's nothing compared to living with her boyfriend!"--
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"Theo Benton decides to move to the United States to finally finish her novel, and she is soon drawn into a literary labyrinth where identity is something that can be lost and remade for the sake of sales and readership. When her mentor and lover is brutally murdered, Theo wants the killer to be found and justice to be served. But when the prime suspect turns out to be her older brother, Gus, Theo does what is necessary to protect him--to save him....
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"A searing debut about the complexities of gender, power, and fame, told through the story of a young woman's destructive relationship with a legendary writer. It's 2015, and Tatum Vega feels that her life is finally falling into place. Living in sunny Chile with her partner Vera, she spends her days surrounded by art at the museum where she works. She loves this new life, but more than anything, she loves it for helping her forget the decade she...
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Girl is spending the spring at an artist's residency in Scotland. Far from her home in Australia and her tight-knit Malaysian family, she is meant to be writing a postcolonial novel and working on a PhD on the poetry of Sylvia Plath. But she can't stop thinking about her upbringing and the stories of her parents and grandmother who raised her. How can she reconcile their dreams for her with her lived reality? Did Sylvia Plath have this problem? What...
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"A scrapbook, a family chest, a quilt - and an astounding work of historical engagement and literary accomplishment - A Darker Wilderness is a vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory"--
A vibrant collection of personal and lyric essays in conversation with archival objects of Black history and memory. What are the politics of nature? Who owns it, where is it, what role does...
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"Each chapter in this remarkable consideration of American culture evokes an actual meeting between two historical figures. In 1854, as a boy, Henry James has his daguerreotype made by Mathew Brady. We encounter Brady again as he photographs Walt Whitman and then Ulysses Grant. Meanwhile, Henry James begins a lasting friendship with William Dean Howells, and also meets Sarah Orne Jewett, who in turn is a mentor to Willa Cather... Cohen brilliantly...
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"From the award-winning New York Times-bestselling author, Alexandra Fuller, comes a career defining memoir about grieving the sudden loss of her twenty-one-year-old child. "Fair to say, I was in a ribald state the summer before my fiftieth birthday." And so begins Alexandra Fuller's open, vivid new memoir, Fi. It's midsummer in Wyoming and Alexandra is barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, reeling from...