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2023
The Vanishing Half: A Novel
Brit Bennett · 2020
Just Kids
Patti Smith · 2010
<p> It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation. </p> <p> Patti Smith would evolve as a poet and performer, and Robert Mapplethorpe would direct his highly provocative style toward photography. Bound in innocence and enthusiasm, they traversed the city from Coney Island to Forty-second Street, and eventually to the celebrated round table of Max's Kansas City, where the Andy Warhol contingent held court. In 1969, the pair set up camp at the Hotel Chelsea and soon entered a community of the famous and infamous—the influential artists of the day and the colorful fringe. It was a time of heightened awareness, when the worlds of poetry, rock and roll, art, and sexual politics were colliding and exploding. In this milieu, two kids made a pact to take care of each other. Scrappy, romantic, committed to create, and fueled by their mutual dreams and drives, they would prod and provide for one another during the hungry years. </p> <p> <i>Just Kids</i> begins as a love story and ends as an elegy. It serves as a salute to New York City during the late sixties and seventies and to its rich and poor, its hustlers and hellions. A true fable, it is a portrait of two young artists' ascent, a prelude to fame. </p>
Half of a Yellow Sun
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie · 2007
Pachinko
Min Jin Lee · 2017
Shuggie Bain: A Novel
Douglas Stuart · 2020
2024
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Ocean Vuong · 2020
Lincoln in the Bardo
George Saunders · 2017
La mala costumbre
Alana S. Portero · 2024
Noughts & Crosses
Malorie Blackman · 2020
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
Patrick Radden Keefe · 2020
Swimming in the Dark: A Novel
Tomasz Jedrowski · 2021
Crying in H Mart: A Memoir
Michelle Zauner · 2021
Trust
Hernan Diaz · 2023
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini · 2008
The Guest: A Novel
Emma Cline · 2023
2025
This House of Grief
Helen Garner · 2017
This House of Grief is a heartbreaking audiobook by one of Australia’s most admired authors.<br/><br/>Anyone can see the place where the children died. You take the Princes Highway past Geelong, and keep going west in the direction of Colac. Late in August 2006, soon after I had watched a magistrate commit Robert Farquharson to stand trial before a jury on three charges of murder, I headed out that way on a Sunday morning, across the great volcanic plain.<br/><br/>On the evening of 4 September 2005, Father’s Day, Robert Farquharson, a separated husband, was driving his three sons home to their mother, Cindy, when his car left the road and plunged into a dam. The boys, aged 10, seven, and two, drowned. Was this an act of revenge or a tragic accident?<br/><br/>The court case became Helen Garner’s obsession. She followed it on its protracted course until the final verdict.<br/><br/>In this utterly compelling audiobook, Helen Garner tells the story of a man and his broken life. She presents the theatre of the courtroom with its actors and audience—all gathered to witness to the truth—players in the extraordinary and unpredictable drama of the quest for justice.
Small Boat
Vincent Delecroix · 2025
"An inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel causing the death of 27 people on board. Despite receiving numerous calls for help, the French authorities wrongly told the migrants they were in British waters and had to call the British authorities for help. By the time rescue vessels arrived on the scene, all but two of the migrants had died. The narrator of Delecroix's fictional account of the events is the woman who took the calls. Accused of failing in her duty, she refuses to be held more responsible than others for this disaster. Why should she be more responsible than the sea, than the war, than the crises behind these tragedies?"--Publisher.
Widow Basquiat
Jennifer Clement · 2018
La Hija única
Guadalupe Nettel
Luto sem Medo
Max Porter · 2021
There There
Tommy Orange · 2018
The Bee Sting
Murray, Paul · 2023
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
Olga Tokarczuk · 2020
