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Publisher
Harlequin, Afterglow Books
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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A corporate workaholic facing a health scare asks a former high school classmate and current yoga studio owner to help him get into shape and win back the one who got away, despite really getting on each other's nerves.
"Free-spirited yoga guru Shay Davis has only ninety days to get her workaholic former classmate Colin Anderson from work all day to namaste. All they need is a little common ground. Accountant Colin Anderson is working himself into...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"With deadpan humor and a keen eye for the strangeness of our days, Negative Space follows a week in the life of an English teacher at a New York private school. At home, her two children, increasingly restless, ask constant questions about mortality and find hidden wisdom in the cartoons they watch on television. Her husband tends to his plants and offers occasional counsel between Zoom calls to Hong Kong and Australia. And at school, as she navigates...
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton and Company
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
''An ingenious, devastating, explosive novel about the ramifications of choice from "one of the most original and talented authors working today" (NPR). "How ought one to live?" This is the question that obsesses London-based publisher Ayush, driving him to question every act of consumption. He embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him: his practical economist husband; their twins; and even the authors...
Author
Publisher
TorDotCom, Tor Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Given the opportunity to be educated at the ship's university alongside the elite, the boy, raised as one of the Chained, forms a bond with "the professor," and together they set off on a transformative journey to break free of the chains that fetter themboth.
"The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels of a mining ship out among the stars. His whole world changes—literally—when he is yanked "upstairs" and informed...
Author
Publisher
McClelland and Stewart
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"Elmore Trent is a professor of Indigenous studies who finds himself entangled in an affair that's ruining his marriage; Paul North plays in the IHL (Indigenous Hockey League), struggling to keep up with the game that's passing him by; Detective Ruby Birch is chasing a string of gruesome murders, with clues that conspicuously lead her to both Elmore and Paul. And then there's Fabiola Halan, former journalist-turned-author and famed survivor of a plane...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
"In an alternative 2011, the Mental Parity movement takes hold. Americans now embrace the sacred, universal truth that there is no such thing as variable human intelligence. Because everyone is equally smart, discrimination against purportedly dumb peopleis 'the last great civil rights fight.' Tests, grades, and employment qualifications are all discarded. Children are expelled for saying the S-word ("stupid") and encouraged to report parents who...
Author
Publisher
Duomo Ediciones
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
The world of Olive Kitteridge, a retired school teacher in a small coastal town in Maine, is revealed in stories that explore her diverse roles in many lives, including a lounge singer haunted by a past love, her stoic husband, and her own resentful son.
''De la autora de la aclamada Me llamo Lucy Barton. La novela Premio Pullitzer que inspiró la galardonada serie de televisión protagonizada por Frances McDormand. Olive Kitteridge es una maestra...
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