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A NEW YORK TIMES 2023 SUMMER READ Meet Tony: the first Indian to set foot on American soil. Among the settlers, slaves, and indentured servants that travel across the Atlantic to the New World in the early 1600s, there is also Tony. As a child, his home in India becomes a trading outpost for the English, as an orphaned teenager, he is kidnapped in London and bound to servitude on a Virginia plantation. But Tony is not giving up on his dreams j...

Reena hates rainy days. She hates the way the dark clouds make everything look so dull. Rekha loves rainy days. She loves the way the rain makes the earth smell. When Rekha spots a rainbow, she rushes indoors to tell her sister about it. Reena will want to paint it, for sure!But when the sisters go outside to find it, the rainbow disappears. Where could it have gone? A vibrantly illustrated tale about finding light even in the gloomiest of ti...

An Independent Climate Book of the Year 2023 In this sweeping work of science and history, the renowned climate scientist and author of The New Climate War shows us the conditions on Earth that allowed humans not only to exist but thrive, and how they are imperiled if we veer off course. For the vast majority of its 4.54 billion years, Earth has proven it can manage just fine without human beings. Then came the first proto-humans, who emerged ...

From the author of The Picture Bride, two women¿s lives and identities are intertwined ¿ through World War II and the Korean War ¿ revealing the harsh realities of class division in the early part of the 20th century. Can¿t I Go Instead follows the lives of the daughter of a Korean nobleman and her maidservant in the early 20th century. When the daughter¿s suitor is arrested as a Korean Independence activist, and she is implicated during the ...

New Years Day is no longer the start date to begin your new journey. You can hit the reset button at anytime and NOW is a great time to start on you 2.0. Just as you may feel sluggish after an amazing tour of Italy, where you ate your way through the country, guilty after a magnificent Thanksgiving meal with the family, or remorseful after a grand birthday celebration and need a deep detox to purge yourself of the gluttonous festivities, now m...

David Copperfield meets Washington Black, this is a compelling coming-of-age story about the first Indian to set foot on American soil, for readers of The Essex Serpent and Golden Hill. A favourite in house at Scribe, we will be pulling out all the stops, with superproofs, a widespread bookseller campaign with POS, reviews and features, and radio like Open Book and Book at Bedtime.

Mattie Duiker is trying very hard to live up to his dying father's wishes. He is putting aside childish things, starting his first business serving healthy take-away food to the workers of Cape Town. His Pa is proud. His porn addiction both threatens his relationship with his boyfriend, Jack, and imperils his inheritance.

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Millions of us suffer from addiction, including psychiatrist and recovering alcoholic Carl Erik Fisher. But where does this centuries-old behaviour come from and how should we treat it? As a young doctor, Carl Erik Fisher came face to face with his own addiction crisis, one that nearly cost him everything. Now, in The Urge, he investigates the history of this condition, how we have struggled to define, treat, and control it, and how broader un...

A compelling and persuasive look at the social transformations needed to cope with our environmental crises. As this major German bestseller reports, our world is at a tipping point, and we feel it every day. On the one hand, we have never been so well off, on the other hand, we find destruction and crisis everywhere we look. Whether throughout the environment or within society, our systems are under stress. In this book, Maja Göpel, co-founde...

A FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR A call to action for the creative class and labour movement to rally against the power of Big Tech and Big Media. Corporate concentration has breached the stratosphere, as have corporate profits. An ever-expanding constellation of industries are now monopolies (where sellers have excessive power over buyers) or monopsonies (where buyers hold the whip hand over sellers) ¿ or both. Scholar Rebecca Giblin and wr...

A long-overdue exposé of the astonishing yet shadowy power wielded by the world¿s largest law firms. Though not a household name, Jones Day is well known in the halls of power, and serves as a powerful encapsulation of the changes that have swept the legal profession in recent decades. Founded in the US in 1893, it has become one of the world¿s largest law firms, a global juggernaut with deep ties to corporate interests and conservative politi...

An in-depth look at the partnership between Barack Obama and Joe Biden that changed the face of American politics. The `bromance¿ between Obama and Biden has been much discussed, but this is the first time the full story of their relationship has been told: from their joint victory in 2008 to their disagreements over policy, and from the rift that formed after Obama supported Clinton¿s 2015 presidential run to the present day with President Bi...

The interconnectedness of nature has been the subject of a number of successful books. This offers a fascinating new perspective on the subject. Will appeal to readers of The Secret Network of Nature, The Entangled Life, and Wilding.

A game-changing book about the revolutionary potential of working from home, by two experts who work ¿ and live ¿ together. Out of Office is a book for every office worker ¿ from employees to managers ¿ navigating the return to the office since the outbreak of COVID-19. The lockdowns of 2020¿21 have shown us a new path forward, one that doesn¿t involve hellish daily commutes and set schedules that no longer make sense. But how can we realise t...

The extraordinary true story of the unlikely friendship between three women ¿ Mussolini¿s daughter, a German spy, and an American socialite ¿ who conspired to assist the Allies. In 1943, Edda Mussolini, daughter of the fascist dictator, gave her father and Hitler an extraordinary ultimatum: release her husband, Italy¿s former foreign minister, Galeazzo Ciano, from prison, or risk her leaking her husband¿s incendiary diaries to the press. Inste...

Come explore the ABC's of prayer! This book will teach children how to talk to God using the alphabets from A to Z. There are illustrations and scriptures along the way. Children will have fun as they learn key points on how to pray.

Meet the greatest scientists and inventors of the twentieth century in this riveting group biography. Does for physics what Wolfram Eilenberger and Sarah Bakewell have done for philosophy and Benjamín Labatut did for maths.

NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2022 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES The first book to tell the full story of race and health in America today, showing the toll racism takes on individuals and the health of the nation. In the US, Black people have poorer health outcomes than white people at every stage of their lives: Black babies are more than twice as likely as white babies to die at birth or in the first year of life, Blacks in every age-group und...