A masterpiece of rebellion and imprisonment where war is peace freedom is slavery and Big Brother is watching Thought Police Big Brother Orwellian These words have entered our vocabulary because of George Orwell s classic dystopian novel 1984 The story of one man s nightmare odyssey as he pursues a forbidden love affair through a world ruled by warring states and a power structure that controls not only information but also individual thought and memory 1984 is a prophetic haunting tale More relevant than ever before 1984 exposes the worst crimes imaginable the destruction of truth freedom and individuality With a foreword by Thomas Pynchon With a foreword by Thomas Pynchon A masterpiece of rebellion and imprisonment where war is peace freedom is slavery and Big Brother is watching View our feature on George Orwell s 1984 Thought Police Big Brother Orwellian These words have entered our vocabulary because of George Orwell s classic dystopian novel 1984 The story of one man s nightmare odyssey as he pursues a forbidden love affair through a world ruled by warring states and a power structure that controls not only information but also individual thought and memory 1984 is a prophetic haunting tale More relevant than ever before 1984 exposes the worst crimes imaginable the destruction of truth freedom and individuality This beautiful paperback edition features deckled edges and french flaps a perfect gift for any occasion Alternate cover edition can be found here.

A bittersweet story of love between two women, nested in an artful exploration of language, history, and power May 1938. The young novelist Aoyama Chizuko has sailed from her home in Nagasaki, Japan, and arrived in Taiwan. She’s been invited there by the Japanese government ruling the island, though she has no interest in their official banquets or imperialist agenda. Instead, Chizuko longs to experience real island life and to taste as much of its authentic cuisine as her famously monstrous appetite can bear. Soon a Taiwanese woman―who is younger even than she is, and who shares the characters of her name―is hired as her interpreter and makes her dreams come true. The charming, erudite, meticulous Chizuru arranges Chizuko’s travels all over the Land of the South and also proves to be an exceptional cook. Over scenic train rides and braised pork rice, lively banter and winter melon tea, Chizuko grows infatuated with her companion and intent on drawing her closer. But something causes Chizuru to keep her distance. It’s only after a heartbreaking separation that Chizuko begins to grasp what the “something” is. Disguised as a translation of a rediscovered text by a Japanese writer, this novel was a sensation on its first publication in Mandarin Chinese in 2020 and won Taiwan’s highest literary honor, the Golden Tripod Award. Taiwan Travelogue unburies lost colonial histories and deftly reveals how power dynamics inflect our most intimate relationships.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9783596215225 »Das Unwahrscheinliche hatte sich ereignet, der Weltmeister, der Champion zahlloser Turniere hatte die Fahne gestrichen vor einem Unbekannten, einem Manne, der zwanzig oder fünfundzwanzig Jahre kein Schachbrett angerührt. Unser Freund, der Anonymus, der Ignotus, hatte den stärksten Schachspieler der Erde in offenem Kampfe besiegt!« Das Erstaunen ist groß, als der unscheinbare Dr. B., österreichischer Emigrant auf einem Passagierdampfer von New York nach Buenos Aires, eher zufällig gegen den amtierenden Schachweltmeister Mirko Czentovic antritt und seinen mechanisch routinierten Gegner mit verspielter Leichtigkeit besiegt. Doch das Schachspiel fördert Erinnerungen an den Terror seiner Inhaftierung im Nationalsozialismus zutage und reißt eine seelische Wunde wieder auf, die erneut Dr. B.s geistige Gesundheit bedroht.

Don't miss the sapphic sports romcom from Adiba Jaigirdar from the award-winning author of Hani and Ishu's Fake Guide to DatingAll is fair in love and rivalry...Dina is done. She's burn out after years in corporate London and now is working in her family's struggling Bangladeshi restaurant. The last thing she expects is to be roped into coaching a football team of disadvantaged amateur players - or to say yes.Maya is back. She could have had a brilliant career, but it all went...well wrong. Now she's back home, back in her childhood bedroom. Her only escape is agreeing to coach her old secondary school's team.It doesn't take long for them to bump into each other again and for as long as anyone can remember, Dina and Maya were rivals. But will the very game that tore them apart bring them back together?An enemies-to-lovers and angsty queer Bend it like Beckham meets Cross the Line jampacked with quirky side characters who cannot help but intervene to push their uptight managers together.

Data is fundamental to the modern world. From economic development, to healthcare, to education and public policy, we rely on numbers to allocate resources and make crucial decisions. But because so much data fails to take into account gender, because it treats men as the default and women as atypical, bias and discrimination are baked into our systems. And women pay tremendous costs for this bias, in time, money, and often with their lives. Celebrated feminist advocate Caroline Criado Perez investigates the shocking root cause of gender inequality and research in Invisible Women​, diving into women’s lives at home, the workplace, the public square, the doctor’s office, and more. Built on hundreds of studies in the US, the UK, and around the world, and written with energy, wit, and sparkling intelligence, this is a groundbreaking, unforgettable exposé that will change the way you look at the world.

Viajando de Nova Iorque a Buenos Aires de navio, um grupo de passageiros paga Mirko Czentóvic, campeão mundial de xadrez, para disputar uma partida com eles. O enxadrista não encontra dificuldades para enfrentar seus oponentes amadores, até que surge o misterioso Doutor B, um advogado austríaco de aparência envelhecida que consegue, miraculosamente, calcular lances e estratégias capazes de fazer frente ao arrogante campeão. No meio do mar, os dois travam uma partida feroz, que traz à tona uma história de obsessão e isolamento, marcada pelo nazismo e pela prisão. Stefan Zweig enviou O Livro do Xadrez para seu editor em 1942, poucos dias antes de cometer suicídio em Petrópolis, junto a sua esposa. A novela, a única do autor austríaco a tratar diretamente do tema do nazismo, articula elementos autobiográficos ao enredo. Na leitura de Guilherme Weber, os movimentos do narrador se acendem, e podemos acompanhá-lo se aproximar e afastar dos oponentes, como se estivesse, também ele, envolvido nesse jogo de guerra.

The unforgettable novel of a childhood in a sleepy Southern town and the crisis of conscience that rocked it. "To Kill A Mockingbird" became both an instant bestseller and a critical success when it was first published in 1960. It went on to win the Pulitzer Prize in 1961 and was later made into an Academy Award-winning film, also a classic. Compassionate, dramatic, and deeply moving, "To Kill A Mockingbird" takes readers to the roots of human behavior - to innocence and experience, kindness and cruelty, love and hatred, humor and pathos. Now with over 18 million copies in print and translated into forty languages, this regional story by a young Alabama woman claims universal appeal. Harper Lee always considered her book to be a simple love story. Today it is regarded as a masterpiece of American literature.

Librarian's note: An alternate cover edition can be found here It is 1939. Nazi Germany. The country is holding its breath. Death has never been busier, and will be busier still. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is The Gravedigger's Handbook, left behind there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordian-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jew in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down. In superbly crafted writing that burns with intensity, award-winning author Markus Zusak has given us one of the most enduring stories of our time. (Note: this title was not published as YA fiction)

Was kostet es, das eigene Leben in die Hand zu nehmen? Mit Mitte zwanzig hat er schon mehrere Leben hinter sich: Eine Kindheit in extremer Armut, die Scham über die eigene Herkunft, die Flucht vom Dorf in die Stadt, den Aufbruch nach Paris. Er macht sich frei von den Grenzen seiner Herkunft, nimmt einen neuen Namen an, liest und schreibt wie ein Besessener, probiert sich aus, will alle Leben leben. Immer neue Welten erschließen sich ihm. Mit unbändiger Energie erfindet er sich wieder und wieder, schließt Freundschaften und hinterfragt doch die radikale Selbstveränderung, die sich nie ganz vollendet. Édouard Louis hat ein großes Buch geschrieben darüber, was man zurücklässt, wenn man bei sich selbst ankommt. »Ein Buch von aufwühlender Schönheit.« Le Monde »Es hat eine enorme aufpeitschende Kraft, wie Édouard Louis sein Leben reflektiert.« Edgar Selge »Ein seltener Glücksfall – ein Autor, der etwas zu sagen hat und bereit ist, es ohne Rücksicht auf sich selbst zu tun.« The New York Times »Fesselnd.« FAZ

Ein Befreiungsschlag, ein Aufbruch in ein neues Leben – mit unglaublicher Sprachgewalt erzählt der junge französische Autor Édouard Louis die Geschichte einer geglückten Flucht aus einer unerträglichen Kindheit: inspiriert von seiner eigenen. ›Das Ende von Eddy‹ ist sein Debütroman, der zu einem großen Erfolg und einer der meistdiskutierten Veröffentlichungen des Jahres wurde.

Was kostet es, das eigene Leben in die Hand zu nehmen? Mit Mitte zwanzig hat er schon mehrere Leben hinter sich: Eine Kindheit in extremer Armut, die Scham über die eigene Herkunft, die Flucht vom Dorf in die Stadt, den Aufbruch nach Paris. Er macht sich frei von den Grenzen seiner Herkunft, nimmt einen neuen Namen an, liest und schreibt wie ein Besessener, probiert sich aus, will alle Leben leben. Immer neue Welten erschließen sich ihm. Mit unbändiger Energie erfindet er sich wieder und wieder, schließt Freundschaften und hinterfragt doch die radikale Selbstveränderung, die sich nie ganz vollendet. Édouard Louis hat ein großes Buch geschrieben darüber, was man zurücklässt, wenn man bei sich selbst ankommt. »Ein Buch von aufwühlender Schönheit.« Le Monde »Es hat eine enorme aufpeitschende Kraft, wie Édouard Louis sein Leben reflektiert.« Edgar Selge »Ein seltener Glücksfall – ein Autor, der etwas zu sagen hat und bereit ist, es ohne Rücksicht auf sich selbst zu tun.« The New York Times »Fesselnd.« FAZ

A whipsmart debut about three women—transgender and cisgender—whose lives collide after an unexpected pregnancy forces them to confront their deepest desires around gender, motherhood, and sex. Reese almost had it all: a loving relationship with Amy, an apartment in New York City, a job she didn't hate. She had scraped together what previous generations of trans women could only dream of: a life of mundane, bourgeois comforts. The only thing missing was a child. But then her girlfriend, Amy, detransitioned and became Ames, and everything fell apart. Now Reese is caught in a self-destructive pattern: avoiding her loneliness by sleeping with married men. Ames isn't happy either. He thought detransitioning to live as a man would make life easier, but that decision cost him his relationship with Reese—and losing her meant losing his only family. Even though their romance is over, he longs to find a way back to her. When Ames's boss and lover, Katrina, reveals that she's pregnant with his baby—and that she's not sure whether she wants to keep it—Ames wonders if this is the chance he's been waiting for. Could the three of them form some kind of unconventional family—and raise the baby together? This provocative debut is about what happens at the emotional, messy, vulnerable corners of womanhood that platitudes and good intentions can't reach. Torrey Peters brilliantly and fearlessly navigates the most dangerous taboos around gender, sex, and relationships, gifting us a thrillingly original, witty, and deeply moving novel.