Alexis Hall

Literally brand new. 
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Paris Daillencourt is a recipe for disaster. Despite his passion for baking, his cat, and his classics degree, constant self-doubt and second-guessing have left him a curdled, directionless mess. So when his roommate enters him in Bake Expectations, the nation's favourite baking show, Paris is sure he'll be the first one sent home.
But not only does he win week one's challenge he meets fellow contestant Tariq Hassan. Sure, he's the competition, but he's also cute and kind, with more confidence than Paris could ever hope to have.
Still, neither his growing romance with Tariq nor his own impressive bakes can keep Paris's fear of failure from spoiling his happiness.
And when the show's vicious fanbase confirms his worst anxieties, Paris's confidence is torn apart quicker than tear-and-share bread.
But if Paris can find the strength to face his past, his future, and the chorus of hecklers that live in his brain, he'll realize it's the sweet things in life that he really deserves.

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

From the bestselling author of Boyfriend Material comes a sweet and scrumptious romantic comedy about facing your insecurities, finding love, and baking it off, no matter what people say. 



Paris Daillencourt is a recipe for disaster. Despite his passion for baking, his cat, and his classics degree, constant self-doubt and second-guessing have left him a curdled, directionless mess. So when his roommate enters him in Bake Expectations, the nation's favourite baking show, Paris is sure he'll be the first one sent home.

 

But not only does he win week one's challenge--he meets fellow contestant Tariq Hassan. Sure, he's the competition, but he's also cute and kind, with more confidence than Paris could ever hope to have. Still, neither his growing romance with Tariq nor his own impressive bakes can keep Paris's fear of failure from spoiling his happiness. And when the show's vicious fanbase confirms his worst anxieties, Paris's confidence is torn apart quicker than tear-and-share bread.

 

But if Paris can find the strength to face his past, his future, and the chorus of hecklers that live in his brain, he'll realize it's the sweet things in life that he really deserves.

 

Paris Daillencourt Is about to Crumble

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Patrice Nganang

Amy Baram Reid

Comes with protective book cover. 
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"I am a dog," the narrator of this novel plainly informs us. As such, he has learned not to expect too much from life. He can, however, observe the life around him. This story told by a canine Everyman offers something for any reader interested in freedom withheld and the early stirrings that will someday win it back. 

An Animal Chronicle

In the vanguard of a new generation of writers, Nganang tells--"through the voice of a dog"--the story of an Africa born of military dictators and absolute poverty.

Dog Days

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Jacqueline Kelen

Brand new. 
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Héritière de la philosophie grecque qui place la philia au sommet des vertus, l'amitié spirituelle qui se développe dès les premiers temps du christianisme est à l'origine de fondations d'ordres, de missions, d'une riche correspondance et de textes magnifiques. C'est une émulation sur le chemin du ciel en même temps qu'une tendresse partagée et une indéfectible fidélité.
Jacqueline Kelen nous convie ici à un voyage à travers l'Europe chrétienne, depuis les ermites du ive siècle jusqu'à nos jours, en racontant de belles amitiés, qu'elles soient passionnées ou plus sages, paisibles ou contrariées (Maître Eckhart et Sœur Catherine, Pierre de Bérulle et Mme Acarie). Certains amis sont célèbres et auréolés de sainteté (François et Claire d'Assise); d'autres (Hildegarde de Bingen ou Teilhard de Chardin) vivent les ambiguïtés et les risques d'un lien qui cherche à se hisser au-dessus du simple attachement sentimental.
Les amitiés célestes sont aussi une invitation à s'interroger sur ce qui nourrit et illumine toute relation terrestre.

Amities Celestes (les)

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Patrick Chamoiseau

Linda Coverdale

Édouard Glissant

Slight wear on spine and bottom right corner of front cover. 

Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows traces the rise and fall of Pipi Soleil, ?king of the wheelbarrow? at the vegetable market of Fort-de-France, in a tale as lively and magical as the marketplace itself. In a Martinique where creatures from folklore walk the land and cultural traditions cling tenuously to life, Patrick Chamoiseau?s characters confront the crippling heritage of colonialism and the overwhelming advance of modernization with touching dignity, hilarious resourcefulness, and truly courageous joie de vivre.

Chronicle of the Seven Sorrows

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Frederick Douglass

Slight bent front cover, slight wear on spine. 

An American Slave

The impassioned abolitionist and eloquent orator provides graphic descriptions of his childhood and horrifying experiences as a slave as well as a harrowing record of his dramatic escape to the North and eventual freedom. Published in 1845 to quell doubts about his origins, the Narrative is admired today for its extraordinary passion, sensitive descriptions, and storytelling power.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglas

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Carolina Maria de Jesus

David St. Clair

Robert M. Levine

Slight wear on spine, otherwise like new. 
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"Written between 1955 and 1960, Child of the Dark is the daily journal of an artist, a writer who, as the single mother of three young children, supports her family by picking through garbage for paper and scraps to sell. They live in a cardboard and wood-scrap shack in a Brazilian slum called the favelas, where there is no plumbing, and one public cold-water spigot is the only clean water source for several hundred people. Her journal documents the lives favelados are forced to live.... Carolina de Jesus is a poet of intense dignity."

The Diary of Carolina Maria de Jesus

The powerful firsthand account of life in the streets of São Paulo that drew international attention to the plight of the poor.


Includes eight pages of photographs and an afterword by Robert M. Levine
Translated from the Portuguese by David S. Clair

Child of the Dark

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Howard W. French

A few chapters have light pencil annotations and underlining. 

Heavy Hardcover (2 to 4 lbs)

Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

Revealing the central yet intentionally obliterated role of Africa in the creation of modernity, Born in Blackness vitally reframes our understanding of world history. Traditional accounts of the making of the modern world afford a place of primacy to European history. Some credit the fifteenth-century Age of Discovery and the maritime connection it established between West and East; others the accidental unearthing of the “New World.” Still others point to the development of the scientific method, or the spread of Judeo-Christian beliefs; and so on, ad infinitum. The history of Africa, by contrast, has long been relegated to the remote outskirts of our global story. What if, instead, we put Africa and Africans at the very center of our thinking about the origins of modernity? In a sweeping narrative spanning more than six centuries, Howard W. French does just that, for Born in Blackness vitally reframes the story of medieval and emerging Africa, demonstrating how the economic ascendancy of Europe, the anchoring of democracy in the West, and the fulfillment of so-called Enlightenment ideals all grew out of Europe’s dehumanizing engagement with the “dark” continent. In fact, French reveals, the first impetus for the Age of Discovery was not—as we are so often told, even today—Europe’s yearning for ties with Asia, but rather its centuries-old desire to forge a trade in gold with legendarily rich Black societies sequestered away in the heart of West Africa. Creating a historical narrative that begins with the commencement of commercial relations between Portugal and Africa in the fifteenth century and ends with the onset of World War II, Born in Blackness interweaves precise historical detail with poignant, personal reportage. In so doing, it dramatically retrieves the lives of major African historical figures, from the unimaginably rich medieval emperors who traded with the Near East and beyond, to the Kongo sovereigns who heroically battled seventeenth-century European powers, to the ex-slaves who liberated Haitians from bondage and profoundly altered the course of American history. While French cogently demonstrates the centrality of Africa to the rise of the modern world, Born in Blackness becomes, at the same time, a far more significant narrative, one that reveals a long-concealed history of trivialization and, more often, elision in depictions of African history throughout the last five hundred years. As French shows, the achievements of sovereign African nations and their now-far-flung peoples have time and again been etiolated and deliberately erased from modern history. As the West ascended, their stories—siloed and piecemeal—were swept into secluded corners, thus setting the stage for the hagiographic “rise of the West” theories that have endured to this day. “Capacious and compelling” (Laurent Dubois), Born in Blackness is epic history on the grand scale. In the lofty tradition of bold, revisionist narratives, it reframes the story of gold and tobacco, sugar and cotton—and of the greatest “commodity” of them all, the twelve million people who were brought in chains from Africa to the “New World,” whose reclaimed lives shed a harsh light on our present world.

Born in Blackness

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Madeleine St John

A Novel

“The book I most often give as a gift to cheer people up.” —Hilary Mantel A delightful debut novel set in a department store in Sydney in the 1950s. The women in black, so named for the black frocks they wear while working at Goode’s department store, are busy selling ladies’ dresses during the holiday rush. But they somehow find time to pursue other goals… Patty, in her mid-thirties, has been working at Goode’s for years. Her husband, Frank, eats a steak for dinner every night, watches a few minutes of TV, and then turns in. Patty yearns for a baby, but Frank is always too tired for that kind of thing. Sweet, unlucky Fay wants to settle down with a nice man, but somehow nice men don’t see her as marriage material. Glamorous Magda runs the high-end gowns department. A Slovenian émigré, Magda is cultured and continental and hopes to open her own boutique one day. Lisa, a clever and shy teenager, takes a job at Goode’s during her school break. Lisa wants to go to university and dreams of becoming a poet, but her father objects to both notions. By the time the last marked-down dress is sold, all of their lives will be forever changed. A pitch-perfect comedy of manners set during a pivotal era, and perfect for fans of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, The Women in Black conjures the energy of a city on the cusp of change and is a testament to the timeless importance of female friendship.

The Women in Black

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Erin Sterling

New York Times bestselling author Rachel Hawkins, writing as Erin Sterling, casts a spell with a spine-tingling romance full of wishes, witches, and hexes gone wrong. Nine years ago, Vivienne Jones nursed her broken heart like any young witch would: vodka, weepy music, bubble baths...and a curse on the horrible boyfriend. Sure, Vivi knows she shouldn't use her magic this way, but with only an "orchard hayride" scented candle on hand, she isn't worried it will cause him anything more than a bad hair day or two. That is until Rhys Penhallow, descendent of the town's ancestors, breaker of hearts, and annoyingly just as gorgeous as he always was, returns to Graves Glen, Georgia. What should be a quick trip to recharge the town's ley lines and make an appearance at the annual fall festival turns disastrously wrong. With one calamity after another striking Rhys, Vivi realizes her silly little Ex Hex may not have been so harmless after all. Suddenly, Graves Glen is under attack from murderous wind-up toys, a pissed off ghost, and a talking cat with some interesting things to say. Vivi and Rhys have to ignore their off the charts chemistry to work together to save the town and find a way to break the break-up curse before it's too late.

The Ex Hex

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Kelly Neff

Two pages have highlighting. Front cover is bent slightly. 

Redefining Our Attitudes to Love and Sex

Offering a new take on the psychology of human sexuality, Sexpositive integrates modern day themes such as technology and the use of social media with self-help. This is the book that millennial's will turn to in order to rewrite the story of their love lives. THE DIGITAL AGE IS USHERING IN A SEX POSITIVE REVOLUTION Millennial disrupter Dr Kelly Neff believes radical change is underway in our love and sex lives. Fuelled by developing technology and shifting cultural beliefs, the Sex Positive movement is a social, political and philosophical wave that promotes and embraces sexuality and sexual expression, with an emphasis on safety and consent. In this ground-breaking study of modern sexuality, Dr Kelly Neff explores this new cultural movement and examines LGBTQI issues, #MeToo, female orgasm, the rise of non-monogamous relationships and robotic sex partners, among many other contentious topics emerging as part of the ongoing social and political shifts surrounding sex, love and identity. "Redefining sex and love as a constructive, harmonizing experience comprises a crucial part of how we move forward as a human collective... It's not a movement solely for women, but one that can apply to all genders and lifestyles. Being sex positive is inherently inclusive, and this is the tone that I take in this book."

Sex Positive

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Stanley Appelbaum

Dual language: French & English.
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Representing a variety of nineteenth-century literary trends (Romanticism,
Realism, Naturalism, and
even a foretaste of Symbolism, the stories include "Mateo Falcone" (by Prosper Mérimée), "Sylvie" (by Gérard de Nerval), Alphonse Daudet's "La mule du Pape" (The Pope's Mule), Gustave Flaubert's "Hérodias" (Herodias), Emile Zola's "L'attaque du moulin" (The Attack on the Mill), and Guy de Maupassant's "Mademoiselle Perle" (Miss Pearl).
Editor and translator Stanley Appelbaum has provided accurate English interpretations (printed to align line-for-line with the French texts), an informative introduction, and notes on each selection.
This inexpensive edition provides a wonderful opportunity for students of French language and literature and anyone who loves short stories to sample a carefully chosen selection of the very best in the genre.

Carefully chosen collection provides both the French original and new line-by-line English translations -- on facing pages -- of 6 great 19th-century French short stories. Merim\u00e9e's Mateo Falcone, Sylvie by Nerval, Daudet's La mule du Pape, Flaubert's H\u00e9rodias, L'attaque du moulin by Zola, and de Maupassant's Mademoiselle Perle. Introduction and Notes.

Nineteenth-Century French Short Stories (Contes et Nouvelles Franpcais du XIXe Siecle)

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Dans sa nouvelle fresque historique, Max Gallo raconte la naissance de la France chrétienne à travers trois hautes figures : Martin, le premier évangélisateur des Gaules ;
Clovis, barbare converti, premier roi chrétien, qui unifia la Gaule ; Bernard, le grand fondateur cistercien qui prêcha la deuxième croisade.
Dans le premier volet de ce triptyque, Julius et Antonius Galvinius, un tribun et son fils, se déchirent : tenants de deux mondes qui s'affrontent, ils tentent de se convertir l'un l'autre, le premier à la tradition antique, le second à la foi nouvelle.
Partagé lui aussi entre deux conceptions du monde, Martin a choisi de se consacrer à son Dieu. Élu évêque de Tours, il est appelé à convertir les paiens et à détruire leur culte. Sa discipline, la pauvreté de sa subsistance, les miracles qu'il accomplit attirent autour de lui une communauté de plus en plus nombreuse, qui le reconnaît bientôt comme le premier grand maître chrétien.

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