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  • The Freewayfayers' Book of the Dead

    A Novel

    by John Okas ...
    “The playful, spirited sequel to Routes continues the mythological history of the Black family in the 1930s and 1940s who continue their spiritual quests, worldly and otherworldly pursuits.” —Kirkus Reviews ... Read more

    $8.69 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Signs & Seasons

    An Astrology Cookbook

    Discover how to eat for your sign and nourish your soul in Signs and Seasons, the one-of-a-kind cookbook that pairs chef-driven seasonal recipes with deep insight into how astrology shapes our appetites, from iconic astrologer Monte Farber and artist Amy Zerner.Food connects us to our families, history, culture, and to the natural world itself—to the seasons and the cycle of life. Just as our path ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Routes

    by John Okas ...
    John Okas begins a proposed series of novels investigating the ancestry of two nebulous characters, Arthur and Morning Black. Tracing their family tree, Okas takes this Alex Haley theme on a detour through the ribald pageantry of American history and culture. The result is a rich collage of characters and American icons whose stories are told in a savory and metaphorical voice ringing with social ... Read more

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  • The Feast of Love

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    National Book Award Finalist • A superb novel that delicately unearths the myriad manifestations of extraordinary love between ordinary people, from "one of our most gifted writers" (Chicago Tribune) and the winner of the PEN/Malamud Award"A near perfect book, as deep as it is broad in its humaneness, comedy and wisdom." —The Washington PostThe Feast of Love is just that—a sumptuous work of ... Read more

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  • Daughter of the Queen of Sheba

    A Memoir

    by Jacki Lyden ...
    This account of growing up with a mentally ill mother "belongs on a shelf of classic memoirs, alongside The Liars' Club and Angela's Ashes" (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times).As an NPR correspondent, Jacki Lyden visited some dangerous war zones—but her childhood was a war zone of a different kind.Lyden's mother suffered from what is now called bipolar disorder or manic depression. But in a ... Read more

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  • The Mind-Body Problem

    Poems

    by Katha Pollitt ...
    In The Mind-Body Problem, Katha Pollitt takes the ordinary events of life–her own and others’–and turns them into brilliant, poignant, and often funny poems that are full of surprises and originality. Pollitt’s imagination is stirred by conflict and juxtaposition, by the contrast (but also the connection) between logic and feeling, between the real and the transcendent, between our outer and inner ... Read more

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  • I Hear the People Listening

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  • The Sky Is Everywhere

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    **From the Printz Award-winning author of I’ll Give You the Sun comes a story of a young girl’s struggle to sort her own melody out of the noise around her.“Both a profound meditation on loss and grieving and an exhilarating and very sexy romance.”—NPR“How grief and love run side by side is sensitively and intensely explored in this energetic, poetic, and warm-blooded novel.”—The Guardian**One boy ... Read more

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  • Less Is Lost

    Series Book 2 - The Arthur Less Books
    **In the follow-up to the bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less: A Novel, the awkward and lovable Arthur Less returns in an unforgettable road trip across America.“Go get lost somewhere, it always does you good.”**For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner, Freddy Pelu. But nothing lasts: the death of ... Read more

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