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«Пацієнтка Х» — психологічний трилер сучасної британської авторки Наомі Вільямс.
Лора Вінтерс не знає, чому вона втратила пам’ять і чому її знайшли зі слідами чужої крові на тілі. Її госпіталізують до психіатричної лікарні суворого режиму. То хто вона? Жертва? Свідок? Убивця? Психологиня Емма Бест має завоювати довіру Лори, щоб допомогти їй розблокувати спогади та дізнатися істину. Поступово Емма знаходить відповіді на питання. Але, слухаючи історію Лори, вона починає проводити моторошні паралелі між життям своєї пацієнтки та своїм власним.
Напружений сюжет та глибокий психологізм книги не залишить читача байдужим.
Лора Вінтерс не знає, чому вона втратила пам’ять і чому її знайшли зі слідами чужої крові на тілі. Її госпіталізують до психіатричної лікарні суворого режиму. То хто вона? Жертва? Свідок? Убивця? Психологиня Емма Бест має завоювати довіру Лори, щоб допомогти їй розблокувати спогади та дізнатися істину. Поступово Емма знаходить відповіді на питання. Але, слухаючи історію Лори, вона починає проводити моторошні паралелі між життям своєї пацієнтки та своїм власним.
Напружений сюжет та глибокий психологізм книги не залишить читача байдужим.
| Авторы | Наомі Вільямс |
| Издательство | Yakaboo Publishing |
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Авторка книги — відома українська телеведуча, ведуча інформаційно-аналітичної програми «Вікна-новини» і «Таємниці ДНК» на СТБ.
Ця книга — для студентів, блогерів і всіх, хто виступає перед будь-якою аудиторією, хай то ефір на телебаченні, у соцмережах, перед світовим конгресом чи звіт про роботу компанії.
Але насамперед ця книга — про роботу перед камерою, як почуватися комфортно в ефірі, з особистими історіями та порадами.
Для широкого загалу читачів.
Ця книга — для студентів, блогерів і всіх, хто виступає перед будь-якою аудиторією, хай то ефір на телебаченні, у соцмережах, перед світовим конгресом чи звіт про роботу компанії.
Але насамперед ця книга — про роботу перед камерою, як почуватися комфортно в ефірі, з особистими історіями та порадами.
Для широкого загалу читачів.
| Авторы | Тетяна Висоцька |
| Издательство | Yakaboo Publishing |
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«Любов не минає» — це щоденник мами, яка ділиться своїм досвідом проживання втрати — після раптової смерті 18-річного сина внаслідок онкологічного захворювання. Авторка поєднує особисті рефлексії, історії тих, хто живе після смерті чи загибелі близької людини, поради фахівців і фахівчинь.
«Я вірю в те, що розділений біль легше пережити», — каже авторка. — І наше суспільство, яке зазнало і зазнає стількох втрат, може бути теплим і солідарним».
«Я вірю в те, що розділений біль легше пережити», — каже авторка. — І наше суспільство, яке зазнало і зазнає стількох втрат, може бути теплим і солідарним».
| Авторы | Тетяна Трощинська |
| Издательство | Yakaboo Publishing |
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Роман «Електра» від авторки бестселерів Дженніфер Сейнт присвячений одній з її улюблених героїнь давньогрецької міфології.
У цій історії головними героїнями є три жінки: дружина царя Клітемнестра, її донька Електра та наложниця Агамемнона Кассандра. Клітемнестра не може пробачити чоловікові вбивства Іфігенії, старшої доньки, і прагне помсти. Електра чекає на повернення батька з війни проти троянців, але здогадується про криваві задуми матері. Електра не здатна запобігти трагедії, але розуміє, що не може залишатися осторонь. Троянка Кассандра, яку Аполлон нагородив даром передбачення, чудово знає, які події мають статися, однак її передбаченням ніхто не вірить і вона не може нікого врятувати.
Це історія про долю та розплату за скоєні гріхи.
У цій історії головними героїнями є три жінки: дружина царя Клітемнестра, її донька Електра та наложниця Агамемнона Кассандра. Клітемнестра не може пробачити чоловікові вбивства Іфігенії, старшої доньки, і прагне помсти. Електра чекає на повернення батька з війни проти троянців, але здогадується про криваві задуми матері. Електра не здатна запобігти трагедії, але розуміє, що не може залишатися осторонь. Троянка Кассандра, яку Аполлон нагородив даром передбачення, чудово знає, які події мають статися, однак її передбаченням ніхто не вірить і вона не може нікого врятувати.
Це історія про долю та розплату за скоєні гріхи.
| Авторы | Дженніфер Сейнт |
| Издательство | Yakaboo Publishing |
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Роман «Аталанта» Дженніфер Сейнт присвячений героїні грецької міфології, улюблениці богині Артеміди.
У царя Аркадії Яса народжується дочка, але він мріяв про спадкоємця. Яс віддає наказ залишити немовля на схилі гори. Випадково дитину помічає богиня Артеміда і бере її під свою опіку. Богиня дає дівчинці ім’я Аталанта, що означає — швидка, сильна, нескорена. Аталанта зростає в лісі разом з дитинчатами ведмедиці і стає нездоланним супротивником на полі бою та найшвидшою бігункою. Юна Аталанта приєднується до загону аргонавтів Ясона з благословення Артеміди.
Але чи зможе Аталанта посісти своє місце у світі, створеному для чоловіків?
У царя Аркадії Яса народжується дочка, але він мріяв про спадкоємця. Яс віддає наказ залишити немовля на схилі гори. Випадково дитину помічає богиня Артеміда і бере її під свою опіку. Богиня дає дівчинці ім’я Аталанта, що означає — швидка, сильна, нескорена. Аталанта зростає в лісі разом з дитинчатами ведмедиці і стає нездоланним супротивником на полі бою та найшвидшою бігункою. Юна Аталанта приєднується до загону аргонавтів Ясона з благословення Артеміди.
Але чи зможе Аталанта посісти своє місце у світі, створеному для чоловіків?
| Авторы | Дженніфер Сейнт |
| Издательство | Yakaboo Publishing |
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«Лють Богів» — третя книга трилогії Джона Ґвінна, продовження епічного скандинавського фентезі, сповненого міфами, магією та кривавою помстою.
Наближається остання битва за долю Віґріду. Варґ подолав випробування і став повноправним членом Заклятих кров’ю, але тепер перед ним стоїть найбільший виклик — убити дракониху. Поки Бьйорр зі своїм загоном просувається на північ, Ґудварр сподівається завоювати прихильність Лік-Ріфи.
Герої мусять прийняти той чи інший бік і зійтися у фінальній битві. Усі шляхи ведуть до Снакавіка, де проходять фінальні битви — титанічні сутички, у яких виявиться справжня лють богів.
Наближається остання битва за долю Віґріду. Варґ подолав випробування і став повноправним членом Заклятих кров’ю, але тепер перед ним стоїть найбільший виклик — убити дракониху. Поки Бьйорр зі своїм загоном просувається на північ, Ґудварр сподівається завоювати прихильність Лік-Ріфи.
Герої мусять прийняти той чи інший бік і зійтися у фінальній битві. Усі шляхи ведуть до Снакавіка, де проходять фінальні битви — титанічні сутички, у яких виявиться справжня лють богів.
| Авторы | Джон Ґвінн |
| Издательство | Yakaboo Publishing |
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"Пітон" — психоделічний роман, у якому реальне межує з вигадкою, сюжет відкриває перед читачем шлях людини від химерної мрії до трагедії. За що боролася українська молодь під час Революції Гідності? Чим жили та про що мріяли студенти?
Перше кохання і розчарування, пошук себе, боротьба з фобіями й комплексами, самопізнання та юнацький максималізм — усе це доводиться переживати головному герою.
Вибрані оповідання, які увійшли до книги — зразки яскравої малої прози автора, героями яких є звичайні люди у незвичайних життєвих обставинах.
Перше кохання і розчарування, пошук себе, боротьба з фобіями й комплексами, самопізнання та юнацький максималізм — усе це доводиться переживати головному герою.
Вибрані оповідання, які увійшли до книги — зразки яскравої малої прози автора, героями яких є звичайні люди у незвичайних життєвих обставинах.
| Авторы | Павло Шикін |
| Издательство | Yakaboo Publishing |
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They call it Blackchurch: a secluded mansion in a remote, undisclosed location where the wealthy and powerful send their misbehaving sons to cool off away from prying eyes.
Will Grayson has always been reckless, wild - and he's never been bound by a single rule other than to do exactly what he wants. He learned long ago that being treated like an animal gives you permission to act like one. In high school, he might have enjoyed backing Emory into corners when no one was looking, but he could also be warm. And fierce in keeping her safe.
But the truth is, he has a right to hate her. Because it's all her fault. Everything. Devil's Night. The videos. The arrests. She's to blame - and yet she regrets nothing.
He never expected one of his enemies to come straight to him. But now he knows she's here somewhere. And as the security detail leaves, and the door to the gilded cage opens, giving Will free rein of the house and grounds for another unsupervised month, he remembers with a smile . . .
Blackchurch houses five prisoners. And he's only one of Emory's problems.
Will Grayson has always been reckless, wild - and he's never been bound by a single rule other than to do exactly what he wants. He learned long ago that being treated like an animal gives you permission to act like one. In high school, he might have enjoyed backing Emory into corners when no one was looking, but he could also be warm. And fierce in keeping her safe.
But the truth is, he has a right to hate her. Because it's all her fault. Everything. Devil's Night. The videos. The arrests. She's to blame - and yet she regrets nothing.
He never expected one of his enemies to come straight to him. But now he knows she's here somewhere. And as the security detail leaves, and the door to the gilded cage opens, giving Will free rein of the house and grounds for another unsupervised month, he remembers with a smile . . .
Blackchurch houses five prisoners. And he's only one of Emory's problems.
| Авторы | Penelope Douglas |
| Издательство | Yakaboo Publishing |
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When a heat wave hits northern Michigan, Minnie, Eddie, and their bookmobile head to the beach to catch some rays and some customers. But library business is put on hold when Minnie’s restaurant-owning best friend, Kristen, calls. The specialty ice cream cone treat she'd been serving to patrons was sabotaged, making some customers horribly sick. Kristen needs Minnie to sniff out the culprit fast, or the restaurant's reputation will be destroyed forever.
Minnie and Eddie are hot on the tail of the suspect when an employee from another restaurant is found dead. Could the poisoning and the murder be related? It’ll take a feline to catch a felon...
Minnie and Eddie are hot on the tail of the suspect when an employee from another restaurant is found dead. Could the poisoning and the murder be related? It’ll take a feline to catch a felon...
| Авторы | Laurie Cas |
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In October 1940, the handsome young David Sparsholt arrives in Oxford. A keen athlete and oarsman, he at first seems unaware of the effect he has on others – particularly on the lonely and romantic Evert Dax, son of a celebrated novelist and destined to become a writer himself. While the Blitz rages in London, Oxford exists at a strange remove: an ephemeral, uncertain place, in which nightly blackouts conceal secret liaisons. Over the course of one momentous term, David and Evert forge an unlikely friendship that will colour their lives for decades to come . . .
Alan Hollinghurst’s sweeping novel evokes the intimate relationships of a group of friends bound together by art, literature and love across three generations. It explores the social and sexual revolutions of the most pivotal years of the past century, whose life-changing consequences are still being played out to this day. Richly observed, disarmingly witty and emotionally charged, The Sparsholt Affair is an unmissable achievement from one of our finest writers.
Alan Hollinghurst’s sweeping novel evokes the intimate relationships of a group of friends bound together by art, literature and love across three generations. It explores the social and sexual revolutions of the most pivotal years of the past century, whose life-changing consequences are still being played out to this day. Richly observed, disarmingly witty and emotionally charged, The Sparsholt Affair is an unmissable achievement from one of our finest writers.
| Авторы | Alan Hollinghurst |
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In 1965, seventeen-year-old Frances Adams was told by a fortune teller that one day she'd be murdered. Frances spent the next sixty years trying to prevent the crime that would be her eventual demise. Of course, no one took her seriously - until she was dead.
For Frances, being the village busybody was a form of insurance. She'd spent a lifetime compiling dirt on every person she met, just in case they might turn out to be her killer. In the heart of her sprawling country estate lies an eccentric library of detective work, where the right person could step in and use her findings to solve her murder.
When her great-niece Annie arrives from London and discovers that Frances' worst fear has come true, Annie is thrust into her great-aunt's last act of revenge against her sceptical friends and family. Frances' will stipulates that the person who solves her murder will inherit her millions.
For Frances, being the village busybody was a form of insurance. She'd spent a lifetime compiling dirt on every person she met, just in case they might turn out to be her killer. In the heart of her sprawling country estate lies an eccentric library of detective work, where the right person could step in and use her findings to solve her murder.
When her great-niece Annie arrives from London and discovers that Frances' worst fear has come true, Annie is thrust into her great-aunt's last act of revenge against her sceptical friends and family. Frances' will stipulates that the person who solves her murder will inherit her millions.
| Авторы | Kristen Perrin |
| Издательство | Yakaboo Publishing |
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1942. Singapore is falling to the Japanese Army. English musician Norah Chambers places her eight-year-old daughter Sally on a ship leaving Singapore, desperate to keep her safe. As the island burns, Australian nurse Nesta James joins the terrified cargo of people, including the heartbroken Norah, crammed aboard the HMS Vyner Brooke. After only two days at sea, the ship is bombarded and sunk.
Nesta and Norah reach the beaches of Indonesia only to be captured and held in one of the notorious Japanese POW camps, places of starvation and brutality. But even here joy can be found, in music, where Norah's 'voice orchestra' transports the internees from squalor into light. The friendships they build with the dozens of other women in the camps will give them the hope, strength and camaraderie they need in order to stay alive.
Nesta and Norah reach the beaches of Indonesia only to be captured and held in one of the notorious Japanese POW camps, places of starvation and brutality. But even here joy can be found, in music, where Norah's 'voice orchestra' transports the internees from squalor into light. The friendships they build with the dozens of other women in the camps will give them the hope, strength and camaraderie they need in order to stay alive.
| Авторы | Heather Morris |
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Outside the island there is nothing: the world destroyed by a fog that swept the planet, killing anyone it touched. On the island: it is idyllic. 122 villagers and 3 scientists, living in peaceful harmony. The villagers are content to fish, farm and feast, to obey their nightly curfew, to do what they're told by the scientists.
Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of their beloved scientists is found brutally stabbed to death. And they learn the murder has triggered a lowering of the security system around the island, the only thing that was keeping the fog at bay.
If the murder isn't solved within 107 hours, the fog will smother the island ? and everyone on it.
But the security system has also wiped everyone's memories of exactly what happened the night before, which means that someone on the island is a murderer ? and they don't even know it...
Until, to the horror of the islanders, one of their beloved scientists is found brutally stabbed to death. And they learn the murder has triggered a lowering of the security system around the island, the only thing that was keeping the fog at bay.
If the murder isn't solved within 107 hours, the fog will smother the island ? and everyone on it.
But the security system has also wiped everyone's memories of exactly what happened the night before, which means that someone on the island is a murderer ? and they don't even know it...
| Авторы | Stewart Turton |
| Издательство | Yakaboo Publishing |
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In Northern Sámi, the word Ædnan means the land, the ground, the earth. In this majestic verse novel, Linnea Axelsson chronicles the fates of two Indigenous Sámi families, telling of their struggle and persistence over a century of colonial displacement, loss and resistance. It begins with Ristin and Ber-Joná, who are trying to care for their troubled young sons while migrating their reindeer herd in northernmost Scandinavia during the 1910s. The coming of the Swedes brings new borders that lay waste to Sámi customs and migration paths - and mean devastating separation for this family. In the 1970s, Lise grapples with how she was forced to adapt to Swedish society, haunted by her time in a 'nomad school' where she was deprived of her ancestors' language and history. Lise's daughter, Sandra, seeks to reclaim that heritage, becoming an activist struggling for reparations from the Swedish state. As one generation succeeds another, their voices interweave and form a spellbinding hymn to lands and traditions lost and reclaimed. Written in sparse, glittering verse that flows like a current,?Ædnan is a profound and moving epic of Sámi life.
| Авторы | Linnea Axelsson |
| Издательство | Yakaboo Publishing |
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Oxford, city of rich and poor, where the homeless camp out in the shadows of the gorgeous buildings and monuments. A city of lost things - and buried crimes.
At three o'clock in the morning, Emergency Services receives a call. 'This is Zara Fanshawe. Always lost and never found.' An hour later, the wayward celebrity's Rolls Royce Phantom is found abandoned in dingy Becket Street. The paparazzi go wild.
For some reason, news of Zara's disappearance prompts homeless woman Lena Wójcik to search the camps, nervously, for the bad-tempered vagrant known as 'Waitrose', a familiar sight in Oxford pushing his trolley of possessions. But he's nowhere to be found either.
Who will lead the investigation and cope with the media frenzy? Suave, prize-winning, Oxford-educated DI Ray Wilkins is passed over in favour of his partner, gobby, trailer-park educated DI Ryan Wilkins (no relation). You wouldn't think Ray would be happy. He isn't. You wouldn't think Ryan would be any good at national press presentations. He isn't.
At three o'clock in the morning, Emergency Services receives a call. 'This is Zara Fanshawe. Always lost and never found.' An hour later, the wayward celebrity's Rolls Royce Phantom is found abandoned in dingy Becket Street. The paparazzi go wild.
For some reason, news of Zara's disappearance prompts homeless woman Lena Wójcik to search the camps, nervously, for the bad-tempered vagrant known as 'Waitrose', a familiar sight in Oxford pushing his trolley of possessions. But he's nowhere to be found either.
Who will lead the investigation and cope with the media frenzy? Suave, prize-winning, Oxford-educated DI Ray Wilkins is passed over in favour of his partner, gobby, trailer-park educated DI Ryan Wilkins (no relation). You wouldn't think Ray would be happy. He isn't. You wouldn't think Ryan would be any good at national press presentations. He isn't.
| Авторы | Simon Mason |
| Издательство | Yakaboo Publishing |
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McCorkle, author of the New York Times bestselling Life After Life and the widely acclaimed Hieroglyphics ("One of our wryest, warmest, wisest storytellers" -Rebecca Makkai), brings us a breath-taking collection of stories that offers an intimate look at the moments when a person's life changes forever.
Old Crimes delves into the lives of characters who hold their secrets and misdeeds close, even as the past continues to reverberate over time and across generations. And despite the characters' yearnings for connection, they can't seem to tell the whole truth. In "Low Tones," a woman uses her hearing impairment as a way to guard herself from her husband's commentary. In "Lineman," a telephone lineman strains to connect to his family even as he feels pushed aside in a digital world. In "Confessional," a young couple buys a confessional booth for fun, only to discover the cost of honesty.
Profoundly moving and unforgettable, for fans of Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and Lily King, the stories in Old Crimes reveal why McCorkle has long been considered a master of the form, probing lives full of great intensity, longing and affection, and deep regret.
Old Crimes delves into the lives of characters who hold their secrets and misdeeds close, even as the past continues to reverberate over time and across generations. And despite the characters' yearnings for connection, they can't seem to tell the whole truth. In "Low Tones," a woman uses her hearing impairment as a way to guard herself from her husband's commentary. In "Lineman," a telephone lineman strains to connect to his family even as he feels pushed aside in a digital world. In "Confessional," a young couple buys a confessional booth for fun, only to discover the cost of honesty.
Profoundly moving and unforgettable, for fans of Alice Munro, Elizabeth Strout, and Lily King, the stories in Old Crimes reveal why McCorkle has long been considered a master of the form, probing lives full of great intensity, longing and affection, and deep regret.
| Авторы | Jill McCorkle |
| Издательство | Yakaboo Publishing |
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In Our Mothers, Ourselves, Henry Cloud and John Townsend show how understanding how our mothers have profoundly influenced our lives can set us on a path toward wholeness and growth.
No one has influenced the person you are today like your mother. The way she handled your needs as a child has shaped your worldview, your relationships, your marriage, your career, your self-image - your life. Our Mothers, Ourselves can help you identify areas that need reshaping, to make positive choices for personal change, and to establish a mature relationship with Mom today.
The Phantom Mom
The China Doll Mom
The Controlling Mom
The Trophy Mom
The Still-the-Boss Mom
The American Express Mom
You'll learn how your mom affected you as a child and may still be affecting you today. Our Mothers, Ourselves is a biblical, realistic, and empowering route to wholeness and growth, to deeper and more satisfying bonds with your family, friends, and spouse - and to a new, healthier way of relating to your mother.
This book was previously titled The Mom Factor.
No one has influenced the person you are today like your mother. The way she handled your needs as a child has shaped your worldview, your relationships, your marriage, your career, your self-image - your life. Our Mothers, Ourselves can help you identify areas that need reshaping, to make positive choices for personal change, and to establish a mature relationship with Mom today.
The Phantom Mom
The China Doll Mom
The Controlling Mom
The Trophy Mom
The Still-the-Boss Mom
The American Express Mom
You'll learn how your mom affected you as a child and may still be affecting you today. Our Mothers, Ourselves is a biblical, realistic, and empowering route to wholeness and growth, to deeper and more satisfying bonds with your family, friends, and spouse - and to a new, healthier way of relating to your mother.
This book was previously titled The Mom Factor.
| Авторы | Henry Cloud, John Townsend |
| Издательство | Yakaboo Publishing |
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DUNE: PART TWO — THE MAJOR MOTION PICTURE NOW IN THEATERS!
Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune by Frank Herbert ? Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, with Stellan Skarsgård, with Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem
Frank Herbert's classic masterpiece-a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides?who would become known as Maud'Dib-and of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.
Directed by Denis Villeneuve, screenplay by Denis Villeneuve and Jon Spaihts, based on the novel Dune by Frank Herbert ? Starring Timothée Chalamet, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson, Josh Brolin, Austin Butler, Florence Pugh, Dave Bautista, Christopher Walken, Léa Seydoux, with Stellan Skarsgård, with Charlotte Rampling, and Javier Bardem
Frank Herbert's classic masterpiece-a triumph of the imagination and one of the bestselling science fiction novels of all time.
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of Paul Atreides?who would become known as Maud'Dib-and of a great family's ambition to bring to fruition humankind's most ancient and unattainable dream.
A stunning blend of adventure and mysticism, environmentalism and politics, Dune won the first Nebula Award, shared the Hugo Award, and formed the basis of what is undoubtedly the grandest epic in science fiction.
| Авторы | Frank Herbert |
| Издательство | Yakaboo Publishing |
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At once cinematic yet intimate, Broughtupsy is an enthralling debut novel about a young Jamaican woman grappling with grief as she discovers her family, her home, is always just out of reach
Tired of not having a place to land, twenty-year-old Akúa flies from Canada to her native Jamaica to reconnect with her estranged sister Tamika. Their younger brother Bryson has recently passed from sickle cell anemia-the same disease that took their mother ten years prior-and Akúa carries his remains in a small wooden box with the hope of reassembling her family.
Over the span of two fateful weeks, Akúa and Tamika visit significant places from their childhood, but time spent with her sister only clarifies how different they are, and how years of living abroad have distanced Akúa from her home culture. "Am I Jamaican?" she asks herself again and again. Beneath these haunting doubts lie anger and resentment at being abandoned by her own blood. "Why didn't you stay with me?" she wants to ask Tamika.
Wandering through Kingston with her brother's ashes in tow, Akúa meets Jayda, a brash stripper who shows her a different side of the city. As the two grow closer, Akúa confronts the difficult reality of being gay in a deeply religious family, and what being a gay woman in Jamaica actually means.
By turns diasporic family saga, bildungsroman, and terse sexual awakening, Broughtupsy is a profoundly moving debut novel that asks: what do we truly owe our family, and what are we willing to do to savor the feeling of home?
Tired of not having a place to land, twenty-year-old Akúa flies from Canada to her native Jamaica to reconnect with her estranged sister Tamika. Their younger brother Bryson has recently passed from sickle cell anemia-the same disease that took their mother ten years prior-and Akúa carries his remains in a small wooden box with the hope of reassembling her family.
Over the span of two fateful weeks, Akúa and Tamika visit significant places from their childhood, but time spent with her sister only clarifies how different they are, and how years of living abroad have distanced Akúa from her home culture. "Am I Jamaican?" she asks herself again and again. Beneath these haunting doubts lie anger and resentment at being abandoned by her own blood. "Why didn't you stay with me?" she wants to ask Tamika.
Wandering through Kingston with her brother's ashes in tow, Akúa meets Jayda, a brash stripper who shows her a different side of the city. As the two grow closer, Akúa confronts the difficult reality of being gay in a deeply religious family, and what being a gay woman in Jamaica actually means.
By turns diasporic family saga, bildungsroman, and terse sexual awakening, Broughtupsy is a profoundly moving debut novel that asks: what do we truly owe our family, and what are we willing to do to savor the feeling of home?
| Авторы | Christina Cook |
| Издательство | Yakaboo Publishing |
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Told in luminous, perceptive prose, The Last Fire Season is a deeply incisive inquiry into what it really means-now-to live in relationship to the elements of the natural world. When Manjula Martin moved from the city to the woods of Northern California, she wanted to be closer to the wilderness that she had loved as a child. She was also seeking refuge from a health crisis that left her with chronic pain, and found a sense of healing through tending her garden beneath the redwoods of Sonoma County. But the landscape that Martin treasured was an ecosystem already in crisis. Wildfires fueled by climate change were growing bigger and more frequent: each autumn, her garden filled with smoke and ash, and the local firehouse siren wailed deep into the night.
In 2020, when a dry lightning storm ignited hundreds of simultaneous wildfires across the West and kicked off the worst fire season on record, Martin, along with thousands of other Californians, evacuated her home in the midst of a pandemic. Both a love letter to the forests of the West and an interrogation of the colonialist practices that led to their current dilemma, The Last Fire Season, follows her from the oaky hills of Sonoma County to the redwood forests of coastal Santa Cruz, to the pines and peaks of the Sierra Nevada, as she seeks shelter, bears witness to the devastation, and tries to better understand fire's role in the ecology of the West. As Martin seeks a way to navigate the daily experience of living in a damaged body on a damaged planet, she comes to question her own assumptions about nature and the complicated connections between people and the land on which we live.
In 2020, when a dry lightning storm ignited hundreds of simultaneous wildfires across the West and kicked off the worst fire season on record, Martin, along with thousands of other Californians, evacuated her home in the midst of a pandemic. Both a love letter to the forests of the West and an interrogation of the colonialist practices that led to their current dilemma, The Last Fire Season, follows her from the oaky hills of Sonoma County to the redwood forests of coastal Santa Cruz, to the pines and peaks of the Sierra Nevada, as she seeks shelter, bears witness to the devastation, and tries to better understand fire's role in the ecology of the West. As Martin seeks a way to navigate the daily experience of living in a damaged body on a damaged planet, she comes to question her own assumptions about nature and the complicated connections between people and the land on which we live.
| Авторы | Manjula Martin |
| Издательство | Yakaboo Publishing |
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