Sisters
The companion to Raina Telgemeier’s bestselling graphic memoir, SMILE.
Raina can’t wait to be a big sister, but once Amara is born she realizes
things won’t be quite what she had expected…or hoped. Despite
Amara’s cuteness, she is a cranky, grouchy baby and mostly
prefers to play by herself.
Their relationship doesn’t improve much over the years but when a
baby brother enters the picture and their parents’ relationship
starts to struggle, they realize they must figure out how to get
along. They are sisters, after all.
Sisters’ Entrance
2015 World Poetry Slam Champion and Woman of the World co-Champion Emtithal “Emi” Mahmoud presents her hauntingly beautiful debut poetry collection.
Brimming with rage, sorrow, and resilience, this collection traverses an expansive terrain: genocide; diaspora; the guilt of surviving; racism and Islamophobia; the burdens of girlhood; the solace of sisterhood; the innocence of a first kiss. Heart-wrenching and raw, defiant and empowering, Sisters’ Entrance explores how to speak the unspeakable.
Small Country
‘A luminous debut novel… This is a book that demanded to be written… With a light touch, Faye dramatises the terrible nostalgia of having lost not only a childhood but also a whole world to war’ Guardian
Burundi, 1992. For ten-year-old Gabriel, life in his comfortable expat neighbourhood of Bujumbura with his French father, Rwandan mother and little sister, Ana, is something close to paradise. These are happy, carefree days spent with his friends sneaking cigarettes and stealing mangoes, swimming in the river and riding bikes in the streets they have turned into their kingdom. But dark clouds are gathering over this small country, and soon their peaceful idyll will shatter when Burundi and neighbouring Rwanda are brutally hit by war and genocide.
A haunting and luminous novel of extraordinary power, Small Country describes a devastating end of innocence as seen through the eyes of a young child caught in the maelstrom of history. It is a stirring tribute not only to a time of tragedy, but also to the bright days that came before it
So Many Hats
We play many roles in life and wear many hats: the human, the individual, the romantic, the man or woman, the parent, etc.
Can you make a connection with someone who seems so foreign to you, someone who wears hats you can’t begin to understand? Hats that – on first glance – may even seem threatening to you?
Is it possible to wear many hats without losing yourself, to integrate them into one “I”?
These are some questions I explore in my poetry, questions that float around in my head, under my own many hats.
Underneath
all my hats,
my eyes—
they stay the same.
Windows
into my soul,
that’s ’who
“I” am.
I am not any of my hats or roles.
I’m just another kindred soul.
Solo
Imagine a future engineered to be perfect, each member coexisting in perfect harmony with one other, in a miraculous world.
Yusuf, a quiet and modest man, has always had dreams. One night his dreams take him to a strange place where an even stranger man dwells.
Together they will embark on a journey that will not only change Yusuf’s future but that of all humanity as well.
This book will challenge your perceptions and leave you thinking long after the last page is read.
Sonnets
Shakespeare’s Sonnets are among the most lyrical and moving pieces of poetry in any language, abounding with examples of his genius for wordplay, rhythm and metaphor and dealing with the eternal themes of love, memory, beauty and the ravishes of time. First published in 1609, after Shakespeare had written many of his most famous works, the Sonnets have been the subject of literary curiosity ever since, mainly concerning the identity of the two addressees, ‘Mr W.H.’ and the ‘Dark Lady’, and the light they could shine on Shakespeare’s life.
This collection constitutes one of English literature’s most profound poetic meditations on life and love, and is a vital complement to the plays, offering clues to Shakespeare’s own biography. Presented here in an edition that makes them accessible to twentieth-century readers, these poems are worth returning to again and again.
Sophia Among Beasts
In a kingdom besieged by poverty, war and despair, Princess Sophia must do whatever it takes to restore peace, and protect the people she loves
