Why the force that keeps our feet on the ground holds the key to
understanding the nature of time and the origin of the
universe.
Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognized and described yet it is the least understood.
Gravity is the weakest force in the everyday world yet it is the strongest force in the universe. It was the first force to be recognized and described yet it is the least understood.
A New York Times Notable Book
The New York Times’ Critics’ Top Books of the Year
Named a Best Book of the Year by San Francisco Chronicle, National Public Radio, The Economist, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Southern Living, HelloGiggles, and Shelf Awareness
Huffington Post’s Best Feminist Books of the Year
The New York Post’s Most Thrilling and Fascinating Books of the Year
The New York Public Library’s Ten Best Books of the Year
"A stunning debut novel.
The New York Times’ Critics’ Top Books of the Year
Named a Best Book of the Year by San Francisco Chronicle, National Public Radio, The Economist, Buzzfeed, Paste Magazine, Southern Living, HelloGiggles, and Shelf Awareness
Huffington Post’s Best Feminist Books of the Year
The New York Post’s Most Thrilling and Fascinating Books of the Year
The New York Public Library’s Ten Best Books of the Year
"A stunning debut novel.
A PBS NewsHour/New York Times Book Club Pick
A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE
WINNER OF THE 2017 KIRKUS PRIZE
WINNER OF THE NYPL'S YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE LEONARD PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE
A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home.
A NATIONAL BOOK FOUNDATION "5 UNDER 35" HONOREE
WINNER OF THE 2017 KIRKUS PRIZE
WINNER OF THE NYPL'S YOUNG LIONS FICTION AWARD
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE LEONARD PRIZE
SHORTLISTED FOR THE ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE
A dazzlingly accomplished debut collection explores the ties that bind parents and children, husbands and wives, lovers and friends to one another and to the places they call home.
Hortensia James and Marion Agostino are neighbours. One is black,
one white. Both are successful women with impressive careers. Both
have recently been widowed. And both are sworn enemies, sharing
hedge and hostility and pruning both with a vim and zeal that
belies the fact that they are over eighty.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie burst onto the literary scene with her
remarkable debut novel, Purple Hibiscus, which critics
hailed as “one of the best novels to come out of Africa in
years” (Baltimore Sun), with “prose as lush as
the Nigerian landscape that it powerfully evokes” (The
Boston Globe); The Washington Post called her “the
twenty-first-century daughter of Chinua Achebe.
Based on a remarkable true story, an unforgettable Somali girl
risks her life on the migrant journey to Europe to run in the
Olympic Games
At eight years of age, Samia lives to run. She shares her dream with her best friend and neighbor, Ali, who appoints himself her "professional coach.
At eight years of age, Samia lives to run. She shares her dream with her best friend and neighbor, Ali, who appoints himself her "professional coach.
A portrait in her own words of the female Lawrence of Arabia,
the subject of the documentary Letters from
Baghdad, voiced by Tilda Swinton and soon to air on PBS,
and the major motion picture Queen of the Desert,
starring Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Damian Lewis, and Robert
Pattinson and directed by Werner Herzog
Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg.
Gertrude Bell was leaning in 100 years before Sheryl Sandberg.
A detective in the wild.
Precious Ramotswe gets a very special treat. She gets a trip to visit her Aunty Bee at a safari camp. On her first day in camp, a new lion arrives. But this is no average lion. Teddy is an actor-lion who came with a film crew.
Precious Ramotswe gets a very special treat. She gets a trip to visit her Aunty Bee at a safari camp. On her first day in camp, a new lion arrives. But this is no average lion. Teddy is an actor-lion who came with a film crew.
Precious wants to be a detective when she grows up. She is always
practicing at being a detective by asking questions and finding out
about other people’s lives. There are two new students in her
class, a girl called Teb and a boy called Pontsho.
Introducing a powerful new novelist whose evocation of an
unforgettable African family is testament to the transformative
power of unconditional love
Kwaku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside the home he shares in Ghana with his second wife.
Kwaku Sai is dead. A renowned surgeon and failed husband, he succumbs suddenly at dawn outside the home he shares in Ghana with his second wife.
THE NO. 1 LADIES’ DETECTIVE AGENCY - Young
Readers
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the basis of the HBO TV show, and its proprietor Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective.
Fans around the world adore the bestselling No. 1 Ladies’ Detective Agency series, the basis of the HBO TV show, and its proprietor Precious Ramotswe, Botswana’s premier lady detective.
Just as Martine is settling into life on the wildlife game reserve,
she is whisked away on a school trip. She must leave her white
giraffe, Jemmy, for two weeks. Her class is going on an ocean
voyage to witness the Sardine Run, a spectacular natural
phenomenon, off the coast of South Africa.
