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Now You Access Shadow SpinnerMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Every night, Shahrazad begins a story. And every morning, the Sultan lets her live another day -- providing the story is interesting enough to capture his attention. After almost one thousand nights, Shahrazad is running out of tales. And that is how Marjan's story begins.... It falls to Marjan to help Shahrazad find new stories -- ones the Sultan has never heard before. To do that, the girl is forced to undertake a dangerous and forbidden mission: sneak from the harem and travel the city, pulling tales from strangers and bringing them back to Shahrazad. But as she searches the city, a wonderful thing happens. From a quiet spinner of tales, Marjan suddenly becomes the center of a more surprising story than she ever could have imagined. .Book Details :Author : Susan Fletcher

Now You Access As She AppearsMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :***LONGLISTED FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD*** ***WINNER OF THE 2023 LAMBDA LITERARY AWARD*** Winner of the Pamet River Prize, Shelley Wong?s debut,?As She Appears, foregrounds queer women of color in their being and becoming. Following the end of a relationship?that was?marked by silence, a woman crosses over and embodies the expanse of desire and?self-love. Other speakers transform the natural world and themselves, using?art and?beauty as a means of sanctuary and subversion. With both praise and precision, Wong considers how women inhabit and remake their environment.?The ecstatic joys of?Pride dances and late-night Chinatown meals, conversations with Frida Kahlo, trees that ?burst into glamour,? and layers of memory permeate these poems as they travel through suburban California, perfumed fashion runways, to a Fire Island summer. Wong writes in the space where so many do not appear?as an invitation for queer women of color to arrive in love, exactly as they are. .Book Details :Author : Shelley Wong

Now You Access The 50 StatesMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Be inspired by the inventiveness, beauty and diversity of the United States in this curious collection of fact-filled maps. Explore thousands of wondrous locations and be awed by the achievements of hundreds of people who helped make America what it is today. Celebrate, explore, enjoy! .Book Details :Author : Gabrielle Balkan

Now You Access Opowiem o tobie gwiazdomMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Astrid po ?mierci siostry marzy o jednym - o opuszczeniu swojego rodzinnego miasta. Po uko?czeniu liceum wraz z przyjacielem postanawia wprowadzi? w ?ycie sw?j plan i wyruszy? w podr??, zostawiaj?c za sob? wszystkie dotychczasowe do?wiadczenia. Do wsp?lnego wyjazdu zapraszaj? nowo poznanego koleg?, dzi?ki kt?remu tak naprawd? marzenie wchodzi w faz? realizacji. Wsp?lnie sp?dzony czas, obfituj?cy w wydarzenia zbli?aj?ce do siebie Astrid, Jaja i Plutona, prowadzi w nowe miejsce ich relacji.Opowiem o tobie gwiazdom to nie jest opowie?? o mocy przyja?ni czy pot?dze mi?o?ci. To opowie?? o determinacji m?odych ludzi, kt?rzy mimo wielu przeciwno?ci losu i do?wiadcze? ?yciowych d??? do odnalezienia swojego szcz??cia. .Book Details :Author : Edyta Prusinowska

Now You Access Anna KareninaMore Info ?≈   ≈Book Descriptions :Acclaimed by many as the world's greatest novel, Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to create some of the most memorable characters in all of literature. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences. Levin is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often expressing the author's own views and convictions.Throughout, Tolstoy points no moral, merely inviting us not to judge but to watch. As Rosemary Edmonds comments, 'He leaves the shifting patterns of the kaleidoscope to bring home the meaning of the brooding words following the title, 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay. .Book Details :Author : Leo Tolstoy