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Sozaboy powerfully describes the fate of a young, naive soldier thrown into the frontline of a civil war, from his first proud days of recruitment to the disillusionment and horrors that follow. Mene yearns for manhood. He dreams of gaining the glory that the ex-soldier in his village brags...

Karen King-Aribisala brilliantly transposes Chaucer's Canterbury Tales to modern-day Nigeria in this magnificent tale of forty very different travellers thrown together on a bus journey from Lagos to the new capital, Abuja. Carefully selected by their hostess – an enigmatic figure who calls...

In The New Tribe, pioneering author Buchi Emecheta tells the tale of a young Nigerian boy adopted by a white family. Life changes overnight for the Arlingtons when an abandoned baby girl, Julia, arrives unexpectedly on their doorstep. The couple take her in and settle into family life. But then...

七星鞭が吼え、胡土児が宙天に翻る。梁山泊軍と金軍は今、最終決戦の時を迎えようとしていた。米の不審な流れを追っていた南宋が陣家村を殱滅させた。致死軍に救出された蕭けん材は、小梁山から金国にいたる広大な大地に、国の垣根を超えた物流網を整備していく。

What on earth has PG Wodehouse, the creator of the Inimitable Jeeves and the hapless Bertie Wooster, got to do with a serious topic like the decline and fall of the British Empire? The answer, perhaps surprisingly, is Quite a Lot. The British Empire depended on splendid show and display, but...

In this powerful and unflinching novel, Amma Darko lays bare the hidden struggles of Ghanaian women in the 1980s, revealing the complex choices they face in pursuit of dignity and independence. When young Efia is sent from her rural village to work as a housemaid in Accra, she dreams of a better...

A bracing, mordantly funny portrait of a young Pakistani woman who must confront dark truths about her marriage and her country When Lina married Daniyal after a whirlwind courtship, a door opened to what she thought would be a freer way of life: a passionate and equal partnership with a husband...

A stunningly beautiful debut novel about a Yoruba man recounting his life after his son comes out—and revealing the mislaid parts of himself, the paths not taken along the way When Niyi hears that his thirty-year-old son, Junior, is gay, the discovery unmoors him. Junior confirms the news and...

The much-anticipated sequel to the million-copy international bestseller The Second Chance Convenience Store, The Last Chance Convenience Store is just as moving and full of heart as the original, inviting us once again into the comforting glow of a neighborhood store where laughter, struggle...

A searing portrait of Birmingham, a city split by class, money and race, Marrow is a thrilling ride through a city divided against itself. ANNA didn't want to upset the perfect life she'd created for her daughter Isabel. She'd tell her the truth about her adoption, just not yet. But when Isabel...

Spanning four years at the University of Chicago, this electrifying debut novel follows a group of friends who are drawn into a high-stakes campus game run by a mysterious secret society—only to find themselves the unwitting architects of a shocking tragedy Let the games begin… It’s the...

Back in print in a gorgeous new translation, a sexy and sophisticated Paris romance from the author of Bonjour Tristesse about a woman lonely in love and in love with loneliness, who is courted by two very different men. Thirty-nine-year-old Paule is an accomplished and intelligent interior...

The Forger of Auschwitz, a new One More Chapter book, full description to follow when available...

A missing Santa Claus. A crying corpse. And a brilliant mind that shines through the shadows. Just before Christmas, twenty-seven-year-old schoolteacher Kaede is unwinding at a local bar when a festive puzzle catches her attention: the mysterious disappearance of Santa Claus. Before the evening...

A brilliant, time-skewing novel about art, love, and deeply held secrets from New York Times bestselling author Jami Attenberg What happens when, over the course of twenty-four hours, your lifelong dream suddenly goes up in flames? Who are you when your dreams disappear, and how do you live...

From National Book Award finalist Laird Hunt, a novel of love and resistance inspired by the real-life events of The Battle for Crete—for readers of Michael Ondaatje and Sebastian Barry. On the third Tuesday in May, 1941, the skies over Crete filled with German planes and out came the...

The award-winning author of Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head returns with a poetry collection of chemical intensity, where love—or the fever-dream of it—threatens to consume the most precious parts of a self. "Ya Allah if it / will keep my heart soft, please break / my heart...

An exquisite, deeply felt novel about a young woman who returns home to her Korean parents in Queens For Grace Kim, veering off course is not an option. The daughter of immigrants in Flushing, Queens--her mother runs a deli, her father an auto repair shop--Grace understands hard work and...

An ex-piano prodigy desperate to regain her former glory discovers inspiration in acts of murder in this addictive and twisted suspense novel by Canwen Xu, author of Boring Asian Female. Mia’s life is divided into two parts: before the accident and after the accident. Before the accident, Mia...

The performance of a lifetime… by the wrong woman. June 1956. The world is overjoyed when reclusive superstar Luella Vining announces she’ll appear on a press tour for her new film—a movie she wrote and starred in—after nearly a decade out of the public eye following a broken engagement...