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Jane is hoping to enjoy a nice dinner with her friend Brenna, but as soon as the night begins a conflict arises. Near the restaurant is a sad, lonesome T-Rex with a sign that says “debate me” rambling on and on about everything from "cancel culture" to “woke Stars War”. Fortunately, Jane and Brenna find the perfect solution to this strange dinosaur: They just ignore him. Can they maintain this self-imposed distance from the T-Rex who can’t stop proclaiming facts are better than feelings in this no sex tingler? The answer is yes, because this T-Rex is horrible.

Set against a background of political turbulence in Kerala, Southern India, The God of Small Things tells the story of twins Esthappen and Rahel. Amongst the vats of banana jam and heaps of peppercorns in their grandmother's factory, they try to craft a childhood for themselves amidst what constitutes their family - their lonely, lovely mother; their beloved uncle Chacko (pickle baron, radical Marxist and bottom pincher); and their avowed enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grand-aunt).

In time for the one-year anniversary of the Trump inauguration and the Women's March, this provocative, unprecedented anthology features original short stories from 30 best-selling and award-winning authors - including Alice Walker, Richard Russo, Walter Mosley, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Hoffman, Neil Gaiman, Michael Cunningham, Mary Higgins Clark, and Lee Child - with an introduction by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Viet Thanh Nguyen.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of There There by Tommy Orange. Jacquie Red Feather and her sister, Opal, grew up together, relying on each other during their unsettled childhood. As adults they were driven apart, but Jacquie is newly sober and trying to make it back to the family she left behind. That’s why she is there. Dene is there because he has been collecting stories to honour his uncle's death. Edwin is looking for his true father. Opal came to watch her boy, Orvil, dance. All of them are connected by bonds they may not yet understand.

A plan to destroy America, a hundred years in the making, is about to be unleashed. There is a powerful technique called the Overton Window that can shape our lives, our laws, and our future. It works by manipulating public perception so that ideas previously thought of as radical begin to seem acceptable over time. Move the Window and you change the debate. Change the debate and you change the country.

A billion-dollar deal is about to go badly wrong. A lavish night out is about to end in murder. And the British government is about to be plunged into crisis. Lord Hartley, the latest in a line of peers going back over two hundred years, lies dying. But his will triggers an inheritance with explosive consequences. So why are they both at the centre of a master criminal's plot for revenge? And can Scotland Yard's William Warwick uncover the truth before it's too late…

"Animal Farm", a fairy story, is a short novel by George Orwell. It describes a farm where animals revolt, take over and drive out men. It is an apologue written in the form of an animal fable, but also a dystopia. In this novel, Orwell offers a satire of the Russian Revolution and a critique of the Soviet regime, particularly Stalinism, and beyond that, authoritarian regimes and totalitarianism. The book was named one of the 100 best English-language novels written from 1923 to 2005 by Time magazine.

As a police launch speeds across Miami's Biscayne Bay - with officer Nestor Camacho on board - Tom Wolfe is off and running. Here is a big, panoramic story of the new America, as told by our master chronicler of the way we live now. Based on the same sort of detailed, on-scene, high-energy reporting that powered Tom Wolfe's previous best-selling novels, Back to Blood is another brilliant, spot-on, scrupulous, and often hilarious reckoning with our times.

An artist inherits 100 years of photographic portraits, all of the same doomed American chestnut. A hard-partying undergraduate in the late 1980s electrocutes herself, dies and is sent back into life by creatures of air and light. A hearing and speech-impaired scientist discovers that trees are communicating with one another. An Air Force crew member in the Vietnam War is shot out of the sky, then saved by falling into a banyan.

Welcome to Chain-Gang All-Stars - the highly popular, highly controversial profit-raising program inside America's private prison system. Harkening back to the time of gladiators, but watched by millions of live-stream subscribers, prisoners compete for the ultimate prize: their freedom.

"Animal Farm" is Orwell’s classic satire of the Russian Revolution - an account of the bold struggle, initiated by the animals, that transforms Mr. Jones’s Manor Farm into Animal Farm - a wholly democratic society built on the credo that All Animals Are Created Equal. But are they?

Journalist Tierra Campos and FBI Special Agent Victoria Larsen find themselves in a desperate race against the clock to stop a dangerous cabal from rigging a presidential election in the fourth book of multiple award-winning political thriller author Mikael Carlson's terrifying contemporary fiction series.

James Norval has built a successful career crafting the thrilling adventures of his fictional hero, Hunter Chase, a character admired by readers and movie-goers worldwide. But despite his fame and fortune, Norval has always harboured a secret dream of living the life he only writes about—a life as a field operative for CSIS, Canada's Security Intelligence Service. In fact, nearly thirty years earlier, he washed out of the CSIS recruitment program, and it's haunted him ever since.

"তথাকথিত 'উদ্বাস্তু' শঙ্খর পরিবার দেশভাগের সময় ওপার বাংলার ভিটে ছেড়ে চলে আসে উত্তর চব্বিশ পরগনার সীমান্ত লাগোয়া গ্রাম ঈশ্বরীপুরে। শুরু হয় আবার নতুন করে বাঁচার লড়াই। শিকড়ের খোঁজে লড়াই, যে লড়াই শঙ্খ শেখে তার ঠাকুর্দাকে দেখে এবং নানা অভিজ্ঞতার মধ্যে দিয়ে বড়ো হতে হতে নিজের অজান্তেই কখন যেন সেই লড়াইয়ে শামিল হয়ে যায়। তপন বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায়ের লেখায় বারবার উঠে এসেছে পূর্ববাংলা থেকে পশ্চিমবাংলায় অভিপ্রয়াণ করা মানুষদের কথা। শুধু তাই নয়, বাংলার মানুষের জীবনে রাজনীতির প্রভাবও তাঁর লেখায় সুস্পষ্ট; "সমগ্র শঙ্খচিল" পড়ে আমরা বাংলার তৎকালীন রাজনৈতিক প্রেক্ষাপট ও তার শৈলীর পরিবর্তন লক্ষ্য করতে পারি।"

Putin by Stu Armstrong is a gripping blend of fact and fiction, delivering a compelling narrative that explores the life and legacy of one of the world’s most controversial leaders. Meticulously researched and infused with dramatic storytelling, this audiobook takes listeners deep into the psyche of Vladimir Putin, from his early days as a KGB operative in Soviet-era East Germany to his rise as the unchallenged ruler of modern Russia.

"جليتر" رواية مكثفة جداً عن الحب والقمع والوطن، تذهب الكاتبة فيها مباشرة إلى النفس البشرية فتجلس مرة كطبيب نفساني يستمع إلى اعترافات إحدى شخصياتها (لمى داوود)، من خلال شخصية أخرى وهو الطبيب النفسي فراس، الذي جمعته بلمى زمالة جامعية من أيام الدراسة كان لأشخاص آخرين أثر فيه، حيث تقوم قصة الرواية على لقاء مجموعة من طلبة جامعة بيرزيت في عام 1994، بأستاذ الدراسات الثقافية المثير للجدل والعبثي، الذي يغير حياتهم بطريقة أو بأخرى، ويستمر تأثيره على معظمهم حتى بعد طرده من الجامعة بسبب تصرفاته الغريبة وبعد موته بالسرطان !!

في رواية "الشحاذة" تختار الكاتبة "هيفاء بيطار" كتابة الوجع السوري بطريقةٍ مختلفة فما بين مجازر سوريا وغربة باريس تسطر كلماتٍ من الحنين والألم وتغوص في الواقع المظلم لتتذكر اللاذقية وهموم أهلها، باريس ووحدة مقاهيها..زوارق اللاجئين على الشواطيء الباردة والموت الذي يخيّم على المشهد..

تبدأ هذه الرواية في دارفور وتنتهي في باريس مستندةً على واقعة حقيقية حدثت قبل أعوام عندما كشف السودان وتشاد عن عصابة تقوم بتهريب الأطفال من المنطقة وبيعهم في باريس. حيث تسلّط الرواية الضوء على الصراع السياسي القائم في إقليم دارفور السوداني.. أسبابه وبعض ملامحه، وتبرز الوجه البشع للحضارة الغربية التي ترتدي -وفق الرواية- قناعاً إنسانياً لإعادة عملية الرق مرة أخرى، من خلال حكاية الفتاة الزرقاء بابنوس وأخيها وارتحالهما من ذلك المكان الذي يُدعى الخربقة واستقرارهما أخيرًأ في باريس في رحلةٍ يدمى لها القلب وبنهاية موجعة لكنّها حقيقية.

In this collection, editors Karen Lord, Annalee Newitz, and Malka Older champion realistic, progressive social change using the speculative stories of writers across the world. Exploring topics ranging from disability justice and environmental activism to community care and collective worldbuilding, these imaginative pieces from writers such as NK Jemisin, Charlie Jane Anders, Alejandro Heredia, Sam J. Miller, Nisi Shawl, and Sabrina Vourvoulias center solidarity, empathy, hope, joy, and creativity.

After a billionaire-orchestrated Freeze Act pushes the United States into authoritarianism, all citizens are forced to take a biofeedback test that classifies them by personality type. Those judged as lacking the skills to be productive members of society — or those unwilling to fall in line with their oppressors - are classified as Deviators or Instigators. Cal Shook, an ex-venture capitalist with links to cutting-edge neurotech development, sees his life fall apart after he’s labeled a Deviator.