Really Good, Actually
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Really Good, Actually (2023)

Sortie : 1 février 2023 (Canada). Roman, Version originale

livre de Monica Heisey

Résumé · Maggie’s marriage has ended just 608 days after it started, but she’s fine – she’s doing really good, actually. Sure, she’s alone for the first time in her life, can’t afford her rent and her obscure PhD is going nowhere . . . but at the age of twenty-nine, Maggie is determined to embrace her new... Voir plus

Brown Girls
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Brown Girls (2022)

Sortie : 4 janvier 2022 (États-Unis). Roman, Version originale

livre de Daphne Palasi Andreades

Résumé · A fiercely poetic coming-of-age novel following a group of young women of colour in Queens, New York. ‘Brown Girls flows like a late night FM-radio dedication to the crew, the block, and the mission. This book’s a gift’ Paul Beatty, author of The Sellout ‘An ode to girlhood’ Raven Leilani,... Voir plus

Our final warning
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Our final warning (2020)

Six degrees of climate emergency

Sortie : 2020 (Royaume-Uni). Essai, Sciences

livre de Mark Lynas

Résumé · We are living in a climate emergency. That much is undeniable. But how much worse could it get ? Are we already past the point of no return ? And if not, is there anything we can do before it's too late ? Rigorously cataloguing the very latest climate science, Mark Lynas explores the course we... Voir plus

Black Gold
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Black Gold

The Dark History of Coffee, Revised and Update Edition

Essai, Histoire, Version originale

livre de Antony Wild

Résumé · It may seem like just a drink, but coffee's dark journey from the highlands of Ethiopia to the highstreets of every town in the country links alchemy and anthropology, poetry and politics, science and slavery. Plots have been hatched, blood spilled and governments toppled to keep your mug filled... Voir plus

Notes on grief
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Notes on grief (2021)

Sortie : mai 2021 (États-Unis). Essai, Version originale

livre de Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Résumé · A devastating essay on loss and the people we love from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, the bestselling author of Americanah and Half of a Yellow Sun . ''Grief is a cruel kind of education. You learn how ungentle mourning can be, how full of anger. You learn how glib condolences can feel. You learn... Voir plus