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Hardback. Condición: Fair. Delia Barnes and Ernest Wrangham met as teens at Celebration Camp, a church-supported conversion therapy programme - the dubious, unscientific, Christian practice meant to change a person's sexuality. After witnessing a devastating tragedy, they escaped in the night, only to take separate roads to their distant homes. They have no idea how each has fared through the years. Delia is a college basketball coach who prides herself on being an empowering and self-possessed role model for her players. But when she gets fired from her elite East Coast college, she's forced to return to her hometown of Rockside, Oregon, to coach at her high school alma mater. Ernest, meanwhile, is a renowned poet with a temporary teaching job in Portland, Oregon. His work has always been boundary-pushing, fearless. But the poem he's most wanted to write - about his dangerous escape from Celebration Camp - remains stubbornly out of reach. Both persist in the mission to overcome the consequences and inhumane costs of conversion therapy. As events find them hurtling toward each other once again, they both grapple with the necessity of remaining steadfast in one's truth, no matter how slippery that can be. TELL THE REST is a powerful novel about coming to terms, with family, history, violence, loss, sexuality, and ultimately, with love.…

Paperback. Condición: Good. Where Changers Book One: Drew dealt primarily with themes of gender and bias, and Changers Books Two: Oryon explored issues of race and bigotry, Changers Book Three: Kim tackles the thorny, less straightforward subjects of body shaming, self-esteem, grief, mental illness, and how the expectations of the outside world can't help but colour the way we see ourselves. Kim - smart, funny, and finally fed up with the cards she's been dealt - is finding out that friends change, love doesn't always mean forever, and growing up means living your truth, even if it isn't pretty. …

Hardback. Condición: Good. As a twelve-year-old escaping a disordered and unhappy home, and parents who loved hard but couldn't make it work, eighteen-year-old Travis Hollister left the Midwest to spend a summer with his grandparents in the Deep South. There he met Delia, the love of his life, who, tragically, was beyond his reach for two reasons - she was his aunt and she was sixteen years old. That summer made Travis guilty of crimes discovered and undiscovered. For his public wrongs, he did time, six years in a Nebraska reform school. For his undiscovered wrongs, he suffers mightily and wants desperately to be shriven. Can he achieve redemption or is he bound for the hell on earth he can imagine all too well? Driven by his need to rejoin the human community, he becomes the stranger who arrives in Panama City, Florida, searching for Delia, the aunt who was the idol of his twelve-year-old passion. Who is she now? What have the years done to her? Will she welcome the return of Travis or fear it? Amid a cast of characters struggling with their own needs, desires, tragedies, and, yes, crimes, Travis finds violence, hatred, vengeance, and, in greater measure, friendship, honour, loyalty, and at least a glimpse of the road to redemption. …

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Hardback. Condición: Good. Lila Bonnard has left her island Home in the Caribbean to join the faculty as a visiting professor at Mayfield College in a small Vermont town. On her way from the airport to Mayfield, Lila witnesses the fatal shooting of a Black man by the police. It turns out that the victim was a professor at Mayfield College, and he was giving CPR to a white woman who was on the verge of an opioid overdose. The two Black faculty and a Black administrator in the otherwise all-white college expect Lila to be a witness in the case against the police, but Lila fears that in the current hostile political climate against immigrants of colour she may jeopardise her position at the college by speaking out, and her fiance advises her to remain neutral. Now Lila Knows is a gripping story that explores our obligation to act when confronted with the unfair treatment of fellow human beings. A page-turner with universal resonance, this novel will leave readers rethinking the meaning of love and empathy.…

Hardback. Condición: Good. When two sisters wander the shore on their family beach outing, they discover a gigantic seed pod large enough to hold them afloat. Unable to resist, they climb aboard, and are swept across the ocean to a mysterious island. As they explore, their vessel is carried back out to sea. Curiosity has led them far from home and only an act of daring and resourcefulness will bring them back. This wordless adventure leads the audience through a richly imagined land packed with spectacular flowers and foliage. Samworth, Kate (ilustrador).…

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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. A shocking, touching and humorous debut, Jonah Sees Ghosts blends magical realism with a study of the ways alcohol and abuse shapes personalities within a family. At 15, Jonah Hart is a boy with a problem he's afraid to share: Not only does he see ghosts, but when he dreams, he travels outside his body. As the ghosts become more and more aggressive, Jonah withdraws into his dream world, where he is forced to make a stand from the full depths of abandonment and isolation in a last stab at redemption. Sullivan writes with beautiful, introspective clarity.' - Henry Rollins'.…

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Paperback. Condición: Good. The Immune System is the explosive final instalment in the Dewey Decimal trilogy. Picking up months after the events of The Nervous System (Akashic, 2012), Dewey finds himself running dirty operations for the crooked Senator Howard. When Dewey is tasked with disrupting unrest from a growing group of outcast civilians, and simultaneously given the assignment of protecting a pair of Saudi royals, he is forced to look within and make some impossible choices. Ultimately, this puts him at odds with his benefactor and the powers that be.…

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Hardback. Condición: Good. SO YOU WANNA RUN A COUNTRY? is a satirical parable of the perils of authoritarianism, nationalism, and device-dependent group-think. After almost a century of being shut off from the rest of the world in self-imposed isolation, the neo-medieval statelet of Inner Azhuur suddenly volunteers to host the next season of the global streaming sensation SO YOU WANNA RUN A COUNTRY? The producers must now assemble the next crew of unqualified misfits whose ineptitude as they attempt to run the country will entertain billions across the globe. From Newer York, where homelessness has been eliminated by rebranding it as a Thoroughfarian lifestyle choice, come Mooney and Wendy who meet while sleeping in discarded pipes on a vacant lot - one seemingly directed by Captain Dude, a statue attached to a skateboard, and one on the run after deliberately crashing a large chunk of the speculative economy. Cast as Regent of Inner Azhuur and Consort to the Regent, they are joined by Skid, a Dubliner kicked out of his fledgling band and eager to escape a stultifying job as a tourist ambiance fake street menace in Glasgow. Arriving in Inner Azhuur, these three encounter a world of antiquated and indecipherable customs, all meant to glorify the vanished ruler, General D'Izmaie, and return Inner Azhuur to some perceived former glory. As the reality show unfolds, our misfits are enmeshed in a mad power grab of overweening global ambition and find themselves in a struggle against the all-too-real, ruthless and sinister power brokers of Inner Azhuur. Holohan's bantering literary voice is sure to please fans of cyberpunk greats like Philip K. Dick and William Gibson.…

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Hardback. Condición: Good. December 1959: Captain Jacques le Garrec, a former detective and French Resistance hero, returns to France in disgrace, traumatised after two years of working in the army intelligence services, and accused of a brutal crime. As le Garrec awaits trial in the tiny Breton town where he grew up, he is asked to look into a disturbing and unsolved murder committed the previous winter. A local teenage girl was killed and her bizarrely mutilated body was left on display on the heathland. Le Garrec's investigations draw him into the dark past of the town, still haunted by memories of the German Occupation.…

Paperback. Condición: Very Good. The Immune System is the explosive final instalment in the Dewey Decimal trilogy. Picking up months after the events of The Nervous System (Akashic, 2012), Dewey finds himself running dirty operations for the crooked Senator Howard. When Dewey is tasked with disrupting unrest from a growing group of outcast civilians, and simultaneously given the assignment of protecting a pair of Saudi royals, he is forced to look within and make some impossible choices. Ultimately, this puts him at odds with his benefactor and the powers that be.…

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Paperback. Condición: Very Good. and Future A collection of writings on the theory, practice, history and current state of anti-capitalist politics by the most articulate and well-versed activists and scholars in the emerging new left. A refreshingly non-doctrinaire collection of essays aimed at the loose coalition of free-market critics that has arisen since the demonstrations against the World Trade Organization in Seattle nearly two years ago. Includes essays by Megan Shaw, Doug Henwood, Karl Marx, Slavoj Zizek, Frederic Jameson and Antonio Negri among others.…

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Paperback. Condición: Fair. P is a school bus driver with a nasty addiction to gambling. He has blown the hundred thousand dollars he won at the casino six months ago, but his wife and family still think he is loaded. P spins out of control, and he must continue to find ways of getting money to fool his family, and feed his growing addiction. The bets get bigger and bigger, until finally he hits it really big, but he soon realises that gambling is part of a deeper problem.…

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Hardback. Condición: Good. The best-selling Go the F*** to Sleep has been translated into over 30 languages worldwide. Now it is finally translated for Jamaican and other Caribbean parents of the world. Go de Rass to Sleep is a bedtime book for parents who live in the real world, where a few snoozing kitties and cutesy rhymes don't always send a toddler sailing blissfully off to dreamland. Profane, affectionate and radically honest, award-winning author Adam Mansbach's verses perfectly capture the familiar - and unspoken - tribulations of putting your little angel down for the night. Cortés, Ricardo (ilustrador).…