![]() ![]() ![]() With more than 140 whimsical illustrations and interviews with British lifestyle experts, including Melissa Hemsley, Sophie Dahl, and Dolly Alderton, Cosy is a perfect reminder to slow down, have a cuppa, and settle in when life pushes you into overdrive. ![]() She celebrates socks, warms to the joys of toasty open fires, and extols the virtues of a quiet walk, ultimately enticing us all to create the British magic of cosy in our everyday lives. Now, Laura Weir, a beloved lifestyle journalist and editor-in-chief of London Evening Standard’s weekly ES magazine, introduces American readers to the Brits’ best-kept secret-coziness-an indulgent, luxurious, yet unfussy way of creating comfort and joy.Ĭosy is “the slacker’s guide to staying at home, an antidote to peak frazzle.” With trademark Anglo cheekiness, Laura Weir perfectly captures the British essence of cosy. ![]()
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With fantastical twists at every turn, Clayton has created a world that readers won’t want to leave.” ―Angie Thomas, #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Hate U Give and Concrete Rose ![]() “The Marvellers deserves the highest compliment I can give a book: I want to live in this world.” ―Rick Riordan, #1 New York Times bestselling–author New York Times-bestselling author Dhonielle Clayton makes her middle-grade debut with a fantasy adventure set in a global magic school in the sky, perfect for fans of Rick Riordan, Soman Chainani, and Philip Pullman. ![]() ![]() ![]() Fantasy at its best as the last page leaves your adrenaline pumping, heart broken and a yearning for more!"-Katie Stutz, Anderson's Bookshop Readers are in for a treat as more of the world is explored and Dennard continues to dazzle with nonstop action, beautifully crafted characterization and stunning prose. "The Witchlands series is back with higher stakes, new tricks and a deeper dive into this already epic world. ![]() ![]() It’s so good it’s intimidating.”-Victoria Aveyard, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Red QueenĪt the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied. But to do so, he must confront his own father, and his past. Susan Dennard's New York Times bestselling, young adult epic fantasy Witchlands series continues with the story of the Bloodwitch Aeduan.Īeduan has teamed up with the Threadwitch Iseult and the magical girl Owl to stop a bloodthirsty horde of raiders preparing to destroy a monastery that holds more than just faith. ![]() ![]() She was an avid supporter of women’s rights and co-founded the Argentine Women’s Union. She translated many works herself, including some by William Faulkner, DH Lawrence, and Albert Camus. 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The Queen attended the book fair a day after she appeared onstage to present an award in Madrid ![]() ![]() ![]() She won all four major American performance awards - Tony, Emmy, Grammy and Oscar - and in 1986 she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Preferring the stage and radio, Hayes worked infrequently in the movies during the '40s and '50s, and by the 1960s modern audiences knew her mostly for her TV and movie roles as mothers or little old ladies (she won another Oscar for her supporting role in 1969's Airport). Though loved in the American theater, she was less successful in the movies, with some exceptions, including The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931, written by her husband, playwright Charles MacArthur), for which she won her first Oscar. Her reputation was established on Broadway, and she is mostly known for her work on the stage, including plays such as Happy Birthday, Time Remembered and especially as Queen Victoria in Victoria Regina. 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Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can’t be funny.Ĭoming of age in a culture that demands women be as small, quiet, and compliant as possible - like a porcelain dove that will also have sex with you - writer and humoristLindy West quickly discovered that she was anything but.įrom a painfully shy childhood in which she tried, unsuccessfully, to hide her big body and even bigger opinions to her public war with stand-up comedians over rape jokes to her struggle to convince herself, and then the world, that fat people have value to her accidental activism and never-ending battle royale with Internet trolls, Lindy narrates her life with a blend of humor and pathos that manages to make a trip to the abortion clinic funny and wring tears out of a story about diarrhea. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Brooks as the inaugural holder of the Carl and Sally Gable Distinguished Chair in Southern Colonial American History.Īn innovative scholar and teacher, Brooks is author of the prize-winning book Captives and Cousins: Slavery, Kinship and Community in the Southwestern Borderlands, which garnered seven major prizes including the Bancroft, Parkman and Turner prizes. ![]() The University of Georgia welcomes renowned historian and anthropologist James F. ![]() |