Name: House of Leaves | Mark Z Danielewski
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Transcendent Kingdom: Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2021 | Yaa Gyasi

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2021**From the bestselling author of Homegoing**______________________________________________As a child Gifty would ask her parents to tell the story of their journey from Ghana to Alabama, seeking escape in myths of heroism and romance. When her father and brother succumb to the hard reality of immigrant life in the American South, their family of four becomes two - and the life Gifty dreamed of slips away.Years later, desperate to understand the opioid addiction that destroyed her brother's life, she turns to science for answers. But when her mother comes to stay, Gifty soon learns that the roots of their tangled traumas reach farther than she ever thought. Tracing her family's story through continents and generations will take her deep into the dark heart of modern America.Transcendent Kingdom is a searing story of love, loss and redemption, and the myriad ways we try to rebuild our lives from the rubble of our collective pasts.________…

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The Housemaid: An absolutely addictive psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist | Freida McFadden

THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"Welcome to the family," Nina Winchester says as I shake her elegant, manicured hand. I smile politely, gazing around the marble hallway. Working here is my last chance to start fresh. I can pretend to be whoever I like. But I'll soon learn that the Winchesters' secrets are far more dangerous than my own . . .Every day I clean the Winchesters' beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew's handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it's hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina's life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.I only try on one of Nina's pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it's …

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Elon Musk | Walter Isaacson

From the author of Steve Jobs and other bestselling biographies, this is the astonishingly intimate story of Elon Musk, the most fascinating and controversial innovator of our era-a rule-breaking visionary who helped to lead the world into the era of electric vehicles, private space exploration, and artificial intelligence. Oh, and took over Twitter. When Elon Musk was a kid in South Africa, he was regularly beaten by bullies. One day a group pushed him down some concrete steps and kicked him until his face was a swollen ball of flesh. He was in the hospital for a week. But the physical scars were minor compared to the emotional ones inflicted by his father, an engineer, rogue, and charismatic fantasist. His father's impact on his psyche would linger. He developed into a tough yet vulnerable man-child, prone to abrupt Jekyll-and-Hyde mood swings, with an exceedingly high tolerance for risk, a craving for drama, an epic sense of mission, and a maniacal intensity that was callous and at …

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Killers Of The Flower Moon - Oil - Money - Murder And The Birth Of The Fbi | David Grann

WINNER OF THE EDGAR AWARD FOR BEST FACT CRIMESHORTLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN NON-FICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA ALCS GOLD DAGGER FOR NON-FICTION**SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO AND ROBERT DE NIRO**'A riveting true story of greed, serial murder and racial injustice' JON KRAKAUER'A fiercely entertaining mystery story and a wrenching exploration of evil' KATE ATKINSON'A fascinating account of a tragic and forgotten chapter in the history of the American West' JOHN GRISHAM From the bestselling author of The Lost City of Z, now a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller, Robert Pattinson and Tom Holland, and the Number One international bestseller The Wager, comes a true-life murder story which became one of the FBI's first major homicide investigations. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath t…

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Paladone Animal Crossing Heat Change Mug - 50529

Paladone Animal Crossing Heat Change Mug - 50529 When serving players at The Roost, Brewster prefers them to drink their coffee as soon as it is given to them, but Brewster would be shocked if the player waited and let it cool as then he would be able to observe the amazing transformation of the design on this heat change mug. Each time you fill this 300ml (10.55fl oz) ceramic mug with your favourite hot beverage and the outside changes from black with cut-away Animal Crossing figures into an incredible multi-coloured, wrap-around patchwork design. Any Animal Crossing devotee will love this amazing mug. As well as being a great gift, any collector of official Animal Crossing memorabilia would welcome this addition into their collection. Great for everyday use at home, or at work. A critical and commercial success, the Animal Crossing franchise has sold over 50 million units. BREWSTER'S BREW: When serving players at The Roost, Brewster prefers them to drink their coffee as soon as it is…

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Influence Empire The Story of Tecent & Chinas Tech Ambition | Lulu Chen

*SHORTLISTED FOR THE FINANCIAL TIMES BUSINESS BOOK 2022*'A fascinating study of the tech giant and its symbiotic relationship with the Chinese government' - Guardian'Influence Empire by Lulu Yilun Chen is so much more than the long-awaited story of Tencent and its vital everything app, WeChat, the messaging tool used by 1.3 billion people. It's also the sobering account of an entire generation of high-flying Chinese tech entrepreneurs, whose wings were clipped by the omnipotent hand of their own government.' -- Brad Stone, author of Amazon Unbound and The Everything StoreORDER NOW: the first definitive look at Tencent, one of the world's largest tech companies. __________In 2017, a company known as Tencent overtook Facebook to become the world's fifth largest company. It was a watershed moment, a wake-up call for those in the West accustomed to regarding the global tech industry through the prism of Silicon Valley: Facebook, Google, Apple and Microsoft.Yet to many of the two billion-pl…

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Assad : The Triumph of Tyranny | Con Coughlin

'Important, compelling, and detailed . . . a superb analysis of the West's policy missteps and the tragic consequences of them.' - General David PetraeusIn Assad: The Triumph of Tyranny, Con Coughlin, veteran commentator on war in the Middle East and author of Saddam: The Secret Life, examines how a mild-mannered ophthalmic surgeon has transformed himself into the tyrannical ruler of a once flourishing country.Until the Arab Spring of 2011, the world's view of Bashar al-Assad was largely benign. He and his wife, a former British banker, were viewed as philanthropic individuals doing their best to keep their country at peace. So much so that a profile of Mrs Assad in American Vogue was headlined 'The Rose in the Desert'. Shortly after it appeared, Syria descended into the horrific civil war that has seen its cities reduced to rubble and thousands murdered and displaced, a civil war that is still raging over a decade later.In this vivid and authoritative account Con Coughlin draws togeth…

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Butcher & Blackbird | Brynne Weaver

Discover the serial killer romance thriller everyone is talking about!'Hilarious, heart-warming, sexy . . . and gory. The perfect cocktail that will have you swooning and laughing. The funnest read of the year!' H. D. Carlton, international and USA Today bestselling author of Haunting Adeline'So fresh and different. It's like a funny, irreverent version of Dexter - only there's two of them and sexual tension' Abby Jimenez, New York Times bestselling author of Yours Truly----This viral TikTok friends-to-lovers dark romantic comedy full of murder, chaos, and sizzling chemistry is unlike anything you've read before . . . perfect for fans of The Mind F*ck series.Even serial killers deserve a meet-cute.When a chance encounter sparks an unlikely bond between rival murderers Sloane and Rowan, the two find something elusive - the friendship of two like-minded, pitch-black souls who just happen to enjoy killing other serial killers.Stalking across the country, the two hunters collide in an annu…

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Wahala | Nikki May

SOON TO BE A MAJOR BBC TV SERIESWINNER OF THE COMEDY WOMEN IN PRINT NEWCOMER AWARDLONGLISTED FOR THE GOLDSBORO BOOKS GLASS BELL AWARD '"WAHALA" means trouble and there's plenty of it' GUARDIAN'Full of food, humour and pitch-perfect observation' STYLIST'All the ride-or-die realness of female friendship' RED MAGAZINEThree friends.Three 'perfect' lives (or so they pretend).Here comes TroubleRonke wants Happily Ever After and 2.2. kids. She's dating Kayode and wants him to be 'the one'. Her friends think he's just another in a long line of dodgy Nigerian boyfriends.Boo has just what Ronke wants - a kind husband, a gorgeous child. But she's frustrated, unfulfilled, and desperate to remember who she used to be.Simi is the golden one with the perfect lifestyle and a career. No one knows she's crippled by impostor syndrome and tempted to pack it all in each time her boss mentions her 'urban vibe.' Her husband thinks they're trying for a baby. She's not.When the high-flying, charismatic Isobel …

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Syria's Secret Library The True Story Of How A Besieged Syrian Town Found Hope | Mike Thomson

The extraordinary story of how the besieged Syrian town of Daraya found hope and inspiration in a secret underground library.Daraya lies on the fringe of Damascus, just south west of the Syrian Capital. Besieged by government forces since 2011, its people were deprived of food, bombarded by bombs and missiles, and shot at by snipers. But while the streets above echoed with rifle fire, deep beneath lay a secret library - a haven of peace with books lining almost every wall. Many people had risked their lives to save these precious titles from the devastation of war. Because to them, the secret library was a symbol of hope - of their belief that books would triumph over bombs and help them rebuild their fractured society. This is the true story of an extraordinary place and the people who made it happen.

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