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When Nadia Owusu was two years old her mother abandoned her and her baby sister and fled from Tanzania back to the US. When she was thirteen her beloved Ghanaian father died of cancer. She and her sister were left alone, with a stepmother they didn’t like, adrift. Nadia Owusu is a woman of many languages, homelands, and identities. She grew up in Rome, Dar-es-Salaam, Addis Ababa, Kumasi, Kampala, and London. And for every new place there was a new language, a new identity and a new home. At times she has felt stateless, motherless, and identity-less. At others, she has had multiple identities at war within her. It’s no wonder she started to feel fault lines in her sense of self. It’s no wonder that those fault lines eventually ruptured. ‘Aftershocks’ is the account of how she hauled herself out of the wreckage.
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‘Will Storr is one of our best journalists of ideas ? The Status Game might be his best yet’ James Marriott, Books of the Year, The Times
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Set over the course of four days at a music festival, the novel features strangers Toni and Olivia, who meet and realise that the music is more than just a way out; it’s a way through… if they are brave enough to face it together.
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Liz has always believed she’s too black, too poor, too awkward to shine in her small, rich, prom-obsessed midwestern town. She hopes to become a doctor and has a plan that will get her out of Campbell, Indiana, forever. But when the financial aid she was counting on unexpectedly falls through, Liz’s plans come crashing down . . .
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Meet Lori Gottlieb, an insightful and compassionate therapist whose clients present with all kinds of problems. Over the course of a year, they all make progress. But Gottlieb is not just a therapist – she’s also a patient who’s on a journey of her own. Interspersed with the stories of her clients are her own therapy sessions, as she goes in search of the hidden roots of a devastating and life-changing event.
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For readers of Damaged and Running with Scissors, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape.
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This is a book designed to harness children’s spontaneous philosophical instinct and to develop it through introductions to some of the most vibrant and essential philosophical ideas of history. It takes us to meet leading figures of philosophy from around the world and from all eras – and shows us how their ideas continue to matter.
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For readers of Damaged and Running with Scissors, a chilling exploration of psychological control that ends with a glorious escape.
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In ‘Quiet’, Susan Cain shows how the brain chemistry of introverts and extroverts differs, and how society undervalues and misunderstands introverts. She gives introverts the tools to better understand themselves and take full advantage of their strengths.
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In ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’, Dr. Frankl offers an account of his life amid the horrors of the Nazi death camps, chronicling the harrowing experience that led to the discovery of his theory of logotherapy.
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In ‘Man’s Search for Meaning’, Dr. Frankl offers an account of his life amid the horrors of the Nazi death camps, chronicling the harrowing experience that led to the discovery of his theory of logotherapy.
