Be With Me

Be With Me

Gabrielle Sands

Gabrielle Sands

She's the mayor-to-be's perfect daughter. He's the ruthless villain set to ruin her.I've spent my life putting others first. So when my father runs for New York City mayor—on a promise to take down the city's most notorious crime family—I do what I always do: push my own dreams aside to help him win.Until I wind up at the wrong party. Trapped in a bedroom with Romolo Ferraro—the dangerous, merciless youngest son of the man my father has sworn to destroy.He terrifies me. He fascinates me. Six foot four and covered in tattoos, he's everything I should avoid.When he starts pursuing me, I know I'm just a pawn in his game. A means to an end. And yet... part of me wants to play along.I tell myself it's to protect my father's campaign. But I'm not thinking about politics when Romolo's rough hands slide over my skin, teaching me how good it feels to burn.They say good girls don't fall for the...
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Light and Thread

Light and Thread

Han Kang

Fiction

From Nobel Prize winner Han Kang comes her first work of nonfiction published in English—a singular collection of writings including her inspiring Nobel Lecture.A LITERARY HUB AND ELECTRIC LIT MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF THE YEARIn this light-filled and multi-faceted book, Han Kang draws together the threads of her work and life, tracing the connections between her interior and exterior worlds through a sequence of essays, poems, photographs, and diaries, brilliantly translated by Maya West and e. yaewon & Paige Aniyah Morris.A book of reflections, of words and light, it has at its heart the tiny, north-facing courtyard garden at her home, cultivated solely through the reflected sunlight of the mirrors which she must move throughout the day, as the earth turns on its axis.In a poem written at eight years old, Han Kang imagined a “gold thread” of connection—an idea which she explores here with luminous attention,...
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Plausibly Deniable

Plausibly Deniable

Jamie Ibson

Jamie Ibson

Plausibly Deniable“Occasionally a few simply honest men are found upon committees. These are useful as adjuncts to give a kind of high moral character to the cause; but the rest of the committee generally think them bores . . . When any peculiarly delicate question arises, it is sometimes important to eliminate one or more of them temporarily from the real committee of management . . . and also of enabling him at any future time to declare truly, if necessary, that he never was present at any meeting at which even a questionable course had been proposed.” —Charles Babbage, 1864“Who? No idea, never heard of him.” —Spies, mercenaries, operatives, and criminals everywhereIn Plausibly Deniable, we get a peek behind the curtain. We get to see what shouldn’t be seen, to know what they don’t want you to know, and to find out the true story of whodunnit. Edited by Jamie Ibson, a wide array of established authors and rising stars contribute to this undeniable original anthology, including: Jody Lynn Nye, Michael Z. Williamson & Jessica Schlenker, Craig Martelle, Jason Cordova & Melissa Olthoff, Jacob Holo & Edie Skye, Kacey Ezell and Nick Steverson, Marisa Wolf, Casey Moores, Jack Clemons, and introducing multiversal man of mystery, Buff Orpington. They could tell you, but then they’d have to . . . well. You knowAt the publisher's request, this title is sold without DRM (Digital Rights Management).
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Alice Baber

Alice Baber

Gail Levin

Gail Levin

The definitive biography of abstract artist Alice Baber, whose luminous and beloved works took the world by storm.From one of the most acclaimed art biographers writing today comes the surprising life of Alice Baber, who produced exquisite abstract paintings of vibrantly colored shapes that created an illusion of floating light. Heralded as an "artist of lyrical abstractions," Baber's paintings had already entered the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Metropolitan, the Guggenheim, and the Whitney at the time of her premature death at just fifty-four. How could such an accomplished and visionary artist then fall into near obscurity? In Alice Baber, the artist's fascinating story is finally revealed, despite concerted efforts to consign her to oblivion. Levin's book is a vital corrective to the history of American art and a thrilling opportunity for the next generation experience Baber anew. Vividly written and richly detailed, we...
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