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From hilarious, heartwarming series to gripping documentaries and major motion pictures, these speakers’ books have been the inspirations for some of the most talked-about adaptations.
In Yesteryear, a seemingly perfect “tradwife” influencer awakens in a nightmarish version of 1855, forcing her to confront the realities behind the idyllic life she has carefully curated for millions of followers. Yesteryear, offers a gripping and darkly funny exploration of fame, faith, and the myths surrounding traditional femininity.
American Fantasy is an irresistible and sharply funny story about what happens when your teenage dreams resurface in midlife. Packed with laugh-out-loud observations and poignant reflections on fame, nostalgia, marriage, and middle age, American Fantasy is both pure escapism and a wise, uplifting story about second chances.
Here Where We Live Is Our Country is the first popular history of the Jewish Labor Bund. Crabapple re-creates their extraordinary world through dramatic portraits of insurgent poets and antireligious rebels, clandestine revolutionaries and lovers on the barricades.
My Dear You is a captivating short story collection about love, life, and self-discovery in a time when it’s so easy to be someone else. Ranging from the sinister to the tender, these witty, expertly-paced tales of love in its many forms will have you laughing out loud one minute and reaching for your best friend the next.
Based on Simard's research of forest's deep-rooted cycles of renewal, alongside her conversations with indigenous land stewards and stories of loss in her own life, When the Forest Breathes serves as an important reminder of all the natural world has to teach us.
Son of Nobody is a brilliant retelling of the Trojan War by two commoners: an ancient soldier and modern scholar, from the author of the international bestseller Life of Pi. Son of Nobody explores how stories become facts, the price we pay to share them, and how we live—then, now, and always.
