All about Love : New Visions by bell hooks Paperback Book, 272 pages Description From one of America's most revered thinkers offers radical new ways to think about love, and examines the relationship between love and sexuality, and the connections between the public and the private.
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The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story by Hardcover Description A dramatic expansion of a groundbreaking work of journalism, The 1619 Project: A New Origin Story offers a profoundly revealing vision of the American past and present. In late August 1619, a ship arrived in the British colony of Virginia bearing a cargo of twenty to thirty enslaved people from Africa. Their arrival led to the barbaric and unprecedented system of American chattel slavery that would last for the next 250 years. This is sometimes referred to as the country's original sin, but it is more than that: It is the source of so much that still defines the United States. The New York Times Magazine 's award-winning "1619 Project" issue reframed our understanding of American history by placing slavery and its continuing legacy at the center of our national narrative. This new book substantially expands on that work, weaving together eighteen essays that explore the legacy of slavery in present-day Am...
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Harper Lee's classic novel of a lawyer in the Deep South defending a black man charged with the rape of a white girl. One of the best-loved stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has earned many distinctions since its original publication in 1960. It won the Pulitzer Prize, has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than thirty million copies worldwide, and been made into an enormously popular movie. Most recently, librarians across the country gave the book the highest of honors by voting it the best novel of the twentieth century.
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Le livre le plus vendu en Italie en 2020 était français : Changer l’eau des fleurs , de Valérie Perrin. Plus de 500 000 exemplaires écoulés. Autant dire que les lecteurs italiens attendaient avec une certaine impatience son nouveau roman. Il semblerait qu’ils n’aient pas été déçus, car, depuis sa sortie en juin dernier, Tre ( Trois en version originale) n’a pas quitté le classement des dix meilleures ventes. Ce récit d’une amitié née entre trois enfants en province à la fin des années 1980 et de ses développements jusqu’en 2017 est, selon le Corriere della Sera , un « merveilleux roman de formation » qui brosse le portrait d’une génération tout en restituant par touches l’atmosphère de l’époque. La presse spécule sur la recette du succès : « Une intrigue prenante, un peu d’amour, un peu de larmes, une pincée de mystère et quelques coups de théâtre », avance-t-elle. Ou encore un « mélange équilibré » ...