Reading
this book of advice columns felt like therapy. It
validates difficult feelings, such as the decision to end a long-term relationship,
and offers sharp yet compassionate takes on the many challenges people face in
life. I laughed and cried.
The stories stayed with me long after I finished,
and I still seek out certain essays or refer them to loved ones going through a
hard time.
NOW A HULU ORIGINAL SERIES •NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK • An anniversary edition of the bestselling collection of "Dear Sugar" advice columns written by the author of #1 bestseller Wild—featuring a new preface and six additional columns.
For more than a decade, thousands of people have sought advice from Dear Sugar—the pseudonym of bestselling author Cheryl Strayed—first through her online column at The Rumpus, later through her hit podcast, Dear Sugars, and now through her popular Substack newsletter. Tiny Beautiful Things collects the best of Dear Sugar in one volume, bringing her wisdom to many…
This
memoir is told in a unique and gripping way. The chapters are short, creating
the effect of a fragmented memory piecing together the trajectory of an abusive
relationship. Though heavy in its topic, I couldn’t put the book down.
The
intimate moments captured are so poignant that my breath is physically caught many
times over. Machado’s writing is stunning.
'Ravishingly beautiful' Observer 'Excruciatingly honest and yet vibrantly creative' Irish Times 'Provocative and rich' Economist 'Daring, chilling, and unlike anything else you've ever read' Esquire 'An absolute must-read' Stylist
WINNER OF THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE 2021
In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing experience with a charismatic but volatile woman, this is a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse.
Each chapter views the relationship through a different lens, as Machado holds events up to the light and…
The bestselling novel and major film about love, loss and hope from the twice Carnegie Medal-winning Patrick Ness.
Conor has the same dream every night, ever since his mother first fell ill, ever since she started the treatments that don't quite seem to be working. But tonight is different. Tonight, when he wakes, there's a visitor at his window. It's ancient, elemental, a force of nature. And it wants the most dangerous thing of all from Conor. It wants the truth. Patrick Ness takes the final idea of the late, award-winning writer Siobhan Dowd and weaves an extraordinary and heartbreaking…
Lan, who
recently came to Canada from Vietnam, spends every day searching for a sense of
belonging. Books are the only things that make her feel at ease. It comes as a
shock when a mysterious wind whisks her right into the pages of her latest
fantasy read!
Once a homesick reader rooting for the characters that now stand
before her, Lan grows as a budding witch who has the power to help their quest.
As she faces off against tree guardians, moving corn mazes, heart-eaters, and
thoughtless kings, she finds that Silva is not so different from Toronto: new
homes can be messy.
Now, torn between several places at once, Lan begins to
confront an important question: how do you redefine a lost home?
