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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Mainten...
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry into Values.
One of the most important & influential books written in the past half-century, Robert M. Pirsig's Zen & the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a powerfully moving & penetrating examination of how we live, a breathtaking meditation on how to live better.
Here is the book that transformed a generation, an unforgettable narration of a summer motorcycle trip across America's Northwest, undertaken by a father & his young son. A story of love & fear--of growth, discovery & acceptance--that becomes a profound personal & philosophical odyssey into life's fundamental questions, this uniquely exhilarating modern classic is both touching & transcendent, resonant with the myriad confusions of existence & the small, essential triumphs that propel us forward.
UNBOUND by Peris Nyaguthii
"In the grand stage of life,we possess a single act to shine:to be an Eagle or a pigeon. Where we choose to roost is a personal call,but,either way, we have to fly- to the lofty heights or the cosy corners-taking flight is the only way to script a narrative. So, spread those wings and author your destiny."
Bound by The Absence of Love by Elena...
Do you know someone who drinks too much?
Or a family where domestic violence is the norm?
Maybe someone who killed themselves?
Do you ever wonder how the children of that family handled all of that and how they are doing now?
If you answered Yes, to 3 of the above questions, Bound by the Absence of Love is the book you have been looking for.
Against the Loveless World by Susan A...
A sweeping and lyrical novel that follows a young Palestinian refugee as she slowly becomes radicalized while searching for a better life for her family throughout the Middle East, for readers of international literary bestsellers including Washington Black, My Sister, The Serial Killer, and Her Body and Other Parties.
As Nahr sits, locked away in solitary confinement, she spends her days reflecting on the dramatic events that landed her in prison in a country she barely knows. Born in Kuwait in the 70s to Palestinian refugees, she dreamed of falling in love with the perfect man, raising children, and possibly opening her own beauty salon.
Instead, the man she thinks she loves jilts her after a brief marriage, her family teeters on the brink of poverty, she’s forced to prostitute herself, and the US invasion of Iraq makes her a refugee, as her parents had been. After trekking through another temporary home in Jordan, she lands in Palestine, where she finally makes a home, falls in love, and her destiny unfolds under Israeli occupation.
On Earth We are Briefly Gorgeous by O...
Poet Ocean Vuong's debut novel is a shattering portrait of a family, a first love, and the redemptive power of storytelling.
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is a letter from a son to a mother who cannot read. Written when the speaker, Little Dog, is in his late twenties, the letter unearths a family's history that began before he was born — a history whose epicenter is rooted in Vietnam — and serves as a doorway into parts of his life his mother has never known, all of it leading to an unforgettable revelation.
At once a witness to the fraught yet undeniable love between a single mother and her son, it is also a brutally honest exploration of race, class, and masculinity. Asking questions central to our American moment, immersed as we are in addiction, violence, and trauma, but undergirded by compassion and tenderness, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous is as much about the power of telling one's own story as it is about the obliterating silence of not being heard.
With stunning urgency and grace, Ocean Vuong writes of people caught between disparate worlds, and asks how we heal and rescue one another without forsaking who we are. The question of how to survive, and how to make of it a kind of joy, powers the most important debut novel of many years.
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange...
Brief Summary
An intensely powerful new novel from the best-selling author of The Bastard of Istanbul and Honour.
'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But they did not shut down. Not right away...'
For Leila, each minute after her death brings a sensuous memory: the taste of spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the long-awaited birth of a son; the sight of bubbling vats of lemon and sugar which the women use to wax their legs while the men attend mosque; the scent of cardamom coffee that Leila shares with a handsome student in the brothel where she works. Each memory, too, recalls the friends she made at each key moment in her life - friends who are now desperately trying to find her.
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint...
Brief Summary
Moral allegory and spiritual autobiography, The Little Prince is the most translated book in the French language.
With a timeless charm it tells the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the vagaries of adult behaviour through a series of extraordinary encounters.
His personal odyssey culminates in a voyage to Earth and further adventures.
ISBN:9780156012195
Author:Antoine de Saint Exupery
The Dictators Handbook Why Bad Behavi...
For eighteen years, Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith have been part of a team revolutionizing the study of politics by turning conventional wisdom on its head. They start from a single assertion: Leaders do whatever keeps them in power. They don’t care about the "national interest”—or even their subjects—unless they have to.
This clever and accessible book shows that the difference between tyrants and democrats is just a convenient fiction. Governments do not differ in kind but only in the number of essential supporters, or backs that need scratching.
The size of this group determines almost everything about politics: what leaders can get away with, and the quality of life or misery under them. The picture the authors paint is not pretty. But it just may be the truth, which is a good starting point for anyone seeking to improve human governance.
Bruce Bueno De Mesquita and Alastair Smith
Her Sister’s Shadow by Black Ma...
Undimmed: A Novel by Tatiana Whitup
UNDIMMED is a full-length Women-Fiction novel that follows seven women — across Nairobi, Nakuru, Kisumu, Lagos, London, and Kampala — as they each confront the lives they have been living and the lives they were made to live. It is a story about depression and grief, about marriage and motherhood, about ambition and identity, about the particular cost of performing strength for so long that you forget what it feels like to simply exist.
The Tough Landlord and Others Stories...
The book is a captivating anthology of fifteen short stories that transverse the complexities of today's world covering various themes, settings and styles. The stories are meant to provoke interest in readers and help them encounter in-depth literary experiences. This collection of short stories is therefore for readers who believe in the power of stories to illuminate, unsettle and connect.
If You Must hide – a Novel by A...
Nadia is intimately familiar with pain.
She has learned how to minimise it, manage it, explain it away-and keep moving forward. Loving others has always meant asking for little and giving much.
But after a traumatic night lands her in the hospital with an injured ankle, the careful balance she's maintained begins to unravel. Forced into stillness, Nadia starts confronting questions she has avoided for years-about devotion, self-sacrifice, and the quiet ways love can become heavy.
What follows is overwhelming. And tender. And strange. And deeply transformative.
If You Must Hide is a slow-burn contemporary romance about love as a place-where being fully seen feels safer than disappearing, where healing is messy, and where being wanted can feel liberating rather than demanding. Set against a richly familiar modern Nigerian backdrop, it is a story about choosing softness without losing yourself.
Political Mask by Anthony Murigu
Political Mask is a novel well scripted, highlighting the challenges that are faced in most of the African Political space. Mzuzu is a kingdom that suffered under the corrupt leadership of Malachi. It suffered for a while until the citizens were tired of bad leadership. It is now that a young man by the name Kwame rose to leadership. He is the one who liberated Mzuzu kingdom.
How to Spell Naija in 100 Short Stori...
A midnight call by an assassin to his prospective victim quickly becomes a game of wits in a telephone thriller impossible to second-guess [We Have Been Paid to Kill You]. On his deathbed, the Founding Overseer confesses to his wife that his visions were false and their ministry a 30-year hoax. She’s devastated – but fate isn’t halfway through with her [Re:Vision]
This second volume of How to Spell Naija in 100 Short Stories contains the final 50 stories and raises the high bar set by the first. These tales boldly range over Nigeriana, with kidnappers, houseboys, bishops and suicide bombers wreaking domestic and hilarious havoc in the lush terrain of Nwokolo’s imagination.
The tales are set in the future and in the present, in the Diaspora, in urban and small-town Nigeria, and in the author’s fictional Waterside. Once again, Nwokolo’s sure-handed humour and earthy style brings an amazing and unforgettable cast of characters to life.
“To say that Chuma Nwokolo is a great writer is an understatement. He is an author whose works have souls. They speak to the reader. They are both ‘novel’ and familiar. In a sense, he presents everyday issues with a different insight; one that illuminates the reader’s mind and brings to him that wonderful epiphanic aha! moment. He is able to turn everyday events into stories worth the read.”
Fredua Agyeman, reviewing Vol.1
Breaking Point: A Journalist Quest fo...
Breaking Point tells the first-person story of an intrepid Nigerian investigative journalist who is forced to flee his home country and seek political asylum in Ghana, after which he effectively declares war on the corrupt establishment at home. The fury with which he is despised and hunted by this establishment is only matched by his penchant for expanding his ever-increasing list of powerful Nigerian enemies with his uncompromising work
BANDA’S WAR by Franz Owano
The origin of sin. Right and wrong. The eternal conflict between good and evil. Are our actions products of predeterminism or free will?
Questions Ariel, a fallen angel burdened by centuries of guilt; grapples with to no avail, until he meets a human girl.
Through her, he becomes Banda and sets forth on a new path. But is a demon capable of atonement or is he beyond redemption?
How Beautiful We Were by Imbolo Mbue
So begins Imbolo Mbue’s powerful second novel, How Beautiful We Were. Set in the fictional African village of Kosawa, it tells the story of a people living in fear amidst environmental degradation wrought by an American oil company.
Pipeline spills have rendered farmlands infertile. Children are dying from drinking toxic water. Promises of clean-up and financial reparations to the villagers are made—and ignored. The country’s government, led by a brazen dictator, exists to serve its own interest. Left with few choices, the people of Kosawa decide to fight back. Their struggle would last for decades and come at a steep price.
Told through the perspective of a generation of children and the family of a girl named Thula who grows up to become a revolutionary, How Beautiful We Were is a masterful exploration of what happens when the reckless drive for profit, coupled with the ghost of colonialism, comes up against one community’s determination to hold onto its ancestral land and a young woman’s willingness to sacrifice everything for the sake of her people’s freedom.
The Gilded Ones by Namina Forna
Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs.
But on the day of the ceremony, her blood runs gold, the color of impurity--and Deka knows she will face a consequence worse than death.
Then a mysterious woman comes to her with a choice: stay in the village and submit to her fate, or leave to fight for the emperor in an army of girls just like her. They are called alaki--near-immortals with rare gifts. And they are the only ones who can stop the empire's greatest threat.
Knowing the dangers that lie ahead yet yearning for acceptance, Deka decides to leave the only life she's ever known. But as she journeys to the capital to train for the biggest battle of her life, she will discover that the great walled city holds many surprises. Nothing and no one are quite what they seem to be--not even Deka herself.
Sula by Toni Morrison
This rich and moving novel traces the lives of two black heroines from their close-knit childhood in a small Ohio town, through their sharply divergent paths of womanhood, to their ultimate confrontation and reconciliation.
Nel Wright has chosen to stay in the place where she was born, to marry, raise a family, and become a pillar of the black community.
Sula Peace has rejected the life Nel has embraced, escaping to college, and submerging herself in city life. When she returns to her roots, it is as a rebel and a wanton seductress. Eventually, both women must face the consequences of their choices. Together, they create an unforgettable portrait of what it means and costs to be a black woman in America.
The Bluest Eye
Brief Summary
The Bluest Eye is Toni Morrison's first novel, a book heralded for its richness of language and boldness of vision. Set in the author's girlhood hometown of Lorain, Ohio, it tells the story of black, eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove.
Pecola prays for her eyes to turn blue so that she will be as beautiful and beloved as all the blond, blue-eyed children in America. In the autumn of 1941, the year the marigolds in the Breedloves' garden do not bloom. Pecola's life does change- in painful, devastating ways.
What its vivid evocation of the fear and loneliness at the heart of a child's yearning, and the tragedy of its fulfillment. The Bluest Eye remains one of Tony Morrisons's most powerful, unforgettable novels- and a significant work of American fiction.
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ISBN:9780452287068
Author:Toni Morrison