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Book Cover for: Fat Off, Fat on: A Big Bitch Manifesto, Clarkisha Kent

Fat Off, Fat on: A Big Bitch Manifesto

Clarkisha Kent
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"Clarkisha Kent: Expect to laugh, do a little crying, like I said, very, very triggering material. You're gonna have your own biases challenges too." Check out our chat with @IWriteAllDay_ about her debut book Fat Off, Fat On: A Big Bitch Manifesto! https://t.co/WLe9QdHy1A

Paperback, 2023

$19.95Member price:$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Oleander Sword, Tasha Suri

The Oleander Sword

Tasha Suri
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"The Oleander Sword doesn’t have the same highs of its predecessor, but it pulls you deeper into the journey you’ve embarked on. Leaving you hungry for more and heartbroken at what is to come." Read our review of The Oleander Sword by @tashadrinkstea! https://t.co/t1KPTK06Yg

Paperback, 2022

$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Ones We're Meant to Find, Joan He

The Ones We're Meant to Find

Joan He
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"Joan: I'm someone who comes up with a plot first. After that, it is like auditioning for a reality TV show where I try to build characters." Check out our interview with Joan He! Author of The Ones We're Meant to Find and Descendants Of The Crane. https://offcolour.org/2021/05/24/the-ones-were-meant-to-find-author-joan-he

Paperback, 2023

$12.99Member price:$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: TJ Powar Has Something to Prove, Jesmeen Kaur Deo

TJ Powar Has Something to Prove

Jesmeen Kaur Deo
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"My love for her writing goes back years, so when she announced her debut novel would be coming out this year, I clawed my way into her laptop to read it." Click now to read our interview with Jesmeen Kaur Deo, author of "TJ Powar Has Something to Prove"! https://t.co/00fgczoRA6

Hardcover, 2022

$17.99Member price:$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Gleanings: Stories from the Arc of a Scythe, Neal Shusterman

Gleanings: Stories from the Arc of a Scythe

Neal Shusterman
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"Neal Shusterman: Exactly what you said! The deniers, the climate change deniers, the anti-vaxxers. I just wanted to be able to tell an allegorical story that dealt with that." Check out our interview with Neal Shusterman about his new book, Gleanings! https://t.co/J2MmVXT3ZP

Hardcover, 2022

$21.99Member price:$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: White Noise: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition), Don Delillo

White Noise: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)

Don Delillo
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Check out the new teaser for WHITE NOISE, premiering on Netflix! Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, and Don Cheadle star; directed by Noah Baumbach, and based on the book by Don DeLillo. https://t.co/T4xtoULAIL

Paperback, 2009

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Love from Mecca to Medina, S. K. Ali

Love from Mecca to Medina

S. K. Ali
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"Though I address topics that might be often painful. I always try to make sure there's a sense of hope. When you close my book, you realize... there's more." Read our chat with LOVE FROM MECCA TO MEDINA author @SajidahWrites! https://t.co/HU5gRnVDOB

Hardcover, 2022

$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Legendborn, Tracy Deonn

Legendborn

Tracy Deonn
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Felicia D. Henderson is set to adapt Tracy Deonn’s YA fantasy novel ‘LEGENDBORN’ for Black Bear Television who will shop the series to networks and streamers in the coming weeks. The book offers a modern-day twist on the Legend of King Arthur with a dose of Black Girl Magic. https://t.co/z4hFD93fgQ

Hardcover, 2020

$21.99Member price:$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Poppy War, R. F. Kuang

The Poppy War

R. F. Kuang
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“Rebecca F. Kuang: I think the rule that you have to write every single day or you’re not a real writer is pretty rubbish. You’re a writer if you get the book done.” Check out our Interview with 'The Poppy War' series author, R.F. Kuang! https://offcolour.org/2020/12/15/an-interview-with-r-f-kuang-author-of-2020s-most-anticipated-fantasy-novel

Paperback, 2019

$19.99Member price:$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book