Truth is: a novel in vers

Seventeen-year-old poet Truth Bangura begins senior year unsure of life after graduation, but when she learns she's pregnant by her ex-boyfriend, she makes one decision she is sure about—an abortion. When Truth performs a poem about her decision and her emotionally turbulent home life, the performance is recorded and posted online for everyone to see—including her mother.

Crossing the line

Erik's mum is juggling the challenge of two small babies, plus the recent death of her husband due to COVID-19. Both these factors affect teenage Erik too, struggling with homework as the babies continually cry or his mum needs help. When the difficulties at home affect Erik's behaviour at school and he gets in with the wrong crowd, Erik is tempted to earn some easy money. . . But this kind …

Perfection

Millennial expat couple Anna and Tom are living the dream in Berlin, in a bright, plant-filled apartment in Neukölln. They are young digital creatives, freelancers without too many constraints.

Yesteryear

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780593804216

Collation

391 p. ; 25 cm

Series Title

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Call Number

823 BUR y

Hooked

Eriko's life appears perfect – devoted parents, spotless apartment and a job in the seafood division of one of Japan's largest trading companies. Her latest project, to reintroduce the controversial Nile perch fish into the Japanese market, is characteristically ambitious. But beneath her flawless surface she is wracked by loneliness. Eriko becomes fascinated with a popular blog written by…

Sweet sweet revenge ltd

Victor Alderheim has a lot to answer for. Not only has he heartlessly tricked his young ex-wife, Jenny, out of her art gallery inheritance, but he has also abandoned his son, Kevin, to die in the middle of the Kenyan savanna. It doesn’t occur to Victor that Kevin might be rescued and adopted by a Maasai medicine man, or that he might be expected to undergo the rituals expected of all new M…

The bell jar

Edition

Ed. 1

ISBN/ISSN

9780571226160

Collation

234 p. ; 20 cm

Series Title

-

Call Number

823 PLA t

The kamogawa food detectives

The Kamogawa Food Detectives is the first book in the bestselling, mouth-watering Japanese series for fans of Before the Coffee Gets Cold. What’s the one dish you’d do anything to taste just one more time? Down a quiet backstreet in Kyoto exists a very special restaurant. Run by Koishi Kamogawa and her father Nagare, the Kamogawa Diner serves up deliciously extravagant meals. But that…

Installation art as experience of self, in space and time

Installation art has modified our relationship to art for over fifty years by soliciting the whole body, demonstrating its sensitivity to space, surroundings, and the living beings with which it is constantly interacting. This book analyses this modification of perception through phenomenological approaches convoking Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, as well as Levinas, Depraz, and the neurosc…

Rapijali 2 : Menjadi

Jakarta tidak lagi menjadi penjara. Di ibu kota, Ping justru mulai mendapatkan gambaran tentang hidup yang ia inginkan. Ia memiliki sahabat-sahabat baru, impian baru, dan cinta yang baru. Namun, tantangan lebih besar turut menyingsing. Ajang Band Idola Indonesia menuntut Ping bekerja keras, termasuk menciptakan lagu. Band Rapijali yang menjadi sumber kebahagiaannya ikut menerbitkan beragam konf…