Language and Litterature

From the groundbreaking works of writers such as Audre Lorde and James Baldwin to contemporary voices like Ocean Vuong and Carmen Maria Machado, queer literature offers a powerful exploration of identity, love, desire and resilience. Queer voices and their stories reflect the struggles and triumphs of LGBTQ+ people while also serving as a beacon of hope and affirmation.

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Veuve Clicquot champagne epitomizes glamor and style, with tribute paid everywhere from Lord Byron to Casablanca. But who was this young widow - the 'Veuve' - Clicquot, whose champagne sparkled at the courts of France, Britain, and Russia, and how did she rise to celebrity and fortune? This book talks about widow Clicquot.

*An Observer Best New Biographies of 2024*

*Now in paperback!*

Celebrated NPR music critic Ann Powers explores the life and career of Joni Mitchell in a lyrical style as fascinating and ethereal as the songs of the artist herself.

The extraordinary inside story of LEGO, based on unprecedented access to the company's archives and rare interviews with the founding family that still owns the company

A National Book Foundations 5 Under 35 honoree delivers her first work of nonfiction: a compulsively readable, genre-bending story of finding her missing birth mother and, along the way, learning the priceless power of self-knowledge.

From Tiktok phenomenon Whitney Hanson, a revised edition of her bestselling Home, now with a new introduction and more than a dozen new poems

From the 2017 People's Choice Award winner for Favorite YouTube Star comes the perfect graduation gift for every aspiring bawse who's fought through it all and made it out the other side.

A love triangle plays out over decades on a Montana dude ranch. A hurdler and a gymnast spend a single night together in the Olympic village. Mistakes and mysteries weave an intangible web around an old man's deathbed in Paris, connecting disparate destinies. On the slopes of an unfinished ski resort, a young woman searches for her vanished lover. A couple's Romanian honeymoon goes om