Angie Thomas is now a household name, just three years after her first book, The Hate U Give, debuted at #1 on the New York Times bestseller YA list. The Hate U Give was longlisted for the National Book Award and subsequently made into a feature film. The author here returns to Garden Heights, the setting for 16-year-old Starr Carter's story in The Hate U Give, to tell the story of Starr's father, Maverick Carter, as a 17-year-old in Concrete Rose.
With an announced 500,000-copy first printing, Concrete Rose depicts Mav as the son of a former gang legend who's dealing for the King Lords in order to support his mom, who's working two jobs while his legendary father is incarcerated. But when Mav finds out he's about to become a father, he decides to go straight. He discovers it's not that easy to walk away.
"Askaripour closes the deal on the first page of this mesmerizing novel, executing a high wire act full of verve and dark, comic energy."
--Colson Whitehead, author of The Nickel Boys
"A hilarious, gleaming...
"A moving, earnest, and deeply-felt exploration of a unique family in all its joys and disappointments . . . an utter delight." --Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author of The Most Fun We Ever Had
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The author of The Professor and the Madman and The Perfectionists explores the notion of property--our proprietary relationship with the land--through human history, how it has shaped us and what it will mean for our future....
A 6-week Artist's Way Program from legendary author Julia Cameron
Cameron's fans will love this--Publishers Weekly
The newest book from beloved author Julia Cameron, The Listening Path is a transformational journey...
Hundreds of clever tips, solutions, and easy ways to elevate every day, from America's most trusted lifestyle authority, in one must-have handbook
Inside these pages Martha shares all her best good things--the original...
Set against a backdrop of nine decades of sweeping cultural change, Being Ram Dass shares this modern day luminary's journey from psychologist to renegade Harvard psychedelics researcher to beloved spiritual icon.
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An alien artifact turns a young girl into Death's adopted daughter in Remote Control, a thrilling sci-fi tale of community and female empowerment from Nebula and Hugo Award-winner Nnedi Okorafor
"She's the adopted...
The New York Times--and USA Today--bestselling author of The Only Woman in the Room returns with a thrilling reconstruction of one of the most notorious events in literary history: Agatha Christie's mysterious 11-day disappearance in 1926....
