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<i><b>The morning after a white man murdered six Asian women, I ate five oranges. They were not dainty tangerines or pretty satsumas or festive clementines. These were unwieldy, bulging oranges, pock-marked and rind-covered fistfuls of flesh. I ate them all until my body ached. </b></i><br/><br/>The orange we know, waxed in vats, gathered in red netting and stacked in supermarket displays, is not the same orange that grew from the first straggling orange grove that took root on the Tibetan plateau, part pomelo and part mandarin. The orange is a souvenir of history. Across time, it has been a harbinger of God and doom, fortune and failure, pleasure and suffering. It is a fruit containing metaphors, dreams, mythologies, superstitions, parables and histories within its tough rind. So, what happens when the fruit is peeled and each segment - each moment of history, each meaning in time - is pulled apart?<br/><br/>In this distinct, subversive and intimate hybrid memoir, Katie Goh explores the orange as a means of understanding the world, and herself within it. What she finds is a world of violence, colonialism, resilience, survival, adaptation - and of unexpected beauty and sweetness against all odds. The orange's odyssey parallels Katie's search for her own heritage and, drawing on her family history as well as extensive travel and research, she follows it from east-to-west and west-to-east - from Longyan, China, to the Malaysian capital of Kuala Lumpur and the groves of California. <br/><br/><i>Foreign Fruit </i>dissolves the boundaries between social history, self and object. It reminds us that sometimes the humblest object can be capable of changing our lives and highlights our responsibility for the ways in which we tell history. Above all, <i>Foreign Fruit </i>shows how we all change over time - migrating, diversifying, integrating and branching out - to remind us of our shared roots.

<b><i>The Woman in Me</i></b><b> is a brave and astonishingly moving story about freedom, fame, motherhood, survival, faith, and hope.</b><br/><br/> In June 2021, the whole world was listening as Britney Spears spoke in open court. The impact of sharing her voice-her truth-was undeniable, and it changed the course of her life and the lives of countless others.<i> The Woman in Me</i> reveals for the first time her incredible journey-and the strength at the core of one of the greatest performers in pop music history.<br/> <br/> Written with remarkable candor and humor, Spears's groundbreaking book illuminates the enduring power of music and love-and the importance of a woman telling her own story, on her own terms, at last.

Paedyn Gray and Kai Azer return to the Kingdom of Ilya... ? ? And Paedyn has a life-altering choice to make. Whatever she decides will determine her fate - and the fate of those around her - forever. ? ? In the ultimate battle of love and loyalty, who wins?

<b>Wednesday Addams stars in this delightfully ghoulish Little Golden Book based on the hit Netflix series Wednesday! </b><br/><br/><b></b>The ghoulish Netflix hit series Wednesday is about a sleuthing, supernaturally infused mystery charting Wednesday Addams' years as a student at Nevermore Academy. Featuring hauntingly beautiful illustrations, this Little Golden book is perfect for children ages 2 to 5 and Wednesday fans of all ages.

The long-awaited new novel from Haruki Murakami, his first in six years, revisits a Town his readers will remember, a place where a Dream Reader reviews dreams and where our shadows become untethered from ourselves.

<p style="margin:0px 0px 11px;"><span lang="EN-US" style="margin:0px;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;">Join Kerstin Wickman, writer and professor of Design & Crafts History, as she explores the national and international success of the A&E DESIGN studio, from its start in the 1960s until its 50-year jubilee today. The story aboutTom Ahlström and Hans Ehrich, the company they built, their customers in Sweden and abroad, is also the story of the development of modern Sweden and Swedish industrial design.<span style="margin:0px;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;"> <span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;">All richly illustrated with a variety of beautiful, innovative and technically smart design objects from A&E DESIGN's abundant production.<span style="margin:0px;"><span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;"> <span style="font-family:Calibri;font-size:medium;">Preferably in plastic.</u></u></u></u></u></u></u></u><span style="font-size:medium;"></u>

A renowned scholar of the English language, Tolkien is today celebrated as the father of the high fantasy genre. Drawing on his knowledge of languages, mythology and legend, he created an entire alternative reality, Middle Earth, and populated it with hobbits, orcs, ents, dragons, magicians and giant spiders.<br/><br/>Packed with fascinating facts about Tolkien's life and labours, this delightful volume includes extracts from his works, letters and interviews, as well as from his contemporaries and admirers. It's a celebration of the writer whose imagination and creative genius changed the course of fantasy literature.<br/><br/><b>'I would rather spend one lifetime with you, than face all the ages of this world alone.'</b> <br/><i>The Fellowship of the Ring (1954)</i><br/><br/><b>'I am in fact a Hobbit (in all but size). I like gardens, trees and unmechanized farmlands; I smoke a pipe, and like good plain food (unrefrigerated), but detest French cooking...'</b> <br/><i>Tolkien in a letter to Deborah Webster, 25 October 1958</i><br/><br/><b>In July 1915, Tolkien took part in the Somme offensive, the bloodiest battle of the Great War. While recovering in hospital from trench fever, he wrote his first Elvish word list, as well as the first fragments of what would become <i>The Silmarillion</i>.</b><br/><br/><b>The inspiration for <i>The Hobbit</i> came to Tolkien unexpectedly in the summer of 1930, while he was working his way through a huge stack of student essays. On a blank page he found himself scrawling, 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit.'</b>