Akashic Books, Ltd. - Böcker

A gift book for parents that will have them laughing even as they cry.

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After her infant son is kidnapped, Beverley Cottrell's marriage fails. Could a mysterious, lurking boy be her son?

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Following the success of Dennis Lehane's best-selling Boston Noir , the Akashic Noir Series delves deeper into New England's underbelly.

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Ex-bodyguard D Hunter is swept into the City of Angels on a dark mission to find his mysterious grandfather's killer.

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Legendary Haitian author Depestre combines magic, fantasy, eroticism, and delirious humor to explore universal questions of race and sexuality.

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This memoir--the first release on best-selling author Ann Hood's Gracie Belle imprint--about the fathomless loss of a beloved child reveals how tragedy can transform us and make us more fully alive.

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A haunting, epic Caribbean love story, reminiscent of Garc'a M+rquez's Love in the Time of Cholera. "Captivating from the very first page."--Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Manhattan Beach anhattan Beach

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The third installment in Mansbach's internationally bestselling Go the F*ck to Sleep series addresses, with radical honesty, the family implosion that occurs when a second child arrives.

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Ngugi wa Thiong'o anchors this truly fascinating first East African installment in the Akashic Noir Series.

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A novel reminiscent of the works of Herman Koch and Rachel Cusk, in which a lesbian couple attempts to escape the secrets of their pasts. Shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize! "Shani Mootoo¿is one of the towering lesbian novelists of o...

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Supported by the African Poetry Book Fund, Prairie Schooner, and the Library of Congress, the previous volumes have been critically acclaimed, receiving glowing reviews in the New York Times, Poetry Society of America, Kenyon Review , the Washingt...

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Tampa Bay joins Miami in representing the (alleged) Sunshine State in the Noir Series arena. "At last, the popular Akashic Noir series has adopted the Tampa Bay area...The notion of elevating place to the status of a character in a story, a f...

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Editor Maaza Mengiste's debut novel, Beneath the Lion's Gaze, was published by Norton and was selected as a best book by several publications, including the Guardian and the Boston Globe. The novel was also a finalist for an NAACP Image Award and ...

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The long-awaited sequel to 2006's best-selling Miami Noir highlights an outstanding tradition of legendary writers exploring the dark side of paradise. "The 19 stories featured in the superb Miami Noir: The Classics are solidly entertaining a...

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Belgrade, with all of its historical complexity, joins Zagreb and Prague in representing the Eastern European dimension of the Akashic Noir Series.

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Accra joins Lagos, Nairobi, Marrakech, and Addis Ababa in representing the African continent in the Noir Series arena.

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This twelve-piece, limited-edition box set--an African Poetry Book Fund (APBF) project--features the work of eleven new African poets.

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