A Quarantine Anthology From Tressie


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Take your mind off unsettling current events as you curl up with these scorching hot interracial romances. This anthology consists of five novels of love, lust, and a little bit of intrigue from bestselling interracial author Tressie Lockwood. Ice In His Veins, His Brother’s Keeper, & The Right One The Johansson Brothers were torn apart as boys. Now Brand Johansson wants to bring them back together. Arik is wary of bringing up old hurts. He’s made a life keeping his heart in a case of ice. Brand has no problem interfering in his brothers’ lives. But even Brand’s investigative skills are put to the test when no one is sure if Jack Miller is the third brother or an imposter. It takes three very special women to tame these proud, somewhat damaged, men. The Way Back & With His Touch Keon Kitson has lost his five year old son in a tragic accident, and he still loves his ex. There doesn’t seem to be any room in his life or heart for Shakita Chambers, especially when she looks nothing like his ideal woman. Mistaken identity lands abused Cabrina Barnes in the lap of Jamie Westgate. Recognizing chance has brought Jamie what he longed for most, he’s determined to protect Cabrina. Everyone thinks he’s crazy or just a little too jealous of his best friend’s happiness. Jamie doesn’t care what anyone says. He’s working on convincing the lady herself to be his forever.




Another Quarantine Anthology From Tressie: Interracial Romance


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Accepting His Name Ezio married Shakarri for an heir. Shakarri agreed to get out of debt. The contract states her obligation to please Ezio. He’s got a lot of demands, chief being Shakarri’s obedience. She’s beginning to think she made a big mistake. Ezio has taken over the payments for her debt, and he can just as easily give them back. Intimacy with Ezio is beyond Shakarri’s wildest imagination. Should she stay or should she run while she still has control of her own heart? Raising His Baby Sonya is keeping a secret from Romy. She’s raising his son. After an accident took Sonya’s half-sister’s life, Sonya is raising her nephew as her own. She takes a job working as Romy's assistant, but she's better at playing sports than wearing heels and running behind spoiled rich men. Romy discovers the truth. It's too bad no one told Sonya Romy hates scheming women, and worse that she finds him irresistible. Reaching His Heart Cason’s wild lifestyle caught up with him with a near fatal accident. No woman will ever look at him again. Solette has dealt with angry patients. She can get Cason up and walking again, even change his attitude. What she didn't count on was falling for him. Solette's faced abuse and cruelty. It looks like Cason is just another man who spouts hurtful words, but she sees his pain and wants to take it away. Cason has never been a hero, but when Solette needs his protection most, he'll be there. Involuntary Daddy Gabriel steers clear of kids after his heart was destroyed five years ago. His brother asks him to help out at his Daddy Day Care. Gabriel meets Neeka and her daughter. Neeka only wants to help her daughter overcome social anxiety. She refuses to get involved with a man who's arrogant and thinks only of himself and what he wants. Then she meets Gabriel. He's angry, outspoken, opinionated, mean, and smoking hot. Worse, he makes friends with Monnie then has the nerve to ask Neeka out. There can't be anything between them, but trouble comes knocking, and Neeka needs a stand-in daddy. Matching Tony Tony dreams of working in protective services. Chanise is an overweight image consultant with little confidence in choosing a man. As a favor for her friend, Chanise agrees to take Tony on as her bodyguard-in-training. Tony’s perfect—from his healthy eating and his skills in boxing to his hero complex. He’s everything Chanise should avoid if she wants to hold onto her heart. Tony lives in her house and drives her car. They eat together and sleep… Ten days—that's all she will allow him to train using her as the test client. Then he's out. **interracial romance, multicultural romance, clean romance, contemporary romance, baby romance, pregnancy romance, bwwm




Burn It Down!


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"A must-read, an antidote to powerlessness, a literary companion for the ages." –Michelle Tea, author of Against Memoir "Editors' Choice" –New York Times Book Review A comprehensive collection of feminist manifestos, chronicling rage and dreams from the nineteenth century to the present day A landmark collection spanning two centuries and four waves of feminist activism and writing, Burn It Down! is a testament to what is possible when women are driven to the edge. The manifesto—raging, demanding, quarreling and provocative—has always been central to feminism, and it’s the angry, brash feminism we need now. Collecting over seventy-five manifestos from around the world, Burn It Down! is a rallying cry and a call to action. Among this confrontational sisterhood, you’ll find the Dyke Manifesto by the Lesbian Avengers, The Ax Tampax Poem Feministo by the Bloodsisters Project, The Manifesto of Apocalyptic Witchcraft by Peter Grey, Simone de Beauvoir’s pro-abortion Manifesto of the 343, Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female by Frances M. Beal, and many more. Feminist academic and writer Breanne Fahs argues that we need manifestos in all their urgent rawness, for it is at the bleeding edge of rage and defiance that new ideas are born.




Voices from the Valley


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From FSGO x Logic: anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, providing a bird's-eye view of the industry In Voices from the Valley, the celebrated writers and Logic cofounders Moira Weigel and Ben Tarnoff take an unprecedented dive into the tech industry, conducting unfiltered, in-depth, anonymous interviews with tech workers at all levels, including a data scientist, a start-up founder, a cook who serves their lunch, and a PR wizard. In the process, Weigel and Tarnoff open the conversation about the tech industry at large, a conversation that has previously been dominated by the voices of CEOs. Deeply illuminating, revealing, and at times lurid, Voices from the Valley is a vital and comprehensive view of an industry that governs our lives. FSG Originals × Logic dissects the way technology functions in everyday lives. The titans of Silicon Valley, for all their utopian imaginings, never really had our best interests at heart: recent threats to democracy, truth, privacy, and safety, as a result of tech’s reckless pursuit of progress, have shown as much. We present an alternate story, one that delights in capturing technology in all its contradictions and innovation, across borders and socioeconomic divisions, from history through the future, beyond platitudes and PR hype, and past doom and gloom. Our collaboration features four brief but provocative forays into the tech industry’s many worlds, and aspires to incite fresh conversations about technology focused on nuanced and accessible explorations of the emerging tools that reorganize and redefine life today.




Anonymous Sex


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The 24 Hour Plays Viral Monologues


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Since 1995 The 24 Hour Plays have been responding to theatre in the moment. As the 2020 Coronavirus pandemic brought an end to live theatre in the USA and Europe, the company sprang to work to keep the arts alive. Bringing together some of America's most prolific writers for the stage and screen, this unique and contemporary book of monologues collates the responses in dramatic fashion, making for an anthology of work that is timely, moving, irreverent and at its best, transcendent. Featuring original monologues by writers such as David Lindsay-Abaire, Clare Barron, Hansol Jung, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Christoper Oscar Peña, Jesse Eisenberg and Monique Moses this is a rich collection that can be enjoyed by actors, writers and those looking for creative responses to the global COVID-19 crisis. With over 50 monologues from the first three weeks of the project, edited by Howard Sherman, this is an important collection that documents an unprecedented moment in history whilst also offering practical resource for actors and performers.




Love and Other Poems


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Alex Dimitrov’s third book, Love and Other Poems, is full of praise for the world we live in. Taking time as an overarching structure—specifically, the twelve months of the year—Dimitrov elevates the everyday, and speaks directly to the reader as if the poem were a phone call or a text message. From the personal to the cosmos, the moon to New York City, the speaker is convinced that love is “our best invention.” Dimitrov doesn’t resist joy, even in despair. These poems are curious about who we are as people and shamelessly interested in hope.




How Contagion Works


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The groundbreaking, moving essay on the coronavirus pandemic shared over 4 million times in Italy and published in 25 countries around the world-which lucidly explains how disease spreads and how our interconnectedness will save us. "Lucid, calm, informed, directly helpful in trying to think about where we are now... The literature of the time after begins here." --Evening Standard (UK) In this extraordinarily elegant work written from lockdown in Italy as the crisis deepened day to day, Paolo Giordano, the internationally bestselling writer of The Solitude of Prime Numbers with a PhD in physics, shows us what this outbreak really is about: human interconnectedness. Illuminating the big picture of how the disease spreads with great simplicity and mathematical insight and placing it in the context of other modern crises like climate change and xenophobia, Giordano reveals how battling the pandemic is ultimately about realizing how inextricably linked all our lives are and acting accordingly. Both timely and timeless, How Contagion Works is an accessible, deeply felt meditation on what it means to confront this pandemic both as individuals and as a community and empowers us not to show fear in the face of it.




Together in a Sudden Strangeness


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In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives. “One of the best books of poetry of the year . . . Quinn has accomplished something dizzying here: arranged a stellar cast of poets . . . It is what all anthologies must be: comprehensive, contradictory, stirring.” —The Millions **Featuring 107 poets, from A to Z—Julia Alvarez to Matthew Zapruder—with work in between by Jericho Brown, Billy Collins, Fanny Howe, Ada Limón, Sharon Olds, Tommy Orange, Claudia Rankine, Vijay Seshadri, and Jeffrey Yang** As the novel coronavirus and its devastating effects began to spread in the United States and around the world, Alice Quinn reached out to poets across the country to see if, and what, they were writing under quarantine. Moved and galvanized by the response, the onetime New Yorker poetry editor and recent former director of the Poetry Society of America began collecting the poems arriving in her inbox, assembling this various, intimate, and intricate portrait of our suddenly altered reality. In these pages, we find poets grieving for relatives they are separated from or recovering from illness themselves, attending to suddenly complicated household tasks or turning to literature for strength, considering the bravery of medical workers or working their own shifts at the hospital, and, as the Black Lives Matter movement has swept the globe, reflecting on the inequities in our society that amplify sorrow and demand our engagement. From fierce and resilient to wistful, darkly humorous, and emblematically reverent about the earth and the vulnerability of human beings in frightening times, the poems in this collection find the words to describe what can feel unspeakably difficult and strange, providing wisdom, companionship, and depths of feeling that enliven our spirits. A portion of the advance for this book was generously donated by Alice Quinn and the poets to Chefs for America, an organization helping feed communities in need across the country during the pandemic.




Stories from Quarantine


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"Previously published as The decameron project."