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Rose's plans for a normal, perfect life ended up anything but. Years after her husband's passing, Rose takes a job at a dude ranch, purely because of the revolving door of wanna-be cowboys that she knows are looking for the full cowboy experience, including a warm, willing, no-strings-attached woman warming their bunk at night. Only Rose didn't expect that it would be the ranch's owners who would claim her attentions instead.

Robin Coste Lewis’ electrifying collection is a triptych that begins and ends with lyric poems considering the roles desire and race play in the construction of the self. The central panel is the title poem, “Voyage of the Sable Venus”, a riveting narrative made up entirely of titles of artworks from ancient times to the present - titles that feature or in some way comment on the Black female figure in Western art.

When January James inherits half of a run-down ranch in a small town deep in the heart of Texas, the New York native has no idea that the land comes complete with two sexy but stubborn cowboys who have their own plans for the land. And for her.

Is she the one that got away? Or their dirty little secret? When her loyalties were tested, Val refused to tear two brothers apart. Instead, she ran from both hot cowboys one fateful night, ripping her own heart out to save theirs. She returns years later, a child in tow and a dead husband in her wake, just to find her loyalties torn once again. With Curt asking questions about who really fathered her child, and Gabe out to make sure she doesn’t get away from him again, Val must decide if she dares to tell them all the truth.

Every time March McIntyre runs into Beau Harris, the sexiest and most eligible bachelor in all of Nashville, it’s like he’s an entirely different person. When March stumbles upon his secret, she realizes that not only could it expose the insanely sexy music icon for who he really is, it could also rock the entire world of country music to its core. Or…maybe it could be her ticket to stardom instead.

Originally broadcast on Radio 4 in 2003-4, We’ve Been Here Before is the topical, satirical, historical panel game that aims to show beyond all doubt that there’s nothing new in the news. Hosted by award-winning comedian, broadcaster and Whose Line Is It Anyway? star Clive Anderson, it takes a wry, witty look at long-gone days through a present-day lens, as the panellists battle it out to discover who’s got the best memory for detail when it comes to raking up the past.

In Alexandra Kleeman's second book, a collection of 12 stories irresistibly seductive in their strangeness, she explores human life from beginning to end: the distress of birth into a world already formed; the brief and confusing period of "living" where we understand what is expected of us and struggle to do it; and the death-y period toward the end where we sense it is ending and will end only partially understood, at best.

Twenty-five years ago, after her maternal grandmother’s death, Robin Coste Lewis discovered a stunning collection of photographs in an old suitcase under her bed, filled with everything from sepia tintypes to Technicolor Polaroids. Lewis’s family had survived one of the largest migrations in human history, when six million Americans fled the South, attempting to escape from white supremacy and white terrorism. But these photographs of daily twentieth-century Black life revealed a concealed, interior history.

A collection of 15 crime fiction short stories in print., some of them award-winners, by author Libby Fischer Hellmann. The collection is divided into two parts: The Ellie Foreman/Georgia Davis stories and Chicago Then and Now; Other Places, Other Times.