{"title":"Books","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"heart-lamp","title":"Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the 2025 International Booker Prize\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Gregg Barios Book in Translation Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA monumental first collection in English from Banu Mushtaq: lawyer, activist, champion of Muslim women, and winner of India’s highest literary honors.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn the twelve stories of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-italic\"\u003eHeart Lamp\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India. Published originally in the Kannada language between 1990 and 2023, praised for their dry and gentle humor, these portraits of family and community tensions testify to Mushtaq’s years as a journalist and lawyer, in which she tirelessly championed women’s rights and protested all forms of caste and religious oppression. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWritten in a style at once witty, vivid, colloquial, moving and excoriating, it’s in her characters—the sparky children, the audacious grandmothers, the buffoonish maulvis and thug brothers, the oft-hapless husbands, and the mothers above all, surviving their feelings at great cost—that Mushtaq emerges as an astonishing writer and observer of human nature, building disconcerting emotional heights out of a rich spoken style. Her opus has garnered both censure from conservative quarters as well India’s most prestigious literary awards; this is a collection sure to be read for years to come.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"seekers coffee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54238371479836,"sku":null,"price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0823\/3022\/2876\/files\/IMG_1936.jpg?v=1782398080"},{"product_id":"the-war-of-art","title":"The War of Art by Steven Pressfield","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThink of The War of Art as tough love... for yourself.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eSince 2002, The War of Art has inspired people around the world to defeat \"Resistance\"; to recognize and knock down dream-blocking barriers and to silence the naysayers within us.Resistance kicks everyone's butt, and the desire to defeat it is equally as universal. The War of Art identifies the enemy that every one of us must face, outlines a battle plan to conquer this internal foe, then pinpoints just how to achieve the greatest success.Though it was written for writers, it has been embraced by business entrepreneurs, actors, dancers, painters, photographers, filmmakers, military service members and thousands of others around the world.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"As I closed The War of Art, I felt a surge of positive calm. I now know I can win this war. And if I can win, so can you.\" - From the foreword by Robert McKee, screenwriting guru\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e[The War of Art] aims to help readers channel creative energy, unlock potential and overcome the fears that stop us from reaching our fullest potential. With courage, following the right formula and working hard, the book proposes that passion can be turned into purpose.\" - Ellen Degeneres book pick\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Resistance is the voice in the back of our head telling us to back off, be careful, go slow, compromise. . . . [Steve Pressfield is] the godfather of the resistance, the five-star general in the war against fear.\" - Seth Godin\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A vital gem . . . a kick in the ass.\" - Esquire\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"I've never read a self help book that wasn't fatuous, obvious and unhelpful. Until The War of Art. It's amazingly cogent and smart on the psychology of creation. If I ever teach a writing course this would be one of the first books I'd assign, along with the letters of Flannery O'Connor.\" - Jay McInerney, author of Bright Lights, Big City and Brightness Falls\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"Yes, The War of Art is hell. But Steven Pressfield is our Clausewitz who shows how you too can battle against The Four Horsemen of The Apologetic: sloth, inertia, rationalization and procrastination. Shakespeare, Rembrandt and Beethoven all are proof of what you can do with talent and General Pressfield.\" - Frank Deford, author and NPR commentator\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"A marvelous help for anybody who has ever encountered the resistance of a blank page, an empty canvas or an unyielding musical scale.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003e- Stan Berenstein, co-creator of The Berenstein Bears\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"seekers coffee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54238441537820,"sku":null,"price":17.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0823\/3022\/2876\/files\/IMG_1934.jpg?v=1782398311"},{"product_id":"the-haunting-of-hajji-hotak","title":"The Haunting of Hajji Hotak by Jamil Jan Kochai","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFINALIST FOR THE 2022 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWINNER OF THE 2023 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE, AND THE 2023 O. HENRY PRIZE\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNAMED ONE OF THE NEW YORKER'S BEST BOOKS OF 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"An endlessly inventive and moving collection from a thrilling and capacious young talent.\" —Jess Walter, author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold a-text-italic\"\u003eBeautiful Ruins.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA luminous new collection of stories from a young writer who “has brought his culture’s rich history, mythology, and lyricism to American letters.” —Sandra Cisneros\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePen\/Hemingway finalist Jamil Jan Kochai breathes life into his contemporary Afghan characters, moving between modern-day Afghanistan and the Afghan diaspora in America. In these arresting stories verging on both comedy and tragedy, often starring young characters whose bravado is matched by their tenderness, Kochai once again captures “a singular, resonant voice, an American teenager raised by Old World Afghan storytellers.”*\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn “Playing Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain,\" a young man's video game experience turns into a surreal exploration on his own father's memories of war and occupation. Set in Kabul, \"Return to Sender\" follows two married doctors driven by guilt to leave the US and care for their fellow Afghans, even when their own son disappears. A college student in the US in \"Hungry Ricky Daddy\" starves himself in protest of Israeli violence against Palestine. 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First published in 1968, the collection was critically praised as one of the “best prose written in this country.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMore than perhaps any other book, this collection by one of the most distinctive prose stylists of our era captures the unique time and place of Joan Didion’s focus, exploring subjects such as John Wayne and Howard Hughes, growing up in California and the nature of good and evil in a Death Valley motel room, and, especially, the essence of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury, the heart of the counterculture. As Joyce Carol Oates remarked: “[Didion] has been an articulate witness to the most stubborn and intractable truths of our time, a memorable voice, partly eulogistic, partly despairing; always in control.”\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"seekers coffee","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54238508876060,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0823\/3022\/2876\/files\/IMG_1932.jpg?v=1782398538"},{"product_id":"poems-by-fady-joudah","title":"[...]: Poems by Fady Joudah","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFinalist for the 2024 National Book Award for Poetry\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eWinner of the 2024 Jackson Poetry Prize\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eA Reading the West Book Award Finalist\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan class=\"a-text-bold\"\u003eFrom one of our most acclaimed contemporary writers, an urgent and essential collection of poems illuminating the visionary presence of Palestinians.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFady Joudah’s powerful sixth collection of poems opens with, “I am unfinished business,” articulating the ongoing pathos of the Palestinian people. 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