'THE BOOK OF THE SUMMER' Mick Herron FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NORTH WOODS'LYRICAL and JOYFUL'Sarah Jessica Parker'Told with WARMTH and WIT, Mason's prose shimmers in this immersive ode to stories, to the land, and its people' Lucy Steeds, author of The Artist'A CHARMING, FUNNY, EXHILARATING Vermont adventure'Clare Fuller, aut...

'THE BOOK OF THE SUMMER' Mick Herron FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NORTH WOODS'LYRICAL and JOYFUL'Sarah Jessica Parker'Told with WARMTH and WIT, Mason's prose shimmers in this immersive ode to stories, to the land, and its people' Lucy Steeds, author of The Artist'A CHARMING, FUNNY, EXHILARATING Vermont adventure'Clare Fuller, aut...

When they spoke of it in town, they called it simply the city, as if it was the only city in the world ...Raised in a remote village on the edge of a sugarcane plantation, Isabel was born with the gift and curse of 'seeing farther'. When drought and war grip their land, her beloved brother Isaias joins a great exodus to a teeming, labyrinthine city in the south. Soon the fourteen-year-old Isabel follows, forsaking the only home she's ever known, her sole consolation the thought of ...

A remarkable first novel by a young author who is also currently a medical student: the extraordinary adventure and delicate love story of a British piano tuner, sent deep into 19th Century Burma to repair a rare Erard Grand.In the murky haze of a London morning in 1886, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives a letter that presents to him a challenge certain to change his life forever. Accepting the post offered to him by the Burma and East India Division of Her Majesty's Army, he leaves...

Heartbreak hurts — but it doesn’t have to break you. Whether your breakup was sudden, expected, or long overdue, the emotional fallout can feel overwhelming. The racing thoughts. The sleepless nights. The fear of the future. The ache that won’t go away. If you’re here, you’re likely searching for something to hold onto — clarity, comfort, direction, or simply the feeling that you’re not alone.This book is that lifeline.Breakup Survival ...

From the bestselling, award-winning author of The Winter Soldier and The Piano Tuner comes a collection of interlacing tales of men and women as they face the mysteries and magic of the world.On a fated flight, a balloonist makes a discovery that changes her life forever. A telegraph operator finds an unexpected companion in the middle of the Amazon. A doctor is beset by seizures, in which he is possessed by a second, perhaps better, version of himself. And in Reg...

The 'spellbinding' American epic.'Truly outstanding' Mail on Sunday'This is a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic . . . The only constants are the land and Mason's genius' Washington Post'Daniel Mason's latest novel is one of those rare books that truly deserves the description "spellbinding" ' Observer'A tapestry at once intimate and epic' TLS...

'Part mystery, part war story, part romance, The Winter Soldier is a dream of a novel' Anthony Doerr, author of All The Light We Cannot SeeFrom the bestselling author of The Piano Tuner, comes Daniel Mason's The Winter Soldier, a story of love and medicine through the devastation of the First World War.Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a twenty-two-year-old medical student when World War One explodes across Europe. Enraptu...

As a teenage boy in the Sunshine State in the 1960s, Ron Tucker was living the good life. An avid surfer who excelled at all high school sports, including girls, Ron spent his days and nights living a young man's dream. But when he signed up for the draft in 1971, as expected, his life took a wide turn into the unknown future of a young soldier during the war in Vietnam.From his senior year in high school, his relationship with his high school sweetheart to graduation day, basic tr...

'Right here. Right now. Tell me: would you rather live, or just exist?'For a man intent on escaping his past, a chance meeting in Vietnam with an American journalist looks like the perfect way out, but it is just the beginning of an adrenaline and testosterone-fuelled plunge into a world of danger and desperate men.Dragged into a seedy underground where Russian roulette is an everyday rush and life is very, very cheap, he finds himself taking on the journalist's identity – ...

People of the Big Voice tells the visual history of Ho-Chunk families at the turn of the twentieth century and beyond as depicted through the lens of Black River Falls, Wisconsin studio photographer, Charles Van Schaick. The family relationships between those who “sat for the photographer” are clearly visible in these images—sisters, friends, families, young couples—who appear and reappear to fill in a chronicle spanning from 1879 to 1942. Also included are candid shots of Ho-Chun...

This open access book is the result of an expert panel convened by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Nature Sustainability. The panel tackled the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 head-on, with respect to the global systems that produce and distribute food. The panel’s rigorous synthesis and analysis of existing research leads compellingly to multiple actionable recommendations that, if adopted, would simultaneously lead to healthy and nut...