**Shortlisted for Audiobook of the Year at the British Book Awards 2020.Winner of Best Audiobook (Fiction) at the New York Festival Radio Awards 2020.Read by Elisabeth Moss, star of the hit Channel 4 TV series.**** THE SUNDAY TIMES NO. 1 BESTSELLER **Discover the dystopian novel that started a phenomenon.Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Wat...

Ask Jenny your most complex interpersonal relationship questions. Go on, we dare you!High school junior Jenny Greenley is good at solving other people's problems . . . so good she's the school newspapers' anonymous advice columnist. But when nineteen-year-old screen sensation Luke Striker comes to Jen's small town to reserach a role, he creates havor that even levelheaded Jenny isn't sure she can repair . . . especially when he asks her, and not Jenny's Luke Striker-groupie best fr...

[Premières lignes] Le libéralisme est, avec son antonyme – le « communautarisme » dans ses différentes réalisations –, au cœur même des problématiques de la science politique, voire, dans l'opposition de ces deux « systèmes », constitutif de cette science elle-même : – au plan de la structuration du champ d'objet de cette science, l'opposition libéralisme/communautarisme désigne la question centrale de la relation entre les individus et les groupes « primaires », d'une part, et la collecti...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE JHALAK PRIZE 2024Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize 2023 for Nature Writing'Exquisite, luminous and quietly radical . . . utterly unique and refreshing' Lucy JonesWhere nothing grows, moss is the spark that triggers new life. Embarking on a journey though landscape, memory and recovery, Elizabeth-Jane Burnett explores this mysterious, ancient marvel of the plant world, meditati...

HE TRUSTS HIS LAWYER WITH HIS LIFE . . . HE SHOULDN'T. For fans of Steve Cavanagh, Linwood Barclay and Gillian McAllister, this is the latest novel from the master of the moral dilemma, Jack Jordan.'A masterclass in misdirection. Smart, stylish, taut and twisting. Conviction is Jack Jordan’s best yet' Chris Whitaker'You'll be swept away on a thrilling ride that starts from the very first page’ Janice Hallett‘Immersi...

你不能無盡地綻放，散發所有光華，卻不照顧會痛的地方。●《大地之下》作者羅伯特．麥克法倫推薦●《倫敦時報週日版》年度好書●ＢＢＣ《鄉間檔案》年度最佳自然寫作書籍苔蘚向來被視為如雜草無用，任人踩踏不覺，然而它們存在於人類生命的初始（美洲原住民拿來墊尿布），也存在於終結（日本作家小川洋子寫過一篇故事，描寫早夭嬰孩前往彼世的路上鋪滿苔蘚），既劃開生與死的邊界，也容納生與死共存。在詩人柏奈特眼中，苔蘚更是她與亡父的深厚連結。在與父親的一千次道別裡，苔類點燃的生之光彩，療癒了悲慟與失落折磨的身心。從英國的溼地到肯亞山區，柏奈特發掘苔蘚遭人忽略的活力與耀眼的美，賦予十二個滿富詩意的名字，融合詩、自然寫作、家族回憶，頌揚了植物界的先驅。【苔蘚的生命課】１／活在青苔時間，就能同時存在於許多時間範圍內；活在青苔空間，是一躍而至許多地方。２／泥炭苔曾在戰時用來處理傷口，青苔也曾被女人拿來做月經期間的吸收性生理用品。青苔什麼都看過，也有許多用處。在我們離...

This book is a fascinating exploration of mosses and lichens, celebrating the extraordinary biology, beauty and resilience of these unassuming organisms. Endowed with unique superpowers, from enduring desiccation to thriving in extreme habitats, mosses and lichens defy easy categorization. Mosses, integral to the plant kingdom, and lichens, a kingdom unto themselves, colonize a great variety of landscapes, from rainforests to deserts and urban pavements. Neglected in the past for their lac...

Expanding the scope of religious rhetoricOver the past twenty-five years, the intersection of rhetoric and religion has become one of the most dynamic areas of inquiry in rhetoric and writing studies. One of few volumes to include multiple traditions in one conversation, Rhetoric and Religion in the Twenty-First Century engages with religious discourses and issues that continue to shape public life in the United States.This collection of essays cen...

AN AUDIBLE 'BEST OF THE YEAR' SELECTIONThis is a neglected history. No attempt at a sweeping, definitive, exhaustive history of the world but something quieter, more intimate and particular, told by Annabelle Hirsch through her selection of 101 objects, and now brought thrillingly alive for you by a chorus of 101 remarkable women in this ground-breaking audio release.Open up this cabinet of curiosities and you’ll discover objects that have been highly estee...

Looking for a new cozy series? In the new edition of Cozy Case Files, Minotaur Books compiles the beginnings of seven charming cozy mysteries publishing in Fall 2022 for free for easy sampling.The sixteenth edition of Cozy Case Files features cozies by the following authors: Diane Kelly, Mindy Quigley, Korina Moss, Elizabeth Penney, M. C. Beaton with R. W. Green, Carolyn Haines, and Donna Andrews.Ready for your cozy-themed Fall va...

Hailed by The Boston Globe as "a gem," The Ruby Sunrise begins when a 1920s tomboy feverishly works to develop her latest invention - a little something called "television." Twenty-five years later, her daughter will stop at nothing to bring her mother's incredible story to life during TV's Golden Age. But will it get the truth it deserves? "A finely tuned portrait of television's early days. [Groff] has managed to skillfully blend past and present." (Providence Journal)An L.A. The...

It's time to turn the "man and his dog wandering through a dystopian world” trope on its head, and tell the stories about cats and their women - their badass women!Cat Ladies of the Apocalypse wanders through broken worlds with stories of survival, technology, magic, and sheer determination. But – like their cats – the authors frequently slipped out the upstairs window or knocked things off of countertops, and their stories are stronger for it.In these pages, cats help thei...