National Book Award finalist and New York Times bestselling author Jean Thompson’s new collection of “bewitching improvisations on fairy tales” are “spellbinding” (Booklist, starred review).Capturing the magic and horror in everyday life, The Witch and Other Tales Re-told revisits beloved fables that represent our deepest, most primeval fears and satisfy our longings for good to triumph over evil (preferably in the most gruesome way possi...

In this warm and witty story, a young woman gets swept up in the rivalries and love affairs of a dramatic group of writers.Carla is stuck. In her twenties and working for a landscaper, she’s been told she’s on the wrong path by everyone—from her mom, who wants her to work at the hospital, to her boyfriend, who is dropping not-so-subtle hints that she should be doing something that matters.Then she is hired for a job at the home of Viridian, a lauded and lov...

Tracing the complicated friendship of two very different women who meet in college, She Poured Out Her Heart is a novel of remarkable psychological suspense, crafted by National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson.The night that Jane and Bonnie meet on a college campus sets them on paths forever entwined. Bonnie, the wild and experimental one, always up for anything, has spent the past two decades bouncing between ill-fated relationships, while Jane’s seemin...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Year We Left Home and A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl, this dazzling novel is hailed as an “instantly addictive...tale of yearning, paradox, and hope.” (Booklist)After surviving a horrific shooting at her high school, fifteen-year-old Linnea is packed off to live with her estranged father, Art, in California. Art, not much more than a child himself, doesn’t quite understand how or ...

In this warm and witty story, a young woman gets swept up in the rivalries and love affairs of a dramatic group of writers.Carla is stuck. In her twenties and working for a landscaper, she’s been told she’s on the wrong path by everyone—from her mom, who wants her to work at the hospital, to her boyfriend, who is dropping not-so-subtle hints that she should be doing something that matters.Then she is hired for a job at the home of Viridian, a lauded and lov...

Jean Thompson lives in San Antonio, Texas with her husband, two of her three children and five of her seven grandchildren. She loves bonding with her grandchildren, giving honorable mention to her newest addition, Maya Ann, to her Thompson Family village. She is a sister to Charles, James, Marie, Iris, Sandy, Gail and Mary who have supported and encouraged all of her dreams how far-fetched they may have sounded. She loves to read, organize, and decorate. She abhors cooking. She is learning...

Alexis grew up in a dysfunctional family controlled by alcohol, giving her a childhood filled with a navet that extended into adulthood and was noticeable by the people she met. They did not hesitate to add to the confusion Alexis was already experiencing in a life filled with physical, mental, and verbal abuse. The only event that gave her any peace was meeting the man of her dreams, who would never hurt a fly. Alexis vowed that one way or another she would help the many women victimized ...

From National Book Award finalist and the New York Timesbestselling author of The Year We Left Home comes a “powerful, beautifully crafted” (People) family saga about three generations of women who struggle to find freedom and happiness in their small Midwestern college town.A Cloud in the Shape of a Girl is a poignant novel about three generations of the Wise family—Evelyn, Laura, and Grace—as they hunt for contentment amid chao...

The Early Years Intervention Toolkit provides a range of ready-made activities to enable early years practitioners and health visitors to address observed difficulties in a child’s development prior to starting school. It includes a checklist of observed behaviours which links to a range of effective and engaging activities to support children’s development across the three prime foundational areas of learning: Communication and Language; Physical Development; and Personal, Social and Emot...

On se marie pour le meilleur et pour le pire. Deborah, jusque-là, n’a connu que le meilleur : une vie paisible dans une petite ville des États-Unis, deux enfants adorables, un mari aimant. Rien ne la préparait à la disparition brutale de celui-ci au lendemain de Noël. Absorbé par son travail et volontiers taiseux, Steve était aussi d’une fiabilité à toute épreuve. C’est du moins ce que pensait Deborah jusqu’à ce que le FBI frappe à sa porte et lui annonce que Steve pourrait être lié à une ...

The extended critical interview is especially flexible as a form, by turns tenacious and glancing, elliptical or sustained, combining argument and counter-argument, reflection, history and memoir with a freedom normally denied to its subjects in conventional writing formats. Lives on the Left brings together sixteen such interviews from New Left Review in a group portrait of intellectual engagement in the twentieth century and since.Four generations of intellectual...

Un étang. Une inondation. Un corps impossible à identifier qui remonte à la surface emballé dans une housse... Comment ne pas supposer qu'il s'agit du cadavre de Dara disparue trois années plus tôt ? Christine, sa demi-sœur, en a l'intime conviction. Au-delà de la raison. En dépit des lettres régulièrement reçues et signées par la disparue sans que jamais elle ne parle de retour. L'enquête reprend. Et avec elle les harcèlements dont Dara se disait la victime dans son journal intime. Des me...