For fans of Celeste Ng and Mary Beth Keane comes an impeccably paced and transfixing debut novel that “vividly renders the messiness of a single human life in all its joy and heartbreak” (Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author).It’s 5 p.m. on a Wednesday when Emma settles into her hometown bar with a motley crew of locals, all unaware that a series of decisions over the course of a single night is about to chan...

"A smart, irreverent secret history." —Stewart O'Nan **"Taut, gripping…I didn't want to put it down." *—*Claire Lombardo ** "****Heart-grabbing, page-turning… An unforgettable novel."––Chelsea BiekerIn this thrilling novel, a high-school senior investigates the death of a star hockey player at her elite Jesuit school, where she discovers the rot at the heart of the institution—and the truth...

For fans of Celeste Ng comes a transfixing debut novel about how life’s small decisions can ultimately yield the most powerful consequences.Everyone always wants to know why relationships fail. It’s a spiteful curiosity thing, schadenfreude, but also a self-preservation thing. People want to understand how to avoid the fall.The answer is complicated. There isn’t one reason, one event. It has something to do with smoking cigarettes and drinking ...

This book addresses the widespread demand for an organism-centred approach to places that are consistent with psychological, emotional and social needs, based on a transdisciplinary confluence of behavioural neuroscience, interior architecture and spatial design. Ordinary perception is multisensory and based on automatic, spontaneous and often obligatory mental processes. If the design manages multisensory signals so that they are coherent, the brain automatically associates and processes ...

"A smart, irreverent secret history." —Stewart O'Nan **"Taut, gripping…I didn't want to put it down." *—*Claire Lombardo ** "****Heart-grabbing, page-turning… An unforgettable novel."––Chelsea BiekerIn this thrilling novel, a high-school senior investigates the death of a star hockey player at her elite Jesuit school, where she discovers the rot at the heart of the institution—and the truth...

For fans of Celeste Ng and Mary Beth Keane comes an impeccably paced and transfixing debut novel that “vividly renders the messiness of a single human life in all its joy and heartbreak” (Claire Lombardo, New York Times bestselling author).It’s 5 p.m. on a Wednesday when Emma settles into her hometown bar with a motley crew of locals, all unaware that a series of decisions over the course of a single night is about to chan...

For fans of Celeste Ng comes a transfixing debut novel about how life’s small decisions can ultimately yield the most powerful consequences.Everyone always wants to know why relationships fail. It’s a spiteful curiosity thing, schadenfreude, but also a self-preservation thing. People want to understand how to avoid the fall.The answer is complicated. There isn’t one reason, one event. It has something to do with smoking cigarettes and drinking ...

A nine-year-old boy, Alan, guides us through numerous adventures in art, together with his best friend, Eidola, a girl sprite who lives behind his belly-button.In this imaginary journey, Alan and Eidola follow a young explorer who is short of ideas through the woods of Mount Parnassus.Amid pitfalls and snares, pleasant encounters - and some less pleasant – they finally reach the very top… and… wait and see what happens! Follow Alan and Eidola!So, make yourself comfo...

The contributions of this book examine contemporary dynamics of migration and mobility in the context of the general societal transformations that have taken place in Europe over the past few decades. The book will help readers to better understand the manifold ways in which migration trends in the region are linked to changing political-economic constellations, orders of power and inequality, and political discourses. It begins with an introduction to a number of theoretical approaches th...

**The 10th Winner of the 2019 PEN/Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, Awarded by Barbara Kingsolver“What a read this is, right from its startling opening scene. But even more than plot, it’s the richly layered details that drive home a lightning bolt of empathy. To read At the Edge of the Haight is to live inside the everyday terror and longings of a world that most of us manage not to see, even if we walk past it on sidewalks every day. At a time when more Amer...

A mesmerizing, “fiery page-turner” (Entertainment Weekly) about a teenage boy on summer vacation who makes an irrevocable mistake and becomes trapped in a spiral of guilt and desire—in the tradition of Alice McDermott’s That Night and E. Lockhart’s We Were Liars.Oscar is dead because I watched him die and did nothing.Seventeen-year-old Leo is sitting in an empty playground at night, liste...

**When a young woman leaves her family to join a secret off-the-grid community headed by an enigmatic leader, she discovers that belonging comes with a deadly cost, in this “stunning debut,” (The New Yorker) “perfect for fans of Philip Roth’s American Pastoral and the film Martha Marcy May Marlene” (Booklist, starred review).At nineteen, Berie encounters a seductive and mysterious man at a bus station near her home in North Caro...