A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! • A READ WITH JENNA TODAY SHOW BOOK CLUB PICK • A heartbreaking, empowering, often hilarious debut memoir about a mother’s all-consuming love, a son’s perilous quest to discover the world beyond the front door and the unregulated homeschool system that impacts millions like him*A Top 10 Amazon Book of the Month Pick**A Washington Post Book to R...

"A dazzling novel about love, loss, and the mysteries of the mind" from the author of the Read With Jenna Book Club Pick Homeschooled (David Ebershoff, Bestselling author of The Danish Girl and The 19th Wife )."A breathtaking tale of tragedy and redemption . . . A triumph." — PeopleA...

Bliss, Texas. Alle 9.09 di sera del 15 novembre, durante il ballo della scuola, un ex alunno ventunenne, smilzo e pieno di tatuaggi, Hector Espina Junior, parcheggia il suo pick-up fuori dall’ingresso laterale ed entra nell’edificio con un fucile d’assalto comprato a una fiera di armi a Midland. Non si dirige in palestra dove i ragazzi stanno ballando e potrebbe fare una carneficina, bensì nell’aula sul retro, dov’è radunato il gruppo teatrale in attesa di salire sul palco. Hector non dice...

"An exquisitely moving novel of sorrow, love, and the miracle of human connections." Kamila Shamsie, author of Home FireOne warm night Oliver Loving joins his classmates at the annual school dance, hoping for a glimpse of the girl he's long been in love with. But as music fills the gymnasium and students timidly approach the dancefloor, a young man enters with a gun, leaving five people dead and Oliver in a coma.A decade later, Oliver remains in li...

A heartbreaking and empowering debut memoir about a mother’s all-consuming love, a son’s perilous quest to discover the world beyond the front door and the unregulated homeschool system that impacts millions like himStefan Merrill Block was nine when his mother pulled him from school, certain that his teachers were “stifling his creativity.” With no background in education and no formal training, she began to instruct Stefan in the family’s living room. Beyond his ...

From the critically acclaimed author of Oliver Loving and The Story of Forgetting is a short story about friendship, loss and growing up.______________________Life lesson: the most soothing salve available to the man who has recently torched his own face is a regular application of wickedness with a pretty girl.The choices we make can follow us, and when half of your face is torched you can't escape the pas...

Seth Walzer vive ad Austin nel Texas. È un ragazzino, anzi più che un semplice ragazzino: è il perfetto esemplare dell’adolescente troppo intelligente segnato dall’acne, dal sarcasmo nei confronti del mondo e dal panico nei confronti di ogni sorta di contatto umano. Passa così il tempo a fantasticare su tutto e a perdersi nelle sue divagazioni al punto tale da sentirsi un «maestro del nulla». Un giorno però la realtà irrompe improvvisa nella sua vita. A sua madre viene diagnosticata una ra...

The past is not past for Katharine Merrill. Even after two decades of volatile marriage, Katharine still believes she can have the life that she felt promised to her by those first exhilarating days with her husband, Frederick. For two months, just before Frederick left to fight in World War II, Katharine received his total attentiveness, his limitless charms, his astonishing range of intellect and wit. Over the years, however, as Frederick’s behavior and moods have darkened, Katharine has...

**"An expert performance by Michael Crouch highlights life-changing moments in a family...He transforms what has become a tragically familiar story into an intricate, nuanced puzzle about real people and real consequences." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winnerFrom Stefan Merrill Block, celebrated literary talent and author of The Story of Forgetting, comes a brilliant, propulsive audiobook about family, the traumas and secrets that test our deepest bonds, ...

In Stefan Merrill Block’s extraordinary debut, three narratives intertwine to create a story that is by turns funny, smart, introspective, and revelatory.Abel Haggard is an elderly hunchback who haunts the remnants of his family’s farm in the encroaching shadow of the Dallas suburbs, adrift in recollections of those he loved and lost long ago. As a young man, he believed himself to be “the one person too many”; now he is all that remains. Hundreds of miles to the south, in Austin, ...

Abel Haggard is an elderly hunchback who haunts the remnants of his family's farm in the encroaching shadow of the Dallas suburbs, adrift in recollections of those he loved and lost long ago. As a young man, he believed himself to be "the one person too many"; now he is all that remains. Hundreds of miles to the south, in Austin, Seth Waller is a teenage "Master of Nothingness"—a prime specimen of that gangly, pimple-rashed, too-smart breed of adolescent that vanishes in a puff of sarcasm ...