'Insightful and often hilarious . . . a dazzling head-trip of a novel' Nathan Hill, author of The NixWhen a once-promising young writer agrees to ghostwrite a famous physicist's memoir, his livelihood is already in jeopardy: plagued by debt, he's grown distant from his wife - a****successful AI designer - and is haunted by an overwhelming sense of dread he describes as 'The Mist'.Then, things get worse.The physicist...

When a once-promising young writer agrees to ghostwrite a famous physicist’s memoir, his livelihood is already in jeopardy: Plagued by debt, he’s grown distant from his wife and is haunted by an overwhelming sense of dread he describes as “The Mist.” Then, things get worse: The physicist vanishes, leaving everything in limbo, including our narrator’s sanity.**"Among the most accurate and insightful depictions of depression I’ve ever read." —Los Angeles Times

Einst als vielversprechender Schriftsteller gehandelt, scheiterte der junge Ich-Erzähler aufgrund einer hartnäckigen Schreibblockade an seinem zweiten Buch. Nun sitzt ihm sein Verlag im Nacken und fordert den Vorschuss zurück. Ohnehin verschuldet, muss er sich auf einen herausfordernden Deal einlassen: Um beim Verlag seine Schulden abzuarbeiten soll er die Biografie eines berühmten Physikers schreiben, der völlig von der Welt zurückgezogen lebt.Gebeutelt von seiner prekären Existen...

The Bones of FateThe story follows Eric as he finds himself thrust into a world of magic and monsters. Pushed by his own desires to correct the regrets of his past while struggling to use what fate has thrown in his lap."Eric's heart was pounding, there was a stream of sweat pouring down his face, his eyes were burning from the smoke pouring up the hill from the town below. The screams of the inhuman monsters outside the walls were deafening. He could feel the hairs on the ...

A mind-expanding, hypnotic novel about depression, psychedelics and, finally love.'It was a strange time. He felt like he was happy.It was strange because it wasn't so long ago that he was convinced the only way out of the depression that had crippled him since he was a child, was death.'But now, he is on a high-speed train travelling from Rome to Modena, a failed novelist on the tail of a famous physicist whose memoir he is ghostw...

Bloedstollende debuutroman over de schimmige diepten van de menselijke psyche'Een schitterende reis door de menselijke psyche en een enorm genot om te lezen.' Nathan Hill, auteur van De NixWanneer een jonge, getroebleerde schrijver alle contact verliest met de vermaarde natuurkundige – de Fysicus – van wie hij de memoires optekent, dreigt hij opnieuw in het zwarte gat te vallen waaruit het schrijversbestaan hem een uitweg bood. Zijn voorschot hee...

When a once-promising young writer agrees to ghostwrite a famous physicist’s memoir, his livelihood is already in jeopardy: Plagued by debt, he’s grown distant from his wife and is haunted by an overwhelming sense of dread he describes as “The Mist.” Then, things get worse: The physicist vanishes, leaving everything in limbo, including our narrator’s sanity.**"Among the most accurate and insightful depictions of depression I’ve ever read." —Los Angeles Times

"An eye-opening and haunting journey into the opioid epidemic ravaging West Virginia—the constantly-chased highs . . . the devastating overdoses." — BustleSelected for the National Poetry Series by Ada Limón, I Know Your Kind is a haunting, blistering debut collection about the American opioid epidemic and poverty in rural Appalachia.In West Virginia, fatal overdoses on opioids have spiked to three times the national average. In these poems,...

An unforgettable historical tale set in fifteenth-century England of a brilliant woman's defiance, courage, and ingenuity—from the author of The Locksmith's Daughter and The Chocolate Maker's Wife.1405: The daughter of a wealthy merchant, Anneke Sheldrake suddenly finds her family bankrupted when her father's ship is swept away at sea. Forced to find a way to provide for herself and her siblings, Anneke rejects an offer of marriage from a despised...

Grief and loss are fundamental aspects of the human experience. Narrative and Grief examines the desire to make sense out of the nonsensical by exploring specific stories of loss and grief, spanning from the loss of a parent, child, or partner, loss within larger family systems; and ambiguous and anticipatory loss to broader cultural aspects of grief. The autoethnographic essays in this book reflect on the unique and individual experiences of each contributor’s story. Simultaneously, these...

Winner of 2014 U.S. Gourmand Drinks Award • Taste 5,000 years of brewing history as a time-traveling homebrewer rediscovers and re-creates the great beers of the past.The Brewer’s Tale is a beer-filled journey into the past: the story of brewers gone by and one brave writer’s quest to bring them—and their ancient, forgotten beers—back to life, one taste at a time. This is the story of the world according to beer, a toast to flavors born of necessity and pl...

Through a multi-methodology approach, Principles and Methods of Social Research, Fourth Edition covers the latest research techniques and designs and guides readers toward the design and conduct of social research from the ground up. Applauded for its comprehensive coverage, the breadth and depth of content of this new edition is unparalleled.Explained with updated applied examples useful to the social, behavioral, educational, and organizational sciences, the methods desc...