A coming-of-age tale of dislocation and inherited trauma from the acclaimed young French Vietnamese novelistFrench Vietnamese writer Line Papin’s stunning English-language debut, The Girl Before Her offers a window onto the existential anguish of displacement as experienced by a child on the cusp of becoming a woman. Uprooted without explanation from the sunshine and chaos of Hà Nội at the age of ten, the narrator finds herself adrift in the unfamiliar, gr...

This concise and handy book offers practical guidance to orthopedic surgeons and residents willing to master knee arthroscopy techniques in their daily practice. Based on scientific evidence but also mirroring expert know-how and best practices, it equips readers with essential information, tips and tricks to avoid and prevent intraoperative minor and major complications.Clearly and uniformly written, and featuring a wealth of intraoperative pictures, the book guides readers step-b...

"This fascinating, massive, wide-ranging collection that editors Christopher K. Coffman and Daniel Lukes have gathered together into William T. Vollmann: A Critical Companion will soon be recognized as one of those rare critical books for which that egregiously overused term 'groundbreaking' is fully justified." —Larry McCaffery, from the preface of William T. Vollmann: A Critical CompanionThe essays in this collection make a case for regarding William T. Vollmann as the most ambit...

This study of a novel by William T. Vollmann offers a port of entry into his fiction. Like other titles from his planned «Seven Dreams» collection, The Rifles deconstructs the historical novel. Following in the steps of the nineteenth-century English explorer John Franklin, the contemporary American character Subzero risks his life in the Arctic, looking for a way to transcend the history of colonization and his personal limitations. He ventures out on the permafrost of his memory...

The tragic events of September 11 will never be forgotten, not only for the horror they wrought, but for the acts of bravery, generosity, and extraordinary courage. Cynicism was replaced by compassion and strangers reached out to one another for comfort and support. This touching tribute to those who lost their lives includes poems, prayers, children's drawings, and heartfelt exchanges drawn from the material posted on America Online, where millions of people gathered during the first week...

The Mancer Epic is the first of a nine-book epic series, entitled Soulstream. It is about ordinary teenagers who discover that they were worshiped and revered as gods in an earlier lifetime. Unlocking the mysteries of the universe, they race against time to save others like them from being hunted and killed by a secret society, OZONE, that wants them only to exist in mythology. Using uncanny powers from the Soulstream, which humans call Heaven, these characters, known as Mancers, prepare f...

The New Yorker, The Best Books of Poetry of 2016New York Times, Critics PickBoston Globe, Best Books listingMiami Herald, Best LGBTQ BooksSan Francisco Chronicle, Top 100 Books of the YearLibrary Journal, Best Books of 2016“There is a powerful emotional undertow to these poems that springs from...

**NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS’ CHOICE • A “boisterous and infectious debut novel” (The Guardian) about a group of friends and their immigrant families from Queens, New York—a tenderly observed, fiercely poetic love letter to a modern generation of brown girls.“An acute study of those tender moments of becoming, this is an ode to girlhood, inheritance, and the good trouble the body yields.”—Raven Leilani, author of Luster**FINALIST: The New Amer...

Named A Most Anticipated Book by: LitHub * Vulture * Time * A PW 2022 Holiday Gift PickOne of: Time's "100 Must-Read Books of 2022" * NPR's 2022 "Books We Love" Vulture's "10 Best Books of 2022"A Goodreads Readers Choice Award SemifinalistFrom acclaimed poet Franny Choi comes a speculative poetry collection for the ends of worlds—past, present, and future. Choi’s third book features poems about historical and impending apocalypses, alongside musings on our responsib...

WINNER OF THE 2018 QUEBEC WRITERS' FEDERATION CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY FIRST BOOK PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZEFINALIST FOR THE 2018 DANUTA GLEED LITERARY AWARDFINALIST FOR THE 2018 GOVERNOR GENERAL'S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTIONA GLOBE AND MAIL BEST BOOK OF 2018A QUILL & QUIRE BOOK OF THE YEARFantastical, m...

A weary resilience worker should know better than anyone: no one is safe when the world is always ending...At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

The Best Travel Writing 2011 is the eighth volume in the annual Travelers' Tales series launched in 2004 to celebrate the world's best travel writing - from Nobel Prize winners to emerging new writers. The points of view and perspectives are global, and themes encompass high adventure, spiritual growth, romance, hilarity and misadventure, service to humanity, and encounters with exotic cuisine. Sweat, suffer, and fall in love in Guyana, meet a traveler who conducts his ow...