They’re worlds apart…Can love bridge the gap?Paleontologist Meg Farrell’s real life is twelve hundred miles away from her hometown in the Colorado Rockies. But every time she returns to Bent Fork, she’s reminded how much of an outsider she still feels like—her whole family treats her as if she’s too fragile for ranch work. But neighboring rancher Joe Hawk sees not only how capable she is but how smart and kind she is, as well. When they res...

When new friendsBecome something more…Jayne Barrett has made the toughest but best decision of her life by dumping her lying groom before the I do’s. On her way home to Tyler, Colorado, she meets a charming, kind stranger at a rest stop and there’s an instant connection. But Jayne refuses to travel that road again. Once she hits Tyler though, she bumps into him! Alex Jespersen is there to connect with his shy five-year-old son. Bei...

The Pulitzer Prize-winning "landmark biography" of the towering 20th century intellectual, exploring the hidden struggles behind the formidable public face ( The New York Times).Named one of the Best Books of the Year by O Magazine , Milwaukee Journal Sentinel , and Seattle TimesFinalist for the Lambda Literary Award and PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award for BiographyNo writer is as emblematic of the American...

This new translation of Clarice Lispector's sensational first book tells the story of a middle class woman's life from childhood through an unhappy marriage and its dissolution to transcendence.Near to the Wild Heart, published in Rio de Janeiro in 1943, introduced Brazil to what one writer called “Hurricane Clarice”: a twenty-three-year-old girl who wrote her first book in a tiny rented room and then baptized it with a title taken from Joyce: “He was alone, unheeded, near to the w...

Lispector at her most philosophically radical.A meditation on the nature of life and time, Água Viva (1973) shows Lispector discovering a new means of writing about herself, more deeply transforming her individual experience into a universal poetry. In a body of work as emotionally powerful, formally innovative, and philosophically profound as Clarice Lispector’s, Água Viva stands out as a particular triumph.

Clarice Lispector’s best-selling masterpiece—“her finest book” (The Nation)—now in a special hardcover edition to celebrate the centenary of her birth, with an illuminating new afterword by her sonThe Hour of the Star, Clarice Lispector’s consummate final novel, may well be her masterpiece. Narrated by the cosmopolitan Rodrigo S.M., this brief, strange, and haunting tale is the story of Macabéa, one of life’s unfortunates. Living in the slums of R...

The world's top experts take readers to the very frontiers of brain scienceIncludes a chapter by 2014 Nobel laureates May-Britt Moser and Edvard MoserAn unprecedented look at the quest to unravel the mysteries of the human brain, The Future of the Brain takes readers to the absolute frontiers of science. Original essays by leading researchers such as Christof Koch, George Church, Olaf Sporns, and May-Britt and Edvard Moser describe the spectacular t...

Now in paperback, a romantic love story by the great Brazilian writerLóri, a primary school teacher, is isolated and nervous, comfortable with children but unable to connect to adults. When she meets Ulisses, a professor of philosophy, an opportunity opens: a chance to escape the shipwreck of introspection and embrace the love, including the sexual love, of a man. Her attempt, as Sheila Heti writes in her afterword, is not only “to love and to be loved,” but also “...

A masterwork of moral inquiry from one of the twentieth century’s greatest observers of power, guilt, and justiceIn A Train of Powder, Rebecca West—one of the great literary journalists of the twentieth century—brings her crystalline intelligence and unsparing moral vision to some of the most contentious trials of the postwar era. Part reportage, part meditation on justice and guilt, this extraordinary book traces the tangled threads of law, history, and h...

Lispector’s most shocking novel.The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispector’s mystical novel of 1964, concerns a well-to-do Rio sculptress, G.H., who enters her maid’s room, sees a cockroach crawling out of the wardrobe, and, panicking, slams the door —crushing the cockroach —and then watches it die. At the end of the novel, at the height of a spiritual crisis, comes the most famous and most genuinely shocking scene in Brazilian literature…Lispector wrote that...

This book is a go-to guide for all families seeking trustworthy information about the science and safety of vaccines. Paul A. Offit and Charlotte A. Moser—scientists and parents with decades of experience—equip readers with the facts they need to navigate vaccine decisions for the whole family, from babies to elders. In straightforward prose, they offer accessible and authoritative answers to today’s most common vaccine-related questions.Offit and Moser explain how vaccines work, h...

**A Washington Post Notable Book of 2023Plunged into a strange land at twenty-five, Benjamin Moser began an obsessive, decades-long study of the Dutch Masters to set his world right again.**Arriving as a young writer in an ancient Dutch town, Benjamin Moser found himself visiting—casually at first, and then more and more obsessively—the country’s great museums. Inside these old buildings, he discovered the remains of the Dutch Golden Age and began to unearth the st...