*A New York Times bestseller!*An urgently needed guide to help parents understand their teenagers' intense and often fraught emotional lives - and how to support them through this critical developmental stage - from the New York Times bestselling author of Untangled and Under PressureIn teenagers, powerful emotions come with the territory. And with so many of today's teens contending with academic pressu...

Leading clinical psychologist Lisa Damour identifies the seven key phases marking the journey from girlhood to womanhood, and offers practical advice for those raising teenage girls.We expect an enormous amount from our teenage girls in a world where they are bombarded with messages about how they should look, behave, succeed. Yet we also speak as though adolescence is a nightmare rollercoaster ride for both parent and child, to be endured rather than enjoyed....

A struggling young man makes a delivery to a free-spirited older woman who seems to have a strange, wet fetish. As they swan dive into intergenerational debauchery, our young protagonist learns that their pasts are more intertwined than they ever could have imagined.MILF's, ponds, cucumbers, watersports, cabins, joints, drawn-out descriptions--what else could a reader possibly need?

Though anxiety has risen among young people overall, recent research studies confirm that it has skyrocketed in girls since the turn of the century.So what's to blame? And how can we help these girls?In the engaging, anecdotal style and reassuring tone that won over thousands of readers of her bestseller Untangled, clinical psychologist Lisa Damour examining the science of stress and anxiety and the many facets of girls' l...

Raising a child stirs up powerful feelings - many of them intense, many of them uncomfortable, and all of them deeply human. Written for parents at every stage, from early days to empty nesting, The Emotional Lives of Parents unpacks the feelings parents rarely talk about openly - such as anger, envy and shame - with the same nuance and compassion that has made Dr Damour a trusted resource for families around the world.Drawing on decades of clinical practice and psychologi...

For anyone who likes their horror laced with a little dark humor and a lot of consequence.Nine stories. Nine kinds of dread.In the title story, a cook drafted to serve an ageless, immortal president discovers exactly what price is paid to keep power young — and decides to serve up a reckoning of his own. A quiet new kid at a Montreal high school hides a past far more dangerous than anyone around him suspects. A man who cheats his customers out of their deposits learns what ...

The bestselling French graphic novel about the wonders of quantum physicsJoin Bob the explorer and his dog Rick on a rip-roaring trip through the quantum universe as they meet Max Planck, Albert Einstein, Erwin Schrödinger and many other scientists who encourage them to uncover the mysteries of physics with the help of pancakes, cats, mice and all kinds of optical illusions. Marvellous fun and absolutely enthralling, Mysteries of the Quantum Universe is fu...

On the day my little girl made a girl, the temperature was 91 degrees at sunrise. The trailer home felt like the inside of a wolf's mouth. My girl skipped her bed-jumping, brushed her white teeth and started talking something like this . . .Ten-year-old Anna Bella and her hermetic mother Irene live in a decaying trailer on the edge of town. When interstate highway development threatens their home, Anna Bella brings to life a new girl from the mud in the trailer park. Toget...

It is well known that Einstein founded twentieth-century physics with his work on relativity and quanta, but what do we really know about these ground breaking ideas? How were they discovered? What should we retain today from the conceptual upheavals he initiated? Through a selection of concrete scenes taken from Einstein's life, the author offers

A smooth-talking professor seduces a desperate young student and takes him on a summer vacation to a secluded country home in the Alps. Our protagonist is subjected to a summer of debauchery and filth by the professor and his business colleagues until he learns a sinister secret that paints them in a new villainous light. This story takes the reader on a wild psychological journey through the lens of a young man figuring out his place in the world as he attempts to navigate his sexuality, ...

Into the LightBy: Elizabeth D'AmourAt the age of eighty-eight, Elizabeth D’Amour finally feels ready to explore her past. After a traumatic experience in her youth, D‘Amour’s siblings recall a different narrative entirely, even going so far as to call her a liar. A less violent tale was recorded in their family history, leaving her siblings to live their lives normally, with love and joy, while D’Amour suffered under the weight of the horrific truth. Now able to finally sha...

»You're cute, Pierre!«, he said to me, »we will be good friends!«, and just to prove that fact he put his hand on my bare thigh. By starting at a new school I certainly needed a few new friends too, Paul was a likely fellow and it would surely never be boring with him! He had been at the school for a year already and therefor was a good source of important information about life at the Spanking School, as he was calling the noble institution. And when he asked me, if I had been spanked lat...