Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You is the story of James Sveck, a sophisticated, vulnerable young man with a deep appreciation for the world and no idea how to live in it. James is eighteen, the child of divorced parents living in Manhattan. Articulate, sensitive, and cynical, he rejects all of the assumptions that govern the adult world around him–including the expectation that he will go to college in the fall. He would prefer to move to an old house in a small town somewhe...

The City of Your Final Destination is a touching, clever and wonderfully comic novel from Peter Cameron, n ow a major motion picture starring Anthony Hopkins, Laura Linney, and Charlotte Gainsbourg.Omar Razaghi posts a letter on September 13, 1995 that will change the course of his life forever. A doctoral student at the University of Kansas, he writes to the estate of the Latin American author Jules Gund, requesting permission to write Gu...

Outsiders complicate three friends reuniting in upstate New York on the anniversary of a friend's death in this "fascinating literary page-turner" ( Los Angeles Times )."A novel so moving that, on finishing it, we are convinced that something of importance has taken place. We feel deeply moved, and bereft." —Francine Prose, The Yale ReviewOn a midsummer weekend, in a coun...

Features forty-two blessings divided into three sections: 22 blessings for living the graces of the liturgical seasons, including: - Blessing to Prepare for Pentecost - Blessings for the Vigil of All Saints Day - Lenten Blessing to Help Carry Our Cross 12 blessings for spiritual growth, including: - A Pauline Blessing for Continued Conversion - Blessing for Mary's Maternal Mediation 9 blessings for special needs, including: - Blessing for Those Who Are Sick - Blessing in the Face of Fear W...

Totempole is Sanford Friedman’s radical coming-of-age novel, featuring Stephen Wolfe, a young Jewish boy growing up in New York City and its environs during the Depression and war years. In eight discrete chapters, which trace Stephen’s evolution from a two-year-old boy to a twenty-four-year-old man, Friedman describes with psychological acuity and great empathy Stephen’s intellectual, moral, and sexual maturation. Taught to abhor his body for the sake of his soul, Stephen finds s...

The Outward Room is a book about a young woman’s journey from madness to self-discovery. It created a sensation when it was first published in 1937, and has lost none of its immediacy or its power to move the reader.Having suffered a nervous breakdown after her brother’s death in a car accident, Harriet Demuth is committed to a mental hospital, but her doctor’s Freudian nostrums do little to make her well. Convinced that she and she alone can refashion her life, Harriet ma...

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY MARTIN SCORSESE, STARRING LEONARDO DICAPRIO AND JENNIFER LAWRENCEA Spectator and a Refinery29 Best Book of the Year"Like a Kafka story and a Wes Anderson movie combined."―LiteraryHubA couple find themselves at a fading, grand European hotel full of eccentric and sometimes unsettling patrons in this allegorical story that examines the si...

The Sixth Edition of this well-known and authoritative textbook provides comprehensive, up-to-date coverage of Adult Emergency Medicine. It is an invaluable guide for trainees and other health professionals, including nurse specialists and paramedics, offering concise and practical guidance based on the latest best practices and evidence-based guidelines. Originally published over 25 years ago this title has been regularly updated to keep up with current practice.All major topics encounter...

'Read this wonderfully entertaining book: a unique story of a unique life in the world of world cinema'Wes Anderson'Jim is as eloquent and elegant with words as with the camera . . . Read it and drink it in!'Helena Bonham CarterIn Solid Ivory, a carefully crafted mosaic of memories, portraits, and reflections, the Academy Award-winning filmmaker James Ivory tells stories from his rema...

This is the madcap rollicking black humoured tale of Sully Bupkis, prodigy, charity worker and good old Catholic boy. Everything is going bloody fantastic until tragedy strikes and his life spirals out of control. Sully becomes a barbarian, a down and out, working as a reckless bruiser for a loan shark. Sully drinks, snorts, shoots and smokes his way between maiming clients who owe money to his boss. In some crazy way he accepts his fate. It's a shit of a life but someone has to do it! Fiv...

This Encyclopedia provides a cutting-edge, up-to-date reference source on mineral and energy policies around the world. It offers information on GDP, population, investment scenarios and current environmental regulations in over one hundred thirty countries from 13 geographic regions around the world. It covers topics such as geo-conservation, deep mining technology as well as rare earth, green technology and international organizations that are actively involved in minerals and energy thr...

This leading text is essential reading for all those working in the paediatric emergency medicine setting who require concise, highly practical guidance that incorporates the latest best practice and evidence-based guidelines.The Textbook of Paediatric Emergency Medicine provides clear, concise and comprehensive information to support clinicians in what can be a challenging area to provide care. It not only covers diagnosis and management of all common presentations, but it also includes p...