-Titulo Original : Deja Dead 10th Anniversary Edition (1) (a Temperance Brennan Novel)-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: From the New York Times bestselling author of Speaking in Bones, the first Temperance Brennan novel in the “cleverly plotted and expertly maintained series” (The New York Times Book Review). Her life is devoted to justice-even for those she never knew. In the year since Temperance Brennan left behind a shaky marriage in North Carolina, work has often preempted her weekend plans to explore Quebec. When a female corpse is discovered meticulously dismembered and stashed in trash bags, Temperance detects an alarming pattern-and she plunges into a harrowing search for a killer. But her investigation is about to place those closest to her-her best friend and her own daughter-in mortal danger… “A genius at building suspense” ( Daily News, New York), Kathy Reichs’s Temperance Brennan books are ripe with intricate settings and memorable characters” ( Milwaukee Journal Sentinel). Review Accomplished and chilling. -- People Kathy Reichs knows how to put all [of her] exotic experience into a novel....Quebecs own Southern gal give[s] Cornwell a run for the money. -- Margaret Cannon, Globe and Mail What makes Deja Dead so compelling, in addition to the authoritative descriptions of how a forensic scientist reads the story the bones tell, is the character of Brennan -- smart, persistent, gutsy, ironic yet vulnerable. -- Judy Stoffman, Toronto Star About the Author Kathy Reichs’s first novel Deja Dead, published in 1997, won the Ellis Award for Best First Novel and was an international bestseller. Cold, Cold Bones is Kathy’s twenty-first entry in her series featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan. Kathy was also a producer of Fox Television’s longest running scripted drama, Bones, which was based on her work and her novels. One of very few forensic anthropologists certified by the American Board of Forensic Anthropology, Kathy divides her time between Charlotte, North Carolina, and Montreal, Quebec. Visit her at KathyReichs or follow her on Twitter @KathyReichs....

-Titulo Original : Brat Farrar-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: In this tale of mystery and suspense, a stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the familys sizable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patricks mannerisms, appearance, and every significant detail of Patricks early life, up to his thirteenth year when he disappeared and was thought to have drowned himself. It seems as if Brat is going to pull off this most incredible deception until old secrets emerge that jeopardize the imposters plan and his life. Culminating in a final terrible moment when all is revealed, Brat Farrar is a precarious adventure that grips the reader early and firmly and then holds on until the explosive conclusion. Review Brat Farrar has been carefully coached to assume the identity of Patrick Ashby, heir to the Ashby fortune who disappeared when he was 13. Just when it seems that Brat will pull off the deception, he discovers the truth about Patricks disappearance, a dark secret that threatens to tear apart the family and jeopardize Brats carefully laid plans. Called the best of its kind by the New Yorker, Josephine Teys classic is a tale of unrelenting suspense and tension. From the Back Cover In this tale of mystery and suspense, a stranger enters the inner sanctum of the Ashby family posing as Patrick Ashby, the heir to the familys sizable fortune. The stranger, Brat Farrar, has been carefully coached on Patricks mannerisms, appearance, and every significant detail of Patricks early life, up to his thirteenth year when he disappeared and was thought to have drowned himself. It seems as if Brat is going to pull off this most incredible deception until old secrets emerge that jeopardize the imposters plan and his life. About the Author Josephine Tey began writing full-time after the successful publication of her first novel, The Man in the Queue (1929), which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. She died in 1952, leaving her entire estate to the National Trust...

-Titulo Original : The Singing Sands-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: Bestselling author Josephine Tey’s classic final mystery featuring her best-loved character, Inspector Alan Grant, filled with “all the Tey magic and delight” and now featuring a new introduction by Robert Barnard. On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old school chum to recover from overwork and mental fatigue. Traveling on the night train to Scotland, however, Grant stumbles upon a dead man and a cryptic poem about “the stones that walk” and “the singing sand,” which send him off on a fascinating search into the verse’s meaning and the identity of the deceased. Grant needs just this sort of casual inquiry to quiet his jangling nerves, despite his doctor’s orders. But what begins as a leisurely pastime eventually turns into a full-blown investigation that leads Grant to discover not only the key to the poem but the truth about a most diabolical murder. Review “Beautifully written and insistently readable.” The New York Times From the Back Cover On sick leave from Scotland Yard, Inspector Alan Grant is planning a quiet holiday with an old school chum to recover from overwork and mental fatigue. Traveling on the night train to Scotland, however, Grant stumbles upon a dead man and a cryptic poem about the stones that walk and the singing sand, which send him off on a fascinating search into the verses meaning and the identity of the deceased. Despite his doctors orders, Grant needs just this sort of casual inquiry to quiet his jangling nerves. But what begins as a leisurely pastime eventually turns into a full-blown investigation that leads Grant to discover not only the key to the poem but the truth about a most diabolical murder. About the Author Josephine Tey began writing full-time after the successful publication of her first novel, The Man in the Queue (1929), which introduced Inspector Grant of Scotland Yard. She died in 1952, leaving her entire estate to the National Trust. Robert Barnard (1936-2013) was awarded the Malice Domestic Award for Lifetime Achievement and the Nero Wolfe Award, as well as the Agatha and Macavity awards. An eight-time Edgar nominee, he was a member of Britains distinguished Detection Club, and, in May 2003, he received the Cartier Diamond Dagger Award for lifetime achievement in mystery writing. His most recent novel, Charitable Body, was published by Scribner in 2012...

-Titulo Original : The Franchise Affair-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: Robert Blair was about to knock off from a slow day at his law firm when the phone rang. It was Marion Sharpe on the line, a local woman of quiet disposition who lived with her mother at their decrepit country house, The Franchise. It appeared that she was in some serious trouble: Miss Sharpe and her mother were accused of brutally kidnapping a demure young woman named Betty Kane. Miss Kanes claims seemed highly unlikely, even to Inspector Alan Grant of Scotland Yard, until she described her prison -- the attic room with its cracked window, the kitchen, and the old trunks -- which sounded remarkably like The Franchise. Yet Marion Sharpe claimed the Kane girl had never been there, let alone been held captive for an entire month! Not believing Betty Kanes story, Solicitor Blair takes up the case and, in a dazzling feat of amateur detective work, solves the unbelievable mystery that stumped even Inspector Grant. Review Though Josephine Tey is not, perhaps, as well known as Agatha Christie, her contribution to the Golden Age of mysteries is unquestioned. In contrast to Christie, Tey rejected formulas and long-running series in favor of experimentation with new settings and odd conjunctions of character and subject matter. Her historical tale The Daughter of Time is frequently cited as one of the greatest mysteries of all time. The Franchise Affair resembles some of the best work of Poe in its introduction of an apparently inhuman evil in an otherwise sedate country setting. Robert Blair, a lawyer who prides himself on his ability to avoid work of any significance, is interrupted one evening by a phone call from Marion Sharpe. Ms. Sharpe and her mother live in a run-down estate known as the Franchise, and their lives drew little attention until Betty Kane charged them with an unthinkable crime. Ms. Kane, having disappeared for a month, now says that she was held captive in the attic of the Franchise during her entire absence. While her story seems absurd, her recollection of minute details about the interior of the house sway even Scotland Yard. Blair--who Ms. Sharpe has chosen for her defense because, as she says, he is someone of my own sort--must dust off his neurons and undertake some serious sleuthing if his client is to beat these serious charges. As with all fine mysteries, one has the sense of being in a sea of clues with a solution just out of reach. The Franchise Affair is a classic mystery, and also a superb record of country life in early twentieth century England. --Patrick OKelley Review Los Angeles Times First-rate mystery, ably plotted and beautifully written. The New York Times Permanent classics in the detective field...no superlatives are adequate. About the Author Josephine Tey is considered one of the greatest mystery writers of all time. She died in 1952...

-Titulo Original : The Bone Code (temperance Brennan)-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twentieth gripping novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examinations, fifteen years apart, of unidentified bodies ignite a terrifying series of events. On the way to hurricane-ravaged Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, Tempe receives a call from the Charleston coroner. The storm has tossed ashore a medical waste container. Inside are two decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic sheeting and bound with electrical wire. Tempe recognizes many details as identical to those of an unsolved case she handled in Quebec years earlier. With a growing sense of foreboding, she travels to Montreal to gather evidence. Meanwhile, health authorities in South Carolina become increasingly alarmed as a human flesh-eating contagion spreads. So focused is Tempe on identifying the container victims that, initially, she doesn’t register how their murders and the pestilence may be related. But she does recognize one unsettling fact. Someone is protecting a dark secret-and is willing to do anything to keep it hidden. An absorbing look at the sinister uses to which genetics can be put, and featuring a cascade of ever-more-shocking revelations, The Bone Code is Temperance Brennan’s most astonishing case yet-one that gives new meaning to today’s headlines. Review “This is, I think, the best of all of Reichs’s Temperance Brennan novels and, despite its lush location on South Carolina’s beautiful Isle of Palms, it’s a scary, wary book. . . . Genetics plays a role in this story and it’s gripping, with enough real science (as always with Reichs) to keep the plot from drifting. Save it for the weekend you have nothing to do but read.” - The Globe and Mail “I await the next Kathy Reichs thriller with the same anticipation I have for the new Lee Child or Patricia Cornwell. The Bone Code over-achieves. Temperance Brennan uses all her skills as a forensic anthropologist to solve a murder mystery story that races across America at the speed of fright.” - JAMES PATTERSON, bestselling author of the Alex Cross series “A brilliant entry in a ground-breaking series and does Temperance Brennan proud. The story has all the elements we’ve come to expect-it’s smart, gripping, and builds to a heart-stopping crescendo. More than twenty years ago, these wonderful novels began paving the way for other writers, especially Canadians like me, to be noticed. I owe Kathy and Tempe a debt of gratitude, not just for helping to make my own writing life possible but for hours of white-knuckle reading.” - LOUISE PENNY, #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Devils Are Here “Reichs is expert at making science both scary and thrilling, and she’s in top form in The Bone Code. The story moves at such a relentless pace I couldn’t stop turning the pages!” - TESS GERRITSEN, New York Times bestselling author of Choose Me “Over the course of twenty books, Kathy Reichs and Tempe Brennan have thrilled readers with pacey, mazey tales grounded in real science, with plots springing from the author’s prodigious knowledge and passion for truth and justice. We readers are truly grateful-and looking forward to the next twenty!” - IAN RANKIN, New York Times bestselling author of the Inspector Rebus novels “Reichs brings her forensic knowledge and prodigious storytelling to a cross-border story that weaves in genetics and the strange spread of a human flesh-eating disease. Compelling stuff.” - Toronto Star “Terrific, right up there with Reichs’ best. There’s plenty here to keep us hooked. Reichs paints her characters so brilliantly, even the minor ones, and she knows her disparate cultures so intricately.” - Winnipeg Free Press “Readers have come to expect certain things from a Brennan novel: a strong protagonist, a cast of well-drawn supporting characters, an intriguing mystery, a surprising resolution, and at ...

-Titulo Original : Food Can Fix It The Superfood Switch To Fight Fat, Defy Aging, And Eat Your Way Healthy-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: Mehmet Oz, MD, America’s #1 authority on health and well-being, explains how to harness the healing power of food in this “informative, accessible book filled with anecdotes, science, recipes, and guidelines for cooking, shopping, and eating out” (Dan Buettner, author of The Blue Zone Solution: Eating and Living Like the World’s Healthiest People). What if there were a prescription that could slim, energize, and protect your body from major health risks? What if there were a remedy for everything from fatigue to stress to chronic pain? There is. In his groundbreaking new book, Dr. Oz introduces you to this wonder Rx-simple, healing, wholesome food. And he teaches readers how to shop healthy, cook healthy, and eat their way to a longer, healthier life. Food Can Fix It lays out an easy-to-follow plan for harnessing the power of nutrition. With clear information and a meal plan full of superfoods, Dr. Oz explains how to kick-start weight loss, improve your energy, decrease inflammation, and prevent or alleviate a host of other common conditions-all without medication. This nutritional blueprint is backed up by thorough research and enriched with stories from Dr. Oz’s personal history, his family life, and his transformative work with patients. The 21-Day Weight-Loss Jumpstart Plan provides quick, delicious recipes for meals and snacks that will help reverse damage caused by poor eating habits. And full-color photographs show you just how tempting good-for-you food can be. Get started today on a healthy path for life with Food Can Fix It. Food Can Fix It F.I.X.E.S: Fats with Benefits Ideal Proteins Xtra Fruits and Veggies Energizing Carbohydrates Special-Occasion Sugar “Hippocrates once said, ‘Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food...’Now, with Food Can Fix It, Dr. Oz will teach everyone this valuable lesson and explain what it means and how to draw upon the amazing healing powers of food” (Sanjay Gupta, M.D., Associate Chief of Neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital, Chief Medical Correspondent at CNN, and contributor to 60 Minutes). Review “I am a firsthand witness to Dr. Oz’s holistic approach to modern medicine and healing. When he performed my mom’s heart valve replacement surgery, he asked her first to heal herself with food. His work gave me ten more years with my mom. In the years since, I have seen him live the life he preaches and the results. Food Can Fix It hits all notes of a nutritious and delicious lifestyle. I know from personal experience, food can fix it!” -- Rocco DiSpirito, award-winning chef and author of Roccos Healthy & Delicious “It was Hippocrates who once said, ‘Let food be thy medicine, and medicine be thy food.’ Both Dr. Oz and I first heard that in medical school many years ago. Now, with Food Can Fix It, Dr. Oz will teach everyone this valuable lesson and explain what it means and how to draw upon the amazing healing powers of food.” -- Sanjay Gupta, M.D., Associate Chief of Neurosurgery at Grady Memorial Hospital, Chief Medical Correspondent at CNN, and contributor to 60 Minutes “In his groundbreaking new book, Dr. Oz empowers readers to take charge of their health through the foods they choose to eat. With words of wisdom, personal stories, and findings from multiple scientific studies, Dr. Oz shows how food can fix or improve fatigue, bad moods, heart problems, and even pain. Follow his simple plan and you’ll be on a healthy journey for life.” -- Deepak Chopra, M.D. “Experts have long known that food has remarkable potential as medicine to prevent, treat, and even reverse disease. Far too little, however, has been done with this crucial information. No one is better suited to fix this problem, deliver this empowering memo, and help millions add years to their lives and life to their years than Dr. Mehmet Oz.” -- David L. ...

-Titulo Original : How To Talk So Little Kids Will Listen A Survival Guide To Life With Children Ages 2-7 (the How To Talk Series)-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: More than 300,000 copies in print! A must-have guide for anyone who lives or works with young kids, with an introduction by Adele Faber, coauthor of How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk, the international mega-bestseller The Boston Globe dubbed “The Parenting Bible.”For nearly forty years, parents have turned to How to Talk So Kids Will Listen & Listen So Kids Will Talk for its respectful and effective solutions to the unending challenges of raising children. Now, in response to growing demand, Adele’s daughter, Joanna Faber, along with Julie King, tailor How to Talk’s powerful communication skills to parents of children ages two to seven. Faber and King, each a parenting expert in her own right, share their wisdom accumulated over years of conducting How To Talk workshops with parents, teachers, and pediatricians. With a lively combination of storytelling, cartoons, and observations from their workshops, they provide concrete tools and tips that will transform your relationship with the children in your life. What do you do with a little kid who…won’t brush her teeth…screams in his car seat…pinches the baby...refuses to eat vegetables…throws books in the library...runs rampant in the supermarket? Organized by common challenges and conflicts, this book is an essential manual of communication strategies, including a chapter that addresses the special needs of children with sensory processing and autism spectrum disorders. This user-friendly guide will empower parents and caregivers of young children to forge rewarding, joyful relationships with terrible two-year-olds, truculent three-year-olds, ferocious four-year-olds, foolhardy five-year-olds, self-centered six-year-olds, and the occasional semi-civilized seven-year-old. And, it will help little kids grow into self-reliant big kids who are cooperative and connected to their parents, teachers, siblings, and peers. From School Library Journal Parent and educator Faber, with educator King, picks up where esteemed mom Adele Faber (How To Talk So Kids Will Listen) left off with this updated survival guide for talking to little kids and gaining compliance. Her wisdom is in the same affectionate and funny style of mom: Enough with all the talk about feelings. Its lovely to know were enhancing our childrens confidence…but we still have to get our kids to do things. Faber zeroes in on the most common (and irritating) things and tactics little ones employ, and provides caregivers with a clear and supportive path to holding their own. From tattling (snitches and whistleblowers) to runaways (kids who take off in the parking lot and other public places), the authors describe exactly what life with little kids is like and make neither excuses nor pedagogical pronouncements; their advice is always supportive, appropriate, and ultimately best for the parking lot escapee in question. VERDICT Parents should not be put off by this volumes length. The How To Talk books are treasures to read. All libraries should acquire and recommend with gusto.-Julianne Smith, Ypsilanti District Library, MI Review Yes, the How to Talk tools work for young children! It is never too soon to reflect childrens emotions, acknowledge their wishes, and see things from their perspective. Faber and King are like wise, calm friends that arrive just in time to help you through the toughest moments, with no judging or shaming. In fact, they have just as much empathy for parents as they have for children. They understand that punishment and control are dead ends, and they offer a clear path towards cooperation and connection.--Lawrence J. Cohen, Ph.D., author of Playful ParentingThis helpful gem of a book guides parents and other caregivers to tune in to the internal worlds of young children to allow their minds to be seen and respected. With practical suggestions and useful illustrations, the authors clearly convey these important steps ...

-Titulo Original : Carry On, Warrior The Power Of Embracing Your Messy, Beautiful Life-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: **The first book from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Untamed** The inspiring and hilarious instant New York Times bestseller from the beloved writer, speaker, activist, and founder of Momastery, whose memoir Love Warrior was an Oprah’s Book Club selection.Glennon Doyle’s hilarious and poignant reflections on our universal (yet often secret) experiences have inspired a social movement by reminding women that they’re not alone. In Carry On, Warrior, she shares her personal story in moving, refreshing, and laugh-out-loud new essays and some of the best-loved material from Momastery. Her writing invites us to believe in ourselves, to be brave and kind, to let go of the idea of perfection, and to stop making motherhood, marriage, and friendship harder by pretending they’re not hard. In this one woman’s attempt to love herself and others, readers will find a wise and witty friend who shows that we can build better lives in our hearts, homes, and communities. Review Melton writes about spirituality, faith, creativity, and compassion without once surrendering her hilarious and hard-knocks identity. -- Elizabeth Gilbert, author of BIG MAGIC“In Carry On, Warrior, Glennon Melton’s honesty, thoughtfulness, and humor will keep readers racing through the pages-and set them thinking more deeply about their own lives.” -- Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project and Happier at Home“Glennon embodies all that we want to be and fear we are not: she is authentic, funny, wise, loving, and resilient in the face of extraordinary challenges. But the magic of Carry On, Warrior is that by the time you finish the book, you realize you ARE all those things, and more. It is a book that actually makes you feel that you are loved and cherished. Has a book ever accomplished anything more marvelous than that?” -- Vanessa Diffenbaugh, author of The Language of Flowers“CarryOn, Warrior is a fierce, outrageous and laugh-out-loud book about emergingfrom addiction and living life at full-tilt.” -- Geneen Roth, author of Women, Food and God“Funny,honest, and brave, Glennon Melton joins the ranks of Anne Lamott, Sara Miles,and Barbara Brown Taylor by giving her readers a precious gift:permission--permission to doubt, permission to believe, permission to struggle,permission to laugh, permission to tell the truth, and permission to do it allimperfectly. Carry On, Warrior takes its place among the best ofspiritual memoirs as the kind of book readers will want to return to again andagain. It reads like a conversation with a close friend, but impacts theheart like an encounter with the divine.” -- Rachel Held Evans, author of Evolving in Monkey Town and a Year of Biblical Womanhood“An inspirational guide. Only by living in a state of loving vulnerability [was Melton able] to do what she desired most: touch others and be touched by them in return. Gentle words of wisdom from a woman driven by senseless, relentless hope.” Kirkus ReviewsRefreshingly frank. Writing, or as she calls it living out loud, is for Melton a bracing therapy to chase away loneliness, learn humility, and banish the fears of revealing the less than flattering sides of herself. Publishers Weekly“Glennon Doyle Melton is church and Carry On, Warrior reads like one of those old rollicking hymns that make you want to stand up at the end and shout, “Amen!” Life is indeed “brutiful” but Glennon’s humor, warmth, and honesty are profound reminders that there is beauty in our struggle. I can’t stop thinking about this book.” -- Brene Brown, Ph.D. New York Times bestselling author of Daring Greatly: How the Courage to be Vulnerable Tra“First and foremost, Meltons book is chock-a-block with great characters, and shes number one. Melton pulls this off with the help of smart, funny, plain prose.”- -- The Agony Column Bookotron “Carry On Warrior is like sitting down for a cup of coffee with a friend to share stories, laughter, and tears, mix...

-Titulo Original : Women Food And God Coloring Book-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: Gorgeous black-and-white illustrations are paired with quotes from Geneen Roth’s #1 New York Times bestseller, Women Food and God in this inspirational and relaxing coloring book.Oprah Winfrey called Geneen Roth’s #1 New York Times bestseller Women Food and God “a life-changing book.” Millions of readers and the many women who attend Geneen’s retreats and workshops often share their favorite quotes from the book. These quotations-that describe the important connection between the way we eat and the way we live-as well as some of the passages Geneen herself finds most meaningful, are collected on the pages of this enchanting coloring book. Color, contemplate, and discover who you really are in this perfect gift for women of all ages. About the Author Geneen Roth is the author of ten books, including the New York Times bestsellers When Food Is Love, Lost and Found, and Women Food and God, as well as The Craggy Hole in My Heart and the Cat Who Fixed It. She has been speaking, teaching groundbreaking workshops, and offering retreats for over thirty years and has appeared on numerous national shows, including The Oprah Winfrey Show, 20/20, the Today show, Good Morning America, and The View. For more information about her work, please visit GeneenRoth...

-Titulo Original : The Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger (1)-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: In 2021 Philadelphia International, perhaps second only to Motown as one of the best-known labels the world has ever known, is celebrating its 50th Anniversary. It seems therefore appropriate to look at Philadelphias R&B, Doo wop and early soul roots that inspired Kenny Gamble and Leon Huff to stop performing and form their own record labels in the mid-60s. The city was home to a great many labels who helped to usher in the sound of what came to be called soul music, Cameo Parkway, V-Tone, Swan and Heritage are all represented. The talent that emerged on these labels left an indelible impression on the development of soul music and include: Garnet Mimms (in The Gainors); Bobby Parker; The Orlons; Dee Dee Sharp; Don Covay and Lee Andrews. Here are 29 proto soul tracks by some of the greatest artists to have emerged from the city of Philadelphia. Fully detailed liner notes...

-Titulo Original : The Candy House A Novel-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: Named a Most Anticipated Book of the Year by Time, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Oprah Daily, Glamour, USA TODAY, Parade, Bustle, San Francisco Chronicle, The Seattle Times, The Boston Globe, Tampa Bay Times, BuzzFeed, Vulture, and many more! From one of the most celebrated writers of our time, a literary figure with cult status, a “sibling novel” to her Pulitzer Prize- and NBCC Award-winning A Visit from the Goon Squad-an electrifying, deeply moving novel about the quest for authenticity and meaning in a world where memories and identities are no longer private.The Candy House opens with the staggeringly brilliant Bix Bouton, whose company, Mandala, is so successful that he is “one of those tech demi-gods with whom we’re all on a first name basis.” Bix is 40, with four kids, restless, desperate for a new idea, when he stumbles into a conversation group, mostly Columbia professors, one of whom is experimenting with downloading or “externalizing” memory. It’s 2010. Within a decade, Bix’s new technology, “Own Your Unconscious”-that allows you access to every memory you’ve ever had, and to share every memory in exchange for access to the memories of others-has seduced multitudes. But not everyone. In spellbinding interlocking narratives, Egan spins out the consequences of Own Your Unconscious through the lives of multiple characters whose paths intersect over several decades. Intellectually dazzling, The Candy House is also extraordinarily moving, a testament to the tenacity and transcendence of human longing for real connection, love, family, privacy and redemption. In the world of Egan’s spectacular imagination, there are “counters” who track and exploit desires and there are “eluders,” those who understand the price of taking a bite of the Candy House. Egan introduces these characters in an astonishing array of narrative styles-from omniscient to first person plural to a duet of voices, an epistolary chapter and a chapter of tweets. If Goon Squad was organized like a concept album, The Candy House incorporates Electronic Dance Music’s more disjunctive approach. The parts are titled: Build, Break, Drop. With an emphasis on gaming, portals, and alternate worlds, its structure also suggests the experience of moving among dimensions in a role-playing game. The Candy House is a bold, brilliant imagining of a world that is moments away. Egan takes to stunning new heights her “deeply intuitive forays into the darker aspects of our technology-driven, image-saturated culture” (Vogue). The Candy House delivers an absolutely extraordinary combination of fierce, exhilarating intelligence and heart. Review An Amazon Best Book of April 2022: Jennifer Egan won the Pulitzer Prize for 2010’s A Visit from the Goon Squad and she revisits some of the characters, and their progeny, in this sibling novel. While you don’t have to have read ‘Goon’ to feel the potency of this deft critique of the commodification of privacy (though why wouldn’t you?), it definitely enhances it. But on its own, The Candy House delivers, and proves fiction’s power to convey what even the best nonfiction can’t. Take heart “eluders,” those who refuse to upload their memories onto a cube for easy access (by anyone), fortunately Egan’s imaginative, cerebral, and exhilarating offering is indelible. -Erin Kodicek, Amazon Editor Review Praise for The Candy House Named a Most Anticipated Book of 2022 by Time, Entertainment Weekly, Vogue, Good Housekeeping, Oprah Daily, Glamour, USA Today, Parade, Bustle, San Francisco Chronicle, Seattle Times, The Boston Globe, Tampa Bay Times, Off the Shelf, Buzzfeed, and Vulture. “The Candy House does what only the best and rarest books can: peel back the thin membrane of ordinary life, and find transcendence on the other side.” -Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly “The Candy House is bursting with stories, thick with beating hearts…Egan’s writing dazzles.” -Magg...

-Titulo Original : Ceo Excellence The Six Mindsets That Distinguish The Best Leaders From The Rest-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: New York Times Bestseller Wall Street Journal Bestseller From the world’s most influential management consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, this is an insight-packed, revelatory look at how the best CEOs do their jobs based on extensive interviews with today’s most successful corporate leaders-including chiefs at Netflix, JPMorgan Chase, General Motors, and Sony.Being a CEO at any of the world’s largest companies is among the most challenging roles in business. Billions, and even trillions, are at stake-and the fates of tens of thousands of employees often hang in the balance. Yet, even when “can’t miss” high-achievers win the top job, very few excel. Thirty percent of Fortune 500 CEOs last fewer than three years, and two out of five new CEOs are perceived to be failing within eighteen months. For those who shoulder the burden of being the one on whom everyone counts, a manual for excellence is sorely needed. To identify the 21st century’s best CEOs, the authors of CEO Excellence started with a pool of over 2400 public company CEOs. Extensive screening distilled that group into an elite corps, sixty-seven of whom agreed to in-depth, multi-hour interviews. Among those sharing their views: Jamie Dimon (JPMorgan Chase), Satya Nadella (Microsoft), Reed Hastings (Netflix), Kazuo Hirai (Sony), Ken Chenault (American Express), Mary Barra (GM), and Peter Brabeck-Letmathe (Nestle). What came out of those frank, no-holds-barred conversations is a rich array of mindsets and actions that deliver outsized performance. Compelling, practical, and unprecedented in scope, CEO Excellence is a treasure trove of wisdom from today’s most elite business leaders. Review New York Times BestsellerWall Street Journal Bestseller“CEO Excellence pulls back the curtain on how some of the world’s greatest business leaders have achieved success. Readers from the classroom to the boardroom will find valuable lessons they can apply to their own careers.” -Stephen A. Schwarzman, Chairman, CEO, and cofounder of Blackstone“McKinsey’s access to the best corporate CEOs has produced a remarkable and highly readable analysis of what makes leaders’ jobs so difficult in this age of constant social media focus, shareholder activism, great board involvement, enhanced ESG needs, growing global challenges, and increased government oversight. Any smart CEO looking to not just survive but thrive would do well to read and heed this book’s insights.” -David Rubenstein, co-founder and co-executive chairman of The Carlyle Group and New York Times bestselling author of How to Lead “Interviews CEOs (refreshingly, not just the usual suspects), finds out what makes them tick, and formulates a set of maxims and observations…A satisfying handbook for future moguls.” -Kirkus Reviews Leadership is something you learn first by watching and then by doing-and the best leaders never stop learning, which is why this is a book for those who want to sharpen their skills in leading organizations to higher levels. - Michael Bloomberg, founder of Bloomberg LP and Bloomberg Philanthropies, and mayor of New York, 2002-2013 “Do we need another book on leadership at the top? Yes! Having created the world’s first school for incumbent CEOs and studied thousands over forty-five years, I can confirm that Dewar, Keller, and Malhotra provide valuable fresh insight. Instead of selecting clients or cronies to study, they were guided by analytic screening of performance on many key dimensions. Their conclusions show how CEOs shape culture and are shaped by it. By objectively examining character and context together, they transcend vague lists of virtues and reveal that leadership impact is very different from the boastful, backslapping self-promotion we see too often. This book provides leaders at all career stages insight on how to complement and enhance their respective styles.” -Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Founder and President of the Chief Executive Leadership Instit...

-Titulo Original : Love Marriage A Novel-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: Set in London now, Love Marriage marks the magnificent return of Monica Ali, the Booker Prize shortlisted, “splendid, daring, brilliant, refreshing” novelist (The New Republic) “with an inborn generosity that cannot be learned” (The New York Times Book Review).Yasmin Ghorami in twenty-six, in training to be a doctor (like her Indian-born father), and engaged to the charismatic, upper-class Joe Sangster, whose formidable mother, Harriet, is a famous feminist. The gulf between families is vast. So, too, is the gulf in sexual experience between Yasmin and Joe. As the wedding day draws near, misunderstandings, infidelities, and long-held secrets upend both Yasmin’s relationship and that of her parents, a “love marriage,” according to the family lore that Yasmin has believed all her life. A gloriously acute observer of class, sexual mores, and the mysteries of the human heart, Monica Ali has written a captivating social comedy and a profoundly moving, revelatory story of two cultures, two families, and two people trying to understand one another. Monica Ali’s Brick Lane was a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. It was named a best book of the year by The New York Times, Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, and The Atlantic. Review Praise for Love Marriage “A riveting portrait of a seemingly perfect engagement’s unraveling… Ali’s character treatments are multifaceted, humane and fluid in this multicultural family drama.” -BookPage, STARRED review Cultural clashes, political satire, Oedipal conflicts, elegant prose-they’re all here in this romp of a book. -Oprah Daily The characters’ brisk discussions on politics, culture, and race skate over ideological divides, the substance of which emerges in dramatic irony and creates a textured portrayal of an immigrant family. This is sure to please Ali’s fans and win some new ones. -Publishers Weekly “[A] colorful tale of strained relationships ... The finale is rich, bawdy, and bold, a dramatization of the many ways we fail those closest to us and build lives on shifting sediments of buried feelings. And we live for love, nonetheless.” -Booklist Ali’s immersive novel, skipping deftly between several points of view, might be termed a comedy of manners of Britain’s urban middle class, but the comedy here has teeth: Though the book treats its characters with affection, the racial dynamics are conveyed with real, heart-rending bite. A keen look at London life, relationships (especially interracial ones)-and a return to Ali’s most celebrated territory. -Kirkus UK Praise for Love Marriage “The work of a mature feminist writer ...Is love enough? Yasmin and her family work together to answer this question, becoming dear friends to the reader along the way” -The Times “Rich, sensitive and gloriously entertaining... the novel’s real strength lies in its depiction of complex social encounters” -Tash Aw, Times Literary Supplement “Ali’s superpower is navigating complex family relationships and this is a saga that is at its most absorbing when we’re waist-deep in domestic discord, although Ali also provides an acute examination of race, class and identity in British society. But that is just one thread in this glorious tapestry of modern British family life.” -Paul Connolly, Metro “A natural and very engaging storyteller.” -Allan Massie, The Scotsman “Every bit as compelling as her debut, Brick Lane... warm and intelligent.” -Good Housekeeping “Told in short, beautifully observed chapters, it’s an outstanding, unputdownable read that deserves to win a clutch of awards.” -Emma Lee Potter, Sunday Express “Ali has written a brilliantly tender and compelling novel about who we are and how we love in 21st century Britain.” -Martin Chilton, Independent “Over 500 compulsive, tightly plotted pages, it explores the conflict between duty and desire, fam...

-Titulo Original : Damnation Spring-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: NATIONAL BESTSELLER Named a Best Book of 2021 by Newsweek, the San Francisco Chronicle, TheWashington Post, and the Los Angeles Times “A glorious book-an assured novel that’s gorgeously told.” -The New York Times Book Review “An incredibly moving epic about an unforgettable family.” -CBS Sunday Morning “[An] absorbing novel…I felt both grateful to have known these people and bereft at the prospect of leaving them behind.” -The Washington Post A stunning novel about love, work, and marriage that asks how far one family and one community will go to protect their future.Colleen and Rich Gundersen are raising their young son, Chub, on the rugged California coast. It’s 1977, and life in this Pacific Northwest logging town isn’t what it used to be. For generations, the community has lived and breathed timber; now that way of life is threatened. Colleen is an amateur midwife. Rich is a tree-topper. It’s a dangerous job that requires him to scale trees hundreds of feet tall-a job that both his father and grandfather died doing. Colleen and Rich want a better life for their son-and they take steps to assure their future. Rich secretly spends their savings on a swath of ancient redwoods. But when Colleen, grieving the loss of a recent pregnancy and desperate to have a second child, challenges the logging company’s use of the herbicides she believes are responsible for the many miscarriages in the community, Colleen and Rich find themselves on opposite sides of a budding conflict. As tensions in the town rise, they threaten the very thing the Gundersens are trying to protect: their family. Told in prose as clear as a spring-fed creek, Damnation Spring is an intimate, compassionate portrait of a family whose bonds are tested and a community clinging to a vanishing way of life. An extraordinary story of the transcendent, enduring power of love-between husband and wife, mother and child, and longtime neighbors. An essential novel for our times. Review “Probably the best novel I’ll read this year. It’s about work and love and characters who ring true.” -Stephen King A glorious book-an assured novel that’s gorgeously told... Redwoods have been plundered by humans, damaged in fires and taken down in floods, but they’re also incredibly resilient. And as characters in Davidson’s graceful rendering remind us, humans are equally resilient. After great loss, they, too, can keep growing. -The New York Times Book Review With great empathy and care, Davidson demonstrates how competing values play out against a backdrop of climate change in America. -The New Yorker “[An] ambitious debut [that] gains momentum as Davidson pulls together its foundational concepts- family, work, honor, and loyalty. Damnation Spring is full of surprises.” -Pittsburgh Post-Gazette [This] story runs as clear as the mountain streams that draw salmon back to spawn... Damnation Spring joins Richard Powers’s Overstory and Annie Proulx’s Barkskins in a growing collection of epic novels about our interactions with trees. -The Washington Post “An incredibly moving epic about an unforgettable family.” -CBS Sunday Morning “[With] the page-turning urgency of a thriller…the novel tells many characters’ stories-affirming, in the end, the strength of community. Davidson’s prose is absolutely beautiful, every detail immersing us in this landscape fully and seamlessly as she reveals characters’ tensions, longings, disappointments, and their attachment to the land. Damnation Spring is a must-read for environmentalists above all.” -EcoLit Books “In her exceptional debut novel, Ash Davidson expresses the heart and soul of Northern Californias redwood forest community.” -BookPage [A] powerful debut novel... [A] showdown as inevitable as a mudslide [propels] the community down a path as steep and treacherous as any logging road. It’s a path Davidson portrays in exquisite detail... In Damnation Spring, giant trees are brought low by human ma...

-Titulo Original : How To Write A Mystery A Handbook From Mystery Writers Of America-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: From 70 of the most successful mystery writers in the business, an invaluable guide to crafting mysteries-from character development and plot to procedurals and thrillers-“this is a writing guide that readers and writers will turn to again and again” (Booklist, starred review).Mystery Writers of America (MWA) is known for providing unparalleled resources on the craft, art, and business of storytelling, helping writers of all levels improve their skills for nearly a century. Now, this handbook helps authors navigate the ever-shifting publishing landscape-from pacing, plotting, the business side of publishing, to the current demand for diversity and inclusivity across all genres, and more. Featuring essays by a new generation of bestselling experts on various elements of the craft and shorter pieces of crowd-sourced wisdom from the MWA membership as a whole, the topics covered can be categorized as follows: -Before Writing (rules; genres; setting; character; research; etc.) -While Writing (outlining; the plot; dialogue; mood; etc.) -After Writing (agents; editors; self-pub; etc.) -Other than Novels (short stories; true crime; etc.) -Other Considerations (diverse characters; legal questions; criticism) Also included is a collection of essays from MWA published authors-including Jeffery Deaver, Tess Gerritsen, and Charlaine Harris-selected by bestselling authors Lee Child and Laurie King and arranged thematically answering, “What piece of writing advice do you wish you’d had at the beginning of your career?” “Everything you wanted to know about how to plan, draft, write, revise, publish, and market a mystery” (Kirkus Reviews), this inclusive manual provides practical, current, easily digestible advice for new and established authors alike. Review A wonderful book, a seminar in genre writing conducted by some of the genre’s most accomplished practitioners. . . . a writing guide that readers and writers will turn to again and again. -Booklist, starred review Everything you wanted to know about how to plan, draft, write, revise, publish, and market a mystery, courtesy of the cheerleaders from the Mystery Writers of America. . . . A chorus of encouraging voices that mix do-this instruction with companionable inspiration. -Kirkus Reviews Tempted to try your own hand at a tale of crime? How to Write a Mystery gathers sound and often witty advice from nearly 70 contemporary practitioners. -Wall Street Journal One of the best and most inclusive manuals ever. . . . How to Write a Mystery is a splendid technical treatise for writers of any stage or level. . . . Reading the book feels like taking a graduate-level course. . . . an immensely worthwhile investment for the storyteller in us all.” -BookTrib All this input from some of the most successful mystery writers alive makes for an invaluable guide to crafting mysteries, police procedurals, and thrillers. These experts offer practical, current, and surprisingly easily digestible advice. -The Big Thrill Budding authors looking for pro tips will find some useful tidbits. -Publishers Weekly About the Author Mystery Writers of America is the premier organization for mystery and crime writers, professionals allied to the crime-writing field, aspiring crime writers, and folks who just love to read crime fiction.Lee Child, previously a television director, union organizer, theater technician, and law student, was fired and on the dole when he hatched a harebrained scheme to write a bestselling novel, thus saving his family from ruin. Killing Floor went on to win worldwide acclaim. The Midnight Line, is his twenty-second Reacher novel. The hero of his series, Jack Reacher, besides being fictional, is a kindhearted soul who allows Lee lots of spare time for reading, listening to music, and watching Yankees and Aston Villa games. Lee was born in England but now lives in New York City and leaves the island of Manhattan only when required to by...

-Titulo Original : Einsteins Fridge How The Difference Between Hot And Cold Explains The Universe-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: This entertaining, eye-opening account of how the laws of thermodynamics are essential to understanding the world today-from refrigeration and jet engines to calorie counting and global warming-is “a lesson in how to do popular science right” (Kirkus Reviews).Einstein’s Fridge tells the incredible epic story of the scientists who, over two centuries, harnessed the power of heat and ice and formulated a theory essential to comprehending our universe. “Although thermodynamics has been studied for hundreds of years…few nonscientists appreciate how its principles have shaped the modern world” (Scientific American). Thermodynamics-the branch of physics that deals with energy and entropy-governs everything from the behavior of living cells to the black hole at the center of our galaxy. Not only that, but thermodynamics explains why we must eat and breathe, how lights turn on, the limits of computing, and how the universe will end. The brilliant people who decoded its laws came from every branch of the sciences; they were engineers, physicists, chemists, biologists, cosmologists, and mathematicians. From French military engineer and physicist Sadi Carnot to Lord Kelvin, James Joule, Albert Einstein, Emmy Noether, Alan Turing, and Stephen Hawking, author Paul Sen introduces us to all of the players who passed the baton of scientific progress through time and across nations. Incredibly driven and idealistic, these brave pioneers performed groundbreaking work often in the face of torment and tragedy. Their discoveries helped create the modern world and transformed every branch of science, from biology to cosmology. “Elegantly written and engaging” (Financial Times), Einstein’s Fridge brings to life one of the most important scientific revolutions of all time and captures the thrill of discovery and the power of scientific progress to shape the course of history. Review “[An] elegantly written and engaging book. . . . It’s a measure of Sen’s achievement that by combining science, history and biography he takes us on a successful tour through thermodynamics.” -Financial Times “Makes a strong case that thermodynamics is every bit as lively as those other fields-and vastly more useful for understanding what makes the universe tick. . . . Thermodynamics does not bow to other fields; other fields bow to it.” -The Wall Street Journal An entertaining, eye-opening account of the extraordinary team of innovators who discovered the laws of thermodynamics essential to understanding the world today-from refrigeration and jet engines to calorie counting and global warming. -Next Big Idea Club “Superb. . . . Einstein’s Fridge offers an accessible and crystal-clear portrait of this discipline’s breadth. . . . [the book] wanders widely while never losing its connection to the central theme. . . . splendid.” -Physics World “Sen performs an exquisite examination of an ostensibly simple distinction, the difference between hot and cold.” -Booklist “Although thermodynamics has been studied for hundreds of years, filmmaker Sen writes, few nonscientists appreciate how its principles have shaped the modern world.” -Scientific American “I am grateful for Paul Sen’s fascinating new scientific history of thermodynamics-now I can explain my son’s two favorite things: fire and ice.” -Jonny Diamond, LitHub “A lesson in how to do popular science right.” -Kirkus Reviews “When you combine some of the most profound concepts in physics with exceptional storytelling, this is what you get: popular science writing at its very best. Einstein’s Fridge is a hugely readable and entertaining history of thermodynamics and how it has created and shaped our world.” -Jim Al-Khalili, author of The World According to Physics “Impressive debut. . . . Sen’s history of hot and cold is pop-science that hits the mark.” -Publishers Weekly About the Author Paul Sen first encountered thermodynamics while studying engineering at the Unive...

-Titulo Original : Red Island House A Novel-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: From National Book Award-nominated writer Andrea Lee comes Red Island House, a travel epic that opens a window on the mysterious African island of Madagascar, and on the dangers of life and love in paradise, as seen through the eyes of a Black American heroine. “People do mysterious things when they think they have found paradise,” reflects Shay, the heroine of Red Island House. When Shay, an intrepid Black American professor, marries Senna, a brash Italian businessman, she doesn’t imagine that her life’s greatest adventure will carry her far beyond their home in Milan: to an idyllic stretch of beach in Madagascar where Senna builds a flamboyant vacation villa. Before she knows it, she becomes the reluctant mistress of a sprawling household, caught between her privileged American upbringing and her connection to the continent of her ancestors. So begins Shay’s journey into the heart of a remote African country. Can she keep her identity and her marriage intact amid the wild beauty and the lingering colonial sins of this mysterious world that both captivates and destroys foreigners? A mesmerizing, powerful tale of travel and self-discovery that evokes Isabel Allende’s House of the Spirits and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah, Red Island House showcases an extraordinary literary voice and gorgeously depicts a lush and unknown world. Review This transporting history of an imperfect marriage braids together dramatic episodes, island history and fable, all infused with Lee’s sharp insights into human nature. -People Magazine Come for the views, stay for simmering tensions and culture clashes. Lee welcomes readers with lush language, then lays out a dazzling buffet of choices and assumptions that are ripe for questioning. -The New York Times A gorgeous narrative that perhaps only Lee could have constructed - an ambitious attempt to use fiction to explore the reality of a world fractured by race and class. -The Washington Post Spellbinding! I’m in utter awe of Red Island House. . . . Lee’s exquisitely precise language brings the reader deep into the Malagasy world, both geographically and emotionally, and I never wanted to leave. This book is a marvel. -Elin Hilderbrand Lush, perceptive... a unique, surprising work - at once a psychological novel, a novel of place and a novel about relationships. -Mark Athitakis, USA Today Lee combines luscious physical descriptions with sharp-witted social perception in this thrilling novel... she approaches the broadly political and the minutely intimate with equally fine prose. -Jackie Thomas-Kennedy, Minneapolis Star Tribune Lee’s striking writing is layered and thick with evocative descriptions of people, landscapes, feelings and foreboding. Sociological and psychological, it’s prose with the abstract feel of poetry. The stories of Red Island House are vibrant and enchanting. -BookPage, starred review Offers a captivating take on colonialism, privilege, race, and heritage. -Christian Science Monitor “Journey to the island of Madagascar through the eyes of a Black American woman in an epic tale that explores the dangers of love against the backdrop of paradise. -San Francisco Book Review Andrea Lee whisks you to the island of Madagascar and spins interconnected stories set on the beach. -Martha Stewart Living Lee writes with such lush and observant precision that you feel you are traveling with her. -The Millions Spellbinding! I’m in utter awe of Red Island House... Lee’s exquisitely precise language brings the reader deep into the Malagasy world, both geographically and emotionally, and I never wanted to leave. This book is a marvel. --Elin Hildebrand Brilliant and tragic. -Booklist, starred review A mesmerizing novel... The lush natural habitat and privileged ex-pat existence contrast starkly with the island’s poverty and traditions, and Lee makes magic of this to deliver a singularly intriguing and mysterious saga...

-Titulo Original : The Bone Code A Temperance Brennan Novel-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: #1 New York Times bestselling author Kathy Reichs returns with her twentieth gripping novel featuring forensic anthropologist Temperance Brennan, whose examinations of unidentified bodies ignite a terrifying series of events. “This is A-game Reichs, with crisp prose, sharp dialogue, and plenty of suspense” (Booklist).On the way to hurricane-ravaged Isle of Palms, a barrier island off the South Carolina coast, Tempe receives a call from the Charleston coroner. The storm has tossed ashore a medical waste container. Inside are two decomposed bodies wrapped in plastic sheeting and bound with electrical wire. Tempe recognizes many of the details as identical to those of an unsolved case she handled in Quebec fifteen years earlier. With a growing sense of foreboding, she travels to Montreal to gather evidence. Meanwhile, health authorities in South Carolina become increasingly alarmed as a human flesh-eating contagion spreads. So focused is Tempe on identifying the container victims that, initially, she doesn’t register how their murders and the pestilence may be related. But she does recognize one unsettling fact. Someone is protecting a dark secret-and willing to do anything to keep it hidden. An absorbing look at the sinister uses to which genetics can be put and featuring a cascade of ever-more-shocking revelations, The Bone Code is “a murder mystery story that races across America at the speed of fright” (James Patterson). Review “Readers have come to expect certain things from a Brennan novel: a strong protagonist, a cast of well-drawn supporting characters, an intriguing mystery, a surprising resolution, and at least one really good scene in which Brennan puts someone in their place…Fans will happily check all those boxes here: this is A-game Reichs, with crisp prose, sharp dialogue, and plenty of suspense.” -Booklist “As usual in this venerable franchise, the forensics are grimly detailed, the cliffhanger chapter endings nonstop, and the range of incidents competing for attention with the issues the newest remains have thrown into the spotlight dizzying….Comfort food for fans who are far past the point of being easily shocked.” -Kirkus Reviews “Few crime writers are as edifying and terrifying as Kathy Reichs. She never lets you forget that “folk do the damnedest things.” -The Times (UK) “A strong story told in a breezy fashion with an interesting [array of] memorable minor characters.” -Evening Standard (UK) “Sees the forensic anthropologist in a race against time…Unmissable.” -Crime Monthly“I await the next Kathy Reichs thriller with the same anticipation I have for the new Lee Child or Patricia Cornwell. The Bone Code over-achieves. Temperance Brennan uses all her skills as a forensic anthropologist to solve a murder mystery story that races across America at the speed of fright.” -James Patterson“The Bone Code is a brilliant entry in a ground-breaking series and does Temperance Brennan proud. The story has all the elements we’ve come to expect-it’s smart, gripping, and builds to a heart-stopping crescendo. More than twenty years ago, these wonderful novels began paving the way for other writers, especially Canadians like me, to be noticed. I owe Kathy and Tempe a debt of gratitude, not just for helping to make my own writing life possible but for hours of white-knuckle reading.” -Louise Penny, #1 New York Times bestselling author of All the Devils Are HereKathy Reichs is expert at making science both scary and thrilling, and shes in top form in The Bone Code. The story moves at such a relentless pace I couldnt stop turning the pages! -Tess Gerritsen, New York Times bestselling author of Choose Me“Over the course of twenty books, Kathy Reichs and Tempe Brennan have thrilled readers with pacey, mazey tales grounded in real science, with plots springing from the authors prodigious knowledge and passion for truth and justice. We readers are truly grateful-and looking forward to...

-Titulo Original : Count Down How Our Modern World Is Threatening Sperm Counts, Altering Male And Female Reproductive Development, And Imperiling The Future Of The Human Race-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: In the tradition of Silent Spring and The Sixth Extinction, an urgent, “disturbing, empowering, and essential” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) book about the ways in which chemicals in the modern environment are changing-and endangering-human sexuality and fertility on the grandest scale, from renowned epidemiologist Shanna Swan.In 2017, author Shanna Swan and her team of researchers completed a major study. They found that over the past four decades, sperm levels among men in Western countries have dropped by more than 50 percent. They came to this conclusion after examining 185 studies involving close to 45,000 healthy men. The result sent shockwaves around the globe-but the story didn’t end there. It turns out our sexual development is changing in broader ways, for both men and women and even other species, and that the modern world is on pace to become an infertile one. How and why could this happen? What is hijacking our fertility and our health? Count Down unpacks these questions, revealing what Swan and other researchers have learned about how both lifestyle and chemical exposures are affecting our fertility, sexual development-potentially including the increase in gender fluidity-and general health as a species. Engagingly explaining the science and repercussions of these worldwide threats and providing simple and practical guidelines for effectively avoiding chemical goods (from water bottles to shaving cream) both as individuals and societies, Count Down is “staggering in its findings” (Erin Brockovich, The Guardian) and “will serve as an awakening” (The New York Times BookReview). Review Longlisted for the 2022 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award New York Times Book Review Editors Choice“If you’ve smugly enjoyed the dystopian worlds of The Handmaid’s Tale (where infertility is triggered in part by environmental pollutants) or Children of Men (where humanity is on the precipice of extinction)-and believed that these stories were rooted firmly in fantasy-Shanna Swan’s Count Down will serve as an awakening….[It] chronicles rising human infertility and warns of dire consequences for our species if this trend doesn’t slow….An important book for anyone concerned about the environment, pollution, successful childbearing or declining health of the human species.” -New York Times Book Review Swann’s book is staggering in its findings….The rapid death and decline of sperm must be addressed, and it must be addressed now. There simply is no time to lose.” -Erin Brockovich, The Guardian An alarming compendium of research. . .the book is full of solid science, with detailed, clear explanations and proposals for how to reduce the harm caused by common chemicals. -New York Review of Books An urgent examination of a global problem that requires vastly more attention than it currently receives....The author’s passion for her work and access to reams of alarming data make for riveting reading, and her writing is crisp and unfettered by jargon....With an advocate’s verve and a scientist’s informed confidence, the author voices a clarion call for all of us to do what we can to safeguard our fertility, the fate of mankind, and the planet. An eye-opening, disturbing, empowering, and essential text. -Kirkus Reviews (starred review) “A convincing plea for heightened awareness of rising reproductive jeopardy and the imperative of eliminating environmental toxins makes this book both alarming and crucial.” -Booklist (starred review) “[A] thought-provoking look at the state of human reproductive health….This accessible and shocking account succeeds as an eye-opening wake-up call.” -Publishers Weekly “Grounded in irrefutable science and laced with dry, engaging wit, this epic book asks monumental questions: Has humanity entered into a fertility death spiral? If so, why is it happening, how far will it go, and when will it peak? Finally, what can and must be done? If you dream of childr...

-Titulo Original : When You Are Mine A Novel-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: In this page-turning psychological thriller from an author who Stephen King called “an absolute master,” a young female police officer faces danger on all fronts-from a clever victim of abuse, her colleagues on the force, and even her own mobster father.Philomena McCarthy is a young, ambitious police office with the elite Metropolitan Police in London. When she responds to a domestic violence call, she finds the victim, Tempe Brown, trying to protect her abuser, a married man named Darren Goodall, a decorated Scotland Yard detective afraid of no one. As Philomena pursues the case against him, she not only encounters resistance from her police force colleagues but also becomes dangerously entangled with the victim-who is not at all whom she appears to be-much to the increasing endangerment of herself and Henry, her fiancee. Complicating matters is Philomena’s estranged father Edward McCarthy, a powerful man who has built a criminal empire along with his brothers. Philomena has long tried to pursue her career as a police officer without her father’s involvement, but as she falls under suspicion of stalking and harassing Goodall, her father becomes involved. As the situation escalates, Tempe’s sinister maneuvers further entangle Philomena in a web of secrets, corruption, and murder, putting Philomena’s impending marriage, career, and very survival in jeopardy… Spellbinding, suspenseful, and filled with complex characters that could be heroes or villains, Robotham has crafted a smart and propulsive thriller that’s impossible to put down. Review A heart-clutching psychological thriller. -People Robotham maintains an air of excruciating suspense in this plot-driven tale. -Katherine A. Powers, The Washington Post No one does suspense better. -Stephen King [An] expertly paced first-person narrative. . . . Sidestepping all the cliches-the tough-girl humor is perfectly pitched and never overdone-the novel is as psychologically nuanced and emotionally engaging as it is suspenseful. . . . A flawless and compassionate psychological thriller. -Kirkus (starred review) An engaging first-person narrative with a surprise twist at the end. -Booklist About the Author Michael Robotham is a former investigative journalist whose bestselling psychological thrillers have been translated into twenty-five languages. He has twice won a Ned Kelly Award for Australia’s best crime novel, for Lost in 2005 and Shatter in 2008. His recent novels include When She Was Good, winner of the UK’s Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best thriller; The Secrets She Keeps; Good Girl, Bad Girl; and When You Are Mine. After living and writing all over the world, Robotham settled his family in Sydney, Australia. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1 1 Four Months Ago… I was eleven years old when I saw my future. I was standing near the middle doors of a double-decker bus when a bomb exploded on the upper level, peeling off the roof like a giant had taken a tin opener to a can of peaches. One moment I was holding on to a pole, and the next I was flying through the air, seeing sky, then ground, then sky. A leg whipped past me. A stroller. A million shards of glass, each catching the sunlight. I crashed to the pavement as debris and body parts fell around me. Looking up through the dust, I wondered what I’d been doing on a London sightseeing bus, which is what it looked like without a roof. People were hurt. Dying. Dead. I spat grit from between my teeth and tried to remember who had been standing next to me. A tattooed girl with white earbuds under hacked purple hair. A mother with a toddler in a stroller. Two old ladies were in the side seat, arguing about the price of movie tickets. A guy with a hipster beard was carrying a guitar case decorated with stickers from around the world. Normally I would have been at school at 9:47 in the morning, but I had a doctor’s appointment wi...

-Titulo Original : Unsinkable Five Men And The Indomitable Run Of The Uss Plunkett-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: In the bestselling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a “captivating…gripping” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) account of the USS Plunkett-a US Navy destroyer that sustained the most harrowing attack on any Navy ship by the Germans during World War II, later made famous by John Ford and Herman Wouk.“A reflection on the nature of storytelling itself” (The Wall Street Journal), Unsinkable traces the individual journeys of five men on one ship from Casablanca in North Africa, to Sicily and Salerno in Italy and then on to Plunkett’s defining moment at Anzio, where a dozen-odd German bombers bore down on the ship in an assault so savage, so prolonged, and so deadly that one Navy commander was hard-pressed to think of another destroyer that had endured what Plunkett had. After a three-month overhaul and with a reputation rising as the “fightin’est ship” in the Navy, Plunkett (DD-431) plunged back into the war at Omaha Beach on D-Day, and again into battle during the invasion of Southern France-perhaps the only Navy ship to participate in every Allied invasion in the European theatre. Featuring five incredibly brave men-the indomitable skipper, who will receive the Navy Cross; the gunnery officer, who bucks the captain every step of the way to Anzio; a first lieutenant, who’s desperate to get off the ship and into the Pacific; a seventeen-year-old water tender, who’s trying to hold onto his hometown girl against all odds, and another water tender, who mans a 20mm gun when under aerial assault-the dramatic story of each plays out on the decks of the Plunkett as the ship’s story escalates on the stage of the Mediterranean. Based on Navy logs, war diaries, action reports, letters, journals, memoirs, and dozens of interviews with the men who were on the ship and their families, Unsinkable is a timeless evocation of young men stepping up to the defining experience of their lives. “If you were moved by Norman Maclean’s A River Runs Through It, by William Kent Krueger’s This Tender Land…by the values we hold dear, decency, sacrifice, steadfastness, then Unsinkable will take you to a place long dead in your soul, and flood it with light” (Doug Stanton, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Horse Soldiers). Review “Unsinkable, a fine narrative in its own right, is also a reflection on the nature of storytelling itself, as well as a valuable and entertaining contribution to the record... Mr. Sullivan takes pains to illuminate and honor a lost world.” -Wall Street Journal “Accounts of self-sacrifice and devotion to duty, especially those rendered with humility, have lately been in short supply, and we need them... In telling this story, in locating members of Plunkett’s crew and coming to know them, Sullivan performs a kind of miracle.” -Boston Globe “Captivating...Sullivan delivers a gripping account...a vivid portrait of the sailors, wives, girlfriends, and families and their world, in which the Plunkett’s battles often seem like interludes. As is typical in war, tedium was the norm, excitement came at rare intervals, and one horrendous incident ensured the ship’s place in history.” -Kirkus Reviews, STARRED review “Sullivan recreates the heat and chaos of the crew’s epic struggles to keep the Plunkett afloat, fighting onboard fires and preventing detonation of depth charges and ammunition as the ship burned. Readers, especially those with command of naval terminology, can virtually become part of the crew’s frenzied reeling as they aided their injured, dying, and dead comrades and kept the Plunkett seaworthy.” -BooklistSullivan gives voice to those lost to us now. More than merely reporting the grisly events and the heartbreaking tragedies, Sullivan captures the defining essence of something enduring but elusive. In grappling with the unspoken horros of war, Sullivan brings out a strength that sustains those willing to tap into it. -San Francisco Book Review A moving tale. -Portla...

-Titulo Original : The Agitators Three Friends Who Fought For Abolition And Womens Rights-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: An LA Times Best Book of the Year and Christopher Award Winner “Engrossing... examines the major events of the mid 19th century through the lives of three key figures in the abolitionist and women’s rights movements.” -Smithsonian From the executive editor of The New Yorker, a riveting, provocative, and revelatory history of abolition and women’s rights, told through the story of three women-Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward, and Martha Wright-in the years before, during and after the Civil War.“The Agitators tells the story of America before the Civil War through the lives of three women who advocated for the abolition of slavery and for women’s rights as the country split apart. Harriet Tubman, Martha Coffin Wright, and Frances A. Seward are the examples we need right now-another time of divisiveness and dissension over our nation’s purpose ‘to form a more perfect union.’” -Hillary Rodham Clinton In the 1850s, Harriet Tubman, strategically brilliant and uncannily prescient, rescued some seventy enslaved people from Maryland’s Eastern Shore and shepherded them north along the underground railroad. One of her regular stops was Auburn, New York, where she entrusted passengers to Martha Coffin Wright, a Quaker mother of seven, and Frances A. Seward, the wife of William H. Seward, who served over the years as governor, senator, and secretary of state under Abraham Lincoln. During the Civil War, Tubman worked for the Union Army in South Carolina as a nurse and spy, and took part in a spectacular river raid in which she helped to liberate 750 slaves from several rice plantations. Wright, a “dangerous woman” in the eyes of her neighbors, worked side by side with Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony to organize women’s rights and anti-slavery conventions across New York State, braving hecklers and mobs when she spoke. Frances Seward, the most conventional of the three friends, hid her radicalism in public, while privately acting as a political adviser to her husband, pressing him to persuade President Lincoln to move immediately on emancipation. The Agitators opens in the 1820s, when Tubman is enslaved and Wright and Seward are young homemakers bound by law and tradition, and ends after the war. Many of the most prominent figures of the era-Lincoln, William H. Seward, Frederick Douglass, Daniel Webster, Charles Sumner, John Brown, William Lloyd Garrison-are seen through the discerning eyes of the protagonists. So are the most explosive political debates: about the civil rights of African Americans and women, about the enlistment of Black troops, and about opposing interpretations of the Constitution. Through richly detailed letters from the time and exhaustive research, Wickenden traces the second American revolution these women fought to bring about, the toll it took on their families, and its lasting effects on the country. Riveting and profoundly relevant to our own time, The Agitators brings a vibrant, original voice to this transformative period in our history. Review Praise for The Agitators An LA Times Best Book of 2021 and Christopher Award Winner This collective biography, our reviewer, Jane Kamensky, wrote, draws out the distinct voices of its characters while molding them into a rich ensemble. Wickenden’s book about the alliance that formed between Harriet Tubman, Frances Seward and Martha Coffin Wright, she added, is a masterpiece of structure, demonstrating prodigious narrative control.” -New York Times Book Review Wickenden, executive editor of the New Yorker, does an almost perfect job of braiding together the stories of three very different women. -Los Angeles Times The Agitators is an impressive narrative of three women who were at the center of a burgeoning movement. Their trailblazing path is captured and related deftly by the author, their triumphs and tragedies narrated emphatically for a modern audience. All three women lived and breathed for the freedom of ...

-Titulo Original : The Hard Crowd Essays 2000-2020-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: “The Hard Crowd is wild, wide-ranging, and unsparingly intelligent throughout.” -Taylor Antrim, Vogue From a writer celebrated for her “chops, ambition, and killer instinct” (John Powers, Fresh Air), a career-spanning collection of spectacular essays about politics and culture.Rachel Kushner has established herself as “the most vital and interesting American novelist working today” (The Millions) and as a master of the essay form. In The Hard Crowd, she gathers a selection of her writing from over the course of the last twenty years that addresses the most pressing political, artistic, and cultural issues of our times-and illuminates the themes and real-life experiences that inform her fiction. In twenty razor-sharp essays, The Hard Crowd spans literary journalism, memoir, cultural criticism, and writing about art and literature, including pieces on Jeff Koons, Denis Johnson, and Marguerite Duras. Kushner takes us on a journey through a Palestinian refugee camp, an illegal motorcycle race down the Baja Peninsula, 1970s wildcat strikes in Fiat factories, her love of classic cars, and her young life in the music scene of her hometown, San Francisco. The closing, eponymous essay is her manifesto on nostalgia, doom, and writing. These pieces, new and old, are electric, vivid, and wry, and they provide an opportunity to witness the evolution and range of one of our most dazzling and fearless writers. “Kushner writes with startling detail, imagination, and gallows humor,” said Leah Greenblatt in Entertainment Weekly, and, from Paula McLain in the Wall Street Journal: “The authority and precision of Kushner’s writing is impressive, but it’s the gorgeous ferocity that will stick with me.” Review Praise for THE HARD CROWD Named a Best Book of 2021 by The AV Club, Booklist, and Vogue! “I honestly dont know how she is able to know so much (about motorcycle racing, Italian radical politics) and convey all of it in such a completely entertaining and mesmerizing way.” -George Saunders “This is a book of attitude-attitude distilled so finely it becomes philosophy, a matter of telling truth from lie.” -Greil Marcus “In her first book of essays, The Hard Crowd, the novelist Rachel Kushner reminds us that she writes as well as any writer alive about the pleasure of a good motor doing what it was designed to do… There are intuitive appraisals of writers such as Denis Johnson, Clarice Lispector, Marguerite Duras and Cormac McCarthy… There are a pair of long, moving essays about growing up semi-feral in San Francisco in the late 1970s and early ’80s… But The Hard Crowd swings back around to engines and to motion. The author had found wings; she meant to use them. We watch her move her soul around…[Kushner has a] wary voice, cool and wise, with real power and control…[and] typical aphoristic grace.” -Dwight Garner, The New York Times “[Kushner’s] writing is magnetized by outlaw sensibility, hard lives lived at a slant, art made in conditions of ferment and unrest … She’s mining a rich seam of specificity, her writing charged by the dangers she ran up against. And then there’s the frank pleasure of her sentences … I’m glad to taste something this sharp, this smart.” -Olivia Laing, The Guardian “Readers of Kushner’s high-voltage novels, including The Mars Room, can’t help but wonder about the source of her far-roaming and omnivorous imagination. Much is revealed in this vitalizing essay collection. Kushner’s autobiographical pieces illuminate complicated aspects of her adventurous life and why and how she developed the skills to write about it with such breath-catching clarity and polished rigor, the literary equivalent of the fine-tuned mechanics of the motorcycles and classic cars she treasures…riveting…astute and vigorous…tell she does, steering her way through perilous curves with steely agility and purpose, leaving her passengers exultant and enlightened.” -Donna Seaman, Booklist, STARRED review “Th...

-Titulo Original : Lying For Money How Legendary Frauds Reveal The Workings Of The World-Fabricante : Scribner-Descripcion Original: An entertaining, deeply informative explanation of how high-level financial crimes work, written “with verve and wit” (The Sunday Times, London)by an industry insider who’s an expert in the field.The way most white-collar crime works is by manipulating institutional psychology. That means creating something that looks as much as possible like a normal set of transactions. The drama comes later, when it all unwinds. Financial crime seems horribly complicated, but there are only so many ways you can con someone out of what’s theirs. In Lying for Money, veteran regulatory economist and market analyst Dan Davies tells the story of fraud through a genealogy of financial malfeasance, including: the Great Salad Oil swindle, the Pigeon King International fraud, the fictional British colony of Poyais in South America, the Boston Ladies’ Deposit Company, the Portuguese Banknote Affair, Theranos, and the Bre-X scam. Davies brings new insights into these schemes and shows how all frauds, current and historical, belong to one of four categories (“long firm,” counterfeiting, control fraud, and market crimes) and operate on the same basic principles. The only elements that change are the victims, the scammers, and the terminology. Revealing some of the most famous frauds of the modern age, Davies explains how fraud has shaped the entire development of the modern world economy. For those “who like their true-crime stories laced with economics will enjoy these forays into the dark side” (Kirkus Reviews) this is a gripping and vivid look at modern market societies. Review “If you want to learn to fend [off] fraud, read this. And if you want to commit fraud ... dont. But if you absolutely must, first read this.” -Nassim Nicholas Taleb“An engaging and indispensable guide for novice fraudsters - and for those who want to keep out of their clutches.” -John Kay, author of Other People’s Money“Swindling is never a black and white business, and Davies is good on the shades of grey in fraud-land.”-Financial Times “Readers who like their true-crime stories laced with economics will enjoy these forays into the dark side.” -Kirkus Reviews“Dan Davies tells all these stories with verve and wit ... Much of the book is a romp through the crimes of scoundrels - Ponzi, Madoff, Keating, the Krays ... Yet what takes it from absorbing to excellent is the authors insight. Read Lying for Money and you will look at fraud in a whole new way. Actually, you will look at every market transaction you take part in in a whole new way.” -Sunday Times (UK) About the Author Dan Davies is a former regulatory economist at the Bank of England and analyst for a number of investment banks. His career has seen him tackle all manner of financial crookedness, including the LIBOR and FX scandals, the collapse of Anglo Irish Bank, and the Swiss Nazi gold scandal. The author of Lying for Money, he has written for the Financial Times and The New Yorker, among other publications. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Chapter 1: The Way of the World Chapter 1: The Way of the World I am sorry guys but I have scammed you. I am not going to try to justify it with my reasons, I am just a terrible person. I am sorry for each and every person affected. I am ashamed about the way I have deceived so many people for my own personal gain. For what it is worth, the money is not going to stupid lifestyle enriching purposes. Even though I could likely go on for a few more days making fake promises and feedback I have reached my goal and will lock myself out of my account. For anyone interested. This started on 19-22 December. After that I have not had a single gram of weed or hash in stock. That is all I had to say. That was the message received by customers of 9THWONDER, an online drug dealer on a marketplace known as “Evolution” when they logged on in January 2015 to check why their merchandise hadn’t arrived. The apology and...