-Titulo Original : The Mirror Man A Novel (killer Instinct)-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: #1 INTERNATIONAL BEST SELLER * Detective Joona Linna is on the trail of a kidnapper who targets teenage girls and makes their worst nightmares a reality. Dark, disturbing, and chillingly relentless. Picture Hannibal Lecter sitting down to channel Stieg Larsson and then dial it way, way up! -Brad Thor, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Black IceSixteen-year-old Jenny Lind is kidnapped in broad daylight on her way home from school and thrown into the back of a truck. She’s taken to a dilapidated house, where she and other girls face horrors far beyond their worst nightmares. Though they’re desperate to escape, their captor foils everyone of their attempts. Five years later, Jenny’s body is found hanging in a playground, strung up with a winch on a rainy night. As the police are scrambling to find a lead in the scant evidence, Detective Joona Linna recognizes an eerie connection between Jenny’s murder and a death declared a suicide years before. And when another teenage girl goes missing, it becomes clear to Joona that they’re dealing with a serial killer-and his murderous rampage may have just begun. Review Stellar.... The ability of Kepler (the pen name of Alexander and Alexandra Ahndoril) to ratchet up the tension en route to a stunning reveal and an eminently fair solution is remarkable. This merits comparisons with the best of Thomas Harris. -Publishers Weekly (starred)A bar-raising entry in a series that unfailingly blends streamlined plotting, smart psychological suspense, and explosive conclusions with gritty portrayals of human evil. -BooklistDark, disturbing, and chillingly relentless. Picture Hannibal Lecter sitting down to channel Stieg Larsson and then dial it way, way up! -Brad Thor, #1 New York Times best-selling author of Black Ice“Chilling, nerve-shredding, clever, and impossibly dark. Lars Kepler has that rare ability to take you to the very edge, and hold you there until the final page.” -Chris Whitaker, New York Times best-selling author of We Begin at the End “As dark and chilling as a Swedish winter, Lars Kepler’s The Mirror Man is a riveting read. Joona Linna finds himself up against his most dangerous adversary yet-a kidnapper of girls whose cruelty throws back a reflection of the deepest kind of human evil. Those who love their Scandinavian crime fiction intense, twisty, and psychologically terrifying will be unable to put this one down.” -Gregg Hurwitz, New York Times #1 internationally best-selling author of the Orphan X series About the Author LARS KEPLER is the pseudonym of the critically acclaimed husband-and-wife team Alexandra Coelho Ahndoril and Alexander Ahndoril. Their number one internationally best-selling Killer Instinct series has sold more than 15 million copies in forty languages. The Ahndorils were both established writers before they adopted the pen name Lars Kepler and have each published several acclaimed novels. They live in Stockholm, Sweden. Translated by Alice Menzies. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. 1THROUGH THE CLASSROOMS GRIMY WINDOWS, ELEONOR watches the bushes and trees bend in the stiff breeze as dust is blown along the road.It almost looks like a river is flowing outside the school, murky and silent.The bell rings, and the students gather up their books and notes. Eleonor gets to her feet and follows the others out of the classroom.She watches Jenny Lind button her jacket in front of her locker. Her face and blond hair are reflected in the dented metal.Jenny is pretty, different. She has intense eyes that make Eleonor feel nervous, make her cheeks flush.Jenny is artistic. She likes taking photos, and she also happens to be the only person in school who actually enjoys reading. When she turned sixteen last week, Eleonor said “Happy birthday” to her.But no one cares about Eleonor. She isn’t attractive enough, and she knows it, even if Jenny once said she wanted to take a serie...

-Titulo Original : The Aftermath-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: About the Author Rhidian Brook is an award-winning writer of fiction, television, and film. His debut novel, The Testimony of Taliesin Jones, won the Somerset Maugham Award, a Betty Trask Award, and the Author’s Club Best First Novel Award. His stories have appeared in The Paris Review and New Statesman. He lives in London with his wife and two children. Set in post-war Germany, the international bestseller The Aftermath by Rhidian Brook is a stunning emotional thriller about our fiercest loyalties and our deepest desires. In the bitter winter of 1946, Rachael Morgan arrives with her only remaining son Edmund in the ruins of Hamburg. Here she is reunited with her husband Lewis, a British colonel charged with rebuilding the shattered city. But as they set off for their new home, Rachael is stunned to discover that Lewis has made an extraordinary decision: they will be sharing the grand house with its previous owners, a German widower and his troubled daughter. In this charged atmosphere, enmity and grief give way to passion and betrayal. Review Rhidian Brook’s arresting novel brings vividly to life a little-told aspect of World War II.” -Claire MessudSuperb. . . . Conjures surprise after surprise as it shows how the forces of politics and history penetrate even the most intimate moments of its characters emotional lives. -The Guardian (London)A brilliant novel. . . . A moving, always enthralling journey into the dark and light of history. -Joseph ONeill, author of NetherlandA captivating tale of love among the ruins but also of treachery and vengeance. . . . It poses many complex questions. -Literary ReviewReading The Aftermath, one cant help but wonder if this is the sort of literary memorialization . . . that Sebald might have wished for. -The Washington Post“A fine, moving novel. . . . Brook addresses weighty themes-forgiveness, familial loss-with a light touch . . . . Bring[s] to mind no less a novel than J.G. Ballard’s Empire of the Sun.” -Financial Times “Brook is wonderful at evoking the atmosphere of this forgotten time and place. . . . Brook handles the often shocking turn of events with a spareness matched to the harshness of that winter . . . There is much to think about here. It is a moral book but not a moralising one.” -The Times (London) “Engrossing. . . . Brook is a master with mixing the mundane details with characters’ trials and tribulations. . . . This story of passion, betrayal and ultimate truth and forgiveness will have you hooked.” -Portland Book Review “Profoundly moving. . . . Brook’s beautifully written novel ponders issues of decency, guilt and forgiveness. . . . The meticulous integrity of [his] prose style builds a narrative of chastened humans . . . turning back from the brink.” -The Independent (London) “Masterly. . . . The story develops with many a deft twist. . . . Brook wrings every drop of feeling out of a gripping human situation, and his vignettes of war-ravaged Hamburg are superb.” -Mail on Sunday “A stylish, heart-searching, and convincing story. . . . Memorably refashions this period.” -The Herald (Scotland) “An entertaining blend of romance, history and suspense, one to which Brook’s style is perfectly suited: it’s sturdy, stripped down with the just the right amount of gnarled beauty poking through the cracks.” -The Toronto Star “Rhidian Brook takes a piece of history I thought I knew well and breaks it open; The Aftermath is a compelling, surprising, and moving novel.” -Sadie Jones, author of The Uninvited Guests “Riveting. . . . Emotionally charged. . . . Fans of WWII-era historical fiction will be drawn to this novel.” -Publishers Weekly Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. “We’ve found a house for you, sir.” Captain Wilkins stubbed out his cigarette and placed his yellowed finger on the map of Hamburg that was pinned to the wall behind his desk. He traced a line west from the pinhead mark...

-Titulo Original : Where Im Calling From Selected Stories-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: Review The summation of a triumphant career from one of the great short story writers of our time--of any time. (The Philadelphia Inquirer)[Raymond Carver is] one of the true contemporary masters. -The New York Review of Books[Carvers stories] can...be counted among the masterpieces of American fiction. -Irving Howe, The New York Times Book Review[These stories] overflow with the danger, excitement, mystery and possibility of life.... Carver is a writer of astonishing compassion and honesty, his eye set on describing and revealing the world as he sees it. His eye is so clear, it almost breaks your heart. -The Washington Post Book World By the time of his early death in 1988, Raymond Carver had established himself as one of the great practitioners of the American short story, a writer who had not only found his own voice but imprinted it in the imaginations of thousands of readers. Where I’m Calling From, his last collection, encompasses classic stories from Cathedral, What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, and earlier Carver volumes, along with seven new works previously unpublished in book form. Together, these 37 stories give us a superb overview of Carver’s life work and show us why he was so widely imitated but never equaled. Review The last story collection published during Carvers life (he died in 1988) contains most of his greatest hits from his earlier books, as well as seven stories that hadnt been collected up to that point. The breadth of the collection makes these 37 stories an extremely complete map of Carver territory, of a particular area of America and of the specific texture of the people Carver writes about -- their difficult attempts at survival in a world where happiness does not arrive wrapped up in neat packages but comes in far more peculiar parcels, if it comes at all. From the Inside Flap ection of Carvers short stories, including seven new stories written shortly before the authors death in 1988. From the Back Cover A major collection of Carvers short stories, including seven new stories written shortly before the authors death in 1988. About the Author Raymond Carver was born in Clatskanie, Oregon, in 1938. His first collection of stories, Will You Please Be Quiet, Please (a National Book Award nominee in 1977), was followed by What We Talk About When We Talk About Love, Cathedral (nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1984), and Where Im Calling From in 1988, when he was inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He died August 2, 1988, shortly after completing the poems of A New Path to the Waterfall...

-Titulo Original : How To Set A Fire And Why A Novel (vintage Contemporaries)-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: “Ball has created a voice that echoes the beloved narrators of J. D. Salinger and John Green. . . . With her tragic past, brilliant mind and subversive potential, Lucia could be thought of as a young Lisbeth Salander, or a high-IQ, antiheroic Katniss Everdeen, but with a better sense of humor.” -NewsdayLucia Stanton’s father is dead, her mother is in a mental hospital, and she’s recently been kicked out of school-again. Living with her aunt in a garage-turned-bedroom, and armed with only a book, a Zippo lighter, and a pocketful of stolen licorice, she spends her days riding the bus to visit her mom and following the only rule that makes any sense: Don’t do things you aren’t proud of. When Lucia discovers that her school has a secret Arson Club, her life is suddenly lit up; she’ll do anything to join. Edgy, raw, and hilarious, How to Set a Fire and Why is a thrilling story about growing up the hard way. Review “A high-spirited, edgy coming-of-age novel… Ball has created a voice that echoes the beloved narrators of J.D. Salinger and John Green… With her tragic past, brilliant mind and subversive potential, Lucia could be thought of as a young Lisbeth Salander, or a high-IQ, antiheroic Katniss Everdeen, but with a better sense of humor… This is perfect summer reading.” -Marion Wink, Newsday“The most remarkable achievement of this novel is its narrative voice. It belongs to Lucia Stanton, the novel’s disaffected, Holden Caulfield-style young narrator and heroine. Lucia is a marvelous creation and the richness of her voice - its intelligence, its casual precision - is felt on the very first page…. Sometimes, you hear the ghost of Kazuo Ishiguro’s flat, chilly style. At other times… Borges-like parable cross-pollinates with Margaret Atwood-style dystopia.” -Anthony Domestico, The Boston Globe “Extremely well done: swift, sharp-tongued and enlivened by cockeyed humor.” -The Wall Street Journal How to Set a Fire and Why is a rare and startling work. Days after I read it, I find that I cant stop thinking about it, and what Ive realized is that this is a book I will not forget. This is a harrowing, subtle, and absolutely electrifying novel. -Emily St. John Mandel, bestselling author of Station Eleven “Characterized by Balls stand-out prose, this book will find you in the deepest places.” -Bustle “In Jesse Ball’s sixth novel-part thriller, part coming-of-age story-a teenager seeks escape through fire. . . . One of the triumphs of the novel is the delicacy with which Ball opens his narrator’s smart-aleck voice just wide enough to admit a sincere measure of wonder and dread. . . . Ball calls himself a fabulist but he is also a deeply moral writer, with a fine sense of tragedy. His view of the world might be described as tender nihilism. . . . Ball’s novels, despite their gamesmanship, eerie mysteries, and senseless acts of violence, are ultimately celebrations of compassion-our best hedge against suffering. . . . He poses an alternative vision of reality, filled with grand conspiracies united against oppressive systems of rule, Byzantine puzzles that can be solved with ingenuity, and romantic acts of heroism. His fiction is suffused with a melancholy that derives from the knowledge that the real world is indifferent to such elegant fantasies. . . . Ball invites his readers to join a secret confederacy that rejects modern life’s false parade of garbage. It is a confederacy that accepts the implacable demands of entropy and death but nevertheless seeks comfort in puzzle-solving, the exhilaration of a caper, and selfless acts of compassion.” -Nathaniel Rich, The Atlantic “Ball’s surreal novels… have made him into one of the most acclaimed experimental writers to come out of Chicago in years. Ball, who was just named a Guggenheim fellow, creates worlds that exist somewhere between the known and the unknown, the real and the absurd… His work has garnered attention… for its ingenious dep...

-Titulo Original : Someone Who Will Love You In All Your Damaged Glory Stories-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: Written with all the scathing dark humor that is a hallmark of BoJack Horseman, Raphael Bob-Waksberg delivers a fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love-the best and worst thing in the universe. Featuring: * A young engaged couple forced to deal with interfering relatives dictating the appropriate number of ritual goat sacrifices for their wedding. * A pair of lonely commuters who ride the subway in silence, forever, eternally failing to make that longed-for contact. * A struggling employee at a theme park of U.S. presidents who discovers that love can’t be genetically modified. And fifteen more tales of humor, romance, whimsy, cultural commentary, and crushing emotional vulnerability. Review ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR * THE A.V. CLUB “Transcendent tragicomedy. . . . Prepare to be devastated and made whole again.” -The A.V. Club “EXTREMELY MY SH*T.” -Samantha Irby, author of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life “Continues to surprise and delight.” -The Washington Post “Wonderfully weird.” -Vulture “Complex, daring, emotional, and unique.” -B. J. Novak, author of One More Thing “Heartrending. . . . Poignant.” -The Atlantic “Sidesplitting. . . . Bizarre and hilarious.” -Shelf Awareness (starred review) “[These stories] conjure struggles for connection in grimly surreal alternative realities that recall the probing comic imaginings of George Saunders.” -Los Angeles Times “Showcases Bob-Waksberg’s talent for conjuring fantastical scenarios and writing about them with a straight face. . . . Human relationships, he seems to be saying, are weirder than anything else our imaginations can come up with.” -NPR “I can say without hesitation that the collection surpasses my impossibly high expectations. . . . A tremendous debut.” -Ian Mond, Locus “These stories, while infused with elements of fantasy, made me feel and feel more connected to the human condition.” -Elise Hu, TED Talks Daily “These tales are heartfelt and funny, a winning combo. Dazzled by the wit, you’ll be surprised when you start tearing up at the sincere turn.” -Read It Forward “Wonderfully absurd and unexpectedly moving. . . . These stories are at times poignant and triumphantly silly, but always manage to ring true.” -Publishers Weekly “Bob-Waksberg’s fiction debut will capture many readers with its formal innovation, playful language, and relatable portraits of romance gone awry.” -Booklist “Sometimes-whimsical, sometimes-biting short fictions. . . . A savage sendup of love in all its dubious glory.” -Kirkus Reviews “[These stories] keep us engaged and on our toes. With love, your Nana.” -Shirley Bob, author’s grandmother “Very moving and true to today’s society. Im so proud of my little Raphi.” -Florence Waksberg, author’s grandmother About the Author Raphael Bob-Waksberg is the creator and executive producer of the Netflix series BoJack Horseman. This is his first book. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The Serial Monogamist’s Guide to Important New York City Landmarks Towering over the east side of Fifth Avenue, between Fiftieth and Fifty-First Streets, you’ll find the majestic St. Patrick’s Cathedral, historically significant as the place where you and Eric sat on the steps and ate frozen yogurt that time. Should you happen upon this neo-Gothic-style still-active Roman Catholic church, you’ll be instantly transported to that ancient day, several summers prior, when the two of you were finally getting along again, for the first time in what seemed like forever. It felt like old times, this excursion into Manhattan, and you smiled as the sticky-sweet swirl of hazelnut and banana melted down your arm. At one point, Eric looked at you and, grinning, said, “Hey, you’ve got a little . . .” and as he reached for your face, you instinctively jerked away from his hand. You didn’t mean anything by it, this flinch-it just happened-but in an instant, the whole day fell apart...

-Titulo Original : Cutting For Stone-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: NATIONAL BESTSELLER * Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother’s death and their father’s disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, Cutting for Stone is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles-and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined. This sweeping, emotionally riveting novel that shows how history and landscape and accidents of birth conspire to create the story of a single life (Los Angeles Times) is an enthralling family saga of Africa and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. Review ONE OF THE ATLANTICS 15 BOOKS YOU WONT REGRET RE-READING “A winner. . . . Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters. . . . Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist.” -USA Today “A masterpiece. . . . Not a word is wasted in this larger-than-life saga. . . . Verghese expertly weaves the threads of numerous story lines into one cohesive opus. The writing is graceful, the characters compassionate and the story full of nuggets of wisdom.” -San Francisco Chronicle “Lush and exotic. . . . The kind [of novel] Richard Russo or Cormac McCarthy might write. . . . Shows how history and landscape and accidents of birth conspire to create the story of a single life. . . . Verghese creates this story so lovingly that it is actually possible to live within it for the brief time one spends with this book. You may never leave the chair.” -Los Angeles Times “Vivid. . . . Cutting for Stone shines.” -The Washington Post Book World “Absorbing, exhilarating. . . . If you’re hungry for an epic . . . open the covers of Cutting for Stone, [then] don’t expect to do much else.” -The Seattle Times “Wildly imaginative. . . . Verghese has the rare gift of showing his characters in different lights as the story evolves, from tragedy to comedy to melodrama, with an ending that is part Dickens, part Grey’s Anatomy. The novel works as a family saga, but it is also something more, a lovely ode to the medical profession.” -Entertainment Weekly “Compelling. . . . Readers will put this novel down at book’s end knowing that it will stick with them for a long time to come.” -St. Louis Post-Dispatch “The novel is full of compassion and wise vision. . . . I feel I changed forever after reading this book, as if an entire universe had been illuminated for me. It’s an astonishing accomplishment to make such a foreign world familiar to a reader by the book’s end.” -Sandra Cisneros, San Antonio Express-News “Tremendous. . . . Vivid and thrilling. . . . I feel lucky to have gotten to read it.” -Atul Gawande “The first novel from physician Verghese displays the virtues so evident in his bestselling and much-lauded memoirs. He has a knack for well-structured scenes, a passion for medicine and a gift for communicating that passion.” -Cleveland Plain-Dealer “Fantastic. . . . Written with a lyrical flair, told through a compassionate first-person point of view, and rich with medical insight and information, [Cutting for Stone] makes for a memorable read.” -Houston Chronicle “Vastly entertaining and enlightening.” -Tracy Kidder About the Author Abraham Verghese is Professor and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine. The founding director of the Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics at the University of Texas Health Science Center, San Antonio, he is the author of My Own Country, a 1994 National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist and a Time Best Book of the Year; The Tennis Partner, a New York Times Notable Book; and, most recently, the critically acclaimed novel Cutting for Stone, which was a national bestseller. A graduate of the I...

-Titulo Original : The Plague-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: “Its relevance lashes you across the face.” -Stephen Metcalf, The Los Angeles Times * “A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even in a time of despair.” -Roger Lowenstein, The Washington Post A haunting tale of human resilience and hope in the face of unrelieved horror, Albert Camus iconic novel about an epidemic ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror. An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of Frances suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a timeless story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence. Review The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately through the city, taking a vast percentage of the population with it. Review “The novel could be issuing a warning. . . Under what conditions can the truth of social deprivation be seen?” -Jacqueline Rose, London Review of Books (Pointing the Finger: Jacqueline Rose on The Plague) “Camus is a thinker of our age. . . [The Plague] is a testament to hope, resistance, and humanity.” -Mugambi Jouet,Boston Review (Reading Camus in Time of Plague and Polarization) “[Camus] believed that the actual historical incidents we call plagues are merely concentrations of a universal precondition, dramatic instances of a perpetual rule: that all human beings are vulnerable to being randomly exterminated at any time, by a virus, an accident or the actions of our fellow man . . . He speaks to us in our own times not because he was a magical seer who could intimate what the best epidemiologists could not, but because he correctly sized up human nature.” -Alain de Botton, The New York Times (“Camus on the Coronavirus”) “Its relevance lashes you across the face . . . At first, the epidemic, like all catastrophes, secretly confirms what everyone knew already; that is, it extends the narcissism of the times into the new era, often via the forbidden hope - that it will smite one’s enemies while sparing oneself . . . Eventually, the town lapses into a kind of collective despondency with one predictable exception: the enduring complacency of ‘a privileged few, those with money to burn.’” -Stephen Metcalf, The Los Angeles Times (“Albert Camus’ The Plague and our own Great Reset”) “The microbe has no meaning; we seek to create one in the chaos it brings . . . The plague, as Camus insisted, exposes existing fractures in societies, in class structure and individual character; under stress, we see who we really are.” -Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker (“The Coronavirus Crisis Reveals New York at Its Best and Worst”) “Through his characters, Camus examines how people respond as individuals - and as part of a collective - to suffering and death. Whether it is a solitary experience or a show of social solidarity, nobody is indifferent.” -Kim Willsher, The Guardian (“Albert Camus novel The Plague leads surge of pestilence fiction”) “[In The Plague], Camus’s canonical treatment of a fictional bubonic plague outbreak in the Algerian city of Oran, the Nobel laureate trained a piercing eye on life under quarantine, with all its strangeness and misery. But the novel also takes seriously the lessons these trying moments can teach - treats them, even, as a kind of redemption.” -Eric Andrew-Gee, The Globe and Mail ...

-Titulo Original : An Unquiet Mind A Memoir Of Moods And Madness-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: Review In Touched with Fire, Kay Redfield Jamison, a psychiatrist, turned a mirror on the creativity so often associated with mental illness. In this book she turns that mirror on herself. With breathtaking honesty she tells of her own manic depression, the bitter costs of her illness, and its paradoxical benefits: There is a particular kind of pain, elation, loneliness and terror involved in this kind of madness.... It will never end, for madness carves its own reality. This is one of the best scientific autobiographies ever written, a combination of clarity, truth, and insight into human character. We are all, as Byron put it, differently organized, Jamison writes. We each move within the restraints of our temperament and live up only partially to its possibilities. Jamisons ability to live fully within her limitations is an inspiration to her fellow mortals, whatever our particular burdens may be. --Mary Ellen Curtin WITH A NEW PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR In her bestselling classic, An Unquiet Mind, Kay Redfield Jamison changed the way we think about moods and madness. Dr. Jamison is one of the foremost authorities on manic-depressive (bipolar) illness; she has also experienced it firsthand. For even while she was pursuing her career in academic medicine, Jamison found herself succumbing to the same exhilarating highs and catastrophic depressions that afflicted many of her patients, as her disorder launched her into ruinous spending sprees, episodes of violence, and an attempted suicide. Here Jamison examines bipolar illness from the dual perspectives of the healer and the healed, revealing both its terrors and the cruel allure that at times prompted her to resist taking medication. An Unquiet Mind is a memoir of enormous candor, vividness, and wisdom-a deeply powerful book that has both transformed and saved lives. From Publishers Weekly Jamisons memoir springs from her dual perspective as both a psychiatric expert in manic depression and a sufferer of the disease. Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review “An invaluable memoir of manic depression, at once medically knowledgeable, deeply human and beautifully written . . . at times poetic, at times straightforward, always unashamedly honest.” -The New York Times Book Review “Stands alone in the literature of manic-depression for its bravery, brilliance and beauty.” -Oliver Sacks “Jamison’s [strength] is in the gutsy way she has made her disease her life’s work and in her brilliant ability to convey its joys and its anguish. . . . Extraordinary.” -Washington Post Book World “The most emotionally moving book I’ve ever read about the emotions.” -William Safire, The New York Times Magazine “Written with poetic and moving sensitivity . . . a rare and insightful view of mental illness from inside the mind of a trained specialist.” -Time “Enlighting . . . eloquent and profound.” -San Francisco Chronicle “Piercingly honest. . . . Jamison’s literary coming-out is a mark of courage.” -People “Brave, insightful, richly textured and chillingly authentic.” -Boston Globe “A riveting portrayal of a courageous brain alternating between exhilarating highs and numbing lows.” -James D. Watson, Nobel laureate and author of The Double Helix “In a most intimate and powerful telling, Jamison weaves the personal and professional threads of her life together. . . . [She] brings us inside the disease and helps us understand manic depression. . . . What comes through is a remarkably whole person with the grit to defeat her disease.” -Cleveland Plain Dealer “A riveting read. I devoured it at a single sitting and found the book almost as compelling on a second read. . . . An Unquiet Mind may well become a classic. . . . Jamison sets an example of courage.” -Howard Gardner, Nature “Stunning. . . . [An] exquisite (in both a literary and medical sense) autobiography. . . . This is an important, wonderful book.” -Jackson Clarion Ledger “E...

-Titulo Original : If Beale Street Could Talk-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: A stunning love story about a young Black woman whose life is torn apart when her lover is wrongly accused of a crime-a moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless (The New York Times Book Review). One of the best books Baldwin has ever written-perhaps the best of all. -The Philadelphia Inquirer Told through the eyes of Tish, a nineteen-year-old girl, in love with Fonny, a young sculptor who is the father of her child, Baldwin’s story mixes the sweet and the sad. Tish and Fonny have pledged to get married, but Fonny is falsely accused of a terrible crime and imprisoned. Their families set out to clear his name, and as they face an uncertain future, the young lovers experience a kaleidoscope of emotions-affection, despair, and hope. In a love story that evokes the blues, where passion and sadness are inevitably intertwined, Baldwin has created two characters so alive and profoundly realized that they are unforgettably ingrained in the American psyche. Review One of the best books Baldwin has ever written-perhaps the best of all. -The Philadelphia Inquirer A moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless.” -Joyce Carol Oates If Van Gogh was our nineteenth-century artist-saint, James Baldwin is our twentiethth-century one. -Michael Ondaatje Striking and particularly haunting.... A beauty, especially in its rendering of youthful passion. -Cosmopolitan A major work of Black American fiction.... His best novel yet, even Baldwins most devoted readers are due to be stunned by it. -The New Republic Emotional dynamite.... A powerful assault upon the cynicism that seems today to drain our determination to confront deep social problems. -Library Journal A moving, painful story, so vividly human and so obviously based on reality that it strikes us as timeless. -The New York Times Book Review About the Author JAMES BALDWIN was born in 1924 and educated in New York. He is the author of more than twenty works of fiction and nonfiction, including Go Tell It on the Mountain; Notes of a Native Son; Giovanni’s Room; Nobody Knows My Name; Another Country; The Fire Next Time; Nothing Personal; Blues for Mister Charlie; Going to Meet the Man; The Amen Corner; Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone; One Day When I Was Lost; If Beale Street Could Talk; The Devil Finds Work; Little Man, Little Man; Just Above My Head; The Evidence of Things Not Seen; Jimmy’s Blues; and The Price of the Ticket. Among the awards he has received are a Eugene F. Saxon Memorial Trust Award, a Rosenwald Fellowship, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Partisan Review Fellowship, and a Ford Foundation grant. He was made a Commander of the Legion of Honor in 1986. He died in 1987. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Troubled About My Soul I look at myself in the mirror. I know that I was christened Clementine, and so it would make sense if people called me Clem, or even, come to think of it, Clementine, since thats my name: but they dont. People call me Tish. I guess that makes sense, too. Im tired, and Im beginning to think that maybe everything that happens makes sense. Like, if it didnt make sense, how could it happen? But thats really a terrible thought. It can only come out of trouble--trouble that doesnt make sense. Today, I went to see Fonny. Thats not his name, either, he was christened Alonzo: and it might make sense if people called him Lonnie. But, no, weve always called him Fonny. Alonzo Hunt, thats his name. Ive known him all my life, and I hope Ill always know him. But I only call him Alonzo when I have to break down some real heavy shit to him. Today, I said, --Alonzo--? And he looked at me, that quickening look he has when I call him by his name. Hes in jail. So where we were, I was sitting on a bench in front of a board, and he was sitting on a bench in front ...

-Titulo Original : Grendel-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: This classic and much lauded retelling of Beowulf follows the monster Grendel as he learns about humans and fights the war at the center of the Anglo Saxon classic epic. An extraordinary achievement.-New York Times The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic Beowulf, tells his own side of the story in this frequently banned book. This is the novel William Gass called one of the finest of our contemporary fictions. Review Grendel is a beautiful and heartbreaking modern retelling of the Beowulf epic from the point of view of the monster, Grendel, the villain of the 8th-century Anglo-Saxon epic. This book benefits from both of Gardners careers: in addition to his work as a novelist, Gardner was a noted professor of medieval literature and a scholar of ancient languages. From the Inside Flap The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic BEOWULF, tells his side of the story. From the Back Cover The first and most terrifying monster in English literature, from the great early epic BEOWULF, tells his side of the story. About the Author JOHN GARDNER received wide acclaim for his novels, his collections of short stories and his critical works. He was born in Batavia, New York in 1933 and taught English, Anglo-Saxon and creative writing in Oberlin, Chico State College, San Francisco State, Southern Illinois, Bennington and SUNY-Binghamton. His books include The Art of Fiction, The Art of Living, Grendel, Jason, and Media, The Life and Times of Chaucer, Mickelssons Ghosts, Nickel Mountain, October Light, The resurrection, The Sunlight Dialogues, Stillness and Shadows, and various books for children. He died in a motorcycle accident in 1982...

-Titulo Original : The Way Of Zen-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: In his definitive introduction to Zen Buddhism, Alan Watts (the perfect guide for a course correction in life -Deepak Chopra), explains the principles and practices of this ancient religion. With a rare combination of freshness and lucidity, he delves into the origins and history of Zen to explain what it means for the world today with incredible clarity. Watts saw Zen as “one of the most precious gifts of Asia to the world,” and in The Way of Zen he gives this gift to readers everywhere. “Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Watts had the rare gift of ‘writing beautifully the unwritable.’” -Los Angeles Times Review After D.T. Suzuki, Alan Watts stands as the godfather of Zen in America. Often taken to task for inspiring the flimsy spontaneity of Beat Zen, Watts had an undeniably keen understanding of his subject. Nowhere is this more evident than in his 1957 classic The Way of Zen, which has been reissued. Watts takes the reader back to the philosophical foundations of Zen in the conceptual world of Hinduism, follows Buddhisms course through the development of the early Mahayana school, the birth of Zen from Buddhisms marriage with Chinese Taoism, and on to Zens unique expression in Japanese art and life. As a Westerner, Watts anticipates the stumbling blocks encountered with such concepts as emptiness and no-mind, then illustrates with flawlessly apt examples. Many popular books have been written on Zen since Watts time, but few have been able to muster the rare combination of erudition and clarity that have kept The Way of Zen in readers hands decade after decade. --Brian Bruya Review “Perhaps the foremost interpreter of Eastern disciplines for the contemporary West, Watts had the rare gift of ‘writing beautifully the unwritable.’” -Los Angeles Times About the Author Alan W. Watts, who held both a master’s degree in theology and a doctorate of divinity, is best remembered as an interpreter of Zen Buddhism in particular, and of Indian and Chinese philosophy in general. Standing apart, however, from sectarian membership, he has earned the reputation of being one of the most original and “unrutted” philosophers of the twentieth century. Watts was the author of some twenty books on the philosophy and psychology of religion that have been published in many languages throughout the world, including the bestselling The Way of Zen. An avid lecturer, Watts appeared regularly on the radio and hosted the popular television series, Eastern Wisdom and Modern Life,in the 1960s. He died in 1973...

-Titulo Original : Learned Optimism How To Change Your Mind And Your Life-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: About the Author MARTIN E.P. SELIGMAN, PH.D., professor of psychology at the University of Pennsylvania and a past president of the American Psychological Association, is a leading motivational expert and an authority on learned helplessness. His many books include Authentic Happinessand The Optimistic Child. Dr. Seligmans research has been supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the National Institute on Aging, the National Science Foundation, the MacArthur Foundation, and the Guggenheim Foundation. NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The father of positive psychology draws on more than twenty years of clinical research to show you how to overcome depression, boost your immune system, and make yourself happier. Vaulted me out of my funk.... So, fellow moderate pessimists, go buy this book. -The New York Times Book Review Offering many simple techniques anyone can practice, Dr. Seligman explains how to break an “I-give-up” habit, develop a more constructive explanatory style for interpreting your behavior, and experience the benefits of a more positive interior dialogue. With generous additional advice on how to encourage optimistic behavior at school, at work and in children, Learned Optimism is both profound and practical-and valuable for every phase of life. Review “Vaulted me out of my funk.... So, fellow moderate pessimists, go buy this book.-The New York Times Book Review One of the most important books of the century--an absolute must-read for all persons interested in genuinely understanding and helping our fellow human beings.”-Dr. Robert H. Schuller, author of Tough Times Never Last, But Tough People Do Dr. Seligman makes an optimistic case for optimism: you can learn it, you can measure it, you can teach it, and you will be healthier and happier for it.”-Dr. Aaron T. Beck, author of Love is Never Enough “A system for reforming the most entrenched pessimist.”-Philadelphia Daily News Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. ITwo Ways of Looking at LifeTHE FATHER is looking down into the crib at his sleeping newborn daughter, just home from the hospital. His heart is overflowing with awe and gratitude for the beauty of her, the perfection.The baby opens her eyes and stares straight up.The father calls her name, expecting that she will turn her head and look at him. Her eyes dont move.He picks up a furry little toy attached to the rail of the bassinet and shakes it, ringing the bell it contains. The babys eyes dont move.His heart has begun to beat rapidly. He finds his wife in their bedroom and tells her what just happened. She doesnt seem to respond to noise at all, he says. Its as if she cant hear.Im sure shes all right, the wife says, pulling her dressing gown around her. Together they go into the nursery.She calls the babys name, jingles the bell, claps her hands. Then she picks up the baby, who immediately perks up, wiggling and cooing.My God, the father says. Shes deaf.No shes not, the mother says. I mean, its too soon to say a thing like that. Look, shes brand-new. Her eyes dont even focus yet.But there wasnt the slightest movement, even when you clapped as hard as you could.The mother takes a book from the shelf. Lets read whats in the baby book, she says. She looks up hearing and reads out loud: Dont be alarmed if your newborn fails to startle at loud noises or fails to orient toward sound. The startle reflex and attention to sound often take some time to develop. Your pediatrician can test your childs hearing neurologically.There, the mother says. Doesnt that make you feel better?Not much, the father says. It doesnt even mention the other possibility, that the baby is deaf. And all I know is that my baby doesnt hear a thing. Ive got the worst feeling about this. Maybe its because my grandfather was deaf. If that beautiful baby is deaf and its my fault, Ill never forgive myself.Hey, wait a minute, s...

-Titulo Original : In Cold Blood-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: About the Author Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents’ divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to international prominence in 1948 with the publication of his debut novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms. Among his celebrated works are Breakfast at Tiffany’s, A Tree of Night, The Grass Harp, Summer Crossing, A Christmas Memory, and In Cold Blood, widely considered one of the greatest books of the twentieth century. Twice awarded the O. Henry Short Story Prize, Capote was also the recipient of a National Institute of Arts and Letters Creative Writing Award and an Edgar Award. He died August 25, 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday. NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The most famous true crime novel of all time chills the blood and exercises the intelligence (The New York Review of Books)-and haunted its author long after he finished writing it. On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. In one of the first non-fiction novels ever written, Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, generating both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence. Review Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there. If all Truman Capote did was invent a new genre--journalism written with the language and structure of literature--this nonfiction novel about the brutal slaying of the Clutter family by two would-be robbers would be remembered as a trail-blazing experiment that has influenced countless writers. But Capote achieved more than that. He wrote a true masterpiece of creative nonfiction. The images of this tale continue to resonate in our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter teaching a friend how to bake a cherry pie, Dick Hickocks black 49 Chevrolet sedan, Perry Smiths Gibson guitar and his dreams of gold in a tropical paradise--the blood on the walls and the final thud-snap of the rope-broken necks. Review A masterpiece ... a spellbinding work. -Life A remarkable, tensely exciting, superbly written true account. -The New York Times The best documentary account of an American crime ever written ... The book chills the blood and exercises the intelligence ... harrowing. -The New York Review of Books From the Inside Flap With the publication of this book, Capote permanently ripped through the barrier separating crime reportage from serious literature. As he reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, Capote generates suspense and empathy. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. I The Last to See Them Alive THE village of Holcomb stands on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a lonesome area that other Kansans call out there. Some seventy miles east of the Colorado border, the countryside, with its hard blue skies and desert-clear air, has an atmosphere that is rather more Far West than Middle West. The local accent is barbed with a prairie twang, a ranch-hand nasalness, and the men, many of them, wear narrow frontier trousers, Stetsons, and high-heeled boots with pointed toes. The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of g...

-Titulo Original : Chronicle Of A Death Foretold-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: NOBEL PRIZE WINNER * From the author of One Hundred Years of Solitude comes the gripping story of the murder of a young aristocrat that puts an entire society-not just a pair of murderers-on trial. A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion. Review “Exquisitely harrowing ... very strange and brilliantly conceived ... a sort of metaphysical murder mystery.” -The New York Times Book Review “This investigation of an ancient murder takes on the quality of a hallucinatory exploration, a deep, groping search into the gathering darkness of human intentions for a truth that continually slithers away.” -The New York Review of Books “Brilliant ... A small masterpiece ... we can almost see, smell and hear Garcia Marquez’s Caribbean backwater and its inhabitants.” -San Francisco Chronicle “As pungent and memorable as a sharp spice, an examination of the nature of complicity and fate ... an exquisite performance.” -The Christian Science Monitor A tour de force ... In prose that is spare yet heavy with meaning, Garcia Marquez gives us not merely a chronicle but a portrait of the town and its collective psyche ... not merely a family but an entire culture.” -The Washington Post Book World From the Inside Flap A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, an entire society--not just a pair of murderers?is put on trial. From the Back Cover A man returns to the town where a baffling murder took place 27 years earlier, determined to get to the bottom of the story. Just hours after marrying the beautiful Angela Vicario, everyone agrees, Bayardo San Roman returned his bride in disgrace to her parents. Her distraught family forced her to name her first lover; and her twin brothers announced their intention to murder Santiago Nasar for dishonoring their sister. Yet if everyone knew the murder was going to happen, why did no one intervene to stop it? The more that is learned, the less is understood, and as the story races to its inexplicable conclusion, an entire society--not just a pair of murderers--is put on trial. About the Author GABRIEL GARCÍA MÁRQUEZ was born in Colombia in 1927. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1982. He is the author of many works of fiction and nonfiction, including One Hundred Years of Solitude, Love In The Time Cholera, The Autumn Of The Patriarch, The General In His Labyrinth, and News Of A Kidnapping. He died in 2014. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. ON THE DAY they were going to kill him, Santiago Nasar got up at five-thirty in the morning to wait for the boat the bishop was coming on. Hed dreamed he was going through a grove of timber trees where a gentle drizzle was falling, and for an instant he was happy in his dream, but when he awoke he felt completely spattered with bird shit. He was always dreaming about trees,...

-Titulo Original : Girl, Interrupted-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist shed never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. Her memoir of the next two years is a poignant, honest ... triumphantly funny ... and heartbreaking story (The New York Times Book Review). The ward for teenage girls in the McLean psychiatric hospital was as renowned for its famous clientele-Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles-as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysens memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a parallel universe set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching document that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery. Review When reality got too dense for 18-year-old Susanna Kaysen, she was hospitalized. It was 1967, and reality was too dense for many people. But few who are labeled mad and locked up for refusing to stick to an agreed-upon reality possess Kaysens lucidity in sorting out a maelstrom of contrary perceptions. Her observations about hospital life are deftly rendered; often darkly funny. Her clarity about the complex province of brain and mind, of neuro-chemical activity and something more, make this book of brief essays an exquisite challenge to conventional thinking about what is normal and what is deviant. From Publishers Weekly Kaysens startling account of her two-year stay at a Boston psychiatric hospital 25 years ago was an eight-week PW bestseller. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. Review Poignant, honest and triumphantly funny ... [a] compelling and heartbreaking story. -The New York Times Book Review In piercing vignettes shadowed with humor [Kaysen] brings to life the routine of the ward and its patients.... Kaysens meditations on young women and madness form a trenchant counterpoint to the copies of her medical records that are woven into the text. -The New Yorker An eloquent and unexpectedly funny memoir. -Vanity Fair Memorable and stirring ... fascinating. A powerful examination not only of Kaysens own imperfections but of those of the system that diagnosed her. -Vogue Tough-minded ... darkly comic ... written with indelible clarity. -Newsweek [A]n account of a disturbed girls unwilling passage into womanhood ... and here is the girl, looking into our faces with urgent eyes. -Washington Post Book World At turns wry, sardonic, witty ... an unusual glimpse of a young womans experience with insanity. Kaysen presents a meaningful analysis of the dual and contradictory nature of psychiatric hospital ization as both refuge and prison. -San Francisco Chronicle From the Inside Flap In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist shed never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to McLean Hospital. She spent most of the next two years on the ward for teenage girls in a psychiatric hospital as renowned for its famous clientele--Sylvia Plath, Robert Lowell, James Taylor, and Ray Charles--as for its progressive methods of treating those who could afford its sanctuary. Kaysens memoir encompasses horror and razor-edged perception while providing vivid portraits of her fellow patients and their keepers. It is a brilliant evocation of a parallel universe set within the kaleidoscopically shifting landscape of the late sixties. Girl, Interrupted is a clear-sighted, unflinching documnet that gives lasting and specific dimension to our definitions of sane and insane, mental illness and recovery. From the Back Cover In 1967, after a session with a psychiatrist shed never seen before, eighteen-year-old Susanna Kaysen was put in a taxi and sent to ...

-Titulo Original : Overcoming Dyslexia (2020 Edition) Second Edition, Completely Revised And Updated-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: COMPLETELY REVISED AND UPDATED From one of the worlds preeminent experts on reading and dyslexia, the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical book available on identifying, understanding, and overcoming reading problems--now revised to reflect the latest research and evidence-based approaches. Dyslexia is the most common learning disorder on the planet, affecting about one in five individuals, regardless of age or gender. Now a world-renowned expert gives us a substantially updated and augmented edition of her classic work: drawing on an additional fifteen years of cutting-edge research, offering new information on all aspects of dyslexia and reading problems, and providing the tools that parents, teachers, and all dyslexic individuals need. This new edition also offers: * New material on the challenges faced by dyslexic individuals across all ages * Rich information on ongoing advances in digital technology that have dramatically increased dyslexics ability to help themselves * New chapters on diagnosing dyslexia, choosing schools and colleges for dyslexic students, the co-implications of anxiety, ADHD, and dyslexia, and dyslexia in post-menopausal women * Extensively updated information on helping both dyslexic children and adults become better readers, with a detailed home program to enhance reading * Evidence-based universal screening for dyslexia as early as kindergarten and first grade - why and how * New information on how to identify dyslexia in all age ranges * Exercises to help children strengthen the brain areas that control reading * Ways to raise a childs self-esteem and reveal her strengths * Stories of successful men, women, and young adults who are dyslexic Review “Sally Shaywitz is an amazing woman, and no one has a better understanding of dyslexia and how it affects young children. Her work in this field is unmatched. One in five children of all classes, genders, and races have dyslexia, and it must be recognized early. These children think fast but read slow, through no fault of their own. Some of them are brilliant, but their brilliance often goes unrecognized. Sally’s tireless advocacy for those who have this learning disability has to be an inspiration for anyone who values early learning, systems of intelligence, and how to combat the many false perceptions of dyslexia. Her constant fight to change public policy as it relates to the way dyslexia functions and is understood in the nation’s schools should be deeply meaningful to anyone who cares about children in today’s world.” -Bob Dylan “In this gem of a book, Dr. Sally Shaywitz uses her voice, her images, her brain-and yes, her heart-to shine a piercing and clarifying light on what we so inadequately call ‘dyslexia.’ What is more, she shows how almost everyone can overcome it.” -Daniel D. Federman, M.D., “Fascinating. . . . Shaywitz has illuminated the inner workings of dyslexic minds.” -Time “An important book.... For the first time, scientists are understanding how the brain works...in the act of reading. Front and center now is Sally Shaywitz.” -The Baltimore Sun From the Inside Flap From one of the world?s leading experts on reading and dyslexia, the most comprehensive, up-to-date, and practical book yet to help us understand, identify, and overcome the reading problems that plague American children today. For the one in every five children who has dyslexia and the millions of others who struggle to read at their own grade levels?and for their parents, teachers, and tutors?this book can make a difference. Drawing on recent scientific breakthroughs?many of them in her own laboratory?Dr. Shaywitz demystifies the subject of reading difficulties and explains how a child can be helped to become a good reader. She discusses early diagnosis in young children as well as the diagnosing of older children, young adults, and adults. Dr. Shaywitz explains why some bright adults can read only very slowly, and what they ca...

-Titulo Original : All The Pretty Horses (the Border Trilogy, Book 1)-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER * NATIONAL BESTSELLER * The first volume in the Border Trilogy, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Road All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Look for Cormac McCarthys new novel, The Passenger, coming October 22. Review Rambunctious, high-spirited ... All the Pretty Horses is a true American original. -Newsweek From the Inside Flap Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton. The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthys Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. From the Back Cover Now a major motion picture from Columbia Pictures starring Matt Damon, produced by Mike Nichols, and directed by Billy Bob Thornton. The national bestseller and the first volume in Cormac McCarthys Border Trilogy, All the Pretty Horses is the tale of John Grady Cole, who at sixteen finds himself at the end of a long line of Texas ranchers, cut off from the only life he has ever imagined for himself. With two companions, he sets off for Mexico on a sometimes idyllic, sometimes comic journey to a place where dreams are paid for in blood. Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction. About the Author The novels of the American writer, Cormac McCarthy, have received a number of literary awards, including the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the National Book Critics Circle Award. His works adapted to film include All the Pretty Horses, The Road, and No Country for Old Men the latter film receiving four Academy Awards, including the award for Best Picture. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. The candleflame and the image of the candleflame caught in the pierglass twisted and righted when he entered the hall and again when he shut the door. He took off his hat and came slowly forward. The floorboards creaked under his boots. In his black suit he stood in the dark glass where the lilies leaned so palely from their waisted cutglass vase. Along the cold hallway behind him hung the portraits of forebears only dimly known to him all framed in glass and dimly lit above the narrow wainscotting. He looked down at the guttered candlestub. He pressed his thumbprint in the warm wax pooled on the oak veneer. Lastly he looked at the face so caved and drawn among the folds of funeral cloth, the yellowed moustache, the eyelids paper thin. That was not sleeping. That was not sleeping. It was dark outside and cold and no wind. In the distance a calf bawled. He stood with his hat in his hand. You never combed your hair that way in your life, he said. Inside the house there was no sound save the ticking of the mantel clock in the front room. He went out and shut the door. Dark and cold and no wind and a thin gray reef beginning along the eastern rim of the world. He walked out on the prairie and stood holding his hat like some supplicant to the darkness over them all and he stood there for a long time. As he turned to go he heard the train. He stopped and waited for it. He could feel it under his feet. It came boring out of the east like some ribald satellite of the coming sun howling and bellowing in the distance and the long light of the headlamp running through the tangled mesquite brakes and creating out of the night the e...

-Titulo Original : As I Lay Dying The Corrected Text-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: Review Faulkners distinctive narrative structures--the uses of multiple points of view and the inner psychological voices of the characters--in one of its most successful incarnations here in As I Lay Dying. In the story, the members of the Bundren family must take the body of Addie, matriarch of the family, to the town where Addie wanted to be buried. Along the way, we listen to each of the members on the macabre pilgrimage, while Faulkner heaps upon them various flavors of disaster. Contains the famous chapter completing the equation about mothers and fish--youll see. A true 20th-century classic: Faulkner’s famed harrowing account of the Bundren family’s odyssey across the Mississippi countryside to bury Addie, their wife and mother. As I Lay Dying is one of the most influential novels in American fiction in structure, style, and drama. Narrated in turn by each of the family members, including Addie herself as well as others, the novel ranges in mood from dark comedy to the deepest pathos. “I set out deliberately to write a tour-de-force. Before I ever put pen to paper and set down the first word I knew what the last word would be and almost where the last period would fall.” -William Faulkner on As I Lay Dying This edition reproduces the corrected text of As I Lay Dying as established in 1985 by Noel Polk. Review “He is the greatest artist the South has produced. . . . Indeed, through his many novels and short stories, Faulkner fights out the moral problem which was repressed after the nineteenth century [yet] for all his concern with the South, Faulkner was actually seeking out the nature of man. Thus we must turn to him for that continuity of moral purpose which made for greatness of our classics.” -Ralph Ellison “No man ever put more of his heart and soul into the written word than did William Faulkner. If you want to know all you can about that heart and soul, the fiction where he put it is still right there.” -Eudora Welty From the Inside Flap At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren familys bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member--including Addie--and others along the way tell their private responses to Addies life. From the Back Cover At the heart of this 1930 novel is the Bundren familys bizarre journey to Jefferson to bury Addie, their wife and mother. Faulkner lets each family member--including Addie--and others along the way tell their private responses to Addies life. About the Author William Cuthbert Faulkner was born in 1897 and raised in Oxford, Mississippi, where he spent most of his life. One of the towering figures of American literature, he is the author of The Sound and the Fury, Absalom, Absalom!, and As I Lay Dying, among many other remarkablebooks. Faulkner was awarded the Nobel Prize in 1950 and France’s Legion of Honor in 1951. He died in 1962. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Darl Jewel and I come up from the field, following the path in single file. Although I am fifteen feet ahead of him, anyone watching us from the cottonhouse can see Jewels frayed and broken straw hat a full head above my own. The path runs straight as a plumb-line, worn smooth by feet and baked brick-hard by July, between the green rows of laidby cotton, to the cottonhouse in the center of the field, where it turns and circles the cottonhouse at four soft right angles and goes on across the field again, worn so by feet in fading precision. The cottonhouse is of rough logs, from between which the chinking has long fallen. Square, with a broken roof set at a single pitch, it leans in empty and shimmering dilapidation in the sunlight, a single broad window in two opposite walls giving onto the approaches of the path. When we reach it I turn and follow the path which circles the house. Jewel, fifteen feet behind me, looking straight ahead, steps in a single stride through the window. ...

-Titulo Original : The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimists Guide To The Climate Crisis-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: Book - The Future We Choose: The Stubborn Optimists Guide To The Climate Crisis Product Description A cautionary but optimistic book about the world s changing climate and the fate of humanity, from Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac who led negotiations for the United Nations during the historic Paris Agreement of 2015. The authors outline two possible scenarios for our planet. In one, they describe what life on Earth will be like by 2050 if we fail to meet the Paris Agreement s climate targets. In the other, they lay out what it will be like to live in a regenerative world that has net-zero emissions. They argue for confronting the climate crisis head-on, with determination and optimism. The Future We Choose presents our options and tells us what governments, corporations, and each of us can, and must, do to fend off disaster. Review This is one of the most inspiring books I have ever read. Yuval Harari The Paris Agreement was a landmark for humankind. In this timely and important book, two of the principal creators of that agreement show us why and how we can now realize its promise. I hope it is widely read and acted on. Jane Goodall Figueres and Rivett-Carnac dare to tell us how our response can create a better, fairer world. Naomi Klein There could not be a more important book. Richard Branson A book that shepherds climate activism from changing mental states to changing the world. . . . Th e authors recommend a mindset for climate activism that rests on three attitudes: radical optimism, endless abundance, and radical regeneration. Forbes Inspiring. . . . A practically minded manifesto for personal action in the face of climate change. Kirkus Reviews The book takes a hard look at the frightening realities of climate change but concludes that humanity can still deal with this threat. Moreover, the book presents the existential challenge of climate change as a unique opportunity to build a more just world and to make ourselves better people. Most importantly, the book adopts a very practical approach and suggests ten concrete actions that each of us can take in order to create a better future for all the residents of planet Earth. I hope we all take this message to heart. Yuval Noah Harari, bestselling author of Sapiens and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century This could be the most important wake- up call of our times. Klaus Schwab, CEO, World Economic Forum About the Author Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac are cohosts of the leading climate change podcast, Outrage + Optimism, and are cofounders of Global Optimism, an organization dedicated to changing narratives and beliefs and inspiring governments, companies, and citizens to protect what they love from the damages of the climate crisis. Figueres is the former executive secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, where Rivett-Carnac served as her political strategist. They are known for a unique form of collaborative diplomacy, which led to the unanimous signing of the landmark Paris Agreement on climate change by 195 countries. ****globaloptimism**** Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. Introduction to the Vintage Books Edition (2021) The Critical Decade We wrote this book before COVID-19 crashed into our world. In fact, we managed only the first three stops on a planned yearlong book tour before we rushed to our respective homes and into a global lockdown that has changed everything. Since then we have been shocked at how many aspects of both the dystopian and the desirable futures we describe in this book suddenly came into relief and stark contrast with each other. More than ever, we are determined to play our part in ensuring our future is one that we deliberately choose, rather than one we stumble into blindly. We have seen the world on fire, from the ELBAZARDIGITAL rain forest to California and from Australia to the Arctic. The hour is late, and the moment of consequence, so long delayed, is now upon us. Do we watch the world burn, or do we choo Importado, textos en ingles!...

-Titulo Original : I Who Have Never Known Men-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: A haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic tale of female friendship and intimacy. A small miracle The New York Times ‘For a very long time, the days went by, each just like the day before, then I began to think, and everything changed’ Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only vague recollection of their lives before. As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl - the fortieth prisoner - sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground. WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SOPHIE MACKINTOSH, MAN BOOKER PRIZE-LONGLISTED AUTHOR OF THE WATER CUR...

-Titulo Original : In The Unlikely Event A Novel-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: Review “Makes us feel the pure shock and wonder of living. . . . Judy Blume isn’t just revered, she’s revolutionary.” -The New York Times Book Review “[A] page-turner, emotionally resonant and down-to-earth. . . . Reading In the Unlikely Event is like reconnecting with a long-lost friend.” -The New Yorker “Gives us everything that Blume is known (and beloved) for. . . . This novel is her most ambitious to date, and she lives up to its reach with her characteristic frankness, compassion, and charm.” -San Francisco Chronicle “Judy Blume is back-and on her game! . . . You won’t want to turn the last page.” -People “A page-turner with cross-generational appeal. . . . Will appeal to loyal fans as well as new readers.” -Minneapolis Star Tribune “A fascinating novel. . . . Blume, in clear and forthright storytelling, creates realistic characters searching for happiness. . . . Just as dramatic as the devastation and panic caused by the crashes are Blumes ruminations on the mysteries of the human heart. ” -Chicago Tribune “Judy Blume is still here, opening our eyes to the daily astonishments of life all these years later.” -USA Today “Quite simply, extraordinary. . . . Utterly brilliant.” -The Observer (London) “Blume succeeds in capturing the condition of an entire community. . . . No one captures coming-of-age milestones and stomach butterflies like Blume, and those scenes are worth waiting for.” -The Boston Globe “Judy Blume’s writing is simply a delight. . . . Blume is a master at presenting the complexities of life. This novel is entertaining, heartbreaking, and redeeming.” -The Missourian “Heartwarming.” -New York Daily News “Satisfying, heartfelt. . . Delivers on the warm nostalgia that we remember from Blume’s earlier books and will appeal to her admirers-of which I am absolutely one-who regard any new book by this trailblazing literary and cultural icon as a celebratory event.” -Melissa M. Firman, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette “Blume creates characters who are real and sympathetic.” -St. Louis Post-Dispatch “Excellent and satisfying. . . Has all the elements of Blume’s best books: the complex relationships between friends and family members, the straight talk and lack of shame about sex, and, most of all, the compassionate insight into the pleasures and pains of growing up.” -Chicago Reader “Has [Blume’s] signature warm, personal touch.” -Vogue “Vividly rendered. . . Blume deftly demonstrates just how different the personal fallout from tragedy can turn out to be. . . . As Blume proves over and over again not just in In the Unlikely Event but in all of her fiction, life does go on in spite of hardship. We love. We lose. We fail. We may fall. But the lucky ones, we try our best to endure.” -The Oregonian “Soars. . . . It’s Judy Blume and, therefore, it’s gold.” -Newark Star Ledger “Judy Blume is revered. She is claimed, and cherished, and clutched close to the hearts of American adolescents and former adolescents, everywhere that books are read. . . . Blume’s great gift is [her] personal touch; her unflinching but reassuring voice-that of a no-nonsense big sister who gives it to you straight, then gives you a hug.” -Buffalo News “Characteristically accessible, frequently charming, and always deeply human.” -Publishers Weekly “Compelling. . . . Smoothly written. . . . A new Blume novel will always be big news.” -Booklist (starred review) NATIONAL BESTSELLER * In her first adult novel since Summer Sisters, the author of Are you There God? It’s Me, Margaret takes us back to the 1950s and introduces us to the town where she herself grew up, where a community is left reeling after a real-life tragedy when a series of airplanes fell out of the sky. “Blume succeeds in capturing the condition of an entire community.... No one captures coming-of-age milestones … like Blume.” -The Boston Globe Here she imagines and weaves together a vivid portrait of three generations of families, friends, and ...

-Titulo Original : The Sound And The Fury The Corrected Text-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: NOBEL PRIZE WINNER * One of the greatest novels of the twentieth century is the story of a family of Southern aristocrats on the brink of personal and financial ruin. The Sound and the Fury is the tragedy of the Compson family, featuring some of the most memorable characters in literature: beautiful, rebellious Caddy; the manchild Benjy; haunted, neurotic Quentin; Jason, the brutal cynic; and Dilsey, their black servant. Their lives fragmented and harrowed by history and legacy, the character’s voices and actions mesh to create what is arguably Faulkner’s masterpiece and one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. “I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire.... I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.” -from The Sound and the Fury Review The ostensible subject of The Sound and the Fury is the dissolution of the Compsons, one of those august old Mississippi families that fell on hard times and wild eccentricity after the Civil War. But in fact what William Faulkner is really after in his legendary novel is the kaleidoscope of consciousness--the overwrought mind caught in the act of thought. His rich, dark, scandal-ridden story of squandered fortune, incest (in thought if not in deed), madness, congenital brain damage, theft, illegitimacy, and stoic endurance is told in the interior voices of three Compson brothers: first Benjy, the idiot man-child who blurs together three decades of inchoate sensations as he stalks the fringes of the familys former pasture; next Quentin, torturing himself brilliantly, obsessively over Caddys lost virginity and his own failure to recover the familys honor as he wanders around the seedy fringes of Boston; and finally Jason, heartless, shrewd, sneaking, nursing a perpetual sense of injury and outrage against his outrageous family. If Benjys section is the most daringly experimental, Jasons is the most harrowing. Once a bitch always a bitch, what I say, he begins, lacing into Caddys illegitimate daughter, and then proceeds to hurl mud at blacks, Jews, his sacred Compson ancestors, his glamorous, promiscuous sister, his doomed brother Quentin, his ailing mother, and the long-suffering black servant Dilsey who holds the family together by sheer force of character. Notoriously difficult, The Sound and the Fury is actually one of Faulkners more accessible works once you get past the abrupt, unannounced time shifts--and certainly the most powerful emotionally. Everything is here: the complex equilibrium of pre-civil rights race relations; the conflict between Yankee capitalism and Southern agrarian values; a meditation on time, consciousness, and Western philosophy. And all of it is rendered in prose so gorgeous it can take your breath away. Here, for instance, Quentin recalls an autumnal encounter back home with the old black possum hunter Uncle Louis: And wed sit in the dry leaves that whispered a little with the slow respiration of our waiting and with the slow breathing of the earth and the windless October, the rank smell of the lantern fouling the brittle air, listening to the dogs and to the echo of Louis voice dying away. He never raised it, yet on a still night we have heard it from our front porch. When he called the dogs in he sounded just like the horn he carried slung on his shoulder and never used, but clearer, mellower, as though his voice were a part of darkness and silence, coiling out of it, coiling into it again. WhoOoooo. WhoOoooo. WhoOooooooooooooooo. What Faulkner has created is a modernist epic in which characters assume the stature of gods and the primal family events resonate like myths. It is The Sound and the Fury that secu...

-Titulo Original : On The Genealogy Of Morals And Ecce Homo-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: Masterful translations of the great philosopher’s major work on ethics, along with his own remarkable review of his life and works. On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) shows him using philsophy, psychology, and classical philology in an effort to give new direction to an ancient discipline. The work consists of three essays. The first contrasts master morality and slave morality and indicates how the term good has widely different meanings in each. The second inquiry deals with guilt and the bad conscience; the third with ascetic ideals-not only in religion but also in the academy. Ecce Homo, written in 1898 and first published posthumously in 1908, is Nietzsches review of his life and works. It contains chapters on all the books he himself published. His interpretations are as fascinating as they are invaluable. Nothing Nietzsche wrote is more stunning stylistically or as a human document. Walter Kaufmanns translations are faithful of the word and spirit of Nietzsche, and his running footnote commentaries on both books are more comprehensive than those in his other Nietzsche translations because these two works have been so widely misunderstood. From the Inside Flap The great philosophers major work on ethics, along with ECCE HOMO, Nietzches remarkable review of his life and works. Translated by Walter Kaufmann. From the Back Cover The great philosophers major work on ethics, along with ECCE HOMO, Nietzches remarkable review of his life and works. Translated by Walter Kaufmann. About the Author FRIEDRICH NIETZCHE was a philosopher born in Prussia in 1844. After the death of his father, a Lutheran minister, Nietzsche was raised from the age of five by his mother in a household of women. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Basel, where he taught until 1879 when poor health forced him to retire. He never recovered from a nervous breakdown in 1889 and died eleven years later. Known for saying that “god is dead,” Nietzsche propounded his metaphysical construct of the superiority of the disciplined individual (superman) living in the present over traditional values derived from Christianity and its emphasis on heavenly rewards. His ideas were appropriated by the Fascists, who turned his theories into social realities that he had never intended. WALTER KAUFMANN was a philosopher and poet, as well as a renowned translator of Friedrich Nietzsche. His books include Nietzsche: Philosopher, Psychologist, Antichrist, From Shakespeare to Existentialism, and Existentialism: From Dostoevsky to Sartre. Hewas a Professor of Philosophy at Princeton University, where he taught after receiving his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1947 until his death in 1980. He held visiting appointments at many American and foreign universities, including Columbia, Cornell, Heidelberg, Jerusalem, and the Australian National University; and his books have been translated into Dutch, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish...

-Titulo Original : Pale Fire-Fabricante : Vintage-Descripcion Original: A darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue from one of the leading writers of the twentieth century. Half-poem, half-prose...a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. One of the great works of art of this century. -Mary McCarthy, New York Times bestselling author of The Group An ingeniously constructed parody of detective fiction and learned commentary, Pale Fire offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures, at the center of which is a 999-line poem written by the literary genius John Shade just before his death. Surrounding the poem is a foreword and commentary by the demented scholar Charles Kinbote, who interweaves adoring literary analysis with the fantastical tale of an assassin from the land of Zembla in pursuit of a deposed king. Brilliantly constructed and wildly inventive, Vladimir Nabokovs witty novel achieves that rarest of things in literature-perfect tragicomic balance. “Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.” -John Updike, acclaimed author of the Rabbit series Review Like Lolita, Vladimir Nabokovs Pale Fire is a masterpiece that imprisons us inside the mazelike head of a mad emigre. Yet Pale Fire is more outrageously hilarious, and its narrative convolutions make the earlier book seem as straightforward as a fairy tale. Heres the plot--listen carefully! John Shade is a homebody poet in New Wye, U.S.A. He writes a 999-line poem about his life, and what may lie beyond death. This novel (and seldom has the word seemed so woefully inadequate) consists of both that poem and an extensive commentary on it by the poets crazy neighbor, Charles Kinbote. According to this deranged annotator, he had urged Shade to write about his own homeland--the northern kingdom of Zembla. It soon becomes clear that this fabulous locale may well be a figment of Kinbotes colorfully cracked, prismatic imagination. Meanwhile, he manages to twist the poem into an account of Zemblas King Charles--whom he believes himself to be--and the monarchs eventual assassination by the revolutionary Jakob Gradus. In the course of this dizzying narrative, shots are indeed fired. But its Shade who takes the hit, enabling Kinbote to steal the dead poets manuscript and set about annotating it. Is that perfectly clear? By now it should be obvious that Pale Fire is not only a whodunit but a who-wrote-it. There isnt, of course, a single solution. But Nabokovs best biographer, Brian Boyd, has come up with an ingenious suggestion: he argues that Shade is actually guiding Kinbotes mad hand from beyond the grave, nudging him into completing what hed intended to be a 1,000-line poem. Read this magical, melancholic mystery and see if you agree. --Tim Appelo Review “Nabokov writes prose the only way it should be written, that is, ecstatically.”-John Updike This centaur work, half-poem, half-prose ... is a creation of perfect beauty, symmetry, strangeness, originality and moral truth. Pretending to be a curio, it cannot disguise the fact that it is one of the great works of art of this century. -Mary McCarthy From the Inside Flap In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shades self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue. From the Back Cover In Pale Fire Nabokov offers a cornucopia of deceptive pleasures: a 999-line poem by the reclusive genius John Shade; an adoring foreword and commentary by Shades self-styled Boswell, Dr. Charles Kinbote; a darkly comic novel of suspense, literary idolatry and one-upmanship, and political intrigue. About the Author VLADIMIR VLADIMIROVICH NABOKOV was born on April 23, 1899, in St. Petersburg, Russia. The Nabokovs were known for their high cult...