-Titulo Original : Story Of My Life A Workbook For Preserving Your Legacy-Fabricante : Penguin Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: Capture the stories of a lifetime Record the stories of your life--or a loved ones--for posterity! The Story of My Life workbook makes it easy: Simply follow the prompts to preserve memories from your entire life. The book includes sections on parents, siblings, childhood, high school, career, and adulthood. There’s also space to note vital statistics about yourself and immediate family members as a genealogical record. The workbook features: * Fill-in pages with thought-provoking prompts to capture key moments that define your life * Advice and exercises to reconstruct memories from long ago * Interactive pages for family and friends to share their own stories * Special forms for spotlighting important people, places and times A great gift for your children to learn about their parents lives or the jumping-off point for writing a memoir, the Story of My Life workbook will help you preserve your memories for generations to come.- About the Author Sunny Morton is an award-winning writer who has advanced training in genealogy, history, and memoir-writing. She is a contributing editor for Family Tree Magazine and Louise Cooke’s Genealogy Gems, and is also a writing coach for Family Tree University...

-Titulo Original : The Girls Who Went Away The Hidden History Of Women Who Surrendered Children For Adoption In The Decades Before Roe V. Wade-Fabricante : Penguin Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: The astonishing untold history of the million and a half women who surrendered children for adoption due to enormous family and social pressure in the decades before Roe v. Wade.“It would take a heart of stone not to be moved by the oral histories of these women and by the courage and candor with which they express themselves.” -The Washington Post“A remarkably well-researched and accomplished book.” -The New York Times Book Review“A wrenching, riveting book.” -Chicago TribuneIn this deeply moving and myth-shattering work, Ann Fessler brings out into the open for the first time the hidden social history of adoption before Roe v. Wade - and its lasting legacy. An adoptee who was herself surrendered during those years and recently made contact with her mother, Ann Fessler brilliantly brings to life the voices of more than a hundred women, as well as the spirit of those times, allowing the women to tell their stories in gripping and intimate detail. Review “Journalism of the first order, moving and informative in equal measure.” -San Francisco Chronicle“A remarkably well-researched and accomplished book.” -The New York Times Book Review“A wrenching, riveting book.” -Chicago Tribune“Haunting.” -People“It would take a heart of stone not to be moved by the oral histories of these women and by the courage and candor with which they express themselves.” -The Washington Post “Compelling, heartrending reading.” -Portland Tribune “An astonishing oral history.” -Salon About the Author Ann Fessler is a Professor Emerita at Rhode Island School of Design, where she taught from 1993 to 2018. She has spent nearly four decades creating work that deals with the stories of women and the impact that myths, stereotypes, and mass media images have on their lives and intimate relationships.She has spent the last twenty-five years bringing the first-person narratives and hidden history of adoption into the public sphere through her writing and visual works. She turned to the subject after being approached by a woman who thought Fessler might be the daughter she had surrendered forty years earlier. Though the woman was not her mother, Fessler, an adoptee, was profoundly moved by the experience. The conversation that ensued shifted the focus of her work to adoption and she has since produced three films, several audio and video installations, and written The Girls Who Went Away...

-Titulo Original : Priestdaddy A Memoir-Fabricante : Penguin Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEWS 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARNAMED ONE OF THE 50 BEST MEMOIRS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS BY THE NEW YORK TIMESSELECTED AS A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: The Washington Post * Elle * NPR * New York Magazine * Boston Globe * Nylon * Slate * The Cut * The New Yorker * Chicago TribuneWINNER OF THE THURBER PRIZE FOR AMERICAN HUMOR “Affectionate and very funny . . . wonderfully grounded and authentic. This book proves Lockwood to be a formidably gifted writer who can do pretty much anything she pleases.” - The New York Times Book Review From Booker Prize finalist Patricia Lockwood, author of the novel No One Is Talking About This, a vivid, heartbreakingly funny memoir about balancing identity with family and tradition. Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met-a man who lounges in boxer shorts, loves action movies, and whose constant jamming on the guitar reverberates “like a whole band dying in a plane crash in 1972.” His daughter is an irreverent poet who long ago left the Church’s country. When an unexpected crisis leads her and her husband to move back into her parents’ rectory, their two worlds collide. In Priestdaddy, Lockwood interweaves emblematic moments from her childhood and adolescence-from an ill-fated family hunting trip and an abortion clinic sit-in where her father was arrested to her involvement in a cultlike Catholic youth group-with scenes that chronicle the eight-month adventure she and her husband had in her parents’ household after a decade of living on their own. Lockwood details her education of a seminarian who is also living at the rectory, tries to explain Catholicism to her husband, who is mystified by its bloodthirstiness and arcane laws, and encounters a mysterious substance on a hotel bed with her mother. Lockwood pivots from the raunchy to the sublime, from the comic to the deeply serious, exploring issues of belief, belonging, and personhood. Priestdaddy is an entertaining, unforgettable portrait of a deeply odd religious upbringing, and how one balances a hard-won identity with the weight of family and tradition. Review Praise for Priestdaddy: “What I love about this book was the way it feels suffused with love - of literature, nature and the English language; for her family . . . one of the pleasures of this memoir is its particularly tender mother-daughter bond . . . Lockwood’s voice is wonderfully grounded and authentic . . .she proves herself a formidably gifted writer who can do pretty much anything she pleases.” -Gemma Sieff,The New York Times Book ReviewPriestdaddy roars from the gate . . . it’s not just that Lockwood has fresh eyes and quick wits, but that in her father she’s lucked upon one of the great characters of this nonfiction decade . . . Lockwood’s prose is cute and dirty and innocent and experienced, Betty Boop in a pas de deux with David Sedaris . . . I suspect it may mean a lot to many people, especially the lapsed Catholics among us. It is, for sure, like no book I have read.” -Dwight Garner, The New York Times“Wildly entertaining…[Lockwood’s] humor and poetic descriptions are both impressively prolific, every sentence somehow funnier than the one you just read.” -New York Magazine’s The Cut“[A] vivid, unrelentingly funny memoir… [Lockwood’s] stories . . . are both savage and tender, shot through with surprises and revelations.”-New Yorker “One of the year’s most singular memoirs . . . Lockwood’s prose has the lyricism and perfect peculiarity of her poetry, diffusing the sometimes-darkness of her own life in a brilliantly observed kaleidoscope of kook.” - Elle Magazine, The Best Books of 2017“Gives ‘confessional memoir’ a new layer of meaning. From its hilariously irreverent first sentence, this daughter’s story of her guitar-jamming, abortion-protesting, God-fearing father will grab you by the clerical collar and won’t let go.”-Vanity Fair “Remarkable . . . Lockwood proceeds w...

-Titulo Original : And The Mountains Echoed-Fabricante : Penguin Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: An unforgettable novel about finding a lost piece of yourself in someone else. Khaled Hosseini, the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, has written a new novel about how we love, how we take care of one another, and how the choices we make resonate through generations. In this tale revolving around not just parents and children but brothers and sisters, cousins and caretakers, Hosseini explores the many ways in which families nurture, wound, betray, honor, and sacrifice for one another; and how often we are surprised by the actions of those closest to us, at the times that matter most. Following its characters and the ramifications of their lives and choices and loves around the globe-from Kabul to Paris to San Francisco to the Greek island of Tinos-the story expands gradually outward, becoming more emotionally complex and powerful with each turning page. Review “[Hosseini’s] most assured and emotionally gripping story yet . . . Hosseini’s narrative gifts have deepened over the years. . . . [And the Mountains Echoed] grapples with many of the same themes that crisscross his early novels: the relationship between parents and children, and the ways the past can haunt the present. And it shares a similar penchant for mapping terrain midway between the boldly colored world of fable and the more shadowy, shaded world of realism… [W]e finish this novel with an intimate understanding of who his characters are and how they’ve defined themselves over the years through the choices they have made between duty and freedom, familial responsibilities and independence, loyalty to home and exile abroad… a deeply affecting choral work… a testament both to his intimate knowledge of their inner lives, and to his power as an old-fashioned storyteller. ”-Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times “The Kite Runner author’s latest is a moving saga about sacrifice, betrayal, and the power of family. . . . More expansive than The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns, the novel spans three generations and includes overlapping tales of expatriates and aid workers, parents and children, doctors and drug lords. Hosseini shows how easy it is for people to brutalize or abandon those they should protect. But his ultimate achievement is demonstrating the power and persistence of family.”- People (4 stars) “[Hosseini’s] beautifully written, masterfully crafted new book, And the Mountains Echoed, spans nearly 60 years of Afghan history as it investigates the consequences of a desperate act that scars two young lives and resonates through many others. . . . And the Mountains Echoed is painfully sad but also radiant with love: the enduring bond of a brother and sister; the irritable but bedrock connection of cousins; the quiet intimacy of master and servant who become friends; the commitment of a doctor and nurse to wars victims. To underscore loves centrality and contingency, Hosseini closes with an image drawn from a dream: a snapshot of bygone happiness all the more precious in retrospect because we know how fragile it is.”- Los Angles Times “ And the Mountains Echoed opens like a thunderclap. . . . [Hosseini] asks good, hard questions about the limits of love. . . . Love, Hosseini seems to say, is the great leveler, cutting through language, class, and identity. No one in this gripping novel is immune to its impact.”- O, the Oprah Magazine “With his third and most ambitious novel yet, Hosseini makes it clear that hes not ready to rest on his Big Name. . . . While it hits all the Hosseini sweet spots-nostalgia, devastating details, triumph over the odds- And the Mountains Echoed covers more ground, both geographically and emotionally, than his previous works. Its not until Hosseini makes the novel small again, for the poignant conclusion, that you fully appreciate what hes accomplished.”- Entertainment Weekly (A) “I’m not an easy touch when it comes to novels, bu...

-Titulo Original : Burn After Writing (pink)-Fabricante : Penguin Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: The national bestseller. Write. Burn. Repeat. Now with new covers to match whatever mood you’re in.This book has made me laugh and cry, filled me with joy, and inspired me. -TikTok user camrynbanks , WhatsApp, Snapchat, TikTok, VSCO, YouTube...the world has not only become one giant feed, but also one giant confessional. Burn After Writing allows you to spend less time scrolling and more time self-reflecting. Through incisive questions and thought experiments, this journal helps you learn new things while letting others go. Imagine instead of publicly declaring your feelings for others, you privately declared your feelings for yourself?Help your heart by turning off the comments and muting the accounts that drive you into jealousy for a few moments a night. Whether you are going through the ups and downs of growing up, or know a few young people who are, you will flourish by finding free expression--even if through a few tears!Push your limits, reflect on your past, present, and future, and create a secret book thats about you, and just for you. This is not a diary, and there is no posting required. And when youre finished, toss it, hide it, or Burn After Writing. About the Author Sharon Jones is a graphic designer from Northern England. This is her first book...

-Titulo Original : It Didnt Start With You How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are And How To End The Cycle-Fabricante : Penguin Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: “This groundbreaking book offers a compelling understanding of inherited trauma and fresh, powerful tools for relieving its suffering. Mark Wolynn is a wise and trustworthy guide on the journey toward healing.” -Tara Brach, PhD, author of Radical Acceptance and True RefugeA groundbreaking approach to transforming traumatic legacies passed down in families over generations, by an acclaimed expert in the field Depression. Anxiety. Chronic Pain. Phobias. Obsessive thoughts. The evidence is compelling: the roots of these difficulties may not reside in our immediate life experience or in chemical imbalances in our brains-but in the lives of our parents, grandparents, and even great-grandparents. The latest scientific research, now making headlines, supports what many have long intuited-that traumatic experience can be passed down through generations. It Didn’t Start with You builds on the work of leading experts in post-traumatic stress, including Mount Sinai School of Medicine neuroscientist Rachel Yehuda and psychiatrist Bessel van der Kolk, author of The Body Keeps the Score. Even if the person who suffered the original trauma has died, or the story has been forgotten or silenced, memory and feelings can live on. These emotional legacies are often hidden, encoded in everything from gene expression to everyday language, and they play a far greater role in our emotional and physical health than has ever before been understood. As a pioneer in the field of inherited family trauma, Mark Wolynn has worked with individuals and groups on a therapeutic level for over twenty years. It Didn’t Start with You offers a pragmatic and prescriptive guide to his method, the Core Language Approach. Diagnostic self-inventories provide a way to uncover the fears and anxieties conveyed through everyday words, behaviors, and physical symptoms. Techniques for developing a genogram or extended family tree create a map of experiences going back through the generations. And visualization, active imagination, and direct dialogue create pathways to reconnection, integration, and reclaiming life and health. It Didn’t Start With You is a transformative approach to resolving longstanding difficulties that in many cases, traditional therapy, drugs, or other interventions have not had the capacity to touch. Review One of Healthline’s 13 Best Mental Health Books of 2022 One of Cosmopolitan’s 15 Books About Mental Health That Everyone Should Read One of Men’s Health’s 20 Best Mental Health Books to Read in 2022 One of Choosing Therapy’s 10 Best PTSD & Trauma Books for 2021 Winner of the 2016 Nautilus Book Award in Psychology Finalist for the 2016 Books for a Better Life Award “This groundbreaking book offers a compelling understanding of inherited trauma and fresh, powerful tools for relieving its suffering. Mark Wolynn is a wise and trustworthy guide on the journey toward healing.”-Tara Brach, PhD, author of Radical Acceptance and True Refuge “Mark Wolynn does a masterful job of illuminating the ways in which our ancestors’ unresolved suffering, often unknown to us, disables us and binds us painfully to them. He gives us the tools and skills-an approach that combines understanding, imaginative dialogues, and compassionate reconnection-to free and heal ourselves.” -James S. Gordon, MD, author of Unstuck: Your Guide to the Seven-Stage Journey Out of Depression“It Didn’t Start with You takes us a big step forward, advancing the fields of trauma therapy, mindfulness applications, and human understanding. It is a bold, creative, and compassionate work.” -Sharon Salzberg, author of Lovingkindness and Real Happiness“Mark Wolynn’s extraordinary book cracks the secret code of families and proves that you can go home again-once you understand how history made you. Full of life-changing stories, powerful insights, and practical tools for personal healing, It Didnt Start With You deserves a place on your bookshelf next to Alice Mill...

-Titulo Original : The Thursday Murder Club A Novel (a Thursday Murder Club Mystery)-Fabricante : Penguin Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: A New York Times bestseller | Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg at Amblin Entertainment “Witty, endearing and greatly entertaining.” -Wall Street Journal “Don’t trust anyone, including the four septuagenarian sleuths in Osman’s own laugh-out-loud whodunit.” -Parade Four septuagenarians with a few tricks up their sleeves A female cop with her first big case A brutal murder Welcome to... THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUBIn a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet weekly in the Jigsaw Room to discuss unsolved crimes; together they call themselves the Thursday Murder Club. When a local developer is found dead with a mysterious photograph left next to the body, the Thursday Murder Club suddenly find themselves in the middle of their first live case. As the bodies begin to pile up, can our unorthodox but brilliant gang catch the killer, before its too late? Review Editors pick: These pensioners who want to take their amateur sleuthing club pro serve up a riotously funny murder mystery.-Vannessa Cronin, Amazon Editor Review Praise for The Thursday Murder Club:“Osman mixes mirth and murder in his exceptional debut. . . witty.”-Publishers Weekly (starred review)“A little beacon of pleasure in the midst of the gloom. . . SUCH FUN!” -Kate Atkinson, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Big Sky“Funny, clever and compelling. Mystery fans are going to be enthralled.”-Harlan Coben, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boy from the Woods“So smart, so funny, so warm, and such a wonderful mystery. If were lucky Richard Osman will keep these characters alive forever.”-Caroline Kepnes, New York Times bestselling author of You“So smart and funny. Deplorably good.”-Ian Rankin, New York Times bestselling author of Westwind“I don’t know how to do this brilliant book justice. Diabolically clever, very funny, highly entertaining-utterly delightful. I completely fell in love with it. I need more of The Thursday Murder Club!”-Shari Lapena, New York Times bestselling author of The Couple Next Door“Grinning like a monkey having just finished The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman. Loved its clever, clever plot, great gags, Ealing comedy set ups and Elizabeth. Can’t say more but I want to be her one day…”-Fiona Barton, New York Times bestselling author of The Widow“A rich, textured, twisted, and fabulously funny tale of murder and mayhem.” -Alan Bradley, New York Times bestselling author of The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie“By turns hilarious and poignant, The Thursday Murder Club offers up a brilliant concept that’s flawlessly executed and told in a unique, captivating voice. These are rare qualities in any novel, let alone a debut. I read the first page, then put all else on hold to devour this pitch-perfect book in one sitting. Bravo!-Jeffery Deaver, #1 international bestselling author of The Goodbye Man“Smart, compassionate, warm, moving and so very funny. I smiled a million times. This book will make a lot of people very, very happy.”-Marian Keyes, internationally bestselling author of Grown-Ups“A warm, wise, and witty warning never to underestimate the elderly.”-Val McDermid, internationally bestselling author of How the Dead Speak“Utterly charming and very very clever.”-Sarah Pinborough, New York Times bestselling author of Cross Her Heart“Funny, clever, and achingly British--what else would you expect from a book by Richard Osman?”-Adam Kay, internationally bestselling author of This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Medical Resident“A superb debut. Thrilling, moving, laugh-out-loud funny and packed with characters you will want to see a lot more of.”-Mark Billingham, internationally bestselling author of Their Little Secret“What a joy! Full of brilliantly observed humor, spot-on dialogue, and twists and turns aplenty. Joyce and the gang are now my favorite crime-solving team.”-Nina Stibbe, author of Reasons to be Cheerful About t...

-Titulo Original : Where The Crawdads Sing-Fabricante : Penguin Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE—The #1 New York Times bestselling worldwide sensation with more than 12 million copies sold, hailed by The New York Times Book Review as “a painfully beautiful first novel that is at once a murder mystery, a coming-of-age narrative and a celebration of nature.” For years, rumors of the “Marsh Girl” have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to be touched and loved. When two young men from town become intrigued by her wild beauty, Kya opens herself to a new life—until the unthinkable happens. Where the Crawdads Sing is at once an exquisite ode to the natural world, a heartbreaking coming-of-age story, and a surprising tale of possible murder. Owens reminds us that we are forever shaped by the children we once were, and that we are all subject to the beautiful and violent secrets that nature keeps....

-Titulo Original : Fever Dream A Novel-Fabricante : Penguin Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: NOW A FEATURE FILM COMING SOON TO NETFLIXGenius. -Jia Tolentino, The New YorkerFinalist for the Man Booker International Prize!Experience the blazing, surreal sensation of a fever dream... A young woman named Amanda lies dying in a rural hospital clinic. A boy named David sits beside her. She’s not his mother. Hes not her child. Together, they tell a haunting story of broken souls, toxins, and the power and desperation of family. Fever Dream is a nightmare come to life, a ghost story for the real world, a love story and a cautionary tale. One of the freshest new voices to come out of the Spanish language and translated into English for the first time, Samanta Schweblin creates an aura of strange psychological menace and otherworldly reality in this absorbing, unsettling, taut novel. Review “To call Schweblin’s novella eerie and hallucinatory is only to gesture at its compact power; the fantastical here simply dilates a reality we begin to accept as terrifying and true.... Schweblin’s book is suffused with haunting images and big questions.” -New York Times Book ReviewSamanta Schweblin’s electric story reads like a Fever Dream.” -Vanity Fair“I picked up Fever Dream in the wee hours, and a low, sick thrill took hold of me as I read it. I was checking the locks in my apartment by page thirty. By the time I finished the book, I couldn’t bring myself to look out the windows…. [T]he genius of Fever Dream is less in what it says than in how Schweblin says it, with a design at once so enigmatic and so disciplined that the book feels as if it belongs to a new literary genre altogether.” -Jia Tolentino, The New YorkerA nauseous, eerie read, sickeningly good. -Emma Cline, The GirlsSubtle, dreamy and indelibly creepy. -The Economist (Best Books of 2017)“Never have I ever been so afraid to read a book right before bed” -Marie Claire“A spare, hypnotic literary page-turner.” -O, the Oprah Magazine“Mesmerizing... Schweblin, though, is an artist of remarkable restraint… Schweblin renders psychological trauma with such alacrity that the conceit of a poisoned environment feels almost beside the point.” -Washington Post“This small debut novel packs a mighty, and lingering, punch.... [A] compact, but explosive, package. Schweblin delivers a skin-prickling masterclass in dread and suspense.... With virtuoso skill, well served in Megan McDowell’s finely textured translation, Schweblin fuses a study in maternal anxiety with an ecological horror story. She refracts both strands through the eerie prism of her narrative, almost as if Henry James had scripted a disaster movie about toxic agribusiness. -The Economist“Elusiveness takes a terrifyingly creepy form in this dazzling short novel.” -NPRUnsettling... [T]he novel represents a perfect marriage of form and subject, in which its narrative instability - which is so of the literary moment - viscerally recreates the insecurities of life in the Argentine countryside today.... [Schweblin] has found ways to electrify and destabilize the physical world... [Fever Dream is] the scariest of all things: a ghost story that is, in essence, true. -Los Angeles Times“It’s rare for a book to do exactly what its title says it will do without any caveats or reservations. It’s even more rare for a book to achieve the kind of woozy, elliptical, intimate horror implied by a title like Fever Dream. But this debut novel by Argentinian short story writer Samanta Schweblin - translated from Spanish by Megan McDowell - does exactly that.... Fever Dream is a novel stripped down to its barest elements, all dialogue and atmosphere, and working with only those elements, it manages to create an authentic nightmare… If you’re after creeping, insidious, psychologically compelling horror, then you won’t do better.” -Vox“An absorbing and inventive tale... Schweblin is a fine mythmaker, singular in her own fantastical artistry.” -Houston ChronicleMesmerizing, frightening... Schweb...

-Titulo Original : Devotions The Selected Poems Of Mary Oliver-Fabricante : Penguin Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: A New York Times Bestseller, chosen as Oprahs Books That Help Me Through for Oprahs Book Club“No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Olivers exuberant dog poems to selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Primitive, and Dream Work, one of her exceptional collections. Perhaps more important, the luminous writing provides respite from our crazy world and demonstrates how mindfulness can define and transform a life, moment by moment, poem by poem.” -The Washington Post“It’s as if the poet herself has sidled beside the reader and pointed us to the poems she considers most worthy of deep consideration.” -Chicago TribunePulitzer Prize-winning poet Mary Oliver presents a personal selection of her best work in this definitive collection spanning more than five decades of her esteemed literary career.Throughout her celebrated career, Mary Oliver has touched countless readers with her brilliantly crafted verse, expounding on her love for the physical world and the powerful bonds between all living things. Identified as far and away, this countrys best selling poet by Dwight Garner, she now returns with a stunning and definitive collection of her writing from the last fifty years.Carefully curated, these 200 plus poems feature Olivers work from her very first book of poetry, No Voyage and Other Poems, published in 1963 at the age of 28, through her most recent collection, Felicity, published in 2015. This timeless volume, arranged by Oliver herself, showcases the beloved poet at her edifying best. Within these pages, she provides us with an extraordinary and invaluable collection of her passionate, perceptive, and much-treasured observations of the natural world. Review “In Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver (Penguin), one of our most beloved writers offers both the best of her work and a spiritual road map of sorts. Spanning more than 50 years and featuring more than 200 poems, the collection shows Oliver, in the early years, turning away from grief and finding in nature a vast, incredible gift. Over time, as she carefully observes and records, Oliver extols the beauty and complexity around her and reminds us of the interconnectedness of living. She also asks important questions, such as have you ever dared to be happy/ . . . have you ever dared to pray, and Tell me, what it is you plan to do/ with your one wild and precious life? Those lines resonate as much today as when she first penned them decades ago. No matter where one starts reading, Devotions offers much to love, from Olivers exuberant dog poems to selections from the Pulitzer Prize-winning American Primitive, and Dream Work, one of her exceptional collections. Perhaps more important, the luminous writing provides respite from our crazy world and demonstrates how mindfulness can define and transform a life, moment by moment, poem by poem.” -The Washington Post“It’s as if the poet herself has sidled beside the reader and pointed us to the poems she considers most worthy of deep consideration.” -Chicago Tribune About the Author Born in a small town in Ohio, Mary Oliver published her first book of poetry in 1963 at the age of 28. Over the course of her long career, she received numerous awards. Her fourth book, American Primitive, won the Pulitzer Prize for Poetry in 1984. She led workshops and held residencies at various colleges and universities, including Bennington College, where she held the Catharine Osgood Foster Chair for Distinguished Teaching. She died in 2019. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. AT BLACKWATER PONDAt Blackwater Pond the tossed waters have settledafter a night of rain.I dip my cupped hands. I drinka long time. It tasteslike stone, leaves, fire. It falls coldinto my body, waking the bones. I hear themdeep inside me, whisperingoh what is that beautiful thingthat just happened...

-Titulo Original : Mr. Malcolms List-Fabricante : Penguin Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTUREOne of BuzzFeeds Romance Novels to Read Summer 2020It is a truth universally acknowledged that an arrogant bachelor insistent on a wife who meets the strictest of requirements-deserves his comeuppance.The Honourable Mr. Jeremy Malcolm is searching for a wife, but not just any wife. As the target of matchmaking mothers and desperate debutantes, hes determined to avoid the fortune hunters and find a near-perfect woman, one who will meet the qualifications on his well-crafted list. But after years of searching, hes beginning to despair of ever finding this paragon. Until Selina Dalton arrives in town.Selina, a vicars daughter of limited means and a stranger to high society, is thrilled when her friend Julia Thistlewaite invites her to London, until she learns its all part of a plot to exact revenge on Mr. Malcolm. Selina is reluctant to participate in Julias scheme, especially after meeting the irresistible Mr. Malcolm, who appears to be very different from the arrogant scoundrel of Julias description. But when Mr. Malcolm begins judging Selina against his unattainable standards, Selina decides that she has some qualifications of her own. And if he is to meet them he must reveal the real man behind...Mr. Malcolms List. Review Suzanne Allain delivers a fresh, spirited take on the classic Regency romp. Mr. Malcolms List is a delightful tale that perfectly illustrates the enduring appeal of the Regency romance. Its all here-the fast, witty banter, the elegant ballrooms, the quirky characters, the charming, strong-willed heroine and the dashing hero who has a thing or two to learn about love.-Amanda Quick, New York Times bestselling author “A merry romp! Mr. Malcolm’s List is packed with action as one tangled romantic misunderstanding follows fast upon another’s heels-to hilarious effect.”-Mary Balogh, New York Times bestselling author “This witty Austen-esque romp…is a sparkling twist on the Regency-era ballroom scenes and misunderstandings that litter historical romance…. Allain’s writing is wry and delightful, borrowing skillfully from Austen’s distinctive use of free indirect speech. The book is bursting with witty asides and droll commentary, a tongue-in-cheek discourse designed to have us both laughing with and at the cast of characters. Allain nails the style she’s paying tribute to and the novel is an imminently readable diversion…. It’s an amuse-bouche of a story that delights and tantalizes.”-Entertainment Weekly “Suzanne Allain is a fresh new voice in historical romance. Mr. Malcolm’s List is a charming, light-hearted confection, with humor, sparkling banter and gently simmering romantic tension; in other words, classic Regency romance.”-Anne Gracie, National Bestselling Author“Allain’s characters are witty and appealing, and the sizzle between Jeremy and Selina is convincing. This effervescent love story is a charmer.”-Publishers Weekly“With a feature film already in the works, building on a script also written by Allain (Incognito), this captivating Regency is sure to be oft-requested and relished by fans of the period.”-Library Journal“Hilarious and fast-paced, Mr. Malcolms Listis a bright and refreshing Regency romp.”-Shelf Awareness“A cheeky look at the different expectations placed on men versus women during the Regency Era, revealing the limitations society accords individuals in terms of their family connections and personal wealth and education. Both general fiction readers and romance fans looking for a story that will transport them to another time and place, seeking new fictional friends, or hoping to watch characters grow more self-aware and compassionate will revel in this smart love story.”-Booklist (Starred Review)It was witty, hilarious, and contained a cast of upbeat, brooding, and feisty characters that all graced the page with subtle pride and prejudice undertones. I loved it!”-The Nerd Daily About the Author ...

-Titulo Original : Burn After Writing-Fabricante : Penguin Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: The national bestsellerThis book has made me laugh and cry, filled me with joy, and inspired me.-TikTok user camrynbanksThe phenomenally popular secret journal filled with private prompts for personal reflection, self-exploration, and fueling creativity. , WhatsApp, Snapchat, TikTok, VSCO, YouTube...the world has not only become one giant feed, but also one giant confessional. Burn After Writing allows you to spend less time scrolling and more time self-reflecting. Through incisive questions and thought experiments, this journal helps you learn new things while letting others go. Imagine instead of publicly declaring your feelings for others, you privately declared your feelings for yourself?Help your heart by turning off the comments and muting the accounts that drive you into jealousy for a few moments a night. Whether you are going through the ups and downs of growing up, or know a few young people who are, you will flourish by finding free expression--even if through a few tears!Push your limits, reflect on your past, present, and future, and create a secret book thats about you, and just for you. This is not a diary, and there is no posting required. And when youre finished, toss it, hide it, or Burn After Writing. About the Author Im the author of this book Burn After Writing - a self-discovery bookthat encourages you the reader to ask yourself where youve come from,where you are now and ultimately just where you are going.My new book This Is What My Soul Looks Like continues that journey ofself-reflection by asking just who you really are and how those aroundshape your life.Think of it as Self Therapy. Both booksbegan their journey right here at my kitchen table in the North East ofEngland as I sought to answer some of the questions that I had in my own life.In my spare time, I like to write lists, start conversations and find new ways of questioning just who I am and where Im going...

-Titulo Original : A Woman Makes A Plan Advice For A Lifetime Of Adventure, Beauty, And Success-Fabricante : Penguin Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: Warm, honest and true--A Woman Makes A Plan is full of insight as well as a good dose of humor, offering readers a lifetime of hard-won advice.--Diane Von FurstenbergThe international supermodel shares personal stories and lessons learned from a life of living dangerously--carefullyMaye Musk is a fashionable, charming, jet-setting supermodel with a fascinating and tight-knit circle of family and friends--and is 71 years old. But things were not always so easy or glamorous--she became a single mom at 31, struggling through poverty to provide for her three children; dealt with weight issues as a plus-size model and overcame ageism in the modeling industry; and established a lifelong career as a respected dietitian, all the while starting over in eight different cities across three countries and two continents. But she made her way through it all with an indomitable spirit and a no-nonsense attitude to become a global success at what she calls the prime of her life.As everyone who follows her obsessively on social media knows, Maye is a fount of frank and practical advice on how the choices you make in every decade can pay off in surprising, exciting ways throughout your life. In A Woman Makes a Plan, Maye shares experiences from her life conveying hard-earned wisdom on career (the harder you work, the luckier you get), family (let the people you love go their own way), health (there is no magic pill), and adventure (make room for discovery, but always be ready for anything). You cant control all that happens in life, but you can have the life you want at any age. All you have to do is make a plan. Review “Musk is finally ready to share her extraordinary journey, in the book A Woman Makes a Plan. . . . It includes not just memories but also life advice, her beloved bean soup recipe, and never-before-seen photos from Musk’s family vault.”-Harper’s BazaarAt 74, Maye continues to work every day to inspire those around her.- MJ Day, editor-in-chief of SI Swimsuit, on Maye Musk’s cover of the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit IssueI have long admired Maye Musk as both a model and a woman. She has inspired so many throughout her career, and her invaluable wisdom and insight come to life on each page of this book.-Karlie KlossWarm, honest and true-A Woman Makes A Plan is full of insight as well as a good dose of humor, offering readers a lifetime of hard-won advice. Maye Musk is a Woman In Charge who knows life is full of surprises, and owns it all!-Diane von FurstenbergStunning beauty Maye Musk is living proof that a healthy diet is the foundation for a fun vibrant, active, energetic life.-Christie Brinkley“A Woman Makes a Plan brims with career advice, skin-care secrets . . . and self-improvement hacks, learned from a full, adventurous and ultimately fabulous life as an entrepreneur and beauty icon. . . . 71-year-old Maye Musk is a jet-setting supermodel with a lifetime of fantastic opportunities, inspiring stories, and hard-won experience that makes this book a pleasure to read.”-New York Post“[In] A Woman Makes a Plan, Musk describes how her personal and professional struggles taught her to invest in her full potential. . . . the biggest piece of advice found in the book . . . is that you can have the life you want at any age.”-The Loop“[A Woman Makes a Plan is indeed] chalk full of amazing adventure, beauty, and success . . . Pick it up, friends!”-City TV“[A Woman Makes a Plan] offers a revealing glimpse of her billionaire sons unconventional upbringing . . . it not only tells the story of how she was raised, but also sheds some light onto the dynamics at play within the Musk family.”-InsideHook“Who doesn’t want the most fabulous life ever? If that describes you but you think you’re ‘too old,’ then read A Woman Makes a Plan by Maye Musk. It’s a book of advice, but also a bio by a woman who’s had an interesting life and is willing to share it. Hint: speaking of share, it’s a great story ...

-Titulo Original : The End Of Alzheimers The First Program To Prevent And Reverse Cognitive Decline-Fabricante : Penguin Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: The instant New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestsellerA groundbreaking plan to prevent and reverse Alzheimer’s Disease that fundamentally changes how we understand cognitive decline. Everyone knows someone who has survived cancer, but until now no one knows anyone who has survived Alzheimers Disease. In this paradigm shifting book, Dale Bredesen, MD, offers real hope to anyone looking to prevent and even reverse Alzheimers Disease and cognitive decline. Revealing that AD is not one condition, as it is currently treated, but three, The End of Alzheimer’s outlines 36 metabolic factors (micronutrients, hormone levels, sleep) that can trigger downsizing in the brain. The protocol shows us how to rebalance these factors using lifestyle modifications like taking B12, eliminating gluten, or improving oral hygiene. The results are impressive. Of the first ten patients on the protocol, nine displayed significant improvement with 3-6 months; since then the protocol has yielded similar results with hundreds more. Now, The End of Alzheimer’s brings new hope to a broad audience of patients, caregivers, physicians, and treatment centers with a fascinating look inside the science and a complete step-by-step plan that fundamentally changes how we treat and even think about AD. Review Alzheimer’s is a disease for which there is no cure. Dr. Bredesen’s experimental program gives me hope that there are actions we can all take to care for our brains and keep Alzheimer’s at bay. -Maria Shriver, Today Show The End of Alzheimer’s is a monumental work. Dr. Bredesen completely recontextualizes this devastating condition away from a mysterious and unsolvable process to one that is both preventable and, yes, reversible. Pinning our hopes on pharmaceutical research to develop a miraculous wonder drug has left both physicians and patients empty handed. But now, this comprehensive approach offers solid results, bringing hope to so many.-David Perlmutter, MD, Board-certified neurologist and author, #1 New York Times bestseller, Grain Brain, and Brain MakerThe End of Alzheimers, for the first time, synthesizes the latest science into a practical plan that can reverse Alzheimers and dramatically improve brain health and function. If you have a brain, read this book.-Mark Hyman, MD, author of the #1 New York Times bestseller Eat Fat, Get ThinThis book represents a major turning point in our approach to Alzheimer’s disease, from viewing it as a mysterious and incurable affliction that is governed almost exclusively by our genes, to understanding it as a multifactorial condition that can be prevented and even reversed largely through nutrition and lifestyle change. For the first time ever, patients and families affected by Alzheimer’s-as well as those at high risk for this devastating disease-truly have a reason to be hopeful.-Chris Kresser, M.S., L.Ac Founder, Kresser Institute for Functional & Evolutionary Medicine, Author of the New York Times best seller The Paleo Cure The End of Alzheimer’s is a masterful, authoritative, and ultimately hopeful patient guide to functional medicine for your brain. It will help you prevent and reverse Alzheimer’s disease, whether you have the ApoE4 gene or not. My patients fear Alzheimer’s more than any other diagnosis. This is the book to transmute fear into action.-Sara Gottfried, MD, New York Times bestselling author of YoungerHaving spent several years implementing many of Dr. Bredesens insights in my patients, I can assure you that following his advice can save yourself, your loved ones, and your friends from suffering from this preventable and reversible curse.-Steven Gundry, MD, author of the New York Times bestseller The Plant ParadoxDr. Dale Bredesen is a world class neuroscientist/neurologist who through his innovative and exacting research has discovered a safe and effective approach to the prevention and treatment of Alzheimers disease that w...

-Titulo Original : Every Summer After-Fabricante : Penguin Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: A radiant debut.—Emily Henry,#1 New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! Named One of the Hottest Reads of Summer 2022 by Today ? Parade ? PopSugar ? USA Today ? SheReads ? BuzzFeed ? BookBub ? Bustle ?and more! Six summers to fall in love. One moment to fall apart. A weekend to get it right. They say you can never go home again, and for Persephone Fraser, ever since she made the biggest mistake of her life a decade ago, that has felt too true. Instead of glittering summers on the lakeshore of her childhood, she spends them in a stylish apartment in the city, going out with friends, and keeping everyone a safe distance from her heart. Until she receives the call that sends her racing back to Barry’s Bay and into the orbit of Sam Florek—the man she never thought she’d have to live without. For six summers, through hazy afternoons on the water and warm summer nights working in his family’s restaurant and curling up together with books—medical textbooks for him and work-in-progress horror short stories for her—Percy and Sam had been inseparable. Eventually that friendship turned into something breathtakingly more, before it fell spectacularly apart. When Percy returns to the lake for Sam’s mother’s funeral, their connection is as undeniable as it had always been. But until Percy can confront the decisions she made and the years she’s spent punishing herself for them, they’ll never know whether their love might be bigger than the biggest mistakes of their past. Told over the course of six years and one weekend, Every Summer After is a big, sweeping nostalgic story of love and the people and choices that mark us forever...

-Titulo Original : Strike It Rich With Pocket Change Error Coins Bring Big Money-Fabricante : Penguin Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: In the authors own words, this new edition of Strike It Rich with Pocket Change, dispels the myths of error coins and assists you in discovering, marketing, and researching rare coins that you can find in your pocket change. More than 350 close-up illustrations, key identifying details and current market values help you decipher the difference between proper and error issues and varying types of coins. In addition, this unique must-have how-to also includes: * Coverage of Lincoln Memorial Cents, Roosevelt Dimes, Washington Quarters, John F. Kennedy Half Dollars, State Quarters * Expert insight and advice about tools of the trade, preserving coins, buying and selling error-variety coins * Terms and definitions associated with error coins Whether its a Jefferson Presidential dollar missing edge lettering, thats worth $2,000 - $10,000 plus or a Lincoln cent with trail marks that make it an error worth $1 - $3 there are hidden treasures to be found in your pocket change, if you know what to look for. About the Author With more than 50 years of coin collecting experience, Ken Potter is an award-winning and prolific writer and photographer with regularly features columns and articles in Numismatic News, Coin World, World Coin News, Canadian Coin News and others. Potter and co-author Dr. Brian Allen received the Extraordinary Merit award from the Numismatic Literary Guild for the first edition of Strike It Rich with Pocket Change.For more than two decades, Dr. Brian Allen has been an ardent coin collector with a passion for errors and varieties in circulating pocket change. He has made numerous variety coin discoveries...

-Titulo Original : Things Fall Apart-Fabricante : Penguin Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: Review One of Chinua Achebes many achievements in his acclaimed first novel, Things Fall Apart, is his relentlessly unsentimental rendering of Nigerian tribal life before and after the coming of colonialism. First published in 1958, just two years before Nigeria declared independence from Great Britain, the book eschews the obvious temptation of depicting pre-colonial life as a kind of Eden. Instead, Achebe sketches a world in which violence, war, and suffering exist, but are balanced by a strong sense of tradition, ritual, and social coherence. His Ibo protagonist, Okonkwo, is a self-made man. The son of a charming neer-do-well, he has worked all his life to overcome his fathers weakness and has arrived, finally, at great prosperity and even greater reputation among his fellows in the village of Umuofia. Okonkwo is a champion wrestler, a prosperous farmer, husband to three wives and father to several children. He is also a man who exhibits flaws well-known in Greek tragedy: Okonkwo ruled his household with a heavy hand. His wives, especially the youngest, lived in perpetual fear of his fiery temper, and so did his little children. Perhaps down in his heart Okonkwo was not a cruel man. But his whole life was dominated by fear, the fear of failure and of weakness. It was deeper and more intimate than the fear of evil and capricious gods and of magic, the fear of the forest, and of the forces of nature, malevolent, red in tooth and claw. Okonkwos fear was greater than these. It was not external but lay deep within himself. It was the fear of himself, lest he should be found to resemble his father. And yet Achebe manages to make this cruel man deeply sympathetic. He is fond of his eldest daughter, and also of Ikemefuna, a young boy sent from another village as compensation for the wrongful death of a young woman from Umuofia. He even begins to feel pride in his eldest son, in whom he has too often seen his own father. Unfortunately, a series of tragic events tests the mettle of this strong man, and it is his fear of weakness that ultimately undoes him. Achebe does not introduce the theme of colonialism until the last 50 pages or so. By then, Okonkwo has lost everything and been driven into exile. And yet, within the traditions of his culture, he still has hope of redemption. The arrival of missionaries in Umuofia, however, followed by representatives of the colonial government, completely disrupts Ibo culture, and in the chasm between old ways and new, Okonkwo is lost forever. Deceptively simple in its prose, Things Fall Apart packs a powerful punch as Achebe holds up the ruin of one proud man to stand for the destruction of an entire culture. --Alix Wilber “A true classic of world literature . . . A masterpiece that has inspired generations of writers in Nigeria, across Africa, and around the world.” -Barack Obama “African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe.” -Toni MorrisonNominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American ReadThings Fall Apart is the first of three novels in Chinua Achebes critically acclaimed African Trilogy. It is a classic narrative about Africas cataclysmic encounter with Europe as it establishes a colonial presence on the continent. Told through the fictional experiences of Okonkwo, a wealthy and fearless Igbo warrior of Umuofia in the late 1800s, Things Fall Apart explores one mans futile resistance to the devaluing of his Igbo traditions by British political andreligious forces and his despair as his community capitulates to the powerful new order. With more than 20 million copies sold and translated into fifty-seven languages, Things Fall Apart provides one of the most illuminating and permanent monuments to African experience. Achebe does not only capture life in a pre-colonial African village, he conveys the tragedy of the loss of that world while broadening our understanding of o...

-Titulo Original : The Love Hypothesis-Fabricante : Penguin Publishing Group-Descripcion Original: - Planificador inteligente: combine un planificador de papel con la conveniencia y capacidad para compartir de las aplicaciones de calendario digital. Sincronice sus citas escritas a mano con Google Calendar, Moleskine Timepage, iCal y más. - Con tecnología NCoded: la tecnología Invisible Ncoded incrustada en cada página permite que Moleskine Pen + transfiera todas sus notas a mano alzada de una página a otra en tiempo real a través de la aplicación Moleskine Notes. - De la página a la pantalla: este innovador planificador inteligente digitaliza sus notas analógicas y le permite anotar, compartir, buscar, editar y organizar su visión. La aplicación Notes es compatible con Android y Apple. - Versatilidad de Moleskine: escritores, estudiantes, artistas, profesionales y viajeros adoran nuestros cuadernos, agendas, bolígrafos, bolsos y accesorios. Desde diarios hasta mochilas, hay un producto Moleskine para ti. - Calidad Moleskine: Nos dedicamos a la cultura, los viajes, la memoria, la imaginación y la identidad personal tanto física como digital. Traemos este compromiso a nuestros cuadernos, bolsos, aplicaciones y bolígrafos y cuadernos inteligentes. El Smart Planner combina las características de diseño distintivas e inconfundibles de un planificador de papel Moleskine con tecnología inteligente sin esfuerzo que sincroniza su horario escrito a mano con Google Calendar, Moleskine Timepage y un mundo de aplicaciones y servicios conectados. Una vez que haya configurado su bolígrafo inteligente Moleskine Pen + y la aplicación Moleskine Notes, todo lo que tiene que hacer es anotar sus planes en la página y luego ver cómo aparecen en la pantalla en sus dispositivos preferidos, todo listo para que pueda consultar y compartir en cualquier momento , en cualquier sitio. Gracias al papel especial codificado en N, el Pen + reconoce cada día y fecha individual, además de leer el nombre y la hora de citas y eventos específicos. Luego, esta información se digitaliza y se transfiere a la aplicación Moleskine Notes y a su calendario digital en tiempo real a través de Bluetooth. Grabar una cita en la página con un bolígrafo en la mano puede parecer más definido que escribirla en la pantalla y, en un mundo ajetreado, un diario de papel es un espacio precioso sin distracciones para organizar su vida. Smart Planner está creado para personas que combinan a la perfección herramientas analógicas y digitales en su vida cotidiana, personas que disfrutan de la inmediatez práctica de planificar en papel en un diario físico, pero que aprecian la conveniencia de la organización en pantalla. En este caso, Smart Planner le ahorra el trabajo de tener que agregar manualmente fechas de su diario en papel al calendario digital de su elección: le brinda lo mejor de ambos mundos y es fácil e intuitivo de configurar y usar. El Planificador inteligente de 90 DÍAS lo acompaña desde enero hasta diciembre y tiene un diseño de cuaderno semanal versátil que le brinda mucho espacio para planificar y pensar. Haga un mapa de cada semana en una extensión de dos páginas, registrando los planes del día a día a la izquierda y los pensamientos de la semana, las listas de tareas pendientes y las reflexiones en la página con renglones de la derecha. Asegure sus planes con un cierre elástico negro de color coordinado y use la cinta de marcadores a juego para llevarlo directamente al grano en todo momento. El Smart Planner es parte del sistema de escritura inteligente Moleskine +. Para comenzar a planificar en digital, asegúrese de tener un Smart Writing Set o un lápiz inteligente Pen + Ellipse...