Warm, witty, and devastatingly relatable, Not Exactly What I Had in Mind is a painfully true-to-life story about family, friends, and everything in between.
Jessica Farris agrees to be a test subject in a psychological study about ethics and morality. But as the study moves from the exam room to the real world, the line between what is real and what is one of Dr. Shieldss experiments blurs. Jessicas behavior will not only be monitored, but manipulated. Jessica quickly learns that some obsessions can be deadly.
From the prize-winning author ofTo Be a Machine -meet the men and women preparing for the end of the world Veteran worrier and father-of-two, Mark O'Connell, meets the anarchists, environmentalists, far-right nut-jobs and super-rich preparing for the end of days.
Hugh Aldersey-Williams transports us to the Dutch Golden Age - a time of immense scientific and artistic innovation - in this histo-biography of Christiaan Huygens, one of Europe's leading, yet unsung, thinkers.
Scheisse! recounts the extraordinary story of Union Berlin, the German Bundesliga's most spirited football club, interwoven with a witty history of contemporary Berlin.
Eight friends, one country house, four romances, and six months in isolation-a novel about love, friendship, family, and betrayal, a book that reads like a great Russian novel, or Chekhov on the Hudson, by a novelist The New York Times calls 'one of his generation's most original writers'.
Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of ecological upheaval (a rash of earthquakes on the North Shore) and odd luck: the first one kills his grandmother. Louis tries to maintain his independence, but falls in love with a Harvard seismologist whose discoveries about the earthquakes' cause complicate everything.
Mary Zaia's Mamba Forever collects wise words from one of the greatest basketball players in history, Kobe Bryant. A tribute to a cultural icon of our times.
A man is searching for a young woman he calls The Fruit Thief, who, like him, has set off on a journey to the Vexin plateau. What follows is a dreamlike exploration of topography both physical and affective, charting the Fruit Thiefs journey across France's internal borderlands. Chance encounters expose new facets of this mysterious individual in the manner of a cubist portrait.
Home Front, from bestselling author Kristin Hannah, is a heart-wrenching portrayal of a mother and wife returning from war to face family life that's forever changed.
