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An authentic, revealing and deeply human story of addiction - a phenomenon that remains puzzling and misunderstood despite affecting many lives - from an addiction psychiatrist who struggles to understand himself and his own family... Even after a decades-long opioid overdose crisis, there is...

So often deployed as a jingoistic, even menacing rallying cry, or limited by a focus on passing moments of liberation, the rhetoric of freedom both rouses and repels. Does it remain key to our autonomy, justice, and well-being, or is freedom’s long star turn...

Suri loves monsters―studying their lore, telling stories about them (for a fee), and―she hopes―one day taming them. Unfortunately, no one takes an orphan street-urchin who travels with a merchant camp very seriously. But Suri’s self-confidence, cleverness, and ambition serve her well when a mysterious...

A Harvard psychiatrist reveals the keys behind so-called medical miracles… Tumors that melt like ice, people with paralyzed limbs who walk again, terminally ill people who not only survive but get better and flourish against all odds… In science are isolated cases, but supposedly...

He lives in the shadows.... As the owner of the city’s most exclusive casino, Clayton Madden holds the fortunes of prominent families in the palms of his hands every night. There is one particular family he burns to ruin, however, one that has escaped...

The forceful x-ray of a family, of its latent wounds, fragilities, contradictions and weaknesses... «In this family there are no secrets!», proclaims at the beginning of this book Damián, the father, a man of fixed ideas and ideals obsessed with the righteousness and pedagogy....

1938: African writer T. C Elimane, known as "the black Rimbaud", publishes a novel entitled The Labyrinth of the Inhuman. Controversy breaks out, he is accused of plagiarism, the author disappears and his work becomes a cursed book. 2018: the young African writer residing...

On the Road, a book that was the bible and manifesto of the beat generation, has become a “cult novel” and a North American classic. With its unmistaken bop style, this novel is a portrait of an underground America, authentic and uninhibited, far from...

In one of the central works of the great beat writer, Kerouac writes about his discovery of Buddhism and its first law: “life is suffering”, as it was during these years that he felt most like a failure for not finding a publisher. Taking...

Written over the course of three days and three nights, The Subterraneans was generated out of the same kind of ecstatic flash of inspiration that produced another one of Kerouac’s early classics, On the Road. Centering around the tempestuous romance and breakup of Leo Percepied and Mardou...

Rosa Kusstatscher has built a global fashion empire upon her ability to find the perfect outfit for any occasion. But tonight, as she prepares for the most important meeting of her life, her usual certainty eludes her. What brought her to this moment? As...

In her forest-veiled pagan village, Evike is the only woman without power, making her an outcast clearly abandoned by the gods. The villagers blame her corrupted bloodline—her father was a Yehuli man, one of the much-loathed servants of the fanatical king. When soldiers arrive...

The suburbs, right now: seventeen-year-old Ivy's summer vacation begins with an accident, a punishment, and a mystery: a stranger appears in the middle of the road, in the middle of the night, and heralds a series of highly unusual events. Disturbing. As the days...

Due to her involvement in an unfortunate set of mishaps between the dragons and the Fae, Librarian spy Irene is stuck on probation, doing what should be simple fetch-and-retrieve projects for the mysterious Library. But trouble has a tendency to find both Irene and...

Throughout his legendary career, John C. Bogle-founder of the Vanguard Mutual Fund Group and creator of the first index mutual fund-has helped investors build wealth the right way and led a tireless campaign to restore common sense to the investment world. Along the way,...

Millions of readers have embraced art teacher Betty Edwards's Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain, from art students and teachers to established artists, corporate trainers, and more--all discovering a bold new way of drawing and problem-solving based on what we see, not what...

A fantastic story in which inventions, games of meaning and absurd situations encourage us to look at reality from another point of view. The dreamlike subterranean world of Alice, the White Rabbit, the Mad Hatter or the Queen of Hearts becomes a subtle satire...

Even a ghost hunter like Rosie Herpin couldn’t have foreseen the fateful meeting between two mourners that has brought her so intimately close to the notorious and seductive Devlin de Vincent. Everyone in New Orleans knows he’s heir to a dark family curse that...

Shortly before Christmas, the March sisters receive a letter sent by their father from the front. The girls swarm around their concerned mother and pledge to her to wheel out of the poverty and adversity that surrounds the family. Four sisters who offer a...

Anne of Windy Willows is the fourth book in the Anne of Green Gables series by L. M. Montgomery. It details Anne Shirley's experiences over three years teaching at a high school in Summerside, Prince Edward Island. Here her biggest challenge is the high-status...