"From the revered, Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multi-layered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters-Freddie Montgomery from The Book of Evidence-as he is released from prison. A man with a borrowed name steps from a flashy red sportscar-also borrowed-onto the estate of his youth. But all is not as it seems. There is a new family living in the drafty...

"When I was younger, thinking about whether I wanted to have children, I always came back to this formula: If no one had told me anything about the world, I would have invented boyfriends. I would have invented sex, friendships, art. I would not have invented child-rearing. Motherhood treats the most universal and consequential decision of early adulthood--whether to have children--with the candour, originality and wit that have won Sheila Heti international...

Choicest orations, humorous, dramatic and pathetic readings and recitations, dialogues, drills and tableaux in national, patriotic, old time and modern costume.

"In the wake of the Empire’s fall, Imperial Commander Moff Gideon has a bounty out on the mysterious Force-wielding Grogu. It is [the readers] mission to track down and retrieve baby Grogu from the galaxy’s most notorious outlaws: the Mandalorian, Cara Dune, Greef Karga, Kuiil, and IG-11. But be wary, the Mandalorian is a notorious bounty hunter himself, so he and his crew will not be easy to find!"

Buster gives his mother several exaggerated excuses for being late for lunch. At intervals readers are given a variety of similar excuses from which to choose.

"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly observed, joyful and wrenching, funny and true new novel that reveals, as only she can, the very nature of a family's life. "It was a beautiful, breezy, yellow-and-green afternoon." This is the way Abby Whitshank always begins the story of how she fell in love with Red that day in July 1959. The whole family--their two daughters and two...

Offers advice on improving writing skills and promoting a style marked by simplicity, orderliness, and sincerity.

Born with ocular albinism, small-town eye doctor Sam Hill must finally face a past tragedy that caused him to turn his back on his friends, his hometown, and the life he'd always known--a journey that makes him realize what truly matters.

"Selected from the archives of Catapult magazine, the essays in Body Language affirm and challenge the personal and political conversations around human bodies from the perspectives of thirty writers diverse in race, age, gender, size, sexuality, health,ability, geography, and class--a brilliant group probing and speaking their own truths about their bodies and identities, refusing to submit to others' expectations about how their bodies should look,...