"In the riveting new novel from the author of the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award finalist The Great Believers, a woman must reckon with her past when new details surface about a tragedy at her elite New England boarding school"-- A successful film professor and podcaster, Bodie Kane is content to forget her past-the family tragedy that marred her adolescence, her four largely miserable years at a New Hampshire boarding school, and the murder...

When nurse Sophie Lee, who has spent 10 years in prison for a crime she did not commit, is exonerated and released, she retreats to her attorney's home to avoid the media frenzy that surrounds her and must learn how to make her way back into the world and adjust to her freedom.

'Demian' is a psychological masterpiece of modern literature. This novel explores the duality of human nature and the alienation of man's soul. A powerful coming of age story.

"Traditional economics assumes rational actors. Early in his research, Thaler realized these Spock-like automatons were nothing like real people. Whether buying a clock radio, selling basketball tickets, or applying for a mortgage, we all succumb to biases and make decisions that deviate from the standards of rationality assumed by economists. In other words, we misbehave. More importantly, our misbehavior has serious consequences. Dismissed at first...

We all know love matters, but in this groundbreaking book positive emotions expert Barbara L. Fredrickson shows us how much, by giving us an entirely new way of understanding and appreciating it. More than happiness and even optimism, love holds the key to improving our mental and physical health as well as lengthening our lives and deepening our personal experience. Using research from her own lab, Fredrickson redefines love not as a stable behemoth,...

"In raw, poignant alternating first-person narratives, interspersed with e-mails, gay chat-room exchanges, and other fragments of a youth laid bare in the age of social media, The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves unravels the mystery of a life in all its glory: despair and regret, humor and wonder, courage and connection. A heartbroken and humiliated Ricky Graves took the life of a classmate and himself. Five months later, the sleepy community is still...

"All I really wanted was to try and live the life that was spontaneously welling up within me. Why was that so very difficult?" Generations of readers have recognized the impassioned cry that introduces the young narrator of Demian, and embraced this tale of a troubled young man's struggle toward self-awareness. Initially published in Berlin in 1919, the novel met with instant critical acclaim, as well as great popular success among people seeking...

El brillante estudiante Bernardo Fernández Pinto se gradúa en Derecho por la Gran Universidad de la Capital y, al igual que todos los jóvenes con talento de su generación, aspira a labrarse un gran futuro trabajando en alguno de los grandes bufetes de abogados de la Nación. Su capacidad de trabajo y su inteligencia le permiten alcanzar su sueño. Pero pronto descubrirá las trampas que encierra el mundo de las élites profesionales. El mantenerse...

Reflections of a martial artist. "Today, when so many of us seek personal identity through what we buy, what car we drive...centering returns us to our true selves, liberating us from the tyranny of passing fads." The author, a World War II combat pilot, runs an aikido school in California.

Tom Butler-Bowdon is a recognized expert in the "literature of possibility". His first book, 50 SELF-HELP CLASSICS, won the Benjamin Franklin award and was a Foreword magazine Book of the Year. Tom's trilogy of personal development books, including 50 SUCCESS CLASSICS and 50 SPIRITUAL CLASSICS, have been translated into 17 languages. A graduate of the London School of Economics and the University of Sydney, he lives and works in both the UK and Australia....