“[A] delicious literary Gothic debut.” –THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, EDITORS' CHOICE“Moody and evocative as a fever dream, Catherine House isthe sort of book that wraps itself around your brain, drawing you closer witheach hypnotic step.” – THE WASHINGTON POSTA Most AnticipatedNovel by EntertainmentWeekly • New York magazine...

“Elisabeth Thomas had me mesmerized from the first page. Dreamy and brimming with dread, Catherine House will swallow you whole."" — Rory Power, New York Times bestselling author of Wilder GirlsTrust us, you belong here.A gothic-infused debut of literary suspense, set within a secluded, elite university and following a dangerously curious, rebelli...

From the author of the instant cult classic Catherine House, a story of one woman’s search to find her place in a looming uncanny future.Crystal Washington—awkward, underpaid, chronically ignored Crystal—has never fit in at Acme, the glossy tech startup where she works as an administrative assistant. Until the day she meets Juliet. Juliet, a magnetic scientist in Acme’s mysterious Social Machines department, is looking for a roommate. And she sees somethin...

From the author of the instant cult classic Catherine House, a story of one woman’s search to find her place in a looming uncanny future.Crystal Washington—awkward, underpaid, chronically ignored Crystal—has never fit in at Acme, the glossy tech startup where she works as an administrative assistant. Until the day she meets Juliet. Juliet, a magnetic scientist in Acme’s mysterious Social Machines department, is looking for a roommate. And she sees somethin...

A beautiful, full-color guidebook to more than 100 of the best waterfall hikes in Southern California.

Join a young bear cub on a captivating journey where he seeks grandeur above all.Filled with enchanting imagery and an age-old moral, this rhyme promises to whisk children into a world where love and family reign supreme.Will the bear cub choose the King Lion's gleaming throne or the comforting embrace of his parents?Dive into this mesmerising bedtime tale and let the adventure lead you to heartwarming truths.

From the majestic Bengal tiger to the domesticated Siamese comes a meditation on cats from the bestselling author of The Hidden Life of Dogs and The Social Lives of DogsFrom as far back in time as the disappearance of the dinosaurs, cats have occupied an important place in our evolutionary, social, and cultural history. The family of the cat is as diverse as it is widespread, ranging from the lions, tigers, and pumas of the African and Asian wilds ...

"A whole culture is imaginatively and authoritatively illuminated" in this "suspenseful, insightful, poignant" novel of prehistoric times ( Publishers Weekly).Twenty thousand years ago, a courageous girl lived in Siberia near Woman Lake, a place you won't find on any modern map. Only thirteen, Yanan and her companions—hunters of deer, gatherers of roots and twigs—struggle to survive the harsh realities of hunger and cold, bound by an unending cycle of birt...

From the revered author of the bestselling The Hidden Life of Dogs, a witty, engaging, life-affirming account of the joy, strength, and wisdom that comes with age.Elizabeth Marshall Thomas has spent a lifetime observing the natural world, chronicling the customs of pre-contact hunter-gatherers and the secret lives of deer and dogs. In this book, the capstone of her long career, Thomas, now eighty-eight, turns her keen eye to her own life. The result is an a...

Set in prehistoric Siberia, a "psychologically acute and soaringly imaginative" novel by a New York Times–bestselling author ( Publishers Weekly).In this novel by the author of Reindeer Moon, set in the Paleolithic age, Kori lives among his hunter-gatherer people, guilty with the knowledge that his unborn child is being carried by his shaman father's new wife. Then, Kori impulsively seizes another woman, from a different tribe, after seein...

One of our most influential anthropologists reevaluates her long and illustrious career by returning to her roots-and the roots of life as we know itWhen Elizabeth Marshall Thomas first arrived in Africa to live among the Kalahari San, or bushmen, it was 1950, she was nineteen years old, and these last surviving hunter-gatherers were living as humans had lived for 15,000 centuries. Thomas wound up writing about their world in a seminal work, The Harmless People (1959). It ...

Stories provide portals into other worlds, both real and imagined. The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic, the doors are often barred. This problem lies not only with children's publishing, but also with the television and film executives tasked with adapting these stories into a visual world. When characters of color do appear, they are often marginalized or subjected to violence, reinfor...