A novel of love and yoga: "Bishop writes with Tina Fey snark, Mary Karr toughness, and Zadie Smith soul" (Bruce Cummings, former writer and senior producer, NBC Nightly News).Alex thought she had married the man of her dreams: successful, gorgeous, and delighted by her small-town charm. When he walks out six months later, proclaiming to have "found himself" (with the help of a stunning yoga teacher), she "finds herself" alone in an unfamiliar city, vengefu...

Children and young people are often discussed as if they are homogenous groups. The reality is, of course, very different, with an enormous variation within each of these groups and in any domain of experience pertaining to childhood or adolescence. Driven by personal, sociocultural, geographic, or economic circumstances, many children and young people worldwide are experiencing a totally different reality to those who fit with more mainstream patterns of childhood. This has substantial im...

Landscape architecture is one of the key professions dedicated to making cities hospitable and healthy places to live, work and play, while respecting and enhancing the natural environments and landscapes we inhabit. This edited collection presents current writing about the pivotal roles that landscape architects play in addressing some of the most pressing problems facing the planet, its environments and its populations through their research, analysis and speculative practice.The...

Increasing urbanization and increasing urban density put enormous pressure on the relationships between people and place in cities. Built environment professionals must pay attention to the impact of people–place relationships in small- to large-scale urban initiatives. A small playground in a neighborhood pocket park is an example of a small-scale urban development; a national environmental policy that influences energy sources is an example of a large-scale initiative. All scales of deci...

Designing Cities with Children and Young People focuses on promoting better outcomes in the built environment for children and young people in cities across the world. This book presents the experience of practitioners and researchers who actively advocate for and participate with children and youth in planning and designing urban environments. It aims to cultivate champions for children and young people among urban development professionals, to ensure that their rights and needs ...

“Refreshingly realistic … as good as having Sunday brunch with a girlfriend.” — Winnipeg Free PressMara Brennan is about to unravel. Three days after her 28th birthday, her boyfriend dumps her, leaving her with nothing but a basement apartment, a futon and a pile of unpaid bills. Mara realizes it’s time for an identity makeover. Navigating the dueling worlds of yoga and cosmetic surgery, gourmet dinners and Frankenberry cereal, etiquette handbooks and too-...

What if you were on the cusp of marrying the guy of your dreams and reaching that career goal you set for yourself, only for all of it to be taken away in one fell swoop?What if you then had to start from the very beginning, right down to moving out of the city and back to the suburbs to live with your parents?What if this all happened a month before you turned 30?This is the story of Jill Stevens, who after being forced to move back home, finds a list she made in high...

Five unforgettable women. One beloved yoga studio. A million tales to tell.Lee is a caring yoga teacher who changes lives and inspires friendships. But a year after the breakup of her marriage, she's struggling to raise her twins and make ends meet at her small studio in LA's trendy Silver Lake. The California yoga scene is dominated by celebrity teachers with agents, publicists, and other trappings Lee has rejected. When she's offered a teaching stint at a high-profile yoga festiv...

Waking up with a strange man is scary. Realizing you lost fifteen years of your life overnight? That's terrifying.With her memories from seventeen to thirty-two gone, Kate has no idea who she is and where she belongs. As she begins to fall for the man who found her, she wonders if she forgot those years for a reason.Should she keep trying to retrieve her original self, or start a new life?

”Love Struck will have you laughing out loud and constantly hoping, ‘Please don’t do what I think you’re going to do.’” — ChickLitReviews.comWhen 27-year-old image consultant Poppy Ross discovers that her seemingly devoted husband Parker is having an affair, she is dumbfounded, but before she can confront him, he’s struck by lightning and loses his short-term memory — including that of the affair. Given a chance to erase history, Poppy remakes herself in t...

Bad angels take flight in this Southern paranormal mystery from the author of the Explorers series who's "always a treat to read" (Kelley Armstrong, #1 New York Times–bestselling author of City of the Lost).They come out of the sky and take you. Everyone knows that.After six years of "angels" coming out of the sky and taking people from her town, sixteen-year-old Riley Carver has just about had it living with the constant...

Rose Parker's husband has been lying. About everything. When a conversation with her husband triggers questions, Rose Parker uncovers alarming answers that shatter her perfect life. But it is only when she shoves her belongings in her SUV and drives off that Rose realizes just how far from perfect her life actually was. She has nowhere to turn. While debating between distressing sleeping arrangements–her mother’s house full of questions or a hotel room with too much solitud...