'THE BOOK OF THE SUMMER' Mick Herron A GOOD MORNING AMERICA PICKFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NORTH WOODS'This is, simply put, a JOYFUL book - and the deeper you dig, the more joyful it becomes'Guardian'Very FUNNY . . . a PERFECT SUMMER ESCAPE . . . as tasty and oddly shaped as an organic apple'Financial Times'Mason deftly...

'THE BOOK OF THE SUMMER' Mick Herron A GOOD MORNING AMERICA PICKFROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NORTH WOODS'This is, simply put, a JOYFUL book - and the deeper you dig, the more joyful it becomes'Guardian'Very FUNNY . . . a PERFECT SUMMER ESCAPE . . . as tasty and oddly shaped as an organic apple'Financial Times'Mason deftly...

A SPELLBINDING MASTERPIECE. READ IT ONCE, REMEMBER IT FOREVER. 'North Woods is a monumental achievement of polyphony and humanity. Relating the narrative of an entire country via a single plot of land, it sweeps the reader through hundreds of years and an array of protagonists with a deft, heartbreaking, idiosyncratic zeal' Maggie O'FarrellOVER FOUR CENTURIES,'This is a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelli...

**Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2021Discover this breathtaking collection of short stories from the bestselling author of North Woods, Daniel Mason.**On a fated flight, a balloonist makes a discovery that changes her life forever. A telegraph operator finds an unexpected companion in the middle of the Amazon. A doctor is beset by seizures, in which he is possessed by a second, perhaps better, version of himself. And in Regency London, a bare-knuckle f...

**'Engrossing . . . The reader falls under the spell that the author is weaving, surrendering to the story's exotic magic' – The TimesDiscover this exquisitely told story of adventure and enlightenment from the bestselling author of North Woods, Daniel Mason.**White. Like a clean piece of paper, like uncarved ivory, all is white when the story begins.London, 1886. One misty afternoon, piano tuner Edgar Drake receives an un...

'Part mystery, part war story, part romance, The Winter Soldier is a dream of a novel' - Anthony Doerr, bestselling author of All The Light We Cannot See.Discover this spellbinding story of love and the tragedies of war from the bestselling author of North Woods, Daniel Mason.Vienna, 1914. Lucius is a young, idealistic medical student, whose life takes an unexpected turn with the outbreak of the F...

**'Mason is a superb storyteller' – The TimesDiscover this richly evocative story of heroism and the bonds of family from the bestselling author of North Woods, Daniel Mason.**When they spoke of it in town, they called it simply the city*, as if it was the only city in the world . . .*Raised in a remote village on the edge of a sugarcane plantation, Isabel was born with the gift and curse of ‘seeing farther’. When drought and war grip thei...

Mark Twain once said that history never repeats itself, but it does often rhyme. Ron Tucker was the proof as he put his foot on the same Vietnamese soil as his older brother and uncle had years before him. They fought their own battles, and now it was Tucker's time to fight his.No longer the lovelorn young man, fresh from the Florida beaches, Ron Tucker has touched down in Vietnam and must face adulthood overnight.Shortly after they arrive, Tucker and his buddies and their ...

As a teenage boy in the Sunshine State in the 1960s, Ron Tucker was living the good life. An avid surfer who excelled at all high school sports, including girls, Ron spent his days and nights living a young man's dream. But when he signed up for the draft in 1971, as expected, his life took a wide turn into the unknown future of a young soldier during the war in Vietnam.From his senior year in high school, his relationship with his high school sweetheart to graduation day, basic tr...

Death of the Pugilist, or The Famous Battle of Jacob Burke & Blindman McGrawRising from a childhood of rough dockside brawls, a young bare-knuckle fighter faces off against a legendary behemoth.The Ecstasy of Alfred Russel WallaceIn the jungles of the Malay Archipelago, a botanist is struck by an epiphany that will change not only his own life, but the course of science.

People of the Big Voice tells the visual history of Ho-Chunk families at the turn of the twentieth century and beyond as depicted through the lens of Black River Falls, Wisconsin studio photographer, Charles Van Schaick. The family relationships between those who “sat for the photographer” are clearly visible in these images—sisters, friends, families, young couples—who appear and reappear to fill in a chronicle spanning from 1879 to 1942. Also included are candid shots of Ho-Chun...

This open access book is the result of an expert panel convened by the Cornell Atkinson Center for Sustainability and Nature Sustainability. The panel tackled the seventeen UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for 2030 head-on, with respect to the global systems that produce and distribute food. The panel’s rigorous synthesis and analysis of existing research leads compellingly to multiple actionable recommendations that, if adopted, would simultaneously lead to healthy and nut...