“Ridiculously good” (The New York Times) author Thomas Pierce's debut novel is a funny, poignant love story that answers the question: What happens after we die? (Lots of stuff, it turns out).Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart attack at age thirty. Revived with no memory of any tunnels, lights, or angels, Jim wonders what--if anything--awaits us on the other side.Then a ghost shows up. Maybe. Jim and his new wife, A...

Examining recent research and practice on reminiscence, life review and life story work, this book offers critical accounts of the rapidly growing and extensive global literature, and highlights the continuing relevance and effectiveness of these therapeutic methods.The book includes examples of international practical projects, involving people of all ages, life circumstances, and levels of physical and cognitive functioning. Contributions from contemporary practitioners and resea...

Thomas Benfield Harbottle's *Dictionary of Battles* is a concise yet wide-ranging reference work that surveys armed conflicts across world history, arranging them alphabetically for rapid consultation. Each entry identifies a battle's date, principal participants, location, and historical result, while often adding the political or strategic circumstances that give the engagement significance. Its clear, compressed prose reflects the Victorian and Edwardian tradition of the historical dict...

“Ridiculously good” (The New York Times) author Thomas Pierce's debut novel is a funny, poignant love story that answers the question: What happens after we die? (Lots of stuff, it turns out).Jim Byrd died. Technically. For a few minutes. The diagnosis: heart attack at age thirty. Revived with no memory of any tunnels, lights, or angels, Jim wonders what--if anything--awaits us on the other side.Then a ghost shows up. Maybe. Jim and his new wife, A...

A wild, inventive ride of a short story collection from a distinctive new American storyteller. The author of the forthcoming novel, The Afterlives.The stories in Thomas Pierce’s Hall of Small Mammals take place at the confluence of the commonplace and the cosmic, the intimate and the infinite. A fossil-hunter, a comedian, a hot- air balloon pilot, parents and children, believers and nonbelievers, the people in these stories are struggling to unde...

Thomas Kyd's "The Spanish Tragedie," written in the late 1580s, is a profound exploration of revenge, madness, and the tragic consequences of unchecked ambition. This quintessential example of Elizabethan drama intertwines elements of existential inquiry with a complex narrative structure that showcases Kyd's mastery of blank verse and dramatic tension. Set against a backdrop of political intrigue in Spain, the play presents a rich tapestry of themes, including justice, honor, and mortalit...

In "Confessions of an English Opium-Eater," Thomas De Quincey embarks on a deeply personal exploration of addiction, documenting his experiences with opium in a lyrical and confessional tone. This seminal text blends autobiography with philosophical reflection, capturing the paradox of pleasure and torment inherent in substance use. De Quincey's narrative weaves together vivid imagery and introspective commentary, situating his experiences within the broader Romantic discourse of the early...

A funny and deeply felt novel that illuminates the pivotal role of work in our lives—a riveting fusion of The Nest, Up in the Air, and Then We Came to the End that captures the emotional complexities of five HR colleagues trying to balance ambition, hope, and fear as their small company is buffeted by economic forces that threaten to upend them.Rosa Guerrero beat the odds as she rose to the top of the corporate world. An attractive woman of a certain age, the long...

**From the New York Times bestselling author of I Don't Know How She Does It comes an audiobook about starting over, and facing life with a sense of humor.This program is read by acclaimed actor Poppy Miller, who stars as Ginny Weasley in the Broadway production of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child.**Allison Pearson's brilliant debut novel, I Don't Know How She Does It, was a New York Times bestseller with four million copies sol...

From the New York Times bestselling author Lisa Scottoline comes a fast-paced, thrilling audiobook.Nobody cuts deeper than family...Dr. Noah Alderman, a widower and single father, has remarried a wonderful woman, Maggie Ippolitti, and for the first time in a long time, he and his young son are happy. Despite her longing for the daughter she hasn’t seen since she was a baby, Maggie is happy too, and she’s even more overjoyed when sh...

**NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • An unforgettable cast of small-town characters copes with love and loss in this “compulsively readable” (San Francisco Chronicle) novel from the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Olive Kitteridge and My Name is Lucy Barton“This book, this writer, are magnificent.”—Ann Patchett**WINNER OF THE STORY PRIZE • ONE OF BARACK OBAMA’S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New York Times...

National Bestseller: A hilarious and emotionally charged novel about a couple who embark on an open marriage-what could possibly go wrong?Lucy and Owen, ambitious, thoroughly-therapized New Yorkers, have taken the plunge, trading in their crazy life in a cramped apartment for Beekman, a bucolic Hudson Valley exurb. They've got a two hundred year-old house, an autistic son obsessed with the Titanic, and 17 chickens, at last count.It's the ki...