'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...

**NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARA WASHINGTON POST TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEAR • FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD AND THE MARK TWAIN AMERICAN VOICE IN LITERATURE AWARD****A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries—“a time-spanning, genre-blurring work of storytelling magic” (The Washington Post) fr...

This resource offers science teachers and science teacher educators strategies for tackling "wicked problems" in their classrooms. Contributors from across diverse PreK-12 educational contexts share how they confront and address these complex scientific or social problems. Chapters are organized into four sections: PreK-12 students, teacher candidates, in-service teachers, and teacher educators. Within each, science educators discuss how they have dealt with both systemic and non-straightf...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

A New York Times Notable BookA San Francisco Chronicle, San Jose Mercury News, and Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year“A gripping and resonant novel. . . . It immerses the reader in a distant world with startling immediacy and ardor. . . . Riveting.” —Michiko Kakutani, The New York TimesIn 1886 a shy, middle-aged piano tuner named Edgar Drake receives an unusual commis...

**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...

'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...

'Right here. Right now. Tell me: would you rather live, or just exist?'For a man intent on escaping his past, a chance meeting in Vietnam with an American journalist looks like the perfect way out, but it is just the beginning of an adrenaline and testosterone-fuelled plunge into a world of danger and desperate men.Dragged into a seedy underground where Russian roulette is an everyday rush and life is very, very cheap, he finds himself taking on the journalist's identity – ...

**'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...