"One of the best Italian novels of the year" in a pitch-perfect rendering in English by Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante's translator ( Huffington Post, Italy).Winner of the Campiello PrizeA 2019 Best Book of the Year ( The Washington Post Kirkus Reviews Dallas Morning News)Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned it countless adoring readers and one of Italy's most prestigi...

When the crack era jumped off in the 1980s, many street legends were born in a hail of gunfire. Business minded and ruthless dudes seized the opportunities afforded them, and certain individuals out of the city's five boroughs became synonymous with the definition of the new era black gangster. Drugs, murder, kidnappings, shootings, more drugs, and more murder were the rule of the day. They called it "The Game," but it was a vicious attempt to come up by any means necessary. In the late 19...

Strap on your headlamp! You're invited to journey into the Earth. It's chilly and damp as we exit the light, but a wonder-filled underground world awaits-IN A CAVE.See stalactites, bats, troglobites, and work up an appetite for cave popcorn in this subterranean celebration. Work up an appetite for cave popcorn as you journey into a subterranean world filled with dazzling cave formations and cave-dwelling creatures! Join two young explorers and their trusted guide as they head off o...

We are inclined to see terrorist attacks as an aberration, a violent incursion into our lives that bears no intrinsic relation to the fundamental features of modern societies. But does this view misconstrue the relationship between terror and modernity?In this book, philosopher Donatella Di Cesare takes a historical approach and argues that terror is not a new phenomenon, but rather one that has always been a key part of modernity. At its most basic level, terrorism is about the st...

She escaped a marriage of convenience but can't forget his touch in this sizzling romance from the USA Today –bestselling author.It's been seven years since Sierra Rocci left Marco Ferranti on the eve of their convenient wedding. Now she's back in Sicily to collect her inheritance—only to find out everything that bears her name belongs to Marco!Marco thought revenge would taste sweeter, but it's not as sweet as th...

LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARDLiterary Hub Notable Small Press Book of 2025Winner of the 2024 Strega Prize and the 2024 Youth Strega Prize★ “A gut-wrenching excavation of generational trauma... this contemplative novel offers a subtle but piercing meditation on the complex dynamics between parents and children.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review)Acclai...

Blood will spill faster than bird seed when a Rossi marries a Moretti.I’ve spent a lifetime hiding in plain sight. A few tattoos, some hair dye, and it’s like I’m a brand new person. Invisible to my family, and our enemies.Until now.However Christian Moretti found me, it isn’t the triumph he thinks it is. Even if my body aches for his punishing touch, even if I crave the pleasure I find only in his bed, I will not bend. I will not submit.I w...

A NEW YORKER BEST BOOK OF 2022 FINALIST FOR THE 2021 STREGA PRIZE From the internationally acclaimed author of A Girl Returned, a spellbinding story about family, memory, love, and the relationships that define us. It's the darkest time of night. Adriana, a baby in her arms, hammers on her sister's door. Who is she running from? What uncomfortable truth is she carrying with her? Like a whirlwind, Adriana upends her sister's life bringing chaos and cataclysmic revelations. Years later, the ...

The sensitive and powerful story of the love between a mother and her daughter, a love 'gone wrong from the start'. When Esperia exhibits the symptoms of dementia, her daughter takes care of her and help her to rebuild her disintegrating identity. Day after day we learn about the characters of the extended family, the small village still without running water or electricity, in a 'bright and harsh' Abruzzo.

The Oxford Handbook of Social Movements is an innovative volume that presents a comprehensive exploration of social movement studies, mapping the field and expanding it to examine the recent developments in cognate areas of studies, within and beyond sociology and political science. This volume brings together the most distinguished social and political scientists working in this field, each writing thought-provoking essays in their area of expertise, and facilitates conversations...

Philosophers have long struggled to reconcile Martin Heidegger's involvement in Nazism with his status as one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. The recent publication of his Black Notebooks has reignited fierce debate on the subject. These thousand-odd pages of jotted observations profoundly challenge our image of the quiet philosopher's exile in the Black Forest, revealing the shocking extent of his anti-Semitism for the first time.For much of the philoso...

Recent years have seen an enormous increase in protests across the world in which citizens have challenged what they see as a deterioration of democratic institutions and the very civil, political and social rights that form the basis of democratic life. Beginning with Iceland in 2008, and then forcefully in Egypt, Tunisia, Spain, Greece and Portugal, or more recently in Peru, Brazil, Russia, Bulgaria, Turkey and Ukraine, people have taken to the streets against what they perceive as a ram...