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In Claire-Louise Bennett's shimmering debut, an unnamed young woman - wry, somewhat misanthropic, keenly observant - chronicles her life on the outskirts of a small coastal village.The charms of bananas and oatcakes in the morning and Spanish oranges after sex; the small pleasures and anxieties of throwing a party, exchanging salacious emails with a new lover, sitting in the bath as it storms outside. Broken oven knobs prompt a meditation on survival that's both haunting and playful.

From the New York Times bestselling, Booker Prize–winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo and Tenth of December comes a literary master class on what makes great stories work and what they can tell us about ourselves—and our world today. For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been...

Minister Catherine Ponder reveals universal truths for health, love, success, and peace in this groundbreaking book first published in 1962. She offers plenty of practical advice and countless actual success stories about using divine power to overcome difficulties, achieve happiness, and live a fulfilling, rewarding life. This book has helped people in every walk of life improve their relationships, work, finances, health, and spiritual understanding. Every change you want to make in your life starts first in your mind.

“A masterpiece that can compare with Steinbeck’s East of Eden. … Some books make you laugh; some make you cry; some make you think. The Prince of Tides is a rarity: It does all three.” — Detroit Free Press A modern American classic and a family saga that spans decades, this is the...

Originally published in The New Yorker in 1954, The Ponder Heart is easily Eudora Welty’s most comic novel, a lighthearted burlesque that rivals Caldwell’s Tobacco Road for capturing rural idioms, and the novels of Mark Twain for high farce.

Thoreau's classic account of the solitary life, describing his attempts to simplify his life and sort out his priorities by living alone in a cabin beside Walden Pond for nearly two years, is one of the most influential books ever written. The bible of the environmental movement, Walden vividly portrays Thoreau's reverence for nature, and his understanding of the idea that nature is made up of crucially interrelated parts.

After completing his Primary Task, Ron has more power than he ever imagined... but it's not enough to free Lya from her prison. To break her chains, he must complete his second Divine Task: earning access to the treasuries of two more kingdoms. Only then can he fight the gods. To achieve this, his caravan embarks on a diplomatic mission to kill Harbrakken the Dread, an ancient dragon who threatens the elves. To defeat him, Ron must work alongside the beautiful elven queen and discover powerful spells long forbidden to mortals.

Everything you need to build the pond you’ve been dreaming of.Bring flow, beauty, and balance to your backyard—with the definitive guide to natural pond creation. Whether dreaming of a serene water garden, a koi-filled ecosystem, or a bubbling waterfall oasis, The Art of Pond Building shows you exactly how to make it happen. This book, written by the founder of Rock Water Plant Ponds and Waterfalls, one of Ontario's most trusted pond-building companies, combines over a decade of hands-on experience with practical instruction and artistic insight. You'll learn everything from design ...

Mary Oliver has published twenty-one volumes of poetry and six books of prose in the span of five decades, but she rarely performs her poetry in live readings. With At Blackwater Pond, Mary Oliver gives her audience what they've longed to hear: the poet's voice reading her own work. In this...

Carlene Rivers is many things. Dutiful, reliable, kind. Lucky? Not so much. At thirty, she’s living a stifling existence in Cleveland, Ohio. Then one day, Carlene buys a raffle ticket. The prize: a pub on the west coast of Ireland. Carlene is stunned when she wins. Everyone else is stunned when she actually goes.

The Ultimate Guide for Building a Pond will teach you step by step methods for pond building that is low maintenance and supports healthy Koi and Pond Fish. Imagine being able to sit pond side and watch your Koi play instead of spending all your time trying to clear up your water. This book teaches you to build fish ponds the right way on your first try. This book covers the important topics of: Questions you need to ask before you start Pond Building, Pond Supplies, Planning and Pitfalls, Pond Lights and Ultraviolet Water Sterilizer, 8 Tips for Stable Water Quality, and Much More

"Me 'n you against the world, Ma," Ritchie always reminded his mother when she tucked him into bed at night. He needed his Ma now, more than ever, and she was no longer there for him. Slowly, as the days went by, his young heart grew even more hardened. Then came the day when he was accused of murder and had to do time at a boys' home called Willow Pond. The lessons he learned there proved that he had much to give, yet needed to give up a lot more to prove himself a worthy person. Unfortunately, the relentless lure of a wild life that included drinking were too much of a strain on his young...

With their towering, cinnamon-colored trunks and dusky green canopies, ponderosa pine has long been a charismatic icon of the American West. Yet a quiet unraveling has begun: in the past decade, in a vast area from Santa Fe to the Sierras, more than two hundred million ponderosa have died. While some trees will survive in cooler places, scientists estimate that by mid-century less than five percent of the ponderosa in the American Southwest may remain. As the very character of this vast region shifts, what will be left behind? And how can we come to terms with such profound loss?

Eli Grayson knew there was no such thing as magic. He knew there were no other worlds filled with magical races beyond his imagining. He knew he was a regular guy, just trying to recover from a brutally difficult breakup. That is, until he foiled an assassination attempt on an elven princess who showed him exactly how wrong he was. He's thrust headfirst into a hidden world of potent magic and sinister plots only to discover he has powers of his own.

For the last twenty years, George Saunders has been teaching a class on the Russian short story to his MFA students at Syracuse University. In A Swim in a Pond in the Rain, he shares a version of that class with us, offering some of what he and his students have discovered together over the years. Paired with iconic short stories by Chekhov, Turgenev, Tolstoy, and Gogol, the seven essays in this book are intended for anyone interested in how fiction works and why it’s more relevant than ever in these turbulent times.

The rural town of Balaclava greets Groundhog Day as an excuse for one last cold-weather fling. The students and faculty of the local agricultural college drink cocoa, throw snowballs, and when the temperature allows, ice skate. But Oozak's Pond is not quite frozen this year, and as the celebrations reach their peak, the students see someone bobbing through the ice. Long past help, the drowning victim is badly decomposed and dressed in an old-fashioned frock coat with a heavy rock in each pocket. 

Kit Tyler must leave behind shimmering Caribbean islands to join the stern Puritan community of her relatives. She soon feels caged, until she meets the old woman known as the Witch of Blackbird Pond. But when their friendship is discovered, Kit herself is accused of witchcraft!...

Stephanie and Trevor Simpson have been back from their honeymoon for just a few weeks. Both in their late 20s, the elementary school teacher Stephanie and her engineer husband are in the beginnings of a very passionate marriage. But now Stephanie has a decision to make. Can she bring herself to tell her husband that a recently realized desire has been prodding at her consciousness – and libido? It seems that her memory of being paddled as an 18-year-old high school senior has morphed from a humorous anecdote into something she is finding to be a craving which she would like for her ...

MURDER IN NUBIA The Egyptologist Detective An intriguing new voyage of discovery into murder mystery. The Archaeologist Detective is back. Daniel Cane is called on to play the role of cruise Egyptologist and investigator in a baffling mystery. Mysterious murders and a shocking, secret discovery lead Daniel to an ending nobody could expect. This time the setting is a luxurious cruise across the inland ‘Nubian Sea’ across the Sahara Desert, from Abu Simbel in Nubia to Aswan in Egypt, culminating in a world congress on the mysterious Island Temple of Philae. Who is killing the great ...

Like many other contemporary Cape Cod communities, Mashpee is a place divided among lines--affluence, race, heritage and history. It will take nothing less than the selfless actions of a few pioneers to change the unchangeable. Tobin Horvarth knows the pain of life in such a divided community. Two centuries earlier, his people's land was swindled away by European settlers. Now, he and the other members of the Wampanoag nation work to win their land back, but it's an uphill fight. Tensions are at the boiling point between the whites and the indigenous peoples, and no matter how much his ...