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""If some prose sings, Kiran Millwood Hargrave’s truly dances. Although set in the early sixteenth century, The Dance Tree addresses issues of the utmost importance today—the subjection of women, class inequality, the dangers of religious fundamentalism. Ultimately, however, the book’s...

Percival Everett's The Trees is a must-listen that opens with a series of brutal murders in the rural town of Money, Mississippi. When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation arrive, they meet expected resistance from the local sheriff, his deputy, the coroner, and a string of racist White townsfolk. The murders present a puzzle, for at each crime scene there is a second dead body: that of a man who resembles Emmett Till.

Since Peter Senge published his groundbreaking book The Fifth Discipline, he and his associates have frequently been asked by the business community: "How do we go beyond the first steps of corporate change? How do we sustain momentum?" They know that companies and organizations cannot thrive...

Brought to you by Penguin. From the bestselling author of I Haven't Been Entirely Honest With You comes a joyful, hilarious and heartwarming story of a seemingly ordinary woman, her beloved dog and a forgotten but friendly Christmas tree . . . Hello to you. I have written a short story, or Tall...

Straßburg, im glühend heißen Sommer 1518: Mitten in der Stadt beginnt eine Frau zu tanzen. Tagelang, ohne Unterbrechung. Hunderte folgen ihrem Beispiel und die Obrigkeit ruft verzweifelt den Notstand aus. Außerhalb der Stadtgrenze spürt die schwangere Lisbet noch nichts von dem Aufruhr. Doch als ihre Schwägerin Nethe aus der Verbannung auf den Hof zurückkehrt, beginnt auch unter Lisbets Füßen der Boden zu beben. Was verbirgt Nethe? Welche Sünde hat sie begangen, für die sie sieben Jahre lang Buße tat?

The author of the Pulitzer Prize finalist The Forest Unseen visits with nature’s most magnificent networkers — trees "At once lyrical and informative, filled with beauty." – Elizabeth Kolbert, author of The Sixth Extinction David Haskell’s award-winning The Forest Unseen won acclaim...

""An absolute, triumphant delight from the first word until the last. Told in a playful, witty voice with crackling banter and tension that could power a city, you will fall in love—with this book, with these characters, with everything.""—Jeff Zentner, William C. Morris Award-winning author...