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A breakthrough work in neuroscience—and an incisive corrective to a long history of damaging pseudoscience—that finally debunks the myth that there is a hardwired distinction between male and female brains We live in a gendered world, where we are ceaselessly bombarded by messages about...

2019 Best-Of Lists: 10 Best Science Books of the Year (Smithsonian Magazine) · Best Science Books of the Year (NPR's Science Friday) · Best Science and Technology Books from 2019” (Library Journal) An astute and timely examination of the re-emergence of scientific research into racial...

“A gripping, sinister fable!” —Margaret Atwood, via Twitter ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR GLAMOUR GOOD HOUSEKEEPING LIT HUB THRILLIST King has tenderly staked out a territory for his wife and three daughters, Grace, Lia, and Sky. Here on his island, women are...

She ascended the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland in 1702, at age thirty-seven, Britain’s last Stuart monarch, and five years later united two of her realms, England and Scotland, as a sovereign state, creating the Kingdom of Great Britain. She had a history of personal misfortune...

Set in one day in 1632, The Anatomy Lesson is a stunning portrayal of Golden Age Amsterdam and a brilliantly imagined back-story to Rembrandt's first great work of art. Told from several points of view, ranging from a curio dealer who collects bodies for the city’s chief anatomist to...

Haunting, lyrical, unforgettable, Girl in the Dark is a brave new memoir of a life without light. Anna Lyndsey was young and ambitious and worked hard; she had just bought an apartment; she was falling in love. Then what started as a mild intolerance to certain kinds of artificial light...

Prilla, the newest fairy to arrive in Never Land, is so odd that Never Land itself isn’t certain whether to let her into Fairy Haven. Prilla shakes hands when she meets other fairies, and she says “Pleased to meet you,” instead of “Fly with you.” What’s more, she calls Tinker Bell...

Set in the heart of the wind-swept Yorkshire moors, Emily Brontë's one and only novel Wuthering Heights is one of literature's greatest love stories. A wind-swept journey across the moors into the bitter world of Heathcliffe, a Liverpool foundling brought to Wuthering Heights as a child. He...

A rollicking account of a celebrated artist’s coming of age, full of outrageously bad behavior, naked ambition, fantastically good music, and evaporating barriers of taste and decorum, and featuring cameos from David Bowie, Andy Warhol, Patti Smith, and many more. “A phantasmagoria of...

One of The New York Times Book Review's 10 Best Books of the Year On the morning of December 26, 2004, on the southern coast of Sri Lanka, Sonali Deraniyagala lost her parents, her husband, and her two young sons in the tsunami she miraculously survived. In this brave and searingly frank memoir...

For fans of Gone Girl and The Girl on the Train, an electrifying thriller that will take you into the dark spaces that exist between a husband and a wife. When the police started asking questions, Jean Taylor turned into a different woman. One who enabled her and her husband to carry on, when...

There's nothing like being told that in three months you'll be dead to make you think about what you really want in life "A novel about self-discovery, with plenty of surprises and a snappy, Bridget-Jones-gets-a-terminal-diagnosis vibe." -Booklist Jennifer Cole has just been told that she has a...

A thrilling new voice in fiction injects the absurd into the everyday to present a startling vision of modern life, “[as] if Kafka and Camus and Bradbury were penning episodes of Black Mirror” (Chang-Rae Lee, author of My Year Abroad). “Stories so sharp and ingenious you may cut yourself...

What if the person you thought you’d lost forever walked back into your life? A warm, uplifting novel about the unshakable bond between siblings, and what happens when a sister discovers her long-missing brother in the most unexpected place, from the author of Little Big Love. Emily has been...

“A remarkable combination of biology, genetics, zoology, evolutionary psychology and philosophy.” —Richard Powers, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Overstory “A brilliant, thought-provoking book.” —Matt Haig, New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Library A...

Harrick Gallow spends a century as the strongest warrior alive, though only the elites know he exists. So he does exactly that. Harrick Gallow, now Garrick Hallow, leaves the known world behind and retires to a frontier town, where he opens a repair and herb shop. Yet that is far easier said than done when you are the strongest person alive. Worse, trouble has a habit of following him wherever he goes.

For Boyd, the war was always coming. He didn’t always know it, but he felt it deep in his core. But he never expected the first battle to be at home. While the world looks to him as its ultimate Hero, Boyd faces a different kind of pressure from the people he loves most. His Devoted refuse to wait for a perfect future that may never come, forcing him to confront a truth he’s long avoided: even a demon who can face down the world’s greatest threats can’t control time, or the life he’s building beyond the battlefield.

Quinn Norton está começando do zero em outra escola, e participar de uma nova campanha de D&D parece a maneira ideal de se enturmar. O plano fica ainda mais atrativo quando é convidada para um grupo que inclui Logan Weber, o cara fofo e charmoso que Quinn conheceu no primeiro dia de aula. Mas...

Ob spannende Brettspiele, lustige Challenges oder eine aufregende Schatzsuche, bei Familie Vogel wird es garantiert nie langweilig! Begleitet Julian, Hanna, Emma und Albert bei einem XXL-Spielenachmittag voller Überraschungen, kniffliger Aufgaben und jeder Menge Spaß für die ganze Familie.

Der Sommer kann kommen! In diesem XXL-Hörspiel erwarten euch die schönsten Sommerabenteuer der Familie Vogel. Freut euch auf spannende Tage im Freibad, lustige Quizspiele, jede Menge Wasserspaß, coole Pool-Abenteuer und unvergessliche Ferienmomente mit Julian, Albert, Bluey und der ganzen Familie. Perfekt für heiße Sommertage!