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The Demon's Surrender
by Sarah Rees BrennanThe Goblin Market has always been the center of Sin's world. But now the Market is at war with the magicians, and Sin's place is in danger. Thrown out of the Market she loves, Sin is thrown together with brothers Nick and Alan--whom she's always despised. Alan has been marked by a magician and is being tortured so that the magicians can get to Nick. As Sin watches Alan struggle to protect the demon brother he loves, she begins to see him in a new light--but she and Mae are locked in a fierce rivalry over who will inherit the leadership of the Goblin Market, and a decisive battle with the Aventurine Circle is looming. Mae's brother, Jamie, is holed up with the magicians, his loyalties in question. And Nick--well, who knows what a demon might do to save his brother? How far will Nick go to save Alan--and what will it cost them all? Find out in this gripping conclusion to the trilogy Scott Westerfeld says is "full of shimmery marvels and bountiful thunder."
Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
by Emily LadauAn approachable guide to being a thoughtful, informed ally to disabled people, with actionable steps for what to say and do (and what not to do) and how you can help make the world a more inclusive place ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: NPR, Booklist • &“A candid, accessible cheat sheet for anyone who wants to thoughtfully join the conversation . . . Emily makes the intimidating approachable and the complicated clear.&”—Rebekah Taussig, author of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary, Resilient, Disabled Body People with disabilities are the world&’s largest minority, an estimated 15 percent of the global population. But many of us—disabled and nondisabled alike—don&’t know how to act, what to say, or how to be an ally to the disability community. What are the appropriate ways to think, talk, and ask about disability? Demystifying Disability is a friendly handbook on the important disability issues you need to know about, including:• Recognizing and avoiding ableism (discrimination toward disabled people)• Practicing good disability etiquette• Ensuring accessibility becomes your standard practice, from everyday communication to planning special events• Appreciating disability history and identity• Identifying and speaking up about disability stereotypes in media Authored by celebrated disability rights advocate, speaker, and writer Emily Ladau, this practical, intersectional guide offers all readers a welcoming place to understand disability as part of the human experience.Praise for Demystifying Disability&“Whether you have a disability, or you are non-disabled, Demystifying Disability is a MUST READ. Emily Ladau is a wise spirit who thinks deeply and writes exquisitely.&”—Judy Heumann, international disability rights advocate and author of Being Heumann &“Emily Ladau has done her homework, and Demystifying Disability is her candid, accessible cheat sheet for anyone who wants to thoughtfully join the conversation. A teacher who makes you forget you&’re learning, Emily makes the intimidating approachable and the complicated clear. This book is a generous and needed gift.&”—Rebekah Taussig, author of Sitting Pretty: The View from My Ordinary Resilient Disabled Body
Den Frauen Gebe Ich Mich Selbst
by Mary KingEmelisa macht sich keine Gedanken über die Strafe, die auf sie zukommen wird. Aber Humphrey, ihr Verteidiger, tut es. Der Ausgang des Urteils, das heute Abend über sie gefällt wird, wird nicht nur über das Schicksal von Emelisa entscheiden, sondern auch über das ihrer zarten, unschuldigen Kinder und der Frauen einer ganzen Zivilisation. Humphrey versucht, den Strom der Diskriminierung gegen sie einzudämmen. Aber wird er Emelisa vor einer lebenslangen Haftstrafe verschonen?
Den Traummann finden für Dummies (Für Dummies)
by Andrea BettermannSo finden Sie einen Mann, der zu Ihnen passt Sind Sie auf der Suche nach Ihrem Traummann, aber Wissen nicht so recht, wie Sie ihn finden können? Andrea Bettermann begleitet Sie bei der Partnersuche. Sie gibt Ihnen konkrete Tipps, wie Sie in Onlinebörsen, Speed-Datings oder auf Single-Partys Ihrem Traummann begegnen können. Sie hilft Ihnen, sich darüber klar zu werden, was Sie eigentlich suchen, und zeigt Ihnen, dass es oft sinnvoll ist, auch rechts und links zu schauen. Vor allem aber macht sie Ihnen Mut, auch die Zeit als Single zu genießen, auf sich selbst zu vertrauen und selbstbewusst auf die Suche zu gehen.
The Dendrilegs: Book 12 (Nelly the Monster Sitter #12)
by Kes GrayNelly's monster sitting adventures are always full of surprises. She certainly can't believe it when she sits a monster who wants to do absolutely nothing! Or when she has to rescue the smallest monster she's encountered yet - but nothing can prepare her for spending Christmas Day with the Dendrilegs!Nelly knows she's in for an interesting Christmas at the Dendrilegs, when she's greeted at the door by a flurry of purple tentacles. But It's not Father Christmas who'll be coming down the chimney...
Denied a Mummy: The heartbreaking story of three little children searching for someone to love them. (A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story)
by Maggie HartleyWhen Maggie's latest placement arrives on her doorstep, it is clear that Sean, Dougie and their big sister Mary have been through unspeakable traumas in their short?lives. Violent and malnourished,?the siblings have been left to fend for themselves by their drug-addicted parents. Maggie must use all of her skills and experience as a foster carer to help these damaged siblings to learn to be children again. With much love, care and patience, their behaviour gradually starts to improve and social services start looking for a forever family for them. But alarm bells start to ring when Maggie meets the couple who have been matched to adopt the siblings. It is clear that they're looking for the perfect, ready-made family, and they're not going to get it with these vulnerable brothers and sister. Despite raising her concerns with social services, Maggie is powerless to prevent the adoption from going ahead and she must put aside her own fears to help the siblings settle in with their new parents. But she can't shake the feeling of dread as she waves them goodbye.A few months later, Maggie's worst nightmares come true when she learns that the children have been handed back to the care of social services following the breakdown of the adoption. Maggie must fight to get the children returned to her, but is it too late to undo the damage that has been done?
Denied a Mummy: The heartbreaking story of three little children searching for someone to love them. (A\maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story Ser.)
by Maggie HartleyWhen Maggie's latest placement arrives on her doorstep, it is clear that Sean, Dougie and their big sister Mary have been through unspeakable traumas in their short?lives. Violent and malnourished,?the siblings have been left to fend for themselves by their drug-addicted parents. Maggie must use all of her skills and experience as a foster carer to help these damaged siblings to learn to be children again. With much love, care and patience, their behaviour gradually starts to improve and social services start looking for a forever family for them. But alarm bells start to ring when Maggie meets the couple who have been matched to adopt the siblings. It is clear that they're looking for the perfect, ready-made family, and they're not going to get it with these vulnerable brothers and sister. Despite raising her concerns with social services, Maggie is powerless to prevent the adoption from going ahead and she must put aside her own fears to help the siblings settle in with their new parents. But she can't shake the feeling of dread as she waves them goodbye.A few months later, Maggie's worst nightmares come true when she learns that the children have been handed back to the care of social services following the breakdown of the adoption. Maggie must fight to get the children returned to her, but is it too late to undo the damage that has been done?
Denied a Mummy: The heartbreaking story of three little children searching for someone to love them. (A Maggie Hartley Foster Carer Story)
by Maggie HartleyWhen Maggie's latest placement arrives on her doorstep, the three young siblings have clearly been through unspeakable traumas in their short lives. Violent, malnourished and showing signs of sexualised behaviour, the two brothers and their big sister have been left to fend for themselves by their drug-addicted parents. Maggie must use all of her skills and experience as a foster carer to help these damaged siblings to learn to be children again. With much love, care and patience, their behaviour gradually starts to improve and social services start looking for a forever family for them.But alarm bells start to ring when Maggie meets the couple who have been matched to adopt the siblings. It is clear that they're looking for the perfect, ready-made family, and they're not going to get it with these vulnerable brothers and sister. Despite raising her concerns with social services, Maggie is powerless to prevent the adoption from going ahead and she must put aside her own fears to help the siblings settle in with their new parents. But she can't shake the feeling of dread as she waves them goodbye. Six months later, Maggie's worst nightmares come true when she learns that the children have been handed back to the care of social services following the breakdown of the adoption. Maggie must fight to get the children returned to her, but is it too late to undo the damage that has been done?Read by Penny MacDonald(p) Orion Publishing Group 2018
Denis Ever After
by Tony AbbottWritten by award-winning author Tony Abbott and perfect for fans of The Ethan I Was Before and The Thing About Jellyfish, this bittersweet middle grade novel follows the ghost of Denis Egan as he teams up with his living twin brother to solve the mystery of his death. <P><P>Denis Egan is dead. He’s okay with that. It’s been five years since he died, and the place where souls go is actually pretty nice. Sure, there are some things about his life and how it ended he can’t quite recall, but that’s how it’s supposed to be. <P><P>Remembering could prevent Denis from moving on to whatever’s next. However, something is standing in his way. His twin brother Matt can’t let go of him, and as long as the living are holding on to his memory, Denis can’t rest in peace. <P><P>To uncover the truth about what happened that day five years before, Denis returns to his hometown and teams up with Matt. But visiting for too long has painful consequences for Denis, and Matt’s renewed interest in his brother’s passing is driving a wedge between his still-grieving parents. <P><P>Can the two boys solve the mystery of Denis’s death without breaking apart the family he’s left behind?
Densho Origami: Traditional Japanese Figures for Everyone
by Kodansha InternationalDensho origami is based on figures from Japanese folklore, handed down from generation to generation for over a hundred years. These densho origami figures are all quite simple to make, but beautiful and balanced, and are considered an expression of Japan's heart, soul, wisdom, and culture.Densho Origami introduces thirty-five of the most classic, beloved origami figures—the crane, the samurai helmet, the ninja star, the goldfish, etc. The instructions are extremely easy to follow and rely on over 500 3-D, computer-generated diagrams which guide the reader through each step.With its clean design, careful instructions, and highly-detailed diagrams, Densho Origami is the perfect first book for both children and adults who want to explore this charming, creative, and rewarding art. It's also an ideal way for adults to share origami with children, continuing the long tradition of passing on to the next generation, a love and appreciation for what's come before.
The Department of Homeland Decency
by Susan Fuller Frank FullerLooking back at history, Americans have begun to realize that things were a lot better a long time ago. Men worked all day, raised large families, and didn’t expect others to pay for their health care. Their wives stayed at home and cooked, cleaned, and made themselves look pretty, just as our gracious Creator intended. The children of these decent parents did what they were told, spoke only when spoken to, and didn’t pierce their body parts. They understood it was thier parents’ right and obligation to administer spankings. Well, praise the government: Decency is back! The USA DECENCY ACT was passed this year by an overwhelming majority. Its basic tenets seek to bring us back to a world where: •Men are men •Women are women •Men and women are certainly not descended from apes •Lunch is not free •Nudity belongs at home. . . in the bedroom. . . in the dark By abiding by the rules in this manual, the Department of Homeland Decency will soon have everyone marching proudly backwards to the future! *This manual has been reviewed and approved for general distribution by an unqualified political appointee. As there never seems to be enough time to root out and document the seemingly endless variety of the inappropriate and the profane, we invite you to report any indecent behaviors we may have neglected to legislate to the appropriate authorities, namely us. Do not discuss your comments with others before submitting them to our official address, which, for reasons of national security, we are unable to publish in this document or any government directory or website. For now all such commentary may be submitted to www. homelanddecency. com, where comments will be processed and forwarded to our secure database. We apologize for our illusiveness. All communications with us, once submitted, should be promptly forgotten. If you need to refer to previous communications with our offices, please don’t. All communications become the property of the Department and cannot be returned or acknowledged in any way. In fact we reserve the right to deny receiving them at all, unless they contain material of a salacious or improper nature. In which case, they will be forwarded to our research and prosecution division where your name and your remarks will be entered into our database and cross-referenced with all other questionable statements made throughout history. From the Trade Paperback edition.
The Department of Lost & Found: A Novel
by Allison Winn ScotchFrom a New York Times bestseller, a “profound and moving” novel of a woman who receives a lifechanging diagnosis that rocks her love life and her career (Booklist).It didn’t start out as the worst day of Natalie Miller’s life. . . .As the top aide to New York’s powerful woman senator, Natalie’s moving rapidly up the political ladder. She works hard, stays late, and enjoys every bit of it. Then her neglected boyfriend announces he’s leaving. But that’s only the beginning. Her doctor gives her the worst news any woman can hear, and suddenly the life Natalie needs to change is her own.The time has come for her to overcome her strange obsession with The Price Is Right and take a tough look at the choices she’s made. She’ll start by tracking down the five loves of her life in order to assess what went wrong. And by revisiting her past, Natalie just might discover exciting new paths to unexplored places—and learn how to stop barreling through life long enough to really embrace it.“Allison Winn Scotch is the real deal and The Department of Lost and Found is one you absolutely won’t want to miss.” —Johanna Edwards, author of The Next Big Thing“Funny, touching, tender, true. . . . I loved it.” —Pamela Redmond Satran, New York Times bestselling author of Younger “Engrossing.” —Valerie Frankel, author of Smart Vs. Pretty“Allison Winn Scotch’s thoroughly engaging and optimistic debut novel simply sparkles!” — Claire Cook, New York Times bestselling author of Life’s A Beach“Smart and well-written.” —Marie Claire“A light, fast and fun read on a serious topic.” —Philadelphia Inquirer
The Department of Missing Persons: A Novel
by Ruth ZylbermanA startling debut novel about the burden of Holocaust memory and the implacable zest for life. Thirty-six years after her mother was liberated from Bergen-Belsen, the unnamed narrator lives a comfortable life in Paris. Her mother sees ghosts at every turn, longing to find the family that disappeared behind the miasma of the Holocaust, but she cannot reconcile her mother’s trauma to the cheery bustle of daily life that surrounds them. The pain of memories that are not hers haunt her, weighing all too heavily until she is incapacitated by them, unable forge her own future. As our narrator becomes further entrenched in the past, a letter is sent by the Department of Missing Persons suggesting that her grandfather is not dead, though details of his survival and current situation are unknown. Along with her mother, the narrator begins a desperate hunt, fighting through the past and present, love and loss, and her own vulnerabilities to find the truth and rid them both of their lingering ghosts.
The Dependents
by Katharine DionOne of TIME magazine's best summer reads, a "wise" (Entertainment Weekly) and "resplendent" (O, The Oprah Magazine) debut that follows a new widower confronting the truth about his long marriageOne of the best books of the summer: TIME, Entertainment Weekly, O: The Oprah Magazine, Real Simple, Brit + Co."A fine debut, full of intelligent writing . . . This book pleases on many levels." --Jeffrey Eugenides"The Dependents is a big book, one that grapples with important questions through generations...Dion's intelligence and ambition truly shine through sentence after sentence." --Kate Walbert, National Book Award finalist and author of A Short History of WomenAfter the sudden death of his wife, Maida, Gene is haunted by the fear that their marriage was not all it appeared to be. Alongside Ed and Gayle Donnelly, friends since college days, he tries to resurrect happy memories of the times the two couples shared, raising their children in a small New Hampshire town and vacationing together at a lake house every summer. Meanwhile, his daughter, Dary, challenges not only his happy version of the past but also his view of Maida. As a long-standing rift between them deepens, Gene starts to understand how unknown his daughter is to him--and how enigmatic his wife was as well. And a lingering suspicion seizes his mind that could upend everything he thought he knew. Katharine Dion's assured debut moves seamlessly between Gene's present-day journey and the long history of a marriage and friendship. Rich and wonderfully alive, The Dependents is the most moving kind of drama, an intimate glance into the expanse of family life and the way we must all eventually bridge the chasm between what we want to believe and what we know to be true.
Depression: A troubleshooting guide for parents
by Adams MediaYou want to provide the best for your children, but sometimes you can't do it alone. If your child has been diagnosed with a serious medical condition, you may be overwhelmed with the challenges ahead. The Everything® Healthy Living Series is here to help. These concise, thoughtful guides offer the expert advice and the latest medical information you need to understand your child's condition and provide the best possible care.Inside you'll find expert advice and helpful tips on recognizing the causes and symptoms of depression, seeking professional help, and treatment options, along with thoughtful suggestions on helping your child cope with depression.
Depression (The Everything Healthy Kids Series)
by Adams MediaYou want to provide the best for your children, but sometimes you can’t do it alone. If your child has been diagnosed with a serious medical condition, you may be overwhelmed with the challenges ahead. The Everything® Healthy Living Series is here to help. These concise, thoughtful guides offer the expert advice and the latest medical information you need to understand your child’s condition and provide the best possible care.Inside you’ll find expert advice and helpful tips on recognizing the causes and symptoms of depression, seeking professional help, and treatment options, along with thoughtful suggestions on helping your child cope with depression.
Depression (The Everything Kids Series)
by Adams MediaYou want to provide the best for your children, but sometimes you can’t do it alone. If your child has been diagnosed with a serious medical condition, you may be overwhelmed with the challenges ahead. The Everything® Healthy Living Series is here to help. These concise, thoughtful guides offer the expert advice and the latest medical information you need to understand your child’s condition and provide the best possible care.Inside you’ll find expert advice and helpful tips on recognizing the causes and symptoms of depression, seeking professional help, and treatment options, along with thoughtful suggestions on helping your child cope with depression.
Depression Fallout
by Anne SheffieldUsing the vivid, poignant and personal stories of the members of a website support group she founded (www.depressionfallout.com), Anne Sheffield, the author of two highly acclaimed books on depression, provides an honest record of what happens to a love relationship once depression enters the picture, and offers solid advice on what the non-depressed partner can do to improve his or her own life and the relationship. Of the millions of people who suffer from a depressive illness, few suffer in solitude. They draw the people they love - spouses, parents, children, lovers, friends - into their illness. In her first book, How You Can Survive When They're Depressed, Anne Sheffield coined the phrase 'depression fallout' to describe the emotional toll on the depressive's family and close friends who are unaware of their own stressful reactions and needs. She outlined the five stages of depression fallout (confusion, self-doubt, demoralisation, anger, and the need to escape) and explained that these reactions are a natural result of living with a depressed person.
Depression in Parents, Parenting, and Children: Opportunities to Improve Identification, Treatment, and Prevention
by Institute of MedicineDepression is a widespread condition affecting approximately 7.5 million parents in the U.S. each year and may be putting at least 15 million children at risk for adverse health outcomes. Based on evidentiary studies, major depression in either parent can interfere with parenting quality and increase the risk of children developing mental, behavioral and social problems. Depression in Parents, Parenting, and Children highlights disparities in the prevalence, identification, treatment, and prevention of parental depression among different sociodemographic populations. It also outlines strategies for effective intervention and identifies the need for a more interdisciplinary approach that takes biological, psychological, behavioral, interpersonal, and social contexts into consideration. A major challenge to the effective management of parental depression is developing a treatment and prevention strategy that can be introduced within a two-generation framework, conducive for parents and their children. Thus far, both the federal and state response to the problem has been fragmented, poorly funded, and lacking proper oversight. This study examines options for widespread implementation of best practices as well as strategies that can be effective in diverse service settings for diverse populations of children and their families. The delivery of adequate screening and successful detection and treatment of a depressive illness and prevention of its effects on parenting and the health of children is a formidable challenge to modern health care systems. This study offers seven solid recommendations designed to increase awareness about and remove barriers to care for both the depressed adult and prevention of effects in the child. The report will be of particular interest to federal health officers, mental and behavioral health providers in diverse parts of health care delivery systems, health policy staff, state legislators, and the general public.
Dept. of Speculation (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Jenny OffillDept. of Speculation is a portrait of a marriage. It is also a beguiling rumination on the mysteries of intimacy, trust, faith, knowledge, and the condition of universal shipwreck that unites us all. Jenny Offill's heroine, referred to in these pages as simply "the wife," once exchanged love letters with her husband postmarked Dept. of Speculation, their code name for all the uncertainty that inheres in life and in the strangely fluid confines of a long relationship. As they confront an array of common catastrophes--a colicky baby, a faltering marriage, stalled ambitions--the wife analyzes her predicament, invoking everything from Keats and Kafka to the thought experiments of the Stoics to the lessons of doomed Russian cosmonauts. She muses on the consuming, capacious experience of maternal love, and the near total destruction of the self that ensues from it as she confronts the friction between domestic life and the seductions and demands of art. With cool precision, in language that shimmers with rage and wit and fierce longing, Jenny Offill has crafted an exquisitely suspenseful love story that has the velocity of a train hurtling through the night at top speed. Exceptionally lean and compact, Dept. of Speculation is a novel to be devoured in a single sitting, though its bracing emotional insights and piercing meditations on despair and love will linger long after the last page.
Depth Perception: Poems and a Masque
by Robin MorganThis fourth book of poems from award-winning author Robin Morgan has an almost-novelistic shape, with plot twists that are realizations of self, other, and the nature of change In this book of transitions, Robin Morgan&’s poetry crosses the boundaries of age, race, culture, and gender. The lifelong love-hate passion between mother and daughter is here, as is a vivid, rhetoric-free depiction of the suffering and rage of women cross-culturally. Morgan also traces the slow dissolution of a marriage, parsed in poems of alternating hope and despair, humor and fury—and also in a tragicomic, two-character, one-act verse play, &“The Duel: A Masque.&” The play, which inverts the Orpheus-Eurydice myth, was performed at the Public Theater in New York City. Praised by the literary world for her technique, but dedicated to keeping her craft accessible and impassioned, Morgan takes us through inevitable deaths and resurrections of the self in pitch-perfect language shot through with dazzling imagery and irony.
Der Fall der verlegten Zikade: DRAMA / Allgemein/ FICTION/ Verbrechen (#3 Die Hart of the Matter-Serie #3)
by John Henry "Doc" HollidayBo "Didley" Hart und sein Sidekick Phredrica J. Fox sowie ihr neuer Detektiv Indigo Jones übernehmen ihren dritten Fall als Privatdetektive. Eine Reihe von Morden entlang des Appalachian Trail haben alle eines gemeinsam, das die Polizeidetektive nervt, die Überreste eines Insekts, das einfach nicht da sein sollte. Bo und Phred werden angeheuert, um das Warum und Wie aufzudecken. Also, schnallen Sie sich an und machen Sie sich bereit für die Fahrt ......
Der Preis für ein Leben
by Sébastien ThevenyWinter 2015: Der 25-jährige Léo erfährt vom tragischen Tod seiner beiden Eltern. Ein ganzer Teil seines Lebens wird auf den Kopf gestellt. Ein grausamer Verlust für Léo, der außerdem mit Hilfe von Dokumenten einer Vergangenheit nachspürt, die weit von dem Ideal entfernt ist, das diese kleine Familie verkörperte. *** Die Achtzigerjahre: Der Kinderwunsch von Noémie und Sacha, Léos Eltern, bleibt zunächst unerfüllt. Ein Unterfangen, das mehrere Jahre dauert und ihre Beziehung auf eine harte Probe stellt. *** Léo macht sich auf die Suche nach den Geheimnissen seiner wahren Vergangenheit. Eine verwickelte Geschichte, in der jeder einen Preis zahlen muss ...
Des enfants confiants - Comment les parents peuvent élever des enfants positifs, confiants, résilients et concentrés
by Karen Campbell Gift FandioAvoir un bebe, puis un enfant, c'est devenir responsable vingt quatre heure sur vingt quatre et c'est dabord cette hypper responsabilité qui nous pese a nous parent. Par ailleur; cette responsabilité et l'autorité qui en decoule sont plus ou moins bien assumées selon l'histoire de chaque parents.Tous les parents peuvent reussir dans cette responsabilité d'eduquer les enfants afin qu'ils soient des adultes responsable. Une des clés? Leur faire developper des pensées positives dès le plus jeunne age.Imaginez l'avenir de la societé et des generation a venir si on developpait un etat d'esprit positifs. Les parents, qui sont aussi des enseignants ont un tres grand pouvoir sur leur enfants. Comment user de ce pouvoir, de cette influence pour inculquer des valeur positive a nos enfants? En effets s'il croient que quelque choses est possible ils sont plus succeptible d'atteindre leur objectifs. Parents, a quoi voulez vous que vos enfants ressemblent? Quelles caracteristiques valorisez vous et voulez vous inculquer a votre enfants? Voulez vous qu'ils soit gentil et attentionés? Confiants et positifs, cooperatifs? Commencez dès le plus jeunne age et soyez convaincu des bienfaits inombrable d'une profonde pensées positive.
The Descartes Highlands
by Eric GamalindaOne of the Philippine Daily Inquirer's Top 10 Books of 2014A NewPages Book Stand Editor's Pick"Darkly spellbinding...With a keen eye for splendor amid the grotesque, Gamalinda writes with a poet's heart and a philosopher's mind, while enthralling readers with emotional, gritty storytelling."--Booklist"A mesmerizing story full of mystery...intricate...beautiful writing."--Publishers Weekly"It's Gamalinda's best and most accessible novel yet, deserving to be read by as many people as possible."--Philippine Daily Inquirer"It felt so easy to get swept up in this novel. The language is beautiful....a beautifully written book."--NewPages"The wait for Gamalinda's first US based publication was well worth [it]...An indispensable, powerful portrayal of broken families trapped in the centripetal forces of transnational capital and postcolonial politics."--Asian American Literature Fans"Gamalinda...does indeed write fearlessly...in rich, unflinching prose. This storytelling stayed with me...I was compelled to keep reading by the strength of the writing (it's not for nothing that Gamalinda is the recipient of the Philippine National Book Award, a Palanca Memorial Award, and a Philippine Centennial Prize)."--Galatea Ressurects #24"I recommend this book to those with large, giving hearts, who can afford to spend the emotional capital demanded here."--Basso Profundo"The Descartes Highlands is a psychologically taut drama that unravels right in front of you...I guarantee that you will be richly rewarded."--Zachary Mule"Behind Eric Gamalinda's jagged, ice-pick prose is an urgent need to connect and to understand. Are we more than the sum of our histories? What is this accident of being? Why is there anything at all? Written at the edge of a sinkhole and determined to resist its pull, The Descartes Highlands is about nothing less than the whole bewildering dream that is human consciousness."--David Hollander, author of L.I.E."No one writes like Eric Gamalinda, though we wish we all could. The Descartes Highlands, an amazing work of brutal candor girded by a philosopher's calm, entwines our present despair with the horrific pasts we will not escape. One of the most dazzling novelists writing in America today, Eric Gamalinda has an almost classical Greek faith in the redemptive power of art. This novel delivers a commitment to beauty as unflinching as the bleak truths it tells--about globalization, about colonialism, about our human madness--offering in turn what seems our only, paradoxical hope: the pained telling of our story--a gorgeous and bitter feast."--Gina Apostol, author of Gun Dealers' DaughterTwo men, each unaware of the other, share a common family secret: they were sold for adoption by their American father shortly after their births in the Philippines. Three alternating stories interweave the experiences of father Andrew Breszky and the two sons who try to connect and piece together the puzzle of their reckless, impulsive father. One lives in New York and the other grows up in the south of France, later traveling all over Asia as a documentary filmmaker. Both will discover that their relationships somehow echo that of the young man whose history eludes them.Celebrated Filipino writer Eric Gamalinda's international debut novel is a contemporary work of ideas that combines mystery, film noir, and existential philosophy. Highly intricate and written in a style reminiscent of the maverick narrative techniques of such filmmakers as Andrei Tarkovsky and Béla Tarr, and with some of the philosophical underpinnings of Michel Houellebecq or Javier Marías. Named after the region of the moon where Apollo 16 landed in the same year these men were born, The Descartes Highlands demonstrates that for lives marked by unrelieved loneliness, the only hope lies in the redemptive power of love.