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Critical Issues Facing America: Selected Essays from a Black Economist, 2016–2025
by Fred McKinneyThis book analyzes nuances and shifts in the scarcity of resources across food, energy, housing, and healthcare in the United States between 2016 and 2025. Written by Fred McKinney, the book provides a chronological exploration of cultural moments that impacted macroeconomic policy in the United States during this period. The chapters in the book cover a range of important topics, including racial wealth gaps, crime, minority business development, sustainability, corporate supplier diversity, education policy, culture, and war.
Micro- and Nano-plastics in Soil and Crop Systems (Sustainability Sciences in Asia and Africa)
by Mohammad Zaman Saif UddinThis book is an open access book on micro- and nano-plastics (MNPs) in soil and crop systems addresses a critical knowledge gap as plastic pollution increasingly infiltrates terrestrial ecosystems. It compiles the information on how MNPs enter agricultural systems through practices like plastic mulching, wastewater irrigation, and sludge application, offering insights into their long-term environmental effects. This book also highlights the potential disruptions MNPs cause to soil health, such as reduced fertility, impaired nutrient cycling and altered water retention. It also investigates their effects on crop growth, including their uptake by plants and the potential for these pollutants to enter the food chain, raising concerns about human health. This resource is crucial for researchers, policymakers and agricultural practitioners, offering practical solutions to mitigate plastic contamination in farming. It provides evidence-based recommendations for sustainable agricultural practices and contributes to developing environmental policies aimed at reducing plastic pollution in soils, ensuring food security and protecting ecosystem health.
Algorithmic Antagonism: Algorithmic Control, Precarity and Resistance in China's Food-Delivery Platform Economy (New Perspectives on Chinese Politics and Society)
by Hui HuangThis book provides a critical examination of how artificial intelligence and algorithmic management are transforming labour relations in the platform economy, with a focus on food-delivery workers in China. By combining ethnographic research with labour process theory, it reveals the hidden mechanisms of digital labour control and the ways workers resist algorithmic exploitation in an era of technological dominance. This book will interest scholars of the platform gig economy, of Chinese labor issues, and of the sociology of AI.
Italian Consensus for the Classification and Reporting of Thyroid Cytology
by Lucio Palombini Fulvio Basolo Anna Crescenzi Guido Fadda Andrea Frasoldati Francesco Nardi Enrico Papini Alfredo PontecorviThis updated edition of the Italian Consensus for Classification and Reporting of Thyroid Cytology (ICCRTC) integrates the evolution in the field of thyroid pathology and the new approaches in the management of thyroid diseases. The five categories defined in the 2014 Consensus edition, with the separation of indeterminate nodules into TIR3A and TIR3B subcategories, are retained due to their effective stratification of malignancy risk. The 2024 Consensus update has been developed by pathologists and endocrinologists with recognised expertise in thyroid disease and has been endorsed by their respective scientific societies: Società Italiana di Anatomia Patologica e Citologia Diagnostica (SIAPeC-IAP), Associazione Italiana Tiroide (AIT), Associazione Medici Endocrinologi (AME), Società Italiana di Endocrinologia (SIE). This book includes chapters on sampling techniques, ultrasound imaging, molecular testing, oncocytes and translatability between major reporting systems. Enhanced with videos of WSI from cytology slides explaining morphological criteria for category selection, and with interactive self-assessment flashcards, this book will help pathologists to report thyroid cytology diagnoses, and endocrinologists to correctly interpret cytology reports for patient management.
Business Process Management: Analysis, Modeling, Optimization, and Controlling of Processes
by Andreas GadatschThis textbook bridges the gap between business-administrative and organizational methods and their digital implementation, since process management increasingly means shaping operational tasks. In addition to methodological fundamentals, the book offers many practical examples and exercises. Prof. Gadatsch&’s book is now considered the &“current classic&”, the authoritative standard work for IT-supported design of business processes. The eleventh edition has been improved and adapted to the requirements of digital transformation. Another related trend is the increased use of data science methods for process management. Of particular importance are recent research findings published under the term &“exploratory process management.&” These show that the first main phase of process management was more focused on optimizing existing processes and business models. New practical examples have been added throughout the book, such as migration strategies for the ERP system SAP S/4 HANA, which serves as the basis for many industrial and service processes. The chapter on process modeling has been updated and newer methods, such as the Business Model Canvas, have been included.
Landscape Handbook: German Language Research Perspectives (Springer International Handbooks of Human Geography)
by Olaf Kühne Corinna Jenal Florian Weber Karsten BerrThis handbook presents different perspectives on landscapes and illuminates various landscape understandings from different disciplines. Written by experts in the field, it provides an overview of landscape research&’s current status and sheds light on the future of the field. The handbook examines theoretical perspectives of landscape research, landscape in the context of disciplinary references, meta-perspective approaches to landscape, methods of landscape research and practice, and fields of investigation of landscape research. Therefore, this handbook is an excellent resource for students, lecturers and researchers of landscape architecture, urban and regional planning, social sciences, and geography.
The Handbook of Multilingualism, Identity, and Language Endangerment in Africa (Springer Handbooks in Languages and Linguistics)
by Alireza Korangy Evgeniya GutovaThis handbook addresses the interrelatedness of nationalism, identity, language, linguistics, and multilingualism in an African context. It covers multilingualism, language and identity, language endangerment, language shift, language maintenance, language contact, diglossia, language decline, language death, language vitality, and much more in, linguistically, one of the richest regions on earth. The variety of alphabets and oral traditions immersed in folklore, made more linguistically complex through issues of inter-borders, and the long history of foreign intrusions and colonialism, has meant a collision of identities and linguistic peculiarities. This book considers these facets in relation to language endangerment in numerous geographies within the African continent. It confronts these questions under the rubric of multilingualism, linguistic geography, and a panoply of other sub-studies. By investigating a multitude of topics around the themes of multilingualism, identity, and language endangerment in Africa, this volume brings together these dimensions to showcase interdisciplinary research in studies of African languages and linguistics. Relevant to applied linguists, socio-linguists, cultural linguistics, language teachers, anthropologists, and scholars in African cultural studies more broadly, this is a vital, urgent text challenging language, and identity, endangerment.
Tokyo Express: A Novel
by Seicho MatsumotoFrom &“Japan's Agatha Christie&” (The Sunday Times): A secluded bay. An apparent lovers&’ suicide. And a pair of detectives with a nagging suspicion that the pieces don&’t add up. Can you solve one of the most astonishing literary puzzles ever written?&“An irresistible Hitchcockian gem: a fiendishly plotted crime novel told in crisp, elegant prose.&”—Paula Hawkins, author of The Girl on the Train In a rocky cove at Hakata Bay, the bodies of a young and beautiful couple are discovered. Standing on the cold beach, the police see nothing to investigate: The flush of the couple&’s cheeks and the empty juice bottle speak clearly of cyanide, of a lovers&’ suicide. But in the eyes of two men, senior detective Torigai Jutaro and Kiichi Mihara, a young gun from Tokyo, something is not quite right. Together, they begin to pick at the knot of a unique and calculated crime.Now widely available in English for the first time, Tokyo Express is celebrated around the world as Seichō Matsumoto&’s masterpiece.
There Is No Place for Us: Working and Homeless in America
by Brian GoldstoneA NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR (SO FAR) • Through the &“revelatory and gut-wrenching&” (Associated Press) stories of five Atlanta families, this landmark work of journalism exposes a new and troubling trend—the dramatic rise of the working homeless in cities across America&“An exceptional feat of reporting, full of an immediacy that calls to mind Adrian Nicole LeBlanc&’s Random Family and Matthew Desmond&’s Evicted.&”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors&’ Choice)The working homeless. In a country where hard work and determination are supposed to lead to success, there is something scandalous about this phrase. But skyrocketing rents, low wages, and a lack of tenant rights have produced a startling phenomenon: People with full-time jobs cannot keep a roof over their head, especially in America&’s booming cities, where rapid growth is leading to catastrophic displacement. These families are being forced into homelessness not by a failing economy but a thriving one.In this gripping and deeply reported book, Brian Goldstone plunges readers into the lives of five Atlanta families struggling to remain housed in a gentrifying, increasingly unequal city. Maurice and Natalia make a fresh start in the country&’s &“Black Mecca&” after being priced out of DC. Kara dreams of starting her own cleaning business while mopping floors at a public hospital. Britt scores a coveted housing voucher. Michelle is in school to become a social worker. Celeste toils at her warehouse job while undergoing treatment for ovarian cancer. Each of them aspires to provide a decent life for their children—and each of them, one by one, joins the ranks of the nation&’s working homeless.Through intimate, novelistic portraits, Goldstone reveals the human cost of this crisis, following parents and their kids as they go to sleep in cars, or in squalid extended-stay hotel rooms, and head out to their jobs and schools the next morning. These are the nation&’s hidden homeless—omitted from official statistics, and proof that overflowing shelters and street encampments are only the most visible manifestation of a far more pervasive problem.By turns heartbreaking and urgent, There Is No Place for Us illuminates the true magnitude, causes, and consequences of the new American homelessness—and shows that it won&’t be solved until housing is treated as a fundamental human right.
The Demon of Unrest: A Saga of Hubris, Heartbreak, and Heroism at the Dawn of the Civil War
by Erik Larson#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Splendid and the Vile brings to life the pivotal five months between the election of Abraham Lincoln and the start of the Civil War in this &“riveting reexamination of a nation in tumult&” (Los Angeles Times). &“A feast of historical insight and narrative verve . . . This is Erik Larson at his best, enlivening even a thrice-told tale into an irresistible thriller.&”—The Wall Street JournalA PARADE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAROn November 6, 1860, Abraham Lincoln became the fluky victor in a tight race for president. The country was bitterly at odds; Southern extremists were moving ever closer to destroying the Union, with one state after another seceding and Lincoln powerless to stop them. Slavery fueled the conflict, but somehow the passions of North and South came to focus on a lonely federal fortress in Charleston Harbor: Fort Sumter.Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln&’s election and the Confederacy&’s shelling of Sumter—a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of these five months were &“so great that, could I have anticipated them, I would not have believed it possible to survive them.&”At the heart of this suspense-filled narrative are Major Robert Anderson, Sumter&’s commander and a former slave owner sympathetic to the South but loyal to the Union; Edmund Ruffin, a vain and bloodthirsty radical who stirs secessionist ardor at every opportunity; and Mary Boykin Chesnut, wife of a prominent planter, conflicted over both marriage and slavery and seeing parallels between them. In the middle of it all is the overwhelmed Lincoln, battling with his duplicitous secretary of state, William Seward, as he tries desperately to avert a war that he fears is inevitable—one that will eventually kill 750,000 Americans.Drawing on diaries, secret communiques, slave ledgers, and plantation records, Larson gives us a political horror story that captures the forces that led America to the brink—a dark reminder that we often don&’t see a cataclysm coming until it&’s too late.
Water Moon: A Novel
by Samantha Sotto YambaoNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A woman inherits a pawnshop where you can sell your regrets, and then embarks on a magical quest when a charming young physicist wanders into the shop, in this dreamlike fantasy novel.&“Race through a lush world of pure wonder and romance—kites made of wishes that become stars, origami that holds time in its folds, and a night market in the clouds—in this lovely, cozy fantasy reminiscent of Erin Morgenstern's The Starless Sea.&”—Booklist (starred review)On a backstreet in Tokyo lies a pawnshop, but not everyone can find it. Most will see a cozy ramen restaurant. And only the chosen ones—those who are lost—will find a place to pawn their life choices and deepest regrets.Hana Ishikawa wakes on her first morning as the pawnshop&’s new owner to find it ransacked, the shop&’s most precious acquisition stolen, and her father missing. And then into the shop stumbles a charming stranger, quite unlike its other customers, for he offers help instead of seeking it.Together, they must journey through a mystical world to find Hana&’s father and the stolen choice—by way of rain puddles, rides on paper cranes, the bridge between midnight and morning, and a night market in the clouds.But as they get closer to the truth, Hana must reveal a secret of her own—and risk making a choice that she will never be able to take back.&“Highly recommended . . . Readers who have been swept up in the cozy charm of Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Toshikazu Kawaguchi and The Dallergut Dream Department Store by Miye Lee will fall hard for the mix of magical realism, fantasy mystery, and star-crossed romance.&”—Library Journal (starred review)
The Truth About the Couch
by Adam RubinFrom the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Dragons Love Tacos comes this hilarious picture book about everyone&’s favorite piece of furniture.Pssst! Hey. I'm here to tell ya what the furniture police don't want you to know... Listen close. I'll explain everything.Most people think couches are just for sitting, or maybe napping, and don't give it a second thought. But did you know couches can go berserk if you don't feed them a steady diet of coins, cell phones, and remote controls? And did you know some couches are grown on a farm? (Where do you think the term couch potato comes from?) Some come from two chairs who love each other very much, and some are actually aliens in disguise. And that's just the tip of the iceberg...This laugh-out-loud send-up of conspiracy theories brings Adam Rubin's trademark zany humor together with the richly expressive artwork of Macanudo creator Liniers to explore the totally, completely true (really! maybe?) history of the world's most beloved—and misunderstood—item of furniture.
A Dawn of Onyx (The Sacred Stones #1)
by Kate GoldenThe breakout TikTok fantasy romance!Captured by the king of darkness, she was forced to find the light within.Arwen Valondale never expected to be the brave one, offering her life to save her brother&’s. Now she&’s been taken prisoner by the most dangerous kingdom on the continent, and made to use her rare magical abilities to heal the soldiers of the vicious Onyx King.Arwen knows better than to face the ancient, wicked woods that surround the castle on her own, which means working with a fellow prisoner might be her only path to freedom. Unfortunately, he&’s as infuriating as he is cunning—and seems to take twisted pleasure in playing on Arwen&’s deepest fears.But here in Onyx Kingdom, trust is a luxury she can&’t afford.To make it out of enemy territory, she'll have to navigate back-stabbing royals, dark magic, and dangerous beasts. But untold power lies inside Arwen, dormant and waiting for a spark. If she can harness it, she just might be able to escape with her life—and hopefully, her heart.
Cribsheet: A Data-Driven Guide to Better, More Relaxed Parenting, from Birth to Preschool (The ParentData Series #2)
by Emily OsterFrom the author of Expecting Better, The Family Firm, and The Unexpected an economist's guide to the early years of parenting.&“Both refreshing and useful. With so many parenting theories driving us all a bit batty, this is the type of book that we need to help calm things down.&” —LA Times&“The book is jampacked with information, but it&’s also a delightful read because Oster is such a good writer.&” —NPR With Expecting Better, award-winning economist Emily Oster spotted a need in the pregnancy market for advice that gave women the information they needed to make the best decision for their own pregnancies. By digging into the data, Oster found that much of the conventional pregnancy wisdom was wrong. In Cribsheet, she now tackles an even greater challenge: decision-making in the early years of parenting. As any new parent knows, there is an abundance of often-conflicting advice hurled at you from doctors, family, friends, and strangers on the internet. From the earliest days, parents get the message that they must make certain choices around feeding, sleep, and schedule or all will be lost. There's a rule—or three—for everything. But the benefits of these choices can be overstated, and the trade-offs can be profound. How do you make your own best decision? Armed with the data, Oster finds that the conventional wisdom doesn't always hold up. She debunks myths around breastfeeding (not a panacea), sleep training (not so bad!), potty training (wait until they're ready or possibly bribe with M&Ms), language acquisition (early talkers aren't necessarily geniuses), and many other topics. She also shows parents how to think through freighted questions like if and how to go back to work, how to think about toddler discipline, and how to have a relationship and parent at the same time. Economics is the science of decision-making, and Cribsheet is a thinking parent's guide to the chaos and frequent misinformation of the early years. Emily Oster is a trained expert—and mom of two—who can empower us to make better, less fraught decisions—and stay sane in the years before preschool.
Meaning Making With Picture Books: World War I and Other Contested Spaces (Palgrave Studies in Education, Culture, and Politics in Children’s Picture Books)
by Heather Sharp Debra DonnellyThis book examines well-known poetry, picture books, and multimodal texts to explore how visual and literary texts shape collective memory and historical understanding with an initial focus on World War I before expanding to include more current contested issues topics such as colonialism, immigration, and First Nations&’ experiences. Organized into three sections, the book discusses the role of picture books in teaching difficult histories, analyses postmodern picture books addressing controversial topics, and provides a framework for classroom pedagogy. This approach highlights the importance of empathy, ethics, and creative expression in history education, showcasing how storytelling through multimodal texts bridges the past to the present.
Climate Change and the Postcolonial (Kulturelle Figurationen: Artefakte, Praktiken, Fiktionen)
by Jörn Ahrens Aïda C. Terblanché-Greeff Elisabeth AlmContributing scholars engaging with Southern African contexts challenge hegemonic climate paradigms. They employ pluralistic strategies that respect diverse epistemologies and advance decolonised discourse. Drawing from the humanities and social sciences, this multidisciplinary collection demonstrates how moving beyond dominant frameworks enables more inclusive approaches to environmental governance rooted in local epistemologies. The volume reveals the importance of understanding environmental justice through postcolonial perspectives. Essential reading for researchers, scholars, and students committed to transformative climate governance, this work emphasises the urgent need to honour diverse epistemologies while addressing environmental challenges in ways that resist colonial impositions on climate discourse.
Black Motherscholarship Within and Beyond the Academy: Reconceptualizing Radical Futurity
by Crystasany R. Turner Meghan L. GreenThis book provides a comprehensive exploration of Black women academics&’ legacy of knowledge production and intellectual thought, while balancing the intersecting pressures of social, familial, and academic responsibilities. Through the (her)stories of Black scholars, educators, activists, and mothers, it highlights how Black mothers in the academy navigate the interconnectedness of human rights, educational access, scholarship, pedagogy, and community service. Grounded in the intersectional experiences of Black womanhood—particularly mothering and othermothering—this book illustrates the profound impact of gender and race within higher education. Edited by two Black motherscholars, this book centers the narratives of Black women in academia, amplifying their voices in response to the silencing of their experiences. It challenges institutions to reimagine policies and practices that support Black women scholars, addressing how they disrupt traditional understandings of knowledge production, Black womanhood, and motherhood in predominantly white academic spaces. This book explores five key themes: 1) Black motherscholars&’ joy and wholeness as a form of resistance, 2) challenging white-centric notions of mothering and othermothering, 3) intergenerational experiences of Black motherscholars, 4) the impact of daughtering on their academic lives, and 5) revolutionary mothering in hostile academic environments. This book incorporates a range of contributions, including empirical research, conceptual works, and creative expressions such as photography, and poetry, incorporating gender-expansive experiences of Black motherscholars beyond heteronormative perspectives. This book calls on higher education leaders to confront white patriarchy and the exploitation of Black women&’s labor, providing strategies to support revolutionary mothering in academia. It amplifies Black motherscholars&’ call for radical care and connection, fostering a more equitable academic future for Black women and their children.
Advanced Computing and Intelligent Technologies: Proceedings of ICACIT 2024 (Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems #1359)
by Marcin Paprzycki Monica Bianchini Ankush Ghosh Sanjoy DasThis book gathers selected high-quality research papers presented at International Conference on Advanced Computing and Intelligent Technologies (ICACIT 2024), which is jointly organized by Università degli Studi di Siena, Italy and ADSRS Education and Research during December 13–14, 2024. It discusses emerging topics pertaining to advanced computing, intelligent technologies and networks including AI and machine learning, data mining, big data analytics, high-performance computing network performance analysis, Internet of things networks, wireless sensor networks, and others. The book offers an asset for researchers from both academia and industries involved in advanced studies.
Coherent Terahertz Control and Ultrafast Spectroscopy of Layered Antiferromagnets (Springer Theses)
by Batyr IlyasThis thesis presents new insights into the strong interactions among electronic, lattice, spin, and orbital degrees of freedom in layered magnetic materials, as well as their emergent properties. Using a suite of spectroscopic techniques, both in equilibrium and out-of-equilibrium settings, several important findings have been made. In a family of transition metal thiophosphates, a novel bound state resulting from electronic transitions between d-orbitals and Raman-active phonons was observed in NiPS3, using femtosecond transient absorption spectroscopy. Furthermore, this phonon symmetry was employed to identify a new magnetostrictive effect in FePS3 through coherent phonon spectroscopy. These and other observations point to strong interactions between spin and lattice degrees of freedom in this system. This coupling has been harnessed to actively control the magnetic structure. Specifically, intense, tailored terahertz pulses were used to displace the lattice along particular phonon directions, inducing a new magnetic order characterized by net magnetization. This effect is notably more efficient and exhibits an increasingly longer lifetime near the phase transition point, highlighting the key role played by critical fluctuations. Finally, second harmonic generation, linear dichroism, and Raman spectroscopy were employed to discover a new type-II multiferroic phase that persists down to the atomic monolayer limit in NiI2.
Stochastic Models, Statistics and Their Applications: SMSA 2024, Delft, The Netherlands, March 13-15 (Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics #499)
by Ansgar Steland Ewaryst Rafajłowicz Nestor ParolyaThis volume presents contemporary research in stochastic modeling, statistical inference and their applications, and collects peer-reviewed contributions presented at the 15th Workshop on Stochastic Models, Statistics and Their Applications, SMSA 2024, held in Delft, The Netherlands, March 13-15, 2024. It brings together a unique mix of authors, working on theoretical and applied problems, and addresses a wide variety of topics from the workshop&’s focus areas, which included Bayesian methods, change point analysis, computational statistics, econometrics, high-dimensional, nonparametric and spatial statistics, statistical process monitoring, statistics for stochastic processes, and sequential and time series analysis. The volume is structured in three parts, covering stochastics and statistical theory, statistical inference and machine learning, and testing for patterns in data. The contributions discuss highly active research topics, such as strong approximation in high dimensions, modeling and testing multivariate distributions, the interplay and fusion of statistical ideas and machine learning, approaches to handling discrete and ordinal data, and detection of hidden patterns in data, with applications to environmental science, business and engineering.
They Will Tell You the World Is Yours: On Little Rebellions and Finding Your Way
by Anna Mitchael&“There are wonder and wisdom in these pages.&”—Joanna GainesWhere do we find true fulfillment? How did we get lost along the way? These lushly written, emotionally resonant stories light candles along the path as we each search for purpose.They will tell you that a better version of yourself is waiting to be found.Every day, we hear a version of this message, and so we search and strive. Yet none of the places we&’ve been told to look—our careers, relationships, even dreams that come true—seem to give lasting satisfaction. After twenty years as a professional writer of other people&’s truth, Anna Mitchael found herself at the same crossroads. Tired of reaching and wondering where it was all headed, she began asking questions.They will tell you to cut the blooms off your roses so that the flowers can grow back bigger and better.This book is an invitation that grew from those inquiries. A series of vignettes, as incisive as they are lyrical, paints a portrait of a woman growing from childhood into early adulthood, navigating family, friendships, identity, career ambitions, and love. While this woman moves through a time of crisis that ultimately turns into an awakening, we see her explore, fall down, and get back up. As she learns to sift the messages she is told, we, too, are encouraged to seek truth beyond what the world has prescribed for our happiness. Even with our wild differences, I still believe in something greater we share: a spirit of divine love at our core that, no matter how far away we get, will always be calling us home.For hearts in search of answers, this collection poses questions to help find lasting truth.
The Ride of Her Life: The True Story of a Woman, Her Horse, and Their Last-Chance Journey Across America
by Elizabeth LettsNATIONAL BESTSELLER • The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Perfect Horse and The Eighty-Dollar Champion presents a &“heartwarming [and] engaging folk-hero biography&” (Kirkus Reviews) of a woman who fulfilled her lifelong wish to see the Pacific Ocean by riding her horse across America. &“[Letts] vividly portrays an audacious woman whose optimism, courage, and good humor are to be marveled at and admired.&”—Booklist, starred reviewIn 1954, sixty-three-year-old Maine farmer Annie Wilkins embarked on an impossible journey. She had no money and no family, she had just lost her farm, and her doctor had given her only two years to live. But Annie wanted to see the Pacific Ocean before she died. She ignored her doctor&’s advice to move into the county charity home. Instead, she bought a cast-off brown gelding named Tarzan, donned men&’s dungarees, and headed south in mid-November, hoping to beat the snow. Annie had little idea what to expect beyond her rural crossroads; she didn&’t even have a map. But she did have her ex-racehorse, her faithful mutt, and her own unfailing belief that Americans would treat a stranger with kindness.Annie, Tarzan, and her dog, Depeche Toi, rode straight into a world transformed by the rapid construction of modern highways. Between 1954 and 1956, the three travelers pushed through blizzards, forded rivers, climbed mountains, and clung to the narrow shoulder as cars whipped by them at terrifying speeds. Annie rode more than four thousand miles, through America&’s big cities and small towns. Along the way, she met ordinary people and celebrities—from Andrew Wyeth (who sketched Tarzan) to Art Linkletter and Groucho Marx. She received many offers—a permanent home at a riding stable in New Jersey, a job at a gas station in rural Kentucky, even a marriage proposal from a Wyoming rancher. In a decade when car ownership nearly tripled, when television&’s influence was expanding fast, when homeowners began locking their doors, Annie and her four-footed companions inspired an outpouring of neighborliness in a rapidly changing world.
The Hard Way: A Reacher Novel (Jack Reacher #10)
by Lee Child&“The truth about Reacher gets better and better. . . . This series [is] utterly addictive.&”—Janet Maslin, The New York TimesDon&’t miss the hit streaming series Reacher!Jack Reacher was alone, the way he liked it, soaking up the hot, electric New York City night, watching a man cross the street to a parked Mercedes and drive it away. The car contained one million dollars in ransom money because Edward Lane, the man who paid it, would do anything to get his family back.Lane runs a highly illegal soldiers-for-hire operation. He will use any tool to find his beautiful wife and child. And Jack Reacher is the best manhunter in the world.On the trail of vicious kidnappers, Reacher learns the chilling secrets of his employer&’s past . . . and of a horrific drama in the heart of a nasty little war. He knows that Edward Lane is hiding something. Something dirty. Something big. But Reacher also knows this: He&’s already in way too deep to stop now. And if he has to do it the hard way, he will. This edition contains an excerpt from Lee Child&’s Bad Luck and Trouble.
Never Say Never: A Novel
by Danielle SteelNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • This deeply moving novel from Danielle Steel tells the story of a woman who finds her life turned upside down while living temporarily in the French countryside.Oona Kelly Webster has much to be grateful for. A striking woman with red hair and green eyes, she has a loving family and a job she adores, editing a prestigious line of books. To celebrate their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary, she and her husband, Charles, have planned a visit to France.But then Charles drops a bombshell. He has been living a lie—hiding an affair for a year—and he is leaving Oona for a younger male lover.Although devastated, Oona decides to travel to France without Charles. She arrives in a charming village an hour outside of Paris, and settles into the house she has rented, called La Belle Florence—named after the king&’s mistress for whom it was built. But just as she&’s catching her breath, she&’s dealt another blow: Her company&’s merger will eliminate her job. In the space of a few months, everything she nurtured for decades has slipped through her fingers. The only silver lining is that she can remain in France, where the simple life in beautiful surroundings slowly begins to heal her, as does the little white dog she rescues, and her friendly neighbor hailing from Trinidad, who delights her with his openness and warmth. Though she does not recognize him at first, she soon realizes her neighbor is a well-known actor. As their feelings for each other begin to deepen, Oona wrestles with the risks of opening her heart again—especially to a younger, very famous man.Never Say Never is an inspiring novel about a woman who finds a second chance at happiness and love, all because she understands the importance of being brave enough to stay open to change.
The God of the Woods: A Novel
by Liz MooreINSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES&’S NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2024A NEW YORK TIMES BEST THRILLER OF 2024A NEW YORK TIMES BEST CRIME NOVEL OF 2024PEOPLE MAGAZINE&’S #1 BOOK OF THE YEARONE OF NPR&’S &“BOOKS WE LOVE&” 2024ONE OF TIME MAGAZINE&’S &“100 MUST-READ BOOKS OF 2024&”&“Extraordinary . . . Reminds me of Donna Tartt&’s 1992 debut, The Secret History . . . I was so thoroughly submerged in a rich fictional world, that for hours I barely came up for air.&” —Maureen Corrigan, Fresh Air, NPR&“This expertly paced thriller …has the kineticism of a well-crafted miniseries.&” —The New YorkerWhen a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collideEarly morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn&’t just any thirteen-year-old: she&’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region&’s residents. And this isn&’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara&’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore&’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore&’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.