His idealistic, rose-hued perceptions about life and love shattered by an inconsiderate neighbor's perpetual partying, newlywed Jack struggles to tame out-of-control emotions and save his marriage over the course of an intensely hot, vice-compromised Chicago summer. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

His idealistic, rose-hued perceptions about life and love shattered by an inconsiderate neighbor's perpetual partying, newlywed Jack struggles to tame out-of-control emotions and save his marriage over the course of an intensely hot, vice-compromised Chicago summer. 25,000 first printing.

Product Description: Recent views of learning emphasise the social and situated nature of the construction of knowledge. Learning is seen to be mediated by the individual's active involvement and participation in situated social practices and not as the result of knowledge transmission...read more

Four funny episodes present sevenyear-old Michael as he copes with being the smallest and quietest member of a large and noisy family

The author probes human relationships, illuminating the tensions and affinities that link an adolescent girl and her grandmother, a pair of lovers, two friends growing apart from another, and others

The author probes human relationships, illuminating the tensions and affinities that link an adolescent girl and her grandmother, a pair of lovers, two friends growing apart from another, and others

Molly Parker's first sighting of a white stallion's ghost is a treasured memory, but when the wild horse steals the Parkers's favorite mare, Mr. Parker tries to catch and destroy the elusive specter

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Year We Left Home, a dazzling new novel already being hailed as an “instantly addictive...tale of yearning, paradox, and hope.” (Booklist)After surviving a shooting at her high school, Linnea is packed off to live with her estranged father, Art, who doesn’t quite understand how he has suddenly become responsible for raising a sullen adolescent girl. Art’s neighbor, Christie, is a nurse distracted by an eccentric patient, Mrs. Foster, who has given Christie the reins to her Humanity Project, a bizarre and well-endowed charity fund. Just as mysteriously, no one seems to know where Conner, the Fosters’ handyman, goes after work, but he has become the one person Linnea can confide in, perhaps because his own home life is a war zone: his father has suffered an injury and become addicted to painkillers. As these characters and many more hurtle toward their fates, the Humanity Project is born: Can you indeed pay someone to be good? At what price?Thompson proves herself at the height of her powers in The Humanity Project, crafting emotionally suspenseful and thoroughly entertaining characters, in which we inevitably see ourselves. Set against the backdrop of current events and cultural calamity, it is at once a multifaceted ensemble drama and a deftly observant story of our twenty-first-century society.

Product Description: From the New York Times bestselling author of The Year We Left Home, a dazzling new novel already being hailed as an “instantly addictive…tale of yearning, paradox, and hope.” (Booklist)After surviving a shooting at her high school, Linnea is packed off to live with her estranged father, Art, who doesn’t quite understand how he has suddenly become responsible for raising a sullen adolescent girl...read more

Short stories include portraits of a graduate student dissatisfied with her life, a girl's relationship with an older man, and the effects of a friend's death on a married couple

Twelve new stories by the author of Who Do You Love evaluate the secrets of womanhood as revealed by an array of female narrators who experience the transition from youthful innocence to experience. Original. 25,000 first printing.

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An evocative treasury of short stories--including three never before published--explores the emotional complexities of love, the resiliency of the human spirit, the search for human identity, and the nature of human need. By the author of The Gasoline Wars. 15,000 first printing. (view table of contents)

During the summer of 1999, Springfield, Illinois, becomes the center of a climatic, emotional, and metaphysical storm as four unlikely people--Uncle Harvey, his troubled teenage niece Josie, Josie's desperate mother Elaine, and Rolando, a loner fueled by rage--find themselves at the center of the vortex. By the author of Who Do You Love. 35,000 first printing.

During the summer of 1999, Springfield, Illinois, becomes the center of a climatic, emotional, and metaphysical storm for four people--Uncle Harvey, his troubled niece Josie, Josie's desperate mother Elaine, and Rolando, a loner fueled by rage.

Flora Reynolds has great difficulties adjusting to her divorce, until she learns to regain control of her life

Product Description: From National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson comes a mesmerizing, decades-spanning saga of one ordinary American family—proud, flawed, hopeful— whose story simultaneously captures the turbulent history of the country at large...read more

National Book Award finalist Jean Thompson returns with her highly anticipated novel -- a masterful story that examines the American experience through the varied, intimate perspectives of a Midwestern family across the span of several decades. The Year We Left Home chronicles the lives of the Ericksons as they come of age from the 1970s to near present day, with all the hallmarks of Thompson's celebrated wit and grace: instantly recognizable characters, piercing insight on ordinary circumstances, and stunning prose. Alternating between several viewpoints as the years pass, it is an unforgettable and subtly provocative portrait of an emblematic American family as they navigate and redefine happiness in the course of their daily lives.