"Coyne shares his tale: of one man's journey through the first year of parenthood, told with wit, humor, and heart. It is a ferociously funny, inventively foul-mouthed, and genuinely touching account of a baby's first year. If you're looking for a reminder of what's most important in life, this combination memoir and advice book is sure to charm you." --

"These poems are the work of time and the cycles of growth, they are songs about saints and scholars, the natural world, exaltation and suffering and ordinary joy. There are narratives of the wondrous bewilderments of life, as well as homages to the dead and the dying, and to their courageous desperate attempts to reach beyond the veil of the now to an understanding of how the subtle relationships that had once seemed so open and simple/wove themselves...

"Transformative practices from the beloved bestseller. In 2001, Toni Bernhard got sick and, to her and her partner's bewilderment, stayed that way. As they faced the confusion, frustration, and despair of a life with sudden limitations--a life that was vastly different from the one they'd thought they'd have together--Toni had to learn how to be sick. In this book, Toni shares the practices she outlined to the reader in her bestselling classic How...

"Luis Fernando Verissimo's The Club of Angels is a book about the sin of gluttony - almost as irresistible and enticing as the exquisite meals prepared within. Written by one of Brazil's leading authors, The Club of Angels was an immediate success there, climbing the bestseller lists. With wit and dark humor, The Club of Angels tells the story of ten privileged men, who meet every month to dine fabulously and celebrate their friendship and singularity....

"It's the height of tourist season in Santa Cruz, California, and Sally Solari has her hands full, both juggling crowds of hungry diners at her French-Polynesian restaurant Gauguin, as well as appeasing her father, who's distressed at the number of homeless people camped out in front Solari's, the family's Italian seafood restaurant out on the historic fisherman's wharf. Nevertheless, when Sally gets the opportunity to volunteer at a farm-to-table...

"David Searcy's writing is enchanting and peculiar, obsessed with plumbing the mysteries and wonders of our everyday world, the beauty and cruelty of time, and nothing less than what he calls "the whole idea of meaning." With "casual virtuosity" (the New York Times) and an insatiable sense of awe, Searcy leads the reader across the landscapes of his extraordinary mind, moving from the slightly faded architectural wonder that is the town of Arcosanti,...

"Charles Darwin was perplexed by the chaotic diversity of luminous organisms, which he found difficult to reconcile with his evolutionary theory. For other reasons bewilderment confronted many observers watching living lights throughout the ages. It fell on naturalists and scientists to try and make sense of the dazzling luminous displays by fireflies and other organisms. In Luminous Creatures, Michel Anctil shows how the mythical perceptions of bioluminescence...

RESUMEN: Un grupo de amigos (una pareja de estudiantes en vísperas de examen, un periodista de sonriente sarcasmo, su amiga, muchacha de irresistible candor) andan por la ciudad, a veces entreviendo la presencia (¿real? ¿imaginaria?) de otro amigo desaparecido. Andan por un Buenos Aires infinitamente cercano, prodigiosamente irrealizado. Un Buenos Aires donde se alza una casa en la que unos lectores cumplen con el ritual de leer en voz alta libros...

Readers and reviewers around the world have embraced Duong Thu Huong's novels and hailed her for her outspoken advocacy of democracy and human rights and her courage in the face of government persecution. In the U.S., where Huong was the first contemporary Vietnamese novelist ever published in English translation, her books have been called "extraordinary and profoundly tragic" (Boston Sunday Globe), "astonishingly powerful" (Los Angeles Times Book...