A ground-breaking investigation into newly discovered evidence showing that remarkable things happen to our bodies and our minds when our senses connect with the natural world.
We all take for granted the idea that being in nature makes us feel better. But if you were a skeptical scientist–or indeed any kind of skeptic–who wanted hard scientific evidence for this idea, where would you look? And how would that evidence be gathered?
It wasn’t until Dr. Kathy Willis was asked to contribute to an international project looking for the societal benefits we gain from plants that she stumbled across a study that radically changed the way she saw the natural world.
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In this breathtaking debut novel, a daring dancer must take her twin brother’s place as a riveter high atop the in-progress Empire State Building to save her family from ruin.
After the death of their father, it’s up to Grace O’Connell and her twin brother Patrick to support their family as the Great Depression takes its toll on New York City. When Grace is laid off from her dancing gig and Patrick is injured at work on the construction of the Empire State Building, desperation leaves them only one solution: Grace must disguise herself as Patrick and take his place on the half-built skyscraper.
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The long-awaited return of a quintessentially American storyteller
“You’re as likely to be hit twice by lightning on a Monday as see a wood chipper pull a man into its maw.”
So begins North of Ordinary, John Rolfe Gardner’s virtuosic story collection of survivors getting by despite the odds in a shifting world. In these pages, we meet a nervous young apprentice to a weathered tree climber; a dangerously obsessed student at a Southern Bible college; an attractive schemer trying to build an audience for her tiny radio station; an undercover,
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An old New York Catskills hotel is converted into a Reeducation center for star #MeToo offenders in a story full of cunning and craft, double meanings and doppelgangers.
A finalist for the National Jewish Book Award strikes again with another brilliant satire–a treat for readers of Philip Roth, Dara Horn, Nathan Englander, and others.
Somewhere in the Catskills there’s a camp, it’s called Camp Jeff. The place is named for Jeffrey Epstein, not that Jeffrey Epstein, this is the good Jeffrey Epstein, a benefactor who wants his name on the building, though the bad one’s not entirely irrelevant to this story.
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If you could swap your life for a better one, which would you choose?
On the outskirts of Rainbow Town, there is an old, abandoned house. They say that if you send a letter detailing your misfortunes there, you could receive a ticket. If you bring this ticket to the house on the first day of the rainy season, you’ll be granted entrance into the mysterious Rainfall Market–where you can choose to completely change your life.
No one is more surprised than Serin when she receives a ticket. Lonely and with no real prospects for a future,
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Calling all visionary entrepreneurs and rebel-spirited changemakers!
It’s time to break the chains, step away from the “shoulds,” and let the REAL you out to play!
Claiming your rockstar identity and embracing your authenticity is the key that will unlock everything you desire in your life and work-and Amber Swenor, founder of Soul Seed and frontwoman in the band Morningstar, is here to show you how to do it in total alignment with your soul.
With humor, heart, and razor-sharp insight, Amber dissects the patterns and norms that keep so many of us locked in fear,
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