From silcrows to pilcrows to guillemets, Michael Arndt’s spiffy salute to punctuation and symbols will up your word-nerd quotient with impeccable style.
As you page through this colorful tome full of intricate details and beautiful repetition, the effect is kaleidoscopic. It’s a feast of patterns.
The Power of Fun provides instructions for filling your life with the kind of playful, connected fun that leaves you feeling nourished and refreshed.
Let’s Get Physical bulges with factoids you will scarcely believe, drawing readers into the history of exercise and modern women
Synthesizing hard research and personal anecdotes in a wonderfully accessible narrative, Leonard Mlodinow reconsiders the antagonism between emotion and logic.
Taylor Harris beautifully and heartbreakingly describes how fear struck like a lightning bolt when her son began to experience baffling health issues.
Seven hundred years after Dante Alighieri’s death, a new biography parses the elusive life of one of civilization’s greatest poets.
Lost & Found is a beautiful, life-affirming memoir about love and grief that passionately embraces some of the deepest questions of human existence.
In her warm, welcoming book, Julie Smith provides helpful strategies for managing weighty feelings such as stress, grief, fear and self-doubt.
Jami Attenberg’s voice is equal parts wise auntie and wise-ass as she explores the hustle and chutzpah with which she built her successful writing career.
James R. Gaines introduces readers to the lonely, gifted, stubborn activists whose calls for change in the 1950s influenced the course of the 20th century.
Edgar Gomez’s incandescent prose flickers with an intensity that illuminates his insecurities, his disappointments and his courage.
The authors of the essay collection Black Nerd Problems perform their audiobook with humor and verve. It’s a real treat for fans of popular culture critique.
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