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You will never think about your brain in the same way again. The brain is often portrayed as an organ with different regions dedicated to specific tasks. But that textbook model is wrong. The brain is a dynamic system, constantly modifying its own circuitry to match the demands of the environment and the body in…

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Winner of the 2020 Center for Fiction First Novel Prize Winner of the 2020 National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize for Best First Book Winner of the 2020 Kirkus Prize for Fiction Finalist for the 2021 PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Novel Finalist for the 2021 Dylan Thomas Prize Longlisted…

From the award-winning, bestselling author and National Geographic Explorer-in-Residence for more than a decade, a book that brings vividly to life the story of the great Río Magdalena–illuminating Colombia’s complex past, present, and future Travelers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free. For Wade…

A chilling contemporary thriller from Robert Harris set in the competitive world of high finance. Dr Max Hoffman is a legend. A physicist once employed on the Large Hadron Collider, he now uses a revolutionary and highly secret system of computer algorithms to trade on the world’s financial markets. None of his rivals is sure…

WINNER OF THE 2018 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF 2018 “A beautiful book … a world of insight into death, grief, art, and love.” –Wall Street Journal “A penetrating, moving meditation on loss, comfort, memory…Nunez has a wry, withering wit.” –NPR “Dry, allusive and charming…the comedy here writes itself.” The New…

A rich, unforgettable story of three unique women in post-Apartheid South Africa who are brought together in their darkest time and discover the ways that love can transcend the strictest of boundaries. In a squatter camp on the outskirts of Johannesburg, seventeen-year-old Zodwa lives in desperate poverty, under the shadowy threat of a civil war…

A noted neurologist presents parents of small children with a series of effective, simple ways to enhance a youngster’s developing brain to make a child smarter and faster and to promote academic success, offering guidance on sleep, nutrition, the proper role of computers and TV, and other activities and exercises. Reprint. 20,000 first printing.

A reproduction of Kerouac’s original 1951 scroll draft of “On the Road” offers insight into the writer’s thematic vision and narrative voice as influenced by the American literary, musical, and visual arts of the post-World War II period.

It may not be front page news, but Island Times food and cocktails columnist Hayley Powell is now happily married. Before she can set sail on her honeymoon cruise, however, Hayley’s mom, Sheila, pays an impromptu visit–and promptly becomes the prime suspect in a murder. The victim is Sheila’s old high school rival, Caskie Lemon-Hogg,…

A British actress discovers the dark side of Hollywood when she is the only witness to the sudden disappearance of a woman she meets at an audition, in this electrifying psychological thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of Something in the Water and Mr. Nobody. Once a year, actors from across the globe…