Intermezzo, Sally RooneyAn exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family, from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney. Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common. Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirtiessuccessful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their fathers death, hes medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different womenhis enduring first

What starts out as an invigorating hiking and rafting excursion in the remote Allagash Wilderness soon becomes an all-too-real nightmare

captured simply and perfectly through a window fringed with ice

Why does he fight his hardest battle against the woman he loves

Often compared to Catcher in the Rye

Containing entries on over 200 terms integral to the historical and theoretical study of art

Ivy’s immigrant grandmother relies on Ivy’s mild appearance for cover as she teaches her granddaughter how to pilfer items from yard sales and second-hand shops

an earth-shattering revelation

in-depth examples

who raised Jess when her mother could not

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and the power of telling stories

In the Blink of an Eye is a dazzling debut from an exciting new voice and asks us what we think it means to be human