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Who's testing whom? When Kris Kelvin arrives at the planet Solaris to study the ocean that covers its surface, he is forced to confront a painful, hitherto unconscious memory embodied in the living physical likeness of a long-dead lover. Others examining the planet, Kelvin learns, are plagued with their own repressed and newly corporeal memories. Scientists speculate that the Solaris ocean may be a massive brain that creates these incarnate memories, its purpose in doing so unknown.The first of Lem's novels to be published in America and now considered a classic, SOLARIS raises a question: Can we truly understand the universe around us without first understanding what lies within?

NATIONAL BESTSELLER. When Odd Girl Out was first published, it ignited a long-overdue conversation about the hidden culture of female bullying. In this updated edition, educator and bullying expert Rachel Simmons offers proven and innovative strategies for navigating social dynamics in person and online. Simmons gives step-by-step parental parental suggestions for dealing with conventional bullying. Full of research-backed advice and real-life stories, Odd Girl Out continues to be a powerful resource on the most pressing social issues facing girls today.

The Collected Stories of Katherine Anne Porter compiles three books of her short fiction into one National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning volume.From the gothic Old South to revolutionary Mexico, few writers have evoked such a multitude of worlds, both exterior and interior, as powerfully as Katherine Anne Porter. This collection gathers together the best of her award-winning short stories, including “Pale Horse, Pale Rider,” where a young woman lies in a fever during the 1918 influenza epidemic, her childhood memories mingling with fears for her boyfriend on his way to war, and “Noon Wine,” a haunting story of tragedy and scandal on a small dairy farm in Texas. This volume includes the collections Flowering Judas, Pale Horse, Pale Rider, and The Leaning Tower, as well as four stories not available elsewhere in book form.

Written with a trenchant, sardonic edge, The Group is a dazzlingly outspoken novel and a captivating look at the social history of America between two world wars. "Juicy, shocking, witty, and almost continually brilliant."--CosmopolitanAward-winning Mary McCarthy's most celebrated novel follows the lives of eight Vassar graduates, known simply to their classmates as ¿the group.¿ An eclectic mix of personalities and upbringings, they meet a week after graduation to watch Kay Strong get married. After the ceremony, the women begin their adult lives -- traveling to Europe, tackling the worlds of nursing and publishing, and finding love and heartbreak in the streets of New York City. Through the years, some of the friends grow apart and some become entangled in each other's affairs, but all vow not to become like their mothers and fathers. It is only when one of them passes away that they all come back together again to mourn the loss of a friend, a confidante, and most importantly, a member of the group.

An enormously entertaining classic, THE WAY WEST brings to life the adventure of the western passage and the pioneer spirit. The sequel to THE BIG SKY, this celebrated novel charts a frontiersman's return to the untamed West in 1846. Dick Summers, as pilot of a wagon train, guides a group of settlers on the difficult journey from Missouri to Oregon. In sensitive but unsentimental prose, Guthrie illuminates the harsh trials and resounding triumphs of pioneer life. With THE WAY WEST, he pays homage to the grandeur of the western wilderness, its stark and beautiful scenery, and its extraordinary people.

Selected by Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz, an inspiring collection of 300 poems from writers around the world. Czeslaw Milosz's A Book of Luminous Things?his personal selection of poems from the past and present?is a testament to the stunning varieties of human experience, offered up so that we may see the myriad ways that experience can be shared in words and images. Milosz provides a preface to each of these poems, divided into thematic (and often beguiling) sections, such as "Travel," "History," and "The Secret of a Thing," that make the reading as instructional as it is inspirational and remind us how powerfully poetry can touch our minds and hearts.

A MODERN CLASSIC AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER,WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEAfter the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan??-??and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger.

CliffsNotes AP Biology 2021 Exam gives you exactly what you need to score a 5 on the exam: concise chapter reviews on every AP Biology subject, in-depth laboratory investigations, and full-length model practice exams to prepare you for the May 2021 exam.

In the fifth installment of Amy Stewart's clever and original Kopp Sisters series, the sisters learn some military disciplinewhether they're ready or notas the U.S. prepares to enter World War I.

With a new introduction from best-selling author Ann Patchett, the National Book Awardwinning story collection that is one of the great works of twentieth-century American literature.

A mouse living in an antiquarian bookstore learns the true power of words when he literally falls into a medieval tale and helps defeat the dragon Censor.

If Ankylosaurus were alive today, you might be able to ride it to school-after all, it was bigger than a school bus. And if Diplodocus was on your basketball team, you'd always be sure to win the game; his body would stretch the length of the court! In this fact- and fancy-filled book about dinosaurs, Bernard Most shows just how the largest of these prehistoric creatures would measure up in today's child's world. A six-page foldout helps show how big the biggest dinosaur really was.

An electrifying debut novel of obsessive love, family secrets,andthe dangers of living our lives online

Now in paperback, the beautifully written family drama with a mystery at its core*about two sisters left homeless by their mothers death, and the lengths the fierce older sister will go to protect her beloved young charge *Joshilyn Jackson, author of The Opposite of Everyone and gods in Alabama

From a dazzling new literary voice, a debut novel aboutaPalestinian family caught between present and past, betweendisplacement and home

Get to know one of the greatest presidents in American history, Abraham Lincoln, through his speeches, writings, and letters.Author Milton Meltzer provides historical context for Lincolns words, anddramatic illustrations byStephen Alcorn complete this handsome volume, now available in paperback.

The old world is buried. A new one has been forged atop the shifting dunes. Here in this land of howling wind and infernal sand, four siblings find themselves scattered and lost. Their father was a sand diver, one of the elite few who could travel deep beneath the desert floor and bring up the relics and scraps that keep their people alive. But their father is gone. And the world he left behind might be next. Welcome to the world of Sand, a novel by New York Times best-selling author Hugh Howey. Sand is an exploration of lawlessness, the tale of a land ignored. Here is a people left to fend for themselves. Adjust your ker and take a last, deep breath before you enter.

A collection of new and previously published stories by New York Times best-selling author Hugh Howey, including three set in his Wool universe

From a New York Times best-sellingauthor,the full, definitive biography of Brett Favre, footballs ultimate gunslinger and fan favorite, whose rise from small-town Mississipi obscurity to the top of the American sports landscape was the stuff of legendand whose fall from grace has been just as great

A brilliantly rendered life of one of the most admired American poets of the last century, from a Pulitzer Prizewinning author who alternates biography witha memoir of her own days as a young writer in Bishop's famous Harvard poetry workshop

The essential poems, selected by Donald Hall:';the hard-won achievement of a lifetime' (Wall Street Journal)

Kendrick Lamar, Drake, and Oddisee meet traditional verse in this urgent collection of poems by Pushcart Winner and NAACP Image Award Finalist Marcus Wicker,author of Maybe the Saddest Thing.

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE ';THIS YEAR'S ';MOONLIGHT'' (INDIEWIRE)

As a deadly cancer spread inside her brain, leading neuroscientist Barbara Lipska was plunged into madnessonly to miraculously survive with her memories intact. In the tradition of My Stroke of Insight and Brain on Fire, this powerful memoir recounts her ordeal, and explains its unforgettablelessons about the brain and mind.

From the creator of Dog Man and Captain Underpants comes a collection of capers with canine companions Big Dog and Little Dog. These simple beginning reader stories include bonus skill-building activities like word scrambles,mazes, spot-the-difference games, and more!

The story of the remarkable 1968baseball season:an epic battle of pitchers, Bob Gibson and Denny McClain, culminating in one of the greatest World Series of all time

From ';one of South Korea's best and most worldly writers' (NPR):An electric collection that captivates and provokes in equal measure, exploring what it means to be on the edgebetween life and death, good and evil

Wild, lyrical poems that examine the connections between physical and interior migration, from award-winning Palestinian American poet, novelist, and clinical psychologist Hala Alyan, author of Salt Houses.

A road map for how to navigate the confusing, secretive world of consumer credit, and how to upgrade and correct your score.

The best-selling author of Girl Waits with Gun and Lady Cop Makes Trouble continues her extraordinary journey into the real lives of the forgotten but fabulous Kopp sisters.