In this extraordinary book, Yong introduces us to the sensory systems
of animals, describing the many astonishing ways in which they smell, taste, see,
hear, and feel the world using physical sensations very different from ours.
He
challenges us to go beyond our human “sensory bubble,” which perceives only a
small fraction of what happens around us, and try to understand the immense
world of animals’ sensory abilities.
His elegant prose transforms scientific
writing into something close to storytelling; even his footnotes are
captivating. This is one of the best nonfiction books I have read this or any
other year.
'Wonderful, mind-broadening... a journey to alternative realities as extraordinary as any you'll find in science fiction' The Times, Book of the Week
'Magnificent' Guardian
Enter a new dimension - the world as it is truly perceived by other animals.
The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving only a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into previously unfathomable dimensions - the world as it is truly perceived by other animals.
Zamora
recounts in vivid detail the harrowing three-thousand-mile journey he made in
1999, when he was nine years old, from El Salvador to the US, where he crossed
the border illegally to join his parents in California.
The two-month journey,
described through the eyes of the author as a child, was fraught with
unimaginable hardships, a perilous boat trip, days of hunger and thirst in the
desert, arrests, and betrayals; but there were moments of joy as well, for
although he traveled with strangers, some in the group helped him survive the
ordeal with their kindness and compassion.
Zamora’s poignant memoir is both
heartbreaking and heartwarming.
New York Times Bestseller • Read With Jenna Book Club Pick as seen on Today • Winner of the Los Angeles Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiography • Winner of the American Library Association Alex Award
A young poet tells the inspiring story of his migration from El Salvador to the United States at the age of nine in this “gripping memoir” (NPR) of bravery, hope, and finding family.
Finalist for the PEN/John Kenneth Galbraith Award for Nonfiction • One of the New York Public Library’s Ten Best Books of the Year
Longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence…
As a
writer of mystery novels, I know that a story needs a lot more than a good
plot, and this delightful tale of an eccentric Bavarian woman who moves to
Sicily to drink herself to death and instead finds herself investigating the
murder of her handsome young handyman fulfills that requirement in
spades with colorful characters; vivid descriptions of her adopted country’s
culture, history, and cuisine; and a powerful sense of place.
The solution to
the mystery is somewhat obvious, but what really mattered to me was the fact
that after reading the book, I felt that I had actually been on a trip to
Sicily.
'Alive with a tang of lemons to set the senses zinging' The SpectatorTranslated fiction at its most charming - A Man Called Ove meets Andrea Camilleri, Auntie Poldi is this summer's most unlikely hero.Auntie Poldi can think of no finer place to wait for death than Sicily. All she asks is a sea view, fine wine (and plenty of it), and her family close around.When death instead takes her handsome young friend Valentino - and under mysterious circumstances at that - Poldi will not take it lying down.Perhaps it's in her blood (her father was a detective chief inspector); perhaps…
In this vividly imagined historical mystery set in fourteenth-century France, the queen sends scribe Christine de Pizan to the Priory of Poissy to copy a manuscript for the prioress. But there are already many copyists at the priory, and Christine senses that something is amiss.
Her suspicions are confirmed when the prioress reveals that one of the sisters has been found murdered in the cloister. Fearing for the welfare of the queen's young daughter, who resides at the abbey, the prioress asks Christine to find out who killed the young nun and why.
As Christine investigates, she uncovers dark mischief and closely guarded secrets, but can she unmask a killer?
