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  • Audiobook

    Things I Know: A deeply moving YA novel about mental illness and recovery

    by Helena Close ...
    Narrated by Gina Burke ...

    Unabridged

    6 hours 45 min

    How do you piece yourself back together when everything falls apart?18-year-old Saoirse can't wait to leave school. But just before the final exams, her ex-boyfriend dies by suicide. Everyone blames Saoirse – even Saoirse herself, who cheated on him with his best friend. Shunned by her schoolmates, she suffers unbearable levels of anxiety, which her useless counsellor does nothing to alleviate.On ... Read more

    $16.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Destroyer of Worlds

    The Deep History of the Nuclear Age

    by Frank Close ...
    **The thrilling and terrifying seventy-year story—"kinetic, dramatic, and compulsively readable" (Patchen Barss)—of the physicists that deciphered the atom and created the hydrogen bombA Guardian Best Book of the Year**Although Henri Becquerel didn’t know it at the time, he changed history in 1896 when he left photographic plates and some uranium rocks in a drawer. The rocks emitted something that ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Hopefuls

    A novel

    A blazingly honest portrait of ambition and marriage, and a brilliantly funny send-up of young D.C., from the bestselling author of Girls in White Dresses.“Hilarious.... A pleasure to read.”—The Washington PostA New York newlywed, Beth was supportive when her husband, Matt, decided to follow his political dreams all the way to Washington. Yet soon after they move to D.C., Beth realizes that she ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Things I Know

    by Helena Close ...
    ARaven Award Winning Irish author's North American debut. A moving YA novel about mental illness and recovery.18-year-old Saoirse can’t wait to leave school – but just before the final exams her ex-boyfriend dies by suicide. Everyone blames Saoirse – even Saoirse herself, who cheated on him with his best friend. She is shunned by her schoolmates and suffers unbearable levels of anxiety, which her ... Read more

    $9.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Smart One

    From the bestselling author of Girls in White Dresses, this funny and tender novel is “an engaging exploration of a thoroughly modern family dynamic” (People) and the ways in which we never really grow up, and the people we turn to when things go drastically wrong.The Coffey siblings are having a rough year. Martha is thirty and working at J. Crew after a spectacular career flameout; Claire has ... Read more

    Was $6.99 USD Now $4.99 USD

  • Marrying the Ketchups

    A novel

    An irresistible comedy of manners about three generations of a Chicago restaurant family and the deep-fried, beer-battered, cream cheese-frosted love that feeds them all—from the best-selling author of Girls in White Dresses“Laugh-out-loud funny, and deeply resonant to our times. I was so happy to be in the Sullivan family’s Chicago bar, caught in the swirl of three generations of grudges, love ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Audiobook

    Nothing

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Frank Close ...

    Unabridged

    4 hours 53 min

    This short, smart book tells you everything you need to know about "nothing." What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space—"nothing"—exist? To answer these questions, eminent scientist Frank Close takes us on a lively and accessible journey that ranges from ancient ideas and cultural superstitions to the frontiers of current research, illuminating the story of how scientists ... Read more

    $15.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Girls in White Dresses

    NATIONAL BESTSELLER • An “addictive, thoughtful” novel (Entertainment Weekly) that brings us through the thrilling, bewildering years of early adulthood while pulling us inside the circle of three friends, perfectly capturing the wild frustrations and soaring joys of modern life.Isabella, Mary, and Lauren feel like everyone they know is getting married. On Sunday after Sunday, at bridal shower ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Introduction to TESOL

    Becoming a Language Teaching Professional

    A comprehensive introduction to TESOL for new and future teachers of English, offering a full and detailed view of the process of becoming a language teacherIntroduction to TESOL: Becoming a Language Teaching Professional presents an expansive and well-balanced view of both the interdisciplinary knowledgebase and professional opportunities in the field of language teaching. Written to help ... Read more

    $42.00 USD

  • Small Things and Nothing

    by Frank Close ...
    Frank Close breaks down complex concepts in physics in this collection of three of his bestselling books. Including Neutrino, Antimatter, and The Void, this set brings to life the fascinating science of particle physics, neutrinos, antimatter, and nothing. Combing the knowledge of a renowned physicist with the art of a skilled writer, enter the world of physics in an enthralling and readable way. ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Neutrino

    by Frank Close ...
    What are neutrinos? Why does nature need them? What use are they?Neutrinos are perhaps the most enigmatic particles in the universe. Formed in certain radioactive decays, they pass through most matter with ease. These tiny, ghostly particles are formed in millions in the Sun and pass through us constantly. For a long time they were thought to be massless, and passing as they do like ghosts they ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • The Void

    by Frank Close ...
    What is 'the void'? What remains when you take all the matter away? Can empty space - 'nothing' - exist? This little book explores the science and the history of the elusive void: from Aristotle who insisted that the vacuum was impossible, via the theories of Newton and Einstein, to our very latest discoveries and why they can tell us extraordinary things about the cosmos. Frank Close tells the ... Read more

    $6.99 USD