2023

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis comes a new STEMinist rom-com in which a scientist is forced to work on a project with her nemesis—with explosive results. Bee Königswasser lives by a simple code: What would Marie Curie do? If NASA offered her the lead on a neuroengineering project - a literal dream come true - Marie would accept without hesitation. Duh. But the mother of modern physics never had to co-lead with Levi Ward. Sure, Levi is attractive in a tall, dark, and piercing-eyes kind of way. But Levi made his feelings toward Bee very clear in grad school - archenemies work best employed in their own galaxies far, far away. But when her equipment starts to go missing and the staff ignore her, Bee could swear she sees Levi softening into an ally, backing her plays, seconding her ideas... devouring her with those eyes. The possibilities have all her neurons firing. But when it comes time to actually make a move and put her heart on the line, there's only one question that matters: What will Bee Königswasser do?

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove returns with a dazzling, profound novel about a small town with a big dream—and the price required to make it come true. People say Beartown is finished. A tiny community nestled deep in the forest, it is slowly losing ground to the ever encroaching trees. But down by the lake stands an old ice rink, built generations ago by the working men who founded this town. And in that ice rink is the reason people in Beartown believe tomorrow will be better than today. Their junior ice hockey team is about to compete in the national semi-finals, and they actually have a shot at winning. All the hopes and dreams of this place now rest on the shoulders of a handful of teenage boys. Being responsible for the hopes of an entire town is a heavy burden, and the semi-final match is the catalyst for a violent act that will leave a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. Accusations are made and, like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown, leaving no resident unaffected. Beartown explores the hopes that bring a small community together, the secrets that tear it apart, and the courage it takes for an individual to go against the grain. In this story of a small forest town, Fredrik Backman has found the entire world.

Foreword by Steven Pinker Blending the informed analysis of The Signal and the Noise with the instructive iconoclasm of Think Like a Freak, this book provides a fascinating, illuminating, and witty look at what the vast amounts of information now instantly available to us reveals about ourselves and our world—provided we ask the right questions. By the end of an average day in the early twenty-first century, humans searching the internet will amass eight trillion gigabytes of data. This unprecedented volume of information can tell us a lot about who we are—the fears, desires, and behaviors that drive us, and the conscious and unconscious decisions we make. From the profound to the mundane, we can gain astonishing knowledge about the human psyche that less than two decades ago seemed unfathomable. Everybody Lies offers fascinating, surprising, and sometimes laugh-out-loud insights into everything from economics to ethics to sports to race to sex, gender, and more, all drawn from the world of big data. What percentage of white voters didn’t vote for Barack Obama because he’s black? Does where you go to school affect how successful you are in life? Do parents secretly favor boys over girls? Do violent films affect the crime rate? Can you beat the stock market? How regularly do we lie about our sex lives and who’s more self-conscious about sex, men or women? Investigating these questions and more, Seth Stephens-Davidowitz reveals revelations that can help us understand ourselves and our lives better. Drawing on studies and experiments on how we really live and think, he demonstrates in fascinating and often funny ways the extent to which the world is indeed a lab. With conclusions ranging from strange-but-true to thought-provoking to disturbing, he explores the power of digital truth serum and its deeper potential—revealing biases deeply embedded within us, information we can use to change our culture, and the questions we’re afraid to ask that might be essential to our health—both emotional and physical. Everybody Lies challenges us to think differently about how we see big data and the world.

African-born poet Lola Shoneyin makes her fiction debut with The Secret Lives of Babi Segi’s Wives, a perceptive, entertaining, and eye-opening novel of polygamy in modern-day Nigeria. The struggles, rivalries, intricate family politics, and the interplay of personalities and relationships within the complex private world of a polygamous union come to life in The Secret Lives of Baba Segi’s Wives—Big Love and The 19 th Wife set against a contemporary African background.

Viera v nezmysly sa prelína celými dejinami ľudstva. Ale až dnes má tak veľa nových podôb a názvov. Dezinformácie, propaganda, fakenews, konšpiračné teórie, hoaxy, trollovia, postfaktutálna doba, pseudoveda, šarlatáni. To sú len niektoré z výrazov, s ktorými sa stretávame čoraz častejšie a ktoré sa snažia popísať javy, s ktorými dnes mnohé spoločnosti zápasia. O význame týchto slov svedčí aj to, že sa v posledných rokoch viaceré z nich objavili v anketách alebo v rozhodnutiach odborných porôt o „slovo roka“. História pri ceste za poznaním je bohatá na ľudské omyly. Keď však hovoríme o postfaktuálnej dobe, hovoríme o tom, že badať ústup záujmu o pravdu. Nepodložené presvedčenia sa dnes šíria rýchlejšie ako kedysi a kým ich niekto uvedie na správnu mieru, škoda je už dávno napáchaná. Navyše aj dávno vyvrátené nepravdy sa k nám neustále vracajú zo „záhrobia“, ako napríklad presvedčenie o plochosti Zeme. Trend ignorovania pravdy má mnoho prejavov, tím slovenských psychológov v tejto publikácii uvádza desiatky príkladov a hľadá cestu, ako v ľuďoch prebudiť kritické myslenie.

Elena Lacková (1921 – 2003) ako jedna z prvých začala hovoriť o rómskom holokauste – resp. o utrpení Rómov počas druhej svetovej vojny, a to takmer hneď po jeho konci. Už v roku 1949 napísala a so svojimi blízkymi z rómskej osady vo Veľkom Šariši naštudovala divadelnú hru Horiaci cigánsky tábor, s ktorou obišli takmer celé Československo a mali viac ako sto repríz. Elena Lacková o utrpení Rómov počas druhej svetovej vojny začala hovoriť a písať o niekoľko desaťročí skôr, ako sa o tejto téme začalo verejne hovoriť v Európe. Bola to jedinečná rozprávačka s obrovským citom pre príbeh, ale aj pre detail a presvedčila nás o tom najmä v knihe Narodila som sa pod šťastnou Hviezdou. Ide o unikátne literárne dielo, ku ktorému by sme len veľmi ťažko hľadali v rómskej literatúre prirovnanie. Text, ktorý sa nielen veľmi dobre číta, ale poskytuje jedinečný pohľad na rómsku kultúru, dejiny Rómov na Slovensku v 20. storočí, rómske tradície, myslenie, hodnoty či spôsob života. Ako vraví zostavovateľka knihy Milena Hübschmannová: „Jej meno pôsobilo ako hviezda nádeje, ktorá vyvedie rómsky ľud z nepochopenia medzi Rómami a gadži. Lacková napísala prvú rómsku hru, nacvičila ju so svojimi príbuznými v chatrči cigánskej osady; písalo sa o nej s obdivom v novinách, pozdvihla romipen z blata ignorantského opovrhnutia.“

Alice, a novelist, meets Felix, who works in a warehouse, and asks him if he’d like to travel to Rome with her. In Dublin, her best friend, Eileen, is getting over a break-up and slips back into flirting with Simon, a man she has known since childhood. Alice, Felix, Eileen, and Simon are still young—but life is catching up with them. They desire each other, they delude each other, they get together, they break apart. They have sex, they worry about sex, they worry about their friendships and the world they live in. Are they standing in the last lighted room before the darkness, bearing witness to something? Will they find a way to believe in a beautiful world?

Catalina Martín desperately needs a date to her sister’s wedding. Especially since her little white lie about her American boyfriend has spiralled out of control. Now everyone she knows—including her ex and his fiancée—will be there and eager to meet him. She only has four weeks to find someone willing to cross the Atlantic and aid in her deception. New York to Spain is no short flight and her raucous family won’t be easy to fool. Enter Aaron Blackford—her tall, handsome, condescending colleague—who surprisingly offers to step in. She’d rather refuse; never has there been a more aggravating, blood-boiling, and insufferable man. But Catalina is desperate, and as the wedding draws nearer, Aaron looks like her best option. And she begins to realize he might not be as terrible in the real world as he is at the office.

Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780385547345.. Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a very unscientific view of equality. Except for one: Calvin Evans; the lonely, brilliant, Nobel–prize nominated grudge-holder who falls in love with—of all things—her mind. True chemistry results. But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride”) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo. Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.

Tiffy and Leon share a flat Tiffy and Leon share a bed Tiffy and Leon have never met… Tiffy Moore needs a cheap flat, and fast. Leon Twomey works nights and needs cash. Their friends think they’re crazy, but it’s the perfect solution: Leon occupies the one-bed flat while Tiffy’s at work in the day, and she has the run of the place the rest of the time. But with obsessive ex-boyfriends, demanding clients at work, wrongly imprisoned brothers and, of course, the fact that they still haven’t met yet, they’re about to discover that if you want the perfect home you need to throw the rulebook out the window…

Four famous siblings throw an epic party to celebrate the end of the summer. But over the course of twenty-four hours, their lives will change forever. Malibu: August, 1983. It’s the day of Nina Riva’s annual end-of-summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. Everyone wants to be around the famous Rivas: Nina, the talented surfer and supermodel; brothers Jay and Hud, one a championship surfer, the other a renowned photographer; and their adored baby sister, Kit. Together, the siblings are a source of fascination in Malibu and the world over—especially as the offspring of the legendary singer, Mick Riva. The only person not looking forward to the party of the year is Nina herself, who never wanted to be the center of attention, and who has also just been very publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. Oh, and maybe Hud—because it is long past time to confess something to the brother from whom he’s been inseparable since birth. Jay, on the other hand, is counting the minutes until nightfall, when the girl he can’t stop thinking about promised she’ll be there. And Kit has a couple secrets of her own—including a guest she invited without consulting anyone. By midnight the party will be completely out of control. By morning, the Riva mansion will have gone up in flames. But before that first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shaped this family’s generations will all come bubbling to the surface. Malibu Rising is a story about one unforgettable night in the life of a family: the night they each have to choose what they will keep from the people who made them... and what they will leave behind.