Five people-- former housemates at Penn who split up after the death of the sixth, Bea-- come together and must confront their pasts, on what would have been Bea's fortieth birthday. Twenty years ago six Penn students shared a house, naively certain that their friendships would endure. Then the death of their ringleader Bea splintered the group for good. Now, mostly estranged from one another, they gather at that same house on the eve of what would...

"When Frank Huyler was just starting out in the medical profession in the late 1990s, he published a collection of medical vignettes detailing his encounters in the highly charged world of an emergency room. The Blood of Strangers became an instant classic, praised for Huyler's poetic prose and his ability to probe beneath the surface of his patient encounters-revealing the hard truths of life in the medical field. Now, over twenty years later, Huyler...

"The marriage memoir--from Elizabeth Gilbert's Committed to Isabel Gillies's It Happens Every Day--has been a balm to beleaguered wives everywhere. But who speaks for the husbands? In this sharp, funny, poignant glimpse into a very unusual marriage, sensitive, decent, shell-shocked James Braly earns the job. His marriage to a woman he finds truly bewitching...is by turns fascinating and casually shocking."--Dust jacket.

Malika Oufkir tells of her upbringing in Morocco, her 20 years of imprisonment in a penal colony enduring isolation and pain until her daring escape.

A collection of iconic and whimsical moments from some of Pixar's most popular films includes illustrated gags that were edited from final versions and never-before-published illustrations from the Pixar archives.

"A nuanced and human portrait of a generation of young Afghans who bought into the promise of the international intervention and were caught in the structures of the Forever War"--