Climb Mount Everest with Howard Somervell, who was alongside George Mallory in the first attempt to summit the world's largest mountain

"Roberta Leem a lovely Berkeley student of unusual promise, went running one November Sunday in 1984 with her lover, Bradley Page. He came back alone. Roberta, sometimes volatile and moody, had run off on her own, he said. When she failed to return, one of the largest missing-person searches in California history was launched. Five weeks later, her battered body was found on a bed of branches in a shallow grave. Within hours, Page had confessed to the murder of Roberta Lee- and then recanted. The story of the dead girl had begun. Melanie Thernstrom, a brilliant young writer and poet, was Roberta's closest friend. IN this stunning debut, she has written a heartbreaking tribute, both elegy and celebration, to her lost friend. IN a haunting, many-layered work of striking originality, we experience the horrifying crime at its center, the agonizing search for the body, the trial and its wrenching, explosive climax, the sinister and deceptively bland defendant. Through the filter of memory, Roberta herself- gifted, fiercly intelligent, yearning for love- is intensely alive. Even in a time of numbing violence, every reader will mourn the loss of this one spirited young girl"--

Dive into the mesmerizing dreamworld of Latin America's literary great, Julio Cortázar.As the 1949 carnival dances on in Buenos Aires, a group of young creatives gather in the sumptuous seclusion of an art studio. In this surreal, bohemian sanctuary, ruled by the dazzling Renato Lozano, elaborate meals are assembled, while strange poetry and merciless witticisms flow like wine.Yet, as time passes, tensions and secrets begin to unravel, and so too do the boundaries of established reality. Divertimento will whisk you away on a bizarre and brilliant journey, taking you to the hidden heart of art, fantasy and the alchemy that is creative interpretation.This is Julio Cortázar's bold, experimental debut, here translated into English for the very first time.TRANSLATED BY HARRY MORALES'Anyone who doesn't read Cortázar is doomed' Pablo Neruda'A first-class literary imagination' The New York Times Book Review

Containing 15-20 easy to moderate day hikes, these books are an accessible choice for sampling several attainable hikes in a state, National Park, or smaller region.

*PRE-ORDER NOW! THE ATMOSPHERIC, SUSPENSEFUL NEW THRILLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE LIARS, PERFECT FOR FANS OF LUCY FOLEY'S THE MIDNIGHT FEAST AND SALTBURN*'Sinister and sun-soaked. This is a perfectly crafted mystery that I flew through in days' Caz Frear 'Delicious drip feed suspense, and a well imagined sultry setting. Engaging and compelling, atmospheric and stylish' 5***** reader review It's been years since Rain last went home.To many, growing up onthe Tanglewood estate, nestled in a beautiful corner of the Cotswolds countryside, seemed like a dream.But for Rain, memories of her childhood there are forever tainted by what she saw that summer. The wild party. The body...Now estranged from her mother, and all ties to Tanglewood, Rain thought she'd moved on.Yet when another dead body is found in the Tanglewood grounds, she knows she must face up to her past.Rain has long held suspicions that what happened that summer wasn't an accident. It was murder.And now's her chance to prove it. Why readers LOVE Katherine Fleet'A fabulously written, gripping story' 5***** reader review'The author creates an incredible sense of place...an excellent read that will stay with me for a while' 5***** reader review'So emotional, and twists right until the end!' 5***** reader review'The perfect vacation thriller' 5***** reader reviewPraise for Katherine Fleet'Compelling and utterly transportive' Lucy Clarke'Taut, tense, stylish and incredibly atmospheric, with a thrilling twist. The perfect book for summer!' Daisy Buchanan'Completely addictive and wonderfully compelling. A sun-dappled summer escape with a jagged dark heart. You won't be able to put it down' B P Walter

A life in pictures of a New York City performance artist, musician, and icon.New York City icon Kembra Pfahler has terrorized and tantalized audiences since her arrival in the Lower East Side in the early 1980s. Originally associated with the Cinema of Transgression, Pfahler supported her early films with work at an independent porn studio. In the 1990s, she launched The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, a rock band compared to Kiss, Alice Cooper, and White Zombie.Nude and covered in paint, with blackened teeth and bouffant hair, Pfahler’s reputation for wild performances reached far beyond the Lower East Side. Elements of kabuki theater, surfing, and enormous ad-hoc props appeared in her legendary shows and performance art. Pfahler titillated gallery-goers with openings featuring dozens of painted women, butt-prints, and performances involving endurance and strength. Her extended visual lexicon incorporates occult imagery, bondage, and pin-ups; experimental sets featuring eight-foot vinyl records and miniature Statues of Liberty that transform as they reappear in her work.Through teaching, activism, and performance art, Pfahler serves as a mentor to students and, in recent years, muse to designers including Rick Owens, Casey Cadwallader, and Alessandro Michele. Collecting memories from collaborators and five decades of ephemera, performance documentation, and more, this book celebrates Kembra Pfahler as counter-cultural star.

A picture book plus CD set from Sandra Boynton, featuring original songs performed by classic rock-and-roll talent.

Ally is in it for the fame. Carys is in it to finally find love. They were meant to be competing for the same guy . . . but they can’t ignore the tension building off-screen.

Writer/Artist Sean Gordon Murphy returns to the White Knight universe with a new take on Neo-Gotham and Terry McGinnis in a deluxe hardcover from DC Black Label.

How Black women practicing yoga create spaces that allow for bodies and experiences to be centered and celebrated

"Great read, beautifully illustrated" - Joe Brumm, creator of Bluey"Wonderfully funny, completely bonkers" -Jessica Dettmann, author of There's No Such Book. The O.D.D. Squad are here for another epic (or maybe just epically silly) ADVENTURE! Quack Attack, Detective Octopus and Invisidog have a new recruit: Hyperkitty. She's cute! She's unbelievably fast! She also . . . spends a lot of time on her phone? And actually, isn't very good at being part of a team. Or catching bad guys. It's almost like she doesn't want to be part of the world's best (kind of) superhero team.Everyone needs time to learn to be a superhero, but disasters keep striking. After a particularly wonky incident involving a pig in a hat at a power station (don't ask, OK?), Justice City decides it's had enough: no more O.D.D. Squad! Can the gang save the day - and themselves - before it's too late?

Meet Uma - Uma the amazing, the adventurous, the seriously awesome superhero!Together with her Nani, and Chip, her unicorn side-kick, she goes on rescue missions, standing up for what is right and generally spreading happiness in Sparkleopolis, the super-sparkly, colourful city where she lives. Until one day the colour and sparkle start seeping out of Sparkleopolis. This must be a job for Uma!A brilliant feel-good tale celebrating accessibility, teamwork and kindness

A prevailing narrative goes: Bob Dylan, the voice of Sixties counterculture, disappeared in the 1970s in a haze of substance abuse, made arguably the worst music of his career, and was finally put to bed in the 1980s-only to be resurrected in 2016, when he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Dylan's concerts once began with an announcer intoning a deadpan version of just such a narrative. That is not this story.Drawing on thousands of pages of archival materials, After the Flood reveals Dylan's output during the last three decades as his most ambitious yet. Across an abecedarium of chapters surveying his albums, performances, films, and books since the early 1990s, celebrated poet Robert Polito shows how Dylan evolved a late musical style that has embodied and resisted its era-interweaving Ovid and Americana, film noir and the Civil War. Imaginatively researched, After the Flood is both an essential revision and continuation of the Dylan saga.

The ultimate guide to the history modern worship music, providing the soundtrack to what the Spirit is doing through his people throughout the last century.

Instant New York Times BestsellerA searing, vital investigation of the Republican Partys dangerous campaign to rewrite recent history in real time, from the Emmy Award-winningRachel Maddow Showproducer and bestselling author ofThe Impostors.There is nobody who is writing in an episodic way who has more influence on the way I think about politics than Steve Benen.Rachel MaddowFor as long as historical records have existed, authoritarian regimes have tried to rewrite history to suit their purposes, using their dictatorial powers to create myths, spread propaganda, justify decisions, erase opponents, and even dispose of crimes.As the Republican Party becomes increasingly radicalized, the GOP is putting their own twist on a similarly despotic script. Indeed, the party is taking dangerous, aggressive steps to rewrite historyand not just from generations past.Unable to put a positive spin on Trump-era scandals and fiascos, GOP voices and their allies have grown determined to rewrite the stories of the last few yearsfrom the 2020 election results and the horror of January 6thto their own legislative recordtreating the recent past as an enemy to be overpowered, crushed, and conquered. The consequences for our future, in turn, are dramatic.Extraordinarily timely and undeniably important, Steve Benens new book tells the staggering chronicle of the Republican partys unsettling attempts at historical revisionism. It reveals not only how dependent they have grown on the tactic, but also how dangerous the consequences are if we allow the party to continue. The stakes, Benen argues, couldnt be higher: the future of democracy hinges on both our accurate understanding of events and the end of alternative narratives that challenge reality.