The Watering CanA whimsical book about a magical watering can that can make more than just flowers grow, from the illustrator of The Night Walk and Our Fort. This silly story about the power of everyday things will inspire kids to reuse and recycle objects in their own life in new ways. On her way home one day, Nina finds a yellow watering can on the sidewalk. Its just an old piece of junk, says her neighbor. Nina disagrees. She likes to recycle and save what she can

Blending stark realism with the surreal and fantastic

Feeling isolated from her supportive but ineffectual husband

Eve out of Her Ruins is a heartbreaking look at the dark corners of the island nation of Mauritius that tourists never see

Equipped first only with a dosimeter and then with a scintillation counter

the Locus Amoenus―that begin to unpack the essayist himself and his life’s rotating concerns: sex and sexuality

by blood and by love

And went wandering

and Will Farris

Wryly anarchic and deeply imaginative

” —The New York Times: "The 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years"

Forty miles north of Rome

by his father