"In an attempt to cheer up a sad-looking worm, a narrator makes things worse by causing the worm to cry. But in the process of trying to make the sobbing worm feel better, the narrator starts to think of the various ways tears can be used productively"--

Four new and revelatory essays by the author of “My Brilliant Friend” and “The Lost Daughter”. In 2020, Claire Luchette in “O, The Oprah Magazine” described the beloved Italian novelist Elena Ferrante as "an oracle among authors." Here, in these four crisp essays, Ferrante offers a rare look at the origins of her literary powers. She writes about her influences, her struggles, and her formation as both a reader and a writer, she describes...

Now a major motion picture directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal and starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, Paul Mescal, and Peter Sarsgaard
Another penetrating Neapolitan story from New York Times–bestselling author of My Brilliant Friend and The Lying Life of Adults.
Leda, a middle-aged divorcée, is alone for the first time in years after her two adult daughters leave home...

The little man wished to have very big ears, as large as elephant?s ears, but then he wished he had small ears like a fox... .

Introduces the concepts of big and small, using clearly defined shapes and high-contrast colors to nuture infant visual development.

Fear of the dark is a common and typical fear for most children. In this book, the little Talia overcomes her fears and wards off frightening monsters for ever! .

The books are designed and created by following the Montessori teaching method, by means of drawings built up with simple, repeated geometrical forms, minimal details and sharp outlines defined by the colors that are most easily identified by small children: black and white. Progressively complex visual features as well as introducing a third, color, red, which children begin to perceive at the age of three months. The introduction to the third color,...

"A marvelous new novel from the Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Lowland and Interpreter of Maladies--her first in nearly a decade. Exuberance and dread, attachment and estrangement: in this novel, Jhumpa Lahiri stretches her themes to the limit. The woman at the center wavers between stasis and movement, between the need to belong and the refusal to form lasting ties. The city she calls home, an engaging backdrop to her days, acts as a confidant:...

"Un día, la foca Mila encontróuna roca muy especial. Cuando conoció a Carlos, su roca se convirtió en la roca de Mila y Carlos."--Page 4 of cover.

An abandoned baby and a missing dog lead a group of Neapolitan cops to murder and mayhem in this mystery by the author of Cold for the Bastards.
The next installment in Maurizio de Giovanni's bestselling "Bastards of Pizzofalcone" series unfolds during the crisp beginning of April in contemporary Naples as a new evil spreads throughout the city. . . .
A baby is left abandoned beside a dumpster. A young Ukranian maid fights...