Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar... in Washington. Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won’t last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So what if Piper can’t do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. How bad could it really be? She’s determined to show her stepfather—and the hot, grumpy local—that she’s more than a pretty face. Except it’s a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there’s an undeniable attraction simmering between them. Piper doesn’t want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. Yet as she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in Westport, Piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. LA is calling her name, but Brendan—and this town full of memories—may have already caught her heart.  Tessa Bailey is back with a Schitt’s Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood “It Girl” who is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn’t belong. 

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.

Piper Bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. When too much champagne and an out-of-control rooftop party lands Piper in the slammer, her stepfather decides enough is enough. So he cuts her off, and sends Piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar... in Washington. Piper hasn’t even been in Westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain Brendan, who thinks she won’t last a week outside of Beverly Hills. So what if Piper can’t do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. How bad could it really be? She’s determined to show her stepfather—and the hot, grumpy local—that she’s more than a pretty face. Except it’s a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into Brendan. The fun-loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there’s an undeniable attraction simmering between them. Piper doesn’t want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunset for weeks at a time. Yet as she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in Westport, Piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants. LA is calling her name, but Brendan—and this town full of memories—may have already caught her heart.  Tessa Bailey is back with a Schitt’s Creek-inspired rom-com about a Hollywood “It Girl” who is cut off from her wealthy family and exiled to a small Pacific Northwest beach town... where she butts heads with a surly, sexy local who thinks she doesn’t belong. 

The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald's third book, stands as the supreme achievement of his career. This exemplary novel of the Jazz Age has been acclaimed by generations of readers. The story of the fabulously wealthy Jay Gatsby and his love for the beautiful Daisy Buchanan, of lavish parties on Long Island at a time when The New York Times noted "gin was the national drink and sex the national obsession," it is an exquisitely crafted tale of America in the 1920s. The Great Gatsby is one of the great classics of twentieth-century literature.

The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs. Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig—until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and broody older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. And that same Jack who now sits on the hiring committee at MIT, right between Elsie and her dream job. Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but…those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she’s with him? Will falling into an experimentalist’s orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?

When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability, and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. And then there is the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to become the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly, and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil. An astonishingly rich re-creation of the land of Oz, this book retells the story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, who wasn't so wicked after all. Taking readers past the yellow brick road and into a phantasmagoric world rich with imagination and allegory, Gregory Maguire just might change the reputation of one of the most sinister characters in literature.

The many lives of theoretical physicist Elsie Hannaway have finally caught up with her. By day, she’s an adjunct professor, toiling away at grading labs and teaching thermodynamics in the hopes of landing tenure. By other day, Elsie makes up for her non-existent paycheck by offering her services as a fake girlfriend, tapping into her expertly honed people pleasing skills to embody whichever version of herself the client needs. Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig—until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and broody older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. And that same Jack who now sits on the hiring committee at MIT, right between Elsie and her dream job. Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but…those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she’s with him? Will falling into an experimentalist’s orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?

When Dorothy triumphed over the Wicked Witch of the West in L. Frank Baum's classic tale we heard only her side of the story. But what about her arch-nemesis, the mysterious Witch? Where did she come from? How did she become so wicked? And what is the true nature of evil? Gregory Maguire creates a fantasy world so rich and vivid that we will never look at Oz the same way again. Wicked is about a land where animals talk and strive to be treated like first-class citizens, Munchkinlanders seek the comfort of middle-class stability, and the Tin Man becomes a victim of domestic violence. And then there is the little green-skinned girl named Elphaba, who will grow up to become the infamous Wicked Witch of the West, a smart, prickly, and misunderstood creature who challenges all our preconceived notions about the nature of good and evil. An astonishingly rich re-creation of the land of Oz, this book retells the story of Elphaba, the Wicked Witch of the West, who wasn't so wicked after all. Taking readers past the yellow brick road and into a phantasmagoric world rich with imagination and allegory, Gregory Maguire just might change the reputation of one of the most sinister characters in literature.

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?

«Segui ciò che brilla anche quando nessuno lo vede. Segui sempre la tua luce.» Una ragazzina con grandi poteri. Una città sospesa nel cielo. E se l’eroe fosse il vero nemico? Eris ha sedici anni e vive in una cittadina che ha ben poco di straordinario. Con un padre sempre via e una matrigna troppo impegnata per occuparsi di lei, trascorre le sue giornate in compagnia di Fenrir, il suo adorato cane, sfogliando i diari del fratello scomparso per cercare ossessivamente indizi sulla leggendaria Città oltre i confini del cielo di cui lui le parlava sempre. Per gli altri non è che una favola, ma Eris è convinta che sia reale. E un giorno scopre di avere ragione, quando, dopo un incidente imprevisto, finisce proprio nel luogo di cui ha tanto fantasticato. Lì si risveglia in lei una scintilla inaspettata di potere, che la ragazza deve imparare a padroneggiare, mentre mette in discussione tutto ciò che conosce. Come se ciò non bastasse, una minaccia terribile incombe sulla Città e la linea di demarcazione tra bene e male diviene sempre più labile, fino a dissolversi del tutto. Eris sarà così costretta ad affrontare l’enigma della scomparsa del fratello e dovrà fare i conti con verità taciute e legami spezzati, imparando in fretta che non esistono eroi o cattivi, quando si tratta di salvare sé stessi e chi si ama...

E così, in un modo o nell'altro, eccoci giunti al quarto numero di questa strana collana dedicata alla scienza spiegata male. Come vedete, qua ci stiamo tutti montando un po' la testa. Dopo un numero sul sesso, uno sulla merda e uno sulla bruttezza, mi pareva ovvio farne uno per lo più incentrato sull'astrofisica. Che c'è, non l'avreste detto? Va' che merda e astrofisica vanno a braccetto proprio. In realtà la mia idea è di trasformare in formato libro quelle che sono tutte le seghe mentali che mi faccio con i miei amici durante le feste. Per questo state per imbarcarvi in una serie di articoli che altro non sono che mind-blowing onanistici sul cosmo, sul quel che conosciamo e, soprattutto, che non buchi neri, spazio-tempo, wormhole, materia oscura, quarta/quinta/sesta dimensione... Insomma un gran casino, cosmico ovviamente. A un certo punto, il signor Mondadori mi chiede di diventare il curatore di una rivista scientifica. «Signor Mondadori, sono lusingato, ma mi concede un azzardo?» «Quale, o villoso Barbascura?» «Mi faccia fare una rivista a modo mio.» «Intendi a cazzo di cane?» «Esatto. Una rivista scientifica più pop, dove possiamo parlare anche di roba sconcia, che sia tanto scientifica quanto spassosa, e che se ci scappa faccia venire pure una paresi facciale.» «Intendi "ridere"?» «Non esageriamo.» Quel babbeo del signor Mondadori ha accettato, ed eccoci qui. L'idea è 1. Scegliere l'argomento del volume. 2. Chiedere a varati e ben noti divulgatori scientifici di scrivere pezzi su tale argomento nello stile più smaliziato e pop possibile. 3. Chiedere a stand-up comedian di gettarla in caciara in inserti a loro dedicati. 4. Mischiare il tutto con una mannaia. 5. Ingollare crudo.

«Segui ciò che brilla anche quando nessuno lo vede. Segui sempre la tua luce.» Una ragazzina con grandi poteri. Una città sospesa nel cielo. E se l’eroe fosse il vero nemico? Eris ha sedici anni e vive in una cittadina che ha ben poco di straordinario. Con un padre sempre via e una matrigna troppo impegnata per occuparsi di lei, trascorre le sue giornate in compagnia di Fenrir, il suo adorato cane, sfogliando i diari del fratello scomparso per cercare ossessivamente indizi sulla leggendaria Città oltre i confini del cielo di cui lui le parlava sempre. Per gli altri non è che una favola, ma Eris è convinta che sia reale. E un giorno scopre di avere ragione, quando, dopo un incidente imprevisto, finisce proprio nel luogo di cui ha tanto fantasticato. Lì si risveglia in lei una scintilla inaspettata di potere, che la ragazza deve imparare a padroneggiare, mentre mette in discussione tutto ciò che conosce. Come se ciò non bastasse, una minaccia terribile incombe sulla Città e la linea di demarcazione tra bene e male diviene sempre più labile, fino a dissolversi del tutto. Eris sarà così costretta ad affrontare l’enigma della scomparsa del fratello e dovrà fare i conti con verità taciute e legami spezzati, imparando in fretta che non esistono eroi o cattivi, quando si tratta di salvare sé stessi e chi si ama...