After growing up as one of six children, and an adulthood as a vocal feminist and mother, the author finds herself living alone in the country, and falling in love with silence. She describes how she set out to explore this new love: spending time in the Sinai desert, the Scottish hills, and a remote cottage on the Isle of Skye.

Many of us are living with the sense that things are not right with the world and are in a state of spiritual PTSD. Sarah Wilson argues that this sense of despair and disconnection is ironically what unites us. Drawing on science, literature, philosophy and the wisdom of some experts, and her personal journey, Wilson offers a hopeful path forward to the life we love.

Elizabeth and Jackson Shore married young, raised two daughters, and weathered the storms of youth as they built a future together. But after the children leave home, they quietly drift apart. When Jack accepts a wonderful new job offer, Elizabeth puts her needs aside to follow him across the country. Until the sudden death of her father changes everything. Grieving and alone, she retreats to an isolated beach house where she packs away the last remnants...

"Our narrator should be happy, shouldn't she? She's young, thin, pretty, a recent Columbia graduate, works an easy job at a hip art gallery, lives in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan paid for, like the rest of her needs, by her inheritance. But there is a dark and vacuous hole in her heart, and it isn't just the loss of her parents, or the way her Wall Street boyfriend treats her, or her sadomasochistic relationship with her best friend,...

A woman vacationing in the Austrian mountains discovers that she is separated from all human contact by an invisible barrier.

Viewed with suspicion in the aftermath of a murder, Kya Clark, who has survived alone for years in a marsh near the North Carolina coast, becomes targeted by unthinkable forces.

El libro que inspiró la película 
“Una primera novela dolorosamente hermosa que es a la vez la historia de un misterioso asesinato, de una iniciación a la vida y una celebración de la naturaleza ... Owens explora las marismas desoladas de la costa de Carolina del Norte a través de los ojos de una niña abandonada. Y en su aislamiento, esa niña nos abre los ojos a las secretas maravillas...

This is the authoritative edition of an American literature classic: Henry David Thoreau’s Walden, an elegantly written record of his experiment in simple living. With this edition, Thoreau scholar Jeffrey S. Cramer has meticulously corrected errors and omissions from previous editions of Walden and here provides illuminating notes on the biographical, historical, and geographical contexts of the great nineteenth-century writer and thinker's life....