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&“Perfect Tunes is an intoxicating blend of music, love, and family from one of the essential writers of the internet generation.&” —STEPHANIE DANLER &“Perfect Tunes is a zippy and profound story of love, loss, heredity, and par­enthood. I gulped it down, as will all mothers, New Yorkers, music fans... More

Bev and Amy are best friends but, at thirty, they have reached a crossroads. Bev is stuck in circumstances that would barely have passed muster in her twenties: temping, living in a shared house, drowning in debt. Amy is a fiercely charismatic media darling still riding the tailwinds of early succes... More

In her searing collection of essays, Emily Gould - writer, journalist and former editor at Gawker.com - tells the truth about becoming an adult in New York City in the twenty-first century, surrounded by bartenders, bloggers, socialites and bankers. Touching on failure, success, love, lust, work, an... More

Essays by former editor of Gawker.com - and the new female voice of her generation. In And the Heart Says Whatever, Emily Gould tells the truth about becoming an adult in New York City in the first decade of the twenty-first century, alongside bartenders, bounty hunters, bloggers, bohemians, sociali... More

"I told Helen my story and she went home and cried." So begins Our Spoons Came from Woolworth's. But Barbara Comyns's beguiling novel is far from tragic, despite the harrowing ordeals its heroine endures. Sophia is twenty-one and naïve when she marries fellow artist Charles. She seems hardly fonder... More

I, Mary MacLane--the follow-up to I Await the Devil's Coming--available now from Melville House, with a foreword by Emily Gould Fifteen years separate I Await the Devil's Coming and Mary MacLane's follow-up memoir, I, Mary MacLane (1917). They were years filled with men and affairs, drink and debauc... More

A heartfelt and voice-driven novel with just a touch of magic, Emily Gale's The Other Side of Summer is perfect for fans of Rebecca Stead.Ever since her brother Floyd died, Summer’s world has been falling apart. Her mom is a ghost of her former self, her older sister is angry all the time, and her d... More

*Silent Scream!* Kass Kennedy is nobody's idol. She does forget the lyrics. She's not a gleek. The x factor? Not her! Read her lips: She has the right to remain silent. Just try telling that to her dad. Because he's totally lost it this time, demanding Kass audition for a TV talent show. Which wo... More

Meet Eliza Boom--assistant inventor, junior spy, and full-on fantastic--as she tells all in this first book of a chapter book series packed with jokes, doodles, and dear-diary secrets!Eliza Boom is having a blast. Her father is an inventor who makes gadgets for spies, and Eliza is his unofficial ass... More

Eliza Boom--assistant inventor, junior spy, and full-on fantastic--investigates a case of puppy love in this second book of a chapter book series packed with jokes, doodles, and dear-diary secrets!When Einstein, Eliza's faithful (and furry) lab assistant and best friend (and dog), falls in love with... More

Lions and tigers and bears, oh my! Whether it's a dog, cat, or something more exotic, the animals in this collection of romantic m/m stories serve as the catalyst for bringing lovers together. No matter how the encounter begins, by the end of each story, with a little help from their finned, fu... More

This definitive textbook provides accessible information on best practice for assessing the needs and strengths of vulnerable children and their families. It explores the challenges that practitioners face routinely - with suggestions as to how to address them - as well as the established areas for ... More

This book features selected papers presented at the International Conference on Information Management and Machine Intelligence (ICIMMI 2019), held at the Poornima Institute of Engineering & Technology, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India, on December 14–15, 2019. It covers a range of topics, including data an... More

No Straight Path tells the stories of ten successful female historians who came of age in an era when it was unusual for women to pursue careers in academia, especially in the field of history. These first-person accounts illuminate the experiences women of the post–World War II generation encounter... More

In this fourth annual edition, drawn from Cerebrum's highly regarded Web edition, some of the foremost experts in brain science present the research-and their take-on debates that capture the harmony as well as the discord in the complex and evolving relationship between neuroscience and society.... More

During the 1960s and 1970s, a cadre of poets, playwrights, visual artists, musicians, and other visionaries came together to create a renaissance in African American literature and art. This charged chapter in the history of African American culture—which came to be known as the Black Arts Movement—... More

Combining contemporary research with practice findings, this book shows how we can improve the mental health of children in care. Expert contributors highlight the challenges that children face and propose innovative models of practice which have been proven to improve outcomes. The book describes... More