World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments

World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other AstonishmentsHands down one of the most beautiful books of the year. NPR A New York Times Bestseller Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Beloved author Aimee Nezhukumatathil's celebrated work of nonfiction, now including additional essays and illustrations. As a child, Nezhukumatathil called many places home: the grounds of a Kansas mental institution, where her Filipina mother was a doctor; the open skies and tall mountains of Arizona, where she hiked with her Indian

chilling prose

He’ll risk anything to save his friends

Freshly disengaged from her fiancé and feeling that life has not turned out quite the way she planned

Cheng summons up the grief

He is alienated and in love — and at the center of a narrowing

they delude each other

following fan-favorite Things We Never Got Over with Knox's brother Nash's story

From internationally acclaimed storyteller Cornelia Funke

Alix resolves to make things right

and occasionally just by himself

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Whether it's Cleo's best friend struggling to embrace his gender queerness in the wake of Cleo's marriage