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Parents obsess over their children's playdates, kindergarten curriculum, and every bump and bruise, but their toys, classrooms, and playgrounds are just as important. These objects and spaces encode decades—even centuries—of ideas about good child-rearing versus bad. What is the Good Toy? Is it wooden, plastic, or even digital? What do youngsters lose when seesaws are deemed too dangerous and slides are designed primarily for safety? How can our built environment help children cultivate self-reliance? In these debates, parents, educators, and kids themselves are often caught in the middle.

Olive is an introverted young woman who has never ventured more than four hours away from home, nor has she ever had the desire to do so. Olive is stunned when her struggling-to-make-ends-meet single mother passes away, leaving her a trust fund, with the stipulation that in order to receive her inheritance, Olive must get out of her box and explore the world.

A coming-of-age story...Lane was raised by absurdly strict and conservative parents. Without the slightest awareness of her naivety, she suddenly finds herself cast alone and penniless into the surreal world of the '80s. A time before the modern advances of the technology revolution. Cellphones hadn't been invented. The internet, GPS and social media didn't yet exist. It was common to lose track of one's friends and family for weeks or even months at a time.

It was not my intention to write a book when I embarked upon this journey. Like many of the other three hundred million online daters, I was looking for my soulmate--that one special person to create amazing life experiences with.

Alexandra Lange now turns her sharp eye to another subject we only think we know. She chronicles post-war architects’ and merchants’ invention of the mall, revealing how the design of these marketplaces played an integral role in their cultural ascent. In Lange’s perceptive account, the mall becomes newly strange and rich with contradiction: Malls are environments of both freedom and exclusion—of consumerism, but also of community. Meet Me by the Fountain is a highly entertaining and evocative promenade through the mall’s story of rise, fall and ongoing reinvention.

Ce livre n’est pas l’histoire d’un fait divers, mais celle de l’emprise criminelle d’un homme sur une jeune épouse qui a subi pendant onze ans le harcèlement moral, les humiliations, et la violence d’un mari qu’elle avait épousé par amour, à dix-huit ans. Sans doute Alexandra est-elle restée au début par amour. Il y a eu les promesses, également. Puis les coups, les insultes, les humiliations, les viols, les strangulations, la peur. C'est cette peur qui l'empêche de partir.