The Portable Veblen

The Portable VeblenBy: Elizabeth McKenzie Longlisted for the 2016 National Book Award for Fiction Finalist for the Baileys Prize for Women's Fiction An exuberant, one of a kind novel about love and family, war and nature, new money and old values by a brilliant New Yorker contributor The Portable Veblen is a dazzlingly original novel thats as big hearted as it is laugh out loud funny. Set in and around Palo Alto, amid the culture clash of new money and old

and friends from enemies

and occultism are only now being seriously examined

everything changed when she went to hell and back to save her lover

another has gone horribly free: to unleash a storm of vengeance–aimed straight for the heart of Natalie’s new life

As she searches for those who will make the difference

brand-new early reader graphic novel series by Brian “Smitty” Smith

and the mother who will do anything to keep it hidden

sparking a town-wide search

fitted T-shirts

the heroes' only hope might just be the Beyond Corporation

Arnie looks like an average doughnut—round

This charming book explains how emotions can make us act in different ways