When famous new media artist Eli Schmidt inherits a mysterious chest from his emotionally detached grandmother, which he is instructed not to open, he can’t curb his curiosity. Inside, he finds a lost and lonely doll named Devorah, who begins to heartbreakingly scream for the love of her life, Yonah. Wishing he had obeyed orders; Eli has no choice but to go on a journey to reunite the pair. To his great distress, this means he must give up his treasured peace and quiet and do what he loathes the most: interact with other people. While Eli desperately tries to break free from this burden, Devorah amplifies her control, embroiling him in a battle that will forever change the course of his life.

"A high-flying comedic story that’s delightfully strange, refreshingly unpredictable, and surprisingly thoughtful amid all the oddity on display. A playful brew of madcap humor and inventive intelligence."-Kirkus Reviews

A Year at The Cosy Cottage Café brings together the first four novellas in The Cosy Cottage Café series. The Cosy Cottage Café is at the heart of the picturesque English village of Heatherlea. Through summer, autumn, winter and spring, café owner Allie Jones and her friends, Dawn, Camilla and Honey, share their hopes and dreams, ups and downs, and a few surprises along the way. 

Join them at The Cosy Cottage Café and enjoy this bestselling series.

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Albert is Jonas’s favorite stuffed animal, and they’re inseparable. One day, Jonas’s puppy, Luna, wants to play with Albert too. Luna doesn’t know her strength, and with a rip, Albert is torn apart.

Jonas thinks Albert is just a little broken, but Uncle David disagrees and throws him away. Albert ends up in the compost bin, surrounded by unexpected new friends like Maud the maggot, Sofia the snail, and Timo the mouse. Though he has fun with them, Albert misses Jonas and knows his friend must be heartbroken.

Determined to return, Albert embarks on a brave journey with Maud, Sofia, Timo, and other helpers. They travel through the compost, across the garden, and into the house, finally heading for Jonas’s bedroom. Will Albert reunite with Jonas?                                                                                                                   

Illustrator Elodie Ginsburg and her spendthrift best friend, Boris, are inseparable. Taking care of an audacious yellow-haired clown in a red-and-white-striped onesie and oversized black shoes can be a challenge. However, Boris means the world to Elodie. He is a handful, but he’s her handful. Their symbiosis is disrupted when Ivan Lennard, a former professional cyclist with a closely guarded secret, moves into the house next door and becomes a regular occurrence in their lives. Each encounter is a catalyst for Boris to spiral more out of control and increase his outrageous demands, until Elodie finds herself at a crossroads and has to make the most difficult decision she’s ever made.

"Readers who can tolerate the deliberately maddening Boris will find much to enjoy in this mercurial novel, which shrouds an affecting tale of loneliness and longing in lively whimsy. 

A stylish parable about the disconnect between inner and outer worlds."-Kirkus Reviews

Frenkie Puckerman is an accountant with an IQ of 163 and a love for plants. He is also a brilliant scientist, an excellent wardrobe organizer, and the proud owner of eight clocks and a monstrous puke-green chair. The center of Frenkie’s world is his best friend Ellie, his magical angel—or 'Mangel,' as he calls her. She is the smartest person he knows and shares his passion for popcorn, weekend sleepovers, and gardening. In Frenkie's eyes, Ellie is the luckiest person on earth because she has a community garden plot at Prune's Allotments, which is his biggest dream. When a spot finally opens there, and Frenkie is approved as a new member by the board, he discovers that joining the association comes with a number of unexpected social challenges in the form of making new friends, communal garden intrigues, and sharing Ellie with others. Will Frenkie be able to adapt?

This book introduces the legal community to key concepts from Information Theory, such as conditional entropy, mutual information, joint entropy, and information gain, and demonstrates how these concepts can be applied to understand and model legal interventions. We examine how current legal interventions in Civil Property Law, aimed at realizing good faith, authority, determinability, and the ability to deliver, effectively serve to resolve information uncertainty. Furthermore, we introduce a conceptual jurimetrics model of property law, modeling the societal drivers of information uncertainty in property transfers and discussing the subsequent predicted impact of contemporary societal developments on property law.