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Boys of Tommen, 2. The epic love story that began in Binding 13 continues in Keeping 13, the unforgettable follow-up in Chloe Walsh’s bestselling duology. Falling in love was the easy part. What comes next will test everything. Johnny Kavanagh’s life has changed since...

Kid Legends: True Tales of Childhood from Famous Writers. Funny, true childhood stories and colorful illustrations reveal the early lives of Beverly Cleary, J. R. R. Tolkien, and 13 other famous writers. Before their bestselling books and loyal fans, these authors were just kids...

In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one...

The Hunt Is On and the Police Are Running Out of Time. Two young women are missing, their only connection a party they both attended, hosted by a notorious real-estate magnate. When one of the women is found murdered, the police discover an unusual...

Vernice and Annie grow up side by side in Honeysuckle, Louisiana, best friends, neighbors, and motherless daughters bound by childhood intimacy yet destined for very different futures. Though their beginnings are marked by loss, the paths they take diverge sharply as they come of...

This edition of King Lear presents a conflated text, combining the 1608 Quarto and 1623 Folio Texts, edited with an introduction by series editor Stephen Orgel and was recently repackaged with cover art by Manuja Waldia.  The legendary Pelican Shakespeare series features authoritative and...

When the adventurer Allan Quatermain is asked by Sir Henry Curtis and Captain Good to help them find Sir Henry's missing brother, who was last seen trekking into the remote African interior in search of the fabled King Solomon's Mines, he reluctantly agrees, yet...

Aelin Galathynius has vowed to save her people but at a tremendous cost. Locked in an iron coffin by the Queen of the Fae, Aelin must draw upon her fiery will as she endures months of torture. The knowledge that yielding to Maeve will...

A creative writing academic finds his carefully constructed life unsettled by an intense fascination with a fellow writer—a poet whose freedom, talent, and way of seeing the world seem to embody everything he longs for. As his obsession deepens, it begins to strain his...

"This is an enchanting little story, with homey illustrations that add to its appeal. It will be particularly reassuring to read aloud on those dark and stormy nights." -- School Library Journal (starred review) "It was a dark and stormy night on Plum Street....

With the publication of Kitchen, her dazzling English-language debut, Banana Yoshimoto quickly established herself as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Japanese literature. This beloved book pairs two interconnected stories that explore grief, love, and the quiet power of home in the...

They’re cute! They’re courageous! They’re kittens who love to climb. And they won’t stop until they reach their ultimate goal: scaling the towering dinosaurs of nearby Dinosaur Island. A sensible narrator tries to warn them—the dinosaurs look hungry, their teeth are enormous, and this...

Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those...

On the morning of August 12, 2022, Salman Rushdie was standing onstage at the Chautauqua Institution, preparing to give a lecture on the importance of keeping writers safe from harm, when a man in black rushed down the aisle toward him, wielding a knife.What...

A woman writer visits a Europe in flux, where questions of personal and political identity are rising to the surface and the trauma of change is opening up new possibilities of loss and renewal. Within the rituals of literary culture, Faye finds the human...

Conceived by Kate DiCamillo and featuring enchanting illustrations by Jaime Kim, this nearly wordless graphic story follows a little girl in search of a friend.“La la la . . . la.” A little girl stands alone and sings, but hears no response. Gathering her...

In this guide, Julian Budden reviews the difficulties that faced the management that had commissioned La Traviata and how, in some previously unpublished letters, Verdi fought their views on casting the leading lady. Denis Arnold contributes a musical commentary. April FitzLyon discusses the social...

"The author of Babe, the Gallant Pig offers another winner with this tale of a bright pig and her canny young keeper ‘training’ a spoiled princess. . . . Move over, Wilbur." — Kirkus Reviews (starred review)Lollipop is no ordinary pig. According to her young trainer, Johnny Skinner,...

Comprising one finished novel, Lady Susan, which was published posthumously, and two unfinished fragments, Sanditon and The Watsons, this collection – full of melodrama and burlesque, and exploring a range of literary styles and social classes – spans the entirety of Jane Austen's writing...

This inventive reimagining of the Cinderella story shifts the spotlight to Lady Tremaine, the woman history remembers only as the wicked stepmother. Widowed twice and struggling to maintain her family’s fragile position in society, Etheldreda is determined to secure a stable future for her...

Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide range, its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message, both personal...

In 1865, on a windswept peninsula jutting into the Atlantic, Tomás and his young son, Liam, work tirelessly on the monumental Ordnance Survey project to map all of Ireland. In a country still scarred and depopulated by the Great Hunger, their task is as...

As a choking smog wipes out crops and collapses her career, a chef flees a bleak city for a mysterious mountaintop colony untouched by the world’s decline. There, amid clear skies and rare ingredients, her enigmatic employer and his daughter have created a lavish...

Landscapes #4. For years now, the British writer Robert Macfarlane has been collecting place-words: terms for aspects of landscape, nature, and weather, drawn from dozens of languages and dialects of the British Isles.  In this, his fifth book, Macfarlane brilliantly explores the linguistic and...

When the vuvv first landed, it came as a surprise to aspiring artist Adam and the rest of planet Earth, though not an unwelcome one. But with his parents’ jobs replaced by alien tech and no money for food, clean water, or the vuvv’s...

An ordinary village an hour from London—pub, church, cottages, and familiar voices of love, work, and gossip—hides something extraordinary. Dead Papa Toothwort, a mythical figure drawn by local children, awakens from a long sleep, listening to the village and searching for a mischievous, ethereal...

Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, believes his mother died giving birth to him. One of Marek’s few consola­tions is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby. For some...

It is 1960. When Jennifer Stirling wakes up in the hospital, she can remember nothing-not the tragic car accident that put her there, not her husband, not even who she is. She feels like a stranger in her own life until she stumbles upon...

Spring, 2007 At twenty-six, Alicia Canales Forten feels trapped by the future everyone expects for her. She’s in a long-distance relationship, living under her mother’s watchful beliefs, and saving for a wedding to a future doctor. But one night in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Alicia...

A man tells a woman that they have met before – that they became lovers but then agreed to separate for a year. The year is now up, and he has come back for her. At first, she remembers nothing, but as he relates...

Set at the dawn of the twentieth century, the story begins with the birth of a mysterious child in a secluded rural estate, surrounded by a dark and beguiling forest. From the moment Lajos arrives—his strange appearance unsettling his family—an air of unease takes hold....

One of the most renowned and controversial architects of the time was commissioned to design the new building in Ronchamp, an ancient place of Marian veneration: Le Corbusier. The client worked in the spirit of the journal L'Art Sacré, which discussed the connection between...

Eliza and Lister have never been this wide-awake in their lives, and the Slope, with its curtains drawn wide, is bright with starlight. They talk in whispers, not to disturb the maids who lie sleeping on the other side of the box room. The...

Learning from Las Vegas: The Forgotten Symbolism of Architectural Form Learning from Las Vegas created a healthy controversy on its appearance in 1972, calling for architects to be more receptive to the tastes and values of "common" people and less immodest in their erections...

Word has come. King Lear is dead. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear's queen.Though her grief and rage threaten to crack the earth open, she knows she must seek answers. Why was she exiled? What has happened to...

First published in 1855 and extended by the author over the course of more than three decades, Leaves of Grass embodies Walt Whitman's lifetime ambition to create a new voice that could capture the spirit and vibrancy of the young American nation, while celebrating...

 A Journey to Conscious Femininity The renowned analyst and author here provides deep insight into the process required to bring feminize wisdom to consciousness in a patriarchal culture—as struggle in which many women are more fully engaged today that ever before. Presenting the personal...

Long overshadowed by her marriage to Jackson Pollock, Lee Krasner is now recognized as a major figure in 20th-century art—a bold innovator whose work helped shape modernism. In Lee Krasner, acclaimed biographer Gail Levin offers a richly detailed and engrossing account of an artist...

What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the...

Caraval, 2. Sisters Donatella and Scarlett Dragna have escaped their father and survived Caraval—but the game is far from over. Unknown to Scarlett, Tella secured their freedom by making a dangerous bargain with a mysterious stranger, and now the debt must be paid. What...

Who says you can't run away from your problems? You are a failed novelist about to turn fifty. A wedding invitation arrives in the mail: your boyfriend of the past nine years is engaged to someone else. You can't say yes--it would be too...

Chemist Elizabeth Zott is not your average woman. In fact, Elizabeth Zott would be the first to point out that there is no such thing as an average woman. But it’s the early 1960s and her all-male team at Hastings Research Institute takes a...

With a foreword by Hilton Als, this collection gathers essays written between 1968 and 2000 by the celebrated essayist and journalist Joan Didion, many of them published together for the first time. The pieces offer a revealing look into Didion’s mind and working process,...

New Prose Translations. Gleaned from Rainer Maria Rilke’s voluminous, never-before-translated correspondence, this volume offers the best writings and personal philosophy of one of the twentieth century’s greatest poets. The result is a profound vision of how the human drive to create and understand can...

A timeless guide to the creative life from one of literature’s most profound voices. At the dawn of the twentieth century, poet Rainer Maria Rilke exchanged a series of heartfelt letters with a young aspiring writer—a correspondence that would become a lasting source of...

A nuclear family can destroy a woman artist. I’d always known that. But I’d never suspected how easily I’d fall into one anyway. When Jane, an aspiring writer, meets filmmaker John Bridges, they both want the same things: to be in love, to live...

The internationally bestselling novel-a daughter's portrait of her WWII veteran father, assembled from shards of memory.We called him Vati, Dad. Not Papa. He thought it sounded modern. He wanted to present himself to us, and through us, as a man in tune with the...

An affectionate storybook tribute to that truly wonderful place: the library.Miss Merriweather, the head librarian, is very particular about rules in the library. No running allowed. And you must be quiet. But when a lion comes to the library one day, no one is...

A monumental work by one of Italy’s greatest writers, Lies and Sorcery unfolds as a sweeping tale of three generations of women, now presented in its first complete English translation. Elsa Morante, long revered as a towering figure of twentieth-century literature, crafted this debut...

Rufus Leung Gresham, future Earl of Greshambury and son of a former Hong Kong supermodel has a problem: the legendary Gresham Trust has been depleted by decades of profligate spending, and behind all the magazine covers and Instagram stories manors and yachts lies nothing...