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In this sweeping tale of adventure, Alexandre Dumas weaves together suspense, intrigue, romance, revenge, and the ultimate triumph of justice—elements that have secured the novel’s enduring status as a literary classic. Set in post-Napoleonic France, the story follows Edmond Dantès, a promising young sailor...

One of the greatest adventure novels ever written, The Count of Monte Cristo follows Edmond Dantès, a young man falsely imprisoned for a crime he did not commit. After years of confinement, he escapes and discovers a hidden fortune that allows him to reinvent...

When a novice French diplomat arrives for an audience with the Emperor, he is enraptured by the Joseon Dynasty’s magnificent culture, then at its zenith. But all fades away when he sees Yi Jin perform the delicate traditional Dance of the Spring Oriole. Though...

A fifteen-year-old teenager is the backbone of her small Midwestern family, budgeting the household finances and raising her younger brother while her mom, a talented artist, weaves beautiful tapestries. For six years, it’s been just the three of them—her mom has brought home guests...

The Crayons’ Christmas invites readers to celebrate the holidays with Duncan and his colorful crew in a festive adventure from #1 New York Times bestselling duo Drew Daywalt and Oliver Jeffers. Packed with interactive treats—real pull-out letters, games, punch-out ornaments, a poster, and even...

From the legendary music producer, a master at helping people connect with the wellsprings of their creativity, comes a beautifully crafted book many years in the making that offers that same deep wisdom to all of us. Many famed music producers are known for...

The second volume of the award-winning Border Trilogy—From the bestselling author of The Passenger and the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Road—fulfills the promise of All the Pretty Horses and at the same time give us a work that is darker and more visionary, a...

Special Edition (Volume 3) featuring sprayed and designed edges, a glossed and embossed cover, and an original piece of commissioned artwork. Poppy never expected to find the love she shares with Prince Casteel, but their happiness is short-lived. To rescue his brother and find...

One of the true masterpieces of twentieth-century American theater, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective evil. It is a play that is not only relentlessly suspenseful and vastly moving, but that compels readers to...

Jude was seven years old when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many...

When her former lover, the powerful real estate magnate Pierce Inverarity, unexpectedly dies and names her co-executor of his vast estate, Oedipa Maas—a suburban California housewife—is drawn into a labyrinthine mystery. What begins as a legal responsibility soon unravels into a surreal journey filled...

It begins in an unnamed city nicknamed “the Fairest”, it is distinguished by many things from the river fair to the mountains that split the municipality in half; its theaters and many museums; the Morgue Ship; and, like all cities, but maybe especially so,...

Considered by many to be her masterpiece, Edith Wharton’s second full-length work is a scathing yet personal examination of the exploits and follies of the modern upper class. As she unfolds the story of Undine Spragg, from New York to Europe, Wharton affords us...

The Beatles' hair changed the world. As their increasingly wild, untamed manes grew, to the horror of parents everywhere, they set off a cultural revolution as the most tangible symbol of the Sixties' psychedelic dream of peace, love and playful rebellion. In the midst...

When Rilke, a dissolute auctioneer, comes upon a hidden collection of violent and highly disturbing photographs, he feels compelled to discover more about the deceased owner who coveted them. Soon he finds himself sucked into an underworld of crime, depravity and secret desire, fighting...

While in Paris, Harvard symbologist Robert Langdon is awakened by a phone call in the dead of the night. The elderly curator of the Louvre has been murdered inside the museum, his body covered in baffling symbols.  As Langdon and gifted French cryptologist Sophie...

The Dark Forest is the second novel in the groundbreaking, Hugo Award-winning series from China's most beloved science fiction author, Cixin Liu. In The Dark Forest, Earth is reeling from the revelation of a coming alien invasion-in just four centuries' time. The aliens' human...

Letters on Loss, Grief, and Transformation.  Drawn from Rainer Maria Rilke’s vast body of previously untranslated letters to grieving friends and acquaintances, The Dark Interval offers a profound exploration of mourning and a deeply humane meditation on death’s place in our lives. Modeled on...

In the fifth installment of The Bone Season series, Paige Mahoney awakens in the free world—beyond Scion’s grasp for the first time in over a decade. But half a year of her life is missing, and the path that brought her here is shrouded...

In this scorching crime hook-up, number one bestseller Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-writing legend William McIlvanney join forces for the first ever case of DI Laidlaw, Glasgow’s original gritty detective. Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people....

In this scorching crime hook-up, number one bestseller Ian Rankin and Scottish crime-writing legend William McIlvanney join forces for the first ever case of DI Laidlaw, Glasgow’s original gritty detective. Lawyer Bobby Carter did a lot of work for the wrong type of people....

What if a meteor shower left most of the world blind—and humanity at the mercy of mysterious carnivorous plants?  Bill Masen undergoes eye surgery and awakes the next morning in his hospital bed to find civilization collapsing. Wandering the city, he quickly realizes that...

The Day the Crayons Quit begins with one simple wish: Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his crayon box, he finds a stack of letters instead—his crayons have gone on strike! Blue is exhausted from coloring endless oceans, Black is tired...

Gripping story of an Italian woman’s experiences after being suddenly left by her husband after fifteen years of marriage. With two young children to care for, Olga finds it more and more difficult to do the things she used to: keep a spotless house,...

Eleven-year-old Philip Noble is at his father's funeral when who should appear but his father's ghost, who wastes no time in telling Philip that his Uncle Alan, an auto mechanic, tampered with his car, causing the accident that killed him. He warns Philip that...

A direct and fundamentally optimistic indictment of the short-sightedness and intellectual arrogance that has characterized much of urban planning in this century, The Death and Life of Great American Cities has, since its first publication in 1961, become the standard against which all endeavors...

Published to coincide with the 50th anniversary of its initial publication, this special edition of Jane Jacobs’s masterpiece, The Death and Life of Great American Cities, features a new Introduction by Jason Epstein, the book’s original editor, who provides an intimate perspective on Jacobs...

The world is a hard place to be good in… Struggling to keep a grip on reality after his wife’s death, Bunny Munro does the only thing he can think of: with his young son in tow, he hits the road. An epic chronicle...

One of the most exquisitely constructed novellas by Tolstoy is presented alongside The Devil, a further work exploring the powerful and destructive nature of obsession. The judge Ivan Ilyich Golovin has spent his life in the pursuit of wealth and status, devoting himself obsessively to...

These seven powerful stories reflect Tolstoy’s profound meditation on mortality and the human condition, each examining the inevitability of death from unique perspectives. In The Death of Ivan Ilyich, Tolstoy delivers a heartrending exploration of a man confronting his approaching death and grappling with...

One afternoon, in a town in southeastern Nigeria, a mother opens her front door to discover her son’s body, wrapped in colorful fabric, at her feet. What follows is the tumultuous, heart-wrenching story of one family’s struggle to understand a child whose spirit is...

The Sea of Fertility #4. As the dramatic climax of The Sea of Fertility, 'The Decay of the Angel' brings together the dominant themes of the three previous novels- the meaning and decay of Japan's courtly tradition and samurai ideal; the essence and value...

It’s 16-year-old Edie who finds their mother Marianne dangling in the living room from an old jump rope, barely alive. Upstairs, 14-year-old Mae had fallen into one of her trances, often a result of feeling too closely attuned to her mother’s dark moods. After...

Master storyteller Erik Larson offers a gripping account of the chaotic months between Lincoln’s election and the Confederacy’s shelling of Sumter—a period marked by tragic errors and miscommunications, enflamed egos and craven ambitions, personal tragedies and betrayals. Lincoln himself wrote that the trials of...

How did the great architects of this century reconcile their vision of architecture with the realities of building? This is a crucial question that every student of architecture must confront. The Details of Modern Architecture, the first comprehensive analysis of both the technical and...

The charismatic monk Medardus becomes implicated in a deadly mystery against his will. As he travels towards Rome he wrestles with the enigma of his own identity while pursued by his murderous doppelganger. The monk's only hope for salvation lies with the beautiful Aurelie;...

Step into the quiet beauty of the French countryside with The Devil's Pool by George Sand. The novel follows Germain, a widowed farmer urged to remarry for the sake of his children, a seemingly simple task complicated by emotion, social expectations, and the realities...

Holy work sometimes requires unholy deeds. Brother Diaz has been summoned to the Holy City, where he is certain a commendation and grand holy assignment awaits him. But his new flock is made up of unrepentant murderers, practitioners of ghastly magic, and outright monsters....

If we could only put aside our civil pose and say what we really thought, the world would be a lot like the one alluded to in The Unabridged Devil’s Dictionary. There, a bore is "a person who talks when you wish him to...

An essential new translation of Franz Kafka’s complete, uncensored diaries—a revelation of the idiosyncrasies and rough edges of one of the twentieth century’s most important, influential, and visionary writers Dating from 1909 to 1923, Franz Kafka’s Diaries contains a broad array of writing, including...

Driven to his deathbed by an incurable disease, the thirty-year-old impoverished gentleman Chulkaturin decides to write a diary looking back on his short life. After describing his youthful disillusionment and his family's fall from grace and loss of status, the narrative focuses on his...

Discovered after the Second World War, Anne Frank's diary has become one of the most influential personal accounts of the Holocaust, a profound testament to resilience, hope, and the enduring power of the human spirit. In 1942, after the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands,...

The first volume of Anaïs Nin’s celebrated nine-volume diary series, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931–1934 captures a pivotal period in the life of one of the twentieth century’s most fascinating writers and artists. Written in Nin’s own intimate and revealing voice,...

From the award-winning creative team of Oliver Jeffers and Sam Winston comes an enchanting and imaginative picture book certain to delight word lovers of any age. Dictionary wishes she could tell a story like other books. So one day, she decides to bring her...

While filming in France, the legendary filmmaker G. W. Pabst witnesses the collapse of the world he once knew and flees to Hollywood in search of safety. Yet in California, he finds himself stripped of relevance—an artist without influence, even as former collaborators like Greta Garbo...

In 1988 Kingston, Jamaica, eight men come together to rehearse a play. They are strangers, each with his own reasons for being there, but they share a truth that puts all of them at risk: they are gay—“batty men,” in Jamaican argot—and in a...

Ten-year-old Jas lives with her strictly religious parents and her siblings on a dairy farm where waste and frivolity are akin to sin. Despite the dreary routine of their days, Jas has a unique way of experiencing her world. One icy morning, the disciplined...

Nadolny's masterpiece, The Discovery of Slowness tells the incredible story of Sir John Franklin, a sailor and explorer who battled the frozen Arctic wastes and paved the way for the discovery of the Northwest Passage. Ridiculed for his slowness in his youth, Franklin's quiet...

Gripping, insightful, and deft, The Distance Between Us by Maggie O'Farrell is a haunting story of the way our families shape our lives, from the award-winning author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait. On a cold February afternoon, Stella catches sight of a man...

Dante's dramatic journey down the circles of Hell, up the mountain of Purgatory and through the spheres of Heaven in search of redemption – and his encounter with devils, monsters and the souls of sinners and saints – is one of the cornerstones of...