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A gritty, hardboiled novel about life on the margins of American society. Set between the pool halls and cheap hotels of Portland, Oregon, and the cells of San Quentin, it follows Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager surviving by his wits, and Billy Lancing, a...

The extraordinary novel that asks: Can a name change the course of a life? After a devastating storm, Cora sets out with her nine-year-old daughter, Maia, to register the birth of her newborn son. Her husband, Gordon—a respected doctor in their small community and...

Alone in a new country, wealthy Sara Crewe struggles to settle into boarding school and make friends. But when she learns that her beloved father has died, her privileged life is turned upside down. Suddenly a princess becomes a pauper, trading luxury and dancing...

A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother Who is Ruth McBride Jordan? A fiercely private, self-described “light-skinned” woman who refuses to discuss her ethnicity, yet raises twelve Black children with unwavering love and determination. In The Color of Water, James McBride retraces his mother’s...

Eye-opening, razor-sharp, and laced with dark humor, Born Into This offers a powerful indictment of modern colonialism and racism. Set against the harsh Tasmanian landscape, Adam Thompson’s stories follow Aboriginal characters navigating complex choices, systemic prejudice, and cultural loss. Blending biting wit, pathos, and...

Kyr has spent her entire life preparing for one purpose: avenging the murder of Earth. Raised in the depths of Gaea Station among the last remnants of humanity, she has trained to face the Wisdom—the powerful, reality-shaping weapon that secured the majoda’s victory over...

The Dark Sapphic Romance that inspired Dracula. Long before Dracula stalked the shadows, J. Sheridan Le Fanu’s classic novella redefined gothic romance and paved the way for all modern vampire fiction. Deep in an isolated castle within the dense Austrian forest, young Laura lives...

Welcome to Le Cirque des Rêves—a black-and-white striped wonderland of breathtaking amazements that appears without notice and operates only under the cover of night. But behind the shimmering illusion lies a lethal, dark competition: a duel between two extraordinary young magicians, Celia and Marco,...

From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a spellbinding symphony of passion and hatred, power and perversity, color and class that spans three generations of Black women in a fading beach town. In life, Bill Cosey enjoyed the affections of many women, who would do almost...

When Tash, daughter of a Russian oligarch, is sent to an English boarding school, she is new to the strange rituals of the girls there. Theirs is a world of strict pecking orders, eating disorders and Instagram angst. While she spends her time at...

Rachel Carson was one of the most important environmental thinkers and writers of the twentieth century. This collection brings together previously unpublished work, essays, field journals, speeches, articles and letters to create a biography of Carson's thought: a deeply personal picture of her evolution...

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...

Venice is a city full of secrets. For hundreds of years it has been the scene of scandal, intrigue and murderous rivalries. And it remains so today. 1548, Lorenzino de Medici, himself a murderer and a man few will miss, is assassinated by two...

A 20th-anniversary edition of Mary Karr's pathbreaking, award-winning, mega-bestselling memoir, featuring a new foreword by Lena Dunham.  When it was first published twenty years ago, THE LIARS' CLUB took the world by storm and raised the art of the memoir to an entirely new...

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes an inspired sequence of stories as affecting as it is beautiful.   With the clarity and precision that have become his trademarks, Kazuo Ishiguro...

Jasmyn and King Williams move their family to the planned Black utopia of Liberty, California hoping to find a community of like-minded people, a place where their growing family can thrive. King settles in at once, embracing the Liberty ethos, including the luxe wellness...

In the shadows of English drawing rooms and the tangled depths of faerie woods, magic stirs—not the gentle kind of nursery tales, but the old, capricious kind that twists fate and answers to no one. The Ladies of Grace Adieu and Other Stories is...

A fierce, funny, and unforgettable memoir that redefined the genre. In The Liars’ Club, Mary Karr recounts her turbulent East Texas childhood with sharp wit, raw honesty, and unflinching love. Amid the oil refineries and cigarette smoke of a small town, Karr grows up...

“My name was Salmon, like the fish. First name, Susie. I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6, 1973.” So begins The Lovely Bones, the unforgettable story of Susie Salmon, speaking from a heaven she never imagined, watching the world she left...

Bird by Bird is the bible of writing guides – a wry, honest, down-to-earth book that has never stopped selling since it was first published in the United States in the 1990s. Bestselling novelist and memoirist Anne Lamott distils what she’s learned over years...

Raised by his grandmother in Tennessee, Gil Scott-Heron's journey from humble beginnings to becoming one of the most uncompromising and influential songwriters of his generation is a remarkable one. In this, his heartfelt, beautifully written and posthumously published memoir, we are given bright insights...

Published when Wallace was just twenty-four years old, The Broom of the System stunned critics and marked the emergence of an extraordinary new talent. At the center of this outlandishly funny, fiercely intelligent novel is the bewitching heroine, Lenore Stonecipher Beadsman. The year is...

"I was born twice: first, as a baby girl, on a remarkably smogless Detroit day of January 1960; and then again, as a teenage boy, in an emergency room near Petoskey, Michigan, in August of l974. . . My birth certificate lists my name...

Alice Wright marries handsome American Bennett Van Cleve hoping to escape her stifling life in England. But small-town Kentucky quickly proves equally claustrophobic, especially living alongside her overbearing father-in-law. So when a call goes out for a team of women to deliver books as...

Working as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname “Boulder.” When Samsa gets a job in Reykjavik and the couple decides to move there together, Samsa decides that she wants...

The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity. What is autism—a lifelong disability, or a natural form of cognitive variation, even a kind of genius? In truth, it is all of these things and more—and how we choose to understand autism will shape...

When writer Ben Mears returns to Jerusalem’s Lot to confront memories of his childhood, he discovers that a sinister presence has taken hold: a mysterious newcomer, Kurt Barlow, is revealed to be a vampire, and the townspeople are falling victim to his growing influence....

In a coastal village in medieval Japan, a young boy called Isaku battles to keep his family alive against the odds. With his father gone, Isaku is forced to grow up well before his time. He must learn how to catch fish, how to...

These dazzling stories from the internationally acclaimed author of Bad Girls erase the fine line between fantasy and reality, and establish her as an impressive literary voice. In the 1990s, a woman makes a living as a rental girlfriend for gay men. In a...

Lilia Liska has shrewdly outlived three husbands, raised five children, and seen the arrival of seventeen grandchildren. Now she has turned her keen attention to the diary of a long-forgotten man named Roland Bouley, with whom she once had a fleeting affair. Increasingly obsessed...

The Locked Tomb #2. She answered the Emperor's call. She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend. In victory, her world has turned to ash. After rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn Muir continues the story of the penumbral Ninth House...

The Locked Tomb #1. The Emperor needs necromancers. The Ninth Necromancer needs a swordswoman. Gideon has a sword, some dirty magazines, and no more time for undead bullshit. Brought up by unfriendly, ossifying nuns, ancient retainers, and countless skeletons, Gideon is ready to abandon a...

Electra d’Aplièse is a top model who seems to have it all: beauty, fame, and wealth. But beneath the glittery veneer, she’s cracking under all the pressure. When her father dies, she turns to alcohol and drugs to ease the pain. As friends and...

From one of England’s most celebrated writers, a funny and superbly observed novella about the Queen of England and the subversive power of readingWhen her corgis stray into a mobile library parked near Buckingham Palace, the Queen feels duty-bound to borrow a book. Discovering...

Dymitr is a soul-bonded monster hunter, bred for agony, forged to kill. His latest mission: track down the elusive and dangerous witch, Baba Jaga. But to find her, he must strike an uneasy alliance with the very creatures he's spent his life hunting. Ala...

When struggling white author June Hayward witnesses the sudden death of her friend and rising literary star Athena Liu, she makes a split-second decision: she steals Athena’s unpublished manuscript—a brilliant novel about Chinese laborers in World War I—and publishes it as her own. Rebranded...

In this modern classic, "there's no way not to suffer. But you try all kinds of ways to keep from drowning in it." The men and women in these eight short fictions grasp this truth on an elemental level, and their stories detail the...

The book continues Baek Sehee’s candid journey through the quiet, persistent weight of dysthymia—chronic, low-level depression. A sequel to the bestselling I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki, this follow-up delves deeper into Baek’s emotional landscape as she navigates life, therapy,...

A short story that explores themes of memory, trauma, and the lingering effects of historical atrocity. The narrative centers around a Holocaust survivor, Mendel, who works as a janitor in a dance studio in New York City. Though quiet and reserved, Mendel becomes captivated by...

The Murderbot Diaries, 4 Murderbot never wanted to get involved. Its priority was staying free, watching media, and avoiding humans. But when Dr. Mensah—the one human who treated it like more than a malfunctioning machine—lands in danger, Murderbot finds itself doing the unthinkable: caring....

Harry August is dying. Again. Each time his life ends, it begins anew—back to the same childhood, the same choices, the same memories of every life he’s lived before. For eleven cycles, nothing has changed. Until now. On the edge of his eleventh death,...

My Life with Autism (Expanded Edition). First published in 1995, this groundbreaking book presents an unprecedented perspective: Temple Grandin writes as both a scientist and a person with autism, offering an insider’s view of a world rarely understood from within. In her vivid and...

Girlie Delmundo is the best content moderator on the planet. After surviving financial collapse, climate disaster, and a global pandemic, she’s finally on the rise—about to be promoted at Paragon, her powerful parent company. With Paragon’s recent acquisition of Fairground, the leading virtual reality...

A two-book box set that's perfect for celebrating the holiday with your friends and family!  Play Veranda Santa and go for a Christmas swim with Bluey and Bingo! This two-book box set includes ornaments to hang on your Christmas tree, creating fun memories with...

Inspired by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s celebrated TED Talk and essay, the journal offers readers a personal and engaging way to explore feminism today. It’s a space for reflection, self-inquiry and meaningful conversation about gender equality. Inspiring Quotes: Selected passages from Adichie’s original essay, designed...

Once Upon a Broken Heart, 3. Blood will spill, hearts will be stolen, and true love will face its ultimate trial. Two villains. One girl. A deadly fight for happily ever after. Evangeline Fox journeyed to the Magnificent North seeking her fairytale—and it appears...

German writer W. G. Sebald blends travel writing, memoir, history, and meditation into a quietly mesmerizing narrative. Accompanied by a curious archive of photographs, the book follows a solitary walking tour along the eastern coast of England. As the narrator travels through the landscape—both observing...

When her business goes bust and her fiancé with it, Nell's happy ever after in California falls apart and she moves back to London to start over. But a lot has changed since she’s been gone. All her single friends are now married with...

Willie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of the early twentieth century. But in 1921 he is beleaguered by an unhappy marriage, ill-health and business interests that have gone badly awry. He is also struggling to write. His friend Robert Hamlyn offers...

Yejide is hoping for a miracle, for a child. It is all her husband wants, all her mother-in-law wants, and she has tried everything. But when her relatives insist upon a new wife, it is too much for Yejide to bear.Unravelling against the social...