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 Dark Shores #1 The Celendor Empire is poised to conquer the far side of the world, and the key to crossing its deadly seas lies with seventeen-year-old Teriana. Raised to believe that east must never meet west, Teriana has always honored the divide. But...

A haunting tale of beauty, corruption, and the cost of eternal youth. When Dorian Gray sees his portrait—capturing his youthful perfection—he makes a reckless wish: that he might remain forever young, while the painting alone ages in his place. As he falls under the...

An enemies-to-lovers spicy novella set in the world of video gaming from the New York Times bestselling author of Problematic Summer Romance. Viola Bowen has landed her dream project: adapting her favorite book series into a video game. The only catch? Her co-lead is...

The novel is narrated by Etsuko, a Japanese woman living alone in England. Her daughter Keiko, who struggled to adjust to life there, has recently died by suicide. As Etsuko’s younger daughter, Niki, visits, she reflects on her postwar life in Nagasaki. Much of...

The Soul of Japan. One of the earliest and most insightful examinations of Japanese culture and samurai ethics written in English, Bushido remains the most influential work ever published on Bushido—the samurai’s Way of the Warrior. Nitobe contends that Bushido’s philosophy offers the essential...

Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue lies in the ship’s hold, too drunk to know his own name, his bearings, or his fate—only that he may have killed a man. That man might have been his closest friend. Sobriety brings no clarity, only the crush of...

Emily Wilde, 2. Emily Wilde, a brilliant scholar of faerie folklore, has written the world’s first encyclopaedia of faeries. Her colleague Wendell Bambleby—charming, troublesome, and secretly an exiled faerie king—pulls her into danger when assassins sent by his mother arrive in Cambridge. Now Emily...

For fifty years, Abe and Jane have returned to Central Park. Sometimes they came alone, seeking space from one another; other times they came together to talk through life’s most important decisions. For half a century, the park has quietly witnessed the story of...

A powerful new English translation by Marion Wiesel brings renewed clarity to Elie Wiesel’s most renowned work: Night, a stark and deeply moving autobiographical account of his experiences as a teenager imprisoned in Nazi concentration camps. Rendered by Marion Wiesel, the author’s wife and...

Schoolgirl marks the beginning of Dazai’s literary career and quickly gained attention for its sharp irony and inventive language. Today, it offers a vivid glimpse into the social structures of its time, while exploring the enduring tension between the individual and society—a theme that...

True biz (adj./exclamation; American Sign Language): really, seriously, definitely, real-talk At the River Valley School for the Deaf, students are navigating the same things as anyone else—friendships, crushes, exams—while also pushing back against a world that constantly tries to define their limits. They want...

Scarlett has never left her tiny island, bound by a cruel father and an arranged marriage that threatens to end her dreams—especially of Caraval, the legendary once-a-year performance where the audience becomes part of the game. When an invitation finally arrives, Scarlett escapes with...

Step into the haunting imagination of Edgar Allan Poe, the defining figure of Gothic fiction and early psychological horror. This essential collection brings together some of his most enduring works, each offering a descent into the darker corners of the mind and human experience....

How to Unlock the Secret Language of Connection Come inside a jury room as one juror leads a starkly divided room to consensus. Join a young CIA officer as he recruits a reluctant foreign agent. And sit with an accomplished surgeon as he tries,...

A spare, intimate account of desire and obsession, tracing the emotional and physical intensity of a two-year relationship between an unnamed woman and a married foreigner. As her passion consumes her life, ordinary events, people, and experiences become meaningful only in relation to the...

This collection brings together some of Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated plays, showcasing the wit, elegance, and theatrical brilliance that have made his work enduring classics. Known for his dazzling epigrams and sharp observations of society, Wilde explores the masks people wear, the contradictions of...

An old man arrives at the offices of the lawyer Derville, claiming to be Colonel Chabert, a hero of the Napoleonic Wars who was left for dead on the battlefield, but in fact managed to survive under a pile of corpses before spending years...

When Alfa Ndiaye, a Senegalese man fighting alongside the french army as a "Chocolat" refuses to end his best friend’s suffering on the battlefield, the decision shatters him. To avenge the loss and silence his own shame, Alfa begins a chilling ritual—crossing enemy lines...

Arc of a Scythe #3 Dictators rise. Prophets emerge. The world trembles under the weight of mounting unrest. In a society that has conquered death, humanity now faces a more dangerous question: will it be undone by the immortal powers it created? Citra and...

Having left her job and boyfriend, thirty-year-old Sandra decides to stay in a village on the Costa Brava in order to take stock of her life and find a new direction. She befriends Karin and Fredrik, an elderly Norwegian couple, who provide her with...

Describing Dante's second stage in his arduous journey to redemption, Purgatory features a host of unforgettable scenes and characters, and arguably some of the best poetry to be found in the Divine Comedy. The gloom, torments and evils of Hell have been left behind,...

First published in 1859, Oblomov is an indisputable classic of Russian literature, comparable in its stature to such masterpieces as Gogol's Dead Souls, Tolstoy's Anna Karenina and Dostoevsky's Brothers Karamazov. The book centres on the figure of Ilya Ilyich Oblomov, a member of the...

Dmitry Rudin, a high-minded gentleman of reduced means, arrives at the estate of Darya Mikhailovna, where his intelligence, eloquence and conviction immediately make a powerful impression. As he stys on longer than intended, Rudin exerts a strong influence on the younger generation, and Darya's...

Ruth Young and her widowed mother, LuLing, have always had a tumultuous relationship. Now, before she succumbs to forgetfulness, LuLing gives Ruth some of her writings, which reveal a side of LuLing that Ruth has never known... In a remote mountain village where ghosts...

A Long Day in a Short Life unfolds within the indifferent passage of time behind the walls of Washington District Jail, where a group of inmates endures the monotony and isolation of prison life. Once innocent children, they are now marginalized figures, stripped of...

An impoverished member of the privileged high society of old New York, Lily Bart is beautiful and socially agreeable, but she is almost thirty and still unmarried. Now she is keen to secure a wealthy husband to confirm her status, but the debts she...

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...

People move to New York looking for magic and nothing will convince them it isn't there. Charles Thomas Tester hustles to put food on the table, keep the roof over his father's head, from Harlem to Flushing Meadows to Red Hook. He knows what...

Lara Jean’s love life gets complicated in this New York Times bestselling “lovely, lighthearted romance” (School Library Journal) from the bestselling author of The Summer I Turned Pretty series. Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her....

My Life with Asperger's. From an early age, John Robison struggled to connect with the world around him. As a teenager, his unusual behaviors earned him a reputation as a social misfit. It wasn’t until he was forty that Robison received a life-changing diagnosis:...

A beautiful and distinguished family.A private island.A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.A revolution. An accident. A secret.Lies upon lies.True love.The truth. Read it.And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.

If you had secret magical powers, how would you know? After the Worldquake, Effie knows about magic - time in her grandfather’s library has made sure of that. But there’s still much she has to learn. About the Otherworld. And about the Diberi, a...

In her witty, masterful debut novel, Margaret Drabble conjures a gripping story of sibling rivalry. Louise, beautiful and sophisticated, marries wealthy novelist Stephen Fairfax. Sarah, recently graduated from Oxford, is thrown back into family matters. Louise's life becomes one of parties, gossip columns and...

Under the Sea-Wind marks the beginnings of one of the most significant careers in nature writing. In it Rachel Carson celebrates the mystery and beauty of birds and sea creatures in their natural habitat, conjuring the atmosphere of the shore and the open sea...

The Sea Around Us is one of the most influential books ever written about the natural world. In it Rachel Carson tells the history of our oceans, combining scientific insight and poetic prose as only she can, to take us from the creation of...

When an army of invading Martians lands in England, panic and terror seize the population. As the aliens traverse the country in huge three-legged machines, incinerating all in their path with a heat ray and spreading noxious toxic gases, the people of the Earth...

A Vindication of the Rights of Woman attacked the traditional view of decorative femininity and deplored the educational restrictions and the “mistaken notions of female excellence” that degraded women and kept them in a state of “slavish dependence”. Indeed, independence, “the grand blessing of...

A secret terrorist group infiltrates the household of a government official's son, with a view to spying on the father and, ultimately, assassinating him. But the young man entrusted with the task – an ailing, world-weary “nobody” – seized with the purposelessness of life...

One relentlessly hot summer, six children explore the scorched wheat fields that enclose their tiny Italian village. When the gang find a dilapidated farmhouse, nine-year-old Michele Amitrano makes a discovery so momentous that he dare not tell a soul. It is a secret that...

The legendary collection that redefined artificial intelligence in science fiction. In I, Robot, Isaac Asimov presents a visionary sequence of nine interconnected stories that chart the evolution of robotics—and the complex, often unsettling relationship between humans and their creations. From robots who develop a...

Ninteen year-old winston 'Tuffy' Foshay - 320 pounds, new father to a baby boy he greets cheerfully with 'What up little nigger?, player-king of a motley crew in Spanish Harlem - is looking for a purpose in life, for the answer to his wife...

Paul Beatty's hilarious and scathing debut novel is about Gunnar Kaufman, an awkward, black surfer bum who is moved by his mother from Santa Monica to urban West Los Angeles. There, he begins to undergo a startling transformation from neighborhood outcast to basketball superstar,...

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...

Ailsa and Humphrey met as children by a grey, northern sea in post-war Britain. She, freckled and furious; he, quietly studious; both fascinated by the other. Years later, their lives collide as adults and burst into an intense yet brief love affair. Now, after...

At the age of seventeen, after a childhood in a foster family followed by six years in care homes, Norman Greenwood was given his birth certificate. He learned that his real name was not Norman. It was Lemn Sissay. He was British and Ethiopian....

First things first, stay calm.Eric Sanderson wakes up in a place he doesn't recognise, unable to remember who he is. All he has left are journal entries recalling Clio, a perfect love now gone. As he begins to piece his memories back together, Eric...

It is Scotland in the early eighteenth century. Fear and superstition grip the land. Robert Wringhim, a boy of strict Calvinist upbringing, is corrupted by a shadowy figure who calls himself Gil-Martin. Under his influence Robert commits a series of murders which he regards...

London, 1863. A strange puzzle has reached Bridie Devine, the finest female detective of her age. To recover a stolen child, Bridie must enter the dark world of medical curiosities. The public love a spectacle and this child may well prove the most remarkable...

1919, Siberia. Deep in the unforgiving landscape a town lies under military rule, awaiting the remorseless assault of Bolsheviks along the Trans-Siberian railway. One night a stranger, Samarin, appears from the woods with a tale of escape from an Arctic prison, insisting a cannibal...

In this astonishing collection of essays, the award-winning poet and novelist Kei Miller explores the silence in which so many important things are kept. He examines the experience of discrimination through this silence and what it means to breach it: to risk words, to...