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Doctor Jack Troy was born and raised in Faha, but his responsibilities for the sick and his care for the dying mean he has always been set apart from the town. His eldest daughter, Ronnie, has grown up in her father's shadow, and remains...

In this beautifully written masterwork, Pulitzer Prize–winning author Isabel Wilkerson presents a definitive and dramatic account of one of the great untold stories of American history: the Great Migration of six million Black citizens who fled the South for the North and West in...

Thomas Wazhashk is the night watchman at the jewel bearing plant, the first factory located near the Turtle Mountain Reservation in rural North Dakota. He is also a Chippewa Council member who is trying to understand the consequences of a new “emancipation” bill on...

Dark Shores #3 Their battles were one but peace was never promised. Lydia returns to Mudaire to train at the healing temple, hoping to mend what war has broken. Yet with every life she touches, doubt shadows her hands. Instead of saving others, she...

One of the most enduring heroines in American fiction, Isabel Archer travels to Europe determined to shape her own destiny. As Henry James later reflected in his 1908 preface, he began The Portrait of a Lady with little more than the compelling image of...

The Stormlight Archive, 1. On Roshar, relentless superstorms have shaped a land of stone where plants retract, animals hide in shells, and cities cling to sheltered terrain. Centuries after the fall of the Knights Radiant, their Shardblades and Shardplate remain—legendary weapons and armor worth...

Artie Dam seems to have a full, steady life—teaching high school history, sharing quiet routines with his wife of thirty years, and sailing Massachusetts Bay. Yet beneath the surface, he feels deeply isolated, haunted by how little people truly know one another. When he...

The Captivating Life of Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy. A quarter century after the plane crash that killed John F. Kennedy Jr., his wife Carolyn Bessette-Kennedy, and her sister Lauren, the tragedy still resonates. Yet Carolyn herself remains an enigma—her brief life in the spotlight often overshadowed...

What Culture Does with Female Bodies. Art historian Catherine McCormack examines how culture shapes the way we see—and value—women, their bodies, and their lives. From Venus to maiden, wife, mother, and monster, women have long been confined to narrow roles reinforced by patriarchal traditions—so...

In Means of Ascent, Book Two of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, Robert A. Caro brings alive Lyndon Johnson in his wilderness years.Here, Johnson’s almost mythic personality—part genius, part behemoth, at once hotly emotional and icily calculating—is seen at its most nakedly ambitious. This...

Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype. A book club pick for Emma Watson’s Our Shared Shelf. Within every woman lives a powerful force—one filled with instinct, creativity, and ancient wisdom. This force is the Wild Woman, the embodiment of a woman’s instinctual...

On a freezing January morning in 1945, seventeen-year-old Leo Auberg is deported to a Soviet labor camp, where he spends five grueling years shoveling coal, mixing mortar, and eking out survival—one shovel of coal equaling a gram of bread. In "The Hunger Angel", Nobel...

Conversations with David Barsamian A wide-ranging and illuminating collection of conversations with award-winning writer Arundhati Roy, this volume explores subjects ranging from U.S. imperial power and Indian nationalism to the responsibilities and possibilities of a writer’s work. Known as a novelist for the richness...

“To mother is to murder—or close enough,” Johanna muses, reflecting on the Norwegian words. Recently widowed and back in Oslo after a long absence, she is preparing a retrospective of her work, much of which centers on motherhood. Some of her more provocative paintings...

A witty, irresistible classic about a young, beautiful American who arrives in Paris determined to experience life in all its messy, exhilarating fullness. The Dud Avocado traces the romantic misadventures and comic escapades of Sally Jay Gorce, a spirited young American who sets out...

In this political thriller by Joan Didion, the narrator introduces Elena McMahon, a woman trying to rebuild her life after leaving her powerful husband, Wynn Janklow. Estranged from the world of high-profile fundraisers and West Coast influence, Elena takes her daughter Catherine and begins...

1979: Young revolutionary Behsad fights for change after the Shah’s fall, finding both purpose and love with Nahid. 1989: Now in West Germany, Nahid and Behsad anxiously follow news of friends who went into hiding after the new regime took power. 1999: Their daughter...

One spring morning, a mysterious stranger named Theo arrives in the small city of Golden, asking more questions than he answers. At a local café, he buys pencil portraits of townspeople and returns them to their “rightful owners,” sparking stories, friendships, and quiet transformations....

Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality: her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work...

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...

René Karabash’s groundbreaking Bulgarian LGBTQ+ novel draws readers into a remote Albanian village where the ancient Kanun of Lekë Dukagjini—a rigid code of honor and law—still shapes everyday life, casting a shadow as imposing as the surrounding mountains. At its center is Bekija, who...

Welcome to Derry, Maine: a small town that feels eerily familiar, like any ordinary hometown, except that in Derry, the darkness is real. Seven teenagers first encountered that horror there. Years later, they are adults who have built lives far from the town, chasing...

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...

Awaken Your Senses to the Outdoors You’ve Never Noticed. In How to Read Nature, author and natural navigator Tristan Gooley invites readers to experience the outdoors in a completely different way by engaging all five senses rather than relying mainly on sight. Gooley shows...

Clues and Patterns from Puddles to the Sea In How to Read Water, natural navigator Tristan Gooley teaches readers how to interpret the hidden language of water in all its forms, rivers, oceans, puddles, and ponds. Drawing on his own expeditions, from wild swimming...

In a Tokyo suburb, a young man named Toru Okada searches for his wife’s missing cat—and then for his wife as well—in a netherworld beneath the city’s placid surface. As these searches intersect, he encounters a bizarre group of allies and antagonists. Gripping, prophetic,...

The iconic writer's electrifying first novel isa story of marriage, murder and betrayal that only she could tell with such nuance, sympathy, and suspense—from the bestselling, award-winning author of The Year of Magical Thinking and Let Me Tell You What I Mean.Everett McClellan and his...

In this rowdy, frank reflection on illness, fame, sex, and everything in between, the remarkable mind behind the hit series Girls and the bestselling author of Not That Kind of Girl asks whether fulfilling her creative ambitions has been worth the pain.For the last...

Beckett, If you’re reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didn’t. Get off the guilt train, because I know if there was any chance you could have saved me, you would have. I need one thing from you: get...

Now available in a deluxe 40th-anniversary paperback edition, this celebrated historical mystery returns with exclusive illustrations by its author. Set in 1347, it follows Brother William of Baskerville, a brilliant monk investigating heresy at a wealthy Italian abbey—until a series of mysterious deaths shifts...

Blending history with gripping suspense, this international bestseller by Umberto Eco explores how a playful idea can spiral into deadly consequences. What begins as a literary joke soon turns into a chilling confrontation with belief, obsession, and power. When a man claiming to have...

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...

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...

During a dark Norwegian winter, a novelist in her sixties attends the opera with a teenage girl and is suddenly reminded of the tense, fragile dynamics of her own family years earlier. She reflects on her sixteenth year—a time of first experiences, growing independence,...

Friendship can change your life just as profoundly as love. Remy seems to have it all: her debut novel, drawn from the lives of her three closest friends, was an instant bestseller, and her publisher is eager for whatever comes next. But as pressure...

Kafka on the Shore is powered by two remarkable characters: a teenage boy, Kafka Tamura, who runs away from home either to escape a gruesome oedipal prophecy or to search for his long missing mother and sister; and an aging simpleton called Nakata, who...

At the prestigious Catenan Academy, Vis Telimus appears to be an ordinary student destined for greatness within the ruling Hierarchy. But beneath his carefully crafted identity lies a dangerous truth: he is a fugitive on a mission. Determined to uncover the mystery behind his...

The Mysteries of Nature #1 Are trees social beings? In The Hidden Life of Trees forester and author Peter Wohlleben convincingly makes the case that, yes, the forest is a social network. He draws on groundbreaking scientific discoveries to describe how trees are like...

Shame Has to Change Sides. In 2024, Gisèle Pelicot became a global symbol of courage after choosing to forgo anonymity in her legal battle against her husband and dozens of co-accused men. Her decision placed her at the center of one of the most...

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...

Welcome to Five. Once this train leaves the station, there's no turning back. Someone will die this morning at a suburban train station. In just five minutes, the 7:06 to London Victoria will arrive, and one of five strangers on the platform won't survive....

Chanel has spent years carefully crafting the perfect image: flawless, popular, and adored by millions online. Ares wants nothing to do with any of it. Quiet and intensely private, he prefers life in the background, focused on one thing alone—finding his missing brother. When...

In a sprawling Delhi compound, the children and grandchildren of SP Chopra, one of the architects of modern India—live under the shadow of his formidable legacy, competing for influence within a family bound by power, privilege, and expectation. By the late 1970s, as a...

Sofia, a young anthropologist, has spent much of her life trying to unravel the mystery of her mother’s inexplicable illness. She’s often exasperated by Rose’s endless complaints, yet secretly relieved to be summoned away from her own faltering adult life. Together, they travel to...

When his wife accepts a teaching position in rural Vermont, Miles Krzelewski sees the move as a chance to finally get his life back on track. Instead, he finds himself drawn into a quirky community filled with eccentric characters, strange histories, and unexpected adventures....

A Novel of Aphrodite. Born from the sea with extraordinary beauty and power, Aphrodite commands influence over gods and mortals alike. Confident and independent, she never expects to be drawn to Ares, the feared and divisive god of war. As their passionate relationship unfolds...

When Caroline Lash moves to a charming seaside town in Massachusetts, she quickly falls for Van Whittaker and becomes entwined with his close-knit group of lifelong friends. But when an unexpected pregnancy disrupts the group's delicate dynamics, loyalties are tested and long-buried secrets begin...

While working as a lady's companion in Monte Carlo, a young woman is swept into a whirlwind romance with the wealthy widower Maxim de Winter. But after arriving at Manderley, his grand estate on the Cornish coast, she discovers that the memory of his...

Arriving at a holiday villa in the hills above Nice, Joe is startled to find a young woman floating in the swimming pool. She is alive—and she claims to be Kitty Finch, a botanist whose unexpected presence unsettles the fragile balance of the family...

I'm Glad My Mom Died is Jennette McCurdy's bestselling memoir, offering a candid, heartbreaking, and darkly humorous account of her life as a child actor and the complex relationship she shared with her mother. Pushed into the entertainment industry at a young age, McCurdy...