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As one of the many installments in Jules Verne’s Voyage Extraordinaire series, Journey to the Center of the Earth promises high stakes and thrilling adventure. When Professor Otto Lidenbrock bought an ancient runic manuscript, which chronicles the lives of Norwegian Kings, he did not...

In Our Migrant Souls, the Pulitzer Prize–winning writer Héctor Tobar delivers a definitive and personal exploration of what it means to be Latino in the United States right now. Taking on the impacts of colonialism, public policy, immigration, media, and pop culture, Our Migrant...

The stunning graphic novel adaptation. A must-read and collector’s item for fans of “the patron saint of feminist dystopian fiction” (New York Times). In Margaret Atwood’s dystopian future, environmental disasters and declining birthrates have led to a Second American Civil War. The result is...

1917. On a battlefield near the River Escaut, John lies in the aftermath of a blast, unable to move or feel his legs. Struggling to focus his thoughts, he is lost to memory as the snow falls. 1920. John has returned from war to...

In 2005, when Lawrence Summers, then president of Harvard, asked why so few women, even today, achieve tenured positions in the hard sciences, Eileen Pollack set out to find the answer. A successful fiction writer, Pollack had grown up in the 1960s and ’70s...

Amy Wheeler, a seasoned private security officer, is accustomed to high-stakes assignments. However, her latest task—protecting bestselling author Rosie D’Antonio on a remote island—takes an unexpected turn when a dead body and a bag of money are discovered, and a killer sets their sights...

Flora Sandes, the only Western woman to officially serve as a soldier in World War I, became a national heroine when she fought alongside the Serbian Army and rose through its ranks. This compelling biography traces her remarkable journey—from her spirited almost tomboyish childhood...

The Atlas #3. Only the extraordinary are chosen. Only the cunning survive. An explosive return to the library leaves the six Alexandrians vulnerable to the lethal terms of their recruitment. Old alliances quickly fracture as the initiates take opposing strategies as to how to...

In the wake of her family’s collapse, a writer and her two young sons move to London. The process of this upheaval is the catalyst for a number of transitions―personal, moral, artistic, and practical―as she endeavors to construct a new reality for herself and...

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...

A woman invites a famous artist to use her guesthouse in the remote coastal landscape where she lives with her family. Powerfully drawn to his paintings, she believes his vision might penetrate the mystery at the center of her life. But as a long,...

Acclaimed author Rachel Cusk offers a raw account of life after the collapse of her ten-year marriage. Set in the aftermath of personal upheaval, the memoir follows Cusk as she navigates the complex process of rebuilding her identity—not just as a writer or woman,...

A new paperback edition of Rachel Cusk’s debut novel, winner of the Whitbread First Novel Award.In Saving Agnes, Agnes Day―subeditor, suburbanite, failure extraordinaire―has discovered disconcerting gaps in her general understanding of the world. Terminally middle-class and incurably romantic, Agnes finds herself chronically confused by...

As ideological ferment grips Russia, a small group of revolutionaries, led by Pyotr Verkhovensky and inspired by Nikolai Stavrogin, plan to spread destruction and anarchy throughout the country. Morally bankrupt, they are prepared to use whatever means necessary to achieve their goal, including murder...

First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love and irreconcil­able relationships. At the centre of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager and a depraved aristocrat, who not only...

Ranging from the bitingly reproductive antics of “Baster” to the dreamy, moving account of a young traveler’s search for enlightenment in “Air Mail”, this collection presents characters in the midst of personal and national emergencies. We meet a failed poet who, envious of other...

Moonstruck Series #5 After 21-year-old Billie Murphy escapes her security to hop on a one-way flight to Cape Town, South Africa, her father sends Aaron and David, her trustworthy bodyguards, to retrieve her at once. James Murphy feels betrayed by his own daughter and...

As Archduke Franz Ferdinand arrives in Sarajevo one June day in 1914, Rafael Pinto is busy crushing herbs and grinding tablets behind the counter at the pharmacy he inherited from his estimable father. It’s not quite the life he had expected during his poetry-filled...

Over twenty-two months in 1979 and 1981 nearly two dozen children were unspeakably murdered in Atlanta despite national attention and outcry; they were all Black. James Baldwin investigated these murders, the Black administration in Atlanta, and Wayne Williams, the Black man tried for the...

What if you woke up one morning and found you’d acquired another self―a double who was almost you and yet not you at all? What if that double shared many of your preoccupations but, in a twisted, upside-down way, furthered the very causes you’d...

Alice is a successful novelist, recovering from a breakdown. Felix works in a warehouse and doesn’t quite know what to make of her—but agrees to go to Rome with her anyway. Back in Dublin, Alice’s best friend Eileen is nursing the sting of a...

In the moments following her murder, as her body lies discarded in a dumpster on the outskirts of Istanbul, Tequila Leila’s mind remains startlingly alive—for exactly 10 minutes and 38 seconds. In that liminal space between life and death, her consciousness floods with vivid...

With an Introduction by Robert Giroux, The Complete Stories of Bernard Malamud is "an essential American book," Richard Stern declared in the Chicago Tribune when the collection was published in hardcover. His praise was echoed by other reviewers and by readers, who embraced the...

Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure. Jack Reacher wakes up alone,...

Isabella Tree tells the remarkable true story of how she and her husband, Charles Burrell, transformed their struggling 3,500-acre farm in West Sussex, England, into one of the most important rewilding projects in Europe. Faced with declining soil fertility and failing profits from intensive...

When David first hears the Senator from Illinois speak, he feels deep ambivalence. Intrigued by the Senator’s idealistic rhetoric, David also wonders how he’ll balance the fervent belief and inevitable compromises it will take to become the United States’ first Black president. Great Expectations...

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...

Margaret Anne Yance returns to her Midwestern hometown not to find comfort, but to confront the ghosts of her youth—and the quiet desperation of a life unraveling. After escaping a draining decade in the city and ending a toxic relationship, she dives headfirst into...

Olivia Gatwood's debut novel that delves into a near-future world where technology, memory and identity intertwine in unsettling ways. The story is set in Santa Cruz, California, a coastal town now dominated by the tech elite. Amidst this backdrop, Mitty, a young woman with...

For over thirty years, Old Second and Bao Mei have cobbled together a meager existence in New York City’s Chinatown. But unlike other couples, these two share an unusual past. In rural Fuzhou, before they emigrated, they frequented the Workers’ Cinema: a theater where...

The third and final updated edition of David Attenborough’s classic Life trilogy. Life on Earth covered evolution, Living Planet , ecology, and now The Trials of Life tackles ethology, the study of how animals behave. This is the third and last of Sir David’s...

It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to stake his claim in New Zealand's booming gold rush. On the stormy night of his arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of 12 local men who have met in secret to discuss a series...

It's Nantucket wedding season, also known as summer-the sight of a bride racing down Main Street is as common as the sun setting at Madaket Beach. The Otis-Winbury wedding promises to be an event to remember: the groom's wealthy parents have spared no expense...

The third volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's classic epic fantasy, The Lord of the Rings. This edition of The Return Of The King includes the complete appendices and index for The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Aragorn, revealed as the hidden heir of the ancient...

The Lord of the Rings saga continues in The Two Towers, the second volume in J.R.R. Tolkien's epic adventure. Frodo and his Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands...

"What are you looking for?" That’s the question posed by Tokyo’s most mysterious librarian, Sayuri Komachi—a woman with a remarkable gift: she seems to know exactly what each visitor truly needs, and the perfect book to guide them there. A tired shop assistant dreaming...

The Magician opens in a provincial German city at the turn of the twentieth century, where the boy, Thomas Mann, grows up with a conservative father, bound by propriety, and a Brazilian mother, alluring and unpredictable. Young Mann hides his artistic aspirations from his...

Eilis Lacey is Irish, married to Tony Fiorello, a plumber and one of four Italian American brothers, all of whom live in neighboring houses on a cul-de-sac in Lindenhurst, Long Island, with their wives and children and Tony’s parents, a huge extended family. It...

Mammoth’s protagonist is a disenchanted young lesbian. She’s inexperienced, irritated by life, eager to gestate, and determined to strip everything else down to essentials. She seduces men at random, swaps her urban habitat for an isolated farmhouse, befriends a shepherd, nurses lambs, battles stray...

On a White Night in 2019, prima ballerina Natalia Leonova returns to St. Petersburg two years after a devastating accident that stalled her career. Once the most celebrated dancer of her generation, she now turns to pills and alcohol to numb the pain of...

Virginia Miner, a fifty-something, unmarried tenured professor, is in London to work on her new book about children’s folk rhymes. Despite carrying a U.S. passport, Vinnie feels essentially English and rather looks down on her fellow Americans. But in spite of that, she is...

This celebrated contemporary classic of Chinese literature was also adapted for film by Zhang Yimou. After squandering his family’s fortune in gambling dens and brothels, the young, deeply penitent Fugui settles down to do the honest work of a farmer. Forced by the Nationalist...

The Manipulator I can manipulate the emotions of anyone who lets me.I will make you hurt, make you cry, make you laugh and sigh.But my words don't affect him. Especially not when I plead for him to leave.He's always there, watching and waiting.And I...

In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in...

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,...

Chiamaka is a Nigerian travel writer living in America. Alone in the midst of the pandemic, she recalls her past lovers and grapples with her choices and regrets. Zikora, her best friend, is a lawyer who has been successful at everything until — betrayed...

A heartfelt and humorous exploration of family, forgiveness, and the unexpected paths to healing. Lila Kennedy, a writer in her forties, finds herself navigating the complexities of post-divorce life. After her husband leaves her for a younger woman and her mother's sudden death, Lila's...

The grand finale of Karl Ove Knausgaard's masterful and intensely-personal series about the four seasons, illustrated with paintings by the great German artist Anselm Kiefer. The conclusion to one of the most extraordinary and original literary projects in recent years, Summer once again intersperses...

Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in...

Features foil and embossing on the jacket, full-color designed endpapers, red stained edges, and a red case cover with gold stamping. The day that Christopher saved a drowning baby griffin from a hidden lake would change his life forever. It’s the day he learned about...