Books

A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI. For the last 100,000 years, we Sapiens have accumulated enormous power. But despite allour discoveries, inventions, and conquests, we now find ourselves in an existential crisis. The world is on the verge...

Every Short Story (1951-2012) The first sixteen tales in this collection were published by Canongate in 1983 with the title Unlikely Stories, Mostly. This collection also has fifty-seven tales from later books, plus sixteen new ones written for the hardback publication of this collection....

First published in 1989 as Children of Wax, The Girl Who Married a Lion includes all but one of the original stories and features six new folk tales, an introduction by Alexander McCall Smith and a letter from the one and only Mma Ramotswe....

The story of a single place in the Scottish Borders. The site on which Alistair Moffat's farm now stands has been occupied since prehistoric times. Walking this landscape you can feel the presence and see the marks of those who lived here before. But...

Word has come. King Lear is dead. His three daughters too, broken in battle. But someone has survived: Lear's queen.Though her grief and rage threaten to crack the earth open, she knows she must seek answers. Why was she exiled? What has happened to...

A witty and heartfelt journey across Canada through the eyes of acclaimed writer Will Ferguson. From soaring over Newfoundland in a seaplane to paddling through the quiet northern wilderness, Ferguson explores the breathtaking landscapes and hidden stories of his homeland—sometimes accompanied by his curious...

In a world increasingly preoccupied by borders, bridges celebrate the possibility of connection, allowing the flow of goods, people and ideas. Bridges are among our grandest physical structures with the power of transforming lives and economies, but we also stand (or fall) upon the...

Dorothy Pilley was a pioneer of women's climbing a hundred years ago. She founded a club celebrating women's climbing and - starting in Wales, the Lake District and Skye - she went on to climb the major mountain ranges of Europe throughout the 1920s....

Katie Vaughn has been burned by love in the past―now she may be lighting her career on fire. She has two choices: wait to get laid off from her job as a video producer or, at her coworker Cole’s request, take a career-making gig...

Over the past decade, Walkable City has become the definitive guide to urban transformation, sparking a nationwide conversation about how we design our communities. Translated into seven languages and widely influential, this groundbreaking book is now reissued with a major update—including eight new chapters...

The Art of Japanese Architecture: History | Culture | Design The Art of Japanese Architecture presents a complete overview of Japanese architecture in its historical and cultural context. The book begins with a discussion of early prehistoric dwellings and concludes with a description of...

James, a sheltered, shy sixteen-year-old, is alone in his newly discovered sexuality, full of an unruly desire but entirely inexperienced. As he is beginning to understand himself and his longings, he also realizes how his feelings threaten to separate him from his family and...

Walt Longmire is back after the escapades of First Frost and encounters one of his most baffling cases in Wyoming’s brutal and unforgiving Red Desert. When Blair McGowan, the mail person with the longest postal route in the country of over three hundred mile...

A poignant, quietly arresting collection about the fragile threads that bind us across time, space, and memory. From Aysegül Savas, acclaimed author of The Anthropologists, comes Long Distance—a debut story collection that explores intimacy and alienation in the age of global mobility and digital...

Clues and Patterns from Bark to Leaves Trees are full of secrets—if you know how to look. Natural navigator Tristan Gooley reveals how to decode the language of trees and discover the hidden stories they tell. From the shape of their branches to the...

The internationally bestselling novel-a daughter's portrait of her WWII veteran father, assembled from shards of memory.We called him Vati, Dad. Not Papa. He thought it sounded modern. He wanted to present himself to us, and through us, as a man in tune with the...

Beth and her gentle husband, Frank, live a quiet, contented life in the English countryside—built carefully on love, routine, and the unspoken understanding that some memories are best left untouched. But everything changes with a single gunshot: when Frank’s brother kills a dog harassing...

A poetic and profoundly moving exploration of loss, memory and the enduring echoes of trauma. Jakob Beer is a Polish Jewish boy who survives the Holocaust after witnessing the murder of his family. Hidden in the forests of Poland, Jakob is rescued by Athos, a...

Master Tactics Where It Matters Most—In the Endgame Tactics are the heart of chess, and there’s no better place to sharpen them than in the clarity of the endgame. With fewer pieces on the board, you can focus on the essentials—winning material or delivering...

One night on a remote Yorkshire farm, an illegal rave pulses through the fields—until the music stops with a brutal act: a young man is nearly beaten to death with a solid gold bar. An eager young journalist seizes the story, following a trail...

How Fifty Great Books (and Two Not-So-Great Ones) Saved My Life. An editor and writer's vivaciously entertaining, and often moving, chronicle of his year-long adventure with fifty two books—a true story about reading that reminds us why we should all make time in our...

December 1962. In a quiet corner of England’s West Country, as snow begins to fall, two neighboring couples wake to the stillness of a world on the edge of change. Dr. Eric Parry heads out on his rounds, carrying the weight of secrets he...

When Jay’s grandfather dies, his family returns south to a once-thriving farm now withered by drought and time. As his father struggles with his own disappointments and his mother holds the fraying family together, Jay is sent to work the land—where he meets Chuan,...

Long before the rumors about the Mansfield sisters begin to swirl, the village of Little Nettlebed has always been a place touched by the uncanny—where strange creatures wash up along the riverbank, and flocks of ravens gather ominously on rooftops just before death strikes....

Years after fleeing New York—and the hollow, self-obsessed orbit of its downtown art scene—a world of predatory curators, egotistical artists, and parasitic hangers-on, our narrator finds herself back in the city she once abandoned. With no intention of reconnecting, she’s aimlessly wandering the Lower...

Born in 1799, Cashel Greville Ross lives a life as vast and unpredictable as the century itself. From the green fields of County Cork to the battlefields of Waterloo, from the quiet farms of Massachusetts to the teeming ports of Zanzibar, his journey spans continents...

Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity. For every openly Autistic person, there are countless others who mask—suppressing their natural behaviors and adopting a neurotypical facade just to survive in a world that doesn't accommodate them.  In Unmasking Autism, Dr. Devon Price draws from personal...

New York Review Children's Collection: Illustrated. Though Pinocchio is among the most famous books in the world, it remains curiously misunderstood—its image shaped in many minds by the Walt Disney film, which bears little resemblance to Carlo Collodi’s brilliant original. The tale, of course,...

This collector’s hardcover edition features new cover art and an introduction by Carmen Maria Machado. Deep underground, thirty-nine women live imprisoned in a vast cage. Guarded and forgotten, they have no memory of how they arrived, no sense of time, and only fragments of...

Sometimes a workplace isn’t just a job—it’s a refuge. But in a quiet suburban library in Austin, Texas, murder threatens the safety, trust, and camaraderie its staff hold dear. Hazel has fled halfway across the world seeking a fresh start. Jonathan, a towering former...

From one of America’s most powerful writers comes a work of profound honesty about grief, memory, and the passage of time. In Blue Nights, Joan Didion reflects on the death of her daughter, Quintana Roo Dunne, exploring the fears, doubts, and questions that accompany...

From the former U.S. Poet Laureate and New York Times bestselling author of Aimless Love comes Water, Water a luminous new collection of sixty poems celebrating the joys, mysteries, and ironies of everyday life. Billy Collins writes with his trademark lyrical informality, capturing both the...

A directionless woman strikes up an unlikely friendship with a rooftop-party influencer, only to learn that curated glamour hides a hollow center. A first-year college student embarks on an absurdly long sexual encounter with a boy whose name she can't remember. A beloved reality-TV...

If you enjoyed following Rocky and her family through their Cape Cod getaway, you’ll be delighted—and maybe a little heartbroken—to return to their lives two years later. (And if you’re meeting them for the first time, prepare for a story that’s tender, hilarious, and...

You always knew I’d write a book about you. Our narrator understands love stories—how they rise and crest, what they hide, what they reveal. But the greatest love story she lived refused to follow any script. In the fall of her senior year, she...

Answers to Life's 20 Questions. Each day, Glennon Doyle finds herself circling the same questions: Why am I like this? What do I truly want? How do I know the right next step? Why can’t I just be happy? Am I doing any of...

A confession, a lament, a mad gush of grief and obsession, My Heavenly Favorite is the remarkable and chilling successor to Lucas Rijneveld's international sensation, The Discomfort of Evening. It tells the story of a veterinarian who visits a farm in the Dutch countryside...

The Midnight World. When your life flashes before your eyes, where would you choose to stop? No one can change the past—but the Midnight Train can take you there. It offers the chance to relive the moments that mattered most, to see who you...

On the morning of her first major art exhibition, Eden Fox goes for a run — and returns to a life that no longer belongs to her. The key to her home doesn’t work. A woman who looks unsettlingly like her opens the door....

Puffin Plated: A Book-to-Table Reading ExperienceA deluxe, full-color hardback edition of the perennial Jane Austen classic featuring a selection of recipes for tea-time treats by the one and only Martha Stewart!Have your book and eat it, too, with this clever edition of a classic novel,...

Spring, 2007 At twenty-six, Alicia Canales Forten feels trapped by the future everyone expects for her. She’s in a long-distance relationship, living under her mother’s watchful beliefs, and saving for a wedding to a future doctor. But one night in Fort Greene, Brooklyn, Alicia...

A beautiful hardcover edition featuring dark teal sprayed edges, a foil stamp on the casing, and full-page illustrations. A moving, genre-defying tale of a legendary lady-knight and the reluctant historian sent back through time to ensure her story unfolds. Sir Una Everlasting was Dominion’s...

On November 22, 1963, three shots rang out in Dallas, President Kennedy died, and the world changed. What if you could change it back? In this brilliantly imagined tour de force, Stephen King takes readers on a journey into the past and the possibilities...

The 20th Anniversary Edition.  In the year 1806, England is at war with Napoleon—and magic, once a proud and practical tradition, has long been reduced to dusty scholarship and theoretical debates. That is, until a reclusive and book-obsessed gentleman named Mr. Norrell steps forward...

“Everything will be fine.”That is what Mary and John promise their children when they announce their divorce.  For Mary and John, the end of their marriage offers a long-delayed escape from mutual dissatisfaction. But separation also exposes the hurt, resentment, and unspoken failures that...

Written in Water: Keats's Final Journey offers a meticulously researched and evocative account of the last five months in the life of the Romantic poet John Keats. Departing London in September 1820 with his friend Joseph Severn, Keats embarked on a journey to Italy in...

Diary of a Young Naturalist chronicles the turning of a year in Dara's Northern Ireland home patch. Beginning in spring--when "the sparrows dig the moss from the guttering and the air is as puffed out as the robin's chest"--these diary entries about his connection...

Frenzy (noun): a temporary madness; a violent mental or emotional agitation; intense usually wild and often disorderly compulsive or agitated activity Joyce Carol Oates, a master of the short story and a two-time Pulitzer finalist, has earned countless accolades, including the O. Henry and...

In 2024, Nina survives a plane crash in the remote mountains of Wyoming. Her boyfriend Ben, who was piloting the small aircraft, has vanished without a trace. Stranded on the freezing shore of a lake with meager supplies and no cell service, Nina must...

The Stormlight Archive, 2. Once marked for death as a military slave, Kaladin defied fate and rose to command the royal bodyguards—an unprecedented honor for a lowly “darkeyes.” Now he must shield the king and Dalinar from both ordinary dangers and the far deadlier...