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Chances are, if you’re a target of Billy Summers, two immutable truths apply: You’ll never even know what hit you, and you’re really getting what you deserve. He’s a killer for hire and the best in the business—but he’ll do the job only if...

Once an ambitious and promising student at an elite university in Paris, Maia is now 26, living in Milan, and stuck in a dead-end job at a cafe and a dysfunctional relationship with an older man. Until one day her life seems to change:...

Birdie’s keeping it together. So she’s a little hungover, sometimes, and she has to bring her daughter, Emaleen, to her job waiting tables at an Alaskan roadside lodge, but she’s getting by as a single mother in a tough town.Arthur Neilsen, a soft-spoken and...

In this fresh take on love and trouble in America, Brock Hobson, an insurance salesman and Sunday-school teacher, finds his equilibrium disturbed by the results of a predictive blood test. Baxter, a master storyteller, brings us a gradually building rollercoaster narrative, and a protagonist...

The Stories We Tell About the End of the World. A rich, captivating, and darkly humorous look into the evolution of apocalyptic thought, exploring how film and literature interact with developments in science, politics, and culture, and what factors drive our perennial obsession with...

After 18 years of marriage Astrid, the wife of the novel's narrator, has left home. Her departure leaves her art-historian husband feeling loss and loneliness that force him to reassess his life: not only his relationship with Astrid, but with their children, friends, his...

Lucca Montale, a 32-year-old Danish actress, is rushed into hospital after a motor accident. She is severely injured after a head-on collision with a lorry. Robert, the doctor responsible for treating her, is obliged to break the news that she may never see again....

It is the fifteenth century and war looms. The people of Albania have refused to negotiate with the Ottoman Empire and they know their fate is sealed. As they take refuge in a fortress in the mountains, the army arrives and prepares to lay...

When Kerri and her partner M moved to a small, remote railway cottage in the heart of Ireland they were looking for a home, somewhere to stay put. What followed was a year unlike any other. Cacophony of Bone maps the circle of that...

In the storm-lashed, remote wilds of Shearwater Island—halfway between Tasmania and Antarctica—the Salt family lives alone, tasked with guarding a precious seed vault that may hold the key to humanity’s future in a climate-ravaged world. But when a woman named Rowan washes ashore, claiming...

Based on an 1895 disaster that went down in history when it was captured in a series of surreal, extraordinary photographs, The Paris Express is a propulsive novel set on a train packed with a fascinating cast of characters who hail from as close...

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...

A brave and imaginative memoir by the Nobel Peace Prize nominee Amanda Nguyen, detailing her healing journey and groundbreaking activism in the aftermath of her rape at Harvard. Determined to not let her assault derail her goal of joining NASA after graduation, Nguyen opted...

To the world, they were a scandal. To each other, an obsession. She might not have a famous name, funding, or her family’s support, but Katarina Shaw has always known that she was destined to become an Olympic skater. When she meets Heath Rocha,...

In her second story collection, Sittenfeld shows why she’s as beloved for her short fiction as she is for her novels. In these dazzling stories, she conjures up characters so real that they seem like old friends, laying bare the moments when their long...

Nicole “Nic” Monroe is in a rut. At twenty-four, she lives alone in a dinky apartment in her hometown of Mishawaka, Indiana, she’s just gotten a DWI, and she works the same dead-end job she’s been working since high school, a job she only...

Before Arin, Genevieve Yang was an only child. Living with her parents and grandmother in a single-room flat in working-class Bedok, Genevieve is saddled with an unexpected sibling when Arin appears, the shameful legacy of a grandfather long believed to be dead. As the...

A chaotic, hilarious, and unfiltered memoir of absurdity, survival, and sex jokes—from Argentine American writer and performer Tamara Yajia. Tamara Yajia was born into a family where normal didn’t stand a chance: her grandfather sold poppers and salami, her mother is an OnlyFans model,...

In her first work of nonfiction, acclaimed novelist Miriam Toews turns her gaze inward in a raw, luminous meditation on grief, memory, and the impossible task of explaining why we write. When a literary event organizer in Mexico City asks Toews a simple question—“Why...

Break up with your girlfriend. Fly to Iraq. Save the world (or at least try). Dr. Nadia Amin’s academic career is stuck. Her love life? Even worse. So when her provocative article on the rehabilitation of ISIS brides sparks a job offer from the...

53 Ways to Get Closer to Books. With warmth and quiet reflection, Bo-reum explores the simple pleasures of wandering through bookstores, revisiting beloved stories, falling in love with fictional characters, and venturing beyond familiar literary borders. She muses on the delicate link between reading...

The special first edition hardcover will include brilliantly illustrated endpapers, striking and detailed stenciled edges, and a beautiful foil-stamped case. Hai Meilin may have won the war, but peace offers no freedom. Upon her triumphant return to Anlai, she is shackled—not praised—for daring to...

A gripping and timely thriller that delves into the complexities of class, privilege and the undercurrents of societal unrest. Set against the backdrop of a city on the brink of chaos, the novel follows Chicky Diaz, a doorman at the Bohemia, New York's most...

In this profound memoir, Yiyun Li confronts the unimaginable grief of losing both of her teenage sons, Vincent and James, to suicide. Vincent died in 2017 at age 16, and James in 2024 at age 19. Li refrains from labeling her experience as "grieving,"...

When Jim, an enslaved man in antebellum Missouri, learns he’s about to be sold away from his family, he flees to Jackson Island, determined to claim his own fate. At the same time, Huck Finn stages his death to escape his violent father. Together,...

Heartbreak. Cancer. And a Tumor Named Maggie. A woman walks into a restaurant expecting a quiet night and too many samosas. What she gets instead is a confession—her husband is having an affair with a woman named Maggie. Soon after, she feels a sharp...

 The Ultimate Guide for Beginners and Beyond. Learn how to play—and win—chess with International Master and YouTube sensation Levy Rozman, better known as GothamChess. In this lively and accessible guide for beginners and intermediate players, Rozman brings his signature humor and insight to every...

For the past ten years, Maggie Webb has devoted herself to caring for her aging husband, Stanley, as his memory fades away, stealing the life they built together. She’s never felt more alone—until a stranger named Hassan knocks on her door with a terrifying revelation:...

In the 1960s, young Edith is sent from England to a remote village in Italy with a solemn task: care for her pregnant sister, Lydia, whose career as a ballet dancer has been upended by scandal. Edith is to witness the birth, make a...

How Albert Fell Down the Rabbit Hole and Came Up With the Universe. From 1911 to 1912, the city of Prague played host to two of the 20th century’s most enigmatic minds: Albert Einstein and Franz Kafka. Though they moved in different circles, the...

Years ago, House of Leaves was nothing more than a messy stack of photocopied pages—an odd, unsettling manuscript whispered about on the Internet. No one could have predicted how that heap of paper would gather a cult of the curious: tattoo artists, coders, musicians,...

From the internationally bestselling author comes a tense, globe-spanning thriller starring Gabriel Dax, a travel writer pressed into the shadowy world of espionage. 1963, Guatemala: a country on the brink. A presidential election threatens to elevate a charismatic, left-wing ex-priest and union leader—an outcome...

At a turning point in their lives, Emma and Julian arrive in Athens to house-sit for a friend, hoping a summer abroad will bring clarity—and perhaps repair the quiet unraveling of their relationship. Emma is yearning for something more than work or the question...

When the Cassidy-Shaws’ autonomous minivan collides with an oncoming car—killing an elderly couple—seventeen-year-old Charlie is in the driver’s seat, with his father, Noah, beside him. In the back, Alice and Izzy, while their mother, Lorelei is lost in her work. But behind the facade...

When Blankets debuted in 2003, Craig Thompson’s memoir of first love and lost faith in rural Wisconsin captivated readers and earned multiple Eisner and Harvey Awards. Now, in his long-awaited return to autobiographical storytelling, Thompson explores the story that Blankets left untold. Ginseng Roots...

40 Songs, One Story. As one of the most iconic figures in music, and the cofounder of the organizations ONE and (RED), Bono has been written about for decades. But in Surrender, he finally tells his own story. In his unmistakable voice, Bono takes...

After eighteen unforgiving months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail understands one undeniable truth—her training is finished. The real battle has begun. To protect Navarre, Violet must journey past the failing Aretian wards into unfamiliar territories where allies are few and peril waits at...

 The Charlatan Duology #2 There’s always been something wrong with Charlie Hall—crooked from the day she was born. She’s spent her life dancing on the edges of crime and magic, making a living from tricks, cons, and the art of stealing shadows from those...

DELUXE LIMITED EDITION printing featuring unique case stamp and black sprayed edges It begins with a class in a crumbling old movie theater—Folklore 517: Local Legends and Urban Myths, taught by the enigmatic Professor whose tales blur the line between truth and myth. Most...

 Broken Accords #1. A dying city. A desperate princess. A battle-scarred god.Their bargain—sealed in blood and sacrifice—bought centuries of peace. Now that peace is unraveling. In the empire of Vartena, stability is purchased with royal blood. Each ruler is sacrificed to the gods, resurrected,...

Once a rising star in the Resistance’s alchemical ranks, Helena Marino is now a prisoner—of war, and of her own mind. Her allies are dead. Her powers are suppressed. And the war she fought for has been lost. Paladia lies in the grip of...

In “The Journey to Galway,” a mother learns that her son—a WWII fighter pilot—has been killed in action. She travels to Galway to deliver the devastating news to his wife and their three children, reshaping the course of all their lives. “Sleep,” first appearing...

In this incendiary horror novel, one woman is hunted by trauma, hungry ghosts, and a killer who forces her to confront the violence inflicted on East Asian communities during the pandemic. Cora Zeng works as a crime scene cleaner, scrubbing away the aftermath of...

Milwaukee, 1932. The Great Depression is raging, Prohibition’s end is on the horizon, Al Capone sits in federal prison—and the private-eye business is shifting from labor disputes to more personal troubles. Hicks McTaggart, a former strikebreaker turned detective, thinks he finally has steady work....

In 1865, on a windswept peninsula jutting into the Atlantic, Tomás and his young son, Liam, work tirelessly on the monumental Ordnance Survey project to map all of Ireland. In a country still scarred and depopulated by the Great Hunger, their task is as...

Duty. Blood. Honor. Power. Saeris Fane never asked for power. She certainly didn’t want her name whispered across the courts. Yet now, as the newly crowned queen of the Blood Court, she is discovering that a crown is far heavier than she imagined. Her...

2031, America is at war with itself. Then, for the first time in weeks, hope breaks through: the Republic of California is declared, the Los Angeles curfew is lifted, and the city floods the streets to celebrate. Ari, newly released from prison, arrives with...

Frankie and George have been inseparable since childhood—best friends since the age of eight. Until now. On the eve of Frankie’s wedding, she isn’t even sure where they stand—or whether George will appear as her best man. Then George shows up. For one shining...

Creation Lake is a novel about a secret agent, a thirty-four-year-old American woman of ruthless tactics, bold opinions, and clean beauty, who is sent to do dirty work in France. “Sadie Smith” is how the narrator introduces herself to her lover, to the rural...

At the age of thirty, Amy Liptrot finds herself washed up back home on Orkney. Standing unstable on the island, she tries to come to terms with the addiction that has swallowed the last decade of her life. As she spends her mornings swimming...