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Lispector at her most daring and philosophically radical. Água Viva is a mesmerizing meditation on life, time, and the fleeting moments that shape human experience. In this work, Lispector discovers a new way of writing that transforms her personal consciousness into a universal poetry—blurring the...

As an Indian wedding draws the family back together, Rafiq and Layla must face the quiet tensions and long-held choices that have shaped their children’s lives. There’s Hadia, their ambitious eldest daughter, whose marriage—built on love, not tradition—challenges everything her parents believed. Huda, the...

Longlisted for the 2024 National Book Award in Translation Tara Selter has fallen out of time. In On the Calculation of Volume, the first volume in Solvej Balle’s extraordinary seven-part novel, Tara wakes each morning to find the same day unfolding again and again:...

A Penguin Classic Created by an Irish clergyman, Melmoth is one of literature’s most fiendish figures. In a dark bargain, he trades his soul for immortality, condemning himself to centuries of tortured wanderings. His story unfolds through the accounts of those whom Melmoth has...

James drifts through life with the restlessness of someone who’s seen too many near-successes slip away. Once an almost-millionaire, a film producer, and a fleeting entrepreneur, he now lives alone in Bloomsbury, running a dubious horse-racing tip service. Katherine, meanwhile, manages a luxury hotel...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author W. Bruce Cameron comes A Dog’s Perfect Christmas, a tender and heartwarming story about a family on the brink—and the small miracle that could bring them back together. The Goss family is unraveling as the holidays draw...

A mesmerizing exploration of love, obsession, and the intricate lives we lead behind closed doors. The story centers on two intertwined couples whose relationships are tested by desire, secrecy, and the fragile boundaries of trust. As passions collide and hidden truths surface, the novel...

Widely regarded as a landmark in American literature, Slouching Towards Bethlehem marks Joan Didion’s debut in nonfiction—a collection that helped redefine modern reportage and personal essay when it appeared in 1968. Lauded as some of the finest prose produced in the United States, these...

These Violent Delights Duet #1 This paperback edition of These Violent Delights contains never-before-seen letters from Roma to Juliette! Shanghai, 1926—glittering, lawless, and pulsing with decadence. A generations-long blood feud between two criminal empires has plunged the city into violence, with the Scarlet Gang...

To step inside the palace is to enter a world paved with secrets—and stained with blood. Joseon Korea, 1758. Opportunities for an illegitimate daughter are scarce, yet eighteen-year-old Hyeon has carved out a quiet place for herself as a palace nurse. She wants nothing...

I have a mouth, but must not speak;Ears, but must not hear;Eyes, but must not see. Joseon, 1800. Sixteen-year-old Seol—homesick, orphaned, and bound by servitude to the police bureau—has come to embody an old curse: May you live in interesting times. Ordered to aid...

Book III n the mesmerizing third installment of Balle’s “astonishing” septology, On the Calculation of Volume, Tara’s eternal November 18th shifts in an instant: she discovers she is no longer the only one trapped in this unending autumn day. She meets someone who remembers—someone...

Italy, 1940. Lili and Esti have been inseparable since their university days. When Esti’s son, Theo, is born, their friendship deepens into something like sisterhood. Even as war rages across Europe, they manage to carve out moments of ordinary life—until Germany invades Italy and...

Seth drowns, desperate and alone. But then he wakes. Naked, thirsty, starving. But alive. And where is he? The street seems familiar, but everything is abandoned, overgrown, covered in dust. He remembers dying, his skull bashed against the rocks. Has he woken up in...

Arc of a Scythe #2 Rowan and Citra stand on opposite sides of the Scythedom’s moral divide in this chilling sequel to the Printz Honor Book Scythe, from New York Times bestselling author Neal Shusterman. Humans learn from their mistakes. I cannot. I make...

The novel follows the life of Jane Eyre, an orphan raised in the cold and unkind household of her aunt, where she endures isolation and cruelty. These early hardships forge Jane’s resilience, independence, and moral strength—qualities she relies on when she becomes governess to...

Celestial Kingdom #1. Inspired by the legend of the Chinese moon goddess Chang’e, this sweeping debut fantasy follows a young woman whose desperate bid to save her mother draws her into a deadly struggle with the most powerful immortal in the realm. Raised in...

Steeped in the landscapes and history of the American West—its wild flora and fauna, its rugged loggers and bridge builders—this evocative novella captures the fading of a distinctly American way of life. It follows Robert Grainer, a day laborer navigating the turn-of-the-century West, an...

From Genki Kawamura, producer of the Japanese animated blockbuster Your Name, comes a timeless story of loss, love, and the journey to discover what truly matters in life. A young postman’s world is upended when a doctor delivers a devastating diagnosis: he has only...

Shiori’anma, the sole princess of Kiata, harbors a dangerous secret: forbidden magic flows through her veins. She keeps it hidden—until the morning of her betrothal ceremony, when she loses control. At first, her mistake seems like a stroke of luck, halting the wedding she...

The Southern Reach Series #1. Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed what remains of human civilization, and every expedition into its borders has ended in disaster, or death. In Annihilation, we follow the...

Dr. Briana Ortiz’s life is seriously flatlining. Her divorce is just about finalized, her brother’s running out of time to find a kidney donor, and that promotion she wants? Oh, that’s probably going to the new man-doctor who’s already registering eighty-friggin’-seven on Briana’s “pain...

For a few beautiful months, Wes had his dream girl: strong-willed girl-next-door Liz. But right as the two were about to set off to UCLA to start their freshman year together, tragedy struck. Wes was left dealing with the fallout, which ultimately meant losing...

Handsome, ambitious Julien Sorel is determined to rise above his humble provincial origins. Soon realizing that success can only be achieved by adopting the subtle code of hypocrisy by which society operates, he begins to achieve advancement through deceit and self-interest. His triumphant career...

These days, anxiety is just part of being human. Part journal, part coloring book, part quirky coping toolkit, and part collection of calming facts, The Big Activity Book for Anxious People offers a playful, comforting outlet for anyone looking to take a pause, laugh...

Book of Dust Volume 1 Malcolm Polstead and his daemon, Asta, are accustomed to overhearing whispers of intrigue at his parents’ inn. But during a winter of relentless rain, an accidental discovery draws Malcolm into a web of secrets far more dangerous than tavern...

Book of Dust Volume 2 The windows between worlds are closed, and Lyra Silvertongue believes the great adventures of her childhood are behind her. Now twenty and studying at St. Sophia’s College, she is trying to live an ordinary life—until violence shatters it once again....

Pretty Little Liars Book 1 Never trust a pretty girl with an ugly secret. Set in the glamorous yet deceptively sinister town of Rosewood, Pennsylvania, Pretty Little Liars follows four beautiful girls whose carefully curated lives hide dangerous secrets. But someone knows everything—and is...

The year is 1861. Hervé Joncour, a French silkworm merchant, scours the world for rare, gleaming eggs. When disease devastates Europe’s supply, he is driven beyond the known world to Japan—a land famed for its exquisite silk and fierce suspicion of outsiders. There, he...

Red Rising Series, 6. The Reaper is a legend—hero of the Rising and breaker of chains. But he is also Darrow, a husband, father, and friend born from the red soil of Mars. Stranded after a crushing defeat on Mercury, Darrow longs to return...

Two loves. Two choices. One chance to follow her dreams. Fifteen years ago, Emily lost the two things she loved most: music—and Rob. Now a psychologist at NYU, she spends her days helping troubled students find their way, alongside her caring husband, Ezra. Their...

Just after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio with devastating news: they’re going to die today. Though they’re complete strangers, both are looking for someone to share their final hours with. Through an app called Last Friend, they meet and set out...

Set in 1871 on the edge of Wisconsin’s Big Woods, this beloved story follows Laura Ingalls and her family as they live in a small log cabin. With Pa, Ma, her sisters Mary and Carrie, and their dog Jack, Laura experiences the joys and...

In 1963, twenty-three-year-old Annie Ernaux discovers she is pregnant. Unmarried and alone, she is overwhelmed by shame and fear. In a society where such a pregnancy would mark both her and her family with social disgrace, she knows she cannot keep the child. Written...

Regarded by many as the finest, and funniest, comic novel of the twentieth century, Lucky Jim remains as trenchant, withering, and eloquently misanthropic as when it first scandalized readers in 1954. This is the story of Jim Dixon, a hapless lecturer in medieval history...

Set in a Swiss boarding school after the war, the novel begins simply: “At fourteen I was a boarder in a school in the Appenzell.” But innocence quickly gives way to obsession. With chilling calm, the young narrator recounts her consuming fixation on Frédérique—the...

In 1437, Henry VI of Lancaster takes the English throne after years under a cautious regency. Known as “the Lamb,” he is defined less by martial strength than by his devout, gentle temperament—a stark contrast to his father’s legacy. His growing reliance on trusted...

Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those...

Charlotte Holmes Novel #1  Jamie Watson has always been intrigued by Charlotte Holmes; after all, their great-great-great-grandfathers are one of the most infamous pairs in history. But the Holmes family has always been odd, and Charlotte is no exception. She’s inherited Sherlock’s volatility and...

Jenny has always chosen discipline over distraction. Years of relentless practice have made her a gifted, classically trained cellist, and left little room for anything else. But everything changes the night she meets Jaewoo: magnetic, guarded, and impossible to forget. What begins as a...

In a small French town, a mediocre witch trapped in a cruel marriage passes her inherited powers to her twin daughters, Maud and Lise, who must decide whether to remain bound to their suffocating home or escape their father’s control. As part of a...

Wordsworth Classics Finnegans Wake is the final major work of James Joyce, centered loosely on figures like Here Comes Everybody and Anna Livia Plurabelle and their family, but in a way that suggests it is also, in some sense, about everyone and everything. Unlike...

In M Train, Patti Smith invites readers into her daily ritual at a quiet Greenwich Village café, where black coffee fuels reflections that drift between memory, dream, and reality. From this intimate starting point, her journey unfolds across a vivid landscape—visiting Casa Azul, the...

A haunting exploration of evil and moral corruption, Sanctuary draws on influences ranging from T. S. Eliot and Freud to myth, folklore, and the grit of hardboiled crime fiction. Set in the American South, the novel follows the abduction of Temple Drake, a Mississippi...

Seventeen-year-old aspiring journalist Darren Purchase idolizes country star Decklee Cassel, whose fame is intertwined with her vanished songwriting partner, Mickenlee Hooper. When Decklee’s funeral reveals an empty time capsule and a trail of clues leading to a cash prize, Darren sets out on a...

The Folk of the Air. Holly Black offers a captivating look into the life of Cardan, the enigmatic High King of Elfhame, before and after the events of The Folk of the Air trilogy. Told entirely from Cardan’s perspective, this companion novel explores his journey...

Kady believed the hardest thing she'd ever face was ending her relationship with Ezra. Then her planet was attacked. When a ruthless corporation launches a devastating assault on their remote colony world, Kady and Ezra barely escape aboard an evacuation fleet. Separated by circumstance...

Published in 1936, Absalom, Absalom! is widely regarded as one of William Faulkner’s most ambitious and significant novels, celebrated for both its formal complexity and its exploration of history, memory, and truth. Set in the American South, the novel centers on the rise and...

Set against the dramatic backdrop of the Caucasus, A hero of out rime follows the enigmatic Pechorin —a soldier, seducer, and wanderer—whose charm and cruelty leave lasting scars on everyone he meets. Told through shifting perspectives, including that of a fellow officer and Pechorin’s...

The new head gardener at Lilymoor House discovers a secret garden (and a mysterious man trapped inside) in this enchanting novel from the bestselling author of Sounds Like Love and The Seven Year Slip. Seeking a fresh start, Sophie Drear heads to coastal Maine for...