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Six summers of friendship. One heartbreaking mistake. One chance to make things right. For years, Persephone Fraser has avoided returning to Barry’s Bay, the lakeside town where she spent the happiest (and most painful) summers of her life. But when a call brings her...

As dawn breaks over the wild Guilleries mountains of Catalonia, an impossibly old woman lies dying in the remote farmhouse of Mas Clavell. As family and caretakers gather around her bedside, the spirits of the women who lived and died there wait to welcome...

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....

Three witty STEM romances from the bestselling author of The Love Hypothesis. This collection follows three brilliant engineers as rivalry, forced proximity, and unexpected attraction turn professional clashes into unforgettable love stories. Featuring Under One Roof, Stuck with You, and Below Zero—plus a bonus...

Ernest Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea tells the timeless story of Santiago, an aging Cuban fisherman who has endured an extraordinary run of bad luck. Determined to prove his skill and resilience, he ventures far into the Gulf Stream, where he hooks...

St. Leibowits #1 Long after the Flame Deluge has scorched the earth, a monk of the Order of Saint Leibowitz makes a remarkable discovery in the Utah desert: sacred relics from the life of the great saint himself, including a blessed blueprint, a holy...

10th Anniversary Edition. Tiny Beautiful Things collects the most memorable advice columns from Cheryl Strayed’s beloved Dear Sugar, offering honest, compassionate, and often humorous guidance on love, loss, family, heartbreak, and the challenges of everyday life. Drawing on Strayed’s own experiences as well as...

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...

From the first moment of her freshman year at Merryweather High, Melinda knows this is a big fat lie, part of the nonsense of high school. She is friendless, outcast, because she busted an end-of-summer party by calling the cops, so now nobody will...

Rachel Carson, author of Silent Spring, writes this book focusing on the plants and invertebrates surviving in the Atlantic zones between the lowest and the highest tides, between Newfoundland and the Florida keys. It's Appendix and Index make it a great reference tool for...

When Rilke, a dissolute auctioneer, comes upon a hidden collection of violent and highly disturbing photographs, he feels compelled to discover more about the deceased owner who coveted them. Soon he finds himself sucked into an underworld of crime, depravity and secret desire, fighting...

Girl meets boy. It's a story as old as time. But what happens when an old story meets a brand new set of circumstances? Ali Smith's remix of Ovid's most joyful metamorphosis is a story about the kind of fluidity that can't be bottled...

"An Ideal Husband is an 1895 stage play by Oscar Wilde that revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private honour. The action is set in London, in the present, and takes place over the course of...

An English couple’s idyllic vacation takes a dark and unexpected turn in this haunting novel from Booker Prize winner and bestselling author Ian McEwan. While exploring a nameless, foreign city, Mary and Colin meet Robert, a magnetic and mysterious older man eager to share his...

One evening, eight Mennonite women climb into a hay loft to conduct a secret meeting. For the past two years, each of these women, and more than a hundred other girls in their colony, has been repeatedly violated in the night by demons coming...

From the bestselling author of If We Were Villains comes a haunting new tale about five strangers bound by the night shift—and the secrets buried in a college graveyard. Each evening in the campus’s ancient cemetery, their paths cross: a bartender, a rideshare driver,...

In 1933, three brilliant young anthropologists find their lives entangled deep in the jungles of New Guinea. Nell Stone—magnetic, trailblazing, and notorious for her provocative fieldwork—arrives with her fiercely ambitious husband, Fen. Their volatile partnership is upended when they cross paths with Andrew Bankson,...

Love may be blind… but what if what you see isn’t what you expect? For struggling artist Sadie Montgomery, everything seemed to be falling into place: she’s just been named a finalist in the national portrait competition of her dreams. That is, until a...

The Art of Personal Narrative. All narrative writing transforms the raw material of life into a story that shapes experience and reveals meaning. In fiction, narrators may be unreliable—but in nonfiction, readers must believe the narrator is telling the truth. "The Situation and the...

If you knew a book was cursed, would you read it? When Ariel Manto uncovers a copy of The End of Mr. Y in a second-hand bookshop, she can’t believe her eyes. She knows enough about its author, the outlandish Victorian scientist Thomas Lumas,...

For more than two thousand years the people of St Kilda remained remote from the world. Their society was viable, utopian even; but in the nineteenth century the islands were discovered by missionaries, do-gooders and tourists, who brought with them money, disease and despotism....

Gilbert Markham is fascinated by Helen Graham, the beautiful and enigmatic woman who has recently moved into Wildfell Hall. He is swift to befriend her and steadfastly refutes the local gossip calling her character and behaviour into question, yet he soon has cause to...

Visiting an idyllic German village, Werther, a sensitive and romantic young man, meets and falls in love with sweet-natured Lotte. Although he realizes that Lotte is to marry Albert, he is unable to subdue his passion for her, and his infatuation torments him to...

A woman's life, erupting with brilliance and promise, is fissured by betrayal and the pressures of duty. What had once seemed a pastoral family idyll has become a trap, and she struggles between being the wife and mother she is bound to be and...

High-school student Akari has only one passion in her life: her oshi, her idol. His name is Masaki Ueno, best known as one-fifth of Japanese pop group Maza Maza. Akari’s dedication to her oshi consumes her days completely – until he disgraces himself and...

It is 1960. When Jennifer Stirling wakes up in the hospital, she can remember nothing-not the tragic car accident that put her there, not her husband, not even who she is. She feels like a stranger in her own life until she stumbles upon...

One of the true masterpieces of twentieth-century American theater, The Crucible brilliantly explores the threshold between individual guilt and mass hysteria, personal spite and collective evil. It is a play that is not only relentlessly suspenseful and vastly moving, but that compels readers to...

It is New Year's Eve, and Nellie, the pretty daughter of a landowning general, is sitting in her room looking in the mirror. Although she is tired and her eyes are half closed, she is spellbound as the reflection in the looking glass dissolves...

In contrast with the epic scope of the Rougon-Macquart novels, Zola's short stories are concerned with the everyday aspects of human existence and the interests of ordinary people. From the cruel irony of 'Captain Burle' to the Rabelaisian exuberance of 'Coqueville on the Spree',...

When the young and sensitive Auguste Saint-Clair notices an Etruscan vase on the mantelpiece of his beloved Mathilde, he becomes gradually consumed by jealousy at the thought that it could be the gift of another man, and the situation escalates dramatically as he demands...

The bestselling author and creator of the hit Netflix dramas Fool Me Once and The Stranger proves that the past never truly fades away in this shocking thriller. Megan is a suburban soccer mom who once upon a time walked on the wild side....

On one side of the conflict are the Antonova sisters, each one beautiful, cunning, and ruthless, and their mother, the elusive supplier of premium intoxicants known only as Baba Yaga. On the other side, the influential Fedorov brothers serve their father, the crime boss...

The world-renowned bestseller for women addicted to unhealthy relationships, updated and with a new introduction. Robin Norwood, a therapist who’s worked with countless women in troubled relationships, explores why some women are drawn to partners who are emotionally unavailable, distant or even destructive. With...

Lucky Armstrong is a sharp, street-smart grifter who’s just pulled off a million-dollar heist with her boyfriend, Cary. With new identities lined up and freedom within reach, she’s ready to disappear and start over—until everything falls apart. Left on her own for the first...

After years away from her family, Maya Haque is on the journey home to Dhaka. But what if, as Maya discovers, everything you once knew has changed beyond recognition? What if you must re-learn what it means to be a good daughter? And how...

Auctioneer Rilke has been trying to stay out of trouble, keeping his life more or less respectable. Business has been slow at Bowery Auctions, so when an old friend, Jojo, gives Rilke a tip-off for a house clearance, life seems to be looking up....

England, 1348. A gentlewoman flees an odious arranged marriage, a proctor sets out for a monastery in Avignon, and a young plowman in search of freedom is on his way to volunteer with a company of archers. All come together on the road to...

Ethiopia, 1935. With the threat of Mussolini's army looming, recently orphaned Hirut struggles to adapt to her new life as a maid. Her new employer, Kidane, an officer in Emperor Haile Selassie's army, rushes to mobilize his strongest men before the Italians invade. Hirut...

The Beatles' hair changed the world. As their increasingly wild, untamed manes grew, to the horror of parents everywhere, they set off a cultural revolution as the most tangible symbol of the Sixties' psychedelic dream of peace, love and playful rebellion. In the midst...

Assembling at the Tabard Inn in Southwark, twenty-nine pilgrims begin their journey to Canterbury Cathedral. To entertain themselves on their long road, their host suggests that they regale each other with stories, with the teller of the best tale set to earn a free...

The year is 1995, and email is new. Selin, the daughter of Turkish immigrants, arrives for her freshman year at Harvard. She signs up for classes in subjects she has never heard of, befriends her charismatic and worldly Serbian classmate, Svetlana, and, almost by...

When a struggling family in Bangalore suddenly strikes it rich thanks to a spice business founded by a shrewd uncle, their fortunes transform overnight. But with wealth comes a quiet unraveling. They leave behind their cramped, insect-ridden home for a spacious house across town—but...

Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed in a candle flame, the trembling of lily pads on a pond...

London, 1806. William Thornhill, happily wedded to his childhood sweetheart Sal, is a waterman on the River Thames. Life is tough but bearable until William makes a mistake, a bad mistake for which he and his family are made to pay dearly. His sentence:...

A landslide has closed the Korowai Pass on New Zealand’s South Island, cutting off the town of Thorndike and leaving a sizable farm abandoned. The disaster presents an opportunity for Birnam Wood, an undeclared, unregulated, sometimes-criminal, sometimes-philanthropic guerrilla gardening collective that plants crops wherever...

Trapped in a loveless marriage and weighed down by poverty, Ethan Frome's days are enlivened by the presence of Mattie, his ailing wife Zeena's youthful and charming cousin, who provides help to the household. When Zeena realizes that her husband's feelings for Mattie go...

Ivan Goncharov was once hailed as the true literary heir to Gogol, a towering figure of Russian letters in the 1850s. His early success with The Same Old Story positioned him at the center of Russia’s evolving literary scene. But the tide shifted in...

Antonia Scott―the daughter of a British diplomat and a Spanish mother―has a gifted forensic mind, whose ability to reconstruct crimes and solve baffling murders is legendary. But after a personal trauma, she's refused to continue her work or even leave her apartment. Jon Gutierrez,...

When the world-weary dandy Eugene Onegin moves from St Petersburg to take up residence in the country estate he has inherited, he strikes up an unlikely friendship with his neighbour, the poet Vladimir Lensky. Coldly rejecting the amorous advances of Tatyana and cynically courting...

Foundation #4. Led by its founding father, the great psychohistorian Hari Seldon, and taking advantage of its superior science and technology, the Foundation has survived the greed and barbarism of its neighboring warrior-planets. Yet now it must face the Empire - still the mightiest...