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Harry Dresden investigates a series of brutal murders during the full moon — and discovers that werewolves in Chicago are far more complicated than folklore suggests.

In 2043, American soldiers fight a distant war by remotely operating robotic killing machines called soldierboys — linked neurally in teams of ten — while a physicist discovers a plot to recreate the Big Bang that would destroy the universe.

Set in Crete during the late 19th-century struggle for independence from Ottoman rule, the novel follows Captain Michalis — a man of elemental passions — as he leads his people in revolt.

A bored aristocrat escapes her London life for the Cornwall coast, where she discovers a French pirate ship hidden in a creek and falls in love with its captain — du Maurier's most overtly romantic novel and a study of the desire for freedom.

Kinsey Millhone is hired to find an elderly woman lost in the Mojave Desert — and learns, at the same time, that a man she once helped put away has placed a contract on her life. With a hit man closing in, Kinsey hires bodyguard Robert Dietz, and two cases collide as she races to stay alive.

A short story retelling the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion, told from the perspective of the marble statue brought to life by the sculptor who loves her — and controls her.

In a brutal, medieval village far from the Giver's Community, the orphaned girl Kira is spared from abandonment because of her gift for embroidery, and is put to work restoring the Robe that tells her people's history.

When Letty, Lucas Davenport's adopted daughter, gets a desperate call from a young drifter she once helped, Lucas is drawn into the hunt for a roving cult led by a charismatic monster called Pilate — a band of killers preying on the 'travelers' who drift along the margins of America.

When a bedroom game goes catastrophically wrong, Jessie Burlingame is left handcuffed to a bed in an isolated lake house — alone, with her husband dead on the floor. Stephen King spins a single, claustrophobic predicament into a harrowing psychological survival story.

Nobel laureate Annie Ernaux's raw, unfiltered diary of obsessive love. Kept during an all-consuming affair with a younger, married Russian diplomat, Getting Lost records desire, waiting, and self-abandonment with a candor that strips passion to its rawest reality — the unmediated source behind her novel Simple Passion.

Scout Finch, now Jean Louise and twenty-six, returns to Maycomb from New York to visit her father — and discovers that Atticus Finch holds views on race and segregation she cannot reconcile with the man she idolized.

Lewis spent a year embedded with Sam Bankman-Fried and FTX before the cryptocurrency exchange's catastrophic collapse. The result is a portrait of the man at the centre of one of the largest financial frauds in history — a portrait that refuses easy categorisation of SBF as either visionary or villain.

Now a U.S. Marshal with a roving national brief, Lucas Davenport takes on his first big case: hunting a vicious robber who stole millions from a drug cartel and left a trail of bodies. But Lucas isn't the only one chasing the money — the cartel has sent two of its most ruthless killers to find the thief first.

Mary Roach investigates the science behind military research — the labs, researchers, and experimental programs working on problems of survival in combat. Chapters cover uniforms that resist bacteria, the acoustics of IED blasts, the psychology of diarrhea in the field, and the science of keeping soldiers alive in increasingly hostile conditions.

Seven years after the events of The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal Lecter is living freely in Florence under an assumed identity, pursued simultaneously by a vengeful Mason Verger — the only surviving victim — and by Clarice Starling, now an embattled FBI agent.

Charles Dickens's shortest novel and his fiercest social critique. Set in the grim industrial town of Coketown, it skewers the cold utilitarian philosophy of 'facts, facts, facts' through the Gradgrind family, indicting an age that starves the imagination and crushes the human spirit.

Harlem, 1960s: Ray Carney sells furniture by day and fences stolen goods on the side, telling himself he's only "slightly bent." Whitehead's crime novel is a departure from his recent literary fiction — a Harlem panorama that celebrates a world and an era while examining the costs of respectability.

Eugene Henderson — a huge, rich, impossible Connecticut pig farmer with a voice in his head that insists 'I want, I want' — abandons everything and travels to Africa, where he becomes entangled with two tribes and discovers something about what he wants.

Fifteen hundred years after the death of the God Emperor, the human race has scattered across the stars and is now returning. Heretics of Dune, the fifth Dune novel, follows the Bene Gesserit as they confront a new power that threatens to end them and a child who may be the key to survival.

Private investigator Holly Gibney takes the case of a missing young woman and follows a trail to a pair of genteel, elderly academics hiding monstrous appetites in their basement. Stephen King gives his most beloved recurring heroine a chilling, twisty case of her own.

Steven Pinker's ambitious synthesis of cognitive science and evolutionary psychology. Drawing on both fields, he attempts to reverse-engineer the human mind — explaining vision, reasoning, emotion, relationships, and the arts as adaptations shaped by natural selection.

Nathan Zuckerman hears the story of Ira Ringold — a Newark ironworker turned radio actor who became a Communist in the 1940s and was destroyed by McCarthyism, betrayed by his wife, the actress Eve Frame, who wrote a memoir exposing him. The second novel of Roth's American Trilogy.

Augusto Roa Bastos's monumental 'dictator novel,' reimagining the rule of Paraguay's Dr. José Gaspar Rodríguez de Francia. A dazzling, fragmentary, polyphonic meditation on absolute power, history, and language itself, it is a landmark of Latin American literature and one of the great novels of tyranny.

Marilynne K. Roach's vivid, illustrated account of the 1692 Salem witch trials. Drawing on deep archival research, it recreates the everyday world of colonial New England — its homes, beliefs, and fears — to illuminate how an ordinary community descended into the hysteria that condemned its own.