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Hawking and co-author Leonard Mlodinow address three fundamental questions: Why is there something rather than nothing? Why do the laws of physics have the form they do? What is the nature of reality? Their answer, M-theory, generated significant controversy.

A lawyer moves her family into a perfect suburban neighbourhood where the women are high achievers and the men are unusually supportive — until a death reveals that the suburban dream may have a darker machinery underneath it.

Six years after the catastrophe at Jurassic Park, mathematician Dr. Ian Malcolm joins a covert expedition to Isla Sorna — Site B — where InGen's dinosaurs have been breeding and evolving without human interference. What they find there is far more dangerous than anyone anticipated.

Brown University, early 1980s. Madeleine Hanna is writing her senior thesis on the Victorian marriage plot in literary fiction; Mitchell Grammaticus is having a religious crisis; Leonard Bankhead is brilliant, charismatic, and bipolar. Their triangular relationship unfolds against the backdrop of literary theory and manic depression.

In 18th-century Barcelona, an illegitimate child named Miquel Puig becomes a master painter of religious art — navigating the guilds, the Church, and his own turbulent loves in a city of contradictions.

A lawyer faked his own death, vanished with ninety million dollars, and built a new life in Brazil. Four years later the bounty hunters find him. Now Patrick Lanigan must outwit the vengeful partners, the FBI, and a murder charge using the one weapon he never stopped sharpening: the law.

Penelope narrates the story of her husband Odysseus's twenty-year absence from the afterlife, offering her own corrective to the heroic narrative — including her account of why the twelve maids who served her were hanged at Odysseus's return. Part of the Canongate Myths series.

Alex Cross is in the dock. Charged with murder after a deadly shooting and suspended from duty, he faces a trial that could end his career and send him to prison. But even as he fights for his freedom, he can't ignore a string of disappearances pointing to a predator hiding behind a screen.

Erika Kohut is a piano teacher at the Vienna Conservatory, living under the total control of her possessive mother. Her masochistic relationship with a younger student exposes the violence embedded in Austrian bourgeois culture and its insistence on female repression.

Before The Alchemist, there was the pilgrimage. Paulo Coelho's account of walking the Road to Santiago de Compostela — the ancient Spanish pilgrimage route — and the spiritual lessons his guide Petrus taught him along the way. Part memoir, part spiritual manual, part adventure, this is the book that made Coelho a writer.

Kate Mascarenhas's inventive debut. In 1967, four women invent time travel; decades later, one of them is found dead, and a locked-room murder unfolds across time. A genre-blending novel exploring how time travel would reshape the human mind, relationships, and a female-led institution.

A disbarred lawyer serving time in federal prison claims to know who murdered a federal judge. In exchange for his freedom, he offers the FBI the killer's name. But Malcolm Bannister has a far more intricate game in play, and almost nothing is what it seems.

In 1946 Mississippi, a decorated war hero walks into church and shoots his town's beloved Methodist minister dead, then refuses to say why. As his family fights to save the farm and his lawyer fights to save his life, the reason behind the killing reaches back to a hellish wartime ordeal.

Laid off from the Los Angeles Times, crime reporter Jack McEvoy has two weeks left and one last story to chase. What looks like a routine murder becomes the trail of a serial killer who hides in the digital world — a data-center engineer who stalks his victims through the information they never knew they'd left behind.

Two stories separated by fifty years interweave in a Suffolk village: a contemporary woman researching an architect's life, and the architect's story itself — a portrait of a German-Jewish émigré and the house he built on the English coast.

In a small Tennessee town, Jack Reacher saves a hapless IT manager from a kidnapping and uncovers a ransomware plot with national-security stakes. The Sentinel marks the first Reacher novel co-written by Lee Child and his brother Andrew, beginning the series handover.

A hostage crisis at a powerful Washington law firm shatters a young attorney's gilded life. After a homeless man takes him captive at gunpoint, Michael Brock abandons his six-figure track to fight for the city's dispossessed, uncovering a wrongful eviction his own firm helped engineer.

Johann David Wyss's classic tale of survival and ingenuity. Shipwrecked on a tropical island, a resourceful Swiss family builds a new life from the wilderness, taming the land and its creatures in an episodic adventure that has delighted young readers for two centuries.

An eccentric billionaire leaves his eleven-billion-dollar fortune to an illegitimate daughter no one knew existed, a missionary deep in the Brazilian wilderness. A burned-out, alcoholic lawyer is sent to find her, and the search becomes a journey toward redemption far from any courtroom.

The final South American novel — Cardinal Guzman's son leads a new Inquisition through the Colombian countryside, while the village of Cochadebajo survives through community, love, and the supernatural.

Ariely's follow-up to Predictably Irrational examines how our systematic cognitive quirks can work in our favour — in relationships, at work, and in how we adapt to adversity. The irrational behaviours that hurt us in markets can help us in life.

When Renée Ballard's badge, gun, and ID are stolen, the theft becomes a personal crisis on top of her cold-case work — including a decades-old serial-killer case she's chasing through genetic genealogy. Help arrives from an unexpected volunteer: Maddie Bosch, Harry's daughter, now a patrol officer ready to take up the family calling.

Three divorced women in a small Rhode Island town have acquired magical powers. When the mysterious Darryl Van Horne arrives, he disrupts their coven. A satirical novel about female power, desire, and the anxieties of the 1960s sexual revolution, told with Updike's characteristic density of observation.

In 1920s Newport, Rhode Island, a young man named Theophilus North arrives to teach tennis and finds himself drawn into the lives of the town's wealthy families — solving problems, righting wrongs, and falling in love.