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Robert Jordan's final completed novel before his death in 2007: the storylines that had stalled across the previous two volumes suddenly and decisively accelerate, resolving long-running threads and propelling every major character toward the Last Battle.

Druss the Legend is an aging, cancer-ridden warrior who leaves his mountain retirement to help defend the fortress of Dros Delnoch against an overwhelming Nadir horde. A siege novel with the emotional power of a meditation on courage, mortality, and what it means to die well. Gemmell's debut novel and the founding text of heroic fantasy.

A Harvard geneticist argues that aging is a disease — one that can be treated — and shares the cutting-edge research on sirtuins, NAD+, and the information theory of aging.

A journalist investigates the real causes of depression and anxiety — and finds they have far more to do with how we live than with brain chemistry.

Fourteen interconnected stories following members of the Kashpaw, Lamartine, Morrissey, and Nanapush families on a North Dakota Ojibwe reservation from 1934 to 1984 — Erdrich's debut and the foundation of the great body of work that followed.

Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings reveals the unorthodox culture that drives the company's success — and the specific practices behind radical candor, talent density, and freedom with responsibility.

Before moving back to America after twenty years in Britain, Bill Bryson makes a farewell tour of the country that adopted him — by bus, train, and foot, from Dover to the Highlands — in search of what makes Britain lovably, infuriatingly, irreducibly itself.

A spiteful, self-contradicting underground man addresses us from his Petersburg apartment — a novella that inaugurated modern psychological fiction and anticipated existentialism by seventy years.

Dillard spent a year at Tinker Creek in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, watching. The book is a record of that watching — insects, muskrats, water, light, death, and the theological question of what kind of God would make a world this brutal and this beautiful.

A behavioural economist reveals the hidden forces that shape our decisions — and why we repeatedly make the same irrational choices despite knowing better.

The second canticle of The Divine Comedy — Dante and Virgil climb the mountain of Purgatory, where souls atone for the seven deadly sins and prepare for Paradise. The most human and most hopeful of the three canticles, written with greater lyric tenderness than Inferno.

A guide to being a boss who cares personally while challenging directly — and building a culture of feedback that makes both people and results better.

Matt Haig recounts his collapse into panic disorder and depression at twenty-four and how, over years of struggle, he rebuilt his life. Funny, honest, and never falsely hopeful, it became a word-of-mouth sensation and one of the most-recommended mental health memoirs of its era.

Craiglockhart War Hospital, Edinburgh, 1917. Dr W.H.R. Rivers, army psychiatrist, treats officers traumatised by the Western Front — including poet Siegfried Sassoon, who has written an anti-war declaration, and Billy Prior, working class and volatile. The first novel of the Regeneration Trilogy.

Austrian mountaineer Heinrich Harrer escapes a British prisoner-of-war camp in India during World War II and, after a twenty-one-month crossing of the Himalayas, reaches Lhasa — where he becomes a tutor and friend to the young Dalai Lama as the Chinese invasion closes in.

A pizza delivery driver who moonlights as a hacker navigates the Metaverse — Stephenson's invented virtual reality — to unravel a conspiracy involving a powerful new drug and ancient Sumerian linguistics.

Philip Tetlock's twenty-year research programme found that a small group of ordinary people — 'superforecasters' — consistently outperform intelligence analysts with access to classified information. This book explains what they do differently.

A dinner party in Athens, 416 BCE: Socrates, Aristophanes, Alcibiades, and others deliver speeches in praise of Love (Eros). Each speech offers a different theory; the climax is Socrates's account of what the priestess Diotima taught him — that Eros is the ascent from beautiful bodies to beauty itself.

Aeneas, survivor of Troy, journeys to Italy to found the civilization that will become Rome. In twelve books of Latin hexameter, Virgil traces Aeneas's trials at sea, his affair with Dido in Carthage, his descent into the underworld, and his final wars in Latium — creating the founding myth of the Roman world.

Harvard Business School professor Shoshana Zuboff's landmark analysis of how Google, Facebook, and the surveillance economy extract human behavioural data as a raw material, process it into prediction products, and sell certainty about future behaviour to advertisers and others.

An aristocratic Russian family returns to their estate, which must be sold to pay debts. The merchant Lopakhin offers a solution — cut down the cherry orchard and build summer cottages. They cannot bring themselves to act. The orchard is sold at auction. They leave. The sound of the axe begins.

The definitive guide to human-centered design — why everyday things frustrate us and how good design should be intuitive without instruction.

Mark Schluter survives a car crash on a Nebraska highway and wakes up with Capgras syndrome — he believes his sister Karin, who has moved back to care for him, has been replaced by an impostor. A neurologist, his patients, and the cranes that migrate through the Platte River Valley are woven into the story of Mark's recovery.

Bernstein's framework for intelligent investing built on four pillars: the theory of investing (risk and return, asset allocation), the history of investing (what markets have actually done over two centuries), the psychology of investing (why investors consistently make the same costly mistakes), and the business of investing (how Wall Street profits from investor behaviour).