After the restoration of the English monarchy in 1660, two of the men who signed Charles I's death warrant flee to New England, pursued across the Atlantic by a relentless royal manhunter determined to see every regicide brought to justice.
A multigenerational story spanning 60 years and several continents, beginning with a poor Afghan family's decision to give away a daughter and rippling outward through the lives of those touched by that act of sacrifice. Hosseini's most structurally ambitious novel.
A romance novelist and a literary fiction author spend a summer as reluctant neighbors, challenge each other to write outside their genres, and fall unexpectedly in love.
Grace and Jack Angel appear to have the perfect marriage, but behind their elegant facade lies a nightmare of control, captivity, and carefully maintained appearances.
Malcolm Gladwell argues that what we consider disadvantages — dyslexia, class backgrounds, weak institutions — can become hidden sources of strength in the right circumstances.
In a future Chicago divided into five virtue-based factions, sixteen-year-old Tris Prior must choose where she belongs — and discovers she may not belong anywhere.
After a painful divorce, Elizabeth Gilbert spends a year travelling — eating in Italy, praying in India, and finding love in Bali — in this memoir that became one of the bestselling travel narratives of the century.
The conclusion of the Powerless Trilogy, in which rebellion, revelation, and the forbidden romance between Paedyn and Kai reach their climax and the fate of Ilya is decided.
Susan Jeffers argues that fear never goes away, but that acting in spite of it is a learnable skill that builds confidence and opens life to new possibilities.
A woman left at the altar moves in with her ex-fiance's new girlfriend's ex-boyfriend, and the two jilted parties discover they might be exactly what the other needs.
After a near-death experience, Chloe Brown makes a list of things she wants to do before she becomes too ill to do them, and finds an unlikely partner in her brooding building superintendent.
A dark, gold-soaked reimagining of the Midas myth in which the king's most prized possession — a woman he turned to living gold — begins to question the gilded cage she has mistaken for safety.
Adam Grant challenges the talent-worship culture and argues that character skills, not innate ability, are the true engines of extraordinary achievement.
A sheltered homeschooled girl falls for the mysterious boy next door, only to discover their connection runs deeper and darker than either of them could have imagined.
Bill Gates lays out a comprehensive framework for understanding the climate crisis — who emits what, which sectors are hardest to decarbonize, and what combination of existing technology and needed breakthroughs can plausibly get global emissions to zero. The book is part primer, part investment thesis, and part call to action.
A figure skater and a hockey player are forced to share ice rink practice time, and their rivalry gradually melts into something neither of them planned.
An exploration of the Japanese concept of ikigai — your reason for being, the thing that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning — through the lens of Japan's longest-lived communities.
Violet Sorrengail returns to Basgiath War College for her second year, navigating deeper secrets, more dangerous enemies, and a relationship with Xaden Riorson that is tested by the truths they are both keeping.
A social-media-famous LA socialite is exiled to a small Pacific Northwest fishing town by her stepfather, where she falls for the town's gruff, widowed boat captain.
Jonathan Livingston Seagull is a seagull who cares nothing for the daily scramble for fish and everything for the art of flight, pursuing perfection with an obsession that gets him banished from his flock. The book follows his journey from outcast to teacher as he discovers that the limits of flight mirror the limits we place on our own potential.
When a brilliant Cambridge magick scholar dies, two rival graduate students descend into a meticulously logical Hell to retrieve his soul — and the recommendation letter their careers depend on — in R.F. Kuang's dark-academia fantasy of grief, ambition, and rivalry.
An Artificial Friend named Klara, powered by sunlight and possessed of extraordinary observational gifts, narrates her life alongside a sickly teenage girl and her mother in a near-future America.
Seven essays on sexism, language, and power — anchored by the title essay, which coined the term 'mansplaining' (though Solnit never uses the word), and ranging to cover the epidemic of violence against women, Virginia Woolf's relationship to the sea, and the politics of silence.
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