Undercover detective Frank Mackey's carefully constructed life unravels when the suitcase of the girl he loved — and believed had abandoned him twenty-two years ago — is found in a derelict house on Faithful Place.
Five families from England, Germany, Russia, America, and Wales are swept up in the cataclysm of World War One and the Russian Revolution. Follett's Century Trilogy opens with his most ambitious canvas yet — a panoramic story of the early twentieth century told through interconnected lives across five nations.
Someone is slowly poisoning the Patrician, and golems are being found smashed in the streets. Sam Vimes investigates both crimes simultaneously while navigating the city's aristocratic politics. At the centre of it all is the question of what a golem is — and whether a creature built to serve can want freedom.
Lucas Davenport investigates a series of bodies found in an isolated Minnesota field — a killer who has been operating undetected for years in small-town America.
An unnamed insomniac narrator forms an underground bare-knuckle fighting club with charismatic soap salesman Tyler Durden, and watches it escalate from transgressive therapy into something far more dangerous. A diagnosis of consumer capitalism and male alienation that became one of the defining cult novels of the 1990s.
A proven path to all the money you will ever need, showing how to reach financial independence and retire early through saving, investing, and income growth.
Tully Hart has lost her best friend, her career, and her sense of who she is. Marah — Kate's daughter — is in free fall without her mother. The sequel to Firefly Lane follows both women as they try to piece together lives shattered by loss, finding in each other an unlikely path forward. Picks up directly from Firefly Lane's devastating ending.
The Foundation has survived its first two centuries through Hari Seldon's psychohistory — until the Mule arrives. A mutant of immeasurable mental power, the Mule is the one event psychohistory could not predict, and his conquest of the Foundation threatens to collapse thousands of years of carefully planned history into chaos.
David, a young American man in Paris, is engaged to Hella but falls into a consuming love affair with Giovanni, an Italian bartender — a passion he cannot accept, a shame he cannot suppress, and a tragedy he might have prevented.
Fitz is Tom Badgerlock, hidden servant to Lord Golden (the Fool in disguise), while navigating court intrigues involving Prince Dutiful, the Piebald conspiracy, and his own complicated feelings about everyone he has to pretend not to care about. The middle volume of the Tawny Man trilogy.
On a New York City subway at 2am, Reacher spots a woman exhibiting the eleven behavioural signs of a suicide bomber. What follows spirals into a conspiracy reaching back to Afghanistan and forward into a senator's carefully constructed political future.
Sasha Jensen, an aging Englishwoman alone in Paris on borrowed money, drinks and remembers and encounters a young man who may be a gigolo. Rhys's fourth novel is the most formally accomplished of her pre-Wide Sargasso Sea work — the stream-of-consciousness narration spirals inward toward a final scene that is simultaneously sexual, violent, and ambiguous. The title is from Emily Dickinson.
Beyah has grown up in poverty and been largely invisible to the world. When she spends one summer at a lake house where wealthy families vacation, she meets Samson — a boy carrying his own grief and secrets. A love story about class difference, survival instinct, and what it means to be truly seen for the first time.
The companion novel to Gilead retells the same events from the perspective of John Ames's friend Robert Boughton and his prodigal son Jack — who comes home after twenty years of absence bearing a secret that would destroy his father's world.
The definitive guide to modern technology product management — how the best product teams at companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix discover and deliver products that customers love.
Ryan Holiday and Stephen Hanselman profile twenty-six Stoic philosophers — from Zeno of Citium to Marcus Aurelius — examining how each lived, and how each often fell short of the principles they taught. The book treats the Stoics as flawed human beings rather than marble icons, which makes their philosophy more honest and more usable.
Jim, a first mate on a passenger ship, abandons eight hundred Muslim pilgrims during an apparent emergency — and must spend the rest of his life with the knowledge of what he did. Conrad's novel of cowardice, guilt, and the impossibility of redemption is narrated by Marlow, who reconstructs Jim's story from fragments.
The elves are returning to Lancre — and Pratchett's elves are nothing like Tolkien's. They are beautiful, pitiless, and feed on human misery. Granny Weatherwax faces the most powerful adversary of her career while Magrat Garlick prepares to marry King Verence. The novel that restored elves to their original folkloric terror.
Byron Katie presents The Work — a four-question inquiry method that dismantles stressful thoughts and reveals the peace that remains when we stop arguing with reality.
Reacher stops at a town called Mother's Rest with no reason other than curiosity about the name. A journalist searching for a missing colleague pulls him into something far darker — a secret that explains the town's strange, unsettled atmosphere and that proves to be genuinely horrifying.
David Chang's memoir and cookbook tells the story of how a Korean-American chef opened a ramen shop with almost no money and built one of the most influential restaurant empires in American culinary history.
Polly Perks disguises herself as a boy to join the army and find her missing brother. Her regiment — the last hope of a small nation losing a war — is full of soldiers who seem to be hiding their own secrets. Pratchett's most overtly political Discworld novel takes on war, religion, patriotism, and gender with characteristic wit.
Philip Ashley becomes obsessed with Rachel — the widow who may have poisoned his cousin Ambrose in Italy and who may now be poisoning Philip. Du Maurier's most disturbing novel is an exercise in sustained ambiguity that never resolves.
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