Rysn Ftori, a disabled Thaylen merchant and newly appointed Wandersail captain, leads an expedition to the lost island of Aimia — and discovers something there that carries implications for the entire Cosmere.
The Heath brothers identify the four villains of good decision-making — narrow framing, confirmation bias, short-term emotion, and overconfidence — and offer a four-step WRAP process for systematically overcoming them.
Jack Reacher is accidentally grabbed off a Chicago street alongside a woman he barely knows — an FBI agent named Holly Johnson. Their kidnappers are a heavily armed militia group with a survivalist compound in Montana and a plan that amounts to mass murder. Reacher has no weapon, no help, and an 800-mile journey between him and the militia's endgame.
Twelve years after his jihad swept across the known universe, Paul Muad'Dib sits on the throne of an empire built on ten billion dead. His prescience is a prison, his legend a weapon turned against him, and a conspiracy is forming to finally bring him down.
The philosophical and practical case for retiring in five years on a fraction of a typical salary, by redesigning your life around personal competence and low-cost living.
Hitchhiking through the Texas heat, Reacher accepts a ride from Carmen Greer — a woman fleeing an abusive husband who is due home from prison. By the time Reacher understands the full picture of the Greer family, the Echo County ranch, and the three hired killers heading for it, he is already too involved to walk away.
Harvard Medical School psychologist Susan David presents a framework for moving through difficult emotions with flexibility, clarity, and self-compassion rather than suppression or rumination.
Poirot takes his holiday at Smugglers' Island off the Devon coast — and finds himself surrounded by the usual Christie ensemble: the glamorous actress everyone resents, the various husbands and wives with complicated relationships, and the idle rich who have all the time in the world for grudges. When the actress is found strangled, everyone on the island claims an alibi.
Nariman Vakeel, an elderly Parsi professor with Parkinson's disease, is moved from his stepchildren's large apartment to his daughter's small one — a shift that tests every relationship in the family and exposes the accumulated debts and resentments of decades.
The Reckoners take their fight to Babylon Restored — the flooded ruins of Manhattan — pursuing the Epic known as Regalia while David confronts the possibility that not all Epics are irredeemably corrupt.
Two stories: 'Franny,' in which a young woman has a breakdown at a Yale football weekend while clutching a book about the Jesus Prayer, and 'Zooey,' in which her brother attempts to help her recover. The Glass family — seven exceptionally intelligent siblings raised on comparative religion — are Salinger's sustained meditation on the problem of being too smart for the ordinary world.
A novelist named Richard Powers returns to the university where he once studied and becomes involved in a bet: can a neural network be trained to pass a master's examination in English literature? As he trains the AI called Helen on the canon of Western literature, he finds himself examining his own failed relationships, his writing life, and what it means for a machine to truly understand.
Pip Fitz-Amobi has promised herself she is done with murder investigations. Then a boy goes missing on the night of Little Kilton's memorial, and Pip finds herself drawn back into danger — this time broadcasting her investigation as a live podcast.
Harry Dresden and his Knight of the Cross ally Michael Carpenter investigate a surge of violent ghost activity across Chicago — and receive an invitation to a vampire court ball that no one survives.
Prince Yarvi was born with a crippled hand — he would never be the warrior his culture demands. He plans to be a minister instead. Then his father and brother are murdered, and Yarvi is forced onto a throne he doesn't want, sworn to revenge he doesn't know how to take — before being betrayed, enslaved, and left for dead.
Two narratives alternate in strictly separate chapters: in one, a 'Calcutec' data processor in near-future Tokyo is drawn into a conspiracy involving encrypted information and subterranean creatures; in the other, a nameless man enters a walled town where residents have no shadow and unicorn skulls must be read at dusk. The two stories converge on questions about consciousness, identity, and what it means to lose the self. Murakami's most structurally ambitious novel.
The untold story of how four friends — Jack Dorsey, Ev Williams, Biz Stone, and Noah Glass — created Twitter and then destroyed their friendships fighting for control of it.
The story of Joanna, illegitimate daughter of King John of England, who is given in marriage to Llewelyn Fawr, Prince of Wales, and finds herself caught between loyalty to her father and love for her husband as English and Welsh powers collide.
A sweeping vision of humanity's future as Homo sapiens pursues the ancient goals of immortality, bliss, and divinity — and what we risk losing in the process.
Ed Kennedy, an underage cab driver with no real ambitions, accidentally stops a bank robbery and begins receiving mysterious playing cards that send him on missions to help — and sometimes confront — strangers in his city.
Michael Pollan's response to the nutritionism that has dominated American food culture — a short, elegant argument that the answer to the question of what to eat is simpler than the food industry and nutrition science want us to believe.
Rincewind is magically transported to the Counterweight Continent — an analogue of imperial China — where revolution is stirring and the Great Wizzard (i.e., him) has been prophesied. Cohen the Barbarian and his Silver Horde of octogenarian warriors are planning to steal the entire empire. Survival is, as always, Rincewind's primary career goal.
A decade after the revolution, Darrow has won — but peace has not followed. He defies the Republic he helped build to launch an unauthorized assault on Luna, fracturing the government from within. Three new POV characters — Lysander au Lune, Lyria, and Ephraim — reveal the cost of revolution across all levels of the Society.
Hyacinth Bridgerton recruits the roguish Gareth St. Clair to translate his grandmother's Italian diaries — and discovers that the diaries contain a secret that changes both their lives.
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