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The conclusion of His Dark Materials — Lyra and Will descend into the land of the dead, the war against the Authority reaches its climax, and the full theological argument of the trilogy is made explicit. The first children's book to win the Whitbread Prize.

In 1920s Barcelona, struggling writer David Martín is commissioned by a mysterious publisher to write a book that will make people believe anything — and finds himself drawn into a labyrinthine conspiracy involving the Cemetery of Forgotten Books and forces he cannot understand.

The ancient Chinese military treatise attributed to Sun Tzu, comprising thirteen chapters on military strategy that have been applied to business, law, sports, and competitive endeavors for 2,500 years.

A financial history of the world, tracing the evolution of money, banking, bonds, stocks, insurance, and real estate from ancient civilisations to the 2008 crisis.

Todd and Viola are separated in a city under brutal occupation. As each is drawn into opposing sides of a conflict, Ness refuses to offer the comfortable moral clarity of most dystopian fiction — both resistance and authority use violence, and both claim necessity.

Written after his release from prison and published under a pseudonym, Wilde's poem about the execution of a fellow prisoner — 'he did not wear his scarlet coat, for blood and wine are red' — is his most politically direct work. The poem indicts the prison system, capital punishment, and Victorian society's treatment of those it destroys, written in ballad form that gives the critique populist reach.

An Irish family — parents, teenage daughter, and young son — each narrate their version of the secrets and crises that are simultaneously destroying and revealing them.

Gay Hendricks identifies the hidden self-sabotage patterns that cap our success and happiness, and offers a practical path to living and working in our Zone of Genius.

Philip Marlowe, private detective, is hired by the aging General Sternwood to deal with a blackmailer — and finds himself drawn into a Los Angeles underworld of pornography, gambling, and murder involving the General's two dangerous daughters, Vivian and Carmen.

The title story — in which birds throughout England turn on the human population without warning or explanation — gave Hitchcock one of his greatest films. But du Maurier's original is more disturbing than the movie: the birds are never explained and the ending refuses resolution.

LAPD detective Harry Bosch investigates the murder of a Vietnam veteran found dead in a drainpipe in the Hollywood Hills — and discovers a trail leading to a daring bank heist tied to the tunnels both men once crawled through in the war.

Dawkins dismantles the argument from design — the claim that complex organisms require a designer — by demonstrating how natural selection can generate complexity from simplicity without guidance. His most fully realised work of popular science.

When a young woman's body is found in the library at Gossington Hall, the owners call on their friend Miss Jane Marple. Investigating from St Mary Mead, the village spinster must determine who the victim was before she can determine who killed her.

Seven loosely connected stories meditate on memory, forgetting, laughter, and totalitarianism — opening with a Communist official literally erased from a photograph by the regime that once celebrated him. Kundera's most formally experimental novel blurs fiction, essay, autobiography, and music theory into a structure that mirrors what it describes: the way history is rewritten, forgotten, laughed away.

New York City in the far future is a vast enclosed city of eight million people who rarely venture outside. Detective Elijah Baley is assigned to investigate a murder at a Spacer enclave — and is given a robot partner named R. Daneel Olivaw. Asimov's fusion of science fiction and classic detective fiction, set in one of his most vividly imagined futures.

Plath's debut poetry collection, published when she was twenty-seven, reveals a poet of extraordinary technical command working in the shadow of her influences — Yeats, Dylan Thomas, Roethke — and beginning to discover the voice that would produce Ariel.

Easter in Three Pines: a séance in the old Hadley house ends in death, and Chief Inspector Gamache must determine whether it was fright, murder, or something more sinister. The third Gamache novel deepens the series' psychological and spiritual preoccupations.

Coyle investigates what makes the world's best groups — the Navy SEALs, Pixar, the San Antonio Spurs, the US Women's Volleyball team — tick. The answer is culture: three specific skills that successful groups share and that anyone can learn to build.

Roland Deschain reaches the Dark Tower at last. Every thread of the series converges: the Crimson King rages on the Tower's balcony, the Beams must be defended, Patrick Danville's strange gift is the key to everything, and the fates of every character in the ka-tet are decided. King includes a foreword warning readers that the destination may not be what they expect — a warning that has generated debate ever since.

Johnny Smith wakes from a four-year coma to discover he has psychic powers — a touch reveals things about people and events. When he shakes the hand of a rising politician and sees a future of nuclear catastrophe, Johnny faces the most impossible moral question: is it right to kill one person to prevent mass destruction?

1634. A merchant ship departs Batavia for Amsterdam carrying a disgraced detective, his bodyguard, a mysterious prisoner, and a demon that appears to be killing the passengers. Samuel Pipps must solve an impossible mystery from the ship's hold while his bodyguard Arent Hayes investigates on deck above. Turton's locked-room mystery at sea.

In a nanotechnology-driven future of neo-Victorian societies, a young girl from the underclass receives an illegal interactive primer that teaches her to think, adapt, and eventually to lead a revolution.

Rin survived the Burning of Speer, but the gods she channelled nearly destroyed her mind. Now she fights for the Nikara Republic against an Imperial loyalist faction — until she discovers the Republic has its own agenda, and her foreign allies have a plan for the south that looks disturbingly like colonialism. The Poppy War series darkens further.

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