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Magic is draining out of Earthsea. Wizards are forgetting their spells. Ged and the young prince Arren must sail to the farthest reaches of the world to find the source of the wound in the world — and the entity responsible for it. The concluding volume of the original Earthsea trilogy is Le Guin's meditation on death, courage, and the limits of power.

A soldier fighting an interstellar war discovers that time dilation means each tour of duty lasts years, while centuries pass at home — making Earth progressively unrecognisable.

The third and final volume of Gerald Durrell's Corfu trilogy, completing the story of the family's years on the Greek island before the outbreak of World War II drove them back to England.

Nabokov's last Russian-language novel follows young émigré poet Fyodor in 1920s Berlin as he writes, falls in love, and constructs an audacious biography of Russian literary critic Nikolai Chernyshevsky — an account of what it means to be a Russian writer in exile.

A woman disappears from a container ship. Her half-brother tends bar at a remote hotel on Vancouver Island. A financier runs a Ponzi scheme that will destroy hundreds of lives. Mandel's companion novel to Station Eleven weaves together haunted characters across a story of fraud, ghosts, and the way money makes certain people invisible.

The third Housemaid novel follows Millie Calloway into a new domestic situation — a family with secrets that rival any she has encountered before. As Millie uncovers the truth about the Calloway household, she finds herself in danger of becoming the victim rather than the survivor, with a child's life tangled in the web.

Children with telekinetic and telepathic abilities are abducted from their homes and taken to a facility in rural Maine called The Institute, where their gifts are exploited for purposes they cannot initially understand. Twelve-year-old Luke Ellis, gifted beyond any previous subject, becomes the unlikely center of a resistance.

Pinker argues that language is a biological instinct — an evolved faculty, not a cultural invention. Weaving together linguistics, cognitive science, evolutionary biology, and neuroscience, he makes one of the most compelling cases in popular science.

When a local antiques dealer is murdered and a consignment of heroin goes missing, the Thursday Murder Club has a new case. But this investigation is personal — one of their own is directly connected to the dead man — and the answers they find will test the friendship at the heart of the group.

Secret Service agent Scot Harvath's first mission begins when the President of the United States is kidnapped on a ski trip and all the agents protecting him are killed — except Harvath.

Joel Greenblatt's Magic Formula investing strategy — a simple, systematic approach to finding good companies at cheap prices that has beaten market averages over time.

David Grann investigates the disappearance of British explorer Percy Fawcett, who vanished in the Amazon in 1925 while searching for an ancient lost civilization he called Z.

Jason wakes up on a school bus with no memory of who he is. Piper and Leo think he's their friend, but nothing about his past is real. Drawn into the world of Greek and Roman demigods, Jason must discover his true identity while leading a quest to free the goddess Hera and prevent an ancient enemy from waking.

David Schwartz argues that the size of your success is determined by the size of your belief — and provides practical techniques for cultivating bigger thinking in every area of life.

Nicholas Urfe, a young Englishman who has taken a teaching position on a remote Greek island, becomes entangled in the elaborate psychological games of Maurice Conchis, a wealthy and enigmatic recluse who stages increasingly disturbing theatrical scenarios — blurring the line between performance and reality.

Lucrezia de' Medici, married at fifteen to Alfonso II d'Este, Duke of Ferrara, suspects her new husband intends to kill her. O'Farrell reimagines the brief life of the young Duchess of Ferrara — likely the subject of Browning's 'My Last Duchess' — through a portrait sitting that becomes a meditation on art, survival, and female agency.

Maggie Tulliver grows up on the River Floss, trapped between her fierce intelligence and her society's refusal of it, between loyalty to her beloved but conventional brother Tom and her own ungovernable desires — Eliot's most autobiographical and psychologically penetrating early novel.

Luna's penal colony population, assisted by a self-aware computer, organises a revolution against Earth's authority in this Hugo Award-winning political science fiction novel.

Moraes 'Moor' Zogoiby narrates his family's baroque history in Bombay across four generations — Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Hindu blood tangled in a story of art, crime, love, and political violence. Rushdie's return to the multigenerational family epic after The Satanic Verses is his warmest and most humorous novel, full of Bombay's culinary, linguistic, and cultural richness.

James Axton, a risk analyst working in Athens in the early 1980s, becomes entangled with a cult that commits murders based on alphabetical correspondences between victims' initials and the place-names where they are killed. DeLillo's most purely thriller-shaped novel is also his most explicit meditation on language: the cult's strange grammar of death is the extreme version of the novel's central question — what is the relationship between words and the world?

Drawing on Stoic philosophy and historical examples, Ryan Holiday argues that the obstacles we face are not impediments to success but the very material from which it is made.

T.H. White's retelling of the Arthurian legends follows Arthur from his education by the wizard Merlin — who lives backwards through time — through the founding of the Round Table, the love triangle with Lancelot and Guinevere, and the final destruction of Camelot.

Andrew Tobias's perennially updated personal finance classic — covering spending, saving, insurance, taxes, and investing with wit, clarity, and common sense.

In 1959, Baptist preacher Nathan Price moves his wife and four daughters from Georgia to the Belgian Congo to serve as a missionary — and the novel, narrated by the five women whose lives he commands, traces the consequences of his rigid certainty against the backdrop of Congolese independence.