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The actual science and logistics of sending human beings into space — what zero gravity does to the body, how astronauts eat and use the toilet, the psychology of confinement, the history of space medicine research, and why Mars is significantly harder than the moon.

Reacher decides to visit the New Hampshire town where his father was born — and finds no record of the Reacher family ever existing there. Simultaneously, a young Canadian couple becomes trapped at a remote motel where nothing is as it appears. A rare entry in the series that invites the reader to think about who Reacher really is.

The seventh Expanse novel. Thirty years on, an older Rocinante crew faces a transformed galaxy as the militarized breakaway colony of Laconia returns through the gates with overwhelming technology and a plan to rule all of humanity.

A near-impossible sniper shot attempted against the French president — from 1,400 yards — points to one of four living marksmen, including Reacher's old adversary John Kott. Reacher is sent to Paris and London to find the shooter before a G8 summit becomes a killing ground.

Anne Lamott's follow-up to Traveling Mercies — personal essays on faith, doubt, aging, the Iraq War, her son's adolescence, and the ongoing attempt to live with grace when plan A has clearly failed.

Timofey Pnin, a Russian émigré professor at a small American college, navigates American life with earnest incomprehension and frequent misfortune — Nabokov's most warm and compassionate novel.

Cialdini's follow-up to Influence reveals that the most powerful moment in persuasion is the moment before the message — what you direct attention to immediately before a request shapes what people are receptive to.

Lara Jean and Peter are officially together now — but an unexpected letter from another recipient of her love notes introduces John Ambrose McClaren back into her life. A genuine love triangle unfolds as Lara Jean navigates first relationship pressures, family dynamics, and competing versions of herself.

Dave Lister, the laziest man in the universe, wakes up three million years into the future aboard the mining spaceship Red Dwarf, the last human alive, with only a hologram of his dead bunkmate and a creature that evolved from his cat for company.

Kazantzakis's spiritual autobiography — addressed to his Cretan ancestor El Greco — tracing his intellectual and spiritual journey from Crete through Athens, Paris, Mount Athos, Russia, and across the battlefields of ideas of the 20th century.

Set immediately after Ignite Me — Juliette and Warner face the consequences of claiming the Reestablishment's power, as new threats emerge from within and without.

The third volume in Ryan Holiday's Stoic Virtues series examines justice — the most outward-facing of the classical virtues, governing how we treat others, fulfil our obligations, and act ethically under pressure. It is the most philosophically demanding book in the trilogy and the most difficult virtue to practice.

Tom Ripley is insulted at a party by Jonathan Trevanny, a picture framer in Fontainebleau with a terminal blood disease, and decides to arrange a small act of vengeance: he has Jonathan recruited, through an intermediary, to carry out a Mafia killing on a train. Jonathan, desperate for money for his family, agrees — and Ripley watches, and then becomes involved in ways he didn't plan. Widely considered the best novel in the Ripley series.

Nikolai and Zoya must end a devastating war, forge an unlikely alliance with their oldest enemy, and face the darkest power the Grishaverse has ever produced — before it consumes everything they have built.

Minneapolis detective Lucas Davenport hunts a serial killer who is following his own macabre rules — a game of cat and mouse that introduces one of crime fiction's most enduring protagonists.

Pasternak's autobiographical prose combines memoir of his own development as a writer with extended meditations on Scriabin, Rilke, and Mayakovsky — the three presences that shaped his aesthetic. The book ends with Mayakovsky's suicide, rendered with grief that is also a kind of self-examination: the poet who chose visibility and the poet who chose obscurity, and what each choice costs.

Writer Ben Mears returns to the small Maine town of Jerusalem's Lot to write a novel — and finds the town slowly dying. A vampire has taken up residence in the Marsten House, and the townspeople are becoming the undead one by one. King's second novel remains one of horror fiction's definitive vampire stories.

Tayeb Salih's landmark Sudanese novel, often called the finest Arabic novel of the twentieth century. A young man returns from England to his village on the Nile and becomes obsessed with the enigmatic Mustafa Sa'eed, whose violent history in colonial London mirrors and shadows his own.

Restaurateur Danny Meyer's part-memoir, part-business book on the power of hospitality. Drawing on the success of Union Square Cafe, Gramercy Tavern, and Shake Shack, Meyer lays out his philosophy of 'enlightened hospitality' — putting people first — as a guide to building any business worth caring about.

After her father's death forces a move to a new town, eighteen-year-old Layken Cohen falls for her neighbour Will — until she discovers they can never be together. He is her teacher. Slam poetry becomes the language of both their grief and their impossible longing in Colleen Hoover's debut novel.

Newport argues against the popular advice to follow your passion — instead proposing that you become excellent at rare and valuable skills first, then leverage that excellence for the work you want.

In a small Illinois town in October, a carnival arrives just after midnight — Cooger and Dark's Pandemonium Shadow Show — and two thirteen-year-old boys discover that its attractions offer exactly what people most desire, at a price that cannot be paid.

Narrated by Stingo, a young Southern writer who moves to Brooklyn in 1947, Sophie's Choice tells the story of his friendship with Sophie Zawistowski — a Polish Catholic Holocaust survivor — and her volatile lover Nathan Landau, and the secret at the heart of Sophie's experience in Auschwitz.

Young Tristran crosses the wall separating his English village from the magical kingdom of Faerie to retrieve a fallen star for the girl he loves — only to find the star is a person with her own ideas about being retrieved.