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Spensa goes undercover among the alien Superiority to discover the truth behind their war against humanity, only to find that the conflict — and her own abilities — are far more complicated than she was told.

Ten years after a cosmic event granted ordinary people superhuman abilities, the Epics have taken over as tyrants rather than heroes. David Charleston joins the Reckoners — ordinary humans who hunt Epics — to kill Steelheart, the most powerful Epic alive.

The friendship between Nel Wright and Sula Peace, two Black women in the Bottom — a hilltop community in Ohio — over five decades, and what Sula's freedom costs both of them.

The first volume of Marcel Proust's seven-volume In Search of Lost Time, Swann's Way begins with the narrator's memory of childhood in Combray, triggered by the taste of a madeleine dipped in tea, and extends into a long account of Charles Swann's consuming love for Odette de Crécy.

On the anniversary of his wife's murder, paediatrician David Beck receives an email that appears to be from Elizabeth — dead for eight years. Then a video surfaces of a woman who looks exactly like her. Then the FBI arrives with questions.

How to launch a freedom business — earning a good living from something you love — with minimal startup capital.

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.

Five prequel novellas to Throne of Glass that follow teenage assassin Celaena Sardothien while she still serves the Assassins' Guild — charting her doomed romance with Sam Cortland and the betrayal that lands her in Endovier.

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.

Apollo and Meg head west into a scorched California to confront the cruelest emperor yet and free a captive Oracle from the Burning Maze. Rick Riordan's third Trials of Apollo book is the series at its darkest, delivering a gut-punch that reshapes the saga.

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.