After a wealthy man's funeral, his scatty younger sister blurts out that he was murdered — and the next day she is brutally killed herself. Was her remark idle nonsense, or did it sign her death warrant? Hercule Poirot infiltrates the grieving family to find out.
David Hume's classic of empiricist philosophy. With elegance and devastating rigor, Hume examines the limits of human knowledge, the problem of induction, the idea of causation, and the credibility of miracles — a foundational and still-unsettling work that shaped all subsequent philosophy.
A Regency Cinderella: Benedict Bridgerton dances with a mysterious masked woman at a masquerade ball and cannot forget her — but Sophie Beckett is a servant who knows their worlds can never meet.
The sequel to Ancillary Justice: Breq, now a Ship Captain, is sent to a remote station to maintain order while the Radch empire tears itself apart over its ruler's divided consciousness.
Newly married, Anne and Gilbert settle in their dream home by the sea in Four Winds Harbour, where Anne befriends the tragic and beautiful Leslie Moore and the loveable ship's captain Jim Boyd.
An American family on holiday in Petra, Jordan, is controlled by a tyrannical matriarch, Mrs Boynton. When she is found dead at an archaeological dig, Poirot must determine which of her long-oppressed family members finally snapped.
Martin Arrowsmith, a doctor and scientist, moves through the American medical world — country practice, public health, pharmaceutical research — trying to maintain his commitment to pure science against the commercial and social pressures that corrupt everything around him. Lewis's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel is his most sympathetic — Arrowsmith is the only Lewis hero who earns genuine admiration — and the most thorough of his institutional satires.
It's 1999 and Lincoln works the night shift reading flagged emails at a newspaper — intercepting private conversations between two friends, Beth and Jennifer, who have no idea anyone is reading. As Lincoln falls in love with Beth through her emails without ever meeting her, Rowell's debut raises uncomfortable questions about connection, voyeurism, and what it means to know someone.
The third Witcher novel. Gravely wounded and cut off from Ciri, Geralt gathers an unlikely band of companions and sets out across a war-torn continent to find her, in a road novel that becomes the warm, weary heart of the saga.
The follow-up to 12 Rules for Life, offering twelve new principles focused on navigating the dangers of too much order — rigid thinking, bureaucratic tyranny, and the stagnation of the over-controlled life.
In a small Turkish village in Anatolia, Christians and Muslims have lived together for centuries — until WWI, Gallipoli, the Greek-Turkish War, and the population exchanges of the 1920s destroy everything. A companion in scope and grief to Captain Corelli's Mandolin.
Thirteen-year-old Jason Taylor navigates a year of his life in a small Worcestershire village in 1982 — a stammer, a dissolving marriage, and the specific brutality of adolescent social hierarchies.
A nameless teenager joins a gang of mercenary scalp-hunters in the 1850s Southwest, entering a world of almost incomprehensible violence presided over by the monstrous Judge Holden.
The conclusion of Robinson's Mars trilogy — Mars is now green and blue, the terraforming essentially complete. The political, ecological, and personal questions opened by Red Mars and Green Mars are resolved, as the original colonists age and the generation they created comes into its own.
The Reckoners track the source of Epic powers to Ildithia — the former Atlanta — and David confronts the cosmic force behind Calamity itself, with the future of both Epics and ordinary humans at stake.
Peter Blood, an Irish physician unjustly condemned for treason after the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685, is transported to Barbados as a slave and ultimately escapes to become the Caribbean's most celebrated — and principled — pirate captain.
A writer researching the life of the atomic bomb's inventor discovers ice-nine — a form of water that freezes solid at room temperature — in the hands of dangerous and careless people. Vonnegut's darkest comedy.
The spiders of Kern's World encounter an alien civilization of uplifted cephalopods — octopuses who have evolved sapience along entirely different lines. Tchaikovsky's sequel to Children of Time raises the stakes and deepens the alien cognition that made its predecessor so extraordinary.
The maji have their powers back — but so do the kosidan nobles who once oppressed them. As civil war breaks out across Orïsha, Zélie and Amari must fight enemies on multiple fronts, including each other. The second book in the Legacy of Orïsha trilogy deepens the world's moral complexity and raises the cost of revolution.
The first human colony on an exoplanet beyond the ring gates faces a conflict between Belter settlers who arrived first and a corporate expedition claiming legal authority — while the planet itself wakes up.
Clary Fray must protect those she loves as Valentine prepares to raise a demon army, while the revelation about her relationship to Jace casts a shadow over everything.
SETI researcher Ellie Arroway detects a signal from the star Vega containing construction plans for a mysterious machine. Sagan's only novel is a rigorous and emotionally powerful exploration of first contact, faith versus science, and what humanity might say about itself to the universe.
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