When a great witch dies, the boundary between worlds weakens and the elves see their chance to invade again. Tiffany Aching must hold the line across two countries at once. The fifth Tiffany Aching adventure and the final Discworld novel — Terry Pratchett's last book.
The mythological history of Middle-earth, from the creation of the world by the god-like Ainur through the ages of the Elves, the forging of the Silmarils, and the great wars of the First Age — assembled posthumously by Christopher Tolkien from his father's lifelong writings.
Set eight years after The Queen of Nothing, a new protagonist — Oak, the young prince of Elfhame — ventures into the north to recover a kidnapped human girl. What he finds is Suren, the former Queen of the Unseelie Court, living as an exile with a power she cannot control. A new duology in the Elfhame world begins.
A grieving, difficult bookshop owner on a small island finds his life transformed when a toddler is left among his stacks — a sentimental, intelligent novel about books, community, and the surprising arcs of human lives.
Twelve-year-old Jack Sawyer journeys across America — and across into a parallel realm called the Territories — to find a talisman that can save his dying mother. Stephen King and Peter Straub fuse epic fantasy quest and horror into a single sprawling road novel.
Neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran's wide-ranging investigation of what makes us human. Through strange and revealing cases — phantom limbs, synesthesia, body-identity disorders — Ramachandran explores language, art, self-awareness, and consciousness, offering bold theories about the uniquely human brain.
In an overcrowded future Earth, colonists escape their misery through illegal hallucinations mediated by a corporate drug called Can-D. When the magnate Palmer Eldritch returns from Proxima Centauri with a new drug called Chew-Z, reality itself becomes uncertain — because Chew-Z hallucinations may not be hallucinations at all. Dick's most theologically disturbing novel.
Oskar Matzerath, narrating from a mental institution, recounts how at age three he decided to stop growing, and how he witnessed the rise of Nazism, World War II, and the collapse of Danzig through the perspective of a child in an adult world — beating his tin drum and shattering glass with his voice.
Rowan Caine writes a letter from prison, claiming to be innocent of the child's death she is accused of. She was a nanny at a remote Scottish smart-house — a high-tech home that watched her every move, recorded every conversation, and whose previous nannies kept leaving without explanation. A locked-room thriller for the surveillance age.
Hart and Mercy are rival undertakers in a world of gods and demi-gods — they hate each other in person, but their alter egos have been falling in love by letter for months, neither knowing who the other really is.
Mika Moon is a witch who lives by the rules — never stay too long, never get attached. Then she's invited to tutor three young witches in secret at a rambling English estate, and everything she's built her life around begins to shift.
Ta-Nehisi Coates's debut novel follows Hiram Walker, a enslaved young man in antebellum Virginia who discovers he possesses a mysterious power called Conduction — a magical ability linked to memory and loss — and who becomes involved with the Underground Railroad.
In a world where witches are real and unmarried women over twenty-eight are subject to mandatory state monitoring, Josephine Thomas must decide whether to comply with the law requiring her to marry or face government surveillance — while processing the disappearance of her mother, who may have been a witch.
The life of T.S. Garp — son of the feminist icon Jenny Fields — from birth to violent death, a novel about family, violence, writing, and the absurdity of existence.
Drawing on fifty years of fieldwork in New Guinea, Jared Diamond examines what traditional societies — in conflict resolution, child-rearing, diet, aging, multilingualism, and religion — can teach the modern world, and what we have lost in the transition to state societies.
Nine stories, most narrated by Yunior, about the serial infidelity that destroys his relationships. Díaz's second collection extends the world of Drown and Oscar Wao into a sustained examination of masculinity, Dominican machismo, and the specific ways men sabotage the love they need.
In Verity, violence creates monsters — literally. Kate Harker is the ruthless daughter of the man who runs half the city by selling monster protection. August Flynn is a Sunai, a monster who feeds on souls — and who desperately wants to be human. When they become unlikely allies, the line between predator and prey disappears.
The monumental conclusion to Memory, Sorrow and Thorn. As the undead Storm King's plan nears completion, Simon and the scattered alliance race to gather the three great swords and confront a doom that may unmake the world — in one of epic fantasy's largest and most influential finales.
Eloise Bridgerton has been writing letters to a widowed botanist for months. When she decides to meet Sir Phillip Crane in person, she discovers that a man on paper and a man in a home are not the same man at all.
Joe Chip works for a psychic-shielding agency in a world of commercial telepaths, until a bomb blast sends his team into a reality that keeps regressing — a mind-bending exploration of reality, death, and consumerism.
Anton Chekhov's poignant drama of wasted lives. On a country estate, Vanya and his niece Sonya have sacrificed everything to support a pompous retired professor — until his arrival, and that of his beautiful young wife, brings buried resentments, hopeless loves, and the ache of a misspent life to the surface.
Frances Mayes, a poet and university professor, buys a ruined villa in the Tuscan hills, restores it with her partner Ed, and discovers the rhythms of Italian rural life — its food, its seasons, its ancient craftsmanship, and its unhurried beauty.
Henry David Thoreau's classic account of the two years he spent living simply in a cabin he built beside Walden Pond. Part memoir, part nature writing, part philosophical manifesto, it is a foundational text of American self-reliance, simplicity, and conscious living.
A plain, good-natured heiress in 1840s New York is courted by a charming fortune hunter — with her sardonic, brilliant father watching and diagnosing everything.
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