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When a series of brutal murders in Copenhagen is linked by small figures made of chestnuts left at each scene, detectives Naia Thulin and Mark Hess discover a connection to the missing daughter of a prominent politician — a girl who has been gone for a year and is assumed dead.

Fiona Maye, a High Court judge in London, must rule on whether a seventeen-year-old Jehovah's Witness may refuse a life-saving blood transfusion on religious grounds. The case intersects with the collapse of her marriage.

The first Discworld novel follows the hapless failed wizard Rincewind and the naive tourist Twoflower across a flat world balanced on the backs of four elephants standing on a giant star turtle — a comic masterpiece that parodies epic fantasy.

Undine Spragg arrives in New York society from the Midwest, marriages her way through American and European aristocracy, and discards each world when it ceases to serve her. Wharton's most savage novel is a brilliant portrait of the American appetite for reinvention at any cost.

Hal is a tarot card reader barely surviving on Brighton pier. When a solicitor's letter arrives informing her she's named in a will she has no right to inherit, Hal travels to Trepassen House — a decaying Cornish mansion where the eccentric Westaway family is gathering — and decides to pretend to be the granddaughter she isn't.

Bowles's first and most celebrated short story collection — tales of North Africa, Central America, and the American South that share a preoccupation with violence, dissolution, and the encounter between Western consciousness and alien cultures.

Seventeen short stories ranging from the title piece — in which a municipal elephant and its elderly keeper vanish without trace — to encounters with sleeping women, disintegrating marriages, and the surreal textures of ordinary Japanese life. The best single collection for encountering Murakami in concentrated form: all the themes, all the tonal shifts, all the American music, in pieces that can be read in a sitting.

Bill McKibben's landmark 1989 book, the first work on climate change written for a general audience. McKibben argues that human activity has so altered the atmosphere that 'nature' as an independent force has ended — a prophetic, philosophical meditation on what we have done to the planet.

Elizabeth Hunter, a dying Sydney matriarch, has had a mystical experience at the eye of a cyclone. Now her children have gathered, expecting an inheritance. The novel moves between Mrs. Hunter's deathbed present and the cyclone experience that changed her—White's meditation on revelation, mortality, and the family as a system of mutual incomprehension.

Ian Rankin's twelfth Inspector Rebus novel. When a wealthy Edinburgh student vanishes, John Rebus follows two strange clues — a tiny carved coffin found in a village called Falls, and an online role-playing game run by an enigmatic 'Quizmaster' — into a dark, intricate investigation.

The origin story of David Gemmell's greatest hero. Long before he became the legend of the Drenai, the young Druss sets out across a brutal world to rescue his kidnapped wife, Rowena — a fast, violent, and emotionally charged tale of the making of an axe-wielding icon.

Mickey Haller takes the case of a man accused of killing a prostitute — only to discover the victim was a woman he once represented, a client he thought he had saved from the life. Haunted by guilt over her death, Haller mounts a defense that becomes a personal reckoning before the only gods that matter: the jury.

In a Greek village under Turkish occupation, villagers chosen to play Christ and the apostles in a Passion play find themselves transformed by their roles — as a group of real refugees arrives seeking help and the village is forced to choose.

A retelling of the Orpheus myth set in the world of rock and roll, following Indian rock stars Vina Apsara and Ormus Cama from Bombay to London to New York across the second half of the twentieth century. Rushdie's most ambitious deployment of myth weaves together earthquake, music, fame, love, and death in the kind of vast, allusive narrative that makes him the heir to García Márquez in the English-speaking world.

In 16th-century Andalusia, a Moorish boy named Hernando is born to a Christian father who rapes his Muslim mother. Caught between two worlds and two faiths, he tries to preserve the legacy of the Moors as Spain expels them.

A coffee on a New York street corner draws Jack Reacher into a kidnapping case for a ruthless private military contractor. Lee Child's tenth Reacher thriller turns a tiny observation into a twisting hunt that crosses the Atlantic to a tense English finale.

A bomb destroys an apartment building in Seville, killing dozens and injuring hundreds. The investigation pulls Falcón into the world of Islamist extremism, Spanish intelligence, and the specifically Sevillian world of the Moorish quarter — the Barrio Santa Cruz — where the city's Christian and Islamic histories are still legible in the architecture. Wilson's most politically charged Falcón novel, written in the aftermath of the 2004 Madrid bombings.

Arriving for lunch at a country house, Hercule Poirot walks in on what looks like a staged tableau: a man dying beside the pool, his wife standing over him with a revolver. It is too neat to be true — and the truth, hidden among a tangle of lovers, runs far deeper.

A Chronicles of Narnia tale set during the reign of the Pevensies. Shasta, a boy raised in the harsh southern land of Calormen, flees north toward Narnia with a talking horse named Bree, uncovering a plot of war and the secret of his own identity along the way.

The Pyncheon family has lived for generations under the shadow of a curse laid by a man their ancestor wrongly executed for witchcraft. Hawthorne's second novel is a Gothic meditation on inherited guilt — the way the sins of the ancestors persist in the family's blood, property, and character.

Ten years ago, Hannah's Oxford roommate April — beautiful, charismatic, and impossible to ignore — was murdered by the college porter. The case seemed closed. Now the porter has died in prison claiming innocence, and new evidence suggests the wrong man was convicted. Hannah must revisit the most disorienting year of her life.

Set in a twenty-first century England that has adopted republican government, Mary Shelley's visionary 1826 novel follows Lionel Verney as a plague sweeps across the world, wiping out humanity one country at a time, until he walks the earth alone — the last human survivor. One of the earliest and most devastating pandemic novels ever written.

A short parable about a young woman who discovers how small daily savings, invested consistently, can grow into life-changing wealth — the accessible summary of Bach's core philosophy.

Pulled over late at night, Mickey Haller is arrested when the body of a former client is found in the trunk of his Lincoln. Charged with murder and unable to make bail, Haller must defend the most important client of his career — himself — from a jail cell, against a system convinced he is guilty.