Criminal defense attorney Mickey Haller operates out of the back seat of his Lincoln Town Car, traveling between Los Angeles courthouses. When a wealthy Beverly Hills client hires him to fight a serious assault charge, Haller begins to suspect the man is guilty of something far worse — and that he has defended it before.
Stevens, an aging English butler, takes a motoring trip through the English countryside and reflects on a lifetime of dedicated service — and the opportunities for love and meaning he declined in its name.
A radical reorientation of world history centered on the Silk Roads — the trade routes connecting East and West — arguing that Asia, the Middle East, and Central Asia have been the world's true centers for most of recorded history.
Patroclus, the unassuming son of a minor Greek king, tells the story of his life alongside Achilles — the most beautiful and most doomed of Greek heroes — and the love between them.
The second Neapolitan novel follows Lila into her disastrous marriage and Elena through her university entrance exams and early years of higher education, as their friendship navigates the widening gap of their diverging lives.
American expatriates and British socialites drink their way through Paris and Pamplona, orbiting around the love that Jake Barnes and Lady Brett Ashley cannot consummate.
A secret military project during China's Cultural Revolution makes contact with an alien civilization, setting in motion events that will determine the fate of humanity.
Anthony Bridgerton, London's most notorious rake, decides to marry for convenience — but falls helplessly in love with his intended's sharp-tongued, fiercely protective sister, Kate Sharma.
Joan Didion's unflinching account of the year following her husband John Gregory Dunne's sudden death while their daughter lay critically ill in the hospital.
Gino Wickman presents the Entrepreneurial Operating System, a practical framework for helping small and mid-size businesses achieve clarity, accountability, and execution.
British infectious disease doctor Chris van Tulleken investigates the health effects of ultra-processed food and what the science says about why it's so difficult to stop eating it.
A comprehensive biography of George Washington that humanizes the icon without diminishing the achievement — following him from his Virginia origins through the French and Indian War, the Revolution, the Constitutional Convention, and two presidential terms. Won the Pulitzer Prize.
Adapted from her viral TEDx talk, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie makes a passionate and personal case for feminism rooted in the realities of both African and Western experience.
Two economists argue that the difference between rich and poor countries is not geography, culture, or ignorance, but the presence of inclusive versus extractive political and economic institutions.
Marianne Williamson draws on A Course in Miracles to offer a vision of love as the only force powerful enough to heal relationships, careers, and the deepest wounds of the self.
In 1949, sixteen-year-old John Grady Cole rides into Mexico with his friend Rawlins, seeking the last of the old West and finding love, violence, and the end of innocence.
Newlyweds Roy and Celestial have their lives torn apart when Roy is wrongfully convicted of a crime he did not commit, forcing both to navigate love, loyalty, and identity across years of unjust separation.
In a brutal Roman Empire-inspired world, a Scholar girl goes undercover as a spy in the empire's most elite military academy while a soldier is tested to become the next Emperor.
A Chinese orphan is brought to Oxford's Royal Institute of Translation in 1830s England, where the silver-working magic that powers the British Empire depends on the loss inherent in translation.
A collection of essays on culture, politics, race, and feminism by Roxane Gay, who refuses the pressure to be a perfect feminist and argues for the political power of imperfect, contradictory humanity.
Three mothers in an Australian coastal community navigate school politics, marriage, friendship, and the fallout from a murder at the kindergarten trivia night.