A veteran orc mercenary retires from a life of violence to open the first coffee shop in a fantasy city, navigating the challenges of small business, unlikely friendships, and unexpected romance.
Florentino Ariza waits fifty-one years, nine months, and four days to tell Fermina Daza he loves her — and the novel asks what love is, what it does to a person, and whether it survives time.
A welder stumbles on a drug deal gone wrong in the Texas desert and takes the money, setting off a chain of pursuit involving a psychopathic killer and an aging sheriff who can no longer understand the world he patrols.
Emma Morley and Dexter Mayhew meet on the night of their graduation in 1988, and the novel follows them on the same date — July 15th, St. Swithin's Day — every year for twenty years.
Intel CEO Andrew Grove introduces the concept of strategic inflection points — moments when the fundamentals of a business are changed by forces beyond its control — and explains how leaders can recognize and navigate them.
An eighteenth-century Paris parfumeur with an extraordinary sense of smell and no odor of his own commits a series of murders to create the world's most perfect perfume.
David Epstein argues that in a complex world, generalists who develop broad knowledge and late specialization often outperform narrow specialists — challenging the prevailing gospel of early specialization.
Melinda Sordino begins ninth grade as a social pariah after calling the police at an end-of-summer party — haunted by a secret she cannot speak about and slowly losing her ability to function.
New York lawyer Newland Archer is engaged to the perfectly suitable May Welland when the scandalous Countess Ellen Olenska returns from Europe — and complicates everything he thought he wanted.
Social psychologist Jonathan Haidt documents the sudden rise in adolescent mental illness since 2012 and argues that smartphone-based childhood — specifically social media — is the primary driver.
In 1940s Ohio, a young Black girl named Pecola Breedlove prays for blue eyes, believing beauty — as defined by the white standards she has absorbed — is the one thing that could save her from her world's cruelties.
Four plants — apple, tulip, cannabis, potato — and four human desires they satisfy — sweetness, beauty, intoxication, control. Pollan inverts the usual perspective: instead of humans cultivating plants, the plants are manipulating humans to spread their genes. A new way of thinking about co-evolution.
The Thursday Murder Club investigates a decade-old unsolved murder of a television journalist — while navigating a threat from a dangerous hitman who has targeted the Club itself.
Holden Caulfield, expelled from his fourth prep school, wanders New York for three days before a breakdown — narrating his alienation with an intensity that defined adolescent literary voice.
Journalist Michael Easter spends 33 days hunting in the Alaskan wilderness while investigating the science of why modern comfort is making us physically and mentally worse, and what embracing discomfort can do for our lives.
Sixteen-year-old cancer patient Hazel Grace Lancaster meets Augustus Waters at a support group and falls in love — while both of them confront their mortality with wit, books, and each other.
The conclusion of the Inheritance Games trilogy finds Avery Grambs confronting the final deadly game of the Hawthorne brothers as she races to solve the mystery of Tobias Hawthorne's true intentions before time runs out.
A young Harvard Law graduate is recruited by a small but wealthy Memphis firm — and soon discovers it is run by the mob, the FBI wants him to spy on it, and leaving may cost him his life.
Through a business fable, Lencioni identifies the five core dysfunctions that prevent teams from achieving their potential and offers a practical framework for addressing them.