Desperate to support her family, a young woman takes a job as the personal assistant to the realm's most feared villain — and discovers that working for the bad guy comes with surprisingly charming benefits.
Twelve long-form New Yorker pieces from the 1950s and 60s profile corporate disasters, stock market panics, and the human behavior behind landmark business events — including the Ford Edsel failure, the 1962 market crash, and the Piggly Wiggly corner.
Two sisters escape their tyrannical father for Caraval, a once-a-year immersive magical game where the line between performance and reality dissolves — and where this year's prize is one of the sisters herself.
The finale of the Crave saga, in which the supernatural conflicts reach their climax and Grace, Hudson, and their allies fight for their world and their future in a high-stakes conclusion.
A young woman takes a job at an artist's studio and falls for the painter, not knowing that her anonymous confessions have been inspiring his artwork all along.
A financial journalist with catastrophic spending habits attempts to manage her mounting debts while inadvertently becoming a personal finance media sensation.
A physics professor is kidnapped, wakes up in a version of his life where he made different choices, and must navigate a multiverse of parallel worlds to find his way back to the family he loves.
Jack Ryan has become National Security Advisor when a trade war with Japan escalates into economic warfare and then military conflict in the Pacific. The novel that introduced the concept of a coordinated attack on financial infrastructure, and that ends with an act of terrorism that presaged 9/11.
The conclusion of the Century Trilogy. Following the five families through the Cold War — civil rights, the Berlin Wall, the Cuban Missile Crisis, Vietnam, and the fall of the Iron Curtain — Ken Follett brings his century-spanning saga to a close.
A farm boy in the fantasy land of Alagaësia discovers a dragon egg, bonds with the dragon Saphira, and is thrust into a war against the tyrannical King Galbatorix and his empire.
Tom Clancy's sprawling thriller picks up where Debt of Honor ended. After a catastrophe wipes out most of the U.S. government, Jack Ryan is suddenly president, and must rebuild the nation while facing simultaneous crises — a bioterror attack, a Middle Eastern war, and enemies foreign and domestic.
A meditation on travel, the human body, and the nature of movement, woven from fragments: a narrator's airport observations, Chopin's preserved heart, an anatomist's guide to plastination, a woman who disappears.
A Maiden chosen by the gods and forbidden from human touch falls for her enigmatic new guard, whose true identity threatens to unravel everything she has been taught to believe.
On a delayed flight, an ordinary woman walks the aisle and calmly tells each passenger their age and cause of death. When the predictions start coming true, a planeload of strangers must reckon with fate, free will, and fear.
The second Malediction book, in which Cécile and Tristan, separated and working from different worlds, race to find the witch who can break the curse binding the trolls — and the dangerous forces who want it kept.
When Meggie's father reads aloud from a book called Inkheart, characters tumble out of the story into the real world — and something from our world disappears into the book in exchange.
In the aftermath of the Erudite attack, Tris navigates shifting faction alliances, survivor's guilt, and a massive revelation about the true purpose of the faction system.
The second book in the Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy. After Susannah's death, the summer house at Cousins feels impossible to return to — until Jeremiah calls to say Conrad has vanished, and Belly is pulled back into the orbit of the two brothers and the grief they all share.
In a fractured future Republic of America, June — the regime's most gifted military prodigy — is tasked with hunting down Day, a wanted fugitive and folk hero from the slums, and the dual first-person structure places them on a collision course before forcing both to question everything they believed about the world they serve.
On the night of Willie Lincoln's death in 1862, Abraham Lincoln visits his son's crypt as the dead in the Bardo surrounding it attempt to guide the boy to his next passage.
In 1950s Mexico, glamorous socialite Noemí Taboada investigates her cousin's mysterious illness at a decaying English family's remote estate — and uncovers something monstrous.