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The first novel by Anthony Doerr, the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning author of Cloud Cuckoo Land, and the Pulitzer Prize-winning #1 New York Times bestseller All the Light We Cannot See, one of the most beautiful, wise, and compelling debuts of recent times. David Winkler begins life...

Rainey Paxton is convinced there is a link between the disappearances of several women and her friend Winnie. Her obsession leads her back to the mysterious house where she said goodbye to Winnie years prior. Rainey is certain there is something sinister about the man who took her friend to Florida. Meanwhile, seventeen-year-old Dakota Jagger is on her own, looking for shelter. While roaming the city streets, Dakota meets a charming and persuasive man who offers to help her. This is the same man who stalks women and keeps them as his own.

New York Times bestselling author Taran Matharu’s debut adult fantasy series introduces an immersive story written in the tradition of the viral cultivation genre. Discover a rich world of magic, warriors, and dragons, in which a fearless orphan and an ambitious handmaiden flee from the empire...

Everyone has a story to tell. But does Janice have the power to unlock her own? She can’t recall what started her collection. Maybe it was in a fragment of conversation overheard as she cleaned a sink? Before long (as she dusted a sitting room or defrosted a fridge) she noticed people were telling her their stories. Perhaps they had always done so, but now it is different, now the stories are reaching out to her and she gathers them to her.

Milkman Dead was born shortly after a neighborhood eccentric hurled himself off a rooftop in a vain attempt at flight. For the rest of his life he, too, will be trying to fly. As Morrison follows Milkman from his rustbelt city to the place of his family’s origins, she introduces an entire cast of strivers and seeresses, liars and assassins, the inhabitants of a fully realized Black world.

The following three books in the beloved Marked Men series, from NYT and USA Today bestselling author Jay Crownover! This book set includes the following novels: NASH: Saint Ford’s life is exactly how she likes it—calm, serene, and all about work. Not on her agenda: doing a back and forth...

Ten-year-old Mona and her beloved grandfather have only fifty-two Wednesdays to visit fifty-two works of art and commit to memory "all that is beautiful in the world" before Mona loses her sight forever.

A father and daughter living in the remote Appalachian mountains must reckon with the ghosts of their past in Kimi Cunningham Grant's These Silent Woods, a mesmerizing audiobook of suspense. No electricity, no family, no connection to the outside world. For eight years, Cooper and his young...

Barrost is in flames. Everyone is fleeing for their lives. At her peril, Lady Arden stays behind to find Professor Gwenndon but soon has to face not only the threat of the Athlonian fleet, but treachery from within her own family. Escaping the chaos, Lady Banah and her party undertake the perilous second part of her State Visit to the Horn of the Continent.

Die Fronten verhärten sich, und die Einsätze sind höher denn je. Silas gewinnt neue Verbündete – aber auch gefährliche Feinde. Nun muss er nicht nur die Erde schützen, sondern auch Galen vor einer Bedrohung bewahren, die alle bisherigen Gefahren in den Schatten stellt. Viele Puzzleteile fügen sich zusammen, und Silas beginnt, den wahren Zweck – und die Grenzen – des Systems zu erkennen.

It is the summer of 1952 and three men—well, one man and two boys—are on a spiritual and commercial mission. Dispatched from Minnesota to Western Ontario, they have been hired by an upstart Mormon baseball card company to find licensees for their products among the young men filing out Korean War-era rosters in the Northern League, at the bottom-most rung of professional baseball. What the Northern has for them, and the secrets and deceptions they have for each other, will drive their two weeks in Canada into ever-growing chaos.

A daughter, a sister, a friend. A girl who laughed too loud at her own clumsiness, who believed in Christmas magic a little longer than most, who dreamed of drawing pictures that would one day hang on walls. A girl who grew up in a home filled with pancakes on Sundays, shortbread in Granny’s kitchen, and the faithful bark of her dog Bruno greeting her at the door.

As the First World War takes hold, a young girl comes of age in a troubled London. Capturing the longing, excitement and poignant comedy of adolescence, The Beautiful Visit is the debut novel from the beloved author of the Cazalet Chronicles, Elizabeth Jane Howard. 'She helps us to do the...

Luce compte les jours depuis trois ans ! Son père, Gabin, lui avait fait la promesse de l'emmener en voyage pour ses huit ans. Ils s'envoleront bientôt pour rejoindre la tante de la petite fille en mission vétérinaire au Kenya. L'absence de Julie, la maman de Luce et la femme de Gabin, leur serre le cœur à tous les deux. Elle a disparu il y a déjà sept ans, sans que jamais sa trace soit retrouvée.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Flowers in the Attic and Landry series—now popular Lifetime movies—an evocative and tender tale of star-crossed lovers on an isolated island. Off the coast of Maine, on an island shaped like a seagull in flight, shrouded by mists off the...

INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One of the most revered voices in literature today gives us a story of love, friend­ship, and heartbreak for the ages. “Mesmerizing, immersive, hallucinogenic.”—Entertainment Weekly Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage is the...

“An entertaining page-turner.” —Kirkus Reviews on Met Her Match An inspiring family saga about two headstrong sisters who long to forge their own paths. It’s 1972 and times are changing. In the small farming community of Mason, Kansas, Vera and Kelly Exton are known for their...

This "blistering anti-romance" (Catherine Lacey) paints a riveting, cathartic story about love addiction and what it does to us.Wouldn’t I do anything to reverse my loss, the absence of him? In the first scene of this provocative gut-punch of a novel, our unnamed narrator meets a magnetic...

NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL SERIES NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (People) from the author of Conversations with Friends, “a master of the literary page-turner” (J. Courtney...

Les Abdelnour ont passé près de quinze ans au Québec avant que le père ne les force à rentrer au pays natal, le Liban. Après quelques mois d’émerveillement devant le paysage lumineux de la côte, il leur faut bien s’installer dans leur nouvelle vie, apprendre les codes culturels, s’inventer un avenir. Pour la jeune Ikram, profondément attachée à l’indépendance et à la liberté dont elle jouissait en Amérique, l’épreuve est particulièrement ardue. Dans la chaleur entêtante et sous le regard oppressant des hommes, comment rester fidèle à ses ambitions?