Summer Reads

It was as if we’d reached the minimum critical point of a mathematical curve. Imagine a parabola. Zero point down, at the bottom of an abyss. That’s how low we sank. The year is 1993. Cuba is at the height of the Special Period, a widespread economic...

From internationally bestselling crime writer Natsuo Kirino comes a mythical slice of feminist noir about family secrets, broken loyalties, and the search for truth in a deceitful world.In a place like no other, on a mystical island in the shape of tear...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'A total page-turner that will keep you guessing from start to terrifying finish' -- KARIN SLAUGHTERHow can you prove your innocence when you can't remember the crime?Being a cop runs in Billy Harney's family. The son of...

In this New York Times bestseller, Detective Michael Bennett must race against time to save New York City from chaos by tracking down the source of two mysterious attacks.New Yorkers aren't easily intimidated, but someone is doing their best to scare...

“For the Tom Clancy crowd, Brown remains the go-to guy.”   — BooklistOn a remote island estate, a billionaire investor sells his air freight company to the devious president of Russia, Gennadiy Gryzlov. The Russians are plotting to use these massive...

Acclaimed epic fantasy author John Gwynne returns with the first book in a new trilogy, perfect for fans of George R. R. Martin, Brandon Sanderson, and David Gemmell."A Time of Dread reminds me of why I became a fantasy enthusiast in the first place." —...

"A great read that accelerates the pace and goes one up on its excellent predecessor . . . Exciting, action-packed fantasy." — Mark LawrenceDefy the darkness. Defend the light.Drem and his friends are haunted by the horrors they witnessed at the battle...

Heroes shall rise and fall, the earth shall be stained red, and the fate of the Banished Lands will be decided once and for all in A Time of Courage, the gripping conclusion to the Of Blood and Bone trilogy.Now is the time of reckoning...The demon-king...

The modern classic of contemporary war fiction from Women's Prize-shortlisted author of The Silence of the GirlsRecommended by Richard OsmanRegeneration is the first novel in Pat Barker's Booker Prize-winning Regeneration trilogy - a powerfully moving...

From a beguiling voice in Mexican fiction comes an astonishing novel—her first to be translated into English—about a mysterious child with the power to change a family’s history in a country on the verge of revolution.   From the day that old Nana Reja...

From the bestselling author of The Murmur of Bees comes a transportive novel of two families uprooted by war and united by the bonds of love and courage.   With war looming dangerously close, Ilse’s school days soon turn to lessons of survival. In the...

(Available after November 14, 2021)Optioned by Netflix and a most anticipated book from Bustle, The Rumpus, Electric Literature, and LitHub!   An unsettling, seductive psychological thriller about a young woman with multiple personalities, perfect for...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A heartfelt story of love, grief, and renewal about two unlikely friends who discover that sometimes you don’t know you’ve lost someone until you’ve found them“A dazzling debut novel.”—O: The Oprah Magazine“Tremendously moving...

(Available after 3-20 days)Have you ever been called upon to speak at an event and the mere thought of doing it is giving you sleepless nights? Do you want to learn how to captivate a crowd with ease just like the pros? Are you looking to make your mark...

This new translation, in rhymed verse, of Goethe's Faust—one of the greatest dramatic and poetic masterpieces of European literature—preserves the essence of Goethe's meaning without resorting either to an overly literal, archaic translation or to an...

Comprises such sacred books of India as the hymns of the "Rig-Veda", the world's first recorded poems, the stirring pantheistic speculations of the "Upanishads" and the "Bhagavad-Gita", a cosmic drama of God's self-revelation in human history, on the...

Traditionally known as the Father of History, the Greek writer Herodotus(c. 484-420 BC), was the first man to tell a story in prose on the scale of the ILIAD and the ODYSSEY. His subject is the war between the Persians and the Greeks but, in order to...

From the Author of the Sunday Times Bestseller, Mrs. England!In 1612 Lancaster, England, the hunt for witches has reached a fever pitch…But in a time of suspicion and accusation, to be a woman may be the greatest risk of all.Fleetwood Shuttleworth, the...

SOON TO BE A TELEVISION ADAPTATION STARRING CLAIRE DANES   A Kirkus Review Best Book of 2017 * A Washington Post Notable Work of Fiction * Winner of the British Book Awards Fiction Book of the Year and overall Book of the Year * Waterstones Book of the...

From the bestselling author of Fatherland and Pompeii, comes the first novel of a trilogy about the struggle for power in ancient Rome.In his “most accomplished work to date” (Los Angeles Times), master of historical fiction Robert Harris lures readers...