Summer Reads

(Available after August 30th, 2022)An exhilarating spin-off from the word of Valdemar, this tale of blood magic and elemental creatures finds Duke Kordas attempting to save his duchy from the machinations of an evil emperor. Within the Eastern...

Set in Vienna during the First World War and in the looming shadow of the rise of Fascism, Faulks’s elegant, psychologically acute novel tracks a small group of individuals as they struggle to come to terms with the destruction of an old world and the...

Great British Bake Off winner and Comfort author Candice Brown shares the essential recipes that see her through life as she lives with anxiety and depression. SIGNED EDITION, ONLY IN EMPIREMake your kitchen your happy placeCooking has always been about...

Mixing first-hand anecdote with expert advice, Emma Bunton’s accessible and light-hearted guide to surviving the first year of motherhood is an always reassuring and entertaining read.    SIGNED EDITION, ONLY IN EMPIRE You have a baby! Isn't it...

SIGNED EDITION, ONLY IN EMPIRESomerset, 1616. When Fortune Sharpe carves a boat from a tree with her beloved brother, Jem, she's only having a bit of fun. But now is not the time for a girl to be drawing attention to herself and she is sent away to find...

SIGNED EDITIONS, ONLY IN EMPIREREESE'S BOOK CLUB PICKINSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERTHE PAPER PALACE IS:“Filled with secrets, love, lies and a summer beach house. What more could you ask?”—Parade“A deeply emotional love story…the unraveling of...

From the bestselling author of the “glorious, heartfelt” (Rowan Coleman, New York Times bestselling author) novel The Magnificent Mrs. Mayhew comes a warm-hearted tale about two people brought together by fate. SIGNED EDITION, ONLY IN EMPIRELaurie and...

Kwame Alexander’s New York Times bestseller and Newbery Medal–winning The Crossover is vividly brought to life as a graphic novel with stunning illustrations by star talent Dawud Anyabwile. SIGNED EDITION, ONLY IN EMPIRE New York Times Bestseller ·...

Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, published between 1776 and 1788, is the undisputed masterpiece of English historical writing which can only perish with the language itself. Its length alone is a measure of its monumental quality:...

A renowned scholar brings to life medieval England’s most celebrated knight, William Marshal—providing an unprecedented and intimate view of this age and the legendary warrior class that shaped it.   Caught on the wrong side of an English civil war and...

The Number One best-selling, epic true-life story of one of the most notorious maritime disasters of the 19th century, beautifully reissued alongside Philbrick's new paperback, Sea of Glory. The sinking of the whaleship Essex by an enraged spermwhale in...

“If I could give each of you a graduation present, it would be this—the most inspiring book I've ever read." —Bill Gates A provocative history of violence—from the New York Timesbestselling author of The Stuff of Thought, The Blank...

A New York Times Bestseller"A rich portrait of the urban poor, drawn not from statistics but from vivid tales of their lives and his, and how they intertwined." —The Economist"A sensitive, sympathetic, unpatronizing portrayal of lives that are ususally...

“On Immunity is a book I’ve recommended too many times to count—a searching, empathetic, ultimately unassailable argument, not just for vaccination but for thoroughly acknowledging our interdependence, and for all that becomes necessary and possible once...

(Available after 3-20 days)The New York Times bestselling author of Dealing with China takes the reader behind closed doors to witness the creation and evolution and future of China's state-controlled capitalism.Hank Paulson has dealt with China unlike...

'By their fruits ye shall know them, not by their roots.'The Varieties of Religious Experience (1902) is William James's classic survey of religious belief in its most personal, and often its most heterodox, aspects. Asking questions such as how we...

Named one of Publishers Weekly’s Best of 2021 List in Comics.   In the spirit of Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home and Roz Chast’s Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant?, Margaret Kimball’s AND NOW I SPILL THE FAMILY SECRETS begins in the aftermath of a...

“An extraordinary work of humane imagination . . . call it magic realism with soul.”—Locus   “Finely honed . . . always engages and frequently surprises.”—New York Times Book Review A man risks his soul and his sanity to save his family from malevolent...

From the New York Times bestselling author of the Hello Sunshine Book Club pick The Other Woman, comes an addictively readable new domestic suspense about a wife, her husband, and the woman who is supposedly her best friend.THE WIFE: For Alice, life has...

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A shocking discovery on a honeymoon in paradise changes the lives of a picture-perfect couple in this taut psychological thriller debut—for readers of Ruth Ware, Paula Hawkins, and Shari Lapena.“A psychological thriller...