Summer Reads

(Available after February 30th, 2022) A riveting page-turner about a Black classical musician’s desperate quest to recover his lost violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world “Utterly original and downright gripping.”...

#1 New York Times bestselling author Holly Black makes her stunning adult debut with Book of Night, a modern dark fantasy of shadowy thieves and secret societies in the vein of Ninth House and The Night Circus.Charlie Hall has never found a lock she...

(Available after March 30th 2022) Two American ex-pats obsessed with the Amanda Knox trial find themselves at the nexus of murder and celebrity in glittering late-aughts Berlin in this “hugely entertaining” (The New York Times) debut with a wicked sense...

“A love story for our time.” —Tara Conklin, New York Times bestselling author of The Last Romantics The debut adult novel by the bestselling and award-winning YA author Nina LaCour, following two women on a star-crossed journey toward each otherWhen Sara...

(Available after March 31th, 2022) "Brimming with romance and gilded with danger, Wild and Wicked Things is a heady, lyrical gem of a book." —Hannah Whitten, New York Times bestselling authorIn the aftermath of World War I, a naive woman is swept into a...

Everthing casts a shadow. Even the world we live in. And as with every shadow, there is a place where it must touch. A seam, where the shadow meets its source. #1 New York Times–bestselling author Victoria Schwab weaves a dark and original tale about...

(Available after 3-20 days) The life that inspired the major motion picture The Aviator, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and directed by Martin Scorsese.   Howard Hughes has always fascinated the public with his mixture of secrecy, dashing lifestyle, and...

A groundbreaking New York Times bestseller, offering a new vision of what it is to be a manIn this timeless and deeply learned classic, poet and translator Robert Bly offers nothing less than a new vision of what it means to be a man.Bly's vision is...

The urge to forge one’s character by fighting, in daily life as well as on the mat, appeals to something deep within us. More than a collection of fighting techniques, martial arts constitute a path to developing body, spirit, and awareness. On the...

(Available after 3-20 days) Remembered primarily as an eccentric and deluded billionaire, Howard Hughes was once America's golden boy, a celebrated aviator and Hollywood legend who romanced hundreds of beautiful women. The scope of his life made him one...

A candid and insightful look at an era and a life through the eyes of one of the most remarkable Americans of the twentieth century, First Lady and humanitarian Eleanor Roosevelt.   The daughter of one of New York’s most influential families, niece of...

Protect yourself by learning how to trust — and act on — your instincts with the "empowering" #1 bestseller from personal safety expert Gavin de Becker (Boston Globe). A carjacker lurking in a shopping mall parking lot. An abusive husband pounding on the...

“In overthrowing me, you have done no more than cut down the trunk of the tree of the black liberty in St. Domingue—it will spring back from the roots, for they are numerous and deep.” These are Toussaint Louverture’s last words before being taken to...

For the great Roman orator and statesman Cicero, 'the good life' was at once a life of contentment and one of moral virtue - and the two were inescapably intertwined. This volume brings together a wide range of his reflections upon the importance of...

(Available after 3-20 days)  Over one million copies sold and nine months on the New York Times bestseller list! For readers of the bestsellers Atomic Habits and Never Split the Difference—this bestselling classic will teach you to hone your intuition to...

(Available after 3-20 days) In this collection of brief lives (and deaths) of nearly two hundred of the world's greatest thinkers, noted philosopher Simon Critchley creates a register of mortality that is tragic, amusing, absurd, and exemplary. From the...

Following Rome's long road to peace after decades of civil war, Cassius Dio provides the fullest account of the reign of the first emperor in Books 50 through 60 of his Roman History.For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of...

Amelia Earhart was the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and the first person to fly solo across the Pacific. Autobiography of the famous flyer which describes her own ambitions to become a pilot and offers advice to others.   Number of...

In his engaging book, Jules Evans explains how ancient philosophy saved his life, and how we can all use it to become happier, wiser and more resilient. Jules imagines a dream school, which includes 12 of the greatest and most colourful thinkers the...

More than two millennia have passed since Alexander the Great built an empire that stretched to every corner of the ancient world, from the backwater kingdom of Macedonia to the Hellenic world, Persia, and ultimately to India - all before his untimely...