Summer Reads

2021 Edmund White Award for Debut Fiction — FinalistA modern queer tragedy about a pilot's last words, an interrupted celebration, and the fear of losing everything.“Utterly engrossing. Coen is a hero for our era, darkly struggling amid the aftershocks...

A fiercely personal and startlingly universal essay collection about the mysteries of gender and desire, of identity and class, of the stories we tell and the places we call home.   Flyover country, the middle of nowhere, the space between the coasts...

'Hough's conversational prose reads like the voice of a blues singer, taking breaks between songs to narrate her heartbreak in verse, cajoling her audience to laugh to keep from crying' - The New York Times'Hough's writing will break your heart' - Roxane...

An LGBTQ memoir about one couple's struggles to defy the patriarchy and redefine the nuclear family, The Other Mothers dives into the history and social challenges queer couples face when trying to make a family.   Jenn Berney was one of those people who...

Sixteen-year-old Nate is a GEM—a Genetically Engineered Medi-tissue—created by Gathos City scientists as a cure for the elite from the fatal lung rot ravaging the population. As a child, Nate was smuggled out of the laboratory where he was held captive...

How can you find your soul mate, when you don't have a soul?Iris lives in a world ruled by The Order. Inspectors police the population by keeping careful watch over people's souls. If they shine their lanterns on you, your soul is projected for the world...

'The prose . . . is so gloriously funny you can relish the book over and over again.' -- The Times (five best comic novels)'If you haven't read PG Wodehouse in a hot bath with a snifter of whiskey and ideally a rubber duck for company, you haven't lived...

Hannah Arendt is one of the most renowned political thinkers of the twentieth century and her work has never been more relevant than it is today. Born in Germany in 1906, Arendt published her first book at the age of 23, before turning away from the...

Part of the ALL-NEW LADYBIRD EXPERT SERIES- Why do humans form societies and what is needed for them to thrive?- How can women's potential be actualized?- How can we protect ourselves from demagogues and tyrants?IMMERSE yourself in the strikingly...

'This is brilliant. A book about women in philosophy by women in philosophy – love it!' Elif Shafak   Where are the women philosophers? The answer is right here. The history of philosophy has not done women justice: you’ve probably heard the names Plato,...

In this cogent and accessible introduction to philosophy, the distinguished author of Mortal Questions and The View From Nowhere sets forth the central problems of philosophical inquiry for the beginning student. Arguing that the best way to learn about...

“A most important book that will change the way many of us look at animals—and, ultimately, at ourselves.” — Chicago Tribune   Since its original publication in 1975, this groundbreaking work has awakened millions of people to the existence of...

The moral problems of abortion, infanticide, suicide, euthanasia, capital punshiment, war and other life-or-death choices.Number of Pages: 336Dimensions: 129 x 198 x 19mm 

(Available after 3-20 days)The debt of modern chemistry to Antoine Lavoisier (1743–1794) is incalculable. With Lavoisier's discoveries of the compositions of air and water (he gave the world the term 'oxygen') and his analysis of the process of...

A handsome fugitive seeking a marriage of convenience. A selkie with a lethal kiss sent to seal his fate... To evade a vicious sea queen's clutches, selkie Maisie hides on land surviving as a thief. But when she rescues a human from drowning and...

(Available after 3-20 days)A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year“Smart, funny, and fearless.” —THE BOSTON GLOBEWomen have always been seen as monsters. Men from Aristotle to Freud have insisted that women are freakish creatures, capable of immense...

Bracing and dauntless, Wolf’s iconic critique of the warped and destructive ideals nurtured by the advertising and beauty industries remains essential reading two decades after its original publication.   Every day, women around the world are...

Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett and his wife Marybeth make separate discoveries that put the Pickett family in a pair of killers’ crosshairs in this thrilling new novel in the bestselling series.A day before the three Pickett girls come home for...

Fresh from rehab, Norwegian PI Varg Veum faces his most complex investigation yet, when a man is found drowned, a young woman disappears, and the case of a missing child is revived. The classic Nordic Noir series continues...PI Varg Veum has returned to...

The discovery of a body in the freezing waters of Oslo Harbour spark an investigation that takes the Oslo Detectives right to the heart of the government … with life-shattering results. The godfather of Nordic Noir is back…***Shortlisted for the Petrona...