Summer Reads

Although not new to writing, Will Dean’s The Last Thing to Burn needs to be your introduction to his work. Fast, lucid and gripping, this thriller will keep you reading to the last page, seconds after you start the first. The pacing is exemplary. The...

(Available after May 30th, 2022)A high-stakes fantasy rom-com about twin princesses separated at birth—one raised as the crown princess, and the other taken as an infant and raised to kidnap her sister, steal the crown, and avenge the parents'...

The second in the captivating Hades and Persephone series from fan-favorite bestselling author Scarlett St. Clair."Are you saying you wouldn't fight for me?"Hades sighed and brushed his finger along her cheek. "Darling, I would burn this world for you...

E.M. Forster's Aspects of the Novel is an innovative and effusive treatise on a literary form that, at the time of publication, had only recently begun to enjoy serious academic consideration. This Penguin Classics edition is edited with an introduction...

More or less 150 years after Homer's Iliad, Sappho lived on the island of Lesbos, west off the coast of what is present Turkey. Little remains today of her writings, which are said to have filled nine papyrus rolls in the great library at Alexandria some...

The inimitable character voice of Lucy Barton returns with reflections on her ex-husband, William, and their investigation into a guarded family secret in this absolute tour de force from award-winning author Elizabeth Strout. Strout tackles the human...

Paris in the spring of 1968. The city is beginning to emerge from hibernation and an obscure spirit of social and political renewal is in the air. Yet Theo, his twin sister Isabelle and Matthew, an American student they have befriended, think only of...

The summation of the existentialist philosophy threaded throughout all his writing, Albert Camus' The Myth of Sisyphus is translated by Justin O'Brien with an introduction by James Wood in Penguin Classics.In this profound and moving philosophical...

Follow an epic story of the Viking Age that traces the historical trail of an ancient piece of jewelry found in a Viking grave in England to its origins thousands of miles east in India.An acclaimed bioarchaeologist, Catrine Jarman has used cutting-edge...

Middlesex is the winner of the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.A dazzling triumph from the bestselling author of The Virgin Suicides—the astonishing tale of a gene that passes down through three generations of a Greek-American family and...

The journey that began with The Shadow of What Was Lostreaches its spectacular conclusion in The Light of All That Falls, the final chapter of the Licanius Trilogy by acclaimed epic fantasy author James Islington.After a savage battle, the Boundary is...

From highly acclaimed, bestselling author Ava Reid comes a gothic horror retelling of The Juniper Tree, set in another time and place within the world of The Wolf and the Woodsman, where a young witch seeks to discover her identity and escape the...

“As much fun as the English language will permit.”—New York Times Book Review on The Wisteria Society of Lady ScoundrelsJust when you thought it was safe to go back into the teahouse. . . .Miss Charlotte Pettifer belongs to a secret league of women...

Book Two in the Internationally Bestselling Mirror Visitor QuartetWINNER of the 2021 Prix Albertine Jeunesse In book two of the bestselling Mirror Visitor Quartet, “the plots multiply, the world of the Arks gains depth, details abound, and the...

Plucky Gon’s quest to find his dad leads him into a whole world of crazy adventure.Hunters are a special breed, dedicated to tracking down treasures, magical beasts, and even other people. But such pursuits require a license, and less than one in a...

George Polya was a Hungarian mathematician. He wrote this, perhaps the most famous book of mathematics ever written, second only to Euclid's "Elements"."Solving problems", wrote Polya, "is a practical art, like swimming, or skiing, or playing the piano:...

Pills. Alcohol. Adrenaline. I'm addicted to destructive decisions that numb my pain. Until one night when I make a catastrophic mistake. To repair my broken reputation, my team hires Elena- An overpaid babysitter set on ruining my plans. She's my...

(Available after August 30th, 2022)The Jasmine Throne has been hailed as a series opener that will "undoubtedly reshape the landscape of epic fantasy for years to come" (Booklist, starred). Now, award-winning author Tasha Suri's provocative and powerful...

Winner of the 2020 Bram Stoker Award® for Superior Achievement in a Graphic Novel!A chilling fantasy retelling of the Snow White fairy tale by New York Times bestselling creators Neil Gaiman and Colleen Doran!A not-so-evil queen is terrified of her...

The author of The House in the Cerulean Sea delivers another pitch-perfect slice of beautifully wrought queer fantasy, as violence tears apart the shapeshifting wolf pack Ox calls family and a face from his past reawakens powerful emotions...