Summer Reads

Emotions can be difficult things to define, yet we all recognise them when we feel them or see them in others. How we interpret those emotions and act on them has been heavily gendered, as far back as Ancient Greek and Roman times and--despite the...

(Available after 3-20 days) Revered in eleventh-century Persia as an astronomer, mathematician and philosopher, Omar Khayyam is now known first and foremost for his Ruba'iyat. The short epigrammatic stanza form allowed poets of his day to express...

#1 New York Times Bestseller"A useful and funny purse-sized manual that could easily replace all the diet books on your bookshelf." —Tara Parker-Pope, The New York TimesA definitive compendium of food wisdomEating doesn’t have...

Framed as a letter from the Roman Emperor Hadrian to his successor, Marcus Aurelius, Marguerite Yourcenar's Memoirs of Hadrian is translated from the French by Grace Frick with an introduction by Paul Bailey in Penguin Modern Classics.In her magnificent...

New York Times bestseller! In The Memory Librarian: And Other Stories of Dirty Computer, singer-songwriter, actor, fashion icon, futurist, and worldwide superstar Janelle Monáe brings to the written page the Afrofuturistic world of one of her critically...

From the author of Daisy Jones & the Six and The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Carrie Soto is Back is the story of one woman's determination to be the best tennis player in the world, no matter the cost. Like Daisy Jones...

Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voices. Now she delivers The Gathering, a moving, evocative portrait of a large Irish family and a shot of fresh blood into the Irish literary tradition,...

Ghost World is the story of Enid and Rebecca, teenage friends facing the unwelcome prospect of adulthood, and the uncertain future of their complicated relationship. Clowes conjures a balanced semblance, both tender and objective, of their fragile...

First published in 1861, Humiliated and Insulted plunges the reader into a world of moral degradation, childhood trauma, unrequited love and irreconcil­able relationships. At the centre of the story are a young struggling author, an orphaned teenager and...

Agatha Christie's ingenious murder mystery, reissued with a striking new cover designed to appeal to the latest generation of Agatha Christie fans and book lovers. Beautiful Caroline Crale was convicted of poisoning her husband, yet there were five other...

“Quickly and assuredly, Jewell builds an ecosystem of countervailing suspicions...Tricky, clever, unexpected.” —New York Times Book Review“Brace yourself as Jewell stacks up the secrets, then lights a long, slow fuse.” —People“A seize-you-by-the-throat...

AS FEATURED IN THE HULU DOCUMENTARY KEEP THIS BETWEEN USA dark relationship evolves between a high schooler and her English teacher in this breathtakingly powerful memoir about a young woman who must learn to rewrite her own story.“Have you ever...

She was raised as a soldier. And as an heir to an empire . . .General Zarrah is motivated by two truths: The Veliant family murdered her mother and that she will be the one to deliver vengeance.The Endless War has devastated Zarrah's people. So when...

Hotel Nantucket is another fantastic beach read from one of our favorite authors, Elin Hilderbrand. This novel is charming and delightful, following Lizbet Keaton as she attempts to revive the Hotel Nantucket back to its glory days of glamor and...

The never-before-seen history of Westeros and the lands beyond. With hundreds of pages of all-new material from George R.R. Martin. If the past is prologue, then George R.R. Martin's masterwork-the most inventive and entertaining fantasy saga of our...

(Available after June 30th, 2023)The highly anticipated second installment of the new adult fantasy saga that took BookTok by storm picks up where A Broken Blade left off…To the kingdom, Keera is the king’s Blade, his most feared and trusted spy and...

A gorgeous new cover and all the bells and whistles decorate this edition, perfect for a fan's collection. The capable, confident, and occasionally ruthless heroine of Tricia Levenseller's Daughter of the Pirate King is back in this action-packed sequel...

Following up her bestselling collection She Is The Poem, June Bates is back with her second book. The Lavender Haze is a collection of poetry on sapphic love.Number of pages: 120Dimensions: 203 x 133 x 7 mm

In his own day the dominant personality of the Western Church, Augustine of Hippo today stands as perhaps the greatest thinker of Christian antiquity, and his Confessions is one of the great works of Western literature. In this intensely personal...

Courtney Peppernell and Zack Grey dedicate their book to anyone in a long-distance relationship or friendship. Considering the year 2020, it feels as if this book were for all of us. They perfectly capture the ache of missing someone, the thrill of...