Summer Reads

In these impressions of the Italian countryside, Lawrence transforms ordinary incidents into passages of intense beauty.Twilight in Italy is a vibrant account of Lawrence's stay among the people of Lake Garda, whose decaying lemon gardens bear witness to...

ARE YOU READY TO ENTER THE HALF BURNT HOUSE?The spine-tingling new thriller from the internationally bestselling author of THE WHISPER MAN, a Richard and Judy pick.Katie always looked after her beloved younger brother Chris - until she left him alone for...

A beautiful story of love and survival for fans of Ruth Hogan and Sally Page.A LOST CHILD. A LONG-KEPT SECRET. THE HOUSE THAT HOLDS THE KEYSpring 1937: Teresa is evacuated to London in the wake of the Guernica bombing. She thinks she's found safety in...

(Available after June 30th, 2023)"A searing collection about gentrification, racism, and sexuality. [...] Varela provides invaluable insight on the ways stress impacts the characters’ lives, and how they persevere. Readers will be floored."—Publishers...

(Available after April 30th, 2023)A mystery about a group of former classmates who reunite to mark the tenth anniversary of a tragic accident—only to have one of the survivors disappear, casting fear and suspicion on the original tragedy.Seven hours in...

“A beautifully-written, deeply-felt exploration of what it means to love and be loved.”–– Jill Santopolo, New York Times bestselling author of The Light We LostIn love . . .For twenty-six-year-old Adelaide Williams, an American living in dreamy London,...

Surreal, hilarious, and shrewdly poignant—a novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends her to Seoul on a journey of literary self-destruction.It’s as if her life only began once Moon appeared...

With an Introduction and Notes by Lionel Kelly, University of Reading. In 1915, Lawrence's frank representation of sexuality in The Rainbow caused a furore and the novel was seized by the police and banned almost as soon as it was published. Today it is...

With its frank portrayal of human passion and sexual desire, D.H. Lawrence's The Rainbow was banned as 'obscene' in Britain shortly after first publication.Set in the rural Midlands, The Rainbow chronicles the lives of three generations of the Brangwen...

'A superb novel ... you will be hooked from the first chapter and enjoy every line' -- Sunday ExpressDeep in the South American jungle the MAMista Marxist revolutionaries are fighting a hopeless, protracted war against a dictator - while the CIA see an...

(Available after May 30th, 2023)'Our discoveries have been great, but the risks and misfortunes many.' John Franklin always wanted to be a sailor. As a volunteer in the Royal Navy at age fourteen, he found himself in the Battle of Copenhagan, but nothing...

Before you catch Dungeons & Dragons: Honor Among Thieves, in theaters March 31, 2023, make sure to pick up this must-read prequel comic!When their latest heist ends in failure, Edgin and his band of thieves find themselves stranded in a town under...

DISCOVER the Demiplane of Dread! In her castle laboratory, D&D's own mad scientist, Dr. Viktra Mordenheim, performs experiments testing the bounds of science and magic!THRILL to a Castle of Horrors! Following a terrible accident, Miranda awakens in...

An attention-seeking copycat is recreating murders by a famous killer from the Women’s Murder Club’s past—with devastating new twists. Detective Lindsay Boxer put serial killer Evan Burke in jail.  Reporter Cindy Thomas wrote a book that put him on the...

(Available after August 30th, 2023)'Heart-warming, uplifting, inspiring . . . a compelling read' GRAEME SIMSION'Told with warmth, compassion and humanity, I'll Leave You With This drew me in from the first page. Ladd blends depth and pace in this...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • From world-renowned historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari, the bestselling author of Sapiens, comes an exciting, illustrated book for middle school readers that looks at the early history of humankind.  A New York...

"Reminiscent of Angie Thomas' The Hate U Give, Jackson's too-close-to-home dystopian novel adds a level of thought-provoking complexity that will undoubtedly compel readers to grapple with the use and abuse of power by government entities" — Booklist,...

We all know our planet is in crisis, and that it is largely our fault. But all too often the full picture of change is obstructed by dense data sets and particular catastrophes. Struggling with this obscurity in her role as an editor at Nature, Gaia...

We live in a world shaped by food, a Sitopia (sitos – food; topos – place). Food, and how we search for and consume it, has defined our human journey.From our foraging hunter-gatherer ancestors to the enormous appetites of modern cities, food has shaped...

From one of the leading policy experts of our time, an urgent rethinking of how we can better support each other to thriveWhether we realize it or not, all of us participate in the social contract every day through mutual obligations among our family,...