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‘A riveting page-turner about the world of technology and dealmaking’ – Jonathan Safran Foer, author of Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close A gripping and entertaining memoir that shines a rare light on the people that are reshaping our world. Veteran Morgan Stanley banker Alok Sama thought...

Cornwall, 1786. For years, the villagers of Mirecoombe have turned to their Keeper, the old and battle-scarred Lord Pelagius Hunt, mediator between the worlds of men and fey, for help. But this is a time of change. Belief in the old ways, in the piskies and spriggans, has dimmed, kindled instead...

The Whisper Man meets the paranoia of The Blair Witch Project in this terrifying suspense novel from “an exciting new voice in the field of chilling thrillers” (Alex North, New York Times bestselling author). That’s the one. That’s the girl who’s going to die. I didn’t believe in the...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2024 MOORE PRIZE FOR HUMAN RIGHTS NATIONAL BESTSELLER The impassioned memoir of Afghanistan's Sima Samar: medical doctor, public official, founder of schools and hospitals, thorn in the side of the Taliban, nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, and lifelong advocate for girls...

Sustainability enthusiast and climate activist Sam Bentley shares details on the hopeful developments combatting the effects of climate change, while giving readers actionable steps to help play their part. If you feel like climate change and the state of our planet just keeps getting worse and...

“A rich family saga . . . [written with] voluptuous lyricism and emotional precision.” —The Washington Post The rebellions within an interracial family play out against the countercultural rebellions of the 1960s in this sexy, stylish, sophisticated new novel by the award-winning...

“This is rich, florid, funny history, with undertones of human grief . . . Knight is shrewd and perceptive . . . [he] pushes his material into neurobiology, into the nature of placebos and expectations and self-fulfilling prophecies . . . Knight’s book is crisp.” —Dwight Garner, New York...

Continuously available in print since 1968, this novel has become embedded in progressive anti-racist culture with wide circulation of the book and hotly debated film. A literary classic, The Spook Who Sat by the Door is a strong comment on entrenched racial inequities in the United States in...

A charmingly exuberant comic debut from an exciting new literary voice, and a “quirky, hilarious, elegantly written farce” (The Daily Telegraph), The Extraordinary Journey of the Fakir Who Got Trapped in an Ikea Wardrobe is the globetrotting story of a trickster from rural India and his...

Adèle appears to have the perfect life. A respected journalist, she lives in a flawless Parisian apartment with her surgeon husband and their young son. But beneath the veneer of ‘having it all’, she is bored – and consumed by an insatiable need for sex, whatever the cost. Struggling to...

Stalin’s most trusted secret agent, the legendary Inspector Pekkala, is on his deadliest mission—one that could save his country . . . or plunge it into the abyss. It is 1939. Russia teeters on the verge of war with Germany. It is also on the brink of bankruptcy. To preserve his regime...

Dakota Morris has decided it's time he lost that pesky virginity. He's a college graduate, and he's tired of being a virgin. So he goes out to a club his friends don't frequent, and picks up the hottest man he's ever seen. It's truly a night to remember... until he walks into the boardroom for...

In this edition of Them Days, look back at the linerboard operations, early woods initiatives and practices, through a sample of the songs and stories that arose from them. This audiobook was created in partnership with Them Days Magazine and Archive (Labrador) and the Research Centre for the...

NUCLEAR WAR: THE WAR FOR ORBIT is a standalone story from the world of DAY ZERO. You can listen to it on its own, without needing to know the previous books. The world after nuclear war is trying to return to order. Governments talk about law again. Cities are being rebuilt. People learn to live with the memory of catastrophe and plans for the future. In Moscow, Sergey Lavrov, president of New Russia, is preparing to announce the first election results since the war. For his supporters, it is meant to prove the country is leaving survival mode behind.

Two hunters clash in the deadly maze of Australia’s coral reefs. Only one will survive. Ken’s life is falling apart. His marriage is on the rocks, he drinks too much, and his charter business is failing. All he has left is his boat and his kids. He can’t lose them too. When a wealthy client books a lucrative fishing charter, it seems like the answer to at least some of his problems. But something ancient waits beneath the waves. A Megalodon now rules the waters Ken knows best. To save everything he cares about, Ken must face the greatest predator the ocean has ever known.

Hay un edificio. Nada extraordinario desde fuera. Seis plantas. Diez apartamentos. Una puerta que se abre y se cierra cien veces al día sin que nadie le preste atención. Si pasas por delante, no notarás nada especial. Pero por dentro… Se desarrollan vidas. En un apartamento, un padre le enseña a su hijo a hacer un nudo de pesca, sin darse cuenta de que también le está enseñando a ser paciente. En otro, una madre y su hija están teniendo la misma conversación que han tenido diez veces antes, solo que esta vez hay algo diferente.

Vampire. Motorcycle. Cult. Frank and Jessie are on the road. They have an entire country to cross, yet don’t know exactly what awaits them at journey’s end. However, they do know that a world full of monsters and dangerous human survivors alike stands in their way. They haven’t even made it out of Oregon when the survivors of a small town beg for their help. For a clan of motorcycle-riding vampires has laid siege to them and plans to farm them for food. But these are not your average blood-sucking monsters. Frank soon uncovers a long-buried secret about them.

They sent him in as a prisoner. They never expected him to start a war. When President Ethan Mitchell needs a mission carried out with complete deniability, he turns to Jason Miller—a former Army Ranger, former DEA agent, and one-man war against the cartels. Smuggled into La Sombra, a brutal Venezuelan prison controlled by cartel kingpin Rafael Ortega, Miller must survive a kingdom of killers while uncovering a conspiracy that reaches far beyond prison walls.

MARCUS KERN: NUCLEAR THRESHOLDBook Three of THE FALL OF THE BALTICSIn western Ukraine, near the Yavoriv military training ground close to the Polish border, a nuclear strike tears the morning apart. The blast does not hit military targets alone. Roads, villages, evacuation columns, families in cars, people in basements, and rescuers in radioactive dust are pulled into the disaster zone. After the fall of the Baltics, Russia moves to a new level of coercion. Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia are effectively lost. NATO is stunned. Europe is divided by fear.

America has always been more than a country. It has been a dream, a contradiction, a force, an experiment, and an argument carried across generations. It is the place where liberty became national philosophy, where reinvention became habit, and where millions arrived believing that somewhere within its vastness there was room not only to survive, but to become more. Few nations in history have attracted so much hope. The United States drew inventors, workers, thinkers, refugees, entrepreneurs, artists, scientists, and builders from every corner of the world.