**AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB • “For all those who crave a good page-turner, this is one wild ride of a story that carries equal parts wit and wisdom. I learned so much about Stoicism—I laughed out loud for real. And underneath the humor there was always something tender . . . a quiet truth about relationships, identity, and what it means to find peace with yourself.”—OPRAH WINFREY"Maria Semple is a treasure." —Los Angeles Times

A misanthropic matriarch leaves her eccentric family in crisis when she mysteriously disappears in this "whip-smart and divinely funny" novel that inspired the movie starring Cate Blanchett (New York Times).Bernadette Fox is notorious. To her Microsoft-guru husband, she's a fearlessly opinionated partner; to fellow private-school mothers in Seattle, she's a disgrace; to design mavens, she's a revolutionary architect; and to 15-year-old Bee, she is her best...

**WINNER OF THE 2025 ATWOOD GIBSON WRITERS’ TRUST FICTION PRIZE • WINNER OF THE 2026 GORDON BURN PRIZE • WINNER OF THE 2026 ASPEN WORDS LITERARY PRIZE • WINNER OF THE 2026 AMAZON CANADA FIRST NOVEL AWARD • LONGLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE • FINALIST FOR THE 2025 GOVERNOR GENERAL’S LITERARY AWARD FOR FICTION • FINALIST FOR THE 2026 ETHEL WILSON FICTION PRIZE • LONGLISTED FOR THE 2026 DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD • SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2026 CLIMATE FICTION PRIZE •

Decadent cyberpunk cities. Greek mythology and giant mechs. Hades and Persephone as never seen before.For generations, colossi have besieged the gates of Elysium. Each day, the city's fall looms closer.As one of Elysium's rulers, Hades has long sought to break this stalemate. In Persephone, a cyborg tailor-made to kill, she finds the key to victory and the perfect pilot for her war machine. She will acquire Persephone at any cost.Born to wield viole...

Maria Montessori was an Italian physician and educator best known for the philosophy of education that bears her name, and her writing on scientific pedagogy. Her educational method is in use today in public and private schools throughout the world. In 1947 she returned to India and gave courses in Adyar and Ahmedabad. These courses led to the book The Absorbent Mind, in which Montessori described the development of the child from birth onwards and presented the concept of the Four Planes ...

All Quiet on the Western Front is a harrowing account of World War I, narrated by Paul Bäumer, a young German soldier. Enlisted with his classmates, Paul experiences the brutal realities of trench warfare, witnessing the physical and psychological toll on soldiers. Remarque's novel is a powerful anti-war statement, depicting the senselessness of conflict and the loss of innocence. Its vivid portrayal of the front lines and the disconnection from civilian life offers a profound commentary o...

Choose: a quick death… or slow poison…Locked deep in the palace dungeon for killing her abuser, Yelena knows she’ll never be free again. The laws in Ixia are strict, and murderers must be executed, no matter the reason. But just as she’s resigned herself to her fate, she’s offered an extraordinary reprieve.As the food taster, Yelena will eat the best meals, have rooms in the palace — and risk assassination by anyone trying to kill the Commander of Ixia. To ...

A revolutionary memoir about domestic abuse by the award-winning author of Her Body and Other Parties.In the Dream House is Carmen Maria Machado's engrossing and wildly innovative account of a relationship gone bad, and a bold dissection of the mechanisms and cultural representations of psychological abuse. Tracing the full arc of a harrowing relationship with a charismatic but volatile woman, Machado struggles to make sense of how what happened t...

**A New York Times bestseller • A New York Times Notable Book“The tale of how Konnikova followed a story about poker players and wound up becoming a story herself will have you riveted, first as you learn about her big winnings, and then as she conveys the lessons she learned both about human nature and herself.” —The Washington Post**It's true that Maria Konnikova had never actually played poker before and didn't even know the rules when she appr...

"A complex, beautiful coming-of-age novel...a love story unlike any I've ever read." —ALI HAZELWOOD"A soulful book about the politics of labor and submission." —RAVEN LEILANIA sharp and provocative coming-of-age debut chronicling the turbulent romance between a brilliant economics grad student and a magnetic Wall Street banker two decades her senior.When Lili Marwan—seeking to escape the unrelenting pressures of her...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER"In this impassioned warning and inspirational call to arms, Ressa identifies and illuminates her core values of empathy, honesty, and faith in humanity to illustrate how a strong commitment to such foundational beliefs can provide the key to democracy’s survival. . . . Searing and electrifying." — Booklist (starred review)From the recipien...

The masterpiece of the German experience during World War I, considered by many the greatest war novel of all time—with an Oscar–winning film adaptation now streaming on Netflix.“[Erich Maria Remarque] is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank.”—The New York Times Book ReviewI am young, I am twenty years old; yet I know nothing of life but despair, death, fear, and fatuous superficiality cast over an abyss of sorrow. . . .