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Instant #1 New York Times Bestseller from the author of The Poppy War"Absolutely phenomenal. One of the most brilliant, razor-sharp books I've had the pleasure of reading that isn't just an alternative fantastical history, but an interrogative one; one that grabs colonial history and the Industrial Revolution, turns it over, and shakes it out." — Shannon Chakraborty, bestselling author of The City of BrassFrom award-winning author R...

This is quite the story, so any prudes better steer clear. When I return home from college to sleep in my old bedroom I awake late one night to a joyous cry of ecstasy. Forgetting my surroundings, I climb from the bed and wander through the house—arriving in my older friends' bedroom.In a daze I creep into Alan's bed, finding him spent after a session with his wife who's showering in the en-suite. I put Alan's resolve to the test, offering him my ass in the hopes I can rattle his n...

The Nebula Award Winner: "By looking at a typical space opera adventure from a different angle, Delany . . . give[s] us a weird, welcoming book" (Tor.com).At twenty-six, Rydra Wong is the most popular poet in the five settled galaxies. Almost telepathically perceptive, she has written poems that capture the mood of mankind after two decades of savage war. Since the invasion, Earth has endured famine, plague, and cannibalism—but its greatest catastrophe will be Babel...

In medieval Wales, a princess becomes a bridge between kingdoms—and a target for revenge.Branwen ferch Llŷr was given in marriage to the king of Ireland to forge peace between Britain and Ireland. The medieval Welsh Mabinogion tells how she became queen, bore a son who should have united two kingdoms, and succeeded in everything expected of her—until her half-brother's violence shattered the fragile alliance.For three years, Branwen was punished for an offense she didn't co...

My older boss Richard and me had always had a kind of interesting relationship. We'd gotten close before but never gone the whole hog, but out there on the mountain things were a little different.Read how we finally surrender to each other on that mountain-trail as I take his forbidden thickness inside me while fellow hikers wander around us. It's so utterly sinful you won't believe it!

I have not read these words as a text, but as an introduction, to what I desire to say, as God shall help me, concerning the most recent manifestation of’ the Pentecostal power. I refer to the great work of God that is going on in Wales at this time; and I trust that something more than curiosity makes you desire to hear of this work, for I am not speaking with any intention to satisfy curiosity. I want now in the simplest way to speak to you, first, very briefly, and as far as it is possi...

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British empire.Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.Robin Swift, orphaned b...

Three groundbreaking novels from the multiple Hugo and Nebula Award–winning Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Famer and SFWA Grand Master.Babel-17: Rydra Wong is the most popular poet in the five settled galaxies, capturing the mood of mankind after two decades of war. Now, a new weapon has been unleashed against humanity. Random attacks strike without warning, tied together by broadcast strings of sound. In that gibberish, Rydra recognizes a coherent lan...

Trainspotting is the novel that first launched Irvine Welsh's spectacular career—an authentic, unrelenting, and strangely exhilarating episodic group portrait of blasted lives.It accomplished for its own time and place what Hubert Selby, Jr.'s Last Exit to Brooklyn did for his. Rents, Sick Boy, Mother Superior, Swanney, Spuds, and Seeker are as unforgettable a clutch of junkies, rude boys, and psychos as readers will ever encounter. Trainspott...

None could go against the King and Queen of England, least of all Catrin ... not overtly, anyway.April 1284. As a newly widowed lady-in-waiting to the very pregnant Queen Eleanor of England, Catrin never expected to return to Wales again. She was definitely unprepared to be confronted with murder when she got there—or to find herself face-to-face with Rhys, the childhood friend she lost twenty years before. Rhys had never intended to return home either, but a lifetime of w...

Throughout his life Isaac Babel was torn by opposing forces, by the desire both to remain faithful to his Jewish roots and yet to be free of them. This duality of vision infuses his work with a powerful energy from the earliest tales including 'Old Shloyme' and 'Childhood', which affirm his Russian-Jewish childhood, to the relatively non-Jewish world of his collection of stories entitled 'Red Cavalry'. Babel's masterpiece, 'Red Cavalry' is the most dramatic expression of his dualism and in...

Ranulf Ombrier's fame throughout England for his skill at swordplay is rivaled only by his notoriety as King Edward I's favorite killer. Ranulf's actions have gained him lands, title, and a lasting reputation as a hired butcher. But after years of doing his king's bidding, he begins to fear for his mortal soul and follows his conscience away from Edward, all the way to the wilds of Wales.Gwenllian of Ruardean, Welsh daughter of a powerful Marcher lord, has every reason to leave Ran...