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Courtrooms are often misunderstood.To outsiders, they appear dramatic—voices raised, arguments clashing, verdicts falling like thunder. But to those who know them intimately, courtrooms are places of patience, precision, and profound restraint.Most cases are not won by eloquence alone. They turn on a date, a document, a procedural lapse, a single unanswered question. They are decided not by outrage, but by structure. Not by emotion, but by method.This book does not ...

What would you do if the future came back for you?For 217 years, humanity lived with a single unanswerable question. Then the sky went dark — for exactly eleven seconds. The ocean lost eleven seconds. A locked laboratory emptied. Twelve sealed samples vanished. And a camera captured something standing in a corridor that no alarm could explain.Dr. Aarav Mehra discovers a genetic sequence that should not exist: 99.7% human, structured by something far older than history. Dr. ...

A REESE WITHERSPOON HELLO SUNSHINE BOOK CLUB PICK • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • MORE THAN 1.5 MILLION COPIES SOLD!“Will keep you up. In a ‘can’t put it down’ way. It’s ‘The Talented Mr. Ripley’ with XX chromosomes.” —The SkimmA mesmerizing debut psychological thriller about a coolly manipulative woman and a wealthy "golden couple," from a stunning new voice in suspense.Amber Patterson is fed up. She’s tired of being a nobody: a plain, inv...

In an age where artificial intelligence shapes everything from our daily routines to global warfare, one haunting question lingers: What does it mean to be human in a world run by machines?The Last Human Question: How AI is Growing Up With You takes readers on a gripping, emotionally charged, and deeply intellectual journey through the world we're building—and the selves we're potentially losing. Written with cinematic clarity and philosophical depth, this book ex...

The Question by Henri Alleg (with a preface by Jean-Paul Sartre; translated from the French by John Calder; with an afterword by the author, a foreword by Ellen Ray and an introduction by James D. Le Sueur; 27,000 words)Henri Alleg’s candid account of how the French Army brutally tortured him in Algeria first appeared in 1958. Although quickly banned by the French government, it was widely read and remains a classic and powerful indictment of torture.“The l...

A collection of the first four installments of Bernard Cornwell’s bestselling series chronicling the epic saga of the making of England, “like Game of Thrones, but real” (The Observer, London)—the basis for The Last Kingdom, the hit television series. The Saxon Tales Collection includes: The Last Kingdom, The Pale Horseman, Lords of the North, and Sword Song.Starting with The Last Kingdom, this...

A gripping thriller about family and power co-written by Louise Penny, #1 bestselling author of the Gamache novels, and Mellissa Fung, an award-winning journalist.A mother and a daughter race against time in this all-too-real thriller that reaches from Tiananmen Square all the way to the White House.Alice Li, a first-generation Chinese American and former food blogger, has long lived in the shadow of her mother, Vivien Li— a Tiananmen Square dissid...

Alex, an African grey parrot, could name fifty objects, count to six, and say "I'm sorry." For thirty years, scientist Irene Pepperberg asked whether he truly knew a word or only performed one — and the answer changed how we see every animal that has ever tried to speak to us.The Last Polyglot is the true story of that question, told as a murder-mystery documentary: who killed the idea of an animal mind, and can we ever prove what was inside the bird?

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERFrom the author of the runaway hit, Hidden Pictures**, comes a stunning new work of domestic suspense**“Part conspiracy thriller, part family drama, The Last One at the Wedding kept my heart racing and my mind reeling.” ―Riley Sager"The ultimate middle-class Dad battles the 1% for his daughter's soul in the best thriller I've read all year." ―Grady Hendrix

Sixty million dollars. Five potential heirs. One house in remote rural Alaska. It's a recipe for murder . . .Summoned by letter, Holly Shaw and five of her cousins—virtual strangers to each other—have gathered at a grand house in the rugged wilds of Alaska. Equally unfamiliar to Holly is her great aunt Lydia, the woman who has called the family together and is dangling a massive inheritance before them. Her condition: they must remain in the house, with Lydia and he...

**"The buzz...is real. I've read it and was blown away. It's a true nerve-shredder that keeps its mind-blowing secrets to the very end." —Stephen KingNamed one of the Best Horror Books of All Time (Esquire and Cosmopolitan) • Winner of the British Fantasy Award for Best Horror Novel • An Indie Next Pick • A LibraryReads Top 10 Pick • A Library Journal Editors' Pick**Catriona Ward's The Last House on Needless Street is a shocking and immer...

The Question is the Question is a mental health concept album in poems: surreal, funny, wounded, strange, and stubbornly alive.Frank Questionmark writes from the hallway outside the panic attack, the movie playing too late at night, the old punk song in the car, the medication bottle on the counter, the family name people pause over, and the question that refuses to become a period.Across poems of recovery, horror, identity, grief, anger, pop culture, Filipino-Amer...