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AN INSTANT USA TODAY BESTSELLER!In this lyrical debut, three generations of Palestinian women must put the haunting of their ancestral home to rest, before the secrets of the past drown them all. Our Cut of Salt is a powerful and intimate look at what it means to make a home, to lose it, and to return, only to find it irrevocably changed.“A one-of-a-kind haunted house.” —Paul Tremblay, New York Times bests...

NOW A MAJOR NETFLIX TV SERIES STARRING RACHEL WEISZ, LEO WOODALL, AND JOHN SLATTERY, WITH SHARON HORGAN AS EXECUTIVE PRODUCERAn NPR, Washington Post, Time, People, Vulture, Guardian, Vox, Kirkus Reviews, Newsweek, LitHub, and New York Public Library Best Book of the Year * “Delightful…cathartic, devious, and terrifically entertaining.” —The New York Times * “Timely, wh...

Pitted against one another, with the people and country they love in jeopardy, the daughter of a deserter and the son of the king have a chance to fulfill their forebears' legacy—or destroy it entirely.Twisted monsters called saja lurk in the shadows of the mountains. Rumors say the Fidelis, human wielders of an ancient elemental magic, again walk the plains. Not all in Avaron believe, and not all welcome the return of legend.Kura's a skeptic. But, she'll cross and befriend...

ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’ 10 BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAROne of The New Yorker’s 24 Essential Reads of the YearFinalist for the PEN/Faulkner AwardLonglisted for the National Book Award for FictionOne of Publishers Weekly’s Ten Best Books of the YearLonglisted for the Joyce Carol Oates Prize and the Andrew Carnegie MedalOne of the BBC...

West Golden - football star. Playboy. Dead to me.Nothing puts the final bullet in a girl’s rep like a leaked sex tape. Especially one starring her and the cocky quarterback who’s had it out for her since day one. Yep, you guessed it. That girl is me.At Cypress Prep, West is king, but all I see when I look at him is the wicked prick who gets off on trying to break me.His plaything.Go ahead. Give him a round of applause for winning that last round, but know th...

From an award-winning journalist comes this real-life cloak-and-dagger tale of Vera Atkins, one of Britain’s premiere secret agents during World War II.As the head of the French Section of the British Special Operations Executive, Vera Atkins recruited, trained, and mentored special operatives whose job was to organize and arm the resistance in Nazi-occupied France. After the war, Atkins courageously committed herself to a dangerous search for twelve of her most cherished women spie...

Jonas Jonasson is back with another irresistible adventure, this time set in nineteenth century Sweden.After his father’s death is caused by the greedy and cunning Count Bielkegren, Algot Olsson is left with nothing to his name, except for a potato field and a homemade still to make liquor. But Algot is smart, ambitious and resourceful, and it’s not long before he masters the lucrative art of distilling spirits. When his schnapps become a sensation, he finds his su...

More than six million copies sold worldwide!A larger-than-life old man with a fondness for vodka goes on an unexpected adventure in this whimsical internationally bestselling novel—perfect for fans of Forrest Gump and A Man Called Ove**.**After a long and eventful life, Allan Karlsson ends up in a nursing home, believing it to be his last stop. The only problem is that he'...

Flying too close to love could get her heart burned.FBI Agent Trevor Steele is used to tackling impossible missions. But taking a leave of absence to take care of his little sister after their mother’s death is making him long for the days when the hardest thing about his day was having a gun pointed at his head. Once his sister is finished with school, he’s getting the hell out of Pilots Point and getting back to his real life.Callie Baker is drowning in debt. The former b...

I didn’t notice her.She greeted me with a cheery smile for years, but other than nodding back, I treated her just like I do all my employees…like she’s invisible.I’m not an asshole. I swear. I’ve learned that to thrive in a family built for chaos, I need the rest of the world to disappear into the background. I’ve divided everything up into two categories: Matters and Doesn’t Matter.But in one short meeting, everything changes. Janey’s now at the ve...

The Greek gods are real, and they've come back with a vengeance.Andy and Zoey are two normal teenagers living in the year 2018—that is, until they're knocked unconscious in a freak storm sweeping the United States.When they wake up, the world they know has been tossed away. Their city is in ruins, strange creatures walk the earth, and worst of all, everyone is gone.They stumble across Diana and Spencer, two kids around their age who possess...

"How long are you going to wait before you demand the best for yourself?"– Epictetus, Stoic philosopherWhere can you find joy? Gain strength? How should we face our fears? Deal with the death of a loved one? And what about those reoccurring depressing thoughts?While traditional schooling doesn't address such questions, it's exactly what ancient schools of philosophy were all about: They taught you how to live. Even though these schools don't exist an...