**"The Secret Dinner is a potent combination of gallows humor, Hitchcockian suspense, and trenchant social commentary. Bold and bloody, it's a thriller with real bite." —**Riley Sager, New York Times bestselling author of The Only One Left“This rollercoaster of a novel is highly imaginative and totally unique. I devoured it — no pun intended! — in one sitting. By ...

A Katie Couric Book Club Pick“Part mystery, part coming-of-age tale, Night Objects will keep readers guessing all the way through, but it's the book's emotional center—a daughter in deep mourning for her late mother—that elevates this novel into something truly memorable.” ―Liz Moore, New York Times bestselling author of The God of the Woods

A twisted young medical student kidnaps the girl of his dreams and embarks on a dark and delirious road trip across Brazil in the English-language debut of Brazil's most celebrated young crime writer.Teo Avelar is a loner. He lives with his paraplegic mother and her dog in Rio de Janeiro, he doesn't have many friends, and the only time he feels honest human emotion is in the presence of his medical school cadaver—that is, until he meets Clarice. She's almost his ex...

**An Instant New York Times BestsellerFrom Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock, a sermon in the public square on the issues that plague us most**Senator Reverend Raphael G. Warnock is a transformational voice in Congress and the pastor of Martin Luther King, Jr.’s Ebenezer Baptist Church, and for the semiquincentennial of America, he exhorts us to reach for the highest and noblest aspects of our national character. Senator Warnock argues that we suffer not from a p...

First published ten years ago, award-winning historian Ray Raphael's Founding Myths has since established itself as a landmark of historical myth-busting. With Raphael's trademark wit and flair, Founding Myths exposed the errors and inventions in America's most cherished tales, from Paul Revere's famous ride to Patrick Henry's "Liberty or Death" speech. For the thousands who have been captivated by Raphael's eye-opening accounts, history has never been the same.In...

**A fabulously off-beat collection of short stories about love—the best and worst thing in the universe—written by the creator of BoJack Horseman with his hallmark scathing dark humor“Transcendent tragicomedy.... Prepare to be devastated and made whole again.” —The A.V. Club**Featuring:• A young engaged couple forced to deal with interfering relatives dictating the appropriate number of ritual goat sacrifices for their wedding....

A master swordsman travels to dangerous, Revolution-era France to claim his inheritance, in this swashbuckling adventure by the author Captain Blood.The French Revolution is well underway. Countless French nobles are escaping from the horrible violence and traveling to England for refuge. Meanwhile, Quentin de Morlaix, master swordsman, runs a popular fencing school in London. He may have been raised in England since he was a baby, but his French blood giv...

**STARRED Reviews in Kirkus, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, Shelf AwarenessA Best Book of the Year—Kirkus, The Times of London**This "beautifully illustrated, nearly wordless book" (New York Times) set in the dawn of human life imagines how art and storytelling were born from the power of one young girl's observation.Once upon a time, during the Pleistocene, somewhere between two-and-a-half million...

Mallory Ellis is facing the ultimate dilemma.Mediterranean aristocrat Rafael D'Afonso is offeringher the family she's always wanted. But can she riskgiving up her high-flying career for the chance ofmotherhood, when all Rafael is proposingis a marriage in name only…?

After every breath the demon is taken in to a daze not understanding the strength of power in length of love.

Chios Classics brings literature's greatest works back to life for new generations. All our books contain a linked table of contents.Scaramouche, written by Rafael Sabatini, is a historical novel set during the French Revolution.

First in the series featuring the darkly handsome, proud, and arrogant Orsini brothers—the perfect Sicilian husbands—from the USA Today–bestselling author.Raffaele Orsini doesn't want a wife . . .But when he meets his arranged bride, Raffaele feels honor bound to marry her. She's not what he was expecting . . . but her dowdy clothes can't hide her lusciously feminine figure or her wildcat temperament!Chiara Cordiano wi...