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By Rick Riordan
Fourth Wing
By Rebecca Yarros
<b>DON'T BE THE LAST TO DISCOVER THE SERIES THAT EVERYONE CAN'T STOP TALKING ABOUT:</b> <br> <br> <b>'Pure escapism - think</b> <i>Hunger Games</i> <b>meets</b> <i>Fifty Shades</i><b>'</b> <i>The Sun</i><br> <br> <b>'We weren't expecting to become obsessed . . . but we very much are and we're not alone' <i>Sunday Times Style</i></b><br> <br> <b>'This book contains an addictive, drug like essence that will make you relinquish all responsibility' <i>Glamour</i><br> <br></b> <b>'Yarros had me hooked from the first chapter' <i>Mail on Sunday</i></b><br> __________________________________________<br> <br> <b>FRIENDS. ENEMIES. LOVERS . . .</b><br> <b>EVERYONE HAS AN AGENDA</b><br> <br> Violet Sorrengail expected to live a quiet life surrounded by books, until she was forced onto the world's deadliest training ground. Now she must fight to join the army's elite: dragon riders. But dragons don't choose fragile riders, they incinerate them, and when your body breaks as easily as Violet's does - death is only a heartbeat away.<br> <br> <b>EVERY NIGHT COULD BE YOUR LAST</b><br> <br> Many cadets would kill Violet to better their own chances of success; the rest would kill her just because of her last name . . . including the ruthless Xaden Riorson, her family's greatest enemy. With the odds stacked against her, Violet must use every edge her wits can give her just to see the next sunrise, because once you enter Basgiath War College, there are only two ways out:<br> <br> <b>GRADUATE OR DIE</b><br> __________________________________________<br> <br> <b>OVER ONE MILLION READERS HAVE ALREADY GIVEN FOUR</b><b>T</b><b>H WING FIVE S</b><b>T</b><b>ARS. ARE YOU READY</b> <b>T</b><b>O ENTER</b> <b>T</b><b>HE WORLD OF BASGIA</b><b>T</b><b>H WAR COLLEGE?</b> <br> <br> 'The new publishing <b>sensation</b>' <i>Daily Mail</i><br> <br> 'I <b>couldn't</b> put it down!' Millie Bobby Brown<br> <br> 'If I can <b>convince you</b> to read one book I recommend it would be this one'<br> <br> 'I didn't sleep, I didn't eat, and when I finished, I had the overwhelming urge to just <b>start it all over again</b>'<br> <br> 'This book is probably <b>the best fantasy book</b> I have ever read'<br> <br> '<b>FIVE. FREAKING. STARS</b>. There is no universe where I could give this book any less of a rating'<br> <br> 'There are some stories you read and enjoy but every so often you come across one that just <b>obliterates everything</b> and takes over your entire being within a few pages and <b>becomes your world and personality</b>. Well, this is the one'<br> <br> <b>'</b>The world building in this was <b>phenomenal</b>. I lived, breathed and became a part of the college'<br> <br> 'You know when you finish a book, and it leaves an <b>ache in your chest</b> because it was so good, and now it's over? That's exactly how I feel after finishing Fourth Wing'<br> <br> <br> <b>OTHER BOOKS IN THE EMPYREAN SERIES:</b><br> - FOURTH WING<br> - IRON FLAME<br> - ONYX STORM<br> <br> *Rebecca Yarros's <i>Fourth Wing</i> paperback was an instant number-one bestseller in the first week of April 2024.
The Song of Achilles
By Madeline Miller
Circe
By Madeline Miller
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Red Rising
By Pierce Brown
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Pierce Brown’s relentlessly entertaining debut channels the excitement of The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and Ender’s Game by Orson Scott Card.<br/><br/>“Red Rising ascends above a crowded dystopian field.”—USA Today<br/><br/>ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR—Entertainment Weekly, BuzzFeed, Shelf Awareness<br/><br/>“I live for the dream that my children will be born free,” she says. “That they will be what they like. That they will own the land their father gave them.”<br/>“I live for you,” I say sadly.<br/>Eo kisses my cheek. “Then you must live for more.”<br/><br/>Darrow is a Red, a member of the lowest caste in the color-coded society of the future. Like his fellow Reds, he works all day, believing that he and his people are making the surface of Mars livable for future generations. Yet he toils willingly, trusting that his blood and sweat will one day result in a better world for his children.<br/><br/>But Darrow and his kind have been betrayed. Soon he discovers that humanity reached the surface generations ago. Vast cities and lush wilds spread across the planet. Darrow—and Reds like him—are nothing more than slaves to a decadent ruling class.<br/><br/>Inspired by a longing for justice, and driven by the memory of lost love, Darrow sacrifices everything to infiltrate the legendary Institute, a proving ground for the dominant Gold caste, where the next generation of humanity’s overlords struggle for power. He will be forced to compete for his life and the very future of civilization against the best and most brutal of Society’s ruling class. There, he will stop at nothing to bring down his enemies . . . even if it means he has to become one of them to do so.<br/><br/>Praise for Red Rising<br/><br/>“[A] spectacular adventure . . . one heart-pounding ride . . . Pierce Brown’s dizzyingly good debut novel evokes The Hunger Games, Lord of the Flies, and Ender’s Game. . . . [Red Rising] has everything it needs to become meteoric.”—Entertainment Weekly<br/><br/>“Ender, Katniss, and now Darrow.”—Scott Sigler<br/><br/>“Red Rising is a sophisticated vision. . . . Brown will find a devoted audience.”—Richmond Times-Dispatch<br/><br/>Don’t miss any of Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Saga:<br/>RED RISING • GOLDEN SON • MORNING STAR • IRON GOLD • DARK AGE • LIGHT BRINGER
Crime and Punishment
By Fyodor Dostoevsky
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The Brothers Karamazov: A Novel in Four Parts and an Epilogue
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith, meaning and morality, The Brothers Karamazov is translated with an introduction and notes by David McDuff in Penguin Classics.<br/><br/>When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered, the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably: Mitya, the sensualist, whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan, the intellectual, whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha, who tries to heal the family's rifts; and the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother Smerdyakov. As the ensuing investigation and trial reveal the true identity of the murderer, Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence and corruption, good and evil, blur and everyone's faith in humanity is tested.<br/><br/>This powerful translation of The Brothers Karamazov features and introduction highlighting Dostoyevsky's recurrent themes of guilt and salvation, with a new chronology and further reading.<br/><br/>“There is no writer who better demonstrates the contradictions and fluctuations of the creative mind than Dostoyevsky, and nowhere more astonishingly than in The Brothers Karamazov.”—Joyce Carol Oates<br/><br/>“Dostoyevsky was the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn: he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life.”—Friedrich Nietzsche<br/><br/>“The most magnificent novel ever written.”—Sigmund Freud
One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, 1)
By Rachel Gillig
THE FANTASY BOOKTOK SENSATION!<br/><br/>For fans of Uprooted and For the Wolf comes a dark, lushly gothic fantasy about a maiden who must unleash the monster within to save her kingdom—but the monster in her head isn't the only threat lurking.<br/><br/>Elspeth needs a monster. The monster might be her.<br/><br/>Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom she calls home—she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets.<br/>But nothing comes for free, especially magic.<br/>When Elspeth meets a mysterious highwayman on the forest road, her life takes a drastic turn. Thrust into a world of shadow and deception, she joins a dangerous quest to cure the kingdom of the dark magic infecting it. Except the highwayman just so happens to be the King’s own nephew, Captain of the Destriers…and guilty of high treason.<br/>He and Elspeth have until Solstice to gather twelve Providence Cards—the keys to the cure. But as the stakes heighten and their undeniable attraction intensifies, Elspeth is forced to face her darkest secret yet: the Nightmare is slowly, darkly, taking over her mind. And she might not be able to stop him.
The Bell Jar (Modern Classics)
By Sylvia Plath
<p><i>The Bell Jar</i> chronicles the crack-up of Esther Greenwood: brilliant, beautiful, enormously talented, and successful, but slowly going under -- maybe for the last time. Sylvia Plath masterfully draws the reader into Esther's breakdown with such intensity that Esther's insanity becomes completely real and even rational, as probable and accessible an experience as going to the movies. Such deep penetration into the dark and harrowing corners of the psyche is an extraordinary accomplishment and has made <i>The Bell Jar</i> a haunting American classic.</p> <p>This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.</p>
The Priory of the Orange Tree
By Samantha Shannon
<p><b>The <i>New York Times </i>bestselling "</b><b>epic feminist fantasy perfect for fans of <i>Game of Thrones</i></b><b>" (Bustle).</b><br><br><b>NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY:</b><br><b>AMAZON (Top 100 Editors Picks and Science Fiction and Fantasy) * CHICAGO PUBLIC LIBRARY * BOOKPAGE * AUTOSTRADDLE<br><br>A world divided.<br>A queendom without an heir.<br>An ancient enemy awakens.</b><br><br>The House of Berethnet has ruled Inys for a thousand years. Still unwed, Queen Sabran the Ninth must conceive a daughter to protect her realm from destruction--but assassins are getting closer to her door. <br><br>Ead Duryan is an outsider at court. Though she has risen to the position of lady-in-waiting, she is loyal to a hidden society of mages. Ead keeps a watchful eye on Sabran, secretly protecting her with forbidden magic.<br><br>Across the dark sea, Tané has trained all her life to be a dragonrider, but is forced to make a choice that could see her life unravel.<br><br>Meanwhile, the divided East and West refuse to parley, and forces of chaos are rising from their sleep.</p>
