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The Fragile Threads of Power

V. E. Schwab

Stone and Sky

Ben Aaronovitch

City of Glass

Cassandra Clare

The Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller

Six of Crows

Leigh Bardugo

Fourth Wing

Fourth Wing #1

Iron Flame

Fourth Wing #2

Onyx Storm

Fourth Wing #3

Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami

1Q84

Haruki Murakami

City of Bones

Cassandra Clare

Jumanji

Chris Van Allsburg

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Neil Gaiman

Smoke and Mirrors

Neil Gaiman

Prince of Swords

Arcana Academy #2

Arcana Academy

Arcana Academy #1

A Wrinkle in Time

Madeleine L'Engle

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Harry Potter #7

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Harry Potter #6

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

Harry Potter #5

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Harry Potter #4

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Harry Potter #3

<p><i>'Welcome to the Knight Bus, emergency transport for the stranded witch or wizard. Just stick out your wand hand, step on board and we can take you anywhere you want to go.'</i><br><br>When the Knight Bus crashes through the darkness and screeches to a halt in front of him, it's the start of another far from ordinary year at Hogwarts for Harry Potter. Sirius Black, escaped mass-murderer and follower of Lord Voldemort, is on the run - and they say he is coming after Harry. In his first ever Divination class, Professor Trelawney sees an omen of death in Harry's tea leaves... But perhaps most terrifying of all are the Dementors patrolling the school grounds, with their soul-sucking kiss...<br><br><br><i>Having become classics of our time, the Harry Potter eBooks never fail to bring comfort and escapism. With their message of hope, belonging and the enduring power of truth and love, the story of the Boy Who Lived continues to delight generations of new readers.</i></p>

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

Harry Potter #2

A Feast for Crows

A Song of Ice and Fire #4

A Storm of Swards

A Song of Ice and Fire #3

A Clash of Kings

A Song of Ice and Fire #2

A Game of Thrones

A Song of Ice and Fire #1

Wuthering Heights

Emily Bronte

<b>Coming soon to the big screen is Emerald Fennell’s feature film “<i>Wuthering Heights</i>,” which captures the spirit of this epic love story and stars Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi as Catherine and Heathcliff.<br></b><br>Emily Brontë's only novel endures as a work of tremendous and far-reaching influence. The Penguin Classics edition is the definitive version of the text, edited with an introduction by Pauline Nestor.<br><br>Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange, situated on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night at Wuthering Heights, the home of his landlord. There he discovers the history of the tempestuous events that took place years before. What unfolds is the tale of the intense love between the gypsy foundling Heathcliff and Catherine Earnshaw. Catherine, forced to choose between passionate, tortured Heathcliff and gentle, well-bred Edgar Linton, surrendered to the expectations of her class. As Heathcliff's bitterness and vengeance at his betrayal is visited upon the next generation, their innocent heirs must struggle to escape the legacy of the past. <br><br>In this edition, a new preface by Lucasta Miller, author of <i>The Brontë Myth</i>, looks at the ways in which the novel has been interpreted, from Charlotte Brontë onwards. This complements Pauline Nestor's introduction, which discusses changing critical receptions of the novel, as well as Emily Brontë's influences and background.

The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn

Mark Twain

The Green Mile

Stephen King

The Screwfly Solution

Raccoona Sheldon

The Silence of the Lambs

Thomas Harris

House of Leaves

Mark Z. Danielewski

Don't Let the Forest In

CG Drews

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson

The Amityville Horror

Jay Anson

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson

The Bog Wife

Kay Chronister

The King in Yellow

Robert W. Chambers

Wilder Girls

Rory Power

The Turn of the Screw

Henry James

A Rose for Emily

William Faulkner

The Lottery

Shirley Jackson

Dracula

Bram Stoker

When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula with the purchase of a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries about his client and his castle. Soon afterwards, a number of disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked at Whitby; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman's neck; and the inmate of a lunatic asylum raves about the imminent arrival of his 'Master'. In the ensuing battle of wits between the sinister Count Dracula and a determined group of adversaries, Bram Stoker created a masterpiece of the horror genre, probing deeply into questions of human identity and sanity, and illuminating dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

The Brothers Karamazov

Fyodor Dostoevsky

East of Eden

John Steinbeck

The Stranger

Albert Camus

Of Mice and Men

John Steinbeck

The Complete Grimms' Fairy Tales

Jacob Grimm

The Metamorphosis

Franz Kafka

Notes from Underground

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde

One Hundred Years of Solitude

Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

Little Women

Louisa May Alcott

Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy

Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen

Emma

Jane Austen

The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath

Bleak House

Charles Dickens

The Plague

Albert Camus

To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee

Catch-22

Joseph Heller

To the Lighthouse

Virginia Woolf

The Catcher in the Rye

J. D. Salinger

Mrs. Dalloway

Virginia Woolf

As I Lay Dying

William Faulkner

The Scarlet Letter

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Crime and Punishment

Fyodor Dostoevsky

The Bluest Eye

Toni Morrison

Beloved

Toni Morrison

The Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck

Dune

Dune #1

Dune Messiah

Dune #2

Children of Dune

Dune #3

God Emperor of Dune

Dune #4

Project Hail Mary

Andy Weir

Dust

Silo #3

Shift

Silo #2

Wool

Silo #1

The Illustrated Man

Ray Bradbury

Journey to the Center of the Earth

Jules Verne

The Oxford Book of Science Fiction Stories

T. A. Shippey

The War of the Worlds

H.G. Wells

Slaughterhouse-Five

Kurt Vonnegut

And Then There Were None

Agatha Christie

The Inheritance Games

Jennifer Lynn Barnes

The God of the Woods

Liz Moore

The Hidden Staircase

Nancy Drew #2

The Secret of the Old Clock

Nancy Drew #1

An Instance of the Fingerpost

Iain Pears

The Maid

Nita Prose

The Complete Sherlock Holmes

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes

The Hunger Games #0

Mockingjay

The Hunger Games #3

Catching Fire

The Hunger Games #2

The Hunger Games

lThe Hunger Games #1

This Special Edition of <i>The Hunger Games</i> includes the most extensive interview Suzanne Collins has given since the publication of <i>The Hunger Games</i>; an absorbing behind-the-scenes look at the creation of the series; and an engaging archival conversation between Suzanne Collins and YA legend Walter Dean Myers on writing about war. The Special Edition answers many questions fans have had over the years, and gives great insight into the creation of this era-defining work.<p></p>In the ruins of a place once known as North America lies the nation of Panem, a shining Capitol surrounded by twelve outlying districts. The Capitol keeps the districts in line by forcing them all to send one boy and one girl between the ages of twelve and eighteen to participate in the annual Hunger Games, a fight to the death on live TV.Sixteen-year-old Katniss Everdeen regards it as a death sentence when she steps forward to take her sister's place in the Games. But Katniss has been close to death before-and survival, for her, is second nature. Still, if she is to win, she will have to start making choices that weigh survival against humanity and life against love.

1984

George Orwell

<b>Written more than 70 years ago, <i>1984</i> was George Orwell’s chilling prophecy about the future. And while 1984 has come and gone, his dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative is timelier than ever...<br><br><b>• Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s <i>The Great American Read •</i></b><br></b><br>“<i>The Party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command.</i>”<br><br>Winston Smith toes the Party line, rewriting history to satisfy the demands of the Ministry of Truth. With each lie he writes, Winston grows to hate the Party that seeks power for its own sake and persecutes those who dare to commit thoughtcrimes. But as he starts to think for himself, Winston can’t escape the fact that Big Brother is always watching...<br><br>A startling and haunting novel, <i>1984</i> creates an imaginary world that is completely convincing from start to finish. No one can deny the novel’s hold on the imaginations of whole generations, or the power of its admonitions—a power that seems to grow, not lessen, with the passage of time.

Farenheit 451

Ray Bradbury

The Testaments

The Handmaid’s Tale #2

The Handmaid’s Tale

The Handmaid’s Tale #1

Anthem

Ayn Rand

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

This House of Grief

Helen Garner

All About History Jack the Ripper

The Devil in the White City

Erik Larson

Angels & Demons

Dan Brown

Before I Go To Sleep

S. J. Watson

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Betty Smith

The Shadow of the Wind

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Tattooist of Auschwitz

Heather Morris

Still Alice

Lisa Genova

Salt to the Sea

Ruta Sepetys

The Kite Runner

Khaled Hosseini

Between Shades of Gray

Ruta Sepetys

A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini

The Help

Kathryn Stockett

The Nightingale

Kristin Hannah

The Hours

Michael Cunningham

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Stieg Larsson

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

John Boyne

The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro

Those who Save Us

Jenna Blum

The Book Thief

Markus Zusak

All the Light We Cannot See

Anthony Doerr

A Month in the Country

J.L. Carr

S.

J. J. Abrams, Doug Dorst

Alias Grace

Margaret Atwood

The Fall

Albert Camus

The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

The Goldfinch

Donna Tartt

Atonement

Ian McEwan

I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Joanne Greenberg

Dubliners

James Joyce

Mulligan Stew

Gilbert Sorrentino

The Reader

Bernhard Schlink

Lord of the Flies

William Golding

Astragal

Albertine Sarrazin

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Stephen Chbosky

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara

Boys Don't Cry

Fiona Scarlett

Wonder

R. J. Palacio

All the Bright Places

Jennifer Niven

We Need to Talk About Kevin

Lionel Shriver

It's Kind of a Funny Story

Ned Vizzini

<br>Like many ambitious New York City teenagers, Craig Gilner sees entry into Manhattan’s Executive Pre-Professional High School as the ticket to his future. Determined to succeed at life—which means getting into the right high school to get into the right college to get the right job—Craig studies night and day to ace the entrance exam, and does.  That’s when things start to get crazy.<br><br>At his new school, Craig realizes that he isn't brilliant compared to the other kids; he’s just average, and maybe not even that. He soon sees his once-perfect future crumbling away. The stress becomes unbearable and Craig stops eating and sleeping—until, one night, he nearly kills himself. <br><br>Craig’s suicidal episode gets him checked into a mental hospital, where his new neighbors include a transsexual sex addict, a girl who has scarred her own face with scissors, and the self-elected President Armelio.  There, isolated from the crushing pressures of school and friends, Craig is finally able to confront the sources of his anxiety.<br><br>Ned Vizzini, who himself spent time in a psychiatric hospital, has created a remarkably moving tale about the sometimes unexpected road to happiness. For a novel about depression, it’s definitely a funny story.<br>

On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Ocean Vuong

The Virgin Suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides

The Blue Castle

L. M. Montgomery

Norwegian Wood

Haruki Murakami

Water for Elephants

Sara Gruen

Flipped

Wendelin Van Draanen

The Silver Linings Playbook

Matthew Quick

Normal People

Sally Rooney

NOW AN EMMY-NOMINATED HULU ORIGINAL SERIES • NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE • “A stunning novel about the transformative power of relationships” (People) from the author of Conversations with Friends, “a master of the literary page-turner” (J. Courtney Sullivan).   “[A] novel that demands to be read compulsively, in one sitting.”—The Washington Post ONE OF ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY’S TEN BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: People, Slate, The New York Public Library, Harvard Crimson Connell and Marianne grew up in the same small town, but the similarities end there. At school, Connell is popular and well liked, while Marianne is a loner. But when the two strike up a conversation—awkward but electrifying—something life changing begins. A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years at university, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. And as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other. Normal People is the story of mutual fascination, friendship, and love. It takes us from that first conversation to the years beyond, in the company of two people who try to stay apart but find that they can’t.   WINNER: The British Book Award, The Costa Book Award, The An Post Irish Novel of the Year, Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: The New York Times, The New York Times Book Review, Oprah Daily, Time, NPR, The Washington Post, Vogue, Esquire, Glamour, Elle, Marie Claire, Vox, The Paris Review, Good Housekeeping, Town & Country

The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century

Ian Mortimer

Marie Antoinette: The Journey

Antonia Fraser

History of Witchcraft Uncovering the Truth Behind the Trials that Tore Europe Apart

Sarah Bankes · 2018

All about History Book of the Titanic

The Pianist

Władysław Szpilman

Unbroken A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience, and Redemption

Laura Hillenbrand

Farewell to Manzanar

Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston

The Dairy Of a Young Girl

Anne Frank

The Secret History

Donna Tartt

<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>

Babel

R. F. Kuang

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 Brass 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. 1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. Babel is the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as its knowledge serves the Empire’s quest for colonization. For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide… Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?

Katabasis

R.F. Kuang

The Devine Comedy

Dante Alighieri

Paradise Lost

John Milton

The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer

The Odyssey

Homer

Mythology

Edith Hamilton

Macbeth

William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

William Shakespeare

Hamlet

William Shakespeare

The Merchant of Venice

William Shakespeare

Letters of Note

Shaun Usher

Alive The Story of the Andes Survivors

Piers Paul Read

The Complete Works of Nellie Bly

Nellie Bly

Inside the Victorian Home A Portrait of Domestic Life in Victorian England

Judith Flanders

Below Stairs

Margaret Powell

Upstairs & Downstairs. The illustrated guide to the real world of Downton Abbey

Sarah Warwick

Crying in H Mart

Michelle Zauner

The Glass Castle A Memoir

Jeannette Walls

Night

Elie Wiesel

Blue Nights

Joan Didion

Girl, Interrupted

Susanna Kaysen