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Consider Phlebas
The first book in Iain M. Banks's seminal science fiction series, The Culture. Consider Phlebas introduces readers to the utopian conglomeration of human and alien races that explores the nature of war, morality, and the limitless bounds of mankind's imagination. The war raged across the galaxy. Billions had died, billions more were doomed. Moons, planets, the very stars themselves, faced destruction, cold-blooded, brutal, and worse, random …
Romance
Lady Slight and the Visitor
She wants to begin again. He wants to set things right. When goals collide, can a renewed courtship lead to a second chance at love? A charming historical adventure romance about the brother of a duke returning from Italy to retrieve a painting from the woman he once loved. He needs to solve an epic mystery — but soon finds himself drawn into a courtship that revives the tenderness between them. She wants to change her luck .. …
Fantasy · Humor
Ponder the Orb
Mark just wanted to smoke his pipe in peace. Instead he got transported into a world of wandering wizards, monster-filled rifts, and ancient magic. Fortunately, he falls in with the Blue Wizards: a band of eccentric hermits who spend all day smoking pipes, drinking ale, foraging for magical mushrooms, practicing kung fu in the woods, and quietly pondering glowing orbs. Most mages grow stronger by hunting monsters and looting their mana. The Blue Wizards have a different philosophy …
Nonfiction
Dear Cora, Send Help
What happens when a lifelong overachiever finally takes off the name badge—but can’t stop making spreadsheets about “free time”? In this funny, heartfelt “memovel,” Jodi Prohofsky trades boardrooms for book clubs, deadlines for diary entries, and discovers that retirement isn’t a finish line—it’s a plot twist. Through letters to her wise and witty pen pal Cora, Jodi unpacks the chaos and charm of life after work: love in thermostat wars, midnight insomnia clubs …
Historical Fiction
Island of Silver
A story of two worlds – one of darkness as the First World War rages in Europe – and one of ineffable light, where a little girl named Lorley lives through her jewel bright imagination. Lorley has a golden life on the island of Guernsey. Blessed with a wondrous imagination, she sees magic all around her. She dreams of mermaids in the waves and angels in the mist, a young girl who sees heaven in the wildflowers …
Thriller & Mystery
Veil of Shadows
For five hundred years, Gus Savage has been impossible to kill—and even harder to impress. Once a feared enforcer in the fae courts, now he’s hiding in plain sight in Boston, running a trashy supernatural tabloid, drinking too much, and doing everything he can to stay out of trouble. It’s not working. When a terrified young woman named Indigo crashes into his life—dragging a trail of blood, secrets, and very interested vampires behind her—Gus is pulled back into a war he thought he’d survived …
Thriller & Mystery
When They Disappeared
After a pop star and her football player boyfriend go missing, can two mismatched operatives save them before they all end up six feet under? US Marshal Stephen Wilton is as steady as they come. Bad at love but great at his job. And when it comes to kidnapping cases, he never fails to get the hostages extracted, safe and sound. So with a celebrity couple possibly abducted, the determined lawman sets out to pursue his quarry… until his partner is killed …
Historical Fiction
Never Trust a Scoundrel
He won her in a wager—but the real gamble was his heart. Grace Banbury never dreamed her mother would stake her in a card game. But when a notorious rake wins the hand, Grace finds herself at the mercy of a man she’s been taught never to trust. Daniel Throckmorten is everything society warns against—charming, wickedly handsome, and born into scandal. Daniel may have claimed her as a prize, but he offers Grace a choice: a wager …
Historical Fiction
Sketches from the Periphery
A haunting Darfur War novel that captures the raw pulse of conflict and resilience in Sudan’s heart. In 2005, a young American contractor, Alex Barr, arrives in El Fasher, North Darfur, embedded with the African Union Peacekeeping Mission. Amid the chaos of the Sudanese conflict, he navigates a world of ethnic tensions, tribal militias, and fleeting moments of humanity …
Science Fiction
Commander's Touch
She was trained for battle. Not for her. Commander Nayra Valthor expected nothing more than tense negotiations on enemy soil. But the moment her eyes locked with Aurora Renallis, she knew she was in trouble. Aurora is like a wildfire, unpredictable, defiant, and capable of burning through every wall Nayra spent years building. She can command armies... but can she command her own heart? Aurora has never seen Nayra and her people as anything but savages in uniforms …
Romance
Seeing Grayscale
What would you do for a glimpse of color? I’ve been on the streets for four years, but my soul’s been homeless for longer. And I’ve accepted this is my reality. Still, I’m tired and dream of something better than this grim existence. My life revolves around handouts and the obscurity of a gas station dumpster. Safety is an illusion, and I’ve learned not to fall for it. Until Hunter Kade. As the Governor’s son, Hunter oozes wealth and privilege and is insistent on helping me …
Romance
Burning Steel
He will fight for a second chance, but he will burn down the world to keep her safe. Moon Lake has a way of holding onto people. Every soul in this small, nosy, relentless town will know your business — and your heartbreak — before your first cup of coffee. Which is exactly why I ran — far and fast, chasing open water and open sky. I came back for my father. For the Inn I have no idea how to run. I forgot how much I missed small-town life. But I did not forget him …
Romance
A Train of Destiny
Two young people meet on a passenger train and find love at first sight. Four hours later the train crashed in downstate Illinois killing eleven people and injuring more than a hundred. One of the young couple survived to endure the loss of a loving family member while the other suffered extensive injuries. "The cars were scattered like spaghetti. Passengers were slammed through the plate glass windows of the coaches. Rescue squads used acetylene torches to cut rails pinning victims …
-80%Science Fiction
Welcome to the Occupied States of America
FIRST CONTACT is a series of stand-alone novels that explore humanity's first interaction with extraterrestrial life. Ashley Kelly is your typical American teenager—or she would be if it wasn’t for the cluster bomb that crippled her. Seven years after the invasion, over a hundred million Americans have been displaced by the war, with millions more dead. Ash has spent seven years learning to walk again, and she’ll be damned if she’s going to lie down for anyone, human or otherwise.
-67%Fantasy
The Way of Edan
"In The Way of Edan, Philip Chase has written a highly accomplished first novel. The storytelling is top-notch. There's a gravitas in the writing that put me in mind of Tolkien, with definite shades of Katherine Kerr, along with John Gwynne. This is a novel born of love for the story." - Mark Lawrence (author of The Broken Empire Trilogy) "The Way of Edan encompasses an expanding war driven by voracious religious fanaticism. Young heroes emerge, bonded by loyalty, in an age of ripening prophecy …
-78%Literary Fiction · Historical Fiction
The African Trilogy
Chinua Achebe is considered the father of modern African literature, the writer who "opened the magic casements of African fiction." The African Trilogy—comprised of Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease—is his magnum opus. In these masterly novels, Achebe brilliantly imagines the lives of three generations of an African community as their world is upended by the forces of colonialism from the first arrival of the British to the waning days of empire …
-72%Humor
The Billionaire Bachelor
BONUS: Includes a complete Elizabeth Hayley novel from Bookshot Flames! Manwhore. That's what the board of directors--and the tabloids--thinks of billionaire bachelor Reese Crane. Ordinarily he couldn't care less, but his playboy past is preventing the board from naming him CEO of Crane Hotels. Nothing--and no one--will keep him from his life's legacy. They want a settled man to lead the company? Then that's exactly what he'll give them …
-78%Science Fiction
Voyage
In this sci-fi alternate history, JFK's planned mission to Mars embarks on an intrepid journey—"a wonderful, patriotic tale of lost possibility" (Kirkus). In Voyage, Stephen Baxter imagines how, if President Kennedy had lived, America might have gone on to send a manned mission to Mars in the 1980s. Created from true lives and real events, this richly detailed novel returns to the geniuses of NASA and the excitement of the Saturn rocket …
-75%Bestseller · Humor
Just Haven't Met You Yet
A heartwarming and hilarious tale that asks: What if you picked up the wrong suitcase and fell head over heels for its mystery owner? Hopeless romantic and lifestyle reporter Laura’s business trip to the Channel Islands isn’t off to a great start. After an embarrassing encounter with the most attractive man she’s ever seen in real life, she arrives at her hotel and realizes she’s grabbed the wrong suitcase from the airport …
-72%General Fiction
1968: The Year That Rocked the World
In this monumental new book, award-winning author Mark Kurlansky has written his most ambitious work to date: a singular and ultimately definitive look at a pivotal moment in history. With 1968, Mark Kurlansky brings to teeming life the cultural and political history of that world-changing year of social upheaval. People think of it as the year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. Yet it was also the year of the Martin Luther King Jr …
-72%Thriller & Mystery · Literary Fiction · Humor
Bellweather Rhapsody
Fifteen years ago, a murder-suicide in room 712 rocked the grand old Bellweather Hotel and the young bridesmaid who witnessed it, Minnie Graves. Now hundreds of high school musicians have gathered in the hotel's cavernous halls for the annual Statewide festival; Minnie has returned to face her demons; and a colossal snowstorm is threatening to trap them all in the hotel …
-70%Humor
The Dice Man
"One of the fifty most influential books of the last half of the twentieth century," a comic novel about a therapist making life choices by rolling dice. (BBC) The cult classic that can still change your life . . . Let the dice decide! This is the philosophy that changes the life of bored psychiatrist Luke Rhinehart―and in some ways changes the world as well. Because once you hand over your life to the dice, anything can happen …
-75%Historical Fiction
Gracelin O'Malley
Set during Ireland's devastating potato famine, a spellbinding novel of a young woman torn between love for her family and duty to her English husband. Patrick O'Malley names his newborn daughter Gracelin for the light of the sea that shines in her eyes. But when young Gracelin is only six years old, her mother's untimely death drains joy and laughter from the O'Malley clan …
-78%Biographies & True Accounts
Dropped Names
Rita Hayworth dancing by candlelight; Elizabeth Taylor tenderly wrapping him in her Pashmina scarf; streaking for Sir Laurence Olivier in a drafty English castle; terrifying a dozing Jackie Onassis; carrying an unconscious Montgomery Clift to safety on a dark New York street... Captured forever in a unique memoir, Frank Langella's myriad encounters with some of the past century's most famous human beings are profoundly affecting, funny, wicked, sometimes shocking, and utterly irresistible …
-80%Thriller & Mystery
You Will Never Be Me
When cracks start forming in an influencer’s curated life, she finds out that jealousy is just as viral as a video. Influencer Meredith Lee didn’t teach Aspen Palmer how to blossom on social media just to be ditched as soon as Aspen became big. So can anyone really blame Mer for doing a little stalking? Nothing serious, more like Stalking Lite. Then, Mer gets lucky; she finds one of Aspen’s kids’ iPads and swipes it …
-75%Historical Fiction
The Pursuit of William Abbey
A hauntingly powerful novel about how the choices we make can stay with us forever, by the award-winning author of The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August and 84K. South Africa in the 1880s. A young and naive English doctor by the name of William Abbey witnesses the lynching of a local boy by the white colonists. As the child dies, his mother curses William. William begins to understand what the curse means when the shadow of the dead boy starts following him across the world …
-73%Historical Fiction · Action & Adventure
We, the Drowned
Explore the wondrous sea and the oddities of human nature in this international bestselling, thrilling epic novel of a Danish port town. Hailed in Europe as an instant classic, We, the Drowned is the story of the port town of Marstal, Denmark, whose inhabitants sailed the world from the mid-nineteenth century to the end of the Second World War. The novel tells of ships wrecked and blown up in wars, of places of terror and violence that continue to lure each generation; there are cannibals here …
-75%Literary Fiction · Biographies & True Accounts
The End of Eddy
An autobiographical novel about growing up gay in a working-class town in Picardy. Already translated into twenty languages, The End of Eddy captures the violence and desperation of life in a French factory town. It is also a sensitive, universal portrait of boyhood and sexual awakening. Like Karl Ove Knausgaard or Edmund White, Édouard Louis writes from his own undisguised experience, but he writes with an openness and a compassionate intelligence that are all his own …
-73%General Fiction
The Devil in Jerusalem
An ambulance screams through Jerusalem's quiet streets. Inside, a toddler fights for his life, his parents nowhere to be found. With profound shock, an emergency room doctor realizes that the child's mother—a young American—is already at the hospital, sitting at the bedside of yet another child with traumatic injuries. Devoutly reciting Psalms, she stubbornly refuses to answer any questions, cautioning her children to say nothing …
-73%Thriller & Mystery · Historical Fiction
The Castle of Kings
An epic standalone novel of historical fiction tinged with mystery, set against the backdrop of medieval Germany's Peasant War from the best-selling author of the Hangman's Daughter series. In 1524, in what is now Germany, hundreds of thousands of peasants revolted against the harsh treatment of their aristocratic overlords. Agnes is the daughter of one of these overlords, but she is not a typical sixteenth-century girl …
-50%Romance
The Magic of Lemon Drop Pie
An uplifting novel about a heartbroken young pie maker who is granted a magical second chance to live the life she didn’t choose. Lolly Blanchard's life only seems to give her lemons. Ten years ago, after her mother’s tragic death, she broke up with her first love and abandoned her dream of opening a restaurant in order to keep her family’s struggling Seattle diner afloat and care for her younger sister and grieving father …
-67%Biographies & True Accounts
So That Happened
If it can happen in show business, it’s happened to Jon Cryer. Now he’s opening up for the first time and sharing his behind-the-scenes stories in a warmly endearing, sharply observed, and frankly funny look at life in Hollywood. In 1986, Jon Cryer won over America as Molly Ringwald’s loyal and lovable best friend, Duckie, in the cult classic Pretty in Pink in a role that set the tone for his three-decade-long career in Hollywood …
-67%General Fiction · Nonfiction
The Billionaire's Vinegar
The rivetingly strange story of the world's most expensive bottle of wine, and the even stranger characters whose lives have intersected with it. The New York Times bestseller, updated with a new epilogue, that tells the true story of a 1787 Château Lafite Bordeaux—supposedly owned by Thomas Jefferson—that sold for $156,000 at auction and of the eccentrics whose lives intersected with it. Was it truly entombed in a Paris cellar for two hundred years? Or did it come from a secret Nazi bunker …
-64%Thriller & Mystery · Historical Fiction
The Abstainer
An Irishman in nineteenth-century England is forced to take sides when his nephew joins the bloody underground movement for independence in this propulsive novel from the acclaimed author of The North Water. NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY CHICAGO TRIBUNE AND ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times • The New York Public Library • New Statesman • Publishers Weekly Manchester, England, 1867 …
-62%Thriller & Mystery
Safe Houses
A young woman goes on the run after discovering a dark truth at the heart of the CIA’s operations in postwar Berlin, only to be murdered years later. Now her daughter is determined to uncover the truth. West Berlin, 1979. Helen Abell oversees the CIA's network of safe houses, rare havens for field agents and case officers amidst the dangerous milieu of a city in the grips of the Cold War …
-62%General Fiction
Pure Invention
The untold story of how Japan became a cultural superpower through the fantastic inventions that captured—and transformed—the world’s imagination. Japan is the forge of the world’s fantasies: karaoke and the Walkman, manga and anime, Pac-Man and Pokémon, online imageboards and emojis. But as Japan media veteran Matt Alt proves in this brilliant investigation, these novelties did more than entertain. They paved the way for our perplexing modern lives …
-57%Religion
Shiner
On a lush mountaintop trapped in time, two women vow to protect each other at all costs—and one young girl must defy her father to survive. An hour from the closest West Virginia mining town, fifteen-year-old Wren Bird lives in a cloistered mountain cabin with her parents. They have no car, no mailbox, and no visitors-except for her mother's lifelong best friend …
-53%Humor
The Romance Revival
An unforgettable romance in which a fateful accident erases a troubled marriage from memory—and a scientific breakthrough gives love one extraordinary do-over. Three years ago, scientist Emery Finch did something completely out of character: She got married. To Luca—the impossibly charming landscaper she met on one blistering night in Vegas who made her laugh, made her dance, made her feel …
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