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What is a happily ever after really worth? Naomi was living the quintessential love story. Boy meets girl. They fall in love, get married, buy a dream house, start a family . . . Then—he kicks her out, hires the city’s best divorce lawyers, drains their accounts, and takes up with a...

Juliette, now mayor of Silo 18, doesn’t trust Silo 1, especially its leader, Donald. But in the world of the Silos, there is no black and white—everything is shades of gray. Donald may not be the monster Juliette thinks he is, and may in fact be key to humanity’s continued survival. But can they work together long enough to succeed?

In 2007, the Center for Automation in Nanobiotech (CAN) outlined the hardware and software platforms that would one day allow robots smaller than human cells to make medical diagnoses, conduct repairs, and even self-propagate. In the same year, the CBS network re-aired a program about the effects of propranolol on sufferers of extreme trauma. A simple pill, it had been discovered, could wipe out the memory of any traumatic event. At almost the same moment in humanity’s broad history, mankind discovered the means for bringing about its utter downfall. And the ability to forget it ever happened.

The world outside has grown toxic, the view of it limited, talk of it forbidden. The remnants of humanity live underground in a single silo. But there are always those who hope, who dream. These are the dangerous people, the residents who infect others with their optimism. Their punishment is simple. They are given the very thing they want: They are allowed to go outside.

'Absolute joy' Sarah Winman 'The funniest of writers. . . Villa Coco is such a sunny book' Kate Atkinson 'Every sentence in this novel sings' David Sedaris 'Eccentric, funny, touching: I adored it' Nina Stibbe 'Sheer, riotous, unmitigated joy' Kiran Millwood Hargrave Broke and directionless, our...

The second book in the Pioneer series, which catalyzed one of Russia's largest-ever crackdowns on LGBTQ+ representation, continues the story of star-crossed gay lovers 20 years after meeting at summer camp Yurka and Volodya first meet in 1986 during summer at Pioneer Camp—and it's there that...

An ancient, definitive treatise on conflict and human psychology, revealing how to achieve victory through deception, disciplined planning, and knowing both your enemy and yourself without ever having to fight...

Born as a seventy-year-old man and destined to grow younger by the day, Benjamin Button must navigate love, family, and society while living his life entirely in reverse...

Unfolding through the haze of an unreliable narrator, this masterwork of psychological suspense peels back the polished facade of two wealthy couples meeting at European spa resorts to expose a web of deceit, infidelity, and quiet devastation...

The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick's short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre. This stunning new edition of Philip K Dick's work includes the influential 'We Can Remember It For You Wholesale' and 'The Electric Ant', as well as a litany of...

The definitive editions of Philip K. Dick’s short stories, containing some of the most defining works in the Science Fiction genre. This stunning new edition of Philip K. Dick’s work includes the influential "We Can Remember It For You Wholesale" and "The Electric Ant," as well as a litany...

In the eerie, folklore-steeped village of Sleepy Hollow, superstitious schoolmaster Ichabod Crane vies for the hand of a wealthy heiress, only to cross paths on a midnight ride with the terrifying Headless Horseman...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR Nine stunningly original, provocative, and poignant stories—two published for the very first time—all from the mind of the incomparable author of Stories of Your Life and Others Tackling some of humanity’s oldest...

“White Nights” tells the story of a lonely man who wanders the streets of St. Petersburg over the course of four nights, searching for an escape from his isolation...

If our memories make us who we are, who is a man without any? Nameless has only a gun, missions from a shadowy agency, and one dead aim: dispense justice when the law fails. As he moves from town to town, driven by splintered visions of the past and future, he's headed toward the ultimate...

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE MAN IN THE HIGH CASTLE AND DO ANDROIDS DREAM OF ELECTRIC SHEEP? Glen Runciter is dead. Or is he? Someone died in the explosion orchestrated by his business rivals, but even as his funeral is scheduled, his mourning employees are receiving bewildering messages...

Lucidly and beautifully written, Peace Is Every Step contains commentaries, meditations, personal anecdotes, and stories from Nhat Hanh's experiences as a peace activist, teacher, and community leader. It begins where the listener already is - in the kitchen, office, driving a car, walking - and shows how deep meditative presence is available now.

In Ostia, a depressed coastal settlement twenty miles from the powerful and corrupt city of Rome, a mighty local crime family, the Mafia, corrupt politicians, and new rabid criminal elements battle each other for a billion-dollar payoff. During the final days of Silvio Berlusconi's reign, a...

2021 SOVAS Award Finalist for Audiobook Narration—Short Story Anthology—Best Voiceover Behind a wall of amnesia, he can’t remember anything. Maybe he can’t bear to. Nameless knows only the mission: Directed by the mysterious Ace of Diamonds, he travels the country, turning predators into...

The magnificent second novel from the legendary author of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Following the astonishing success of his first novel, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ken Kesey wrote what Charles Bowden calls "one of the few essential books written by an American in the last half...