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What do readers say about This Is How You Lose the Time War?
flowery, poetic languagelyrical and compellingstrange and lovelyepistolary science fictionHUGO AWARD WINNER: BEST NOVELLA
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"[An] exquisitely crafted tale...Part epistolary romance, part mind-blowing science fiction adventure, this dazzling story unfolds bit by bit, revealing layers of meaning as... Read more about This Is How You Lose the Time War
That was fun, she thinks, but the thought sours in the framing. It was clean, at least. Climb up time’s threads into the past and make sure no one survives this battle to muddle the futures her Agency...
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What do readers say about Parable of the Sower?
lyrical and hauntingsurvival during/after societal collapsenear-future work of fictionelegant and vividParable of the Sower is the Butlerian odyssey of one woman who is twice as feeling in a world that has become doubly dehumanized. The time is 2025. The place is California, where small walled communities must protect themselves from hordes of despera... Read more about Parable of the Sower
I HAD MY RECURRING dream last night. I guess I should have expected it. It comes to me when I struggle—when I twist on my own personal hook and try to pretend that nothing unusual is happening. It com...
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What do readers say about The Tiger's Wife?
every page, every sentencethe grandfather's youthclean and somewhat chillymodern balkan fairy taleWeaving a brilliant latticework of family legend, loss, and love, Obreht, the youngest of "The New Yorker's" 20 best American fiction writers under 40, spins a timeless novel about a young doctor who confronts the inexplicable circumstances surroundi... Read more about The Tiger's Wife
THE FORTY DAYS OF THE SOUL BEGIN ON THE MORNING after death. That first night, before its forty days begin, the soul lies still against sweated-on pillows and watches the living fold the hands and clo...
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What do readers say about If You Find Me?
a debut novelbeautiful and uniquecontemporary realistic fiction novela must readNOW INCLUDING A BRAND-NEW EPILOGUE!
There are some things you can't leave behind...
In If You Find Me by Emily Murdoch, a broken-down camper hidden deep in a national forest is the only home fifteen year-old Carey can remember. The trees keep guard o... Read more about If You Find Me
Mama says no matter how poor folks are, whether you’re a have, a have-not, or break your mama’s back on the cracks in between, the world gives away the best stuff on the cheap. Like, the way the white...
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What do readers say about Being Dead?
a murdered coupledeath and decaydeath, dying, and decompositionmore predictable formatLying in the sand dunes of Baritone Bay are the bodies of a middle-aged couple. Celice and Joseph, in their mid-50s and married for more than 30 years, are returning to the seacoast where they met as students. Instead, they are battered to death by a... Read more about Being Dead
For old times’ sake, the doctors of zoology had driven out of town that Tuesday afternoon to make a final visit to the singing salt dunes at Baritone Bay. And to lay a ghost. They never made it back a...
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What do readers say about Dreams from My Father?
racism and heritageevocative descriptive passagesan amazing autobiographybeautifully and intelligently#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
ONE OF ESSENCE'S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS
In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama "guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and rac... Read more about Dreams from My Father
AFEW MONTHS AFTER MY twenty-first birthday, a stranger called to give me the news. I was living in New York at the time, on Ninety-fourth between Second and First, part of that unnamed, shifting borde...
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What do readers say about Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone?
hypnotic and lyricalchilling and compellingdark, depressing, hopelessvery provincial gothicShirley Jackson meets The Twilight Zone in this riveting novel of supernatural horror-for readers who loved Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
A village on the Devil's Moor: a place untouched by time and shrouded in superstitio... Read more about Your House Is on Fire, Your Children All Gone
Time is of no importance. I have returned to Hemmersmoor to live in the same house in which I grew up, the same cramped house in which my father and my sister Ingrid died when I was a schoolboy. I pou...
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What do readers say about Shiver?
unique werewolf mythologyparanormal teen romancemodern fairy talelyrical and sensuousFor years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf - her wolf - is a haunting presence she can't seem to live without. Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pac... Read more about Shiver
I remember lying in the snow, a small red spot of warm going cold, surrounded by wolves. They were licking me, biting me, worrying at my body, pressing in. Their huddled bodies blocked what little hea...
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What do readers say about The Name of the Wind?
engaging and beautifully donereadable and engagingclassical high fantasymedieval europe inspired fantasyDAY ONE: THE NAME OF THE WIND
My name is Kvothe.
I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my sanity and my life. I was expelled from the Unive... Read more about The Name of the Wind
Old Cob was filling his role as storyteller and advice dispensary. The men at the bar sipped their drinks and listened. In the back room a young innkeeper stood out of sight behind the door, smiling a...
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What do readers say about A Gentleman in Moscow?
third person narrativeflowery language and writinga novel of nuancewarmth and humor** Available for pre-order, THE LINCOLN HIGHWAY, the dazzling new novel from Amor Towles **
Chosen for the Duchess of Cornwall's online book club The Reading Room
OVER A MILLION COPIES SOLD: a BBC Radio 4 Book Club choice, soon to be a major TV serie... Read more about A Gentleman in Moscow
Within the hour, he would be in the warm spring air striding along Tverskaya Street, his moustaches at full sail. En route, he would purchase the Herald from the stand on Gazetny Lane, he would pass F...
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