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Don DeLillo’s pseudonymous comic masterpiece by Cleo Birdwell, “the first woman ever to play in the National Hockey League,” is a cult treasure now republished for the first time in nearly half a century. Meet Cleo Birdwell. She is twenty-four, a schoolteacher’s daughter from Badger...

The most famous opening line in Russian literature announces a novel about the costs of happiness. The most famous ending announces that happiness was never the subject. All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Anna Karenina is married to a man she respects but cannot love. She meets Vronsky at a train station. What follows is not a love story — it is an anatomy of what happens when a person chooses desire over duty in a world that will not forgive that choice. Tolstoy does not punish Anna because she is immoral. He punishes her because her society does...

The acclaimed sequel to Larry McMurtry’s Pulitzer Prize–winning classic Lonesome Dove, and the culmination of the legendary western saga, follows the further adventures of these beloved characters as they reckon with their past choices and uncertain futures in the rapidly changing American...

A young New Yorker grieving his mother's death is pulled into a gritty underworld of art and wealth in this “extraordinary” and beloved novel that "connects with the heart as well as the mind" (Stephen King, New York Times Book Review), named a New York Times Best Book of the 21st Century...

A woman is newly engaged to a man she adores when she receives a call from her first love with news that shatters her carefully ordered world, in this emotionally powerful novel from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Summer Pact. Billie has built the perfect life. Her medical...

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Ensemble Performance “Heartwood will keep you guessing the whole way through. I didn't want it to end.” —Liz Moore “The best thriller of 2025.” —The Boston Globe * “Genius.” —The Washington Post “A literary thriller of the highest order”...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER OVER ONE MILLION COPIES SOLD From the author of We Begin at the End comes a soaring thriller and an epic love story that “hits like a sledgehammer . . . an absolutely must-read novel” (Gillian Flynn, author of Gone Girl). Read with Jenna Book Club Pick as...

Spanning the years 1900 to 1977, The Covenant of Water is set in Kerala, on South India’s Malabar Coast, and follows three generations of a family that suffers a peculiar affliction: in every generation, at least one person dies by drowning—and in Kerala, water is everywhere. At the turn of the century, a twelve-year-old girl from Kerala’s long-existing Christian community, grieving the death of her father, is sent by boat to her wedding, where she will meet her forty-year-old husband for the first time.

"[Narrator Julia] Whelan's performance is unforgettable in this darkly romantic fantasy about one young woman cursed always to be forgotten...Her depiction of the darkness is smooth with a low cadence, capturing listeners' attention and their heart strings." –Booklist In the vein of The Time...

From Colm Tóibín, “one of the world’s best living literary writers” (The Boston Globe), comes a brilliant collection of nine short stories, many never-before-published, set across Ireland, Spain, and America—about the complexities of family, longing, loss, and love. Celebrated as...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Aimee Lou Wood, star of Netflix's Sex Education. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Pauline Nestor. Lockwood, the new tenant of Thrushcross Grange on the bleak Yorkshire moors, is forced to seek shelter one night...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK AS FEATURED ON TODAY “A glorious sweep of a novel” (Ann Patchett) that weaves the intimate lives of two midwestern families across generations, from World War II to the late twentieth century. “Mesmerizing.”—People...

vil spreads throughout the Kingdom, and the one woman who can save them may be the key to their survival ... or their destruction. Anyi is the gem of the Countless Clans. Their Queens make lifeblood, a magical substance used for everything from medicine to weapons. Once, Anyi had so much...

Lilians Tod hätte das Ende sein sollen. Stattdessen war er nur der Anfang, denn um sie zurückzuholen, ebnete ihr Partner Jupiter dem Teufel höchstpersönlich einen Weg aus der Hölle. Lilian bleibt keine Wahl. Wenn sie eine Zukunft mit Jupiter haben will, muss sie Lucifer aufhalten. Doch um eine Schwäche zu finden, kommt sie ihm näher, als gut für sie ist, und schon bald verschwimmt die Grenze zwischen Richtig und Falsch. Vor ihren Augen offenbart sich eine Verschwörung, die mächtiger ist als der Teufel selbst.

The explosive Robert Langdon thriller from Dan Brown, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Da Vinci Code, The Lost Symbol, Inferno, and The Secret of Secrets. An ancient secret brotherhood. A devastating new weapon of destruction. An unthinkable target. When world-renowned Harvard...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE The Testaments is a modern masterpiece, a powerful novel that can be read on its own or as a companion to Margaret Atwood’s classic, The Handmaid’s Tale. More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the...

He's the last person I should want. He's the only person I do. Cole Briggs was Chicago's golden boy—until he came out and they traded him to a team that doesn't exist yet. Now he's the face of the Atlanta Reapers, an NHL expansion franchise built from castoffs and second chances. He's ready to prove Chicago wrong. He's ready to lead. He is absolutely, categorically not ready for Mikhail Volkov. Mik is six-foot-three of cold Russian granite with a scar through his eyebrow and the emotional range of a parking meter. He doesn't talk. He doesn't smile. He hip-checked Cole into the boards two ...

The work tells the story of Jane's early life, her experience at Lowood School and as a governess. Her refusal to accept Rochester's love on any but her own strictly moral terms is a passionate cry for independence.

San Sebastián, julio de 1997. Mientras su marido está de viaje por trabajo, Maite recibe a su hermana Elene, que, tras pasar largos años en Estados Unidos, vuelve a su ciudad porque la madre de ambas ha sufrido un ictus. En los días que pasarán juntas, las hermanas y la madre conviven y conversan pero rehúyen decirse toda la verdad. También evitan mirar de frente la tensión social que las rodea: ETA ha secuestrado a un concejal de Ermua, Miguel Ángel Blanco, y amenaza con ejecutarlo si no se cumplen sus demandas.

From master storyteller Stephen King comes his classic #1 New York Times bestseller about four friends who encounter evil in the Maine woods. Twenty-five years ago, in their haunted hometown of Derry, Maine, four boys bravely stood together and saved a mentally challenged child from vicious...