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A REESE WITHERSPOON BOOK CLUB SELECTION! AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Laura Dave continues Hannah Hall’s pulse-pounding journey in the riveting and deeply moving sequel to the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster and Apple TV+ show, The Last Thing He Told Me. How far would you go...

A sweeping novel about friendship, love, and the lifelong pursuit of art from Dave Eggers, the award-winning, bestselling author of The Circle, Hologram for the King, and The Eyes & the Impossible Cricket Dib, born on the American prairie, has no particular prospects or ambitions until, in grade...

A 2022 Audie Award Finalist A Goodreads Top 20 Book of the Last 5 Years Don’t miss the #1 New York Times bestselling blockbuster and Reese Witherspoon Book Club Pick that’s sold over 5 million copies—now streaming on Apple TV+ starring Jennifer Garner! The “page-turning, exhilarating”...

Corey is new to Clydebank, a small town where the "Clydebank Welcome" means getting beat up. Blistering his hands mowing lawns to buy his first guitar, Corey’s lonely world shifts when he encounters Shadow, a Maine Coon with hypnotic turquoise eyes and a terrifying, magical power hidden in the town's uncultivated gully. Inspired by the dualities of Robert Frost’s poem Fire and Ice, this story explores a world where souls can burn with rage or freeze from grief.

Strange signals from the edge of the solar system draw the carrier ECS Vanguard into the darkness beyond the planets. There, humanity faces a new alien threat—the Blight. They have come to exterminate what they believe is their ancient enemy's latest puppet civilization. Earth struggles to control the skies with fighters and throws its Lizard shock troops into bloody ground battles. While the war rages, Flex must uncover the truth about the hyperspace rivers connecting the stars, the mysterious Cure that terrorized Venus, and why the Blight believes humanity is already enslaved.

In a world that absolutely never happened… Former Prime Minister David Cameron leads a double life — and not the sensible sort involving spreadsheets. By day, he nods through meetings, tries not to break doors, and pretends to understand briefings. By night (and occasionally mid-press conference), he becomes Britain’s most unlikely superhero, battling exploding crumpets, villainous scarves, sentient paperwork, giant ducks, and a cat who is frankly far too magical for government work.

Commander Alyssa Reeve and her crew embark on humanity’s second lunar mission, a routine voyage that quickly descends into a nightmare beyond comprehension. Strange signals pulse from the Moon’s far side, instruments fail, and the boundaries between reality and hallucination begin to fracture. As isolation, sleep deprivation, and cosmic anomalies escalate, the crew confronts a terrifying truth: the Moon may be alive—and watching.

Discover the man behind the laughs in this in-depth look at Dave Chappelle's remarkable career. We trace his path from young comedian to comedy icon, examining his unique style, the creation and abandonment of "Chappelle's Show," his triumphant comeback, and his ongoing influence on comedy and popular culture.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER One spring morning, a stranger arrives in the small southern city of Golden. No one knows where he has come from…or why… His name is Theo. And he asks a lot more questions than he answers. Theo visits the local coffeehouse, where ninety-two pencil portraits hang on...

Frankie Greco has always heard a voice in her head that detects lies. She buries herself in running her L.A. nightclub, keeping her secret close and avoiding lasting relationships. Then she meets Julian — the one person she can't read. Their instant, primal attraction pulls her in, but letting him close awakens pieces of her past she thought were buried. For a girl who can spot any lie, Frankie discovers she can still be blindsided by the truth.

There’s a secret in Abernay Forest, one that allows Doctor Taur to create miraculous cures. When his talents reach the king’s ears, he is called to the castle, where he meets Prince Oswin and is asked to perform an impossible procedure. As he struggles to decide what to do, the castle is attacked and the king slaughtered. The prince, now in danger, sneaks Taur out and they flee.

In this book, a range of contemporary authors explore 'what happens next' when the Great Detective confronts mysteries which question reason. A summons from Irene Adler’s daughter; a chance encounter with one of Houdini’s fraud investigators; the enigma of Dr John Silence. Mysterious events at Mary Morstan’s old school, and a threat to Queen Victoria. The return of the German agent Von Bork, somewhat changed, and a desperate hunt for a killer through the alleys of London with none other than Professor Van Helsing.

When a long-lost research vessel is discovered entombed beneath the Arctic ice, Peter Black is called into the shadows by the ship’s enigmatic billionaire owner. Aboard the icebreaker Ithaca, he joins a volatile crew bound for the wreck—each with secrets, and one with a deadly agenda. Below the ice lies the Orpheus, a sunken tomb that was never meant to be found. What Peter’s team uncovers is no ordinary wreck, but the site of something far more sinister—something that should have stayed buried.

1604. Pirate raiders terrorise the coasts of Europe, seeking slaves to sell in the markets of North Africa. When headstrong Richard Sheriff and his beloved sister Elizabeth are torn from their Devonshire home by slavers, he is cast into a living nightmare. With Richard being a talented blacksmith, the pirate captain intends to sell him for a high price. He is eventually sold into servitude in Venice: glittering, vicious city of secrets, where his talents find him apprenticed to a knife maker.

Wall of Hadrian. Britannia, 382 AD. War is creeping back into the land. As silent as snowfall, as inevitable as winter. They've had sixteen years of peace, but all things must end. Tribune Sixtus Victorinus has grown old, complacent. It is his friend, Prefect Gaius Felicius, who first spots the signs. Once more, the Caledonian tribes are rearing their heads in the north, but the greatest danger does not lie with them. For there is a new pretender to the throne of the West.

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Was braucht es, um eine Maschine mit menschlichem Bewusstsein auszustatten? Den Programmierer Syz interessiert nichts so sehr wie die Beantwortung dieser Frage. Doch als er hinter die Kulissen des Labors blickt, gerät sein bedingungsloser Glaube an die Technik ins Wanken. Welchem Zweck dient DAVE wirklich und wer wird von ihm profitieren?

In the stories that make up Oblivion, David Foster Wallace joins the rawest, most naked humanity with the infinite involutions of self-consciousness -- a combination that is dazzlingly, uniquely his. These are worlds undreamt of by any other mind. Only David Foster Wallace could convey a...

BASED ON THE EPIC MINISERIES TO AIR SPRING 2013. A STORY OF GOD AND ALL OF US is a sweeping narrative that dramatizes some of the most important events and characters in the Bible. The book reads like a fine novel, dramatizing the sweep of biblical events, making the men and women of scripture...

Two questions are eating Nero, the head of ODIN, the Office of the Director of Intelligence Networks: where is Dr. Billy Squire? Is he still alive? He’s not the only one asking those question. The CIA want to know, so do the Chiefs of Staff at the Pentagon. So does the President. And so does the Mossad. Because Squire is a genius with an IQ to match Einstein’s and a special interest in the Holy Grail - energy.