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A page-turning novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World has fired the imagination of readers all over the world, with more than twenty million copies in print. One day fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home...

One day, 14-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find two notes in her mailbox, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up?

A musical prodigy and his mother spend years searching for each other in this beautiful, sweeping novel of hope, perseverance, and love, from Jenna Bush Hager’s Thousand Voices imprint Song is a nobody—just a food delivery worker from a village in Northeastern China—but her son, River, is...

Brought to you by Penguin One of the most anticipated books of 2026 as chosen by Vogue, Stylist, Forbes, Oprah Daily and LitHub This is the story of an affair. Clara and Francis are in love, but nobody knows it. For months they have been slipping away from their respective lives, sharing stolen...

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time "[One morning] in the early spring, I woke up with the remembrance of a girl I'd once known, Sophie. It was a very vivid half-dream, half-revelation, and all of a sudden I realized that hers was a story I had to tell." That...

Was, wenn ein einziges Jahr dein ganzes Leben verändert? Als Pias Eltern sie bitten, für zwölf Monate die Verantwortung für ihren zehnjährigen Halbbruder zu übernehmen, gerät ihr sorgfältig geordnetes Leben aus den Fugen. Noch komplizierter wird alles, als sie diese Aufgabe ausgerechnet...

THE PHENOMENAL SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AND UNIVERSALLY BELOVED WORD-OF-MOUTH SENSATION 'Completely brilliant. I think every girl and woman should read it' Gillian Anderson 'Exactly the book to read right now, when you need a laugh, but want to cry' Observer 'A raucously funny, beautifully...

Un matin de printemps, un étranger arrive dans la petite ville américaine de Golden. Personne ne sait d’où il vient. Ni pourquoi. Il s’appelle Theo. Et pose bien plus de questions qu’il n’apporte de réponses. Il se rend au café du coin, où quatre-vingt-douze portraits sont accrochés aux murs – des dessins au crayon des habitants de Golden réalisés par un artiste local. Il les achète, un par un, afin de les remettre entre les mains de leurs « véritables propriétaires ». À chaque rencontre, une histoire est racontée, une amitié naît et une vie est transformée.

Brought to you by Penguin. Man Booker Prize-longlisted author of The Water Cure RECOMMENDED READING FOR 2020 by Stylist, Evening Standard, Esquire, Red, Daily Mail, Oprah Magazine, LitHub, and Emma Roberts's Belletrist Book Club 'The cool intensity and strange beauty of Blue Ticket is a wonder -...

Samantha Heather Mackey couldn't be more of an outsider in her small, highly selective MFA program at New England's Warren University. A scholarship student who prefers the company of her dark imagination to that of most people, she is utterly repelled by the rest of her fiction writing cohort - a clique of unbearably twee rich girls who call each other 'Bunny' and are often found entangled in a group hug so tight they become one.

Brought to you by Penguin. THE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER! From Number One bestselling author Sophie Kinsella, an unforgettable story – by turns heartbreaking and life-affirming – of a renowned novelist facing a devastating diagnosis and learning to live and love anew. ‘What Does It...

Elodie is the baker's wife. A plain, unremarkable person, largely ignored by her husband and everyone else, she burns with the secret hunger to be extraordinary, to be desired, to be seen. One day a charismatic new couple appear in town - the ambassador and his sharp-toothed wife, Violet - and Elodie quickly falls under their spell. All summer long she stalks them through the shining streets: inviting herself into their home, trying to decipher their coded conversations, longing to possess them at any cost.

Amid the chaos and political upheaval of 1970s America, three very different women must accept the world as it is, or act to change it. Phyllis Patterson is a housewife in White Plains, Illinois. Her son Jimmy returns to the family home from Vietnam with a Korean wife and two children. Blindsided by these new additions, Phyllis's small-town world is turned upside down in more ways than she could have ever imagined. Andrea Dworkin is an activist in Amsterdam. Having fled her abusive husband and their life together, she finds herself desperate for answers, for herself and the world around her.

When Sophie is cleaved from her family, her home, and the secure and happy life she has ever known, her world falls into chaos. She clings to her mother for love and reassurance, but her mother has become a stranger to her, and Sophie’s young mind is overwhelmed by emotions that are beyond her endurance.

Après avoir frôlé la mort, Adèle, trente ans, quitte Paris pour se ressourcer. Direction Guéthary et les terres de son enfance, peuplées de fantômes, où elle n’a pas mis les pieds depuis plus de dix ans. Là-bas, sa grand-mère Agustina, d’une vitalité aussi communicative que fantasque, l’accueille à bras ouverts. Elle lui réapprend les senteurs d’autrefois, le bruit de l’océan, les couleurs du « sunset » basque. Pourtant, Adèle peine à trouver ses marques.

The Duncker brothers, Max and Wolfgang, own a thriving publishing business in Germany. When Max's gambling gets out of hand, Wolfgang sends him to pay court to a celebrity author - Sibyl, also known as George Eliot. Yet Wolfgang has an ulterior motive: for his brother to consider Sophie von Hahn...

Parfois, je doute d'être à la hauteur. Et puis je me dis que je ne laisserai personne le faire à ma place. Lorsqu'après un accident son petit garçon se renferme en lui-même et décide qu'il n'est plus capable de marcher, Lucie met sa vie entre parenthèses pour tenter de lui donner à...

The winner of the inaugural Australian Fiction Prize, Every Wild Soul is a lyrical and compelling tale of secrets, survival, and the healing power of nature. On Tasmania's wild and remote Maria Island, eighteen-year-old Min is trying to break free from her controlling, overly protective father...

LONGLISTED: WOMENS' PRIZE FOR FICTION 2022 Moving away from their lovely apartment in Munich isn’t nearly as wrenching an experience for Frau Greta Hahn as she had feared. Their new home is even lovelier than the one they left behind and life in Buchenwald would appear to be idyllic. Lying...

Charlie Blakeman is living in New York, on Washington Square, struggling to write his second novel and floundering, when his college love, Sophie Wilder, returns to his life. Sophie, too, is struggling, though Charlie isn’t sure why. They’ve spoken only rarely since falling out a decade before. Now Sophie begins to tell Charlie the story of her life since then, particularly the days she spent taking care of a dying man with his own terrible past and the difficult decision he presented her with.