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THE NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER 'I am loving Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. Maybe my favorite novel I've read this year' John Green, author of The Fault in Our Stars 'To say I love this book is an understatement. It's a deep psychological mystery about the power of motherhood, the...

“Probably the most finely accomplished and ... most enduring" translation (Los Angeles Times Book Review) of this essential work of world literature—from a renowned scholar and master teacher of Dante and an accomplished poet. “The Hollanders … act as latter-day Virgils, guiding us...

From the story of a young bride whose fairy-tale vision of California is shattered when her husband is murdered and she must face the future on her own, to a proud middle-aged divorced woman determined to succeed in San Francisco, Divakaruni's award-winning poetry fuses here with prose for the first time to create 11 devastating portraits of women on the verge of an unforgettable transformation.

Random House presents the audiobook edition of There There by Tommy Orange, read by Darrell Dennis, Shaun Taylor-Corbett, Alma Cuervo and Kyla Garcia. Jacquie Red Feather and her sister Opal grew up together, relying on each other during their unsettled childhood. As adults they were driven...

इन कविताओं में एक भरा-पूरा लोक है, ख़ुद के अलावा पूरा परिवार है, माँ-बाबू-बीवी-बच्चे हैं, नींबू-खीरा-चाय-बिस्कुट हैं, मित्रगण हैं, अजनबी लोग हैं, आबाद दुनिया है, लेकिन अकेलेपन का एक अहसास अनवरत चलता रहता है।

A haunting meditation on love, loss, companionship, and finding one’s way through the dark, Raymond Carver’s What We Talk About When We Talk About Love is one of the most important and influential short story collections in contemporary literature. In his entry in the esteemed Bookmarked series, acclaimed author Brian Evenson offers his personal and literary take on this classic Carver collection.

Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE 2022 AKUTAGAWA PRIZE The power dynamics of the office are never more obvious than when it comes to food: mandatory lunches with the boss, the colleague who tries to curry favour with home-baked goods, discovering the discarded remnants of someone else's...

Returning to his long-time home in Japan after a sudden death, Pico Iyer picks up the steadying patterns of his everyday rites: going to the post office, watching the maples begin to blaze, engaging in furious games of ping-pong every evening. As he does so, he starts to unfold a meditation on...

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Andrew Koji, best known for Warrior and Snake Eyes. This definitive recording includes an introduction by Murakami. One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23-year-old Sanshiro leaving the sleepy...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. What if the darkest path through Hell was only the beginning of the soul’s return to light? In *The Divine Comedy*, Dante Alighieri creates one of the supreme visions of Western literature: a journey through damnation, purification, and paradise that...

A malicious spectre haunts the Parisian Opera house. This murderous fiend speaks through walls, abducts innocents through mirrors, and holds the opera management in a cruel state of hostage. But when this monster falls for the beautiful Christine Daae, his powers of attractive enticement and malevolent mayhem all come to the surface. Who can put an end to this reign of terror? Discover the wonders of Gaston Leroux's gothic thriller in a way that will tantalize the senses.

This story of Lord Rama — the 7th incarnation of Lord Vishnu— i s a wondrous tale of cosmic adventure that immerses the listener in a world of heroes, gods, and demons.

Brought to you by Penguin. This Penguin Classic is performed by Adrian Schiller. In Paradise Lost Milton produced poem of epic scale, conjuring up a vast, awe-inspiring cosmos and ranging across huge tracts of space and time. And yet, in putting a charismatic Satan and naked Adam and Eve at the...

This unforgettable novel puts human faces on the Syrian war with the immigrant story of a beekeeper, his wife, and the triumph of spirit when the world becomes unrecognizable. “A beautifully crafted novel of international significance that has the capacity to have us open our eyes and see...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. A rare optical phenomenon. A romantic quest through Scotland. And a young woman searching for clarity—about nature's wonders and her own heart. Helena Campbell has become fascinated by the green ray—the fleeting green flash sometimes visible when...

Eleven strange, unsettling, and darkly comic stories reveal the brilliance of one of Japan’s greatest modern writers. In *Tales Grotesque & Curious*, Ryūnosuke Akutagawa turns monks, thieves, servants, scholars, devils, and ordinary people into unforgettable studies of vanity, fear, faith...

You probably know the name Nathaniel Hawthorne. Often described as one of the greatest fiction writers of the 19th century, and master of the allegorical and symbolic tale, he penned The Scarlet Letter and The House of Seven Gables, and was a close friend of Herman Melville, Merson, Thoreau, and...

Toni está cansado do mundo. Embora tenha uma saúde de ferro, o professor de ensino médio de história da filosofia não enxerga grandes perspectivas. Por mais que tenha lido uma quantidade considerável de livros, confessa que há coisas que não entende e acredita já ter experimentado tudo que há para experimentar. Decide, assim, pôr fim à própria vida. Metódico e sereno, ele escolhe inclusive a data da morte voluntária: 31 de julho do ano seguinte, o que lhe dá exatamente 365 dias para acertar pendências e tentar descobrir as verdadeiras razões por trás de sua polêmica escolha.

A neurodiverse engineer builds a mind that proves it is a person — and has to decide what he owes the thing he made...

È l'alba di un grande giorno: il 2 giugno 1946, finalmente, le donne possono votare. Irma e Lorenza si conoscono in un collegio di Milano nel 1850 e inizia per loro un'amicizia lunga una vita. Non potrebbero essere più diverse, ma saranno legate in maniera indissolubile dagli eventi della Storia. A cavallo dell'Unità e delle lotte per i diritti delle donne, le vicende di Irma e Lorenza si intrecciano a fatti e personaggi storici realmente esistiti.