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In this stunning new novel, the inventor of the world's first clock is punished for trying to measure time. He is banished to a cave for centuries and forced to listen to the voices of all who come after him seeking more years for themselves. At last, with his soul nearly broken, Father Time is...

Brought to you by Penguin. Tod. T. Friendly is living his life backwards. Doctor Friendly has just died, but after weeks of improving in the hospital, he is sent home to his affable, melting-pot, primary-colour existence in suburban America. From the fresh-cut lawns of his retirement to the...

I have met someone who remembers. Yesterday. That is to say, I met him yesterday. But he remembers yesterday, too. He remembers that we met yesterday. Tara Selter has lived the eighteenth of November 1,143 times when she notices a break in the pattern; a man has changed his shirt. The man is...

A little girl throws up Gloria-Jean's teeth after an explosion at the custard factory; Pax, Alexander, and Angelo are hypnotically enthralled by a book that promises them enlightenment if they keep their semen inside their bodies; Victoria is sent to a cursed hotel for ailing girls when her...

From bestselling author and international sensation Paulo Coelho, a novel set in a small village about a young, poor barmaid whose wager with the devil leads to a spiritual transformation. A stranger arrives at the remote village of Viscos, carrying with him a backpack containing a notebook and...

“One of the greats….Not just a science fiction writer; a literary icon.” – Stephen King From the brilliant and award-winning author Ursula K. Le Guin comes a classic tale of two planets torn apart by conflict and mistrust — and the man who risks everything to reunite them. A bleak moon...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. THE YOUNG WOMAN WHO RUNS THE DINER FLOOR COUNTS HER MONEY TO THE DOLLAR. ALL WEEK SHE POURS COFFEE FOR A COUNTY TALKING ABOUT A WIDOW WHO WON'T TAKE A DEAD MAN'S DOLLAR. A bank analyst who closes every file has flagged the same one-dollar account every...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. THE WAR HAS NO ARMY. Book Two of the Recursion Paradox, an AI thriller series. The machine god is dead. The war it started is not: leftover code still breaking things, with nobody to arrest. A weapons platform asleep in orbit for a decade locks onto...

At the temple of Isis, the roles the world remembers are reversed: Miryam of Magdala is the teacher, and Yeshua of Nazareth is her initiate. Teachings of Miryam follows the three hidden years the gospels never recorded. Under Miryam's guidance, Yeshua descends into the ancient Egyptian mysteries...

A haunting study of longing, memory, and the price of ambition. When rising statesman Lionel Wallace confides a lifelong secret to an old schoolmate, he reveals the vision that has shaped—and shadowed—his every choice: a green door set in a white wall, opening onto an enchanted garden of...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. Seven great minds. One storm. One question: can AI ever be like us? Pour a drink, put on your headphones and take a seat at Gate 14. Rain is hammering the glass roof of Lisbon airport. No flights are leaving. Seven of the world's great thinkers on...

This audiobook is narrated by an AI Voice. In Carlow County, Pennsylvania, the rent gets paid. The refund posts. The letter arrives the day before the day it would have been too late. Nobody asks for the favors, nobody can prove who is doing them, and the county, being the county, keeps its own...

This is not a story about how love defeats death. It doesnt.When a woman dies too young, she expects death to reveal something profound.Instead, she begins to forget.Dates disappear. Rooms loosen. Faces blur. Entire pieces of her life fall away while strange, intimate fragments remain: a hand...

Ich wurde in einem Gemälde wiedergeboren. Meinem eigenen Porträt. Achthundert Jahre lang musste ich mitansehen, wie mein Geschlecht Generation für Generation an Bedeutung verlor, hilflos und dazu verdammt, vergessen zu werden. Bis ein neugieriger Junge namens Anatole alles veränderte. Ich...

What if Angels are real? IMAGINE YOU COULD communicate with your Guardian Angels, and together, you created profound moments in a brilliant tapestry of adventures and experiences. What if you trusted your life events are not merely coincidence or good luck? This is the story of a little girl...

This satirical adventure from Philip K. Dick deals with issues of power, class, and politics, set in a world ruled by big-brained elites. In Our Friends from Frolix 8, the world is run by an elite few. And what determines whether one is part of the elite isn’t wealth or privilege, but brains...

Counter-Clock World is a theological and philosophical adventure in a world set in reverse from the Hugo Award–winning science fiction novelist Philip K. Dick, author of The Man in the High Castle and Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?—the basis for the film Blade Runner. Time has begun...

Combining contemplative spirituality, mysticism, and cosmic wonder into an inspiring tale of self-discovery, The Day of the Space Voyager is both a fantastic adventure and a provocative parable for the 21st century. James Parker Walker's novel shares the metaphysical wanderings of an old hermit...

For a far-future overpopulated Earth, a parallel world may be ripe for colonization—or conquest—in Hugo Award–winning author Philip K. Dick's The Crack in Space. When a repairman accidentally discovers a parallel universe, everyone sees it as an opportunity, whether as a way to ease...

Bloomsbury presents Apeirogon written and read by Colum McCann. LONGLISTED FOR THE 2020 BOOKER PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE PRIX MÉDICIS AND THE PRIX FEMINA WINNER OF THE PRIX DE MEILLEUR LIVRE ETRANGER A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A BBC BOOK OF 2020 CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE SUNDAY TIMES...