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Brought to you by Penguin. WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE 2024 Like a long winter’s dream, this haunting and visionary new novel from 2024 Nobel Prize winner Han Kang takes us on a journey from contemporary South Korea into its painful history Beginning one morning in December, We Do...

Brought to you by Penguin. The unforgettable novel from Booker International Prize winner Han Kang, author of The Vegetarian. In this compelling and beautifully-patterned novel, Han Kang tells the interwoven stories of a Greek instructor who is losing his sight and a woman who refuses to speak...

THE FIRST EVER OFFICIAL BOOK— Published in celebration of BTS’s 10th Anniversary, stories that go beyond what you already know about BTS. After taking their first step into the world on June 13, 2013, BTS celebrated the 10th anniversary of their debut in June 2023. They have risen to the...

Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. Amid a violent student uprising, a young boy named Dong-ho is killed. As his friend searches for Dong-ho's corpse, we also meet an editor struggling against censorship, a prisoner and a factory worker, each suffering from traumatic memories, and Dong-ho's grief-stricken mother. Through their collective heartbreak and acts of hope comes a tale of a brutalized people in search of a voice.

From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes an audiobook like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. It is an audiobook about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life.

Brought to you by Penguin. What is love? It is the gold thread connecting between our hearts. In this light-filled and multi-faceted book, her first since being awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, Han Kang draws together the threads of her work and life, tracing the connections between her...

From the authors of Quackery, a visual and narrative history of popular ideas, phenomena, and widely held beliefs disproven by science. From the easily disproved to the wildly speculative, to straight-up hucksterism, Pseudoscience is a romp through much more than bad science—it’s a...

Yeong-Hye und ihr Ehemann sind ganz gewöhnliche Leute. Er geht beflissen seinem Bürojob nach und hegt keinerlei Ambitionen. Sie ist eine zwar leidenschaftslose, aber pflichtbewusste Hausfrau. Die angenehme Eintönigkeit ihrer Ehe wird jäh gefährdet, als Yeong-Hye beschließt, sich fortan ausschließlich vegetarisch zu ernähren und alle tierischen Produkte aus dem Haushalt entfernt. "Ich hatte einen Traum," so ihre einzige Erklärung.

From the masters of storytelling-meets-science and co-authors of Quackery, Patient Zero tells the long and fascinating history of disease outbreaks—how they start, how they spread, the science that lets us understand them, and how we race to destroy them before they destroy us. Written in the...

Brought to you by Penguin. FOR FANS OF BUTTER and KILLING EVE - the Korean cult portrait of a housewife turned contract killer. Translated by Paige Morris, a co-translator of Han Kang A hilariously unsettling tale of love, food and one woman's unconventional quest to support her family. I am no...

Após terem se apresentado ao mundo pela primeira vez em 13 de junho de 2013, o BTS celebra 10 anos de aniversário do seu debut em 2023. Eles alcançaram o auge como artistas globais e icônicos e, neste momento significativo, o grupo reflete sobre toda a trajetória percorrida neste primeiro livro oficial. Ao fazer isso, o BTS promove a possibilidade de construir dias melhores, fazendo a escolha de dar mais um passo em uma estrada que ninguém jamais percorreu.

Una palestra comunale, decine di cadaveri che saturano l'aria di un «orribile tanfo putrido». Siamo a Gwangju, in Corea del Sud, nel maggio 1980: dopo il colpo di Stato di Chun Doo-hwan, in tutto il paese vige la legge marziale. Quando i militari hanno aperto il fuoco su un corteo di protesta è iniziata l'insurrezione, seguita da brutali rappresaglie; Atti umani è il coro polifonico dei vivi e dei morti di una carneficina mai veramente narrata in Occidente.

In The Dolphin Parent, Harvard-trained psychiatrist, expert in human motivation, and mother of three Dr. Shimi Kang provides a guide to the art and science of inspiring children to develop their own internal drive and lifelong personal aspirations. Drawing on the latest neuroscience and...

In una Seoul rovente e febbrile, una donna cerca di recuperare la parola che ha perso in seguito a una serie di traumi. Nell'aula semideserta di un'accademia privata incontra lo sguardo dell'insegnante di greco, che sta perdendo la vista. Tra di loro nasce un'intimità intessuta di penombra e di perdita, grazie alla quale la donna riuscirà forse a ritornare in contatto con il mondo.

CALDECOTT HONOR BOOK A tender and vulnerable exploration of love and loss that follows two boys as they take their first trip back to the lake without their father, from debut author Angie Kang. Today, Brother is taking me up to swim in the lake like Father used to. I want to thank him for...

After five years of conflict, the planets Eiram and E'ronoh are on the cusp of real peace. But when news breaks of a disaster at the treaty signing on Jedha, violence reignites on the beleaguered worlds. Together, the royal heirs of both planets - Phan-tu Zenn and Xiri A'lbaran - working alongside the Jedi, have uncovered evidence that the conflict is being orchestrated by outside forces, and all signs point to the mysterious Path of the Open Hand, whom the Jedi also suspect of causing the disaster on Jedha.

Weekly guided prayers to strengthen your walk with God. Prayers from the Valley is a Christian devotional podcast featuring Scripture readings (ESV) and modern English adaptations of The Valley of Vision, a beloved collection of Puritan prayers. Rooted in biblical truth, each episode offers gospel-centered prayer, helping you grow in faith, deepen your quiet time, and develop a richer devotional life. New episodes weekly. Original prayers adapted with permission from The Banner of Truth Trust: https://banneroftruth.org/us/devotional-series/the-valley-of-vision-devotional/

New York City, 1899. Tillie Pembroke’s sister lies dead, her body drained of blood and with two puncture wounds on her neck. Bram Stoker’s new novel, Dracula, has just been published, and Tillie’s imagination leaps to the impossible: the murderer is a vampire. But it can’t be - can it? A ravenous reader and researcher, Tillie has something of an addiction to truth, and she won’t rest until she unravels the mystery of her sister’s death.

When a middle-aged widowed loses her job at the butcher shop, she’s at a loss as to how to provide for her family—until she’s offered a position that puts her carving skills to new uses in this darkly humorous bestselling Korean thriller. Mrs. Shim needs money. She’s lost her husband and...

Poetry on beat. (Hindi/Punjabi Shaayri) by Mr. Anmol Kang