A plague descends on the Algerian city of Oran, and Dr. Bernard Rieux leads the medical response — in a novel that is simultaneously a chronicle of epidemic and an allegory for Nazi occupation.
In postwar Barcelona, a young boy discovers a mysterious novel by a nearly forgotten author, and his obsession with the book's creator leads him deep into a dark labyrinth of secrets, loves, and betrayals.
JL Collins makes the case for a simple, low-cost index fund investing strategy in a letter originally written for his daughter, expanded into the most accessible investing book available.
Erik Larson's account of Winston Churchill's first year as Prime Minister — May 1940 to May 1941 — when Britain stood alone against Nazi Germany and Churchill forged a nation's will to endure.
Frances 'Frankie' McGrath enlists as an army nurse in Vietnam after her brother deploys — and returns to an America that doesn't acknowledge what women did or suffered in the war.
The true story of Louis Zamperini — Olympic runner turned World War II bombardier who survived 47 days adrift in the Pacific and then two years in Japanese POW camps — and his eventual path to redemption through faith.
The former co-owner of Eleven Madison Park recounts how an obsessive commitment to making guests feel seen and celebrated transformed a failing restaurant into the best in the world.
Based on the true story of Hunter's own family, a Polish Jewish family scatters across four continents during World War II, each member fighting for survival along a different path.
David McCullough narrates the military history of 1776 — the year of American independence — through the campaigns, retreats, and nearly disastrous reverses that shaped the Revolutionary War's decisive year.
Five kings war over the Iron Throne as supernatural threats gather beyond the Wall, and Tyrion Lannister arrives in King's Landing to impose order on a kingdom descending into chaos.
American ambulance driver Frederic Henry falls in love with English nurse Catherine Barkley against the backdrop of the Italian front in World War I — a love story that the war will not leave intact.
John Wheelwright narrates his extraordinary friendship with Owen Meany — a tiny, certain-voiced boy who believes he is God's instrument — and the event that will prove him right.
Barack Obama's presidential memoir covers his early life, 2008 campaign, and first term, examining both the machinery of American democracy and the personal cost of holding its highest office.
A story of love, sacrifice, and revolution set against the backdrop of the French Revolution, moving between London and Paris on the eve of the Terror.
bell hooks argues that our culture has confused love with attachment, need, and control — and that love, properly understood, requires will, intention, and commitment to another person's growth.
An imaginative, red-haired orphan is accidentally sent to Avonlea instead of the boy the Cuthbert siblings expected — and changes their lives and the whole town forever.
Neil deGrasse Tyson's compressed guide to the greatest ideas in astrophysics — from the Big Bang to dark matter — for readers with curiosity but limited time.
Written as a letter to his teenage son, Ta-Nehisi Coates examines the history and present reality of anti-Black racism in America — its origins in the destruction of Black bodies, its persistence through white supremacy — with unsparing intellectual force.
Economic historian Chris Miller traces the history of the semiconductor industry from the invention of the transistor to the US-China technology war, showing how computer chips became the defining resource of the twenty-first century.
The daughter of Helios discovers within herself the power of witchcraft and spends millennia on her island exile developing her craft and encountering the heroes and monsters of Greek myth.
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