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The epic conclusion to Don Winslow's Cartel trilogy. Now head of the DEA, Art Keller takes his decades-long war against the Mexican cartels to Washington itself, where the corruption he has fought for forty years reaches into politics, banking, and the highest levels of power.

An aristocratic Russian family returns to their estate, which must be sold to pay debts. The merchant Lopakhin offers a solution — cut down the cherry orchard and build summer cottages. They cannot bring themselves to act. The orchard is sold at auction. They leave. The sound of the axe begins.

The definitive guide to human-centered design — why everyday things frustrate us and how good design should be intuitive without instruction.

Mark Schluter survives a car crash on a Nebraska highway and wakes up with Capgras syndrome — he believes his sister Karin, who has moved back to care for him, has been replaced by an impostor. A neurologist, his patients, and the cranes that migrate through the Platte River Valley are woven into the story of Mark's recovery.

Bernstein's framework for intelligent investing built on four pillars: the theory of investing (risk and return, asset allocation), the history of investing (what markets have actually done over two centuries), the psychology of investing (why investors consistently make the same costly mistakes), and the business of investing (how Wall Street profits from investor behaviour).

Set in Victorian London, The Fraud follows Eliza Touchet, housekeeper to the popular novelist William Harrison Ainsworth, as she witnesses the sensational Tichborne Claimant trial — a case that divided England along class and political lines and exposed the instability at the heart of identity, truth, and social belonging.

The third novel of the Regeneration Trilogy. Billy Prior returns to the front in 1918 alongside Wilfred Owen. Rivers, in London, treats surviving casualties while recovering memories of his anthropological fieldwork in Melanesia — and the parallels between the savagery of the islanders' head-hunting rituals and the Western Front's industrial slaughter become unavoidable.

Coleman Silk, a 71-year-old classics professor, is accused of making a racist remark about two Black students he has never met and whose names he did not know. The accusation ends his career. He is, in a secret he has kept for fifty years, Black himself — a light-skinned man who chose to pass as Jewish.

Two years after settling in Ardnakelty, retired Chicago cop Cal Hooper has built a quiet life with Lena and a near-father bond with teenager Trey Reddy. Then Trey's feckless father Johnny returns with an English moneyman and a scheme about gold in the hills — and a death follows that tests every loyalty Cal has.

P.G. Wodehouse's classic collection of linked Jeeves and Wooster stories. The amiable, dim-witted Bertie Wooster blunders through romantic and social scrapes — chiefly those of his lovelorn friend Bingo Little — only to be rescued, again and again, by the brilliant valet Jeeves.

In a world inspired by ancient India, a fugitive princess and the emperor's servant discover a forbidden magic that could save or destroy their empire — and find each other in a situation designed to keep them apart.

A collection of linked short stories introducing Geralt of Rivia, a witcher — a professional monster hunter whose moral compass is tested by the creatures he hunts, the people who hire him, and the world that neither trusts nor welcomes him.

Le Guin's landmark science fiction novel about an envoy from a galactic federation who visits a planet whose inhabitants are ambisexual — neither male nor female — and the profound implications for society and consciousness.

Detective Cassie Maddox is pulled back into undercover work when a murder victim is found bearing her exact face — and carrying the identity Cassie once used as an alias.

Nan Shepherd's masterpiece of nature writing, written in the 1940s but unpublished until 1977. A lifetime's intimate knowledge of Scotland's Cairngorm mountains distilled into luminous, sensuous, philosophical prose — not a tale of conquest but of being with a mountain, attending to it completely.

In the final volume of the Wolf Hall trilogy, Thomas Cromwell reaches the peak of his power as Henry VIII's chief minister — and begins the long fall that history has already pronounced inevitable. Mantel renders his last years with the same unflinching interiority that made the first two volumes masterpieces.

A middle-aged man returns to his childhood home and remembers an extraordinary summer when he was seven, a magical neighbor girl, and a darkness that threatened to consume the world.

A theoretical physicist's meditation on the nature of time — what it is, why it flows in one direction, and what physics reveals about its deepest structure.

Jernau Gurgeh, the Culture's greatest game player, is sent to the Empire of Azad to compete in the civilization-defining game that gives the empire its name. The game is a mirror of the empire's values — and Gurgeh's progress through it is a confrontation with everything the Culture stands against.

Set in the same world as Perdido Street Station — Bellis Coldwine flees New Crobuzon on a ship that is captured by pirates and brought to Armada, a city built on a raft of lashed-together ships on the open sea.

The eighth Expanse novel. Under the heel of the Laconian empire, the scattered crew of the Rocinante wage a covert resistance while High Consul Duarte's experiments provoke the unknowable alien power that destroyed the protomolecule's makers.

A strategy for aggressive, self-directed learning that can help you master hard skills quickly and advance your career in the process.

Macfarlane descends — into caves beneath Somerset, into the Paris catacombs, into a salt mine in Slovenia, into the bedrock of Finland where nuclear waste will be buried for 100,000 years. A book about what lies beneath: time, death, and the dark matter of the planet.

A practical and philosophical guide to long-term travel — arguing that extended independent travel is not a luxury but a choice, and that most people can afford it if they are willing to rethink their relationship to money, time, and consumer culture.