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A James Beard Award-winning baking book in which pastry chef Stella Parks reverse-engineers America's most iconic desserts — from homemade Oreos to fluffy supermarket-style layer cake — with obsessive precision and rich food history.

A searing analysis of America's unspoken caste system, comparing it to India's caste system and Nazi Germany's racial hierarchy to illuminate the structural foundations of inequality.

On the desert planet Arrakis, young Paul Atreides must navigate political intrigue, ecological disaster, and prophetic destiny to avenge his family and fulfil a legend centuries in the making. The best-selling science fiction novel of all time.

Tara Westover's memoir of growing up in the mountains of Idaho without formal education, in a survivalist family, and her journey to Cambridge and Harvard.

Andrew 'Ender' Wiggin is humanity's most gifted military mind, trained from childhood in the zero-gravity Battle Room of a space station to fight the alien Formics. But the game and the war may not be as separate as Ender believes.

The definitive all-purpose American cookbook — more than 2,000 recipes and countless variations that teach home cooks the fundamentals of preparing almost any dish, from a fried egg to a holiday roast.

The first and most famous canticle of Dante's Divine Comedy. Guided by the poet Virgil, Dante descends through the nine circles of Hell, meeting the damned and confronting the architecture of sin, justice, and the human soul.

The definitive book on the psychology of persuasion. Cialdini identifies six universal principles — reciprocity, commitment, social proof, authority, liking, and scarcity — that drive human compliance, and shows how they are exploited in sales, marketing, and everyday life.

Anthony Bourdain's legendary memoir of twenty-five years in professional kitchens — the drug use, the violence, the camaraderie, and the obsessive craft of restaurant cooking.

Two retired Texas Rangers, Woodrow Call and Augustus McCrae, lead a cattle drive from Lonesome Dove, Texas, to Montana. The novel follows the drive across a thousand miles of frontier, and the lives of every person touched by it — cowboys, women, outlaws, Indians, and the land itself.

Former FBI lead hostage negotiator Chris Voss reveals the counter-intuitive techniques he developed for life-or-death negotiations — and shows how they apply to salary talks, business deals, and everyday persuasion. The key insight: humans are not rational actors, and the best negotiators use emotional intelligence, not logic.

Yotam Ottolenghi's most accessible cookbook — recipes designed to be simple without sacrificing the bold flavours and ingredient combinations that define his cooking.

Peter Attia's comprehensive guide to living longer and better, based on his medical practice and years of research into the science of longevity.

The true story of Oskar Schindler, a German industrialist and member of the Nazi Party who saved more than 1,200 Jews during the Holocaust by employing them in his factories — a story Keneally tells in the form of a novel, using invented scene and dialogue alongside documented fact.

One of the most influential business books ever written, offering a principle-centred approach to personal and professional effectiveness.

A landmark work in trauma psychology by one of the world's foremost authorities on PTSD. Van der Kolk reveals how trauma reshapes both body and brain, undermining survivors' capacity for pleasure, engagement, self-control, and trust.

A record of a week-long conversation between the Dalai Lama and Archbishop Desmond Tutu on the occasion of the Dalai Lama's eightieth birthday — two of the world's most joyful people discussing how to find lasting happiness despite suffering, ageing, and loss.

The Joad family, driven from their Oklahoma farm by the Dust Bowl, joins the great migration west to California — and finds exploitation, hunger, and community in equal measure.

Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a hyperspace bypass, Arthur Dent is rescued by Ford Prefect — who turns out to be a researcher for the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, the standard repository for all knowledge and wisdom in the universe. Their adventures take them to the Restaurant at the End of the Universe, a planet populated by telephone sanitisers, and a search for the Ultimate Question to Life, the Universe, and Everything.

The comprehensive American cooking bible — first published in 1931, continuously revised ever since, and still the most trusted and comprehensive home cooking reference ever produced.

Astronaut Mark Watney is stranded alone on Mars after his crew evacuates, and must use science, engineering, and dark humour to survive until a rescue mission can reach him.

Doing well with money isn't necessarily about what you know. It's about how you behave. And behaviour is hard to teach, even to really smart people.

David McCullough tells the gripping story of two self-taught bicycle mechanics from Dayton who changed the world by inventing powered flight.

Janie Crawford's search for love and selfhood across three marriages in Black Southern communities — told in a voice of extraordinary lyrical power.