A woman arrives in a small town to rescue her twin sister and ends up stranded there, falling into an unlikely arrangement with the town's most infuriating man while raising her niece.
Daniel Pink argues that we are all in sales now — persuading, convincing, and moving others is a universal human activity, not just a profession — and explains the new science behind doing it well.
A Ghanaian-American neuroscience PhD student at Stanford studies the science of addiction and depression while caring for her catatonic mother and processing the loss of her brother to an opioid overdose.
Four interlocking narratives circle the same story of a Gilded Age financier and his wife, each version revealing how wealth constructs, revises, and suppresses the truth.
Daniel Pink synthesizes research from biology, economics, and psychology to explain when to make decisions, take breaks, and start projects for optimal performance.
Two North London families — one Bangladeshi, one English — collide across generations in a novel about race, identity, history, and the inheritance that binds us.
After the collapse of her marriage and her mother's death, Cheryl Strayed impulsively hiked 1,100 miles of the Pacific Crest Trail alone — unprepared, grieving, and ultimately transformed.
Will Smith's memoir traces his journey from West Philadelphia to global superstardom while exploring the fears, failures, and family dynamics that shaped him.
A romance novelist and a literary fiction author spend a summer as reluctant neighbors, challenge each other to write outside their genres, and fall unexpectedly in love.
Grace and Jack Angel appear to have the perfect marriage, but behind their elegant facade lies a nightmare of control, captivity, and carefully maintained appearances.
Malcolm Gladwell argues that what we consider disadvantages — dyslexia, class backgrounds, weak institutions — can become hidden sources of strength in the right circumstances.
In a future Chicago divided into five virtue-based factions, sixteen-year-old Tris Prior must choose where she belongs — and discovers she may not belong anywhere.
Susan Jeffers argues that fear never goes away, but that acting in spite of it is a learnable skill that builds confidence and opens life to new possibilities.
A woman left at the altar moves in with her ex-fiance's new girlfriend's ex-boyfriend, and the two jilted parties discover they might be exactly what the other needs.
After a near-death experience, Chloe Brown makes a list of things she wants to do before she becomes too ill to do them, and finds an unlikely partner in her brooding building superintendent.
Adam Grant challenges the talent-worship culture and argues that character skills, not innate ability, are the true engines of extraordinary achievement.
A sheltered homeschooled girl falls for the mysterious boy next door, only to discover their connection runs deeper and darker than either of them could have imagined.
A figure skater and a hockey player are forced to share ice rink practice time, and their rivalry gradually melts into something neither of them planned.
An exploration of the Japanese concept of ikigai — your reason for being, the thing that makes you want to get out of bed in the morning — through the lens of Japan's longest-lived communities.
Violet Sorrengail returns to Basgiath War College for her second year, navigating deeper secrets, more dangerous enemies, and a relationship with Xaden Riorson that is tested by the truths they are both keeping.
A social-media-famous LA socialite is exiled to a small Pacific Northwest fishing town by her stepfather, where she falls for the town's gruff, widowed boat captain.
An Artificial Friend named Klara, powered by sunlight and possessed of extraordinary observational gifts, narrates her life alongside a sickly teenage girl and her mother in a near-future America.
Katniss Everdeen becomes the Mockingjay, the symbol of the rebellion against the Capitol, as all-out war engulfs Panem and extracts a devastating personal cost.