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In this World Fantasy Award-winning novel of magic and kungfu, four siblings battle rival clans for honor and power in an Asia-inspired fantasy metropolis. *Named one of TIME's Top 100 Fantasy Books Of All Time* Jade is the lifeblood of the island of Kekon. It has been mined, traded, stolen, and...

This program is narrated by Academy Award–winning actor, Tilda Swinton. It also contains a new afterword, read by the author. "[Tilda Swinton's] reading is sharp yet reflective, tinged with curiosity and melancholy." —The Guardian "[Tilda] Swinton’s magnetic performance of this 10th...

Longlisted for the National Book Award · A New York Times Notable Book of the Year · Winner of the New York City Book Award · Shortlisted for the Apollo Book of the Year Award · Shortlisted for the Plutarch Award for Best Biography · Finalist for the Gotham Book Prize · Finalist for the...

Read by the author. Rediscover your purpose in life and your passion for life. In Garden City, join pastor and New York Times bestselling author John Mark Comer as you explore the Bible's vision for work, rest, and living fully human. The mantra for many in our culture is that we work to live...

REESE'S BOOK CLUB PICK ""This story left me thinking about the ways we overcome setbacks and redefine what truly matters."" - Reese Witherspoon (Reese’s Book Club December '24 Pick) A once-famous ballerina faces a final choice—to return to the world of Russian dance that nearly broke her, or...

A top historian offers a new history of Paris’s Belle Époque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacré-Cœur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be French From the wrought ironwork of the Eiffel Tower to the flourishing art nouveau movement...

Bloomsbury presents Are They Dead Yet?: The Art of the Obit by Sam Roberts, read by Nathan Osgood "Mordantly wonderful." —CARL HIAASEN "I almost died laughing." —ROZ CHAST "My own departure would not be so bad if only Mr. Roberts could write the obit!" —KAI BIRD From celebrated New York...

In Lost Gods, Brom, the artist and author of The Child Thief and Krampus, brings readers into a dark, fantastical, masterful mix of brilliant illustrations and dazzling prose. Read by award-winning narrator, R.C. Bray! A young man descends into Purgatory to save his wife and unborn child in this...

One year after losing her husband, Catalina Ruiz, once an ex-pat with a rebellious past, is back in Mexico City, opening her dream art gallery. It's a bold leap of faith, a desperate grab for a second chance at purpose amidst her lingering grief. But just as she clings to the hope of a fresh start, her world is upended by two unexpected arrivals: the spectral presence of her late husband in her gallery, and a chance encounter with a captivating, infuriating stranger on the street. That stranger, Sebastian Espinoza, is more than just impossibly handsome. He’s the owner of the rival gallery...

Teach magic, they said. It’ll be fun, they said. Yeah, well, they’re dirty rotten liars. When I told Tennessee we needed to have more schools than just Edenburg, I thought they’d assign appropriate people to the task. Ya know, like actual adults. Not a 16-year-old who still has to finish high school herself.

Like many well-to-do Upper East Siders over the age of 65, esteemed art appraiser Percival Skinner had planned to spend his retirement living off his savings. But a market correction has left him living below his prior means. One day he’s visited by a dapper fixer in search of a famous work by a Renaissance master. Skinner knows the work well: The original was owned by his ancestor, and was passed down through his family over the generations. If, as an intermediary, he can coordinate a sale, a small fortune awaits. Problem is, he might not be the only one on the make.

From the #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel Trilogy (The Power of the Dog, The Cartel, and The Border), The Force, and Broken comes the first novel in an epic new trilogy. “Superb. City on Fire is exhilarating.” – Stephen King ""Epic, ambitious, majestic, City on Fire is...

The Sherlock Society goes undercover in the Miami street art scene to find an anonymous graffiti artist in this third book in the hilarious, New York Times bestselling Sherlock Society middle grade series from Edgar Award–winning author James Ponti! The Sherlock Society’s latest case is...

“Miller gives us an incisive and beautifully written story of love, revenge, and the power (and failure) of family in a scarily plausible future. Blackfish City simmers with menace and heartache, suspense and wonder. Plus, it has lots of action and a great cast of characters. Not to mention an...

Performed by Maggie Gyllenhaal One of The Atlantic’s Great American Novels “A coming–of–age masterpiece.” —Boston Globe ""It is this perfectly wrought prose and the freshness of Plath's voice in The Bell Jar that make this book enduring in its appeal."" —USA Today The Bell Jar is...

Instant New York Times Bestseller Best of 2017 - included on best-of lists by the New York Times, NPR, Barnes & Noble, Publisher's Weekly, LitHub, BookPage, Booklist, TheRealBookSpy.com, the Financial Times (UK) and the Daily Mail (UK) “The Force is mesmerizing, a triumph. Think The Godfather...

Following the epic, ambitious, instant New York Times bestseller City on Fire, “The Godfather for our generation” (Adrian McKinty), comes the dramatic second novel in an epic crime trilogy from Don Winslow, #1 internationally bestselling author of the Cartel trilogy (The Power of the Dog...

Hollywood star Dakota Fanning narrates the audio of one of the most anticipated books of the year, from #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner. The New York Times bestseller, now in development as a feature film from Universal Pictures, written and directed by Amy Sherman-Palladino...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR An award-winning journalist and longtime Hong Konger indelibly captures the place, its people, and the untold history they are claiming, just as it is being erased. The story of Hong Kong has long been dominated by competing myths: to Britain, a...

“Cities, like dreams, are made of desires and fears, even if the thread of their discourse is secret, their rules are absurd, their perspectives deceitful, and everything conceals something else.” — from Invisible Cities In a garden sit the aged Kublai Khan and the young Marco Polo —...