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A revelation for Moby-Dick devotees and neophytes alike, Ahab's Rolling Sea is a chronological journey through the natural history of Melville's novel. From white whales to whale intelligence, giant squids, barnacles, albatross, and sharks, Richard J. King examines what Melville knew from his own experiences and the sources available to a reader in the mid-1800s, exploring how and why Melville might have twisted what was known to serve his fiction.

Small-town police chief Emmett Hardy sets out with a simple goal—find the family of a young woman who died years earlier at the hands of one of his officers. But when a friend helping with the search is murdered, Emmett’s task grows deadly. As he digs to find both the young woman’s family and the killer of his friend, he uncovers a twisted family saga rife with incest, abuse, and political corruption—a legacy of generational sin with roots reaching deep into the prairie soil.

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Now packaged together in an exclusive audio bundle, discover the first two books in the riveting Murphy Shepherd series from New York Times bestselling author Charles Martin. Combining the heart-wrenching emotion of Nicholas Sparks with the edge-of-your-seat tension of John Grisham, The Water...

A TODAY SHOW #ReadWithJenna BOOK CLUB PICK NATIONAL BESTSELLER A coming-of-age classic about a young girl growing up in Chicago Acclaimed by critics, beloved by readers of all ages, taught in schools and universities alike, and translated around the world—from the winner of the 2025...

Lala Reyes’ grandmother is descended from a family of renowned rebozo, or shawl-makers. The striped (caramelo) is the most beautiful of all, and the one that makes its way, like the family history it has come to represent, into Lala’s possession. The novel opens with the Reyes’ annual car trip - a caravan overflowing with children, laughter, and quarrels - from Chicago to “the other side”, Mexico City. It is there, each year, that Lala hears her family’s stories, separating the truth from the “healthy lies” that have ricocheted from one generation to the next.

El eje del argumento es un conflicto amoroso: Fortunata, una mujer de clase baja, se enamora de Juanito Santa Cruz, un señorito burgués, que la seduce pero se casa con Jacinta, burguesa de familia rica de comerciantes. Junto a las desventuras amorosas del trío, al que se sumará Maximiliano Rubín –antítesis de Juanito y con quien se casará Fortunata–, se entretejen muchas otras historias que hacen de Fortunata y Jacinta una novela de novelas.

A Spicy AMBW, Forbidden Single Dad Romance What happens when a professional sex worker falls for a handsome congressman? Nola and David’s arrangement has rules: one night a month and no attachments. But every session, every lingering glance, sparks a forbidden attraction neither can resist, pulling them into a world of secrecy, temptation, and burning passion. As desire threatens to turn into love, Nola must decide whether to risk it all and follow her heart, or walk away before their connection destroys his career, and both of their lives. This novella is a part of the "Single Dads" ...

Written as a tribute to Abraham Lincoln following his assassination, this poem by Walt Whitman reflects on leadership, sacrifice, and national grief in the wake of tragedy.

(De)Composing Dreams explores what grows from decay of memory, of language, of the body, of self. Dreams rot underground and bloom with eyes. Faith demands names in exchange for power. Technology devours attention one click at a time. Bodies mutate into forms both grotesque and beautiful. Language itself fractures, reassembles, sharpens. This is poetry where transformation and annihilation are the same act. Where losing your words means finding new ones. Where rot is fertile ground. For readers who find meaning in mutation, and defiance in continuing to speak.

¿Qué le dirías a la mujer que serás dentro de algunos años? Cartas a la mujer que seré es un viaje íntimo, honesto y profundamente humano a través del crecimiento, la duda, el amor y la transformación personal. En estas páginas, MI MILLÁN escribe una serie de cartas dirigidas a su yo futuro, explorando los desafíos de la vida adulta, las relaciones familiares, el dolor, la resiliencia, la espiritualidad, la amistad, el propósito y la búsqueda constante de sentido. Con una voz poética y cercana, este libro no ofrece respuestas absolutas, sino reflexiones que invitan al lector ...

"This novel will grab you in the gut and hold you there. It’s absolutely outstanding. Once I entered this world I didn’t want to leave.” —Roxane Gay, author of Opinions "The cast delivers powerfully nuanced performances. [Narrator] Dion Graham’s Sabre is both cringe-inducingly unctuous...

From a New York Times bestselling author, a war-weary soldier jumps from a moving freight train to avoid trouble–and lands in more than he bargained for. On the day Thatcher Hutton arrives in Foley, Texas, a local woman goes missing. Thatcher becomes the prime suspect. Standing between him and...

In the middle of the twentieth century, four American Catholics, working independently of one another, came to believe that the best way to explore the quandaries of religious faith was in writing. The four writers were Thomas Merton, Dorothy Day, Flannery O'Connor, and Walker Percy.

When the shah is thrown out of Iran, the nation's turmoil becomes world headlines. Caught in this shifting world of fanaticism, ambition, duplicity, and violent death are the foreign helicopter pilots who have been servicing the oil fields up and down the country. Their one objective is to make a bold, concerted escape to safety across the Gulf.

Stories of Your Life and Others presents characters who must confront sudden change-the inevitable rise of automatons or the appearance of aliens-while striving to maintain some sense of normalcy. In the amazing and much-lauded title story (the basis for the 2016 movie Arrival), a grieving mother copes with divorce and the death of her daughter by drawing on her knowledge of alien languages and non-linear memory recollection.

Antonia “Toni” Arroyo’s protective mother has outdated notions for her daughter’s life: employ her natural beauty and marry young. But Toni has wholly different aspirations. A promising inventor and budding entrepreneur, she fights to keep her passions alive as a financially strapped mother of twins with a job in airport transportation services that has her going in circles.

Fern’s dream of becoming a published author is finally coming true. After years of rejection, her debut novel has sold, and she’s ready to join the supportive online community of fellow debuts. But when she discovers her high school bully, Haven, has landed a major book deal and will be debuting alongside her, old wounds reopen.

Now an HBO Original Limited Series on Max, and winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, a startling debut novel featuring one of the most remarkable narrators of recent years: a conflicted subversive and idealist working as a double agent in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The winner of...

Brought to you by Penguin. An extraordinary new courtroom drama from Sunday Times bestselling thriller author James Patterson and Academy Award winner Viola Davis. Get ready to meet the most unforgettable character in years. All rise…for Judge Stone. The most respected citizen in Union Springs...