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Book 1: When a top secret and powerful US surveillance technology is stolen and offered for sale on the black market, an exiled reporter races to expose the theft and untangle the plot—before the story is spiked, and he is silenced for good. Book 2: In the tradition of the best legal and political thrillers, Friendly Fire is an explosive tale of greed, revenge, treason, and murder.

With insight into the genre’s cinematic tropes, our current cultural reckoning with misogyny, and an original interview with director Karyn Kusama, Extra Salty solidifies the status of Jennifer’s Body as a cult classic.

Tisha Page is a nurse at Harmony Nursing and Rehabilitation. She cares about her patients, trying to connect with their grief and loss—but it's hard when she's fighting her own battle against sleep deprivation and corporate indifference. The one patient she is able to truly connect with is Nathaniel. As Nathaniel rages against the slow decay of his life, Tisha begins to see a monster stalking the dismal halls of the Harmony nursing home. Worse than death, the monster wants to take from the patients while they're still alive until they're nothing but husks of their former selves.

The right reasons to fall in love with The Bachelor When it debuted in 2002, The Bachelor raised the stakes of first-wave reality television, offering the ultimate prize: true love. Since then, thrice yearly, dozens of camera-ready young-and-eligibles have vied for affection (and roses) in front of a devoted audience of millions. In this funny, insightful examination of the world’s favorite romance-factory, Suzannah Showler explores the contradictions that are key to the franchise’s genius, longevity, and power and parses what this means for both modern love and modern America.

Arthur and Gwen married young. Twenty years on, Gwen's got it all: wealth, beauty, a famous husband who's the founder of Britain's most successful tech company, stables full of horses, millions of followers on Instagram, an unstable lover, a wayward son, a hoard of secrets, an aching heart, and a cyberstalking blackmailer who calls himself The Invisible Knight. As the Wiltshire town of Abury prepares to celebrate the fortieth birthday of its favourite son, Morgan, Gwen's former best friend, is on her way back to Abury after two decades away.

Roman de l’Abbé Prévost publié en 1731, Manon Lescaut raconte l’histoire tragique d’un amour passionné et tumultueux. Le chevalier Des Grieux, jeune homme noble et idéaliste, tombe éperdument amoureux de la belle et envoûtante Manon Lescaut. Malgré leur amour sincère, Manon est attirée par le luxe et les plaisirs mondains, ce qui conduit le couple à vivre des aventures marquées par la trahison, la pauvreté et le scandale.

Publié en 1835 par Honoré de Balzac, Le Père Goriot est un roman emblématique de La Comédie humaine. Il se déroule à Paris en 1819, principalement dans une pension du 5e arrondissement, tenue par la veuve Madame Vauquer. Parmi les pensionnaires, on y rencontre Eugène de Rastignac, un jeune étudiant ambitieux, et Jean-Joachim Goriot, un ancien vermicellier ruiné par l'amour de ses deux filles, Anastasie de Restaud et Delphine de Nucingen.

Anastazja's cruel rejection leaves Tyreste shattered and clinging to desperate solitude. Oblivious to the malevolence that waits for her every night when she returns home, he finds it easier to believe she never loved him than to explore his fear that she’s in serious trouble. Behind the veil of Ana's seemingly charmed life, an ancient evil stalks her family's revered halls. Her cunning stepmother wields terrible threats against Ana’s loved ones to coerce her into assisting in horrifying experiments against the Ravenwood priests and priestesses, longtime allies of Ana’s family.

Amid the hustle and bustle of the big city, the big crowds and bigger buildings, Little Elliot leads a quiet life. In spite of the challenges he faces, Elliot finds many wonderful things to enjoy—like cupcakes! And when his problems seem insurmountable, Elliot discovers something even sweeter—a friend.

Meet the Unreliable Nature Writer: a macabre product of late capitalism, climate anxiety and personal loss. Finding herself alone at a wedding, tailed by an unctuous and infatuated fellow guest, she proceeds to have her fun—plunging us into a potpourri of disturbing, darkly funny visions of a near future. Aloof, evasive and sardonic, she will be our guide; her stories will bare truths about how the world we’re changing so violently might affect us in turn.

When Hanna’s blissful life in Sicily is threatened, and she discovers that her husband, Luciano, is not all he seems, she wastes no time in taking her daughter and seeking refuge abroad. She’ll do anything to keep Eva safe. But just as they begin to settle into their new life in North Wales, Eva disappears.

La Petite Roque (1885) de Guy de Maupassant est une nouvelle captivante où se mêlent tragédie et analyse psychologique. L’histoire débute avec la découverte du corps de Louise Roque, une jeune fille assassinée dans un paisible village normand. Ce crime bouleverse la communauté et déclenche une enquête qui fait émerger les secrets et les tensions cachés. Le récit suit notamment Monsieur Renardet, le maire du village, un homme influent, mais rongé par une culpabilité oppressante liée à ce drame.

When Luciano is released early from a Sicilian prison, Hanna worries he will come after her and their young daughter, Eva. She’s been invited to her best friend’s wedding in southern Italy—but can she really take the risk? Living in fear, Hanna knows she and Eva may not be safe, no matter where they are. But something strange is going on at her cottage in the Welsh hills, and as the distance between Sicily and North Wales seems to be shrinking, Hanna has even more to be afraid of . . .

Que signifie mourir lentement, en en étant parfaitement conscient ? Dans Le Dernier Jour d’un Condamné, Victor Hugo ne raconte pas l’histoire d’un crime. Il donne une voix : celle d’un prisonnier attendant de mourir, en toute connaissance de sa sentence, comptant les heures jusqu’à ce que la lame tombe. Il reste entièrement anonyme. Son passé n’a pas d’importance. Ce qui reste, c’est une pensée brute empreinte de sentiments multiples qui s’entremêlent : peur, résistance, désir, rage et résignation dans un monologue final.

BACKPACK, BOY, BERLIN is about Don Heath, Jr., the 11-year-old boy who secretly carried information between his American diplomat father and the anti-Nazi resistance group leader Mildred Harnack. Kip's books are meticulously researched, and written in verse--a great way to bring history to younger listeners.

This is an amazing story—and, by design, it is almost entirely unknown. As we begin to grapple with what the Afghan War meant—in books and in film AND in the ongoing governmental hearings regarding the evacuation—journalist and historian Paul Kix is setting out to write the book that begins to make sense of the war that was our country’s response to 9/11, the event that defined the lives of a generation.

Une saison en enfer est un recueil poétique autobiographique et profondément introspectif du grand poète Arthur Rimbaud. L’ouvrage marque la rupture d'un jeune poète tourmenté avec son passé, ses idéaux et sa propre vision de la poésie. Rimbaud y exprime ses luttes intérieures et ses désillusions après une vie d’expériences intenses et un amour tumultueux avec le poète Paul Verlaine.

The Truth About Gators is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South. Darkly funny and deeply human, Good Women observes how place, blood ties, generational trauma, obsession, and boundaries―or lack thereof―influence how we navigate our small worlds, and how those worlds so often collide in ways we don’t expect.

A woman boards a Greyhound bus to Florida with her ailing sugar daddy on a long journey to meet his mother. In the middle of the night, in the middle of rural Georgia, another passenger disrupts her plan. Seeking Arrangements is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South.

After the death of her father, a larger-than-life preacher, a young woman returns to her hometown to attend his funeral and to clean out his house without the help of his ex, her mother. When a family friend moves in under the premise of caring for her, she begins to question her past. How to Cute and Quarter is a short story from Halle Hill’s Good Women, which delves into the lives of twelve Black women across the Appalachian South.