Class Conflict

#1 International bestselling author Ian Rankin returns with a razor-sharp, twisty standalone thriller—this one exposing the lives of the 1% in London’s most exclusive high rise. Facing Hyde Park, The Heights is London’s most coveted luxury high-rise apartment—designed to satisfy every...

In a radical analysis of contemporary classrooms, MacArthur Award-winning author Lisa Delpit develops ideas about ways teachers can be better "cultural transmitters" in the classroom, where prejudice, stereotypes, and cultural assumptions breed ineffective education. Delpit suggests that many academic problems attributed to children of color are actually the result of miscommunication, as primarily white teachers and "other people's children" struggle with the imbalance of power and the dynamics plaguing our system.

Read by the author. The way we define success is breaking us. And we're being invited into a health modeled by Jesus. In Emotionally Healthy Success, Peter Scazzero launches a quiet revolution--calling leaders to reject the world's metrics of speed, growth, and applause for Jesus' slower, deeper...

Warsaw, spring 1878. An open carriage rides through the spring sunshine toward a store on Krakowskie Przedmieście. Inside sits Izabela Łęcka: beautiful, proud, and poor. Her family has just had to sell the silver service, and she knows who bought it. She is convinced that he went to war solely for her sake, and that he has returned rich to win her over. “Does he want to buy me?” she says. “Fine. Then he’ll find out just how expensive I am.” As a boy, Stanisław Wokulski started out as a waiter in a restaurant. Now he can buy anything for sale in Warsaw: a racehorse on race day,...

Space opera's sharpest mind returns to the world of the Imperial Radch in this brilliant standalone from award-winning author Ann Leckie. The Temporal Location of the Radiant Star has always been a source of both conflict and hope for the people of Ooioiaa. However, the imperial Radch see it...

A big novel about a small town... When Barry Fairbrother dies in his early forties, the town of Pagford is left in shock. Pagford is, seemingly, an English idyll, with a cobbled market square and an ancient abbey, but what lies behind the pretty façade is a town at war. Rich at war with poor...

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle and Hang the Moon, Jeannette Walls’s gripping coming-of-age novel about two sisters “transports us with her powerful storytelling...contemplates the extraordinary bravery needed to confront real-life demons in a world where...

From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracy. For decades, racism, corporate greed, and a skewed political system have been eating away at the social and political fabric of the United States. Yet as McAlevey...

A stunning new work from universally acclaimed Daniyal Mueenuddin, whose debut short story collection won the Story Prize and was a finalist for the Los Angeles Book Prize, the National Book Award, and the Pulitzer Prize. NAMED A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2026: Town & Country, Bustle, AARP...

Campbell Flynn, art historian, professor, and fêted fixture of the literati, always knew that when his life came crashing down, it would happen in public—yet he never imagined that a single year in London would expose so much. He’s never taken other people half as seriously as they take themselves, which is the first of his mistakes. The second is a new project: opportunistic and precisely calibrated to rake in a fortune.

Celeste, a card sharp with a need for justice, takes on the role of advocatus diaboli, to defend her sister Mariel, accused of murdering a Virtue, a member of the ruling class of this mining town, in an “intricate…engrossing” (The Washington Post) historical dark fantasy set in a...

A hundred years before Emily, the world was in chaos. The Empire is in ruins. Old certainties are collapsing everywhere. The provinces are becoming kingdoms, the magical aristocracy is trying to redefine its place in the new world disorder, the commoners are being ground under, and bold or...

Attention is the real currency. Not time. Not talent. Not charisma. If you’ve ever walked out of a meeting knowing you were competent… and still didn’t move the room, you already know what this is about. If you’ve ever watched a conversation drift into fog, or felt yourself start performing, over-explaining, or rushing just to keep someone’s attention—same problem. You weren’t lacking personality. You were lacking structure. Attention Engineering: A Masterclass on The Crown Method is a practical course-in-a-book for people who want their communication to land—cleanly, ...

Bloomsbury presents Railsong by Rahul Bhattacharya, read by Sudha Bhuchar. "Magnificent . . . I would follow Miss Chitol to the ends of the earth." —Kamila Shamsie "Profoundly tender [and] vigorously alive to the currents of national change." —Megha Majumdar From the Man Asian...

This program is read by the author "Just brilliant."—Kirkus Reviews Heavily autobiographical and infused with magical realism, Black Girl Unlimited fearlessly explores the intersections of poverty, sexual violence, depression, racism, and sexism—all through the arc of a transcendent...

Hedley Robson has four files on his shelf, a ruined police career behind him, and just enough work to keep the lights on. Then a woman from the county brings him the dead son of a friend, a suspicious inquest, and a cheque large enough to change everything. What begins as one drowning soon opens into something far uglier: missing papers, a quiet man with too many secrets, and a trail of money running from Newcastle’s Quayside to Northumberland’s more exalted drawing rooms. The police have already decided what happened. The city’s powerful men would prefer it stay that way. And Hedley ...

Pete and Geri Scazzero developed The Emotionally Healthy (EH) Relationships Course over a 21-year period to directly address core biblical principles to guide you and others into an experience of discipleship that will deeply change your life. In the EH Relationships Course, everyone will learn...

She's going to teach him a thing or two. . . It's taken Presley Clark a long time to achieve her dream of becoming a teacher, so when she's offered an opportunity to fast-track her training in Burton Springs, Montana, she jumps in with both feet. Nothing's going to stand in her way - not even the unexpected attraction she feels for the father of one of her students. Cowboy Shane Abbott is desperate to find enough funding. His goal? To buy the ranch he's always called home. He wants to give his daughter roots - something he's never been able to manage since her mother left. So this isn't the...

In April 1892, the richest men in Wyoming hired fifty gunmen, drew up a list of names, and rode north to murder their neighbors. It was not a feud or a barroom shootout. It was an invasion. A private army — cattle barons, their hired hands, imported Texas gunfighters, a surgeon, and two newspapermen brought along to record the killing — boarded a special train out of Cheyenne with rifles, dynamite, and a death list. Their destination was Johnson County, a corner of their own state they did not control. Their purpose was to wipe out the small ranchers and homesteaders they had branded ...

The Price of Perfect Order For two decades, Mrs. Eliza Nesbitt, the immaculate housekeeper of Ashworth Manor, has lived by one rule: order is power. Her ledger is flawless, her control absolute, and her secret perfectly buried. But on the day a timid new maid named Sally arrives, Nesbitt's life is fractured by a familiar curve of the jaw and a single, terrifying truth: A secret she must struggle to keep hidden at all costs.. But, with a triumphant rival housekeeper, Mrs. Finch, closing in, and a cryptic attic note threatening to reveal Nesbitt's past lie, the seemingly cold housekeeper must...