Class Conflict

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, ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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.

In the sun-drenched maritime quarter of Montredon, Marseille, Monsieur Coumbes lives a simple life. A humble porter by trade, he finds his greatest joys in his weathered cabin, his stubborn garden where the fierce mistral wind allows nothing to grow, and the ancient art of fishing for the rock fish that make the perfect bouillabaisse. But tranquility shatters when his wealthy neighbor Monsieur Riouffe builds a magnificent chalet nearby, awakening dangerous jealousies and long-buried secrets. Living under Coumbes' protection are Millette and her son Marius—a young man who has always ...

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...

#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...

Bloomsbury presents Railsong by Rahul Bhattacharya, read by Sudha Bhuchar. 'Magnificent' KAMILA SHAMSIE 'Majestic yet profoundly tender' MEGHA MAJUMDAR A breathtaking novel about a woman forging a life for herself on the railways, Railsong is the story of an individual coming of age amid the...

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...

Set in the height of the Second World War, The Cazalet Chronicles continues with the third in the series, Confusion, where chaos has become a way of life for the Cazalet family. Read by Indira Varma (Game of Thrones, Luther and Oedipus at The Old Vic) ‘They could be like telegrams, or the most...

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...

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...

“A Death of No Importance has such rich historic detail that you feel as if you’ve been transported to early twentieth century New York. Mariah Fredericks is the best at creating compulsively addictive, fresh, twisty reads.”—Meg Cabot Through her exquisite prose, sharp observation and...

She came to Florence with nothing but grief. She never expected to leave with everything. After losing her mother in a tragic accident, Isabella Moretti is sent to Italy to live with the father she barely knows—a chauffeur to one of the country’s most powerful families. Alone in a foreign world of wealth, beauty, and quiet expectations, she feels like she doesn’t belong. Until she meets him. Lorenzo Caravelli is heir to a vast Tuscan empire—and a legacy built on control, power, and cold ambition. Love has never had a place in his world… until a quiet, grieving girl with a ...

Named a Barnes & Noble Best Book of the Year: The explosive debut novel about family, power, and privilege from the creator of the award-winning Mad Men. Mark and Karen Breakstone have constructed the idyllic life of wealth and status they always wanted, made complete by their beautiful and...

In Belle Rive, talent is admired right up until it threatens the wrong people. Liza Bennet has fought for every inch of ground she’s won in the dressage world. At Briar Glen Stables, nothing is inherited, nothing is polished for show, and every ribbon has to be earned the hard way. So when her brilliant ride turns heads at an elite competition, Liza should be celebrating. Instead, one cutting remark from the cold, impossibly controlled Fitz Darcy turns her triumph into humiliation. He sees her as raw talent without proper refinement. She sees him as everything rotten about old money, old ...

Michael Shelburne, the stepson of the richest and most powerful man on earth is kidnapped by radical students from his college with the intention of turning him into a tool for their own political purpose. When this goes horribly wrong, a complex thriller unfolds were great wealth, social classes, political power and organize crime collide under the glittering and gritty backdrop of Atlantic City.