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A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez.The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence-sometimes directly, sometimes only in passing-but whose lives are changed forever, consumed by fire, and by unexpected encounters and unyielding forces.A photographer becomes obsessed with the traumatic past that an elegant woman, a fellow guest staying at a count...

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A book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star Prince. Equipped with a fan's admiration and his trademark humor and wit, Nick Hornby explores the cosmic link between two unlikely artists, geniuses in their own rights, spanning race, class, and centuries. Charles Dickens and Prince each electrified their different disciplines, with legacies that resound far be...

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A startling new look at quantum theory, from the bestselling author of Seven Brief Lessons on Physics and The Order of Time.One of the world's most renowned theoretical physicists, Carlo Rovelli has entranced millions of readers with his singular perspective on the cosmos. In Helgoland, he examines the enduring enigma of quantum theory. The quantum world Rovelli describes is as beautiful as it is unnerving.Helgoland is a treeless island in the...

A tense, psychological novel about what propels one 8-year-old girl to murder, and the complex ways the past chases her down in later life."So that was all it took, " I thought. "That was all it took for me to feel like I had all the power in the world. One morning, one moment, one yellow-haired boy. It wasn't so much after all."Meet Chrissie…Chrissie is eight and she has a secret: she has just killed a boy. The feeling made her belly fizz lik...

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Set in Northern Ireland during the Troubles, a shattering debut novel about a young woman caught between allegiance to community and unsanctioned love"--

From a Booker Prize finalist and international literary star: a blazing portrait of one darkly riveting sibling relationship, from the inside out. "One of her generation's most intriguing authors" (Entertainment Weekly), Daisy Johnson is the youngest writer to have been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. Now she returns with Sisters, a haunting story about two sisters caught in a powerful emotional web and wrestling to understand where one ...

An intimate, revelatory book exploring the ways we can care for and repair ourselves when life knocks us down. Sometimes you slip through the cracks: unforeseen circumstances like an abrupt illness, the death of a loved one, a break up, or a job loss can derail a life. These periods of dislocation can be lonely and unexpected. For May, her husband fell ill, her son stopped attending school, and her own medical issues led her to leave a demandi...

With the same propulsion that captivated millions of readers worldwide in The Girl on the Train and Into the Water, Paula Hawkins unfurls a gripping, twisting story of deceit, murder, and revenge.Look what you started. When a young man is found gruesomely murdered in a London houseboat, it triggers questions about three women in particular. Laura is the troubled one-night stand last seen in the victim's home. Carla is the grief-stricken aunt, ...

A riveting page-turner about what propels one 8-year-old girl to commit an unspeakable act, and the tensely moving effect it has on the rest of her life - especially once she has a child of her own.Chrissie is eight years old and she has a secret: she has just killed a boy.The feeling of it made her belly fizz like soda pop. Across her neighborhood, Chrissie's playmates and their parents are tearful and terrified. But Chrissie rules the roost ...

#1 International BestsellerAN ADAM SAVAGE BOOK CLUB PICKThis entertaining tour of real-world mathematical disasters reveals the importance of math in our everyday livesOur whole world is built on math, from the code running a website to the equations enabling the design of skyscrapers and bridges. Most of the time this math works quietly behind the scenes…until it doesn't. All sorts of seemingly innocuous mathematical mistakes can have signifi...

The prize-winning, bestselling author of Gingerbread, Boy, Snow, Bird, and What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours returns with a vivid and inventive new novel about a couple forever changed by an unusual train voyage. When Otto and Xavier Shin declare their love, an aunt gifts them a trip on a sleeper train to mark their new commitment - and to get them out of her house. Setting off with their pet mongoose, Otto and Xavier arrive at their sleepy local...

The story of the urgent fight to save the coral reefs, and why it matters to us allCoral reefs are a microcosm of our planet: extraordinarily diverse, deeply interconnected, and full of wonders. When they're thriving, these fairy gardens hidden beneath the ocean's surface burst with color and life. They sustain entire ecosystems and protect vulnerable coasts. Corals themselves are evolutionary marvels that build elaborate limestone formations ...

Profound and delightful…. A strange and tender parable of two maddening obsessions, parenting and art-making."-Max Porter, author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers and LannyThe ingenious storyteller Edward Carey returns to reimagine a time-honored fable: the story of an impatient father, a rebellious son, and a watery path to forgiveness for the young man known as Pinocchio In the small Tuscan town of Collodi, a lonely woodcarver longs for t...

A new collection of electric, searing stories from award-winning, bestselling author Juan Gabriel Vasquez.The characters in Songs for the Flames are men and women touched by violence-sometimes directly, sometimes only in passing-but whose lives are changed forever, consumed by fire, and by unexpected encounters and unyielding forces.A photographer becomes obsessed with the traumatic past that an elegant woman, a fellow guest staying at a count...

Bennett writes like no one else. She is a rare talent, and Checkout 19 is a masterful novel." -Karl Ove KnausgaardFrom the author of the "dazzling…. and daring" Pond (O magazine), the adventures of a young woman discovering her own genius, through the people she meets-and dreams up-along the way.In a working-class town in a county west of London, a schoolgirl scribbles stories in the back pages of her exercise book, intoxicated by the first sp...

The #1 international bestselling phenomenon: a profound and riveting story of love, loss, and memory.A man at a crossroads in mid-life considers the place where he's from, where his parents have recently died. Amid enormous personal tumult, he sits down to write an unsparing account of his childhood and his life's trials, failures, and triumphs. In unswervingly honest prose, he reckons with the ghosts of his parents and the specters of his div...

From "one of the great (greatest?) contemporary popular writers on economics" (Tyler Cowen) comes a smart, lively, and encouraging rethinking of how to use statistics.Today we think statistics are the enemy, numbers people use to mislead and confuse. That's a mistake, Tim Harford argues in The Data Detective. We shouldn't be suspicious of statistics-we need to understand what they mean and how they can improve our lives. At heart, they are hum...