Enjoy the best new fiction and bestsellers like The Time Traveler's Wife, Life of Pi, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, and Water for Elephants in exceptional unabridged editions. We have your favorite authors, from Louis L'Amour to Stephen King to JRR Tolkien.
On a cattle drive north, young gun Danielle Strange falls in love with one of the drovers. Now she must choose between letting the last of her father's murderers go free and sacrificing her own life to send the bushwhacker to hell. Learn More
A Boston lawyer investigates a prep school teacher's suspicious suicide in this debut for "one of the most likeable sleuths to appear on the crime scene" (The Washington Post Book World). Learn More
by Khaled Khalifa; translated by Leri Price; read by Neil Shah
2019 National Book Award Finalist
Death Is Hard Work is the new novel from the greatest chronicler of Syria's ongoing and catastrophic civil war: a tale of three ordinary people facing down the stuff of nightmares armed with little more than simple determination. Learn More
by Alice Slater; read by Rachael Beresford and Sasha Higgins
In this "utterly unforgettable" debut (Catherine Ryan Howard), a disaffected, true crime-obsessed bookseller develops a dangerous obsession with a colleague. Learn More
In the fourth installment of Christianna Brand's classic mystery series, Inspector Cockrill investigates a dramatic death at a medieval pageant. Learn More
In the fourth installment of Christianna Brand's classic mystery series, Inspector Cockrill investigates a dramatic death at a medieval pageant. Learn More
Debriefing collects all of Susan Sontag's shorter fiction. The book ranges from allegory to parable to autobiography and shows her wrestling with problems not assimilable to the essay, her more customary mode. Learn More
Winner, Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature California Book Award Finalist One of The Millions' Most Anticipated Books of the Year
In her powerful collection, first published in 2016 and now featuring new stories, Vanessa Hua gives voice to immigrant families navigating a new America. Tied to their ancestral and adopted homelands in ways unimaginable in generations past, these memorable characters straddle both worlds but belong to none. Learn More
On a family vacation in the mountains near Denver, a girl on the brink of starting college and her younger brother leave the hotel to run and bike up a winding mountain road. Hours later, the boy is brought down in an ambulance, the victim of an apparent hit-and-run accident. His sister, however, has disappeared. Learn More
Neon Yang continues to redefine the limits of silkpunk fantasy with their Tensorate novellas, which the New York Times lauded as "joyously wild." In this third volume, an investigation into atrocities committed at a classified research facility threaten to expose secrets that the Protectorate will do anything to keep hidden. Learn More
by Jack Kerouac, edited by Charles Shuttleworth; read by Christian Rummel
Jack Kerouac's experience on Desolation Peak forms the climax of his novel The Dharma Bums and has also been depicted in part 1 of Desolation Angels and a chapter in his nonfiction book Lonesome Traveler. None of these versions offers a full, true picture, however; and for that reason, Desolation Peak is essential listening. Learn More
A magisterial work of historical imagination-a stunningly immediate, first-person account of one soldier's experience of the defining war of Christendom. Learn More
by Luce D'Eramo, translated by Anne Milano Appel; read by Justine Eyre
NPR Best of 2018
Finally available in English translation, Deviation is at once a personal testament, a work of the imagination, an investigation into the limits of memory, a warning to future generations, and a visceral scream at the horrors of the world. Learn More
London, 1842. There has been a mysterious and horrible death at the Reform, London's newest and grandest gentleman's club. A death the club is desperate to hush up. Learn More
