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Washington Irving

"The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" is a popular American fiction story, especially during Halloween, because of the Headless Horseman character. The mysterious, haunting Sleepy Hollow is inhabited by ghosts and unexplained events befall its inhabitants.

Dracula

Bram Stoker

Published in 1897, this book introduces Count Dracula, a vampire living in Transylvania. Count Dracula attempts to move from Transylvania to England so that he may find new blood and spread the undead curse. The story is told through a series of letters, diary entries, newspaper articles and ships' log entries.

Dracula is considered a horror story and established many conventions of vampire fantasy which have subsequently been showcased in movies, theatrical productions and TV.

Gulliver's Travels

Jonathan Swift

Written in 1726, this adventure story describes the mishaps of Lemeul Gulliver, a surgeon who sets out on voyages that introduce him to unbelievable places and people. He faces danger and narrowly escapes absurd and humorous situations. The story was intended as a satire of human nature and the travellers' tales literary sub-genre.

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson

Dr Jekyll is a well-respected, curious scientist who tries to separate his good characteristics from his evil impulses. Dr Jekyll uses science to explore his alter ego Mr Hyde and attempts to control Mr Hyde's evil urges, even as they grow in intensity.

Frankenstein

Mary Wollstonecraft (Godwin) Shelley

A young scientist Victor Frankenstein experiments with creating a humanoid creature. His creation, the Creature, doesn't turn out as he expects and results in unintended consequences that devastate Victor. The story is told in the form of a correspondence.

The War of the Worlds

H. G. Wells

In the late 19th century, Martians invade London in this sci-fi classic.

The Yellow Wallpaper

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

This short story is regarded as an important early work of American feminist literature, due to its illustration of the attitudes towards mental and physical health of women in the 19th century.

Narrated in the first person, the story is a collection of journal entries written by a woman whose physician husband (John) has rented an old mansion for the summer. Forgoing other rooms in the house, the couple moves into the upstairs nursery. As a form of treatment, the unnamed woman is forbidden from working, and is encouraged to eat well and get plenty of air, so she can recuperate from what he calls a "temporary nervous depression – a slight hysterical tendency", a diagnosis common to women during that period.

The Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe

Daniel Defoe

In this adventure, published in 1719, Crusoe leaves the safety of his comfortable middle-class home in England and goes to sea. He is shipwrecked and becomes a castaway who spends years on a remote tropical island near Trinidad. He meets cannibals, captives and mutineers, while building his resilience.

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Common Sense

Thomas Paine

The pamphlet was published anonymously on January 10, 1776, at the beginning of the American Revolution, and became an immediate sensation. Written by Thomas Paine in 1775–1776, the pamphlet persuasively argues for the colonial people to fight for independence from Great Britain and to form an egalitarian government.

On the Origin of Species

Charles Darwin

Considered to be the foundation of evolutionary biology, this book introduces the scientific theory that populations evolve over time through natural selection. The evolutionary theory shared in this book has become a unifying concept of the life sciences.

A Modest Proposal: For preventing the children of poor people in Ireland, from being a burden on their parents or country, and for making them beneficial to the public.

Jonathan Swift

In this satirical essay, Jonathan Swift lays out an argument for poor Irish families to sell their children as food to the elite class. The essay mocks the dismissive attitude towards the poor and the British view of the Irish people.

Walden

Henry David Thoreau

This series of 18 essays was written by Thoreau while he lived in semi-isolation near Waldon Pond in Massachussetts. The essays capture his thoughts on topics ranging from self-reliance to individualism to nature.

Beyond Good and Evil

Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

In Beyond Good and Evil, published in 1886, Nietzsche accuses past philosophers of lacking critical sense and blindly accepting dogmatic premises in their consideration of morality. Specifically, he accuses them of founding grand metaphysical systems upon the faith that the good man is the opposite of the evil man, rather than just a different expression of the same basic impulses that find more direct expression in the evil man.

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass: an American Slave

Frederick Douglass

In Frederick Douglass' 1845 memoir, the former slave and famous orator, describes the events of his life including the brutal treatment that he experienced and witnessed, at the hand of slave masters. This book is the most famous narrative, told from a former slave during this time period. The memoir is considered to be one of the most influential pieces of literature that fueled the abolitionist movement in the United States.

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin

Franklin's Autobiography has received widespread praise, both for its historical value as a record of an important early American and for its literary style. This work has become one of the most famous and influential examples of an autobiography ever written. This title is based on the Harvard Classics edition.

The Prince

Niccolò Machiavelli

In The Prince, the theme is that the aims of princes – such as glory and survival – can justify immoral actions to achieve those ends. The treatise brought Machiavellian into the lexicon as a pejorative, describing cunning and unscrupulous behavior in politics.

The Souls of Black Folk

W. E. B. Du Bois

The Souls of Black Folk is a 1903 work of American literature. Drawing from his own experiences, Du Bois explores the ways in which African-Americans must navigate American society. The Souls of Black Folk is considered to be a defining work in the history of sociology.

Dream Psychology: Psychoanalysis for Beginners

Sigmund Freud

Published in 1920 by renowned Viennese psychotherapist Sigmund Freud, this book describes various theories for interpreting dreams. According to Freud, dreams represent the unconscious mind, and in this title he provides examples of how dreams represent the dreamer's unconscious desires.

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Star Wars: Light of the Jedi (The High Republic)

Charles Soule

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Long before the First Order, before the Empire, before even The Phantom Menace . . . Jedi lit the way for the galaxy in The High Republic

It is a golden age. Intrepid hyperspace scouts expand the reach of the Republic to the furthest stars, worlds flourish under the benevolent leadership of the Senate, and peace reigns, enforced by the wisdom and strength of the renowned order of Force users known as the Jedi. With the Jedi at the height of their power, the free citizens of the galaxy are confident in their ability to weather any storm But the even brightest light can cast a shadow, and some storms defy any preparation.

When a shocking catastrophe in hyperspace tears a ship to pieces, the flurry of shrapnel emerging from the disaster threatens an entire system. No sooner does the call for help go out than the Jedi race to the scene. The scope of the emergence, however, is enough to push even Jedi to their limit. As the sky breaks open and destruction rains down upon the peaceful alliance they helped to build, the Jedi must trust in the Force to see them through a day in which a single mistake could cost billions of lives.

Even as the Jedi battle valiantly against calamity, something truly deadly grows beyond the boundary of the Republic. The hyperspace disaster is far more sinister than the Jedi could ever suspect. A threat hides in the darkness, far from the light of the age, and harbors a secret that could strike fear into even a Jedi’s heart.

The Duke and I

Julia Quinn

Simon Basset, the irresistible Duke of Hastings, has hatched a plan to keep himself free from the town's marriage-minded society mothers. He pretends to be engaged to the lovely Daphne Bridgerton. After all, it isn't as if the brooding rogue has any real plans to marry-though there is something about the alluring Miss Bridgerton that sets Simon's heart beating a bit faster. And as for Daphne, surely the clever debutante will attract some very worthy suitors now that it seems a duke has declared her desirable. But as Daphne waltzes across ballroom after ballroom with Simon, she soon forgets that their courtship is a complete sham. And now she has to do the impossible and keep herself from losing her heart and soul completely to the handsome hell-raiser who has sworn off marriage forever!

Ready Player Two: A Novel

Ernest Cline

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The highly anticipated sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, the near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST • “The game is on again. . . . A great mix of exciting fantasy and threatening fact.”—The Wall Street Journal

AN UNEXPECTED QUEST. TWO WORLDS AT STAKE. ARE YOU READY?

Days after winning OASIS founder James Halliday’s contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything.

Hidden within Halliday’s vaults, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the OASIS a thousand times more wondrous—and addictive—than even Wade dreamed possible.

With it comes a new riddle, and a new quest—a last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize.

And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who’ll kill millions to get what he wants.

Wade’s life and the future of the OASIS are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance.

Lovingly nostalgic and wildly original as only Ernest Cline could conceive it, Ready Player Two takes us on another imaginative, fun, action-packed adventure through his beloved virtual universe, and jolts us thrillingly into the future once again.

The Viscount Who Loved Me

Julia Quinn

1814 promises to be another eventful season, but not, This Author believes, for Anthony Bridgerton, London's most elusive bachelor, who has shown no indication that he plans to marry. And in all truth, why should he? When it comes to playing the consummate rake, nobody does it better... -Lady Whistledown's Society Papers, April 1814 But this time the gossip columnists have it wrong. Anthony Bridgerton hasn't just decided to marry-he's even chosen a wife! The only obstacle is his intended's older sister, Kate Sheffield-the most meddlesome woman ever to grace a London ballroom. The spirited schemer is driving Anthony mad with her determination to stop the betrothal, but when he closes his eyes at night, Kate's the woman haunting his increasingly erotic dreams... Contrary to popular belief, Kate is quite sure that reformed rakes do not make the best husbands-and Anthony Bridgerton is the most wicked rogue of them all. Kate is determined to protect her sister-but she fears her own heart is vulnerable. And when Anthony's lips touch hers, she's suddenly afraid she might not be able to resist the reprehensible rake herself...

1984

George Orwell

Blackstone Audio presents a new recording of this immensely popular book. George Orwell depicts a gray, totalitarian world dominated by Big Brother and its vast network of agents, including the Thought Police, a world in which news is manufactured according to the authorities' will and people live tepid lives by rote. Winston Smith, the hero with no heroic qualities, longs only for truth and decency. But living in a social system in which privacy does not exist and where those with unorthodox ideas are brainwashed or put to death, he knows there is no hope for him. He knows even as he continues to pursue his forbidden love affair that eventually he will come to destruction. The year 1984 has come and gone, yet George Orwell's nightmare vision in 1949 of the world we were becoming is still the great modern classic of negative Utopia.

A Promised Land

Barack Obama

A riveting, deeply personal account of history in the making—from the president who inspired us to believe in the power of democracy

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NAMED ONE OF THE TEN BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The Washington Post • Jennifer Szalai, The New York Times • NPR • The Guardian • Marie Claire

In the stirring, highly anticipated first volume of his presidential memoirs, Barack Obama tells the story of his improbable odyssey from young man searching for his identity to leader of the free world, describing in strikingly personal detail both his political education and the landmark moments of the first term of his historic presidency—a time of dramatic transformation and turmoil.

Obama takes readers on a compelling journey from his earliest political aspirations to the pivotal Iowa caucus victory that demonstrated the power of grassroots activism to the watershed night of November 4, 2008, when he was elected 44th president of the United States, becoming the first African American to hold the nation’s highest office.

Reflecting on the presidency, he offers a unique and thoughtful exploration of both the awesome reach and the limits of presidential power, as well as singular insights into the dynamics of U.S. partisan politics and international diplomacy. Obama brings readers inside the Oval Office and the White House Situation Room, and to Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, and points beyond. We are privy to his thoughts as he assembles his cabinet, wrestles with a global financial crisis, takes the measure of Vladimir Putin, overcomes seemingly insurmountable odds to secure passage of the Affordable Care Act, clashes with generals about U.S. strategy in Afghanistan, tackles Wall Street reform, responds to the devastating Deepwater Horizon blowout, and authorizes Operation Neptune’s Spear, which leads to the death of Osama bin Laden.

A Promised Land is extraordinarily intimate and introspective—the story of one man’s bet with history, the faith of a community organizer tested on the world stage. Obama is candid about the balancing act of running for office as a Black American, bearing the expectations of a generation buoyed by messages of “hope and change,” and meeting the moral challenges of high-stakes decision-making. He is frank about the forces that opposed him at home and abroad, open about how living in the White House affected his wife and daughters, and unafraid to reveal self-doubt and disappointment. Yet he never wavers from his belief that inside the great, ongoing American experiment, progress is always possible.

This beautifully written and powerful book captures Barack Obama’s conviction that democracy is not a gift from on high but something founded on empathy and common understanding and built together, day by day.

Greenlights

Matthew McConaughey

From the Academy Award®–winning actor, an unconventional memoir filled with raucous stories, outlaw wisdom, and lessons learned the hard way about living with greater satisfaction

“Unflinchingly honest and remarkably candid, Matthew McConaughey’s book invites us to grapple with the lessons of his life as he did—and to see that the point was never to win, but to understand.”—Mark Manson, author of The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck

I’ve been in this life for fifty years, been trying to work out its riddle for forty-two, and been keeping diaries of clues to that riddle for the last thirty-five. Notes about successes and failures, joys and sorrows, things that made me marvel, and things that made me laugh out loud. How to be fair. How to have less stress. How to have fun. How to hurt people less. How to get hurt less. How to be a good man. How to have meaning in life. How to be more me.

Recently, I worked up the courage to sit down with those diaries. I found stories I experienced, lessons I learned and forgot, poems, prayers, prescriptions, beliefs about what matters, some great photographs, and a whole bunch of bumper stickers. I found a reliable theme, an approach to living that gave me more satisfaction, at the time, and still: If you know how, and when, to deal with life’s challenges—how to get relative with the inevitable—you can enjoy a state of success I call “catching greenlights.”

So I took a one-way ticket to the desert and wrote this book: an album, a record, a story of my life so far. This is fifty years of my sights and seens, felts and figured-outs, cools and shamefuls. Graces, truths, and beauties of brutality. Getting away withs, getting caughts, and getting wets while trying to dance between the raindrops.

Hopefully, it’s medicine that tastes good, a couple of aspirin instead of the infirmary, a spaceship to Mars without needing your pilot’s license, going to church without having to be born again, and laughing through the tears.

It’s a love letter. To life.

It’s also a guide to catching more greenlights—and to realizing that the yellows and reds eventually turn green too.

Good luck.

Keep Sharp: How to Build a Better Brain at Any Age

Sanjay Gupta

Keep your brain young, healthy, and sharp with this science-driven guide to protecting your mind from decline by neurosurgeon and CNN chief medical correspondent Sanjay Gupta.

Throughout our life, we look for ways to keep our mind sharp and effortlessly productive. Now, globetrotting neurosurgeon Dr. Sanjay Gupta offers insights from top scientists all over the world, whose cutting-edge research can help you heighten and protect brain function and maintain cognitive health at any age.

Keep Sharp debunks common myths about aging and cognitive decline, explores whether there’s a “best” diet or exercise regimen for the brain, and explains whether it’s healthier to play video games that test memory and processing speed, or to engage in more social interaction. Discover what we can learn from “super-brained” people who are in their eighties and nineties with no signs of slowing down—and whether there are truly any benefits to drugs, supplements, and vitamins. Dr. Gupta also addresses brain disease, particularly Alzheimer’s, answers all your questions about the signs and symptoms, and shows how to ward against it and stay healthy while caring for a partner in cognitive decline. He likewise provides you with a personalized twelve-week program featuring practical strategies to strengthen your brain every day.

Keep Sharp is the only owner’s manual you’ll need to keep your brain young and healthy regardless of your age!

An Offer from a Gentleman

Julia Quinn

Sophie Beckett never dreamed she'd be able to sneak into Lady Bridgerton's famed masquerade ball-or that "Prince Charming" would be waiting there for her! Though the daughter of an earl, Sophie has been relegated to the role of servant by her disdainful stepmother. But now, spinning in the strong arms of the debonair and devastatingly handsome Benedict Bridgerton, she feels like royalty. Alas, she knows all enchantments must end when the clock strikes midnight. Who was that extraordinary woman? Ever since that magical night, a radiant vision in silver has blinded Benedict to the attractions of any other-except, perhaps, this alluring and oddly familiar beauty dressed in housemaid's garb whom he feels compelled to rescue from a most disagreeable situation. He has sworn to find and wed his mystery miss, but this breathtaking maid makes him weak with wanting her. Yet, if he offers her his heart, will Benedict sacrifice his only chance for a fairy tale love?

Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones

James Clear

The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 1 million copies sold!

Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results

No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results.

If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of your goals. You fall to the level of your systems. Here, you'll get a proven system that can take you to new heights.

Clear is known for his ability to distill complex topics into simple behaviors that can be easily applied to daily life and work. Here, he draws on the most proven ideas from biology, psychology, and neuroscience to create an easy-to-understand guide for making good habits inevitable and bad habits impossible. Along the way, readers will be inspired and entertained with true stories from Olympic gold medalists, award-winning artists, business leaders, life-saving physicians, and star comedians who have used the science of small habits to master their craft and vault to the top of their field.

Learn how to:
• make time for new habits (even when life gets crazy);
• overcome a lack of motivation and willpower;
• design your environment to make success easier;
• get back on track when you fall off course;
...and much more.

Atomic Habits will reshape the way you think about progress and success, and give you the tools and strategies you need to transform your habits--whether you are a team looking to win a championship, an organization hoping to redefine an industry, or simply an individual who wishes to quit smoking, lose weight, reduce stress, or achieve any other goal.

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The 48 Laws of Power

Robert Greene

The 48 Laws of Power will fascinate any reader interested in gaining, observing, or defending against ultimate control.

Midnight Sun

Stephenie Meyer

#1 bestselling author Stephenie Meyer makes a triumphant return to the world of Twilight with this highly anticipated companion: the iconic love story of Bella and Edward told from the vampire's point of view.
When Edward Cullen and Bella Swan met in Twilight, an iconic love story was born. But until now, fans have heard only Bella's side of the story. At last, readers can experience Edward's version in the long-awaited companion novel, Midnight Sun.
This unforgettable tale as told through Edward's eyes takes on a new and decidedly dark twist. Meeting Bella is both the most unnerving and intriguing event he has experienced in all his years as a vampire. As we learn more fascinating details about Edward's past and the complexity of his inner thoughts, we understand why this is the defining struggle of his life. How can he justify following his heart if it means leading Bella into danger?
In Midnight Sun, Stephenie Meyer transports us back to a world that has captivated millions of readers and brings us an epic novel about the profound pleasures and devastating consequences of immortal love.
An instant #1 New York Times BestsellerAn instant #1 USA Today BestsellerAn instant #1 Wall Street Journal BestsellerAn instant #1 IndieBound BestsellerApple Audiobook August Must-Listens Pick
"People do not want to just read Meyer's books; they want to climb inside them and live there." -- Time
"A literary phenomenon." -- New York Times

The Fellowship of the Ring

J.R.R. Tolkien

Inspired by The Hobbit, and begun in 1937, The Lord of the Rings is a trilogy that Tolkien created to provide "the necessary background of history for Elvish tongues." From these academic aspirations was born one of the most popular and imaginative works in English literature. The Fellowship of the Ring, the first volume in the trilogy, tells of the fateful power of the One Ring. It begins a magnificent tale of adventure that will plunge the members of the Fellowship of the Ring into a perilous quest and set the stage for the ultimate clash between powers of good and evil. In this splendid, unabridged audio production of Tolkien's great work, all the inhabitants of a magical universe-hobbits, elves, and wizards-step colorfully forth from the pages. Rob Inglis' narration has been praised as a masterpiece of audio.

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck: A Counterintuitive Approach to Living a Good Life

Mark Manson

#1 New York Times Bestseller

Over 2 million copies sold

In this generation-defining self-help guide, a superstar blogger cuts through the crap to show us how to stop trying to be "positive" all the time so that we can truly become better, happier people.

For decades, we’ve been told that positive thinking is the key to a happy, rich life. "F**k positivity," Mark Manson says. "Let’s be honest, shit is f**ked and we have to live with it." In his wildly popular Internet blog, Manson doesn’t sugarcoat or equivocate. He tells it like it is—a dose of raw, refreshing, honest truth that is sorely lacking today. The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is his antidote to the coddling, let’s-all-feel-good mindset that has infected modern society and spoiled a generation, rewarding them with gold medals just for showing up.

Manson makes the argument, backed both by academic research and well-timed poop jokes, that improving our lives hinges not on our ability to turn lemons into lemonade, but on learning to stomach lemons better. Human beings are flawed and limited—"not everybody can be extraordinary, there are winners and losers in society, and some of it is not fair or your fault." Manson advises us to get to know our limitations and accept them. Once we embrace our fears, faults, and uncertainties, once we stop running and avoiding and start confronting painful truths, we can begin to find the courage, perseverance, honesty, responsibility, curiosity, and forgiveness we seek.

There are only so many things we can give a f**k about so we need to figure out which ones really matter, Manson makes clear. While money is nice, caring about what you do with your life is better, because true wealth is about experience. A much-needed grab-you-by-the-shoulders-and-look-you-in-the-eye moment of real-talk, filled with entertaining stories and profane, ruthless humor, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k is a refreshing slap for a generation to help them lead contented, grounded lives.

1984

George Orwell

Unfu*k Yourself: Get Out of Your Head and into Your Life

Gary John Bishop

New York Times Bestseller

Joining the ranks of The Life-Changing Magic of Not Giving a F*ck, The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck, You Are a Badass, and F*ck Feelings comes this refreshing, BS-free, self-empowerment guide that offers an honest, no-nonsense, tough-love approach to help you move past self-imposed limitations.

Are you tired of feeling fu*ked up? If you are, Gary John Bishop has the answer. In this straightforward handbook, he gives you the tools and advice you need to demolish the slag weighing you down and become the truly unfu*ked version of yourself. "Wake up to the miracle you are," he directs. "Here's what you've forgotten: You're a fu*king miracle of being." It isn't other people that are standing in your way, it isn't even your circumstances that are blocking your ability to thrive, it's yourself and the negative self-talk you keep telling yourself.

In Unfu*k Yourself, Bishop leads you through a series of seven assertions:

I am willing
I am wired to win
I got this
I embrace the uncertainty
I am not my thoughts; I am what I do
I am relentless
I expect nothing and accept everything

Lead the life you were meant to have—Unfu*k Yourself.

Ready Player One

Ernest Cline

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg.

“Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.”—USA Today • “As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates.”—Entertainment Weekly

A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready?

In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days.

When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune—and control of the OASIS itself.

Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly he’s beset by rivals who’ll kill to take this prize. The race is on—and the only way to survive is to win.

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly • San Francisco Chronicle • Village Voice • Chicago Sun-Times • iO9 • The AV Club

“Delightful . . . the grown-up’s Harry Potter.”—HuffPost

“An addictive read . . . part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart.”—CNN

“A most excellent ride . . . Cline stuffs his novel with a cornucopia of pop culture, as if to wink to the reader.”—Boston Globe

“Ridiculously fun and large-hearted . . . Cline is that rare writer who can translate his own dorky enthusiasms into prose that’s both hilarious and compassionate.”—NPR

“[A] fantastic page-turner . . . starts out like a simple bit of fun and winds up feeling like a rich and plausible picture of future friendships in a world not too distant from our own.”—iO9

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

J.K. Rowling

Turning the envelope over, his hand trembling, Harry saw a purple wax seal bearing a coat of arms; a lion, an eagle, a badger and a snake surrounding a large letter 'H'.

Harry Potter has never even heard of Hogwarts when the letters start dropping on the doormat at number four, Privet Drive. Addressed in green ink on yellowish parchment with a purple seal, they are swiftly confiscated by his grisly aunt and uncle. Then, on Harry's eleventh birthday, a great beetle-eyed giant of a man called Rubeus Hagrid bursts in with some astonishing news: Harry Potter is a wizard, and he has a place at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. An incredible adventure is about to begin!

12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos

Jordan B. Peterson

#1 NATIONAL BESTSELLER
#1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER

What does everyone in the modern world need to know? Renowned psychologist Jordan B. Peterson's answer to this most difficult of questions uniquely combines the hard-won truths of ancient tradition with the stunning revelations of cutting-edge scientific research.

Humorous, surprising and informative, Dr. Peterson tells us why skateboarding boys and girls must be left alone, what terrible fate awaits those who criticize too easily, and why you should always pet a cat when you meet one on the street.
What does the nervous system of the lowly lobster have to tell us about standing up straight (with our shoulders back) and about success in life? Why did ancient Egyptians worship the capacity to pay careful attention as the highest of gods? What dreadful paths do people tread when they become resentful, arrogant and vengeful? Dr. Peterson journeys broadly, discussing discipline, freedom, adventure and responsibility, distilling the world's wisdom into 12 practical and profound rules for life. 12 Rules for Life shatters the modern commonplaces of science, faith and human nature, while transforming and ennobling the mind and spirit of its readers.

Becoming

Michelle Obama

An intimate, powerful, and inspiring memoir by the former First Lady of the United States

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • WATCH THE EMMY-NOMINATED NETFLIX ORIGINAL DOCUMENTARY • OPRAH’S BOOK CLUB PICK • NAACP IMAGE AWARD WINNER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS

In a life filled with meaning and accomplishment, Michelle Obama has emerged as one of the most iconic and compelling women of our era. As First Lady of the United States of America—the first African American to serve in that role—she helped create the most welcoming and inclusive White House in history, while also establishing herself as a powerful advocate for women and girls in the U.S. and around the world, dramatically changing the ways that families pursue healthier and more active lives, and standing with her husband as he led America through some of its most harrowing moments. Along the way, she showed us a few dance moves, crushed Carpool Karaoke, and raised two down-to-earth daughters under an unforgiving media glare.

In her memoir, a work of deep reflection and mesmerizing storytelling, Michelle Obama invites readers into her world, chronicling the experiences that have shaped her—from her childhood on the South Side of Chicago to her years as an executive balancing the demands of motherhood and work, to her time spent at the world’s most famous address. With unerring honesty and lively wit, she describes her triumphs and her disappointments, both public and private, telling her full story as she has lived it—in her own words and on her own terms. Warm, wise, and revelatory, Becoming is the deeply personal reckoning of a woman of soul and substance who has steadily defied expectations—and whose story inspires us to do the same.

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Come Join Us by the Fire: Season 2

Various Authors

The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of genre luminaries including Laird Barron, Indrapramit Das, Shaun Hamill, Daniel M. Lavery, Matthew Lyons, T. Kingfisher, Seanan McGuire, Nibedita Sen, and Nightfire’s own Cassandra Khaw and Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

The full Table of Contents is as follows:

Cassandra Khaw- "Some Breakable Things"

Sarah Langan- "The Changeling"

Shaun Hamill- "Music of the Abyss"

Caitlín R. Kiernan- "Standing Water"

Tade Thompson- "Bone"

T. Kingfisher- "Origin Story"

Silvia Moreno-Garcia- "The Sound of Footsteps"

Laird Barron- "Jōren Falls"

Damien Angelica Walters- "Tooth, Tongue, and Claw"

Sunny Moraine- "If Living is Seeing I'm Holding My Breath"

Matthew Lyons- "Blood Daughter"

Jessica Guess- "Mama Tulu"

Daniel M. Lavery- "Prodigal Son"

Seanan McGuire- "Emergency Landing"

Indrapramit Das - "You Will Survive This Night"

‘Pemi Aguda- "Things Boys Do"

Kelly Link"The Specialist's Hat"

Clay McLeod Chapman- "The Fireplace"

Nibedita Sen- "Pigeons"

Camilla Grudova- "Ghost Bread"

Catherynne M. Valente- "The Days of Flaming Motorcycles"

Brian Evenson- "The Cabin"

Maria Dahvana Headley- "The Krakatoan"

Craig Laurance Gidney- "Spyder Threads"

Mariana Enriquez- "Things We Lost in the Fire"

Gabino Iglesias- "The Song of the Lady Rose"

Nick Antosca- "The Quiet Boy"

Some Breakable Things: Come Join Us by the Fire Season 2

Cassandra Khaw

As though to make up for his absence in life, your father’s ghost follows you everywhere. He is hungry.

"Some Brekable Things" by Cassandra Khaw is one of 27 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology.

Come Join Us by the Fire Season 2 is the second installment of Nightfire's audio-only horror anthology, featuring a wide collection of short stories from emerging voices in the horror genre as well as longtime fan favorites. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of genre luminaries including Laird Barron, Indrapramit Das, Shaun Hamill, Daniel M. Lavery, Matthew Lyons, T. Kingfisher, Seanan McGuire, Nibedita Sen, and Nightfire’s own Cassandra Khaw and Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

The Changeling: Come Join Us by the Fire Season 2

Sarah Langan

She can no longer remember her name. She only remembers the faces of the children she stole.

"The Changeling" by Sarah Langan is one of 27 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology.

Music of the Abyss: Come Join Us by the Fire Season 2

Shaun Hamill

The bells have always been a clear sign to the rest of the strange coastal town: stay indoors tonight.

"Music of the Abyss" by Shaun Hamill is one of 27 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology.

Standing Water: Come Join Us by the Fire Season 2

Caitlín R. Kiernan

An impossible puddle holds unfathomable secrets.

"Standing Water" by Caitlín R. Kiernan is one of 27 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology.

Bone: Come Join Us by the Fire Season 2

Tade Thompson

Revenge is a dish best served with clean, sharp knives.

"Bone" by Tade Thompson is one of 27 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology.

Come Join Us by the Fire S2 is the second installment of Nightfire's audio-only horror anthology, featuring a wide collection of short stories from emerging voices in the horror genre as well as longtime fan favorites. The collection showcases the breadth of talent writing in the horror genre today, with contributions from a wide range of genre luminaries including Laird Barron, Indrapramit Das, Shaun Hamill, Daniel M. Lavery, Matthew Lyons, T. Kingfisher, Seanan McGuire, Nibedita Sen, and Nightfire’s own Cassandra Khaw and Silvia Moreno-Garcia.

Origin Story: Come Join Us by the Fire Season 2

T. Kingfisher

When abominations begin roaming the village streets at night, the slaughterhouse workers grow suspicious of the fairy who works there.

"Origin Story" by T. Kingfisher is one of 27 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology.

The Sound of Footsteps: Come Join Us by the Fire Season 2

Silvia Moreno-Garcia

An abandoned record store, a Ouija board, and an unexpected reunion.

"The Sound of Footsteps" by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is one of 27 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology.

Jōren Falls: Come Join Us by the Fire Season 2

Laird Barron

For one retiree, a long-ago business trip to Japan -- and its ghosts -- can never be packed away.

"Jōren Falls" by Laird Barron is one of 27 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology.

Tooth, Tongue, and Claw: Come Join Us by the Fire Season 2

Damien Angelica Walters

"Once upon a time there was a monster." This is how they tell you the story of Beauty and the Beast starts. This is a lie.

"Tooth, Tongue, and Claw" by Damien Angelica Walter is one of 27 short horror stories in Nightfire's audio anthology.

Need a laugh?

The Best of Me

David Sedaris

“Genius… It is miraculous to read these pieces… You must read The Best of Me.” —Andrew Sean Greer, New York Times Book Review

David Sedaris’s best stories and essays, spanning his remarkable career—as selected and read by the author himself. Featuring fresh and classic recordings, including a new essay and an interview exclusive to the audiobook.

A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
A CNN and Christian Science Monitor Best Book of the Month

For more than twenty-five years, David Sedaris has been carving out a unique literary space, virtually creating his own genre. A Sedaris story may seem confessional, but is also highly attuned to the world outside. It opens our eyes to what is at absurd and moving about our daily existence. And it is almost impossible to listen without laughing.

Now, for the first time collected in one volume, the author brings us his funniest and most memorable work. In these stories, Sedaris shops for rare taxidermy, hitchhikes with a lady quadriplegic, and spits a lozenge into a fellow traveler’s lap. He drowns a mouse in a bucket, struggles to say “give it to me” in five languages, and hand-feeds a carnivorous bird.

But if all you expect to find in Sedaris’s work is the deft and sharply observed comedy for which he became renowned, you may be surprised to discover that his words bring more warmth than mockery, more fellow-feeling than derision. Nowhere is this clearer than in his writing about his loved ones. In these essays, Sedaris explores falling in love and staying together, recognizing his own aging not in the mirror but in the faces of his siblings, losing one parent and coming to terms—at long last—with the other.

Taken together, the performances in TheBest of Me reveal the wonder and delight Sedaris takes in the surprises life brings him. No experience, he sees, is quite as he expected—it’s often harder, more fraught, and certainly weirder—but sometimes it is also much richer and more wonderful.

Full of joy, generosity, and the incisive humor that has led David Sedaris to be called “the funniest man alive” (Time Out New York), The Best of Me spans a career spent watching and learning and laughing—quite often at himself—and invites listeners deep into the world of one of the most brilliant and original writers of our time.

The Best of Me AUDIOBOOK TRACK LISTING
Introduction (new recording)

From Barrel Fever 1994
Glen’s Homophobia Newsletter Vol. 3, No. 2.

From Holidays on Ice 1994
Front Row Center with Thaddeus Bristol (new recording)
Christmas Means Giving (new recording)

From Naked 1997
the incomplete quad (new recording)

From the New Yorker
Girl Crazy (new recording)
Card Wired (new recording)
How to Spend the Budget Surplus (new recording)

From Me Talk Pretty One Day 2000
You Can’t Kill the Rooster (new recording)
Me Talk Pretty One Day (new recording)
Jesus Shaves (new recording)

From the New Yorker
Dog Days    (new recording)

From Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Demin 2004
Us and Them
Let It Snow
The Ship Shape
The Girl Next Door
Repeat After Me

No One Asked for This: Essays

Cazzie David

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER!

"Blisteringly honest...kind of like if a David Sedaris book was written by an anxiety-ridden millennial who grew up in Hollywood."
—Entertainment Weekly

"Cazzie David is the delicious antidote to the poison of basic influencer culture. This book will make all misanthropes feel seen and loved--well, seen and tolerated."
—Diablo Cody, screenwriter and author of Candy Girl

From writer Cazzie David comes a series of acerbic, darkly funny essays about misanthropy, social media, anxiety, relationships, and growing up in a wildly eccentric family.

For Cazzie David, the world is one big trap door leading to death and despair and social phobia. From shame spirals caused by hookups to panic attacks about being alive and everyone else having to be alive too, David chronicles her life’s most chaotic moments with wit, bleak humor, and a mega-dose of self-awareness.

In No One Asked for This, David provides readers with a singular but ultimately relatable tour through her mind, as she explores existential anxiety, family dynamics, and the utterly modern dilemma of having your breakup displayed on the Internet. With pitch-black humor resonant of her father, comedy legend Larry David, and topics that speak uniquely to generational malaise, No One Asked for This is the perfect companion for when you don’t really want a companion.

Idiot: Life Stories from the Creator of Help Helen Smash

Laura Clery

A 2020 Audie Award Finalist

From YouTube star and Facebook Video sensation Laura Clery comes a collection of comedic essays in the vein of We Are Never Meeting in Real Life by Samantha Irby and You’ll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein.

Laura Clery makes a living by sharing inappropriate comedy sketches with millions of strangers on the Internet. She writes songs about her anatomy, talks trash about her one-eyed rescue pug, and sexually harasses her husband, Stephen. And it pays the bills!

Now, in her first-ever book, Laura recounts how she went from being a dangerously impulsive, broke, unemployable, suicidal, cocaine-addicted narcissist, crippled by fear and hopping from one toxic romance to the next…to a more-happy-than-not, somewhat rational, meditating, vegan yogi with good credit, a great marriage, a fantastic career, and four unfortunate-looking rescue animals. Still, above all, Laura remains an amazingly talented, adorable, and vulnerable, self-described…Idiot.

With her signature brand of offbeat, no-holds-barred humor, Idiot introduces you to a wildly original—and undeniably relatable—new voice.

A Short History of Nearly Everything

Bill Bryson

One of the world’s most beloved and bestselling writers takes his ultimate journey -- into the most intriguing and intractable questions that science seeks to answer.

In A Walk in the Woods, Bill Bryson trekked the Appalachian Trail -- well, most of it. In In A Sunburned Country, he confronted some of the most lethal wildlife Australia has to offer. Now, in his biggest book, he confronts his greatest challenge: to understand -- and, if possible, answer -- the oldest, biggest questions we have posed about the universe and ourselves. Taking as territory everything from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization, Bryson seeks to understand how we got from there being nothing at all to there being us. To that end, he has attached himself to a host of the world’s most advanced (and often obsessed) archaeologists, anthropologists, and mathematicians, travelling to their offices, laboratories, and field camps. He has read (or tried to read) their books, pestered them with questions, apprenticed himself to their powerful minds. A Short History of Nearly Everything is the record of this quest, and it is a sometimes profound, sometimes funny, and always supremely clear and entertaining adventure in the realms of human knowledge, as only Bill Bryson can render it. Science has never been more involving or entertaining.

A Very Punchable Face: A Memoir

Colin Jost

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In these hilarious essays, the Saturday Night Live head writer and Weekend Update co-anchor learns how to take a beating.

“I always wanted to punch his face before I read this book. Now I just want to kick him in the balls.”—Larry David

NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Cosmopolitan • Vulture • Parade

If there’s one trait that makes someone well suited to comedy, it’s being able to take a punch—metaphorically and, occasionally, physically.

From growing up in a family of firefighters on Staten Island to commuting three hours a day to high school and “seeing the sights” (like watching a Russian woman throw a stroller off the back of a ferry), to attending Harvard while Facebook was created, Jost shares how he has navigated the world like a slightly smarter Forrest Gump.

You’ll also discover things about Jost that will surprise and confuse you, like how Jimmy Buffett saved his life, how Czech teenagers attacked him with potato salad, how an insect laid eggs inside his legs, and how he competed in a twenty-five-man match at WrestleMania (and almost won). You'll go behind the scenes at SNL and Weekend Update (where he's written some of the most memorable sketches and jokes of the past fifteen years). And you’ll experience the life of a touring stand-up comedian—from performing in rural college cafeterias at noon to opening for Dave Chappelle at Radio City Music Hall.

For every accomplishment (hosting the Emmys), there is a setback (hosting the Emmys). And for every absurd moment (watching paramedics give CPR to a raccoon), there is an honest, emotional one (recounting his mother’s experience on the scene of the Twin Towers’ collapse on 9/11). Told with a healthy dose of self-deprecation, A Very Punchable Face reveals the brilliant mind behind some of the dumbest sketches on television, and lays bare the heart and humor of a hardworking guy—with a face you can’t help but want to punch.

I Want to Be Where the Normal People Are

Rachel Bloom

From the charming and wickedly funny co-creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, a collection of hilarious personal essays, poems and even amusement park maps on the subjects of insecurity, fame, anxiety, and much more.
Rachel Bloom has felt abnormal and out of place her whole life. In this exploration of what she thinks makes her "different," she's come to realize that a lot of people also feel this way; even people who she otherwise thought were "normal."
In a collection of laugh-out-loud funny essays, all told in the unique voice (sometimes singing voice) that made her a star; Rachel writes about everything from her love of Disney, OCD and depression, weirdness, and Spanx to the story of how she didn't poop in the toilet until she was four years old; Rachel's pieces are hilarious, smart, and infinitely relatable (except for the pooping thing).

Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris

A new collection from David Sedaris is cause for jubilation. His recent move to Paris has inspired hilarious pieces, including Me Talk Pretty One Day, about his attempts to learn French. His family is another inspiration. You Cant Kill the Rooster is a portrait of his brother who talks incessant hip-hop slang to his bewildered father. And no one hones a finer fury in response to such modern annoyances as restaurant meals presented in ludicrous towers and cashiers with 6-inch fingernails. Compared by The New Yorker to Twain and Hawthorne, Sedaris has become one of our best-loved authors. Sedaris is an amazing reader whose appearances draw hundreds, and his performancesincluding a jaw-dropping impression of Billie Holiday singing I wish I were an Oscar Meyer weinerare unforgettable. Sedariss essays on living in Paris are some of the funniest hes ever written. At last, someone even meaner than the French! The sort of blithely sophisticated, loopy humour that might have resulted if Dorothy Parker and James Thurber had had a love child. Entertainment Weekly on Barrel Fever Sidesplitting Not one of the essays in this new collection failed to crack me up; frequently I was helpless. The New York Times Book Review on Naked

Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions

Russell Brand

This program is read by the author

A guide to all kinds of addiction from a star who has struggled with heroin, alcohol, sex, fame, food and eBay, that will help addicts and their loved ones make the first steps into recovery

“This manual for self-realization comes not from a mountain but from the mud...My qualification is not that I am better than you but I am worse.” —Russell Brand

With a rare mix of honesty, humor, and compassion, comedian and movie star Russell Brand mines his own wild story and shares the advice and wisdom he has gained through his fourteen years of recovery. Brand speaks to those suffering along the full spectrum of addiction—from drugs, alcohol, caffeine, and sugar addictions to addictions to work, stress, bad relationships, digital media, and fame. Brand understands that addiction can take many shapes and sizes and how the process of staying clean, sane, and unhooked is a daily activity. He believes that the question is not “Why are you addicted?” but "What pain is your addiction masking? Why are you running—into the wrong job, the wrong life, the wrong person’s arms?"

Russell has been in all the twelve-step fellowships going, he’s started his own men’s group, he’s a therapy regular and a practiced yogi—and while he’s worked on this material as part of his comedy and previous bestsellers, he’s never before shared the tools that really took him out of it, that keep him clean and clear. Here he provides not only a recovery plan, but an attempt to make sense of the ailing world.

Bossypants

Tina Fey

Spirited and whip-smart, these laugh-out-loud autobiographical essays are "a masterpiece" from the Emmy Award-winning actress and comedy writer known for 30 Rock, Mean Girls, and SNL" (Sunday Telegraph).

Before Liz Lemon, before "Weekend Update," before "Sarah Palin," Tina Fey was just a young girl with a dream: a recurring stress dream that she was being chased through a local airport by her middle-school gym teacher. She also had a dream that one day she would be a comedian on TV.

She has seen both these dreams come true.

At last, Tina Fey's story can be told. From her youthful days as a vicious nerd to her tour of duty on Saturday Night Live; from her passionately halfhearted pursuit of physical beauty to her life as a mother eating things off the floor; from her one-sided college romance to her nearly fatal honeymoon -- from the beginning of this paragraph to this final sentence.

Tina Fey reveals all, and proves what we've always suspected: you're no one until someone calls you bossy.

Includes Special, Never-Before-Solicited Opinions on Breastfeeding, Princesses, Photoshop, the Electoral Process, and Italian Rum Cake!

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl

Issa Rae

The “brilliantly wry” (Lena Dunham) and “lovably awkward” (Mindy Kaling) New York Times bestseller from the creator of HBO’s Insecure.

In this universally accessible New York Times bestseller named for her wildly popular web series, Issa Rae—“a singular voice with the verve and vivacity of uncorked champagne” (Kirkus Reviews)—waxes humorously on what it’s like to be unabashedly awkward in a world that regards introverts as hapless misfits and black as cool.

I’m awkward—and black. Someone once told me those were the two worst things anyone could be. That someone was right. Where do I start?

Being an introvert (as well as “funny,” according to the Los Angeles Times) in a world that glorifies cool isn’t easy. But when Issa Rae, the creator of the Shorty Award-winning hit series The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl, is that introvert—whether she’s navigating love, the workplace, friendships, or “rapping”—it sure is entertaining. Now, in this New York Times bestselling debut collection written in her witty and self-deprecating voice, Rae covers everything from cybersexing in the early days of the Internet to deflecting unsolicited comments on weight gain, from navigating the perils of eating out alone and public displays of affection to learning to accept yourself—natural hair and all.

The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl is a book no one—awkward or cool, black, white, or other—will want to miss.

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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Douglas Adams

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • “Extremely funny . . . inspired lunacy . . . [and] over much too soon.”—The Washington Post Book World

SOON TO BE A HULU SERIES • Now celebrating the pivotal 42nd anniversary of the original radio show on which the book was based.

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read

Seconds before Earth is demolished to make way for a galactic freeway, Arthur Dent is plucked off the planet by his friend Ford Prefect, a researcher for the revised edition of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy who, for the last fifteen years, has been posing as an out-of-work actor.

Together, this dynamic pair began a journey through space aided by a galaxyful of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox—the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian (formerly Tricia McMillan), Zaphod’s girlfriend, whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; and Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he’s bought over the years.

Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? For all the answers, stick your thumb to the stars!

Praise for The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“A whimsical oddyssey . . . Characters frolic through the galaxy with infectious joy.”—Publishers Weekly

“Irresistable!”—The Boston Globe

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

J.K. Rowling

A Game of Thrones: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book One

George R. R. Martin

NOW THE ACCLAIMED HBO SERIES GAME OF THRONES—THE MASTERPIECE THAT BECAME A CULTURAL PHENOMENON

Winter is coming. Such is the stern motto of House Stark, the northernmost of the fiefdoms that owe allegiance to King Robert Baratheon in far-off King’s Landing. There Eddard Stark of Winterfell rules in Robert’s name. There his family dwells in peace and comfort: his proud wife, Catelyn; his sons Robb, Brandon, and Rickon; his daughters Sansa and Arya; and his bastard son, Jon Snow. Far to the north, behind the towering Wall, lie savage Wildings and worse—unnatural things relegated to myth during the centuries-long summer, but proving all too real and all too deadly in the turning of the season.

Yet a more immediate threat lurks to the south, where Jon Arryn, the Hand of the King, has died under mysterious circumstances. Now Robert is riding north to Winterfell, bringing his queen, the lovely but cold Cersei, his son, the cruel, vainglorious Prince Joffrey, and the queen’s brothers Jaime and Tyrion of the powerful and wealthy House Lannister—the first a swordsman without equal, the second a dwarf whose stunted stature belies a brilliant mind. All are heading for Winterfell and a fateful encounter that will change the course of kingdoms.

Meanwhile, across the Narrow Sea, Prince Viserys, heir of the fallen House Targaryen, which once ruled all of Westeros, schemes to reclaim the throne with an army of barbarian Dothraki—whose loyalty he will purchase in the only coin left to him: his beautiful yet innocent sister, Daenerys.

Eragon: Inheritance, Book I

Christopher Paolini

Don’t miss the latest book from the author of Eragon, The Fork, the Witch, and the Worm: Tales from Alagaësia!

Perfect for fans of Lord of the Rings, the New York Times bestselling Inheritance Cycle about the dragon rider Eragon has sold over 35 million copies and is an international fantasy sensation.

Fifteen-year-old Eragon believes that he is merely a poor farm boy—until his destiny as a Dragon Rider is revealed. Gifted with only an ancient sword, a loyal dragon, and sage advice from an old storyteller, Eragon is soon swept into a dangerous tapestry of magic, glory, and power. Now his choices could save—or destroy—the Empire.

“An authentic work of great talent.”—The New York Times Book Review

“Christopher Paolini make[s] literary magic with his precocious debut.”—People

“Unusual, powerful, fresh, and fluid.”—Booklist, Starred

“An auspicious beginning to both career and series.” —Publishers Weekly

A New York Times Bestseller

A USA Today Bestseller

A Wall Street Journal Bestseller

A Book Sense Bestseller

Dark Tower I: The Gunslinger

Stephen King

Now a major motion picture starring Matthew McConaughey and Idris Elba

“An impressive work of mythic magnitude that may turn out to be Stephen King’s greatest literary achievement” (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution), The Gunslinger is the first volume in the epic Dark Tower Series.

A #1 national bestseller, The Gunslinger introduces readers to one of Stephen King’s most powerful creations, Roland of Gilead: The Last Gunslinger. He is a haunting figure, a loner on a spellbinding journey into good and evil. In his desolate world, which mirrors our own in frightening ways, Roland tracks The Man in Black, encounters an enticing woman named Alice, and begins a friendship with the boy from New York named Jake.

Inspired in part by the Robert Browning narrative poem, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came,” The Gunslinger is “a compelling whirlpool of a story that draws one irretrievable to its center” (Milwaukee Sentinel). It is “brilliant and fresh…and will leave you panting for more” (Booklist).

The Fellowship of the Ring

J.R.R. Tolkien

Thrawn (Star Wars)

Timothy Zahn

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this definitive novel, readers will follow Thrawn’s rise to power—uncovering the events that created one of the most iconic villains in Star Wars history.

One of the most cunning and ruthless warriors in the history of the Galactic Empire, Grand Admiral Thrawn is also one of the most captivating characters in the Star Wars universe, from his introduction in bestselling author Timothy Zahn’s classic Heir to the Empire through his continuing adventures in Dark Force Rising, The Last Command, and beyond. But Thrawn’s origins and the story of his rise in the Imperial ranks have remained mysterious. Now, in Star Wars: Thrawn, Timothy Zahn chronicles the fateful events that launched the blue-skinned, red-eyed master of military strategy and lethal warfare into the highest realms of power—and infamy.

Praise for Thrawn

“The origin story of one of the greatest Star Wars villains . . . a book that fans have wanted for decades.”—The Verge

“A satisfying tale of political intrigue . . . Thrawn’s observations and tactical thinking are utterly captivating.”—New York Daily News

“Quite the page-turner.”—Flickering Myth

Mortal Engines: Book 1

Philip Reeve

Welcome to the astounding world of Mortal Engines! Emerging from its hiding place in the hills, the great Traction City is chasing a terrified little town across the wastelands. Soon London will feed. In the attack, Tom Natsworthy is flung from the speeding city with a murderous scar-faced girl. They must run for their lives through the wreckage--and face a terrifying new weapon that threatens the future of the world.

The Way of Shadows

Brent Weeks

For Durzo Blint, assassination is an art-and he is the city's most accomplished artist, his talents required from alleyway to courtly boudoir. For Azoth, survival is precarious, something you never take for granted. As a guild rat, he's grown up in the slums and learned to judge people quickly-and to take risks. Risks like apprenticing himself to Durzo Blint. But to be accepted, Azoth must turn his back on his old life and embrace a new identity and name. As Kylar Stern, he must learn to navigate the assassins' world of dangerous politics and strange magics-and cultivate a flair for death.

Fifty Shades of Grey: Book One of the Fifty Shades Trilogy

E L James

MORE THAN 150 MILLION COPIES SOLD WORLDWIDE

Look for E L James’s passionate new love story, The Mister, available now.

When literature student Anastasia Steele goes to interview young entrepreneur Christian Grey, she encounters a man who is beautiful, brilliant, and intimidating. The unworldly, innocent Ana is startled to realize she wants this man and, despite his enigmatic reserve, finds she is desperate to get close to him. Unable to resist Ana’s quiet beauty, wit, and independent spirit, Grey admits he wants her, too—but on his own terms.

Shocked yet thrilled by Grey’s singular erotic tastes, Ana hesitates. For all the trappings of success—his multinational businesses, his vast wealth, his loving family—Grey is a man tormented by demons and consumed by the need to control. When the couple embarks on a daring, passionately physical affair, Ana discovers Christian Grey’s secrets and explores her own dark desires.

This book is intended for mature audiences.

Intriguing mysteries & thrillers

シャーロック・ホームズ「ライギット・パズル」

アーサー・コナン・ドイル

内容紹介

舞台は1887年の春、“四つの誓い”の直前、
ワトソン結婚前に起こった事件！
療養に訪れた先で事件が起こる！
ホームズオーディオブックシリーズ第14弾！

「運命の神は君に反対だとさ、ワトソン」（by ホームズ）

...。o○
ヨーロッパ中を震撼させた大事件を解決したホームズ。
その名はヨーロッパ中に響き渡っていた。しかし、その代償は大きく、
ホームズは過労の為、神経症になってしまった。見かねたワトソンは、
彼に転地療養を勧め、ライギットにいるかつての戦友のもとを訪ねる。
しかし、事件はホームズを放ってはおかなかった。

ワトソンが反対する中、事件が舞い込んでくる。大地主の家に
次々と強盗が入った。2件目の強盗でついに使用人が殺害される。
そして事件によってホームズの目は再び輝きを取り戻すのであった。
残された謎のメモの断片…。ホームズの推理が見事に冴え渡る！

『ライギット・パズル』（原題：THE REIGATE PUZZLE）は、
「ライゲートの謎」や「ライゲイトの大地主」などの邦題で知られる。
ちなみに“ライゲート”は間違った発音で、現地での発音は“ライギット”である。

（1893年6月初出）ストランド・マガジン「シャーロック・ホームズの記憶」より
First published in the Strand Magazine、 June. 1893

収録内容

Track1 ：ライギットでの療養／（11:22）
Track2 ：紙切れの謎／（10:14）
Track3 ：カニンガム邸／（8:57）
Track4 ：君の仕業か、ワトソン／（7:39）
Track5 ：ホームズの推理／（8:05）
Track6 ：パズルの完成／（10:05）

原作：アーサー・コナン・ドイル

1859年生まれ。1930年没。エジンバラ生まれ。医師として開業後、
ホームズものの最初の作品「緋のエチュード」を発表し、その後、
「ストランド・マガジン」にホームズものが連載される。冷静で鋭い
ホームズとさえないが温厚なワトソンが難事件に挑むこのシリーズは
70編近くある。ホームズのシリーズが与えた影響は探偵小説にとどまらない。
シリーズに関しては詳細な研究がされており、シャーロッキアンと呼ばれる
ファンが世界中にいる。ホームズものに関する辞典は何冊も出され、
ホームズものを題材にした本もまた数多い。ドイルによって書かれた
「聖典」の他に、多くの作家がパスティッシュやパロディを発表した。
（青空文庫より）

翻訳者：大久保ゆう（おおくぼ・ゆう）

1982年生まれ。高校1年時より翻訳を始め、以来、各種翻訳を
クリエイティブコモンズライセンスにて広く提供しつづけ、個人・
企業などで様々に活用されている。現在は研究者として翻訳研究に
携わるとともに、フリーランスの翻訳家・執筆家としても活動中。

シャーロック・ホームズ傑作選

アーサー・コナン・ドイル

厳選した10作品をお得なセットでお届け。
ホームズ、ワトソン他、登場人物によって声を変え、演じ分けているドラマ仕立ての朗読です。

内容紹介

オーディオブック期間限定シャーロック・ホームズ傑作選

2014年もイギリスBBC製作のテレビドラマ『SHERLOCK（シャーロック）』や、三谷幸喜脚本のパペットエンターテイメント『シャーロックホームズ』（NHK）など、ホームズ作品の放送番組やプログラムが目白押しです。

でじじでも「シャーロック・ホームズ傑作選」として、コナン・ドイル自薦第1位の「まだらのひも」や自薦第2位の「赤毛連盟」など、珠玉の10作品を厳選してお届けいたします！（ただいま、期間限定で割引配信中）

登場人物を生き生きと甦らせるテキストは翻訳者・大久保ゆう。ホームズ&ワトソンを演じるのは七色の声色を持つ声優・佐々木健。このコンビでお届けする、聴き応え充分のラジオドラマ仕立ての朗読で、ホームズ作品をお楽しみください。

収録作品「赤毛連盟」

赤毛の男が持ち込んだ奇妙な儲け話の裏に隠された犯罪計画をホームズが暴く！コナン・ドイルが自選第2位とする名作！
ポッドキャストで配信された内容を再録音&再編集した完全版！「踊る人形」踊る人形の暗号をホームズはいかに解読したのか!?
あなたはこの暗号を解読できるか…!? 「ボヘミアの醜聞」赤毛の男が持ち込んだ奇妙な儲け話の裏に隠された犯罪計画をホームズが暴く！コナン・ドイルが自選第2位とする名作！
ポッドキャストで配信された内容を再録音&再編集した完全版！「まだらのひも」英国サリー州の西の果て、ストーク・モランに暮らすロイロット家のストーナー姉妹の姉ジュリアが結婚前に謎の死を遂げた。
ダイイング・メッセージ“まだらのひも”に隠された謎とは…!? 「蒼炎石」クリスマス、赦しの季節に気まぐれで不思議な事件に関わってしまうことになったホームズ。「土色の顔」興味深い依頼だった。ホームズのもとを訪れた男、グラント・マンロウ氏の依頼は、愛し愛されている妻エフィに何か秘密があり、それをほうっておくことができないから相談にのってほしい、というものだった。「瀕死の探偵」「今にも死にそうですの、ワトソンさま」
─—ある日、ハドソン夫人がワトソンのもとを訪れホームズが重病だと言う。憔悴し、顔は熱で紅潮、手は痙攣、息も切れ切れ、見るも無惨な有様のホームズ。ワトソンは、この病気を治療できる人物を連れてくるようホームズに頼まれる。「患者兼同居人」ある日、ホームズとワトソンが散歩から帰ると、一台のブルーム型馬車が戸口に停まっていた。「グローリア・スコット号」ある日、ホームズがワトソンに手渡した『グローリア・スコット号』の怪事件の資料。それは巻紙に書かれた奇妙な手紙だった。
“もはや鶏肉は順調にすべてロンドンへ出荷が終わった… 「唇のねじれた男」ある日、シンクレア夫人の前で夫のネヴィルがこつ然と姿を消した。現場にいたのは、唇のねじれた男ヒュー・ブーン。そして残された夫の服と、子供へのおみやげの積み木。いったいどこへ消えたのか…!? 原作：アーサー・コナン・ドイル（William Shakespeare)

1859年生まれ。1930年没。エジンバラ生まれ。
医師として開業後、ホームズものの最初の作品「緋のエチュード」を発表し、その後、「ストランド・マガジン」にホームズものが連載される。冷静で鋭いホームズとさえないが温厚なワトソンが難事件に挑むこのシリーズは70編近くある。
ホームズのシリーズが与えた影響は探偵小説にとどまらない。シリーズに関しては詳細な研究がされており、シャーロッキアンと呼ばれるファンが世界中にいる。ホームズものに関する辞典は何冊も出され、ホームズものを題材にした本もまた数多い。ドイルによって書かれた「聖典」の他に、多くの作家がパスティッシュやパロディを発表した。
（青空文庫より）
翻訳者：大久保ゆう（おおくぼ・ゆう）

1982年生まれ。高校1年時より翻訳を始め、以来、各種翻訳をクリエイティブコモンズライセンスにて広く提供しつづけ、個人・企業などで様々に活用されている。現在は研究者として翻訳研究に携わるとともに、フリーランスの翻訳家・執筆家としても活動中。

The Baker Street Bakery - ALZ
翻訳家・翻訳研究者・執筆家の〈大久保ゆう／オオヒサヤストモ〉さん個人ホームページ
http://www.alz.jp/221b/index.html

シャーロック・ホームズ「赤毛連盟」

アーサー・コナン・ドイル

内容紹介

ホームズとワトソンの描くミステリー小説の〈朗読〉第1弾。
赤毛の男が持ち込んだ奇妙な儲け話の裏に隠された犯罪計画を
ホームズが暴く！コナン・ドイルが自選第2位とする名作！
ポッドキャストで配信された内容を再録音&再編集した完全版！

収録内容

1.赤毛の依頼人
2.新聞広告
3.連盟員の仕事
4.白いボール紙のメモ
5.サックス・コバーグ広場
6.二人の男との冒険
7.一条の閃光

原作：アーサー・コナン・ドイル

翻訳者：大久保ゆう（おおくぼ・ゆう）

シャーロック・ホームズ「響き渡る鐘の音」

アーサー・コナン・ドイル

内容紹介

『ラジオドラマ傑作選シャーロック・ホームズ「響き渡る鐘の音」』
The New Adventures of Sherlock Holmes：“The Tolling Bell”

本商品は、1945年にアメリカで放送されたラジオドラマを日本語化したものです。
アメリカで長きにわたり親しまれたラジオ版シャーロック・ホームズ。
何百とあるエピソードの中から、シリーズ中盤の佳編をオーディオブックでお届けします。

アーサー・コナン・ドイルの書いた『黄金の鼻眼鏡』に着想を得て制作された本作品。
コナン・ドイルの原作とは一味違った、軽妙洒脱なホームズとワトソンの会話をお楽しみください！

...。o○
事件に疲れて、田舎のとある村へやってきたホームズとワトソン。
そのとき、教会から弔いの鐘が聞こえてくる。どうも人が死んだらしい。
この村はよく鐘が鳴る。誰かが結婚し、また誰かが死ぬ。
そんななか持ち込まれた行方不明の息子を捜してほしいという依頼。
鐘の鳴るなか捜査するうち、ホームズとワトソンはこの村の真実の姿に迫ることになる！

収録内容

01.カンフォースの街
02.弔いの鐘の音
03.宝のある場所へ
04.ベリィの工場
05.手紙の行方
06.響き渡る鐘の音

出演

・シャーロック・ホームズ／藤原満
・ジョン・ワトソン／佐々木健
・メアリ／富岡由紀子
・トム／岡武史
・ミーコル／石田明日香
・ジリアン／岩田仁
・ラクランド／徳永ヒロ子
・ベル／三上哲

・原作：アーサー・コナン・ドイル
・翻訳：大久保ゆう
・演出：志水良旺
・音響：竹田雄

◎制作協力：RECアクターズスタジオ

原作：アーサー・コナン・ドイル

翻訳者：大久保ゆう（おおくぼ・ゆう）

黒猫

E.A.ポー

エドガー・アラン・ポーといえば江戸川乱歩がペンネームの由来にしたというほど、推理小説の祖とされていますが、今回の作品「黒猫」は同じミステリーのジャンルでも日本語にすれば怪奇小説に分類されます。怪奇小説といっても妖怪や幽霊が出てくるホラーなどではなく、自分の内面が壊れていく様を淡々と独白調で書かれた作品です。その独特の恐怖感を、ことのは出版では、初登場の朗読家、黒木仁が非常に渋い声で淡々と読んでいます。（C）アイ文庫

Ready Player Two: A Novel

Ernest Cline

Selected works of George Orwell: Animal Farm, Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)

George Orwell

George Orwell's best-known novels, Animal Farm, describing a revolution that goes horribly wrong, and Nineteen Eighty-Four, portraying a world where human freedom has been crushed, are two of the most famous, well-quoted and influential political satires ever written.

Contents:

Animal Farm

Nineteen Eighty-Four (1984)