Collection: Adult

From award-winning author Elizabeth Hand comes the first-ever novel authorized to return to the world of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House--a "scary and beautifully written" (Neil Gaiman) new story of isolation and longing perfect for our present time.

**Named a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker, The Washington Post, and Harper's Bazaar**

Open the door . . . .

Holly Sherwin has been a struggling playwright for years, but now, after receiving a grant to develop her play Witching Night, she may finally be close to her big break. All she needs is time and space to bring her vision to life. When she stumbles across Hill House on a weekend getaway upstate, she is immediately taken in by the mansion, nearly hidden outside a remote village. It's enormous, old, and ever-so eerie--the perfect place to develop and rehearse her play.

Despite her own hesitations, Holly's girlfriend, Nisa, agrees to join Holly in renting the house for a month, and soon a troupe of actors, each with ghosts of their own, arrive. Yet as they settle in, the house's peculiarities are made known: strange creatures stalk the grounds, disturbing sounds echo throughout the halls, and time itself seems to shift. All too soon, Holly and her friends find themselves at odds not just with one another, but with the house itself. It seems something has been waiting in Hill House all these years, and it no longer intends to walk alone . . .

"A fitting--and frightening--homage." --New York Times Book Review

"It's thrilling to find this is a true hybrid of these two ingenious women's work--a novel with all the chills of Jackson that also highlights the contemporary flavor and evocative writing of Hand." --Washington Post

"Only the brilliant Elizabeth Hand could so expertly honor Jackson's rage, wit, and vision." --Paul Tremblay

"Eerily beautiful, strangely seductive, and genuinely upsetting." --Alix E. Harrow

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - An essential volume for generations of writers young and old. The twenty-fifth anniversary edition of this modern classic will continue to spark creative minds for years to come. Anne Lamott is "a warm, generous, and hilarious guide through the writer's world and its treacherous swamps" (Los Angeles Times).

"Superb writing advice.... Hilarious, helpful, and provocative." --The New York Times Book Review

For a quarter century, more than a million readers--scribes and scribblers of all ages and abilities--have been inspired by Anne Lamott's hilarious, big-hearted, homespun advice. Advice that begins with the simple words of wisdom passed down from Anne's father--also a writer--in the iconic passage that gives the book its title:

"Thirty years ago my older brother, who was ten years old at the time, was trying to get a report on birds written that he'd had three months to write. It was due the next day. We were out at our family cabin in Bolinas, and he was at the kitchen table close to tears, surrounded by binder paper and pencils and unopened books on birds, immobilized by the hugeness of the task ahead. Then my father sat down beside him, put his arm around my brother's shoulder, and said, 'Bird by bird, buddy. Just take it bird by bird.'"

The definitive edition of the graphic novel acclaimed as "the most affecting and successful narrative ever done about the Holocaust" (Wall Street Journal) and "the first masterpiece in comic book history" (The New Yorker) - PULITZER PRIZE WINNER - One of Variety's "Banned and Challenged Books Everyone Should Read"

A brutally moving work of art--widely hailed as the greatest graphic novel ever written--Maus recounts the chilling experiences of the author's father during the Holocaust, with Jews drawn as wide-eyed mice and Nazis as menacing cats.

Maus is a haunting tale within a tale, weaving the author's account of his tortured relationship with his aging father into an astonishing retelling of one of history's most unspeakable tragedies. It is an unforgettable story of survival and a disarming look at the legacy of trauma.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE NEW YORKER, NPR, SLATE, THE FINANCIAL TIMES, AND A WASHINGTON POST NOTABLE WORK
A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE

From the bestselling author of The Garden of Evening Mists, a spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redemption.

The year is 1921. Lesley Hamlyn and her husband, Robert, a lawyer and war veteran, are living at Cassowary House on the Straits Settlement of Penang. When "Willie" Somerset Maugham, a famed writer and old friend of Robert's, arrives for an extended visit with his secretary Gerald, the pair threatens a rift that could alter more lives than one.

Maugham, one of the great novelists of his day, is beleaguered: Having long hidden his homosexuality, his unhappy and expensive marriage of convenience becomes unbearable after he loses his savings--and the freedom to travel with Gerald. His career deflating, his health failing, Maugham arrives at Cassowary House in desperate need of a subject for his next book. Lesley, too, is enduring a marriage more duplicitous than it first appears. Maugham suspects an affair, and, learning of Lesley's past connection to the Chinese revolutionary, Dr. Sun Yat Sen, decides to probe deeper. But as their friendship grows and Lesley confides in him about life in the Straits, Maugham discovers a far more surprising tale than he imagined, one that involves not only war and scandal but the trial of an Englishwoman charged with murder. It is, to Maugham, a story worthy of fiction.

A mesmerizingly beautiful novel based on real events, The House of Doors traces the fault lines of race, gender, sexuality, and power under empire, and dives deep into the complicated nature of love and friendship in its shadow.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - Witness what the gods do after dark in the fifth volume of a stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of the best-known stories in Greek mythology, featuring exclusive behind-the-scenes content from creator Rachel Smythe.

"You want to know about The Bringer of Death."

It is Persephone's birthday, and she receives the ultimate gift: Hades confesses his desire for her, leading to their first kiss. But that doesn't necessarily make things easier for the goddess of spring, who is still in over her head in gossip-driven Olympus. Persephone feels intense guilt over the official breakup between Hades and Minthe, she is struggling to find her footing in her fast-paced job, and--worst of all--the shades of her past are slowly coming to light.

After an unexpected encounter with Apollo, Persephone flees into the depths of the Underworld. Concerned for her safety and determined to find her, Hades must team up with Artemis, Eros, and Hera, but they're working against a ticking clock. Zeus knows about the bloody secret in Persephone's past, and now the furious king of the gods will stop at nothing to bring her to justice.

This edition of Smythe's original Eisner Award-winning webcomic Lore Olympus features exclusive behind-the-scenes content and brings the Greek pantheon into the modern age in a sharply perceptive and romantic graphic novel.

This volume collects episodes 103-126 of the #1 WEBTOON comic Lore Olympus.

A TIME, NPR, and LitHub Best Book of the Year - A USA TODAY BESTSELLER - A brilliantly funny novel about friends, lovers, Ireland in chaos, and a young woman desperately trying to manage all three

"O'Donoghue deepens the familiar coming-of-age premise with riveting moral complications." --People

"If you've ever been unsure what to do with your degree in English; if you've ever wondered when the rug-buying part of your life will start...if you've ever loved the wrong person, or the right person at the wrong time...In short, if you've ever been young, you will love The Rachel Incident like I did." --Gabrielle Zevin, New York Times best-selling author of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it's love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threat of the financial crash looms before them.

When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr. Fred Byrne, James helps her devise a reading at their local bookstore, with the goal that she might seduce him afterwards. But Fred has other desires. So begins a series of secrets and compromises that intertwine the fates of James, Rachel, Fred, and Fred's glamorous, well-connected, bourgeois wife. Aching with unrequited love, shot through with delicious, sparkling humor, The Rachel Incident is a triumph.

The Thrice-Bound Fool is the epic, rollicking next chapter in the bestselling and "awesome as hell" (Nicholas Eames) fantasy adventure series that began with The Blacktongue Thief.

Professional thief and inveterate trickster Kinch Na Shannack has always enjoyed a good book. But now his life, and the future of all of Manreach, depends on deciphering a very bad book indeed; a stolen, sentient tome that tries to kill him every time he opens it--and often when it's closed.

Galva, veteran of the goblin wars and death's sworn handmaiden, has vowed to protect Kinch while he mines the book for its dark magic and even darker secrets. She does so not for Kinch's sake--though the cheeky bastard is growing on her--but because the book is the key to stopping the shadowy tyrants out to kill the queen she serves--and loves.

The ruthless, all-seeing Taker's Guild dogs their every step, and thief and knight must flee the known world entirely if they hope to succeed. But trouble finds Kinch wherever he goes, and the pair may have traded the devil they know for horrors far darker and hungrier as they enter lands unknown.

The first ever collection of short stories from the New York Times bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend

Over the course of thirty years, Sigrid Nunez has become one of contemporary fiction's most distinctive voices, producing nine penetrating, profound novels celebrated by fans and critics alike. Revered for their warm, unadorned style, Nunez's books are "as sophisticated as they are straightforward" (New York Times Magazine), melding a "wry, withering wit" (NPR) with "explosions of pathos" (Washington Post) to conjure "world[s] of insight into death, grief, art, and love" (Wall Street Journal).

But she has not, until now, produced a book of stories. In It Will Come Back to You, Nunez brings together thirteen of her best stories from the decades-long sweep of her career, tracing the origins of her style and her remarkable artistic range. Moving from the momentous to the mundane, Nunez maintains her expert balance between gravity and levity while probing the philosophical questions that illuminate her work.

What New York Times critic Dwight Garner says of Nunez's novels is true of these stories as well: "They are . . . wise, provocative, funny--good and strong company."

Delve behind the scenes to explore the comprehensive history of Call of Duty's beloved Zombies mode!

Explore the creation of Call of Duty's iconic Zombies mode! Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies: The Art of Treyarch opens the Mystery Box to take readers through the storied history of Treyarch's undead survival experience that began as an Easter egg in 2008. Dive deep into exclusive, behind-the-scenes interviews with the development team, witness never-before-seen art, and take a look back in time at what would become an infectious franchise staple. This all-inclusive collection covers all aspects of the fan-favorite game mode that has revolutionized the franchise for more than fifteen years.

STUNNING ART: Features breathtaking art that helped to reanimate the dead.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEWS: Hear from the development team on the groundbreaking, grassroots process that brought hordes of the undead to the world of Call of Duty.

IN-GAME CALLING CARD: Comes with a bonus Calling Card! Only available with the physical edition of the book. Black Ops 7 required. Sold/downloaded separately. Must be redeemed by December 31st, 2028.

BONUS VINYL DECAL: Rep your love of Zombies with this physical vinyl decal featuring the custom art from the cover! Available with the physical edition of the book.

GO BEHIND THE GAMES: Filled with behind-the-scenes anecdotes and detailed intel on the game-making process, Call of Duty Black Ops Zombies: The Art of Treyarch chronicles the incredible work that goes into crafting such a dynamic and enduring survival experience.

PERFECT COMPANION TO THE GAME: This beautiful volume is a must-have for any Call of Duty fan.

A vibrant account of the remarkable novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, tracing its life over the last century

D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover is one of the best-known and most resonant works of the twentieth century. Originally considered obscene and unpublishable in numerous countries, its scandalous story of class divide and the English countryside is infamous. But, since the 1920s, we have repeatedly re-created Lady Chatterley, from film and TV to music and tourism.

Guy Cuthbertson tells the colourful story of the novel's journey through the last hundred years. He examines how the book has been read, adapted, and reimagined across the globe, from the United States to Japan, and explores the 1960 "Chatterley trial"--a key moment in the struggle for freedom of expression. It might have been burnt and derided, laughed at and defaced, but Lawrence's novel has crept into all walks of life. Whether the book, or its influence, be good or bad, we live in a world that Lady Chatterley's Lover helped to create.

The new dark Romantasy from the bestselling authors of Zodiac Academy, Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti is a heady cocktail of Summoners, seduction and spirits, set to get your heart racing and feet kicking.

**Now available on a limited run with a new cover and an exclusive alternate POV chapter.**

An instant USA TODAY and Publisher's Weekly Bestseller!

"The twisted sisters have done it again! This darkly captivating fantasy romance is a must read. The twists and turns left me speechless, and I could never predict what was coming next. Five amazing stars." - Jaymin Eve, Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestselling author

"With their signature flair, Peckham and Valenti weave together deadly adventure and smoldering attraction to give us a story that's as lush and dangerous as the very force threatening to consume their characters. Rich, immersive, and utterly compelling." - Helen Scheuerer, The Sunday Times bestselling author

Don't listen to the whispers of the woods.
Don't trust the man cloaked in shadow.
Don't earn the wrath of the scattered spirits.
Don't go out after dark.

The Great Hunt begins once every fifty years and only the Champions willing to face death to shatter the curse dare to enter.

The Champions...and me.

I'm no warrior, no swordsmith, and certainly no Fae, but the forest is my only hope. To enter those trees is to walk willingly to my demise. But I need the boon the forest will grant the winner and I'm willing to risk it all for a chance at claiming it.

I just never expected to face him beneath those trees. The beast who strikes fear into the desperate people of all lands. The monster who commands the legion of Hollows and makes our plight a thousand times worse.

The Hollows are empty of all things but none are so heartless as him.

Prince Bane intends to be the death of me. But I have an oath to fulfil before I'll let him have me. And I'll do whatever it takes to achieve it.

I am Ferris Creed and I'm going to unite the lost spirits who once bound the wandering trees in place, return the scattered amulets to the core of its corruption, and use the winner's boon to change my fate. Come wretchedness or torment, through trickery and deception, I will get what I came here for. And no one will stand in my way. Not even Prince Bane.

*** Hollow is a dark Romantasy from the bestselling authors of Zodiac Academy, Caroline Peckham and Susanne Valenti. It is a heady cocktail of Summoners, seduction and spirits, set to get your heart racing and feet kicking. There will be a ruinous, black hearted love interest, a rebellious, ruthless FMC, plot twists, cliff hangers, dark humour and a healthy seasoning of make-you-blush spice. It is not for the faint of heart. All those who enter the forest are bound by its terms - will you walk willingly into the dark? ***

"Of all the books I have read on the story of the Velvet Underground, Richie's is probably the best. He brings us the voices of the people who were also important to those times, but who either go unmentioned, unheard, or not written about in a balanced way. I also like the way he writes, and some of the many reviews of recordings and live shows were insightful in a way l have not come across in the work of anyone else. Bravo, Richie"

--Jonathan Richman

This is the definitive history of the Velvet Underground, complete and more fully researched than any before

Do What You Fear Most is the authoritative tome on the band that changed music, fashion and culture forever.

Blending new archival insights and first-hand accounts, Richie Unterberger illuminates the band's radical global impact on New York's progenitors of punk, who bridged pure rock'n'roll, avant-garde experimentation and literary songwriting to take rock music into previously uncharted territory. Beginning with each member's path to the band, it details their influences, successes and (many) failures, the whirlwind with Warhol, the triumph of the Banana album, the fractured and strained relationships and egos, and beyond to the end of the Velvets and the beginnings of various solo careers.

Rigorously researched and packed with previously undocumented insights, this book features first-hand interviews with the group's associates, as well as a substantial amount of material newly unearthed from the Lou Reed Archive and the Andy Warhol Archive, as well as never-before-seen images and ephemera.

An entertaining and exhilarating narrative, Do What You Fear Most vividly captures the grit and uninhibited creativity of the 1960s New York cultural scene and is an essential portrait of one of the 20th century's most visionary and influential bands.

Help your child build confidence, think independently, and handle real-life situations with clarity and courage.

Every child faces moments when they don't know what to do-being ignored, left out, pressured, confused, or unsure how to respond. In those moments, they don't need long explanations. They need clear, practical guidance they can actually use.

Raise Children Street-Smart is a powerful, real-world guide designed to equip children with the skills they need to navigate everyday life. Through 200 engaging comic-style lessons, this book places kids in realistic situations and walks them step by step through what's happening, how to understand it, and what to do next.

Instead of abstract advice, children learn through relatable experiences, simple actions, and real words they can use. Each lesson is short, clear, and immediately applicable, helping kids build confidence and make better decisions in real time.

Inside this book, your child will learn how to think before reacting, handle peer pressure, manage emotions, communicate clearly, recognize unsafe situations, build healthy friendships, and stand up for themselves with confidence.

This book goes beyond the classroom. It prepares children for real-life situations at home, at school, in public places, and online-giving them the awareness and decision-making skills they will use for years to come.

Perfect for children ages 6-12, as well as parents, teachers, and caregivers who want to raise confident, capable, and street-smart young individuals.

Being street-smart is not about knowing everything. It is about knowing what to do when it matters most.

Give your child the tools to think clearly, act wisely, and grow with confidence.

The finale in Elizabeth Helen's Amazon top 5 and Sunday Times bestselling Beasts of the Briar series, a spicy Beauty and the Beast retelling filled with enchanted fae, morally gray characters, a stupidly hot villain, and a princess who has found her Prince Charming. All five of them.

Chair & Standing Tai Chi for Weight Loss is a beginner-friendly guide that makes fat-burning, strength-building, and mobility-improving exercises accessible to everyone, regardless of age or fitness level. Combining seated and standing Tai Chi routines, this 30-day program is ideal for those who want safe, low-impact workouts that protect joints while delivering real results.

Each exercise is illustrated and explained step by step, making it easy to follow at home. The program emphasizes gentle, mindful movements designed to support weight loss, improve balance, tone muscles, and enhance overall mobility.

Whether you're new to Tai Chi, looking for a low-impact alternative to traditional workouts, or seeking exercises that accommodate physical limitations, this program provides a safe and effective path to better health.

What You'll Learn Inside

• Chair and standing Tai Chi exercises for safe, low-impact weight loss

• A 30-day structured program for consistency and progress

• Step-by-step illustrated instructions for every movement

• Exercises to strengthen muscles, improve posture, and enhance mobility

• Gentle routines that support joint health and balance

• Techniques to increase energy and reduce stress

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• Low-impact, joint-friendly exercises

• Clear illustrations and beginner-friendly guidance

• Combines seated and standing routines for maximum accessibility

• Focuses on weight loss, strength, and mobility without strain

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• Seniors or individuals with mobility limitations

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• Anyone looking for a safe and structured 30-day fitness program

Lose Weight, Build Strength, and Move with Confidence

Chair & Standing Tai Chi for Weight Loss empowers you to improve fitness, mobility, and overall well-being safely and effectively through gentle, daily routines-one mindful session at a time.

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Now is the time for the new, the beautiful and the humane.

In Together, award-winning political thinker, author and poet Ece Temelkuran provides an inspiring manifesto for change by revealing fresh possibilities for the better world we might want to live in and gives us a new vocabulary for the political action that the twenty-first century demands.

Above all, this book will challenge you to have faith in the other human beings we share this planet with, to turn away from an uncaring world and instead build a new one with compassion.