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The time for lessons is over. War is here.

Violet Sorrengail has survived nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, but survival isn’t enough anymore. With enemies closing in from all sides, she must venture beyond Navarre’s borders to forge alliances—before it’s too late.

The journey will push her to the edge, testing her strength, her wit, and her heart. But the truth she seeks is as dangerous as the war itself. A secret powerful enough to shatter everything she loves.

They need an army. They need power. They need magic. And only Violet can find the truth that will change the fate of Navarre forever.

The storm is coming. And not everyone will survive.

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On a rain-drenched bridge in East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge, ready to disappear. But before he can jump, a voice calls to him—Grazina, an elderly widow slipping into the fog of dementia.

With nowhere else to go, Hai becomes her caretaker, forging an unlikely bond built on memory, loss, and the quiet mercies of human connection. As he navigates Grazina’s shifting world, he is forced to confront his own ghosts—of family, of love, of the life he thought was beyond his reach.

Sweeping yet intimate, The Emperor of Gladness is a luminous meditation on survival, chosen family, and the stories we tell ourselves to keep going.

What does it mean to be seen, to be saved, to start again? Ocean Vuong’s latest novel dares to ask.

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NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE WASHINGTON POST, TIME MAGAZINE, MARIE CLAIRE, BOOK RIOT, ESQUIRE, KIRKUS, PUBLISHERS WEEKLY AND MORE!

ONE OF BARACK OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR

SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2025 BOOKER PRIZE

INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER

“A tightly wound family drama that reads like a psychological thriller."—NPR

“Bold, stark, genre-bending, Audition will haunt your dreams.”—The Boston Globe

One woman, the performance of a lifetime. Or two. An exhilarating, destabilizing Möbius strip of a novel that asks whether we ever really know the people we love.

Two people meet for lunch in a Manhattan restaurant. She’s an accomplished actress in rehearsals for an upcoming premiere. He’s attractive, troubling, young—young enough to be her son. Who is he to her, and who is she to him? In this compulsively readable, brilliantly constructed novel, two competing narratives unspool, rewriting our understanding of the roles we play every day – partner, parent, creator, muse – and the truths every performance masks, especially from those who think they know us most intimately.

Taut and hypnotic, Audition is Katie Kitamura at her virtuosic best.

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Four women. Four lives entwined by love, longing, and the weight of their choices.

Chiamaka, a Nigerian travel writer in America, is alone in the midst of the pandemic, haunted by past lovers and the roads not taken. Zikora, her best friend, has always been in control—until heartbreak forces her to lean on the one person she never expected. In Nigeria, Chiamaka’s cousin Omelogor is a powerhouse in finance, but as she rises in the corporate world, she begins to question the woman she has become. And Kadiatou, a housekeeper striving for a better life in America, faces an unimaginable hardship that threatens everything she has built.

Dream Count is Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie at her finest—searing, luminous, and unflinchingly honest.

What does it mean to love, to lose, and to dream again?

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Before Microsoft. Before billions. Before changing the world—there was a kid obsessed with code.

In Source Code: My Beginnings, Bill Gates shares, for the first time, the deeply personal story of how he became one of the most influential figures in technology and philanthropy. From his childhood in Seattle to late-night hacking sessions at a local computer center, Gates reflects on the friendships, family, and pivotal moments that shaped his drive and vision.

This isn’t just a memoir of success—it’s a candid look at failures, lessons learned, and the relentless curiosity that fueled a revolution.

What sparks greatness? What fuels innovation? In Source Code, Bill Gates reveals the origins of a mind that reshaped the future.

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A snowstorm. A journey. A truth buried beneath history’s silence.

When Kyungha receives an urgent message from her friend Inseon, she doesn’t hesitate. Inseon is injured and begs her to return to Jeju Island to save her beloved pet. But as Kyungha braves the brutal winter storm, she has no idea what awaits her at Inseon’s house—or the darkness she’s about to uncover.

Blurring the line between dream and reality, We Do Not Part is a haunting tale of friendship, survival, and the weight of forgotten history. Han Kang, Nobel Prize-winning author of The Vegetarian, delivers a powerful novel that resurrects voices lost to time.

In a world of snow and silence, some stories refuse to be forgotten.

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Family, loyalty, and survival—when the flames rise, how far will you go?

Roman Carruthers walked away from his small-town past, but when his father’s car crash lands him in a coma, he’s forced back to Jefferson Run. There, he finds his sister, Neveah, barely holding the family crematorium together, and his reckless younger brother, Dante, drowning in debt to dangerous men.

Roman has money. He has connections. But what he doesn’t have is time. Because this wasn’t just an accident—someone wants his family destroyed. And when his last bargaining chip goes up in smoke, there’s only one thing left to trade: himself.

As Neveah digs into the mystery of their mother’s disappearance, Roman plays a deadly game with real gangsters.

Because in Jefferson Run, everything burns.

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NATIONAL BESTSELLER • The daughter of an affluent Black family pieces together the connection between a childhood tragedy and a beloved heirloom in this moving novel from the bestselling author of Black Cake, a Read with Jenna Book Club Pick

“Engrossing . . . Wilkerson masterfully weaves these threads of love, loss and legacy [into] a thoroughly researched and beautifully imagined family saga.”—The New York Times

LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL • A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: TIME, NPR, Marie Claire, People, Chicago Public Library, Christian Science Monitor, Denver Public Library

When ten-year-old Ebby Freeman heard the gunshot, time stopped. And when she saw her brother, Baz, lying on the floor surrounded by the shattered pieces of a centuries-old jar, life as Ebby knew it shattered as well.

The crime was never solved—and because the Freemans were one of the only Black families in a particularly well-to-do enclave of New England—the case has had an enduring, voyeuristic pull for the public. The last thing the Freemans want is another media frenzy splashing their family across the papers, but when Ebby's high profile romance falls apart without any explanation, that's exactly what they get.

So Ebby flees to France, only for her past to follow her there. And as she tries to process what's happened, she begins to think about the other loss her family suffered on that day eighteen years ago—the stoneware jar that had been in their family for generations, brought North by an enslaved ancestor. But little does she know that the handcrafted piece of pottery held more than just her family's history—it might also hold the key to unlocking her own future.

In this sweeping, evocative novel, Charmaine Wilkerson brings to life a multi-generational epic that examines how the past informs our present.

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Sixty years apart. One chance to rewrite the past.

When Haiwen spots Suchi in a California grocery store, time stops. She was his first love, the girl he left behind in Shanghai with nothing but a violin and a note: Forgive me. Now widowed and longing for connection, he sees this as fate. But for Suchi, survival has meant never looking back.

Spanning decades and continents—from the war-torn streets of China to the song halls of Hong Kong, the refugee camps of Taiwan, and the bustling avenues of New York—Homeseeking is an epic tale of love, sacrifice, and the cost of choices made in a world unraveling.

Can love survive six decades of war, distance, and silence? Or is home a place that exists only in memory?