"In this enchanting sequel to the number one bestseller The Five People You Meet in Heaven, Mitch Albom tells the story of Eddie's heavenly reunion with Annie--the little girl he saved on earth--in an unforgettable novel of how our lives and losses intersect. Fifteen years ago, in Mitch Albom's beloved novel, The Five People You Meet in Heaven, the world fell in love with Eddie, a grizzled war veteran- turned-amusement park mechanic who died saving...

After Judy obtains a mood ring, she tries to convince herself and her third-grade classmates that she can predict the future.

Notes from the Underground is Fyodor Dostoevsky's ninth novel, and considered to be one of the first examples of the existential novel. In this radically inventive work, an alienated former minor administrator in nineteenth-century Russia has broken away from society and withdrawn into an underground identity. With its piercing insight into political, social, and moral issues, this classic is one of the most provocative work of literature ever written. In...

The groundbreaking dystopian novel that inspired 1984 and Brave New World. "The best single work of science fiction yet written." -Ursula K. Le Guin When society has programmed you to sleep . . . How do you wake yourself up? The One State is a world where people are merely numbers, and free will itself is a disease. Most are happy in their role as cogs in a huge machine, controlled by the ever-watchful Benefactor. However,...

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic that began late in 2019, the author worked as a solo hairstylist in the front parlor of an old Victorian house in the Pacific Northwest. This work includes a collection of intimate fictionalized stories that were inspired by hundreds of conversations the author had with his customers about what it was like to live through the unprecedented disaster that conquered every nation on Earth. Written in vignettes...

This personal story of a lifetime quest for meaning will resonate with readers of Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy, Umberto Eco, and Solzhenitsyn. Expanding the literary universe spun in his earlier novels, Vodolazkin explores music and fame, belonging and purpose, time and eternity. At the stunning finale of Brisbane, all the carefully knit stitches unravel into a riddle: Whose story is it — the subject's or the writer's? Are art and love really no match for...

"It is as he said, I have spoken, and the whole world is falling apart." Young Lady Ashling destroys more than her chains when she defies all she has known to save the life of an innocent man. Her public accusation against the vindictive and powerful Feeney, sets off a murderous chain of events and forces her to flee the imposing walls of Brennyn Hall into a society she's never experienced. Hunted by the Hall and armed with nothing but a cryptic...

Jerome enjoys collecting and using words that he hears, reads, or sees, and then decides to share his collection with others.

Enfant surdoué, bénéficiant de connaissances hors du commun, Pierre, dès l'âge de quatorze ans décide de quitter sa famille et de partir sur les routes à la recherche de sa vérité. Chaman, sans le savoir, il va tout au long de son périple lui falloir apprendre les rudiments de la vie et se confronter à la découverte d'un spirituel inconnu de la plupart des humains. Qui dit chaman, dit guérisseur, doublé d'une bonne dose de psychologie...

"Una receta mejor que prolongar la vida es dejarle de tener miedo a la muerte". René Descartes La pasión de Descartes toma como disparador un relato apócrifo que comenzó a circular luego de la muerte del gran filósofo francés. Se rumoreaba que había construido una réplica mecánica de su hija, Francine, que murió a los cinco años de edad a causa de la fiebre escarlatina. Vencido por el dolor e intentando remediar su pérdida, terminó apasionándose...