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“Holiday and Hanselman present the … lives of the men and women who strove to live by the timeless Stoic virtues of courage, justice, temperance, [and] wisdom. Organized in digestible, mini-biographies of all the well-known–and not so well-known–Stoics, this book … brings home what Stoicism was like for the people who loved it and lived…

In Paris, seventeen-year-old Khayyam, a part-Indian, part-French Muslim American, is at a crossroads when a chance encounter plunges her into research about Leila, a girl much like Khayyam who inspired Eugáene Delacroix.

New York Times Bestseller National Bestseller The sixth Lisbeth Salander story–the crime-fiction phenomenon that has sold more than 90 million copies worldwide. Lisbeth Salander–the fierce, unstoppable girl with the dragon tattoo–has disappeared. She’s sold her apartment in Stockholm, gone silent electronically, and told no one where she is. And no one is aware that at…

FINALIST FOR THE 2019 SCOTIABANK GILLER PRIZE From the #1 nationally bestselling author of By Gaslight, a novel of exquisite emotional force about love and art in the life of one of the great writers, reminiscent of Colm Tóibín’s The Master, or Michael Cunningham’s The Hours. In sun-drenched Sicily, among the decadent Italian aristocracy of…

A compendium of more than two hundred classic and modern speeches includes Orson Welles eulogizing Darryl F. Zanuck, George Patton exhorting his D-Day troops, King Edward VIII abdicating his throne, and the never-delivered speech John F. Kennedy was sched

Collects some of the writer’s early work, including “The Skin Trade,” “The Hedge Knight,” and “From the Journal of Xavier Desmond.”

After making careful plans, three ingenious and courageous men fly through space towards the moon

Once a hotshot investigative reporter, middle-aged Jack Tagger now bangs out obituaries for a South Florida daily. When Jimmy Stoma, the infamous front man of Jimmy and the Slut Puppies, dies in a diving “accident, ” Jack uses clues from the singer’s own music to unravel the mystery and resurrect his career in the process.