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“[Kurt Vonnegut] strips the flesh from bone and makes you laugh while he does it. . . . There are twenty-five stories here, and each hits a nerve ending.”—The Charlotte Observer Welcome to the Monkey House is a collection of Kurt Vonnegut’s shorter works. Originally printed in publications as diverse as The Magazine of Fantasy…

Following the events of Bloodless, the “exciting” and “nail-biting” new thriller in Preston & Child’s #1 bestselling series will once again feature FBI Special Agent A. X. L. Pendergast and Constance Greene. Against all odds, Constance has found a way back to the place of her origins, New York City in the late 1800s, and…

Wild, dangerous, and flat-out unbelievable, here is the incredible #1 bestselling memoir of the Canadian actor, gambler, and raconteur, and one of the greatest stand-up comedians of all time. A Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year As this book’s title suggests, Norm Macdonald tells the story of his life—more or less—from his origins…

While everything appears to be collapsing around us – ecodamage, genetic engineering, virulent diseases, the end of cheap oil, water shortages, global famine, wars – we can still do something about it and create a world that will work for us and for our children’s children. The inspiration for Leonardo DiCaprio’s feature documentary movie The…

From the internationally acclaimed author of Touch, praised as “an arresting debut” (National Post) and “a haunting, beguiling and beautifully imagined story” (Winnipeg Free Press), comes a powerful family saga steeped in the legends of the ocean. The Kings family has lived on Loosewood Island for three hundred years, blessed with the bounty of the…

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Every kind of animal, including humans, is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of our immense world. Pulitzer Prize–winning science journalist Ed Yong takes us on “a thrilling tour of nonhuman perception” (The New York Times), allowing us to experience the skeins of scent, waves…

Now a major motion picture Greyhound on AppleTV+, a WWII naval thriller of “high and glittering excitement” (New York Times) from the author of the legendary Hornblower series The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North…

From the New York Times bestselling author The Four Winds, a moving, powerful novel about the fragile threads that bind together our lives and the astonishing potential of second chances “A tender, beautifully told story of emotional growth, forgiveness [and] the possibility of miracles.”—Publishers Weekly (starred review) Madelaine Hillyard is a world-famous heart surgeon at…

An all-new, beautifully illustrated manga about a girl delving into the secrets of her supernatural house! With her father off overseas, Yachiho is left to move into a new house all by herself…and it’s a genuine haunted mansion, full of ghosts and spirits! But Yachiho is determined to tough it out. To learn her family’s…

GHOSTLY THINGS REACHES ITS GRAND, SUPERNATURAL FINALE! Led by an apparition of Professor Tachibana, Yachiho finally locates the elusive Book of the Dead. Its pages just might hold the key to finding her missing mother. But she’s not the only one with designs on the book, and a confluence of bewildering circumstances is about to…