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The Golden Bough
A world classic. The Golden Bough” describes our ancestors’ primitive methods of worship, strange rituals and festivals. Disproving the popular thought that primitive life was simple, this monumental survey shows that savage man was enmeshed in a tangle of magic, taboos, and superstitions. Revealed here is the evolution of man from savagery to civilization, from the modification of […]
Blood Meridian
Blood Meridian is an epic novel of the violence and depravity that attended America’s westward expansion, brilliantly subverting the conventions of the Western novel and the mythology of the Wild West. Based on historical events that took place on the Texas-Mexico border in the 1850s, it traces the fortunes of the Kid, a fourteen-year-old Tennesseean who […]
The Lottery
The Lottery, one of the most terrifying stories written in this century, created a sensation when it was first published in The New Yorker. “Power and haunting,” and “nights of unrest” were typical reader responses. This collection, the only one to appear during Shirley Jackson’s lifetime, unites “The Lottery:” with twenty-four equally unusual stories. Together they demonstrate […]
In the Likely Event
From the instant New York Times bestselling author of Fourth Wing, Rebecca Yarros, comes a sweeping romance about the sustained power of chance encounters. When Izzy Astor gets on a plane to go home, she isn’t expecting much. It’s the usual holiday travel experience: busy, crowded, stressful. Then she spots her seatmate, who is anything but ordinary. Nate Phelan […]
The Last Letter
“The Last Letter is a haunting, heartbreaking and ultimately inspirational love story.“―InTouch Weekly Beckett, If you’re reading this, well, you know the last-letter drill. You made it. I didn’t. Get off the guilt train, because I know if there was any chance you could have saved me, you would have. I need one thing from you: […]
Divine Rivals (Letters of Enchantment, 1)
When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever. After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again. But eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow just wants to hold her family together. Her mother is suffering from addiction and […]
Heartless Hunter: The Crimson Moth: Book 1
AN INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER! “A steamy game of cat and mouse between witch and witch-hunter, played out against a backdrop of opulence, secrets, and bloody history. I couldn’t look away.” – Kendare Blake, #1 New York Times bestselling author of Champion of Fate Enemies-to-lovers doesn’t get more high stakes than a witch and a witch hunter falling in […]
The Poppy War
This is a tale set in a world inspired by the turbulent history of China in the twentieth century, blending elements of history, military strategy, and magic. When Rin passed the Keju—an Empire-wide test to find talented youth for the Academies—everyone was shocked. Test officials couldn’t believe a war orphan from Rooster Province could pass […]
Yellowface
Yellowface by R.F. Kuang: Athena Liu is a literary darling and June Hayward is literally nobody. White lies When Athena dies in a freak accident, June steals her unpublished manuscript and publishes it as her own under the ambiguous name Juniper Song. Dark humour But as evidence threatens June’s stolen success, she will discover exactly […]