<p>A mind-bending thriller filled with twists and turns from Blake Crouch, author of the bestselling <i>Dark Matter</i> and <i>The Wayward Pines.</i></p>
Gripping, spirited and sometimes grisly, Spurling's fresh interpretations of these timeless tales bring both their heroes and their context vividly to life, reanimating Apollo, Herakles, Theseus, Perseus and Agamemnon.
1896. Tirzah, Louisa and Polly are best friends who've left boarding school and gone back to very different lives. Polly is teaching in an orphanage. Louisa is looking for a rich husband at the London Season. And Tirzah is stuck acting as an unpaid companion to her grandmother. In a series of letters, they share their hopes, their frustrations, their dramas ... and their romances. Can these three very different young women find happiness?
Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971, <i>In a Free State </i>is one of Sir V. S. Naipaul's best-loved works, a story of disenfranchisement and the search for belonging.
<b>Inheriting a family business is never easy, especially when it involves underwater volcanoes, minions, talking cats - and supervillains. <i>Starter Villain</i> is another page-turning adventure from <i>New York Times</i> bestseller John Scalzi.</b>
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The highly acclaimed novel, now in paperback! SIMON VS. THE HOMO SAPIENS AGENDA is an incredibly funny and poignant twenty-first-century coming-of-age, coming-out story - wrapped in a geek romance - from debut author Becky Albertalli.