A quiet, intimate portrait of a young woman who moves to a provincial port town and struggles to keep everyday life intact as the Second World War draws closer and eventually engulfs her world; through small domestic details, creative scrap-making, and the rhythms of family and neighborhood, the narrative shows how scarcity, air raids, conscription, and loss reshape ordinary routines and relationships, while highlighting resilience, memory, and the human cost of conflict on civilians.

A brilliant, incarcerated cannibal becomes the linchpin in two separate, harrowing FBI investigations: one in which a veteran profiler is drawn back to hunt a remorseless serial killer whose savagery and escalating obsession threatens innocent lives, and another in which a determined young trainee must outwit a twisted abductor to rescue a kidnapped woman. Both cases force agents into psychological warfare with manipulative, violent minds, exposing trauma, obsession, and the thin boundary between hunter and hunted as they race to prevent further murders.

A sharp, playful graphic-novel saga about a young slacker and bassist whose life is upended when he falls for a mysterious delivery girl; to win her heart he must battle her seven evil exes, all while juggling his band, quirky friends, messy romantic history, and the awkward, comic business of growing up.

Across decades, humanity's first contact with an advanced alien civilization—triggered by a disillusioned scientist and a clandestine message sent into space—sparks political turmoil, scientific breakthroughs, and the unraveling of long-hidden cosmic dangers. An alien species from an unstable three-sun system intervenes, using subatomic surveillance and the threat of invasion to destabilize Earth's societies, prompting competing human factions to pursue collaboration, betrayal, and radical strategies for survival. The story develops a chilling cosmic-sociology idea known as the Dark Forest, explores the construction of interstellar deterrence and mutual-assured destruction on a galactic scale, and follows the moral, technological, and existential costs of confronting truly alien minds. It is an expansive, mind-bending examination of civilization, survival, and the terrible choices provoked by contact with a hostile cosmos.

A quartet of linked fantasy tales set in a divided kingdom, following different young protagonists whose ordinary lives are swept into political intrigue, ancient magic and quests that reveal hidden histories; through music, storytelling and craft—especially rune-like weaving and song—they awaken unexpected powers, confront oppression and tyrants, forge alliances across generations, and work to heal a fractured land while coming of age.

An illustrated, affectionate portrait of New York that blends autobiographical vignettes and expressive drawings to capture neighborhoods, street characters, shops, and architecture; through short stories and visual sketches it reflects on immigrant life, urban change, memory and the craft of storytelling, offering both nostalgia and keen observation of how the city shaped its people and the artist who remembers it.

A riotously funny yet deeply honest collection of illustrated personal essays that pairs crude, childlike drawings with sharp observational humor and unflinching accounts of anxiety, depression, and the small disasters of everyday life. Through absurd retellings of childhood antics, internet-era mishaps, and earnest — often hilariously misguided — attempts to solve mundane and emotional problems, the work moves seamlessly between laugh-out-loud comedy and surprising vulnerability, offering both cathartic relatability and moments of genuine poignancy.

A collected, panoramic volume of interconnected noir comics set in a corrupt, rain‑soaked metropolis, following a rotating cast of hard‑boiled antiheroes — a hulking vigilante, a wronged cop, a cynical private eye, and dangerous women — as they navigate brutal violence, twisted justice, sexual politics, and moral ambiguity; stark black‑and‑white artwork and punchy, pulpy dialogue create a relentless, cinematic mood in which revenge and survival replace conventional heroism.

Set in a small town in northeastern Brazil, the novel follows the repercussions of the theft of a saint’s head from the local church: the missing relic unsettles family ties, awakens old loves and rivalries, and forces neighbors to reckon with the uneasy mix of Catholic devotion and Afro-Brazilian beliefs that shapes their lives. Told with sly humor and touches of magical realism, the story weaves together grief, desire and superstition as secrets surface and characters seek unexpected forms of redemption.

This book argues that people can go beyond ordinary limits by changing their thoughts, emotions and habits to rewire brain and body chemistry; drawing on neuroscience, epigenetics and interpretations of quantum theory, it presents a model in which focused intention, heart–brain coherence and meditative practices produce measurable physiological changes that enable healing and manifestation. It combines scientific explanations, practical meditations and breathwork exercises with anecdotal case studies to show how persistent inner rehearsal and emotional shifting can break conditioned patterns, alter identity, and open access to expanded states of consciousness and extraordinary capacities.

Former Marine and wanted fugitive Gibson Vaughn is off the grid in the Caymans until the assassin Tinsley draws him out. Tinsley, the man who murdered Gibson's father and left him for dead, holds a heavily encrypted thumb drive that may be linked to a plot that could kill half a million people. Gibson and his team form a fraught truce with Tinsley to access the drive and abort a massacre. They race across Europe to find an elusive cyber psycho behind the malware.

A high‑octane techno-thriller in which a special-operations science team races to unravel the mystery of a flawlessly clear crystalline sphere and the centuries-old murder associated with it after the strange artifact is uncovered in a collapsing Alaskan church. Clues lead from frozen tundra to cutting-edge laboratories and reveal connections to unusual astronomical phenomena, a conspiracy to weaponize an otherworldly power, and ruthless enemies willing to kill to control it. Racing against time, the team must decipher ancient science and stop a calamity that could reshape the world.

After brutal isolation in a CIA black-site prison, former Marine and hacker Gibson Vaughn is freed with no idea where he was or how much time he has lost. Struggling to hold on to reality, he races to rebuild the life he left and becomes consumed by vengeance against the man responsible for his rendition. As old enemies and once-trusted allies resurface, a murderous conspiracy closes in and forces him to confront the truth about those he once trusted.

Рианнон кажется самой обычной женщиной: у нее есть парень, который ей изменяет, непризнанная работа и любимая собачка. Она составляет списки тех, кого хотела бы убить, от грубого кассира в супермаркете до водителя, который ее подрезал, от соседки-клептоманки до начальницы, называющей ее дорогушей. Иногда она переходит к действиям; никто не заподозрит тихую секретаршу, которая однажды обезвредила и обесчленила напавшего на нее человека.

Две параллельные линии повествования — женщина, выполняющая опасные задания, и молодой преподаватель, втянутый в переписывание загадочной рукописи — постепенно сходятся в слегка искажённой версии Токио 1984 года, где появляются вторая луна и таинственные «маленькие люди». Один персонаж пытается разобраться с прошлым и организованным злом, другой — с тайной, способной изменить реальность; их поиски правды и друг друга переплетены темами одиночества, насилия и зыбкой грани между обычным миром и мистикой.

A linguist is recruited to communicate with an alien species whose nonsequential written language reshapes her cognition, allowing her to perceive her life — including the future birth, brief life, and death of her daughter — as a fixed, known whole; the narrative interleaves scientific field notes and intimate recollections, exploring how language can alter thought and what it means to make choices when outcomes seem preordained, as she ultimately embraces love and parenthood despite foreknowledge of loss.

In a grim, ash-shadowed world ruled by an apparently immortal tyrant, a streetwise orphan with latent metal-based powers is drawn into a daring plot by a charismatic rebel to ignite a revolution; as she trains in Allomancy and navigates shifting loyalties, the crew’s heist and political gambits grow into a battle that upends faith, uncovers ancient forces shaping the planet, and demands profound sacrifices as individuals confront leadership, identity, and the cost of remaking society.

Spanning decades and escalating from local political trauma to cosmic stakes, this sweeping science-fiction saga follows humanity’s discovery of an alien civilization from a chaotic three-sun system and the cascading consequences of contact: a covert invitation, an approaching invasion, and technological sabotage that stalls progress. As nations fracture between collaboration and fearful secrecy, unconventional strategies arise—most famously a set of human ‘wallfacers’ given secretive authority to craft long-range plans—and a chilling theoretical framework about the universe as a dangerous “dark forest” where survival requires ruthless secrecy and preemptive strikes. The narrative traces scientific breakthroughs, moral dilemmas, vast engineering projects, and both individual heroism and tragic sacrifice as humanity confronts existential risk, grapples with the ethics of deterrence, and ultimately confronts the indifferent, often brutal scales and rules of cosmic civilization.

A timid, luckless newspaperman uproots himself from his troubled past and moves to a remote Newfoundland coastal town where, surrounded by harsh sea, eccentric locals and small‑town rituals, he takes a job covering local shipping and community news, confronts painful family history and loss, and slowly finds resilience, belonging and a steadier sense of self through hard work, new relationships and the gritty rhythms of maritime life.

The Good Doctor tells the story of an idealistic medical graduate who arrives at an isolated South African hospital to take up a year's community service. The novel follows his relocation to the remote facility and the time he spends there. It focuses on the period he spends completing community service in that hospital setting.

Four young friends in contemporary Ireland—two close women and the men in their lives—navigate friendships, romances, and creative work while exchanging candid emails and messages that reveal their doubts, desires, and moral questions. The novel maps intimate conversations about love, loneliness, class, labor and the responsibilities of making art in an anxious, media-saturated world, blending wry humor with melancholy as personal tensions and political unease slowly complicate their relationships.

A brisk, accessible single-volume history that traces Poland’s thousand-year journey from medieval statehood through the partitions and insurrections, the twin cataclysms of Nazi and Soviet occupations, decades of communist rule, and the eventual rebirth of democracy after 1989. Blending political narrative with cultural detail and vivid portraits of key figures and movements, it explains how geography, external powers, and internal divisions shaped Polish identity and resilience, and how civic movements such as Solidarity transformed both the nation and the wider European order.

After a mission is terminated in Washington, British Intelligence agent Nick Stone visits a colleague and finds the family slaughtered, with only seven-year-old Kelly Brown surviving. Stone seizes Kelly and flees as anonymous assassins pursue them. The chase runs from Washington to Florida and then England as Stone uncovers a global conspiracy linking politics, money, and terrorism and realizes he and the child cannot trust anyone.

The Seventh Doctor arrives in 1987 Thatcher's Britain with companions Chris and Roz. They come to the Quadrant, a troubled council block where a new drug is killing according to a plan and ordinary residents are implicated. A bizarre trio moves into number 43 as a dead dealer rises from the grave and an ancient weapon is concealed beneath human tragedy. The Doctor uncovers links between a special child, an obsessive woman, and a desperate bargain made one dark Christmas Eve.

The Great Time War has raged for centuries, leaving colony planets overrun by Dalek occupation forces. A weary Doctor leads a flotilla of Battle TARDISes but his TARDIS crashes on the planet Moldox, where Dalek patrols roam the wreckage and round up the remaining civilians. Searching for answers he meets Cinder, a young Dalek hunter, and their struggles take them from Moldox to the halls of Gallifrey, setting events in motion that will change everything. It features the War Doctor as played by John Hurt.