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Leviathan Wakes

Accelerate

Want to read: Accelerate by Nicole Forsgren Phd, Jez Humble, Gene Kim, ISBN: 9781942788331

The Manager's Path

Finished reading: The Manager's Path by Camille Fournier, ISBN: 9781491973882

When Dogs Cry

A tough, poetic street story from the author of the international bestseller The Book Thief "The intersection of the characters is a real strength ......

Underdogs

From the bestselling author of THE BOOK THIEF Before THE BOOK THIEF, Markus Zusak wrote a trilogy of novels about the Wolfe Brothers: THE UNDERDOG, FIGHTING...

Travels with Epicurus

Describes how the author journeyed to Greece with a suitcase full of philosophy books in order to learn how to achieve a fulfilling old age, explaining...

The Theban Plays

The stirring tale of a legendary royal family's fall and ultimate redemption, the Theban trilogy endures as the crowning achievement of Greek drama. Essential...

The Squirrel Machine

Meticulous, strange, and hauntingly beautiful, this evocative and enigmatic book will ensure the inquisitive reader a spleenful of cerebral serenity that...

The Rime of the Modern Mariner

A mariner appears on a park bench and begins his talea Cursed by an albatross he slew whilst hunting whales, the mariner and his crew find themselves...

The Name of the Wind

'I have stolen princesses back from sleeping barrow kings. I burned down the town of Trebon. I have spent the night with Felurian and left with both my...

The Messenger

Protect the diamonds, survive the clubs, dig deep through spades, feel the hearts ... Meet Ed Kennedy - cab driving prodigy, pathetic card player and...

The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

The #1 New York Times bestselling guide to decluttering your home and the inspiration for the hit Netflix show Tidying Up with Marie Kondo. Despite constant...

The Ill-Made Mute: Bitterbynde 1

The Bitterbynde Trilogy, book I In a world where creatures of legend haunt the lands of men, and to be caught outside after dark means almost certain...

The Iliad

Following in the footsteps of Pound's Homer and Zukofsky's Catullus, Lisa Jarnot reconfigures a pivotal moment in Homer's epic tale of warfare into a...

The Great Gatsby

The Colour Of Magic

'His spectacular inventiveness makes the Discworld series one of the perennial joys of modern fiction' Mail on Sunday The Discworld is very much like...

The Book Thief

The 10th-anniversary edition of the No. 1 international bestseller and modern classic beloved by millions of readers HERE IS A SMALL FACT - YOU ARE GOING...

The Body Keeps the Score

#1 New York Times bestseller“Essential reading for anyone interested in understanding and treating traumatic stress and the scope of its impact on society...

The Alchemist: A Graphic Novel

Andalusian shepherd boy Santiago travels from his homeland in Spain to the Egyptian desert in search of a treasure buried in the Pyramids. Along the way...

The Adventure Zone: Here There Be Gerblins

Welcome to the Adventure Zone! SEE! The illustrated exploits of three lovable dummies set loose in a classic fantasy adventure! READ! Their journey from...

Stories of Your Life and Others

‘A science fiction genius . . . Ted Chiang is a superstar.’ GUARDIAN With Stories of Your Life and Others, his masterful first collection, multiple-award...

Stop Fixing Women

Millions of words have been spent in our quest to explain men's seemingly never-ending dominance in boardrooms, in parliaments, in the bureaucracy and...

Sin City 2: A Dame To Kill For

The legendary Frank Miller returns with the second volume in the Sin City series of crime / mystery thrillers. With his trademark pitch-black dialogue...

Ready Player One

Nominated as one of America’s best-loved novels by PBS’s The Great American Read The worldwide bestseller—now a major motion picture directed by Steven...

Practical Object-Oriented Design in Ruby

The Complete Guide to Writing More Maintainable, Manageable, Pleasing, and Powerful Ruby Applications Ruby’s widely admired ease of use has a downside...

Outcast of Redwall

Ferret Swartt Sixclaw and badger Sunflash the Mace are arch enemies who have sworn a pledge of death upon each other. Meanwhile, the Abbess of Redwall...

Other Minds

'Brilliant' Guardian 'Fascinating and often delightful' The Times What if intelligent life on Earth evolved not once, but twice? The octopus is the closest...

On Doubt

Acclaimed journalist Leigh Sales has her doubts, and thinks you should, too. Her classic personal essay carries a message of truth, scrutiny and accountability...

Of Mice and Men

Streetwise George and his big, childlike friend Lennie are drifters, searching for work in the fields and valleys of California. They have nothing except...

Obernewtyn

In a world struggling back from the brink of apocalypse, life is harsh. But for Elspeth Gordie, born with enhanced mental abilities, it is also dangerous...

Neuromancer

The sky above the port was the colour of television, tuned to a dead channel. William Gibson revolutionised science fiction in his 1984 debut Neuromancer...

Lucille

"Moving and rich." -- GQ France –Lucille impresses as much by the power of its drawing as by the subtlety of its dialogue and plotting... it alternates...

Love, Dishonor, Marry, Die ; Cherish, Perish

The late David Rakoff built a deserved reputation as one of the finest and funniest essayists at work today. Written with humour, sympathy and tenderness...

Lab Girl

Lab Girl is a book about work and about love, and the mountains that can be moved when those two things come together. It is told through Jahren's remarkable...

JPod

A lethal joyride into today’s new breed of technogeeks, Coupland’s forthcoming novel updates Microserfs for the age of Google. Ethan Jarlewski and five...

Homage to Catalonia

'An unrivalled picture of the rumours, suspicions and treachery of civil war' Antony Beevor Every line of serious work that I have written since 1936...

Hogfather

'Has the energy of The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy and the inventiveness of Alice in Wonderland' Sunday Times The Discworld is very much like our...

Guards! Guards!

'This is one of Pratchett's best books. Hilarious and highly recommended' The Times The Discworld is very much like our own - if our own were to consist...

Fraud

From This American Life alum David Rakoff comes a hilarious collection that single-handedly raises self-deprecation to an art form. Whether impersonating...

First, We Make the Beast Beautiful

The New York Times bestselling author of I Quit Sugar transforms cultural perceptions of the mental health issue of our age—anxiety—viewing this widespread...

Extinctions

Professor Frederick Lothian, retired engineer, world expert on concrete and connoisseur of modernist design, has quarantined himself from life by moving...

Exhalation

'Lean, relentless, and incandescent.' Colson Whitehead, Pulitzer Prize winning author of The Underground Railroad and The Nickel Boys This much-anticipated...

Dune

David Lynch's Dune (1984) is the film that science fiction--and the director's most ardent fans--can neither forgive nor forget. Frank Herbert's original...

Don't Get Too Comfortable

David Rakoff's collection of autobiographical essays, Fraud, established him as one of America's funniest, most insightful writers. In Don't Get Too Comfortable...

City Of Crows

From award-winning author Chris Womersley comes an extraordinary historical novel set in seventeenth-century Paris "One of the unrepentantly daring and...

Cedar Valley

This is a masterful novel...readers who loved Goodwood will find even more to love here.' Books + Publishing on Cedar Valley 'So much truth, so much aching...

Bridge of Clay

From the author of the no.1 New York Times bestselling novel The Book Thief. "An amazing talent in Australian literature" Sunday Telegraph The Dunbar...

Bacchae and Other Plays

The four plays newly translated in this volume are among Euripides' most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape and contrasting...

American Gods

Shadow is a man with a past. But now he wants nothing more than to live a quiet life with his wife and stay out of trouble. Until he learns that she's...

A Briefer History of Time

Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author's engaging voice is one...

Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith

Currently reading: Monolith to Microservices: Evolutionary Patterns to Transform Your Monolith by Sam Newman, ISBN: 9781492047841