Undine Spragg's relentless social climbing in early 20th-century New York exposes the emptiness of ambition and the fleeting nature of success in a world of changing values.
A brilliant German composer trades his soul for artistic genius, his tragic decline mirroring Germany's catastrophic embrace of nihilism and the rise of the Third Reich.
Trapped in a deadly virtual reality game where every wrong move means real-life death, Giannine must outsmart riddles, monsters, and her own blunders to claim the throne and escape before her next demise becomes permanent.
In a town where social currents run deep and separate, the discovery of a student's body in the river forces a local detective to navigate the hidden truths beneath the polished surface of an elite prep school.
A Jewish girl recounts her 1919 journey from Russian pogroms, through medical quarantine in Belgium, to America, dealing with identity, belonging, and family strength.
After a fireman squanders an inheritance on aimless wandering, he and a brash gambler lose everything in a rigged poker game, forcing them to repay their debt by building a mysterious stone wall for two eccentric millionaires in a desolate Pennsylvania field.
A Pulitzer-winning author's memoir of her intense quest to master Italian, showing the challenges and discoveries of linguistic change and cultural relocation.
A determined black mage fights for the coveted robe of leadership against a rival prince, only to discover a deeper political darkness threatening her kingdom and forcing an alliance with her greatest competitor.
A young officer's brief moment of pity for a disabled heiress turns into a web of well-meaning lies, tragically linking their lives and showing how complicated human emotions can be.
Asimov's collection tracks the intertwined futures of people and machines over forty years of science fiction, from early AI to humanity's future in space.
From the rough-and-tumble streets of the 70s and 80s, an unyielding Tully navigates fierce friendships, tragic loves, and life's cruelest twists, only to discover that even when she thinks she has it all, destiny has one last devastating blow.
When her planned romantic Parisian getaway crumbles, a young woman discovers her adventurous spirit in the city of love, with a charming Frenchman and a moped.
A divorced stockbroker's life implodes with a heart attack and a sinkhole, forcing him to forge unlikely connections in a surreal Los Angeles that mirrors his own apocalyptic transformation.
Follow the uproarious, booze-fueled misadventures of Sebastian Dangerfield, an American ne'er-do-well with an insatiable appetite for women and chaos, as he charmingly navigates post-WWII Dublin.
In 1931 Berlin, a young writer observes memorable characters, from the 'divinely decadent' Sally Bowles to a doomed Jewish family, as they face a world on the edge of Nazi power.
Armed with knowledge from the future, a lone adventurer travels back to 1914 with a desperate plan to stop World War I by altering the path of a single, fateful bullet.
A five-year-old girl, abandoned by her mother, helps an elderly Black woman unlock memories of fugitive slaves, forbidden love, and family strength in the hidden town of Rusholme.
On the run from a sinister program, Sloane and James must risk a dangerous memory-restoring pill to uncover the truth of their past before the architects of a suicide epidemic claim them forever.
A wounded Marine's investigation into peace movement ties unearths a plot connecting 1970s political intrigue to sniper Bob Lee Swagger's present-day fight against a killer and his past.
