Explore Western thought from Socrates' pursuit of truth to Peter Singer's modern ethics, as Nigel Warburton illuminates philosophy's most influential minds.
Obi Okonkwo, a Western-educated Nigerian, struggles with bribery and the societal rules against his forbidden love, eventually giving in to the corruption he swore to fight.
Fifteen-year-old Ruby navigates grief, a cross-country move, and a forced reunion with her absentee, movie-star father after her mother's sudden death.
Haunted by her sister's mysterious cliff-diving death, a fearful teen returns to a seaside town where grinning victims of water-related accidents hint at a chilling, ancient secret that could unravel her new romance and change her life forever.
Haunted by a summer trauma she can't voice, a closeted Alexi finds an unexpected confidant and the courage to confront her past in the equally scarred, quiet boy next door.
In a boisterous quest to "be somebody," the amoral and hilariously scheming Duddy Kravitz hustles his way through 1940s Montreal, leaving a trail of comedic chaos and hard-won lessons in his wake.
When a planned wilderness retreat turns into a rescue mission, Reed Shelton must face a relentless entity that has taken his wife and now hunts him and his allies through the forest.
A reclusive defense intellectual, haunted by his role in America's war machine, confronts the vast emptiness of the desert and the lingering human mysteries of his past when a filmmaker and his enigmatic daughter disrupt his solitary retreat.
A deep space expedition to a mysterious moon orbiting Saturn uncovers a colossal, sentient alien being named Gaea, whose impossible interior is not just a world, but a transformative consciousness that forever alters all who dare to explore her.
In the sweltering summer of 1948, a charming war veteran with a suitcase full of cash and a set of butcher knives carves a path of doomed romance and chilling mystery through a sleepy Virginia town.
Miri, a seasoned princess academy graduate, must transform three wild swamp sisters into refined royalty while unraveling a dangerous royal secret that threatens their very lives.
Rose Hathaway grapples with an impossible magic tied to her best friend, Lissa, to save her Strigoi-turned lover, Dimitri, from eternal damnation, all while he relentlessly hunts her.
A lonely boy and a talented beetle living under his sink become unlikely friends, entangled in a thrilling art heist at the Metropolitan Museum of Art to recover a lost masterpiece.
Jeffrey Archer's "Twelve Red Herrings" offers a collection of short stories, each with a clever twist, challenging readers to spot the misdirection before the surprising end.
On his deathbed, the world's most feared food critic embarks on a nostalgic, internal quest for a single, forgotten sublime flavor, while those he judged offer their sharp, often scathing, final assessments of his life.
A farmer becomes an accidental hero, outsmarting a giant and a dragon with a legendary sword and some luck, while subtly explaining the origins of English place names.
Haunted by his brother's suicide, an atheist teen bent on self-destruction is thrust into a silent darkness where a mysterious 'rumble' forces him to confront the very faith he's vehemently denied.
Beneath a veneer of perfection, a wealthy and popular teen grapples with his abusive father's legacy, threatening to drown his burgeoning love and his own identity in a cycle of inherited violence.
