Dangerous Liaisons

Lisa See

Beloved New York Times bestselling author Lisa See draws on the vibrancy and turmoil of post-Civil War Los Angeles to tell the story of three Chinese women who managed to survive and, eventually, thrive, despite all odds.In 1870, three Chinese women arrive in the small, dusty, and violent pueblo of Los Angeles. Dove, the bound-footed daughter of an imperial scholar, is entranci...

O'farrell, Maggie

The award-winning, bestselling author of Hamnet and The Marriage Portrait returns with a soaring historical novel set in Ireland in the years before and after the Great Hunger."A breathtaking hymn to the sanctity of natural spaces, operating on timescales both intimate and geological. I finished Land moved not only by the vivid lives of its human characters, but the thrumming, ...

Picoult, Jodi

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now in a stunning tenth-anniversary edition, "the most important novel Jodi Picoult has ever written" (The Washington Post) tackles race, privilege, prejudice, justice, and compassion—and doesn't offer easy answers.This deluxe edition includes a brand-new introduction from the author and cover art in addition to gorgeous sprayed edges and a stampe...

Kang, Han

From Nobel Prize winner Han Kang comes her first work of nonfiction published in English—a singular collection of writings including her inspiring Nobel Lecture.In this light-filled and multi-faceted book, Han Kang draws together the threads of her work and life, tracing the connections between her interior and exterior worlds through a sequence of essays, poems, photographs, a...

Sohn, Won-Pyung

From the bestselling author of Almond, The Devil Wears Prada meets The Office in this witty, humane, and ultimately transformative story of a group of young workers who rebel against the status quo, now available in a convenient pocket-sized portable Nomad Edition. Jihye is an ordinary woman who has never been extraordinary. In her administrative job at the Academy, she silen...

Rachel Hochhauser

A breathtaking reimagining of Cinderella, as told through the eyes of its iconic "evil" stepmother, revealing a propulsive love story about the lengths a mother will go to for her children Twice-widowed, Lady Etheldreda Verity Isolde Tremaine Bramley is solely responsible for her two children, a priggish stepdaughter, a razor-taloned peregrine falcon, and a crumbling manor. Fi...

Choderlos De Laclos, Pierre

Un duelo libertino entre dos miembros de la nobleza francesa en una obra cumbre de la literatura europea del siglo XVIII En esta novela episolar ambientada en las postrimerías del siglo XVIII francés, dos aristócratas sin escrúpulos, la marquesa de Merteuil y el vizconde de Valmont, forjan una alianza para convertir la seducción en un juego cruel. El objetivo inmediato será per...

Choderlos De Laclos, Pierre

Valmont y Merteuil saben moverse como nadie entre los juegos de sociedad y conocen perfectamente la intrincada red de intereses y mentiras que rigen los salones y las alcobas. En las cenizas del deseo, ambos reinan incólumes, con una larga lista de conquistas a sus pies, si bien sus métodos son diferentes y habrán de verse fatalmente enfrentados ...

Choderlos De Laclos, Pierre

J'espère qu'on me comptera pour quelque chose l'aventure de la petite Volanges, dont vous paraissez faire si peu de cas : comme si ce n'était rien, que d'enlever, en une soirée, une jeune fille à son Amant aimé, d'en user ensuite tant qu'on le veut et absolument comme de son bien, et sans plus d'embarras ; d'en obtenir ce qu'on n'ose pas même exiger de toutes les filles dont c'...