Charles Duhigg NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • For anyone looking to rebuild old habits, form new ones, or start all over, this instant classic “masterfully combines cutting-edge research and captivating...

Pittacus Lore   I've seen him on the news. Followed the stories about what happened in Ohio. John Smith, out there, on the run. To the world, he's a mystery....

HL DennisImagine the chance to solve the Voynich Manuscript - a puzzle that has truly defeated adults for centuries.It's an ancient manuscript no one has ever been able to decipher....

Umberto Eco Nineteenth-century Europe - from Turin to Prague to Paris - abounds with the ghastly and the mysterious. Conspiracies rule history. Jesuits plot against Freemasons. Italian republicans strangle priests...

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Julia Donaldson   A collected edition of all the delightfully funny Princess Mirror-Belle stories Ellen gets a big surprise when she sees a mysterious girl in her bathroom mirror. It...

Carlos Ruiz Zafon   Barcelona, 1957. It is the week before Christmas in the Sempere & Sons bookshop. Daniel Sempere has married the love of his life, Bea, and they...

Jon Ronson What if society wasn't fundamentally rational, but was motivated by insanity? This thought sets Jon Ronson on an utterly compelling adventure into the world of madness.Along the way,...

Iris Chang The New York Times bestselling account of one of history's most brutal—and forgotten—massacres, when the Japanese army destroyed China's capital city on the eve of World War II,...

Maggie Stiefvater Even if Blue hadn't been told her true love would die if she kissed him, she would stay away from boys. Especially the ones from the local private...

Seumas Milne From 9/11 to the Arab uprisings and beyond—encompassing the economic crisis, war on terror, rise of China and tide of change in Latin America— The Revenge of History...

Ruth Rendell'Someone had told Dex that the Queen lived in Victoria. So did he, but she had a palace and he had one room in a street off Warwick Way....