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A poem for the ages, freshly and accessibly translated by an international rising star, bringing together scholarly precision and poetic grace
Gilgamesh is a Babylonian epic from three thousand years ago, which tells of King Gilgamesh's deep love for the wild man Enkidu and his pursuit of immortality when Enkidu dies. It is a story about love between men, loss and grief, the confrontation with death, the destruction of nature, insomnia...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Danielle Steel comes a powerful, sweeping historical novel about a courageous woman in World War II Germany.
Sophia Alexander, the beautiful daughter of a famous surgeon in Berlin, has had to grow up faster than most young women. When her mother falls ill, Sophia must take charge of her younger sister, Theresa, and look after her father and the household, while also volunteering at his hospital...

"Winner of the Finlandia Award, Troll: A Love Story is an enchanting novel that has become an international sensation. Angel, a young photographer, comes home from a night of carousing to find a group of drunken teenagers in the courtyard of his apartment building, taunting a wounded, helpless young troll. He takes it in, not suspecting the dramatic consequences of this decision. What does one do with a troll in the city? As the troll's presence influences...

''"Plenty of tenderness and Colorado sunshine flavor [make] this a pleasant escape." —Publishers Weekly Hope's Crossing is still reeling from a devastating accident, but one occupational therapist may be exactly what the town needs… Evie Blanchard was at the top of her field. But when burnout forces her to walk away from her job as a pediatric occupational therapist, she moves from Los Angeles to Hope's Crossing seeking a quieter life. So the...

"When a DNA test yields surprising results, widowed father Baxter Shaw and his 8-year-old daughter journey to southeastern Spain to connect with their mysterious roots where the romance of the culture awakens a new outlook on life but also reveals long-simmering secrets"-- "A widowed father and his young daughter embark on a life-changing journey in a heartening novel of family and second chances by the bestselling author of The Singing Trees. Adjusting...

"Brian, an aimless slacker, works doubles at his shift job, forgets to clean his room and lays about with his friends Nik and Darby. He's been struggling to manage his transition to adulthood almost as much as his monthly transitions to a werewolf. Really, he is not great at the whole werewolf thing, and his recent murderous slip-ups have caught the attention of Tyler, a Millennial were-mentor determined to take the mythological world by storm. Tyler...

''"Susie Finkbeiner never fails to transport her readers through time and space, welcoming us into worlds we never want to leave." --Julie Cantrell, New York Times best-selling author of Into the Free. "[Pearl's] voice isn't one you'll soon forget."--RT Book Reviews Pearl Spence has finally settled into a routine in Bliss, Michigan, far from her home in Red River, Oklahoma. Like all the other kids, she goes to school each day, plays in the woods,...

Three years after Claire Kite lost her husband David, an aspiring novelist, she finally finds the courage to move on. While going throug David's things, she finds his last, unfinished, manuscript. Whitake Grant is famous for his one and only best-sellingnovel and is now suffering through a deep midlife crisis. When Claire reaches out to him to finish her husband's novel, he undertakes to understand the man who wrote it and the women he left behind. "A...

"One year after the clash with his former students in upstate New York, retired Marine Warrant Officer and SERE instructor Derek Harrington is the tip of the FBI’s spear in their mission to eradicate the domestic terrorist group known as Autumn’s Tithe. After several successful operations, intelligence points to one final camp in the remote Kentucky wilderness, and Derek prepares to take down Autumn’s Tithe for good. At the same time ex-FBI...

''An ingenious, devastating, explosive novel about the ramifications of choice from "one of the most original and talented authors working today" (NPR). "How ought one to live?" This is the question that obsesses London-based publisher Ayush, driving him to question every act of consumption. He embarks on a radical experiment in his own life and the lives of those connected to him: his practical economist husband; their twins; and even the authors...