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The Developer Experience Book

Learn how to create exceptional developer products without friction.

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

The true story of Jim Williams, an antiques dealer on trial for the shooting death of Danny Hansford, and the characters that inhabit Savannah Georgia.

The Art of Possibility

It explores the remarkable effects of an open mentality and being prepared to seize opportunities, allowing a variety of possibilities into your life, and finding solutions to problems by being a hopeful person.

The Secret History

Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.

The Blade Itself

Murder and conspiracy follow our three main characters in the first book from the First Law series.

Design of Everyday Things

Even the smartest among us can feel inept as we fail to figure out which light switch or oven burner to turn on, or whether to push, pull, or slide a door. The fault lies in product design that ignore the needs of users and the principles of cognitive psychology. A bestseller in the United States, this bible on the cognitive aspects of design contains examples of both good and bad design and simple rules that designers can use to improve the usability of objects as diverse as cars, computers, doors, and telephones.

Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Not even twenty-five years old, Sam and Sadie are brilliant, successful, and rich, but these qualities won't protect them from their own creative ambitions or the betrayals of their hearts.

Sea of Tranquility

A novel of time travel and metaphysics that precisely captures the reality of our current moment

The Goldfinch

The story of a 13 year old boy who survives a terrorist attack at the Metropolitan Museum of Art that kills his mother and results in him coming into possession of Carel Fabritius's painting The Goldfinch.

Cloud Cuckoo Land

A soaring story about children on the cusp of adulthood in worlds in peril, who find resilience, hope, and a book

Light Bringer

The Reaper is a legend, more myth than man: the savior of worlds, the leader of the Rising, the breaker of chains. But the Reaper is also Darrow, born of the red soil of Mars: a husband, a father, a friend. The worlds once needed the Reaper. But now they need Darrow. Because after the dark age will come a new age: of light, of victory, of hope.

Storyworthy

A five-time Moth GrandSLAM winner and bestselling novelist shows how to tell a great story -- and why doing so matters

The Mountain in the Sea

The octopuses hold the key to unprecedented breakthroughs in extrahuman intelligence. As Dr. Nguyen struggles to communicate with the newly discovered species, forces larger than DIANIMA close in to seize the octopuses for themselves.

The Anatomy of Story

Truby shows how to create that story, focusing on plot and premise, theme, characters, moral development, and crafting the kind of ending that brings readers and audiences back again and again.

Hell Bent

Find a gateway to the underworld. Steal a soul out of hell. A simple plan, except people who make this particular journey rarely come back. But Galaxy “Alex” Stern is determined to break Darlington out of purgatory—even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. Book 2 of Alex Stern series

Comedy Book

A sharp, loving, well written exploration and analysis of the art form that makes us smile, helps us relate, and is perpetually mysterious

The Anthropocene Reviewed

John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet—from the QWERTY keyboard and Staphylococcus aureus to the Taco Bell breakfast menu—on a five-star scale

What's Our Problem

This book provides an entirely new framework and language for thinking and talking about today’s complex world. Instead of focusing on the usual left-center-right horizontal political axis, which is all about what we think, the book introduces a vertical axis that explores how we think, as individuals and as groups.

The Will of the Many

At the elite Catenan Academy, a young fugitive uncovers layered mysteries and world-changing secrets .

Demon Copperhead

The story of a boy born to a teenaged single mother in a single-wide trailer, with no assets beyond his dead father’s good looks and copper-colored hair, a caustic wit, and a fierce talent for survival. In a plot that never pauses for breath, relayed in his own unsparing voice, he braves the modern perils of foster care, child labor, derelict schools, athletic success, addiction, disastrous loves, and crushing losses. Through all of it, he reckons with his own invisibility in a popular culture where even the superheroes have abandoned rural people in favor of cities.

Story Genius

How to use brain science to go beyond outlining and write a riveting novel (before you waste three years writing 327 pages that go nowhere)

The Glass Hotel

The Glass Hotel follows the aftermath of a disturbing graffiti incident at a hotel on Vancouver Island and the collapse of an international Ponzi scheme.