The Righteous Mind - Why Good People are Divided by Politics and Religion

Jonathan Haidt

In this "landmark contribution to humanity's understanding of itself" (The New York Times Book Review) social psychologist Jonathan Haidtchallenges conventional thinking about morality, politics, and religion in a way that speaks to conservatives and liberals alike.  Drawing on his twenty-five years of ...

Percy Jackson and the Battle of the Labyrinth (Book 4)

Rick Riordan

Percy Jackson and The Battle of the Labyrinth is the fourth exciting adventure in Rick Riordan's bestselling series. Half Boy. Half God. ALL Hero. Honestly, blowing up another school was the last thing I wanted to do. As the son of a Greek God, I've had my share of near-death disaster - and now my arch ...

The Blackthorn Key (#1)

Kevin Sands

London, 1665. Fourteen-year-old Christopher Rowe is apprenticed to master apothecary Benedict Blackthorn. In Blackthorn's shop, Christopher learns the delicate secrets of transforming simple ingredients into powerful medicines, potions and weapons. His beloved master guides him with a firm, steady hand ...

Aller Retour New York

Henry Miller

"New York is an aquarium...where there are nothing but hell benders and lungfish and slimy, snag-toothed groupers and sharks." In 1935, Henry Miller set off from his adopted home, Paris, to revisit his native land, America. Aller Retour New York, his exuberant, humorous missive to his friend Alfred Perl...

A Country Too Far

Rosie; Keneally Scott

"I don't think I've seen a more impressive collection of Australian writers in a single book.'aStephen Romei,aThe Australian One of the central moral issues of our time is the question of asylum seekers, arguably the most controversial subject in Australia today. In this landmark anthology, twenty-seven...

The End of Eddy

Édouard Louis; Lorin Stein (Translator) (Edouard)

'A brilliant novela courageous, necessary and deeply touching' GuardianEdouard Louis grew up in a village in northern France where many live below the poverty line. His bestselling debut novel about life there, The End of Eddy, has sparked debate on social inequality, sexuality and violence.It is an ext...

Frankenstein

Mary Shelley

Following Sterling's spectacularly successful launch of its children's classic novels (240,000 books in print to date), comes a dazzling new series: Classic Starts. The stories are unabridged and have been rewritten for younger audiences. Classic Starts treats the world's beloved tales (and children) wi...

Orwell and the Dispossessed

George Orwell; Peter Davison (Editor)

The vivid, impassioned writings collected together in this powerful volume chronicle Orwell's first-hand experiences of life among the underclass of the 'two nations' of rich and poor. Down and Out in Paris and London is the young Orwell's memoir of his time as a struggling, often penniless writer, livi...

Square One

Nell Frizzell

'Electrifyingly good...sharply comic and perfectly poignant' Daisy Buchanan, author of Insatiable -------------------Everyone is moving on... and then, there's Hanna By thirty, Hanna expected to have it all (or at least some of it) · A fulfilling and successful career · A healthy, long-term relation...