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Read the original inspiration for the new, boldly reimagined film from producers Oprah Winfrey and Steven Spielberg, starring Taraji P. Henson, Danielle Brooks, and Fantasia Barrino. <br/><br/> Celebrating its fortieth anniversary,<i> The Color Purple</i> writes a message of healing, forgiveness, self-discovery, and sisterhood to a new generation of readers. An inspiration to authors who continue to give voice to the multidimensionality of Black women's stories, including Tayari Jones, Honorée Fanonne Jeffers, Jesmyn Ward, and more, The Color Purple remains an essential read in conversation with storytellers today. <br/><br/> Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award! <br/><br/>A powerful cultural touchstone of modern American literature,<i> The Color Purple</i> depicts the lives of African American women in early-twentieth-century rural Georgia. Separated as girls, sisters Celie and Nettie sustain their loyalty to and hope in each other across time, distance, and silence. Through a series of letters spanning nearly thirty years, first from Celie to God, then from the sisters to each other, the novel draws readers into a rich and memorable portrayal of Black women-their pain and struggle, companionship and growth, resilience and bravery. <br/><br/> Deeply compassionate and beautifully imagined, <i>The Color Purple</i> breaks the silence around domestic and sexual abuse, and carries readers on an epic and spirit-affirming journey toward transformation, redemption, and love. <br/><br/> <i>"Reading The Color Purple was the first time I had seen Southern, Black women's literature as world literature. In writing us into the world-bravely, unapologetically, and honestly-Alice Walker has given us a gift we will never be able to repay."</i> -Tayari Jones <br/><br/> <i>"The Color Purple was what church should have been, what honest familial reckoning could have been, and it is still the only art object in the world by which all three generations of Black artists in my family judge American art."</i> -Kiese Laymon

John Constantine is, and has always been, a magician of the highest calibre who doesn t need additional training from any highbrow magician, thank you very much. Sensing an opportunity for independence, Constantine falsely accepts an apprenticeship in the United States to instead become the lead singer of his best friend s punk band, Mucous Membrane. When the band begins to dabble in magic, a complicated spell gets out of hand and the disastrous consequences might be more than Constantine can handle. Join #1 New York Times bestselling author Kami Garcia (Beautiful Creatures) and artist Isaac Goodhart in the most thrilling magical team-up of the year!

<b>NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the author of <i>The Covenant of Water</i>: A beautifully written, page-turning family saga of <b>Ethiopia </b>and America, doctors and patients, exile and home. <b>- </b>"Filled with mystical scenes and deeply felt characters.... Verghese is something of a magician as a novelist."&#160;-<i>USA Today</i></b><br/><br/>Marion and Shiva Stone are twin brothers born of a secret union between a beautiful Indian nun and a brash British surgeon. Orphaned by their mother's death and their father's disappearance, bound together by a preternatural connection and a shared fascination with medicine, the twins come of age as Ethiopia hovers on the brink of revolution. <br/><br/>Moving from Addis Ababa to New York City and back again, <i>Cutting for Stone</i> is an unforgettable story of love and betrayal, medicine and ordinary miracles-and two brothers whose fates are forever intertwined.<br/>&#160;<br/>This sweeping, emotionally riveting novel that&#160;"shows how history and landscape and accidents of birth conspire to create the story of a single life" (<i>Los Angeles Times</i>).

<b><b><i>NEW YORK TIMES</i> BESTSELLER </b>- Engaging and fast-paced, this gripping coming-of-age novel of chess, feminism, and addiction speeds to a conclusion as elegant and satisfying as a mate in four. Now a highly acclaimed, award-winning Netflix series.</b><br/><br/>Eight year-old orphan Beth Harmon is quiet, sullen, and by all appearances unremarkable. That is, until she plays her first game of chess. Her senses grow sharper, her thinking clearer, and for the first time in her life she feels herself fully in control. By the age of sixteen, she's competing for the U.S. Open championship. But as Beth hones her skills on the professional circuit, the stakes get higher, her isolation grows more frightening, and the thought of escape becomes all the more tempting.

<b>"Set in a far future in which robots run a world with a small and declining human population" (<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i>), a haunting, dystopian vision of humanity and its last hope for survival from the bestselling author of <i>The Queen's Gambit</i></b><br/><br/>In the future, the human race has ceased to progress. Granted endless leisure by widespread automation, the masses devote themselves solely to the pleasures of the here and now, to drugs that dull their senses and electronic bliss that disconnects them from reality.&#160;Theirs is a world that is without meaning or purpose, without art, children, or reading, and overseeing the bleak persistence of humanity is an intelligent machine whose only wish is to extinguish its own existence.&#160;<br/><br/>But when two ordinary people begin to fight the system, hope for the human race glimmers in their journey as they attempt to realize the full potential of humanity.

<b><b>INSTANT <i>NEW YORK TIMES </i>BESTSELLER&#160;<br/><i>LA TIMES</i> BOOK PRIZE FINALIST<br/>NBCC JOHN LEONARD PRIZE FINALIST<br/>ONE OF THE&#160;<i>NEW YORK TIMES'S </i>MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017<br/><b>ONE OF THE <i>WASHINGTON POST'S </i>MOST NOTABLE BOOKS OF 2017<br/><b>ONE OF NPR'S 'GREAT READS' OF 2017<br/><b>A <i>USA TODAY </i>BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR</b></b></b><br/> <b>AN AMAZON.COM BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR</b><br/> <b>A <i>BUSINESS INSIDER </i>BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR</b><br/><b><br/>"Impossible to put down."&#160;<b><b><b><i>-</i></b></b></b>NPR</b><br/><br/>"A novel that readers will gulp down, gasping."&#160;-<i>The Washington Post</i><br/> &#160;</b><br/><b>"The word 'masterpiece' has been cheapened by too many blurbs, but&#160;<i>My Absolute Darling&#160;</i>absolutely is one." -Stephen King<br/></b><br/>A brilliant and immersive, all-consuming read about one fourteen-year-old girl's heart-stopping fight for her own soul.</b><br/><br/>Turtle Alveston is a survivor. At fourteen, she roams the woods along the northern California coast. The creeks, tide pools, and rocky islands are her haunts and her hiding grounds, and she is known to wander for miles. But while her physical world is expansive, her personal one is small and treacherous: Turtle has grown up isolated since the death of her mother, in the thrall of her tortured and charismatic father, Martin. Her social existence is confined to the middle school (where she fends off the interest of anyone, student or teacher, who might penetrate her shell) and to her life with her father.<br/><br/>Then Turtle meets Jacob, a high-school boy who tells jokes, lives in a big clean house, and looks at Turtle as if she is the sunrise. And for the first time, the larger world begins to come into focus: her life with Martin is neither safe nor sustainable. Motivated by her first experience with real friendship and a teenage crush, Turtle starts to imagine escape, using the very survival skills her father devoted himself to teaching her. What follows is a harrowing story of bravery and redemption. With Turtle's escalating acts of physical and emotional courage, the reader watches, heart in throat, as this teenage girl struggles to become her own hero-and in the process, becomes ours as well.<br/><br/>Shot through with striking language in a fierce natural setting,<i> My Absolute Darling</i> is an urgently told, profoundly moving read that marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer.

Towles delivers a sophisticated and entertaining debut novel about an irresistible young woman with an uncommon sense of purpose. Elegant and captivating, "Rules of Civility" turns a Jamesian eye on how spur-of-the-moment decisions define life for decades to come.