High Discount

The "best short-story writer in English" (Time) is back with a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. With his trademark prose-wickedly funny, unsentimental, and exquisitely tuned-Saunders continues to challenge and surprise: Here is a collection of prismatic, reson

You make hundreds of decisions every day, from what to eat for breakfast to how you should invest, and not one of those decisions would be possible without emotion. It has long been said that thinking and feeling are separate and opposing forces in our behavior. But as Leonard Mlodinow, the best-selling author of Subliminal, tells us, extraordinary advances in psychology and neuroscience have p

From the revered Booker Prize-winning author comes a playful, multilayered novel of nostalgia, life and death, and quantum theory, which opens with the return of one of his most celebrated characters as he is released from prison.

"A triumphant piece of writingProse of such luscious eleganceExhilarating." -The New York Times Book Review

FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

"Han Kang writes in intense poetic prose that . . . exposes the fragility of human life."-from the Nobel Prize citation

In the vibrant city-state of Castellane, the richest of nobles and the most debauched of criminals have one thing in common: the constant search for wealth, power, and the next hedonistic thrill. Kel is an orphan, stolen from the life he knew to become the Sword Catcher-the body double of a royal heir, Prince Conor Aurelian. He and Conor are as close as brothers, but his destiny is to die for C