The Age of Reason: Popular Penguins

Jean-Paul Sartre

Set in the volatile Paris summer of 1938, The Age of Reasonfollows two days in the life of Mathieu Delarue, a philosophy teacher, and his circle in the cafes and bars of Montparnasse. Mathieu has so far managed to contain sex and personal freedom in conveniently separate compartments. But now he is in t...

The Stern Chase (#9 Brotherband)

John Flanagan

Pirates have stolen the Skandians' best ship and it's up to Hal and the Heron brotherband to find them in the unputdownable ninth adventure in the New York Times bestselling series.Outnumbered but determined, the Herons are ready for action. The scene is set for an epic battle at sea . . . For years now...

Abandon Every Hope: Essays for the Dead

Hayley Singer

Abandon Every Hope mournfully investigates the literatures of the slaughterhouse and a world motivated by profitable death, to ultimately ask- where does this horror begin and how can it end?;Can anyone smell the suffering of souls? Of sadness, of hell on earth? Hell, I imagine, has a smell that bloats ...