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<b>A STUNNING DELUXE EDITION OF THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Now a major motion picture starring Ryan Gosling, directed by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, with a screenplay by Drew Goddard</b><br/><br/><b>A lone astronaut must save the earth from disaster in this "propulsive" (Entertainment Weekly), cinematic thriller full of suspense, humor, and fascinating science, with special features including:</b><br/><br/>Intricately designed stenciled edges <br/><br/>New cover art on a deluxe jacket <br/><br/>Full-color illustrated endpapers <br/><br/>A gorgeous custom-stamped case<br/><br/>HUGO AWARD FINALIST NEW YORK TIMES READER PICK: 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY ONE OF THE YEAR'S BEST BOOKS: Parade, Newsweek, New York Public Library, Polygon, Shelf Awareness, She Reads, Kirkus Reviews, Library Journal

<b>This hardcover edition celebrates the #1 <i>New York Times </i>bestseller that set our sights on Mars and inspired the major motion picture starring Matt Damon and Jessica Chastain, with special features including:<br/><br/>- Intricately designed sprayed edges<br/>- New cover art on a deluxe jacket<br/>- Full-color illustrated endpapers<br/>- A custom-stamped case</b><br/><br/><b>A mission to Mars. A freak accident. One man's struggle to survive. From the author of <i>Project Hail Mary</i> comes "a hugely entertaining novel that reads like a rocket ship afire" (<i>Chicago Tribune</i>).</b><br/><br/><b>"Brilliant . . . a celebration of human ingenuity [and] the purest example of real-science sci-fi for many years . . . utterly compelling."-<i>The Wall Street Journal</i></b><br/><br/>Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars.<br/><br/>Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there.<br/><br/>After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he's alive-and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive.<br/><br/>Chances are, though, he won't have time to starve to death. The damaged machinery, unforgiving environment, or plain-old "human error" are much more likely to kill him first.<br/><br/>But Mark isn't ready to give up yet. Drawing on his ingenuity, his engineering skills-and a relentless, dogged refusal to quit-he steadfastly confronts one seemingly insurmountable obstacle after the next. Will his resourcefulness be enough to overcome the impossible odds against him?<br/><b><br/>NAMED ONE OF <i>PASTE</i>'S BEST NOVELS OF THE DECADE<br/></b><br/>"A hugely entertaining novel [that] reads like a rocket ship afire . . . Weir has fashioned in Mark Watney one of the most appealing, funny, and resourceful characters in recent fiction."<b>-<i>Chicago Tribune</i></b><br/><br/>"As gripping as they come . . . You'll be rooting for Watney the whole way, groaning at every setback and laughing at his pitchblack humor. Utterly nail-biting and memorable."<b>-<i>Financial Times</i></b>

Praise for Sean Pritchard's first book, <i>Outside In</i>:<br/><br/>'I devoured this sumptuously British step-by-gorgeous-step guide to when to seed, plant and pluck in a single sitting.' - Richard E. Grant<br/><br/>'<i>Outside In: A Year of Growing & Displaying</i> is that rare thing - the most ridiculously beautiful coffee-table book that is also a mine of useful information when it comes to what to grow when for year-round cut flowers. His interiors aren't too shabby, either.' - India Knight<br/><br/>'<i>Outside In</i> is not only stuffed full of practical advice and tips on nurturing a garden and displaying plants and flowers in the home, it is also a thing of romantic beauty. Sean's overflowing, colourful arrangements have put a smile on my face countless times: he has a natural ability to put together flowers, books, fabrics and assorted treasures in a way that feels effortless, charming and deeply personal.' - Luke Edward Hall<br/><br/>'Armed with flower-whisperer Sean A. Prichard's new book, mom can bedeck her home with backyard-blooms year-round-or just luxuriate in the pretty pictures while sipping a nice cuppa.' - <i>Wall Street Journal</i><br/><br/>'Inventive, considered, and thoughtful design.' - <i>House & Garden</i><br/><br/>***<br/><br/><b>Sean Pritchard's hotly anticipated new book, <i>Atmosfloric: Flower colour in home and garden</i> explores how to grow flowers for colour and bring them indoors for visual impact and atmosphere. </b><br/><br/>The garden allows us to play with colour. Unlike the colours in our interiors, colour in the garden is fleeting and fickle, and with that comes an exciting opportunity to experiment with a changing performance of colour month after month and to bring those colours indoors for constantly changing displays.<br/><br/>Colours are considered in three mood-based chapters: Romantic, Energetic and Reflective. For each chapter Sean reveals his favourite flowers to grow (with plant lists and inspirational planting plans) and shows them in a range of inspirational interiors.<br/><br/>As with <i>Outside In</i> the photography is by the author, who has photographed some highly sought-after gardens and interiors in England and France including the iconic Charleston Farmhouse and Kettle's Yard, plus the homes of Richard E Grant, Sam McKnight, Marin Motagut, Butter Wakefield, Isabel and Julian Bannerman and Anthony Watson of Atelier Vime.<br/><br/>Sean also takes a personal look at colour theory and explores the relationship that gardeners and gardener-artists have had with colour through history.

AD 60. Nero Claudius Caesar is Emperor. He is feared for his temper. He is known to be intoxicated by the power he wields. And why not? The Roman Empire stretches from the wilds of Britain to the deserts of Parthia. Nero is god of all he surveys. Yet dangerous traitors lie close at hand. Generals commanding legions. Senators whispering in corridors. The people cheer in the circus - but curse him in the streets. As word of Nero's cruelties and corruption spreads, they spark trouble in the north - Queen Boudicca revolts - and the ever unruly Gauls rebel. Nero's empire is aflame. Rome - his city - is a tinderbox. Perhaps it is time for a cleansing fire. But no one, not even an emperor, can escape its touch...

<i>Ghost Stories</i> is Siri Hustvedt's most personal work yet, a searing and intimate meditation on grief, memory, and enduring love, written in the aftermath of the death of her husband, writer, poet and filmmaker Paul Auster.<br/><br/>It is a patchwork-quilt book that stitches together memories from over forty years of love and life together: journal entries Siri wrote between early November 2023, when Paul first became ill, and 3 May 2024, the day of his funeral; e-mails Siri sent to friends during Paul's cancer treatment; notes Paul sent her over the course of their relationship; and three love letters Siri wrote to him in 1981, when he left her for a period of nine or ten days to return to his former life with his first wife and son.<br/><br/>The book also contains Paul Auster's last ever piece of writing - the first thirty-five pages of what he hoped would be a small book of letters to Siri's and his grandson, Miles Auster Hustvedt Ostrander, born on 1st January 2024. <br/><br/>The result is an emotional, full-bodied story of Siri Hustvedt and Paul Auster's life together, an exploration of how grief unmoors time and how the intimacy of a shared life continues to mark the everyday. Part memoir, part philosophical inquiry, <i>Ghost Stories</i> is unflinching, tender, and wise. It is a story of a woman haunting her own life, and the ghosts that inhabit us even as we carry on.

<b>WELCOME CRAWLERS, TO THE FOURTH FLOOR OF THE DUNGEON - THE IRON TANGLE!</b><br/><br/><b>The third explosive installment in Matt Dinniman's best selling LitRPG series, where teamwork is optional and betrayal is inevitable...</b><br/><br/><b>'If there's a better LitRPG than Dungeon Crawler Carl, I haven't read it'</b> Shirtaloon, author of <i>He Who Fights Monsters</i><br/><br/>--<br/><b>Carl and Donut have survived so far, but this fourth level is unlike anything they could imagine.</b><br/><br/>The Iron Tangle: an impossibly complicated subway system tied together into a knot of trains of all kinds.<br/><br/>The top ten list of most popular crawlers is now confirmed, and Carl and Donut have made it. But that popularity comes with a price . . .<br/><br/>They each now have a bounty on their head.<br/><br/>Carl and Donut have survived so far, but this fourth level is unlike anything they could imagine.<br/><br/>The Iron Tangle: an impossibly complicated subway system tied together into a knot of trains of all kinds.<br/><br/>The top ten list of most popular crawlers is now confirmed, and Carl and Donut have made it. But that popularity comes with a price . . .<br/><br/>They each now have a bounty on their head.<br/><br/>To get through this level, they must solve the puzzle of the floor. The secret to unravelling it all may be hidden in the pages of a seemingly useless book. But if they want to come close to success, they'll have to work with other crawlers.<br/><br/><b><i>Making friends is easy...until they want to kill you.</i></b><br/><b>----</b><br/><br/><b>Praise for <i>Dungeon Crawler Carl<br/></i></b><br/><b>'Fresh. Creative. Hilarious. I'm obsessed...Princess Donut is my queen'</b> Actor, producer and New York Times bestselling author Felicia Day<br/><br/><b>'I don't always say nice things about a book just because the writer has compromising pictures of me engaging in some very complicated international crimes, but when I do, I say them about Matt Dinniman's Dungeon Crawler Carl! Also, this series has no goddamn business burying so much depth and emotion and complexity under its bawdy, gory surface, but it does so anyway. What a wild-ass and unexpected delight'</b> New York Times bestselling author Scott Lynch<br/><br/><b>'[A] comically cosmic adventure series...often laugh-out-loud funny...Grind your way to dungeon mastery alongside Carl and Princess Donut' </b>The Wall Street Journal<br/><br/><b>'This is the book for anyone who ever wondered what it would be like to be a role player in a game with the best game master ever. Also for anyone who wants to read a good book. Or maybe anyone who has been outside at night?in their underwear?looking for their cat and wondering 'What's the worst thing that could happen?' Once you start, you won't put it down'</b> Patricia Briggs, #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Mercy Thompson series<br/><br/><b>'One of the most bananapants, funny, inventive books I have read in a while'</b> Book Riot<br/><br/><b>'Dungeon Crawler Carl is just one big smile all the way through. Put on your best pair of boxer shorts and sit back for a truly fun and enjoyable read'</b> New York Times bestselling author Kevin J. Anderson

<b><i>'EVERYTHING I LOVE IN ROMANTASY' - Demi Winters, author of The Road of Bones</i><br/><br/>This slow-burn, true enemies-to-lovers romantasy filled with high stakes and political intrigue is perfect for fans of <i>Fourth Wing</i> <i>and</i> <i>A Court of Thorns and Roses.</i></b><br/><br/><b>AN UNLEASHED POWER. AN ALL-CONSUMING DESIRE.</b><br/><br/>Decades after a rebellion tore through the Isle of Sidhe, <b>Fia </b>Riftborne has learnt three important lessons to survival: <i>keep your head down, don't draw attention to yourself, and avoid the Sidhe Guard at all costs.</i><br/><br/>That isn't so easy though when she harbours a <b>secret power</b>, one that would paint a target on her back if discovered. But, after a simple errand goes awry and her explosive power erupts, Fia knows she can no longer hide in the shadows.<br/><br/>Only, the swift <b>punishment </b>she expected never materialises. Instead, the elusive General <b>Laryk</b> Ashford offers her a choice: join the Sidhe Guard. . .or face execution.<br/><br/>Soon, Fia faces another impossible choice: surrender to the <b>chaos </b>within and risk destroying everything she holds dear or become a <b>weapon</b> in the hands of those who took everything from her.<br/><br/>Including the alluring General who is starting to <b>consume </b>her every thought. . .<br/>--------------------------------------------------------------------------<br/><b><i>Reader's reviews for Riftborne:</i></b><br/><br/>'I feel like I am going to <b>explode</b> because I need to talk to everyone about this book. I am <b>about to be so insufferable </b>about it.'<br/>'If you loved <b>Fourth Wing</b> or the <b>Red Queen</b> series you'll love this book!'<br/>'The<b> spicy dreamwalk</b>?? *Chefs kiss*'<br/>'If I could give this book<b> 6 stars</b> I would!! I haven't had a fantasy book <b>captivate</b> me the way this has in a long time!'<br/>'I'm <b>devastated </b>that I'll never be able to read this again for the first time.'<br/>'Okay wow...I <b>DEVOURED</b> this book. The <b>FMC</b>...The <b>MMC</b>...The <b>plotline</b>...The supporting characters...I really fell in love with every aspect of this book.'<br/>'I'll be<b> living</b> on the Isle of Sidhe for the unforeseeable future thank you.'<br/>'<b>Omg</b> absolutely made it on to my <b>god tier/six star</b> reads list.'