Set in a distant future among a vast interstellar empire, Dune follows Paul Atreides, the young heir to House Atreides, whose family is entrusted with the stewardship of Arrakis—the desert planet that is the only source of the universe’s most valuable substance: spice. This rare resource grants...

When Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are summoned to investigate a mysterious death at Holyroodhouse Palace in Edinburgh, the case arrives through an unusual channel—Holmes’s influential brother, Mycroft Holmes. Acting on behalf of the British government, Mycroft hints that the matter may have...

After the sinking of a cargo ship, a solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the wild blue Pacific. The only survivors from the wreck are a sixteen-year-old boy named Pi, a hyena, a wounded zebra, an orangutan—and a 450-pound Royal Bengal tiger. Soon the tiger has dispatched all but Pi Patel, whose...

It’s been raining for a long time now, so long that the land has reshaped itself and old rituals and religions are creeping back into practice. Sisters Isla, Irene, and Agnes have not spoken in some time when their father, an architect as cruel as he was revered, dies. His death offers an...