Highly acclaimed at its publication in 1913, The Custom of the Country is a cutting commentary on America’s nouveaux riches, their upward-yearning aspirations and their eventual downfalls. Through her heroine, the beautiful and ruthless Undine Spragg, a spoiled heiress who looks to her next materialistic triumph as her latest conquest throws himself at her feet, Edith Wharton presents a startling, satiric vision of social behavior in all its greedy glory. As Undine moves f...

"She hit me with her car. We're taking it slow."After a grueling shift at the ER, all Morgan Gatlin wants is to go home—easier said than done in the worst snowstorm to hit New York City in years. One moment, she’s ignoring the Christmas nonsense all around her, and the next, she’s crashing bumper first into unsuspecting pedestrian Elena Solorzano.Guilt-stricken, Morgan rushes Elena to the hospital, and, when the storm shuts down Elena’s only way ho...

After three years spent studying abroad, Ada returns to her rural village and is once again driving around with Vicen� Jr. and coming home giddy late in the summer night. She spends long days recounting stories and inventing some of her own: like the story of the farmer who lost two fingers in a combine and who loves to dance; the story of an attack by a cow; the story of earrings, angrily tossed them into the reservoir, swallowed by an enormous catfish, and how the old catfish, with gold ...

This book traces the evolution of Nepal's constitutional order through its history, politics, and social transformation, with particular emphasis on the 2015 Constitution, the country's seventh and current constitution. It examines the forces that have shaped constitutional change since Nepal's first experiments with constitutional democracy in the early 1950s.The book identifies three defining themes in Nepal's constitutional development.First, it explores...

"Taking flight has never been more fun." ―Nicholas Day, author of The Mona Lisa VanishesThe unbelievable true story of pilot Douglas Corrigan, who took off from New York to fly to California, but landed in Ireland instead.On July 17, 1938, American pilot Douglas Corrigan took off from New York City’s Floyd Bennett Field for a long-haul trip. He had 320 gallons of gas in a rickety Curtiss Robin airplane and a license to fly cross-country to California. But when he should hav...

The unbelievable true story of pilot Douglas Corrigan, who took off from New York to fly to California, but landed in Ireland instead.On July 17, 1938, American pilot Douglas Corrigan took off from New York City’s Floyd Bennett Field for a long-haul trip. He had 320 gallons of gas in a rickety Curtiss Robin airplane and a license to fly cross-country to California. But when he should have turned west for his route across America, Corrigan continued east. The follow...

In 2029, Ethan Vale is a systems engineer who trusts models more than institutions. When a failed experiment strands him in San Francisco in May 1941 with a damaged offline AI named Ariadne, he knows the dates everyone else cannot believe: Pearl Harbor, Wannsee, Midway, Hiroshima, Nagasaki. Ethan thinks the future can be corrected if he can make the right people listen. But every warning becomes leverage, every saved life exposes someone else, and every clean answer teaches the war how to ...

"Taking flight has never been more fun." —Nicholas Day, author of The Mona Lisa VanishesThe unbelievable true story of pilot Douglas Corrigan, who took off from New York to fly to California, but landed in Ireland instead.On July 17, 1938, American pilot Douglas Corrigan took off from New York City’s Floyd Bennett Field for a long-haul trip. He had 320 gallons of gas in a rickety Curtiss Robin airplane and a license to fly cross-co...

When the U.S. access clock starts running out on Veyra, an overseas short-video platform woven into American daily life, product counsel Mira Vale is asked to help sell the rescue as a victory for creators. Jonas Mercado, a repair creator whose livelihood depends on the feed, wants to believe the new trust will protect the people who built their lives inside it. Theo Renn, a former ad-auction engineer, sees a different transaction forming underneath the public promises: a market for future...

Mina Vale came to Saorun to audit a nonfatal evacuation drill anomaly. The port town's public maps say one thing. The paper records say another. At low water, both point toward Old Basin Sector C, where a sealed municipal tide-control door waits below the storm line.As the weather closes in, Mina discovers that the corrupted route system does more than misdirect crowds. It can rewrite who is documented as having survived, and her missing sister's name is already inside the record.

In the canal city of Veyr, streets do not merely disappear. They are declared never to have existed—and the people who lived on them begin to vanish from every record that could prove they belong.Leora Nym has spent eleven months tracing the disappearance of her mentor through maps that refuse to hold still. Corin Ash, the city officer assigned to contain the panic, needs proof before he can defy the Assembly that benefits from forgetting. Together they find a missing ward beneath ...

At 3:17 a.m., during an overnight airport closure, eight strangers receive boarding passes for a flight that does not exist. Each pass points to a private thread in a decades-old aviation claim—and to a choice its holder has been postponing. As the travelers compare their fragments, a buried record begins to surface. The 3:17 Connection is a linked collection of nine original mystery stories about departure, disclosure, and the evidence people choose to keep.