A Study in EmeraldA mysterious circus terrifies an audience for one extraordinary performance before disappearing into the night, taking one of the spectators along with it . . . In a novella set two years after the events of American Gods, Shadow pays a visit to an ancient Scottish mansion, and finds himself trapped in a game of murder and monsters . . . In a Hugo Award winning short story set in a strangely altered Victorian England, the great detective Sherlock

as the clock strikes the quarter hour

is obsessed with divining her daughters' fates through their Vietnamese zodiac signs

twists that I never saw coming

and the streets most definitely are not paved with gold

The Hobbit was first published on September 21

Second Spring offers a new vision for menopause

\n• Resolver conflictos familiares pacíficamente

But his best friend

the poet Molly Peacock constructs a mosaic tribute to a little-known but remarkable eighteenth-century woman artist

All these women have witnessed more than they’ve disclosed

budget or splurge

and a turn of events that is nothing short of jaw-dropping