Results narrated by "Isuri Wijesundara" in All categories

An ambitious teen enrolls at an elite science institute in Morbid Curiosities, a young adult thriller from author S. Hati. When the Institute’s invitation arrived at my doorstep, it felt like it had been inked in my blood, sweat, and tears. Aarya’s life plan has been set for as long as she...

ONE OF “12 NEW NONFICTION BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ IN 2025”—THE OBSERVER A “MUST-READ” BOOK OF SPRING 2025 – TOWN & COUNTRY ONE OF “25 BOOKS TO READ IN 2025”—TORONTO STAR From the New York Times bestselling author of Capote’s Women comes an astonishing account of the...

Brought to you by Penguin. Good-natured but naïve, Mumbai party boy Ali Azeem is drifting through life. Then he meets the Khan sisters: pretty, marriage-material Maryam and sexy, unpredictable, off-the-rails Farhan. They are the daughters of Abbas Khan, the formidable immigrant patriarch of a...

A revelatory exploration of the ways in which wealth – and the lack of it – shapes our lives, told through the stories of ten people, from award-winning data journalist and artist Mona Chalabi. ‘The most vivid and readable exploration of the wealth gap I’ve ever read’ BRIAN ENO ‘I...

Dilo: Teenager. Refugee. Hustler. Since Dilo fled Sri Lanka for North America, she's picked up a couple things from her new home: an accent and a taste for the hustle. Between selling pirate CDs and shoplifting, she lives hand-to-mouth, constantly struggling for her family's next meal. Until her...

From the incendiary voice behind Your Driver is Waiting, a riotous novel following a family of Tamil refugees who fled civil war in Sri Lanka to pursue a better life, just for it to be up-ended by the schemes of a self-proclaimed day-trading savant, jeopardizing everything they’ve worked so...

When the last fare of the night turns up dead in her backseat, a Sri Lankan American taxi driver works off the clock to clear her name in this mystery novel by debut author Yosha Gunasekera. Siriwathi Perera doesn’t quite know where she’s going in life. She never expected to be a taxicab...

Recommended by Mary Beard as one of the BBC History Magazine's Books of the Year Classical stories about women who wield power, from the Amazons to Dido to Cleopatra A Penguin Classic There is no other anthology that brings together similar stories of ancient women in power. These women threaten...

INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER · Step into Fern’s School for Wayward Fae—where students are part human and part magical. A girl with peculiar abilities discovers nothing is what it seems when sinister forces causes one of her classmates to go missing. Perfect for fans of Wednesday. A...

"Every once in a while, a book comes along that drops you into another world and takes you places you never could imagine. This is that book. An astounding accomplishment!" —R. L. Stine, author of Goosebumps Set in nineteenth-century Sri Lanka and inspired by local folklore, Island Witch...

As irreverent as it is insightful, MONA turns the repressed Muslim girl trope on its head as Azra, academic by day and stripper by night, navigates a double life and a political awakening. Azra Liaqat Khan’s ordinary Muslim American childhood in Charlotte, North Carolina transforms after her...

A witch and her young ward discover a magical, walking house and learn the true meaning of home in this enchanting, cosy fantasy novel. 'Magical, whimsical, and full of heart!’ KESHE CHOW 'I loved every page! A new favourite!’ SARAH BETH DURST 'for those who love their fantasy sweet...

The perfect follow up to Kasie West’s duo of adult rom-coms, We Met Like This and Stranger Things Have Happened, Trust Issues will appeal to readers of Emily Henry and Ali Hazelwood. While out of town on a work trip, Parker begins to question her boyfriend’s fidelity when she receives an...

Based on the acclaimed New York Times project, this engaging and dynamic audiobook shares the true stories of remarkable people too often overlooked by history—an inspiring, eye-opening collection that empowers kids to see themselves as changemakers. This is a celebration of extraordinary...

A visually striking exploration of money—and the lack of it—in America told through the lives of ten individuals, from a Pulitzer Prize–winning data journalist and artist “Astonishing . . . Chalabi’s taboo-busting transparency about peoples’ financial lives is revolutionary enough...

Raina needs to win the National Bollywood Dance Circuit Scholarship. That will show her mother that dance can be a financially stable career and prove to her boyfriend and co-captain, Aditya, that they’re still the perfect couple, even if all they seem to do these days is fight. There’s only...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES Return to Fern’s School for Wayward Fae—where students are part human and part magical. In book 2, one demifae girl discovers that Death itself has Fern's students in sight. . . . A girl who's trapped in another realm. Her school, full of the peculiarly...

An exhilarating collection of letters and stories from the world-renowned Explorers Club, featuring firsthand accounts of crossing boundaries and making history over the past century For centuries, explorers from all over the globe have traveled the far reaches of what the world has to offer...

From New York Times bestselling author Fern Forgettable comes the epic finale to Fern’s School for Wayward Fae, where a demifae girl faces her biggest battle yet when she must rescue one of the school's own from evil forces before it's too late. . . . A girl who's trapped in another realm. Her...

Return to Fern’s School for Wayward Fae—where students are part human and part magical. In this sequel to the peculiar New York Times bestseller, one demifae girl discovers that Death itself has Fern's students in sight . . . and the fate of the whole school is looking grim. A girl with a...