Kirsten Raymonde non ha mai dimenticato la sera in cui Arthur Leander, famoso attore di Hollywood, ebbe un attacco di cuore sul palco durante una rappresentazione del Re Lear. Fu la sera in cui una devastante epidemia di influenza colpì la città e, nel giro di poche settimane, la società, così com'era, non esisteva più. Vent'anni più tardi, Kirsten si sposta tra gli accampamenti sparsi in questo nuovo mondo con un piccolo gruppo di attori e musicisti. Si fanno chiamare Orchestra Sinfonica Itinerante e si dedicano a mantenere vivo ciò che resta dell'arte e della musica per il bene dell'umanità. Ma quando arrivano a St. Deborah by the Water si trovano di fronte un profeta violento che minaccia l'esistenza stessa del loro piccolo gruppo. L'Orchestra Sinfonica Itinerante deve lottare per sopravvivere, finché un evento imprevedibile unisce tutti i personaggi rimescolando ancora una volta le carte in tavola. Riuscirà l'umanità a sconfiggere i suoi fantasmi e conquistare un nuovo futuro? Amato dalla critica e dai lettori di tutto il mondo, 'Stazione Undici' è un romanzo che esplora le paure e i desideri degli esseri umani in una società costretta a fare i conti con la fine del mondo per come lo conosceva. È in quel momento, quando ogni certezza vacilla, quando la legge della sopravvivenza sembra l'unica regola di comportamento, che la letteratura e l'arte si mostrano come la più forte delle speranze in cui credere.

Nel 1912 Edwin St. John St. Andrew è un ragazzo di diciotto anni, che sente il peso dell'appartenenza alla nobiltà inglese. Dopo un dissidio con la sua famiglia, attraversa l'Atlantico, per giungere sino in Canada. Qui, incantato dalla bellezza della natura selvaggia, si inoltra in una foresta e, all'improvviso, sente le note di un violino e cade in uno stato di trance. È un'esperienza che lo sconvolge nel profondo e che cambierà per sempre la sua vita. Nel 2203, una famosa scrittrice di nome Olive Llewellyn è in tour per presentare il suo libro. Sta viaggiando per tutto il pianeta, ma la sua casa è la Colonia Due lunare nei pressi del Mare della Tranquillità, un luogo di pietra bianca, di torri, guglie e di una inquietante bellezza artificiale. Nel suo romanzo più noto c'è una strana scena: un uomo suona il violino nel corridoio di un terminal aeroportuale, mentre gli alberi di una foresta si ergono intorno a lui. Nel 2403, Gaspery-Jacques Roberts è un detective dell'Istituto del Tempo di Città Notturna, così, successivamente, è stata ribattezzata la Colonia Due. Viene assunto per indagare su un'anomalia spazio- temporale, sul caso di alcune vite sconvolte da una strana apparizione, tra cui quelle di Edwin St. John St. Andrew e Olive Llewellyn.

Vincent fa la barista all'Hotel Caiette, un prestigioso cinque stelle nel nord dell'isola di Vancouver. Una notte, all'improvviso, uno sconosciuto incide sulla vetrata dell'atrio un messaggio inquietante: Perché non ti ingoi una scheggia di vetro? Jonathan Alkaitis, il finanziere proprietario dell'hotel, quella sera arriva troppo tardi per leggere la minaccia, e ignaro di tutto passa la serata con Vincent. Quando si salutano, le lascia una mancia di cento dollari e il suo biglietto da visita. Un anno dopo vivono insieme come marito e moglie. A Manhattan Alkaitis gestisce un giro di investimenti miliardari che non è altro che un gigantesco gioco di specchi. Quando il sistema crolla, travolge le vite di tutte le persone che gli avevano affidato i risparmi. Vincent, che finora ha recitato la parte della bella moglie, sparisce improvvisamente, per ricomparire anni dopo a bordo di una nave mercantile coinvolta negli inganni di Alkaitis. Tra fortune principesche, club di musica elettronica, hotel di lusso e prigioni federali, Emily St. John Mandel firma un thriller sull'avidità e il senso di colpa, sull'amore e la disillusione, e sugli infiniti modi in cui, sempre e ostinatamente, cerchiamo di dare un senso alla nostra vita.

When Lilia Albert was a child, her father appeared on the doorstep of her mother's house and took her away. Now, haunted by an inability to remember much about her early childhood, Lilia moves restlessly from city to city, abandoning lovers and eluding the private detective who has dedicated a career to following close behind.

Then comes Eli. When Lilia goes out for a paper and fails to return to their Brooklyn apartment, he follows her to Montreal, not knowing whether he wants to disappear, too, or help her find her way home. But what he discovers is a deeper mystery, one that will set past and present spinning toward collision.

Gavin Sasaki was a promising young journalist in New York City until the day he was fired for plagiarism. The last thing he wants is to sell foreclosed real estate for his sister Eilo’s company in their Florida hometown, but he’s in no position to refuse her job offer. Plus, there’s another reason to go home: Eilo recently met a ten-year-old girl who looks very much like Gavin and has the same last name as his high-school girlfriend, Anna, who left town abruptly after graduation.

Determined to find out if this little girl might be his daughter, Gavin sets off to track down Anna, starting with the three friends they shared back when he was part of a jazz group called “The Lola Quartet.” As Gavin pieces together their stories, he learns that Anna has been on the run for good reason, and soon his investigation into her sudden disappearance all those years ago takes a seriously dangerous turn.

Everyone Anton Walker grew up with is corrupt. His parents dealt in stolen goods, and he was a successful purveyor of forged documents until he abandoned it all in his early twenties, determined to live a normal life, complete with career, apartment, and a fiancée who knows nothing of his criminal beginnings. He’s on the verge of finally getting married when Aria—his cousin and former partner in crime—blackmails him into helping her with one last job.

Anton considers the task a small price for future freedom. But as he sets off for an Italian honeymoon, it soon becomes clear that the ghosts of his past can't be left behind so easily, and that the task Aria requires will cost him more than he could ever imagine.

The sudden death of a Hollywood actor during a production of 'King Lear' marks the beginning of the world's dissolution in a story told at various past and future times from the perspectives of the actor and four of his associates.

2014 National Book Award Finalist

A New York Times Bestseller

An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse,Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.

One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production ofKing Lear. Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur’s chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded and Jeevan and his brother barricade themselves inside an apartment, watching out the window as cars clog the highways, gunshots ring out, and life disintegrates around them.

Fifteen years later, Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony. Together, this small troupe moves between the settlements of an altered world, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. Written on their caravan, and tattooed on Kirsten’s arm is a line from Star Trek: “Because survival is insufficient.” But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who digs graves for anyone who dares to leave.

Spanning decades, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, this suspenseful, elegiac novel is rife with beauty. As Arthur falls in and out of love, as Jeevan watches the newscasters say their final good-byes, and as Kirsten finds herself caught in the crosshairs of the prophet, we see the strange twists of fate that connect them all. A novel of art, memory, and ambition,Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it.

The sudden death of a Hollywood actor during a production of 'King Lear' marks the beginning of the world's dissolution in a story told at various past and future times from the perspectives of the actor and four of his associates.

An audacious, darkly glittering novel set in the eerie days of civilization’s collapse, Station Eleven tells the spellbinding story of a Hollywood star, his would-be savior, and a nomadic group of actors roaming the scattered outposts of the Great Lakes region, risking everything for art and humanity.

One snowy night Arthur Leander, a famous actor, has a heart attack onstage during a production of King Lear. Jeevan Chaudhary, a paparazzo-turned-EMT, is in the audience and leaps to his aid. A child actress named Kirsten Raymonde watches in horror as Jeevan performs CPR, pumping Arthur’s chest as the curtain drops, but Arthur is dead. That same night, as Jeevan walks home from the theater, a terrible flu begins to spread. Hospitals are flooded and Jeevan and his brother barricade themselves inside an apartment, watching out the window as cars clog the highways, gunshots ring out, and life disintegrates around them.

Fifteen years later, Kirsten is an actress with the Traveling Symphony. Together, this small troupe moves between the settlements of an altered world, performing Shakespeare and music for scattered communities of survivors. Written on their caravan, and tattooed on Kirsten’s arm is a line from Star Trek: “Because survival is insufficient.” But when they arrive in St. Deborah by the Water, they encounter a violent prophet who digs graves for anyone who dares to leave.

Spanning decades, moving back and forth in time, and vividly depicting life before and after the pandemic, this suspenseful, elegiac novel is rife with beauty. As Arthur falls in and out of love, as Jeevan watches the newscasters say their final good-byes, and as Kirsten finds herself caught in the crosshairs of the prophet, we see the strange twists of fate that connect them all. A novel of art, memory, and ambition, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it.


From the Hardcover edition.

An audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame, and ambition set in the eerie days of civilization's collapse, from the author of three highly acclaimed previous novels.

One snowy night a famous Hollywood actor slumps over and dies onstage during a production of King Lear. Hours later, the world as we know it begins to dissolve. Moving back and forth in time-from the actor's early days as a film star to fifteen years in the future, when a theater troupe known as the Traveling Symphony roams the wasteland of what remains-this suspenseful, elegiac, spellbinding novel charts the strange twists of fate that connect five people: the actor, the man who tried to save him, the actor's first wife, his oldest friend, and a young actress with the Traveling Symphony, caught in the crosshairs of a dangerous self-proclaimed prophet. Sometimes terrifying, sometimes tender, Station Eleven tells a story about the relationships that sustain us, the ephemeral nature of fame, and the beauty of the world as we know it.

In this enthusiastic, heartfelt, and sometimes humorous ode to bookshops and booksellers, 84 known authors pay tribute to the brick-and-mortar stores they love and often call their second homes.

In My Bookstore our greatest authors write about the pleasure, guidance, and support that their favorite bookstores and booksellers have given them over the years. The relationship between a writer and his or her local store and staff can last for years or even decades. Often it's the author's local store that supported him during the early days of his career, that continues to introduce and hand-sell her work to new readers, and that serves as the anchor for the community in which he lives and works.

My Bookstore collects the essays, stories, odes and words of gratitude and praise for stores across the country in 81 pieces written by our most beloved authors. It's a joyful, industry-wide celebration of our bricks-and-mortar stores and a clarion call to readers everywhere at a time when the value and importance of these stores should be shouted from the rooftops.

Perfectly charming line drawings by Leif Parsons illustrate each storefront and other distinguishing features of the shops.

Contributing Authors and Bookstores Include:
Fannie Flagg—Page & Palette, Fairhope, AL
Rick Bragg—Alabama Booksmith, Homewood, AL
John Grisham—That Bookstore in Blytheville, Blytheville, AR
Ron Carlson—Changing Hands Bookstore, Tempe, AZ
Ann Packer—Capitola Book Café, Capitola, CA
Isabel Allende—Book Passage, Corte Madera, CA
Mahbod Seraji—Kepler’s Books, Menlo Park, CA
Lisa See—Vroman’s Bookstore, Pasadena, CA
Meg Waite Clayton—Books Inc., San Francisco, CA
Daniel Handler and Lisa Brown—The Booksmith, San Francisco, CA
Dave Eggers—Green Apple Books, San Francisco, CA
Pico Iyer—Chaucer’s Books, Santa Barbara, CA
Laurie R. King—Bookshop, Santa Cruz, CA
Scott Lasser—Explore Booksellers, Aspen, CO
Stephen White—Tattered Cover Book Store, Devner, CO
Kate Niles—Maria’s Bookshop, Durango, CO
Ann Haywood Leal—Bank Square Books, Mystic, CT
Florence and Wendell Minor—The Hickory Stick Bookshop, Washington Depot, CT
Rick Atkinson—Politics and Prose Bookstore, Washington, DC
Les Standiford—Books & Books, Coral Gables, FL
Robert Macomber—The Muse Book Shop, Deland, FL
David Fulmer—Eagle Eye Book Shop, Decatur, GA
Abraham Verghese—Prairie Lights, Iowa City, IA
Charlie Brandt—Chapter One Bookstore, Ketchum, ID
Luis Alberto Urrea—Anderson’s Bookshops, Naperville, IL
Mike Leonard—The Book Stall Chestnut Court, Winnetka, IL
Albert Goldbarth—Watermark Books, Wichita, KS
Wendell Berry—Carmichael’s Bookstore, Louisville, KY
Edith Pearlman—Brookline Booksmith, Brookline, MA
Mameve Medwed—Porter Square Books, Cambridge, MA
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.—Harvard Book Store, Cambridge, MA
Simon Winchester—The Bookloft, Great Barrington, MA
Nancy Thayer—Mitchell’s Book Corner, Nantucket, MA
Elin Hilderbrand—Nantucket Bookworks, Nantucket, MA
Jeanne Birdsall—Broadside Bookshop, Northampton, MA
Martha Ackmann—Odyssey Bookshop, South Hadley, MA
Ward Just—Bunch of Grapes Bookstore, Vineyard Haven, MA
Ron Currie, Jr.—Longfellow Books, Portland, ME
Nancy Shaw—Nicola’s Books, Ann Arbor, MI
Katrina Kittle—Saturn Booksellers, Gaylord, MI
Ann Patchett—Mclean & Eakin Booksellers, Petotskey, MI
Kathleen Finneran—Left Bank Books, St.Louis, MO
Barry Moser—Lemuria Books, Jackson, MS
Jill McCorkle—Flyleaf Books, Chapel Hill, NC
Carrie Ryan—Park Road Books, Charlotte NC
Laurent Dubois—The Regulator Bookshop, Durham, NC
Lee Smith—Purple Crow Books, Hillsborough, NC
Angela Davis-Gardner—Quail Ridge Books & Music, Raleigh, NC
Ron Rash—City L

Lilia Grace Albert ha viaggiato tutta la vita, cambiando costantemente luoghi e abitudini. E ripartita per nuove destinazioni talmente tante volte che non sa più come fermarsi. Rapita dal padre a sette anni, ha imparato a costruirsi un'identità fatta di tanti frammenti diversi che raccoglie con la sua inseparabile macchina fotografica. Adora la solitudine, e chi la conosce bene può figurarsela mentre cerca di cogliere l'immagine perfetta nel bel mezzo di un temporale. Ora sta lasciando New York, e con un bacio sulla fronte saluta il suo attuale compagno, ignaro che fra poco di lei rimarranno solo le impronte umide sul parquet. Questa è la vita di Lilia, e gli altri possono fare poco per cambiarla: si può forse ingabbiare la libertà? Ma cosa succede quando chi è abituato a fuggire farebbe di tutto per rimanere?