In a vast underground cage, forty women are held without explanation, guarded by silent men who never speak. Among them is a young girl who has never known life beyond captivity and has never known men. When a sudden rupture breaks the routine, she is forced into a world as empty and unforgiving as her prison. This spare, unsettling novel follows her struggle to understand freedom, memory, and what it means to be human when history, language, and desire have been stripped away. I Who Have Never Known Men is a quiet, haunting meditation on isolation, survival, and the fragile structures that give life meaning.

Set in the far-eastern Russian city of Vladivostok, the novel follows Natalie, a costume designer working with a circus trio as they prepare for their most daring stunt yet. Through quiet days and small moments around the city, she grows closer to the performers and their enigmatic manager. Atmospheric, elegantly written, and quietly mesmerizing, Vladivostok Circus is a novel to be experienced rather than dissected. Its plot may appear simple at first glance, but the book itself is anything but.

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't is a management book by Jim C. Collins that describes how companies transition from being good companies to great companies, and how most companies fail to make the transition. The book was a bestseller, selling four million copies and going far beyond the traditional audience of business books.