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Donovan Candle is boring. Consummate husband, supportive brother, hard-working employee - a paragon of the diminishing middle class. Like so many others, he has fallen into routine and compromised his dreams for the sake of a paycheck. After a bad day at the office leaves him low, all Donovan wants is to sleep off the disappointment and start over. Donovan Candle is terrified. His body is fading out of existence. He’s seeing strange visions of the world in monochrome and horrific creatures lurking in his periphery.

Twenty-two-year old Boone Daniels has problems, debilitating panic attack, gut-wrenching guilt, a wendigo haunting him since age six, and now he almost killed his best friend in a joust. But when he fills in for his injured friend at a New York gig, he goes to meet the gig’s contact at his NYC brownstone. A body falls from the brownstone balcony and the place explodes with gun fire. Boone barely escapes but uncovers a sinister plot to perform a rare Paganini piece that summons the Devil to trap Baba Yaga and destroy modern-day New York City.

Herman isn’t like other teens his age. He isn’t like the academic elite, the geeky students who get all the grades and are adored by their teachers. He isn’t like the extroverts, the socially adept and popular kids who never want for anything and always have a shoulder to cry on. And he isn’t like the bullies, the ones who taunt and beat him on a daily basis. Herman isn’t like any of his peers, or indeed anyone he knows. The person Herman identifies with the most, the person he idolizes and yearns to be, is The Butcher, a brutal and prolific serial killer.

John Puram, the smart kid in 4th grade, is going to spend the day on a school field trip. It’s going to be fun, and he’s excited about visiting the museum. But the day starts off with one of John’s toys coming to life and the real adventure begins with more excitement than he could imagine!

Somehow, my drunken decree making Liam Evans my best friend works, and we decide to open a food truck together - The Dump Truck - a late-night junk food truck servicing the broken-hearted. With our new business venture and the rocky relationship between his brother and my sister, a friendship between us is as far as it can go...until a national broadcast claims that we’re a couple.

It was supposed to be a relaxing vacation to Rome. Then, the pandemic hit. Now, I’m quarantined in an empty hotel until things blow over. But considering who’s in the room next to mine, things could be a lot worse. Donovan Russo is the full package. Tall, tan, and stupidly handsome. It started when I traded him a bottle of wine for fresh pasta, but now, we’re using any excuse to hang out together.

A crazed terrorist. A rogue submarine. A nuclear bomb and a plan to wreak havoc and destruction upon the American coastline and murder millions of innocent people. US Navy Lieutenant Daniel Totter, “Teeter” to his friends, is a reluctant hero, but the one man who can stop the coming maelstrom of death and destruction. Aided by a secret agent, he races to discover the terrorist’s target, but time and a sudden war in the Middle East force him to take drastic action that pushes the US into a confrontation on the high seas with the Chinese Navy.

The politics of love are brutal. But it doesn't really matter either way, because this plan was set in stone a long time ago by the ones who hold all the power. Reese Pinkarver and Grayson T. Lash, III, will marry and merge the political dynasties of the honorable presidential legacies into which they were born. A destiny so much bigger than the both of us. With all the rewards that come with it...to the tune of a billion-dollar trust fund.

Earth was being watched from afar...by creatures far greater than man...and which coveted what man possessed. The War of the Worlds is invasion literature at its finest. H.G. Wells' popular classic has never been out of print, and is presented here in a stunning new, modern edition. Bonnem's insightful narration runs the gamut of emotions, simultaneously communicating both the horror of events and the innate humanity of this timeless tale.

Some people collect lucky rabbit’s feet. Apparently I collect lucky boyfriends. So when my luck changes after run-ins with three gorgeous guys? I’m not sure which one is the source of my newfound fortune.

Blood on the Table is a blend of darkness, sex, and violence, with characters who are far from perfect and often are their own worst enemies. Spence takes the listener to savage back-country Wyoming, where an 11-year-old boy must take the witness stand against a vicious prosecutor, corrupt police, and a prejudiced judge to keep his family safe.

At the end of the 1930s, Europe is engulfed in war. Though America is far from the fighting, the streets of New York have become a battlefield. Anti-Semitic and racist groups spread hate. Josef Klein, a German immigrant, remains immune to the troubles roiling his adopted city. Josef’s great passion is the radio. His skill and technical abilities attract the attention of influential men who offer him a job as a shortwave operator. But when Josef begins to understand what they’re doing, it’s too late....

A mass-shooter rages through Chicago in the days after Christmas. Brutal. Efficient. He etches a path of destruction through the city. Shooting up the mall. Opening fire in traffic. Rampaging through a movie theater. That's just his opening act. FBI profiler Victor Loshak heads to the windy city to investigate and finds himself swept up in a frenzied manhunt.

Michael Coniglio is at his wit's end. His girlfriend, Angela, announces in front of the local coffee shop crowd that she has a new lover. The emotional fallout leads him to lose his office job, giving his boss the long-awaited excuse to fire him. Michael goes home to his parents looking for support and professes his childhood dream only for his father to remind Michael that he will never amount to anything. Just as Michael is about to give up on life, he meets a woman who changes everything.

Shared by a professor, a football player, and an engineer? I never thought grad school would be so much fun.

Some conspiracy theories turn out to be true. FBI profiler Victor Loshak works a brutal murder case in Watertown, New York - a woman found strangled in her basement, her face gone purple and baggy. But as he sifts through the crime scene details, his mind keeps drifting back to Kansas City, his last job. The human trafficking case there ended in something of a cliffhanger, and it's a loose end that everyone else in law enforcement seems in no hurry to tie up. The truth is out there. Always just out of reach.

Leonora Gelb came to Peru to make a difference. A passionate and idealistic Stanford grad, she left a life of privilege to fight poverty and oppression, but her beliefs are tested when she falls in with violent revolutionaries. While death squads and informants roam the streets and suspicion festers among the comrades, Leonora plans a decisive act of protest - until her capture in a bloody government raid, and a sham trial that sends her to prison for life.

When Lieutenant Gerald Yamato of the Republic of California Air Force bailed out of his doomed fighter he had no idea he would land in a culture that would forever change his life. The Dene thought they had won their independence and the war was over. Suddenly they face an advancing Russian army from one direction, a merciless band of mercenaries from another, as well as the remnants of a defeated, angry, Russian army between the Dene and the rest of their people.

Alaska, 1989. In a world where Alaska is still a Russian possession, charter captain Grigorivich Plesnett has a stained past - as a major in the Czar's Troika Guard, he was cashiered for disobeying a direct order. Now, 10 years later, Grig charters out to a cossack and discovers his past has not only caught up with him but is about to violently change his future, and the future of all nine of the nations of North America as well. Spanning Alaska from the Southeastern Inside Passage to the frozen Yukon, this is an epic tale of one man's journey of redemption and courage.

Hannah Morgan is a content producer for internet sensation and millionaire playboy, Mathew Albrecht. When she discovers his possible ties to a global terrorist organisation, her investigation becomes more troubling the deeper she goes. Could her client’s involvement also be linked to the death of her husband years earlier or is it something more sinister? Enlisting two ex-military guns for hire, a young hacker and her dead husband's AI, Hannah must confront the demons of her past to save the future.