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Spiggot is catapulted into his second worst nightmare when, on a stakeout to catch criminal mastermind, his soul is sent by means of an ancient artifact into a mad axe murderer's body, who is held captive in a maximum security residential hospital for the criminally insane... Sheez, you couldn't make it up. His only hope of redemption is to rely on his partner to help catch the villain. The trouble is he's in a nutcase's body, Trout didn't like him in the first place, he's got an insane copper after him and he's afraid of pirates.

The piano was a gift, a symbol of enduring love, but from the moment she began playing it, Melody's nights became filled with terrifying visions. Visions of an ancient city in ruins where the streets run red with blood and winged creatures watch lustfully from high above. Visions of murder, betrayal, and madness. She knows that her night terrors are inextricably entangled with the piano and its troubling history, but she must keep playing...searching for that one melody that will quiet the haunting voice that threatens her very sanity.

When a flurry of forgeries appear in museums and among collectors, the members of the Agora, a society dedicated to the betterment of man, take it upon themselves to stop the rogues. But among the members, there is a traitor. Among the forgers, there is a murderer. As friends betray their own and souls are sentenced to death, suspicions and tensions mount. Only one man, Carl Brooke, has the knowledge and expertise to stop the murderer. But will he succeed?

In a broken world there exists a strange and sinister eating establishment unlike anything known or imagined - referred to in some quarters as Cafe Grotesquerie - where only the most discriminating and well-connected are privileged enough to enter its doors and devour its dark delicacies. Once inside, however, status still reigns supreme, and for one particular couple - Audrey and Aubrey - a hunger for power proves far more desirable than anything on the menu. But when confronted by the suspicious disappearance of their waiter, and civilization collapsing all around them, will they even be able to make it through dessert?

Seventeen year old Ceres, a beautiful, poor girl in the Empire city of Delos, lives the harsh and unforgiving life of a commoner. By day she delivers her father's forged weapons to the palace training grounds, and by night she secretly trains with them, yearning to be a warrior in a land where girls are forbidden to fight. With her pending sale to slavehood, she is desperate.

England, 1813. Damon de Wolfe, the sixth marquess of Morninghall, is dark, diabolical, and very, very dangerous. Tortured by his past and driven by his desire for revenge, the former naval hero has fallen from grace after infuriating his superiors. When beautiful and independent social reformer Lady Gwyneth Evans Simms dares to clash with him over mistreated prisoners, she unwittingly throws herself into the most perilous fight of her life.

Mark fears that his wife is cheating on him. Over the past couple of weeks, she has been growing more and more distant and shudders at his very touch. Determined to keep his new marriage afloat, he confronts her only to find the truth of the situation is far more horrific than he could have ever envisioned.

Jute can break into any house, climb any wall, and steal anything - and he just got hired for what he thinks is an easy burglary job. The only problem is, if he succeeds, the Thieves Guild is going to murder him. He just doesn't know that. Not yet. Being a thief always came easy for him, but it's a lot harder now, particularly when everyone wants him dead. Hiding out in the city of Hearne, Jute finds some strange allies in an old wizard and a talking hawk. Together, they uncover an ancient secret of terrifying power.

Handsome, wily Irish privateer Captain Brendan Jay Merrick is running from a painful past - and fighting for a new nation's future when he arrives in the colonial town of Newburyport, Massachusetts, with plans for shipwright Ephraim Ashton to build his magnificent new schooner.

A tale of space exploration interspersed with nail-biting action (or something very much like that). A ripping yarn told from the point of view of them who went there. "I tried to imagine a situation where a cast of several, are in fact one and the same. An individual trapped alone in space surrounded by versions of themselves, each with their own separate opinions. If it takes a village to raise a child, it would at least take a handful to trek through space (even if only imaginary).

Lieutenant Liam Doherty has spent his life in the shadow of his famous friend Captain Brendan Merrick. Now in his sunset years, the Irish mariner is content to watch over his late friend's family and live his life with carefree abandon. He doesn't want change, and he doesn't need shaking up. But there's that widow down in Baltimore he just can't forget....

Mount Panorama in Bathurst, Australia, was the track that made his father a legend. Now, Bill Watson must overcome more than just his own fears as he and his family face adversity and sudden loss. A tale of rising again and again, this multigenerational story of heroism, love, and loss takes listeners on an edge-of-your-seat journey into the world of auto racing, the family we meet along the way, and the trials we must navigate...all while racing at 200 mph.

Jake Loring is an American student living in the city during the turbulent march to revolution. Torn between the safety of going home to America and the passionate adventure of joining the Resistance, Jake foolhardily follows Paris into violent madness and soon finds himself being blackmailed by the Sphinx-like Monsieur Tyran to search for the Crimson Heirlooms...or die trying.

Blackheath Castle, England, 1781. It’s been almost two years since Lady Nerissa de Montforte left her childhood home in England to make a life with the dashing Irish rogue Captain Ruaidri O’ Devir in distant Massachusetts. Now that her powerful eldest brother has cleared the way for Nerissa, once declared a traitor, to return to Blackheath Castle with her husband and child, a wonderful homecoming awaits her—or does it?

The day, April 30, 1945, marked an end of sorts in the Third Reich. The last business day before a national holiday, and then a series of transfers of power, April 30, was a day filled with contradictions and bewildering events that would for ever define global history. It was on this day that while the Red Army occupied Berlin, Hitler committed suicide in his underground bunker, and, in San Francisco, the United Nations was being founded.

As many times before, Dual’s impulsive nature and reckless actions had contributed to him being flung into what was to be an almost-certain death. This story picks up largely where we left him, detailing the many twists and turns of his quite ludicrous escape(s) and subsequent more misadventures. Dual Geller was a man for whom to "stop and think" were things that "other people" did. "Other people", possibly less equipped with his superhuman-like luck, guile, and expertise.

In the last bastion of humanity, life was not all a bed of roses. On a seemingly unimportant Wednesday morning, in a seemingly unimportant dwelling, an actually unimportant inhabitant was rudely awakened…

Caught in time, Meryn watches on as his world burns. The lord's daughter, Avalyne, disappears while traveling to visit her betrothed. Tick is thrown into prison after being accused of stealing. Meryn’s broken leg leads to the discovery of a strange new ability….The kingdom erupts into seemingly unrelated chaos, and the king’s guard are left fighting an uprising of disguised insurgents—pretenders in their ranks. For all that is good, the king’s guard must get to the bottom of the dark plot of the Black Hand and save the kingdom before it’s too late.

In 1985, 20 Harvard seniors form a nefarious cabal known only as The Infinity Order. For the next 35 years, they work their way into the highest levels of the federal government, watching and waiting until one of their members rises to the office of the presidency. Once in control of the levers of power they plan to dramatically remake US monetary policy and usher in a free-spending economic utopia. Should they succeed, the consequences for the nation would be catastrophic and irreversible.

Alexander Kluge’s work has long grappled with the Third Reich and its aftermath, and the extermination of the Jews forms its gravitational center. Kluge is forever reminding us to keep our present catastrophes in perspective—"calibrated"—against this historical monstrosity. Kluge’s newest work is a book about bitter fates, both already known and yet to unfold. Above all, it is about the many kinds of organized machinery built to destroy people.