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Alicia has left her young son behind with her sister to chase a better life in London. But she’s not just chasing opportunity. She’s escaping the truth. And no one in her new life needs to know what she’s running from. At The Orbit — a glittering high-rise where the city’s elite come to play — Alicia waits tables and watches everything. She knows just how to blend in, how to charm, how to make people see what she wants them to see.

Stephen Fry brings the richness of these magical stories to life in the original British recordings, available for the first time in the United States and Canada. Treat your ears to a performance so rich and captivating you'll imagine yourself in the halls of Hogwarts. Wherever you listen, the unmistakable voice of Stephen Fry is guaranteed to guide you ever more deeply into this magical story and transport you to the heart of the adventure.

Winner of a 2009 Locus Award "The monstrous homogenization of our world has now almost destroyed the map, any map, by making every place on it exactly like every other place, and leaving no blanks. … As in the Mandelbrot fractal set, the enormously large and the infinitesimally small are...

A Major Quatermain Adventure When Major Quatermain receives a dying priest’s final confession, he is thrust into a deadly race across the globe. The prize? The lost Carpenter’s Table, an artifact said to have been crafted and marked by Jesus himself. Pursued by mercenaries, rival treasure hunters, and shadowy factions within the Vatican, Quatermain and his unlikely team of rogues and scholars must navigate ancient crypts, hidden vaults, and traps that have held their secrets for centuries. But when the table reveals something buried even deeper—a cache of scrolls that could rewrite ...

Enjoy this sweet firemen novel by small-town romance author Erin K. Wright… Tennessee Rowland is a perfect 10. A beauty queen. And way out of his league… Levi Scranton has been in love with Tenny for a long time – practically all his life. Too bad she’s a few thousand miles out of his league. The favorite daughter of the wealthiest man in town is the opposite of everything he is and everything he’s ever known. A guy like Levi should forget about the high-class blonde with the sassy smile. But Tenny has a secret… He’s got trouble written all over him… Tennessee knows she ...

Enjoy the first novel in this sweet firemen series by small-town romance author Erin K. Wright… A Wounded Hero… Firefighter Jaxson Anderson understands fire. Women? Not so much. He may’ve defied blazes that terrified lesser men, but he considers women the real danger. And he’d know, ’cause he’s been burned before. His priority is caring for his two small boys and making his mark as the new fire chief of Sawyer, but everything changes the day he catches sight of Sugar, the pretty girl who works at the local bakery. Well, it’s not like one friendly date is going to break ...

Tessalyn Ausra has been betrayed at every turn, but she’s also dealt betrayals of her own. With the consequences of her choices hanging over her, she’s done letting others define her purpose, but choosing that path could prove costly. Theon has sent her away, and Luka is wrestling with his own destiny, unsure if that still includes her. The rest of Tessa’s companions are wary now that everyone has tasted her vengeance and experienced her chaos. Maybe they should be. Maybe balance has always been an illusion.

When a reporter from D.C. is found murdered in the Florida Bayou, FBI agent Olivia Knight is called to the scene of the crime. It seems the victim had made a lot of enemies. Giving her a notorious reputation among those in the news industry. A reporter who went after the worst crime stories imaginable. She left behind a cryptic clue. Leading Olivia and Brock on a wild goose chase. Taking them down back-country roads to a small town. A town with a population of 500.

My name is Tamryn. I am a woman with a job, a home, and a mother who loves me. Not whole, but not quite incomplete, either. I have many faces, but they all want one thing: someone to protect me. Someone to love me. And then I find him... He's everything I ever thought I wanted. Handsome, suave, gentlemanly, my knight in shining armor, with a hand stretched out to make everything perfect. And everything is perfect, that is, until my true savior comes along and shows me just how broken I am, and works to piece me back together...

Dr. Margaret Richter has it all. She’s rich, thanks to her best-selling self-help books. She has a beautiful home in Cape Cod overlooking the beach. And she has a monthly book club that everyone is dying to get invited to. Literally. Because behind the crystal wine glasses, the fine linens and the catered hors d'oeuvres lies a tangled web of secrets, of deceit, of murder. No member of the book club is innocent—and many are guilty. And the person with the most to hide is Margaret Richter herself.

“Promises plenty of Borison’s signature banter, emotional nuance, and snowed-in charm.”—New York Times Two competing meteorologists are forced to find common ground in this opposites attract, When Harry Met Sally inspired romance, from #1 New York Times bestselling author B.K. Borison...

Stephen Fry brings the richness of these magical stories to life in the original British recordings, available for the first time in the United States and Canada. Treat your ears to a performance so rich and captivating you'll imagine yourself in the halls of Hogwarts. Wherever you listen, the unmistakable voice of Stephen Fry is guaranteed to guide you ever more deeply into this magical story and transport you to the heart of the adventure.

Treat your ears to a performance so rich and captivating you'll imagine yourself in the halls of Hogwarts. Wherever you listen, the unmistakable voice of Stephen Fry is guaranteed to guide you ever more deeply into this magical story and transport you to the heart of the adventure.

Treat your ears to a performance so rich and captivating you'll imagine yourself in the halls of Hogwarts. Wherever you listen, the unmistakable voice of Stephen Fry is guaranteed to guide you ever more deeply into this magical story and transport you to the heart of the adventure.

In the 25th century, humankind has spread throughout the galaxy, monitored by the watchful eye of the U.N. While divisions in race, religion, and class still exist, advances in technology have redefined life itself. Now, assuming one can afford the expensive procedure, a person's consciousness can be stored in a cortical stack at the base of the brain and easily downloaded into a new body (or "sleeve") making death nothing more than a minor blip on a screen.

Stephen Fry brings the richness of these magical stories to life in the original British recordings, available for the first time in the United States and Canada. Treat your ears to a performance so rich and captivating you'll imagine yourself in the halls of Hogwarts. Wherever you listen, the unmistakable voice of Stephen Fry is guaranteed to guide you ever more deeply into this magical story and transport you to the heart of the adventure.

Humanity has finally reached beyond the edge of everything it knows. When Captain Jonathan Voss takes command of the Relentless, a scarred, aging survey ship with a crew of strangers and a mission no one can afford to lose, the job seems simple: go farther than any human vessel has gone before, gather data, and come home. But deep space has its own rules.

The last time I spoke was eight years ago when my best friend tried to kill me. I never dreamed my silence would break with a scream. Being sent to Chapel Crest after my new stepfather deemed me a heathen seemed like a blessing compared to staying with him and my mom. I was a mute demon in his eyes, and when the rod didn’t beat the evil out of me, he prayed Chapel Crest could. I envisioned the religious academy would become my sanctuary. I was wrong. So very wrong. Chapel Crest was an asylum moonlighting as a religious school.

When 10-year-old cousins Maddy and Brianna are arrested for a terrible crime, Maddy’s mother, Juliet, cannot believe it. How could her bright, joyful daughter be capable of such a thing? As the small village community recoils in horror, the pressure of the tragedy blows Juliet and her sister’s lives apart. And things get even worse when their daughters retreat into a self-imposed silence. Can anyone reach Maddy and discover the truth before her fate is sealed? Juliet is crushed. Nothing will ever be the same for her darling girl.

A poetic, darkly funny memoir of one woman’s trip across the national parks straight into life-threatening illness and the joy that still holds us, no matter how much life hurts. “Unapologetically raw, defiantly humorous, this book is the bravest of journeys. . . . A memoir that makes no...