A Developmental Science of Stories from Fiction and Real LifeIn recent years, gold-standard experimental evidence on the benefits of reading fiction has exploded. Why do we love stories from books, TV and movies, and videogames? What do fictional stories have...

"Every chance he gets, Canadian author and experienced hunter and tramper, Greg Ross returns to his favorite playgrounds in the Southern Alps of New Zealand.Join him for this retelling of his favorite alpine dreams and his worst alpine nightmare along with...

Bunny McGarry is back - and he'd really like a nice holiday. Somewhere with hot weather and cold drinks that come with little umbrellas for reasons he never understood. A certain nun has other ideas though and instead, he finds himself dispatched to London to...

Fourth Wing meets The Hunger Games in this spicy, page-turning romantasy where humans and direwolves forge unbreakable bonds and fight for survival at all costs. Only the worthy survive the Bonding Trials. She'll risk her life - and her heart - to be one of...

SOME PROMISES SHOULD NEVER BE MADE...'A monster of a book...a vast, brimstoned, relentless zinger' NICK HARKAWAYBookish dreamer Arthur Oakes is a student at Rackham College, Maine, renowned for its frosty winters and beautiful buildings.But his idyll - and...

Ruth is trapped. She s stuck in her small, religious hometown of Kill Devil, Kentucky, stuck in the closet, and stuck living paycheck to paycheck. After her manager finds out that she lives with her girlfriend, Ruth is fired from her job at New Creations a...

Hunger makes monsters in this dark new tale in Nghi Vo's Hugo Award-winning Singing Hills Cycle. "Nghi Vo is so good."-NPR on The Brides of High Hill Wandering Cleric Chih of Singing Hills and their hoopoe companion Almost Brilliant come to the river town of...

From the co-author of the viral New York Times bestseller This is How You Lose the Time War.... Great powers clash and epic action unfolds in book three of the Craft Wars series. The time until the endtimes is ticking away. If the world has any hope to...

For readers of Oyinkan Braithwaite's My Sister the Serial Killer and Bella Mackie's How to Kill Your Family, this is a monstrous, gleeful, bitingly funny tale of murder, body-swapping and bloody vengeance from the recipient of the Bram Stoker Award (R) for...

For readers of Adrienne Young, Olivie Blake, Erin Sterling, Hazel Beck, and Leigh Bardugo's Ninth House, a spellbinding debut about ambition, privilege, second chance romance, and ancient magic set at an enchanted school tucked among the red mesas of rural New...

Across four disconnected timelines, a freelance writer, a Tibetan Buddhist monk, a Latin tutor, and a science teacher hold subconscious secrets. Events in their lives make them question their deep-seated beliefs. Mysterious women could hold the key to finding...

DARKNESS ALWAYS FINDS ITS WAY BACK. As Fey wage hopeless war against the oncoming storm of mortal conquest, Fairfax Manor lies in ruins. The first witches of Blackthorn forged the ancient fortress from their very souls to keep those of their bloodline safe....

Shirley Jackson and Nebula Award finalist author Eden Royce pens a Southern Gothic historical fantasy story of a contentious funeral in her adult fiction debut. Phee St. Margaret is a daughter of the Reconstruction, born to a family of free Black business...

The Empire scorns all invisible gods.The Empire kills all visible ones.The Empire continues to enforce its rule with war machines that destroy even gods and monsters, leaving the conquered with nothing to worship or fear except the might of the Empire. But...

'The Sword Triumphant is a brilliant and fitting conclusion to a truly epic series' Ed McDonald, author of Blackwing'Tell the Lammergeier that Blaise has need of him for one last service. Tell him to bring his sword.'In his youth, Aelfric slew the Dark Lord...

A brand-new scorching contemporary romance series by USA Today bestselling author Sara Cate. His praise is forbidden-his touch irresistible Jack St. Claire is desperate. A grieving single father, he buries himself in his work-running a brand-new kink club in...

I've been alone long enough.As a chart-topping country singer, I'm living the dream. While my family is all back in Austin, embracing their happily-ever-afters, I'm on the road on a sold-out tour.I should feel ecstatic, yet all I am is lonely.Maybe that's why...

'Tourist Season is everything I loved about the Ruinous Love Series and MORE - MORE murdery arts and crafts, MORE spice, MORE plot twists, MORE serial killers per capita than any town should ever have and I'm SO here for it' ABBY JIMENEZFrom No.1 New York...

A delicious Regency romance filled with passion, sacrifice and the redemptive power of love.Will they risk everything to be together?War changes a man, and Captain Harry Marlow is no exception. Haunted by the horrors of the Crimean War, he now spends his time...

A delightfully heartwarming, uplifting novel set in the Scottish Highlands, perfect for fans of Jenny Colgan, Heidi Swain and Julie Shackman.Never take broken for an answer...When her career stalls and her boyfriend betrays her, Ally McIntyre's dreams shatter...

The BRAND NEW gorgeously funny romance from Aimee BrownCould a blast from the past be the secret ingredient to their future?Asher Wright has spent his career creating and concocting the perfect dishes and is about to open his very own restaurant. Life is good....

You've Got Mail meets The Hating Game! Vying for a promotion against a bitter rival as the only female data analyst for a professional baseball team, Emmy finds solace in the text-flirting relationship that started as a wrong number exchange-unaware that the...

I've been quiet long enough.I'm nothing like my brothers. I've devoted my life to my work, and I don't care about God or family.I live alone, and I like it that way. Soon, I'll have the job of my dreams far away from this place, and that's all that...

I've been faithful long enough.I never claimed to be a good man, but I've always done what was expected of me. Find a nice girl. Get married. Have children. That was my duty as a good Christian man. And everything was going as planned when I met Briar....

I've been good long enough.As the eldest son of Austin's most prominent preacher, I've lived my life on the virtuous side. No scandals. Flawless image. Clean reputation. That's the way it must be if I'm going to take his place someday.But everything changes...

'You knew I'd write a book about you someday' Our narrator understands good love stories - their secrets, their highs and free falls. But her greatest love story, the one she lived, never followed the rules. She was in her senior year of college when star...

"A must-read for fans of historical fiction and anyone who values the deep connections that shape our lives." --Suzanne Woods Fisher, best-selling author of Capture the Moment In 1948, Zion National Park ranger Henry Eriksson and his wife, Alma, are less than...

'You are a writer, aren't you? I have a story for you.''I'm working on my own story, and-''It's a true story, not one of those made-up, pointless whatever it is that you people write.''It's called fiction, and though I appreciate that you want...

Isolation can be hard on a person. It can be hard on the mind, especially when the bush closes in on you in the darkness of night. In the tin fields of Far North Queensland, Sarah, a fly-in-fly-out geologist, is working alone at a remote mine site. She...

"Spellbinding, wonderfully atmospheric, and impossible to forget." -Sarah Jessica Parker, SJP Lit "A lush, sexy, absorbing novel that brings to life two artists who are inextricably linked in passion and competition." -Melissa Febos, author of The Dry Season...

Sir Tony Robinson - actor, presenter, historical expert and star of Blackadder and Time Team - makes his adult fiction debut with this earthy, entertaining and gloriously witty recreation of the Anglo-Saxons, Alfred the Great, and the making of England....

London, 1918: the war in Europe may be drawing to an end, but there are new challenges for the Foyles bookshop girls.As their dreams of the war ending look like they might finally come true, the girls of London's Foyles bookshop allow themselves to look...

In the hills of Tennessee, two women work at a Manhattan Project site during World War II and uncover truths that irrevocably change their lives in this captivating new story from award-winning Southern fiction author Michelle Shocklee. 1944. Maebelle Willett...

From the award-winning author of We Ride Upon Sticks and When I'm Gone, Look for Me in the East, a genre-bending novel of literary horror set in Antarctica that explores abandonment, guilt, and survival in the shadow of America's racial legacyStriker isn't...

New York Times bestselling author Daniel M. Lavery returns to the world of Women's Hotel in this delightful and heartwarming novella about one especially lively Christmastime at the Biedermeier. Christmas at the Biedermeier Hotel means work. For much of the...

'One of the few truly life changing books I've encountered' Torrey Peters, bestselling author of Detransition, Baby Fleeing Tucson and her troublesome on-and-off ex-girlfriend, Michelle lands in queer San Francisco's riotous underbelly, stumbling through her...

In this debut, for fans of J. Courtney Sullivan and Mary Beth Keane, three adult sisters grapple with a shared tragedy over a Thanksgiving weekend as they try to heal strained family bonds through the passage of time. It's been years since the three Ryan...

It's always three, isn't it? Three furies, three fates, three graces. Science still has no explanation for the number three, but women instinctively feel its power. We don't know why three works, but we know it does. Three is the number that gets the job done....

"This book is brutal, deep, cunning and unbearably beautiful"- The Independent A blistering, original thriller that examines the powerful link between identity, sacrifice, and possession, as a Black university professor plans a burglary to "liberate" an...

In 2018, a young forensic scientist, homesick and adrift in the North of England, is heading to a coroner's office to identify a body. But this body, found in a moss-layered bog, is not like any Agnes has ever seen: its bones prove it was buried more than two...

Jack Sanborn Has Been ChosenIn 2044, America is on the brink-its government locked in a merciless, endless shutdown. The nation's economy is in free fall. With no hope of compromise, the silent majority finally reaches its tipping point.When Jack Sanborn, a...

On an otherwise ordinary fall day on a university campus in Chicago, the toddler son of an ambitious divinity school professor named Adrian Bennett mysteriously starts to glow. The nimbus, as the strange, soft light comes to be known, offers no clues to its...

Lili is Crying, Helene Bessette's debut novel, explores the fraughtness and depth of the troubling relationship between Lili and her mother Charlotte. With a near-mythic quality, Bessette's stripped-back prose evokes at once the pain of thwarted love - of...

A provincial ambulance drives through the night in search of a hospital, a fifth-rate actor goes method as a hitman on a sweltering rooftop, a legendary knife fighter is found working on the factory floor of a northern village. Hunter's stories of deceptive,...

A tragic accident in paradise ... or a calculated crime? After her parents' death in a car crash two years ago, Eve is back in the tumbledown family house on Magnetic Island, surrounded by nosy neighbours, an over-friendly possum and a cast of eccentric...

After working up the courage to contact Gwendolyn Lord, Cameron Winter finds himself immersed in a heaven-sent passion. When Gwendolyn tells him about a true-life "locked room mystery", Winter is compelled to investigate. In Tulsa, Oklahoma, Owen McKay...

A BRAND-NEW, twisty and heart-wrenching psychological thriller from international bestseller Jill ChildsFans of Lisa Jewell, KL Slater and Freida McFadden will love this gripping and emotional psychological thriller about a missing child.A mother will stop at...

Nancy Drew meets Yellowjackets in We Had a Hunch--a dark and suspenseful thriller from USA Today bestseller Tom Ryan that asks a simple question: what happens to your favorite teenage detectives when they grow up?Few stories captured the public's imagination...

A BRAND NEW gripping, gangland thriller from Kerry Kaya that will have your heart in your mouth from the very first page!Blood binds, betrayal burns...Reeling from the savage murder of his youngest brother Dylan, Damien Vickers wants answers. His first stop is...

In the latest Melanie Travis Canine Mystery from Laurien Berenson, Melanie has her hands full with her family and her Standard Poodles, but when a breeder and exhibitor of Great Danes dies under suspicious circumstances, she also has a big mystery to solve . ....

Heiress Prudence MacKenzie and ex-Pinkerton Geoffrey Hunter are about to become more than partners as investigators-they are to be wed at Trinity Church in Lower Manhattan. But a killer has designs on ruining the wedding as well as their lives . . . AUGUST...

Agatha Christie's trusted housekeeper, Phyllida Bright, has become an amateur sleuth in her own right, using her little grey cells to solve crimes. When a party game leads to murder, she decides to crash the investigation in this latest sparkling mystery from...

It was a dark, rainy night at Nora Pennington's Miracle Books when a mysterious death brings the Secret, Book, and Scone Society into the Halloween season on the trail of a murderer . . . As the residents of Miracle Springs, North Carolina, select their...

In the latest installment in the beloved Shady Hollow series, everyone's favorite vulpine investigator Vera Vixen must contend with a cold-hearted killer-and the ghost of her own past. It's a crisp, cool autumn in Shady Hollow, and preparations are underway...

1854, Edinburgh. Respectable faces hide private sins. Apprentice Sarah Fisher is helping to fund Dr Will Raven's emerging medical practice in exchange for being secretly trained as a medic, should the rules barring women ever change. Sarah needs no...

For fans of The Crown, Young Victoria, and all things British royalty is a new mystery set in 1830s London and starring none other than the young Princess Victoria - future Queen of England - as a rebellious amateur sleuth. For fans of The Crown, Young...

Buried secrets, environmental disaster, and a legacy of corruption hit too close to home when a California native and her family make a fresh start in small-town Texas-and find trouble just beneath the promising surface in this powerful novel for readers of...

A deranged, vicious psychopath has gone on a child-killing spree in London. MI5 thinks the killer might be connected to the secret Nabatean society. They call in the world's expert on the Nabateans, Carter Devereux. While Carter is in London, working with...

FBI K-9 handler Meg Jennings can never walk away from her job, even amid her Hawaiian Islands honeymoon, where she and her search-and-rescue black Lab encounter a double threat from wildlife poachers and Mother Nature. After a difficult assignment and the...

US Army Garrison Patch Barracks, near Stuttgart, Germany, 2 a.m., January 11Sentries at the Main Gate of Patch Barracks had turned away the last of the local Fasching revelers an hour or so before, laughingly joking with them that the Barracks were too quiet...

What if everything we know about history is wrong? Archaeologist Carter Devereux's research leads him to an unsettling conclusion: our ancestors may have been far more advanced than we ever imagined. Following an ancient trail across South America,...

Carter Devereux's idyllic world had been shattered and catapulted into chaos, and with it, the fate of humanity itself. With a traitor in their midst who seems to stay one step ahead of them, it is a race against time for Carter Devereux and a team of Special...

In the year 106 AD, when the Roman legions marched on their capital at Petra, the Nabateans surrendered their empire to the Romans, without a fight, and according to historians ceased to exist.But very few knew that the Nabateans didn't cease to exist, they...

Desperate times call for desperate measures.When a threat to the new era of global peace looms on the horizon, the government needs all the help it can get.Adrian Hell is no one's last resort. He's their only option.Still reeling from the events in Tokyo that...

Two deadly killers are on a collision course, and San Francisco is their battleground.The city is under siege, held hostage by a dangerous psychopath with only one demand:Bring me Adrian Hell.It's been a year since the explosive events in Nevada. Adrian has...

He found peace. He found happiness. Now he must find the truth.An unseen enemy is pushing the world to the brink of war.The greatest threat we have ever known just landed on the wrong doorstep.For two years, Adrian Hell has enjoyed his retirement. But one...

_____________________________________________________________The #1 international bestselling thriller from James P. Sumner._____________________________________________________________An impossible target. A necessary kill.Adrian Hell has nothing to lose......

You can't outrun your past unless you bury it for good.A twist of fate puts Adrian Hell in the crosshairs of the Yakuza.Pushed beyond his limits, he will unleash a side of himself no one has seen before.Two years on from the heart-breaking events in Thicker...

His greatest challenge. His final fight.Everything Adrian Hell knew was a lie.Now, he must discover the truth before it's too late.In the aftermath of Critical Strike, Adrian's world was shattered when he came face-to-face with someone he had long thought...

Water runs deep. Blood runs deeper.Faced with a target he cannot kill, Adrian Hell must fight for his life against the people who once saved it.They made it personal. Now he will make them pay.Reunited with allies under the most difficult of circumstances,...

A lethal assassin seeks peace, but first, he must confront the ghosts of his past and the man who shattered his world.Adrian Hell, a hitman haunted by tragedy, believes his time in the underworld is coming to an end. But before he can find solace, he must...

No choice. No way out.Believed to be dead, Adrian Hell now fights for a new cause, knowing he can never go back to his old life.But death might have been the better option.As the world recovers from the shocking events in A Necessary Kill, Adrian is living a...

In a world on the brink of a new Cold War, a legendary assassin becomes the hunted. Adrian Hell, a master of his craft, accepts a contract to eliminate a corrupt businessman. But as he delves deeper into his target's life, he realizes that the truth is more...

All children should be safe from harm... Someone didn't get the message. Life hasn't slowed down for Professor Delaney McPhearson since becoming the ring bearer. For months, she, Henry Chandler, and Jake Rogan have been tracking down camps of teenage...

Revelations, death and destiny. These three forces have shaped Delaney McPhearson's life for the last two years. But the greatest revelation is yet to come... and the greatest sacrifice. Eons ago, a powerful relic was hidden to protect humanity. If it's...

Samyaza's death wasn't the end of the war. It was the beginning of a whole new fight. Since Samyaza's death, Delaney McPhearson has been pulled from one crisis to the next. Fires flare up across the globe, each one demanding her attention. At the same time,...

An ancient threat has re-emerged. And the clock is ticking on a whole new battlefront. Six months after the devastating events at Heaven's Gate, Delaney McPhearson is still reeling. While Henry Chandler and Jake Rogan are physically healing, Laney knows some...

An ancient monolith. A deadly secret. One chance to save humanity. Professor Delaney McPhearson's world is shattered when her best friend, archaeologist Drew Masters, is found dead. Before she can grieve, her life takes a terrifying turn-she's attacked in her...

An ancient power stirs. A shadowed threat rises. And Laney's greatest battle is yet to come. Delaney McPhearson has faced danger after danger. With every battle, she's lost more than she thought she could bear. But there is always more to lose. For the...

Delaney McPhearson is the only one who can save a world on the brink of madness. But to save everyone else, she must make the ultimate sacrifice. Since the coronation, Delaney has been pulled from one crisis to the next, never getting a moment to catch her...

This time, it's not her choice to fight... it's her destiny. In the last two years, Professor Delaney McPhearson has uncovered two Atlantis sites. Now, life has finally calmed down, and all she wants is to enjoy a peaceful life with Jake Rogan, the man she...

An ancient cache of knowledge. A ruthless modern strike team. A race for survival. Professor Delaney McPhearson is back in the second gripping installment of the best-selling Belial Series. Deep in the forests of Ecuador, rumors of a legendary...

Centuries before Delaney's fight, a brave group of women stood against the darkness-and paid the ultimate price. The fight to defend the world from the Fallen didn't begin with Delaney, it began centuries ago. One of the earliest and most harrowing tests of...

Samyaza is done planning. She is done waiting. She is done hiding. It's the final showdown. Elisabeta, a strategist of the highest caliber, has unleashed a new level of brutality, one that even Delaney McPhearson struggles to comprehend. Everyone insists...

Lou thought she'd lost everything that mattered to her. She still has one thing left to lose... her life. Life hasn't been easy for fifteen-year-old Lou Thomas. In just a few years, her once-happy family has been reduced to her and her unreliable older...

Laney's disappearance is only the beginning. A collision is coming, and no one will escape the fallout. Six months have passed since Delaney McPhearson disappeared, and Jake Rogan has been leading the search. But every lead has ended in frustration and...

Could Delaney's Past Hold the Key to Humanity's Future? The world knows the legend of Helen of Troy, but not her story. Even the name by which she is remembered is not her true title. She was Helen, Queen of Sparta-and much more than a pretty face. Delaney...

"Packed full of twists and tension, A Killer Motive consumed me until I'd turned the last page. The ending packs a wallop, and you won't see it coming!" --Sarah Pekkanen, #1 New York Times bestselling author "Reminiscent of Ruth Ware and Lucy Foley, A Killer...

'With an expert eye for light and shadow, Shapiro traces the contours of sorrow, regret, and the luminous moments of bliss we hold close. Poignant, redemptive, electrifying.' - Catherine Chidgey After the death of their young daughter, Penny Whittaker and...

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Easter Sunday, 1938. Ivy is 19 and ready for her life to finally begin. In the idyllic Sussex countryside, her sprawling, bohemian family and their friends gather for lunch, awaiting the arrival of a longed-for guest. It is a single, enchanted afternoon that...

The inside story of Ian Foster's four seasons as All Blacks coach. Ian Foster was the All Blacks coach the nation seemingly never wanted. Appointed in 2019, Foster led the All Blacks through one of the most tumultuous periods of the team's 120-year history....