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Lucas knows the perfect night entails just three things: video games, wine, and pad thai. Peanuts are a must! Other people? Not so much. Why complicate things when he’s happy alone? Then one day the apartment board, a vexing trio of authority, rings his doorbell. And Lucas’s solitude takes a startling hike. They demand to see his frying pan. Someone left one next to the recycling room overnight, and instead of removing the errant object, as Lucas suggests, they insist on finding the guilty party. But their plan backfires. Colossally.

The novel opens with the creation of the world, as God meticulously crafts the earth and sky to match His vision. He shapes it with care, molding it like dough until it satisfies His aesthetic. As He finishes the world by creating all living creatures, He sets it down on the ocean's surface. God feels a deep connection to everything He has created; every sensation, from the touch of hair on skin to a light brush of skin on skin, comes back strong and vibrant. He revels in His creation and smiles at what He has accomplished.

After suffering a personal tragedy Abby Sullivan buys seaside mansion, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay, where she is adopted, quite against her will, by a huge Maine Coon Cat named Rufus, a drifter with her own tragic past named Georgia, and a giant dog with an inferiority complex named Ramos. What Abby thought she needed was alone time to heal.

When you take the most absurd parts of history, science, economics, and geography, you end up with a pretty confusing picture of humanity. Why do we have borders? What's the furthest you can get from the ocean? And why did Vikings wear those silly helmets? These are just a few of the strange questions that bounce around the head of Joseph Pisenti. In his YouTube channel, Pisenti presents illogical truths in a logical manner. Here, he builds on this nonsensical humor of the universe with in-depth analysis of empires, economies, and ecosystems as he helps answer the ridiculous.

In this last book of the Thornton Trilogy, Chloe Thornton overhears a shocking secret that changes her life. Elise Thornton has tried for 22 years to keep the truth from her daughter about how she was conceived when her mother was raped by three Nazi soldiers on the day of the Battle of Dunkirk in 1940. But finally the truth comes out, and there are no more secrets to hide.

Fourteen-year-old Jason Aloysius Garrity is now of age to work full-time in a Pennsylvania coal factory, earning four dollars a week. His family left their hardscrabble life in Ireland to create a better one in America. But their shanty-like home on a street filled with outhouses, horse manure, and the ever-present odor of noxious gas is a hell all its own. Yet Jason possesses the passion and principles that will lift him out of the abject poverty surrounding his widowed mother, fanatically religious younger brother, and manipulative crippled sister.

Nineteen-year-old Ada Weeks confronts danger and calamity along the hazard-filled journey to California. After a fateful decision that delays the overlanders more than a month, she - along with 81 other members of the Donner Party - finds herself stranded at Truckee Lake on the eastern side of the Sierra Nevada Mountains, stuck there for the entirety of a despairing, blizzard-filled winter. Forced to eat shoe leather and blankets to survive, will Ada be able to battle the elements - and her own demons - as she envisions a new life in California?

When the Spacehawk drops onto Ganymede Mine 12-C, Team Lead, Alpha, expects a routine welfare check. Instead, she finds a dead comms grid, doors booby-trapped for overpressure, and a warning finger-scribbled on glass: DON’T ANSWER THE LIGHT.

The brilliantly observed, witty and heart-warming new book club read from Richard & Judy bestseller Linda Green, for fans of Clare Pooley, Mike Gayle and David Nicholls!✨ 'Wonderfully executed, unique, clever and hilarious... Linda Green is absolutely at the top of her game. An absolute gem of...

Anna and John are busy planning their wedding when they get a disturbing message from George. His pilot has discovered another corporate jet sitting at the airport in Oneida, Tennessee. The plane belongs to Foxborough Medical Industries. John Calvin Foxborough is on board.

Ava Clayton is a pragmatic woman, fond of her lists. She is a retired English professor, a mildly intrusive mother to two grown children, and a mouthy wife to a beloved husband of fifty years. Known for her bracingly direct remarks, she is nonetheless speechless when her dead mother sits on the side of her bed one night and tells her when she is going to die—but not how.

It's been three years since a single lapse of judgment cost Daisy the love of her life. Erik was a conduit to her soul but now he's chosen a path of total disconnection, refusing to speak to her or acknowledge her betrayal. Alone and shattered, Daisy attempts to take responsibility for her actions while building her career as a professional dancer in New York City. But Erik's unforgiving estrangement proves too much for her strength. Plagued by flashbacks to the Lancaster shootings, she falls into a dangerous spiral of self-harm.

When Ellie Chapman inherits a dilapidated farm, perched high up on the cliffs above the English Channel, it's not long before she decides to launch a wedding business. After all, with a mum whose cake baking skills rival Mary Berry's, and the perfect venue, it seems the natural choice. She might...

The Only Answer to Success contains a proven formula for changing your mind-set to that of a true “champion”. Based on thousands of hours of research and personal experience, Dr. Leonard Coldwell has come up with a proven way to retrain your mind to achieve any goal or get through any challenge with zero stress. He will systematically show you how to change the subconscious negative mind programming that is eating away your drive and enthusiasm.

"All illness comes from a lack of energy, and the greatest energy drainer is mental and emotional stress, which I believe to be the root cause of all illness. This audio will help you to create a stress, anxiety and depression proof life. You will be given the education tools and coaching you need to learn how to see and treat life’s 'problems' and how to see them as 'challenges,' and you will receive the knowledge and action plans as to how to take on this great opportunity."

Kit Anderson is married to Janet, a beautiful but narcissistic woman who seems more shallow to him as time goes by. Their relationship has become strained and cold. Immersing himself in his work as a doctor, Anderson takes consolation in his career. Then, one night he is called out to a dying...

When a journalist acquires the power to hear lies, the real test isn't exposing the truth, but living with it in the next striking novel from Harper Ross, author of The Unwritten Rules of Magic. Rowan Winslow built her career exposing liars, no matter the consequences. That conviction cost her a...

It's the 1950s. After a nuclear blast in the mid-Pacific, a Thoreau-reading American Air Force General makes an unexpected and troubling discovery: In a flowery field on a tiny island in the middle of a vast ocean, is an angel — its beautiful face frozen in a death mask and its huge wings wrapped around an inert body. As the general ponders this mystery, the Soviets discover their own angel after a similar nuclear test in Siberia. Are these twin phenomena a ploy in the ongoing hostilities between two international powers? Or has divine intervention pointed the way toward a new political era?

** AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER NOW ** Tara Selter has become someone new. It becomes clear just how ridiculous it is: life in progressive time. Or was. Before we came to a halt. How foolishly one can spend a life in a time that moves forward. The nonsense of the ceaseless grind. Tara has returned to...

After the sudden and unexplained loss of her son Hank, Alice is consumed by a relentless need for answers. The vibrant spirit of her boy couldn’t just vanish without a trace—there must be more to the story. As Alice reaches out to Hank’s best friend Arnold, she’s met with a chilling resistance. Arnold, like everyone else, insists she move on, urging her to let the past rest. But Alice’s motherly intuition is a force that cannot be silenced, especially when she begins finding cryptic notes from Hank. Could Hank be reaching out from beyond, or is something more sinister at play?