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The Marshalls have a problem. There's nothing wrong with their 15,000-square-foot Beverly Hills Mansion, their brand-new endorsement deal with Red Bull or their status as one of the richest and most glamorous families in the world. The Marshalls are about to have their reality TV show cancelled and they will do ANYTHING to get renewed.

The Pickett family rises from extreme generational poverty to play a crucial part in the growth of the human race. Over the span of generations, and the course of centuries, the family saves humanity from an alien invasion, works to reverse global warming, and prevents the extinction of the human race at the edge of the known galaxy. But, yes, before all that they were in the ... um ... klan for several generations. They dropped the racism and joined the human race. Come join us for one of the longest, weirdest multi-generational redemption arcs known to mankind.

Mars has declared its independence from Earth. But building a country takes more than a new flag, an arena-worthy anthem, and naming Pluto the donkey the national animal. As the Red Planet spirals into political upheaval, Flip Buchanan—the irreverent, reluctant son of the most powerful man on Mars—stumbles through two tumultuous decades of alien discoveries, killer clones, and the chaos of a new nation still working out the kinks.

When their mother calls with news that their MAGA-pilled, conspiracy-theorist father has gone missing, the newly unemployed queer narrator of Make Sure You Die Screaming does what anyone would do: steals their ex-boyfriend's BMW and races from Chicago to deep-red Arkansas on a mission to kidnap...

When high-ranking Tory minister Sir Randall Panderyn gets himself photographed in a compromising position in a seedy London dungeon, Conservative Party HQ must act fast to avoid a calamitous scandal!

FBI agents Tom Kendrick and Carla Mendez are assigned to monitor two fringe conspiracy streamers, Zeke and Elizabeth. What starts as routine surveillance quickly turns into obsession as the pair’s cryptic broadcasts begin aligning with real-world anomalies: financial transfers, coded threats, and echoes of past collapses. Drawn further onto the web, Tom drinks to silence the voices invading his dreams, while Carla creates a shrine of notes and red string in her apartment.

Demons is Dostoevsky’s profound and moving novel of politics, psychology, and social upheaval. Exploring how ideas come to possess those who espouse them, this is a story of unforgettable characters who pass through times of love, enlightenment, betrayal, and tragedy. Their story and the story of their life together show how the choices they make in turn make a fabric of destiny and how the fate of their people rests on the nature of an idea.

The Grimsby series follows the true to life path of oft beloved, and sometimes much maligned, Attorney at Law Grimsby as he navigates through the every day world of the law business in the United States on behalf of every day people whose issues and problems you will likely recognize. Grimsby focuses on trying to "right wrongs". Grimsby - Beauty and the Legal Beast contains humor, maybe dark humor, detailing smashing successes and some crushing defeats. There is also a love story along the way.

A common man who is denied justice by both the Diwan of Bhoologa Vindhai and the Maharaja, decides to teach them both a lesson! Listen to this hilarious story by Vaduvoor Duraisamy Iyengar to know how! பூலோக விந்தை என்ற சமஸ்தானத்தின்...

Winds of Change (and a whisper) is a collection of 20 short stories by Edward P.G.Field. The collection begins with a few tales, some satirical, responding to winds of change blowing through North America. Satire is not always amusing; but whether we laugh or wince, hopefully there is fresh perspective—a gentle whisper.

The only problem with getting everything you ever wanted is that it forces you to reassess everything you ever wanted in the first place. Thirty-two-year-old Dan Johnson has it all; a nine-digit net worth, a gorgeous fiancé and a luxury riverside brownstone. The only problem is, he doesn't want any of it. And the endless distractions of digitized society give him no head space to figure out what he does want.

First published in 1912, The Unbearable Bassington stands as Saki’s most substantial venture into longer fiction, and perhaps his most poignant. Known primarily for his razor-edged short stories—where wit, mischief, and a certain cool cruelty dance in quick succession—Saki (H. H. Munro) brings those same gifts to this novel, but with a deeper, darker resonance.

All's fair in love and war . . . ESPECIALLY with your grumpy, smoking hot, former football-superstar neighbor. Bex: Expecting solitude from my new home shouldn't be the exception. But when you move next door to the grumpiest human on earth, what's a girl to do? Austin Porter may be a former...

Mixing compassion with clear-eyed fury and a keen sense of the absurd, The Aquatics confronts one of contemporary Africa’s most entrenched societal issues in a story as immersive and inevitable as a quickly rising tide.

Michael Symmons Roberts’ full-cast dramatisation of Thomas More’s classic work, plus an accompanying documentary exploring its legacy Thomas More's classic work of speculative fiction, Utopia, was published over 500 years ago, yet has entered the culture so deeply that the name of his...

The charming and original story of a small, declining community’s struggle to survive in the shadow of an all-consuming metropolis, from from the multi-million copy bestselling author of The Hundred-Year-Old Man Who Climbed Out of the Window and Disappeared. 'A shot of serotonin in book form'...

Right. So apparently this is a story about dragons. Not that I was asked, mind you. Some overenthusiastic writer with too much imagination and not enough sense opened a portal full of the blasted things, and now the world’s on fire.

This pseudo-theological narrative chronicle details the spiritual journey of a man named Glen, who is called to become The Fryer, a prophet of viscosity and fried food. Included among the issues and events are The Fryer’s initial revelation, a growing understanding of the doctrine of Grease as the memory of heat, the establishment of the secret society known as The Order of the Greasy Spoon, and his performance of The Fifteen Sizzlings. Glen experiences conflict with the Dry Ones, an immersion in The Dark Night of the Stove, and a physical encounter with the ordinary yet divine figure Frank.

Sexy sleuths Madison and Fab race to uncover the truth behind a horrific crime . . . before a loved one pays the ultimate price. Beautiful Tarpon Cove has everything you’d expect from a paradise retreat: Blue waters, white sand and . . . murder? With deadly secrets and dark dealings brewing...

The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders of the Artificially Intelligent (DSM-V-AI Edition) is a darkly comedic, sharply insightful exploration of the psychological quirks and malfunctions of artificial minds. Equal parts parody and philosophy, it catalogs the new frontier of synthetic psychopathology with absurd precision.