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.

It’s 1984, and life has changed beyond recognition. Airstrip One, formerly known as Great Britain, is a place where Big Brother is always watching, and nobody can hide. Except, perhaps, for Winston Smith. Whilst working at the Ministry of Truth, rewriting history, he secretly dreams of freedom. And in a world where love and sex are forbidden, where it’s hard to distinguish between friend and foe, he meets Julia and O’Brien and vows to rebel.

The 13 chapters of The Art of War, each devoted to one aspect of warfare, were compiled by the high-ranking Chinese military general, strategist, and philosopher Sun-Tzu. In spite of its battlefield specificity, The Art of War has found new life in the modern age, with leaders in fields as wide and far-reaching as world politics, human psychology, and corporate strategy finding valuable insight in its timeworn words.

Who is Audrey Hoedemaker? It's a question her sister Maureen has heard more times than she can count, and she doesn't know what the short answer would be. Little sister, troubled teen, backpacker, musical theatre coach, con artist, childcare worker. Murderer. A tragic, traumatic childhood casts a long shadow on the Hoedemaker sisters. Maureen has worked hard to move beyond the violence of the past and build a good, honest life for herself. Audrey, however, just can't seem to do the same, careening from one state of chaos to another.

When I was a little girl, I dreamed a handsome knight would come and rescue me from my wretched mother. He'd ride up on his white steed and break the curse I've been fated to carry since the day I was born. Funny how things changed over time, how the fairytale twisted into something far more crooked—and darker—than I ever imagined. In reality, my knight is scarred and broken, living alone in a castle of bones that overlooks the sea. He isn’t searching for me. He never was.

Guy Montag is a fireman. In his world, where television rules and literature is on the brink of extinction, firemen start fires rather than put them out. His job is to destroy the most illegal of commodities, the printed book, along with the houses in which they are hidden. Montag never questions the destruction and ruin his actions produce, returning each day to his bland life and wife, Mildred, who spends all day with her television "family."

Two little girls stand with their heads bowed in my living room. I’m told they’re my granddaughters. Daisy is nine, and Alice seven. Daisy is the spitting image of her mother. This is the first time I’ve met them since my daughter and I fell out after she married that waste of space, Vince. They’ve come to live with me because their mother — my daughter — was murdered. In her own home while they slept close by. I think Vince killed her. But the police can’t prove it. I’ve always known he was no good. He treated my daughter like dirt. I said he’d cheat on her — but she wouldn’t listen.

As Charly struggles to recover from her brain injury, she begins to realize that the events of that fateful night are trapped in the damaged right side of her brain. Now, she must put the jigsaw pieces together to discover the identity of the man who tried to kill her...before he finishes the job he started.

Traumatized by the bombing of Dresden at the time he had been imprisoned, Pilgrim drifts through all events and history, sometimes deeply implicated, sometimes a witness. He is surrounded by Vonnegut's usual large cast of continuing characters (notably here the hack science fiction writer Kilgore Trout and the alien Tralfamadorians, who oversee his life and remind him constantly that there is no causation, no order, no motive to existence).

Original cast members from the beloved TV series, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, reunite for an all-new adventure about connections that never die—even if you bury them. A decade has passed since the epic final battle that concluded Buffy the Vampire Slayer (TV). The game-changing spell that gave power to all potential Slayers persists. With new Slayers constantly emerging, things are looking grim for the bad guys.

Chyelle Reed was bred with a backbone of steel. Never thinking that she needed help from anyone, she chose to handle her own issues and suffer in poverty rather than have her hand out for a donation of any kind. She was used to making something out of nothing by the sweat of her brow. A twist in fate brings her face to face with Cloverland's savage, King Kyro. Being one of few people who aren't familiar with Houston's finest, she had no idea the adventure their encounter would take them on. At first, falling for him seemed like a slim-to-none chance. Then, being introduced to the drama from...

Tino vowed to take what Lux had because he didn’t deserve it, yet he teamed up with the least likely allies to get the job done. Fury and Dina, with their baby on the way, faces a possible move and family drama, especially with Tijir’s love interest coming to the light. Both of them. Fame falls head over heels with a new face. Well, the face is only new to him, but not to others. Lux, still searching for Tino runs into issue after issue while trying to maintain his crown and his thrown, but his kingdom comes crashing down when he finds himself at the crew’s mercy. Liyah is fighting ...

Camaya still has a ring in her ears from the gunshots she heard when the bullets from the barrel of Donica’s gun pierced Nas. Her hands still shake from having to pull a trigger, just to defend her family. Nas, on the other hand, copes in his own way, but it’s proving to be his downfall with his backslide of having to go back to being the old him. It puts a strain on his marriage when he basically has to learn how to walk and speak again in love and in partnership. Laz wants blood. Hot, steamy, sticky blood between his fingers from what Donica pulled. He can’t shake the thought, even ...

More drama and chaos ensue within the third installment of Nas and Cam's journey to love. With Puff finally going home to the Great Beyond, the family is pulled back into Jackson one more time to say their final goodbyes to the man who was a father and boss to many. Only this time, skeletons begin to fall out of the closet that both Nas and Cam can't seem to dodge. Meech and Milla finally see the common ground at the threat of the group's livelihood, while Conz is left smitten by an unknown enchantress whom no one knows. It leaves the group to keep the young woman on close watch since Conz ...

Nobody wants to live a four-year lie. Unfortunately for Dorri, also known as "Bam-Bam", one Facebook post that she wasn't supposed to see brought her entire world crashing around her ankles. Her infamous swinging fist that earned her the nickname Bam-Bam could do nothing for her aching heart. Dèon was as suave and as handsome as they came. This gentleman, however, has a dangerous flipside. By day he's a family man, perfectly balanced as a king. A Bando King. Aside from keeping his family comfortable, Dèon "Coinz" Monroe is stalked and overly loved by a woman he showed a little too much ...

Jennifer was tired of holding her head down and rolling with the punches. Lawrence had long reinvented himself as a trap king before the young woman could fit into a training bra. A chance encounter forces Jennifer to play a role just to be saved and taught by the man who seemed like he had it all together. Though she becomes transfixed, even after being exposed to the cruel underbelly of the dope-dealing and pimping lifestyle, she’s faced with the task of reinvention now that she’s officially a runaway. Lawrence “Polo” Cree blesses his protégé with a new name that fits with how ...

Khalil “Loon” Simmons thinks that he has his life all figured out. Although young, he has what most men twice his age could only fathom. He has no shortage of money, power, and the respect of the streets that he serves. Oddly, what he valued most was that he had someone to share it with… his long time girlfriend Mia. But in a shocking twist of events, Loon is blindsided when the reality of life turns his fairytale into a mockery. He gives his best attempt at living life as he now knows it but wounds that deep never heal. He’s left hardened, angry, vengeful and above all else…...

Most people dream of having a twin. A life long best friend, road dog and partner in crime. Unfortunately, it’s the total opposite for the Solomon sisters. As if they didn't share the same womb, they hate even breathing the same air. Growing up in the projects is hard enough, the last thing you need is for your own blood to be against you. NaTasha; soft subtle and sweet, she's the more conservative of the two. Beautiful and curvy she would easily be any man's first draft pick but the constant torture and nasty remarks from her model sized twin, has her insecurities at an all time high. ...

Jackson, Mississippi was no good to anyone before the inevitable had taken place. Meech left for another city, Conz settled in Atlanta, which left Nas starting his new life in Calabasas. A turn of events pull all three friends back to Jackson, thanks to Puff. Laz, trying to come into his own after all of his mistakes, copes with the fact that he married the wrong woman by using cocaine. Broken down to his socks, financially, he needs an outing. Puff’s event forces him to see Nas in a different light that makes his face turn green. Seeing that Nas had been eating good with his weight gain,...

Between love, drugs, money and power anything at all could happen in the city of Brooklyn, New York. Friends turn to foes, enemies become allies, and lovers are shifted to merely nothing at all. It’s a daily test when chasing money, freedom and status. Alux, better known as Lux, considers himself a king and prides himself on the better things in life. However, he didn’t rise to his status alone. Fame, Banks and Fury, his three closest friends all put in the man hours to make it so. To believe that he can have anything he desires comes at a price. If the trio doesn’t budge, Alux is ...