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.

Sparks fly until they find out they're enemies. Ex-con Lacy has never been lucky in life or love, but that doesn't stop her from hoping for a fresh start. Then sparks fly with a handsome stranger while on the annual company retreat. Could this be her chance? Except he turns out to be her boss' boss' boss, the billionaire CEO. Yeah, that's not going to happen. Especially since someone has recently stolen three million from him. And he thinks it's her. David can't believe he nearly fell for a thief. Nor does he care about her excuses. The evidence is clear. Her past condemns her. She's a liar...

Samantha doesn't think she's worth much. Nor does it help that her ex, who she dated for years hoping for a ring, popped the question to his current girlfriend within months. And now she has to see the happy couple every day at work. Oh, if only she could find an escape! Except her ex's cousin, the gorgeous and very-much-off-limits Henry--not to mention the man she can't stand since he represents so much of what she hates about herself--is the last person she'd expect to step in and save the day. Henry knows Samantha would rather be burned alive than be saved by him. But he needs help with ...

Stacy is tired of falling for the wrong guy. So when she meets Ace--the infamous, super-rich rockstar who doesn't have a commitment bone in his too-handsome body--she turns him down so fast, she doubts he'll remember the encounter. But he does. Ace has been letting his life combust ever since the sudden tragic death of his parents, but an abnormal chance encounter with a beautiful but feisty stranger shocks him. Hating who he has become, he starts turning his life around so if he ever meets that woman again, he'd be the sort of man she'd actually welcome. When she gets assigned as his guest...

Celeste has lived under the shadow of her vivacious, gorgeous, little sister for most of her life. But she refuses to resent it. Because she is determined to be the most supportive, big sister possible. But her little sister is constantly bringing home rich, handsome, enviable dates. The type of men that would never care for plain Celeste. Which is fine. She has her bakery, her small town, and her friends. She has no desire to be noticed by the likes of the elite, anyway. Until one does. And it's James Kade, the billionaire surgeon whose family owns the huge chain of Kade hospitals across ...

My ex's emerald eyes pierce my soul, but there's no recognition in them. "Who are you?" she asks, and my world crumbles. I'm Chandler Bishop, a man who has everything—except the one thing money can't buy. After years of searching, I've found Tanya—my lost love— living a simple life in a small-town. But she remembers nothing of our lavish lifestyle... or of me. Then I see her: a little girl with my eyes. My world tilts on its axis. The love of my life doesn't remember me or the fact that I'm her baby’s daddy. The spark between us is undeniable, fueling my resolve to win back what ...