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.

In book one, we met the beautiful Arabia Mercer, who was head over heels in love with her boyfriend, Savario Whitfield. Arabia believed her relationship with Savario was just perfect, despite the constant cheating rumors and lies. When the truth comes to the surface, Arabia finds herself in the company of her high school crush Ashad ‘Action’ Mills. Action and Arabia come from two different worlds, but that doesn’t stop the obvious attraction between them. Arabia lets Action know that she’s seeing someone, but that doesn’t stop Action from pursuing Arabia in an effort to make her ...

Twenty-six-year-old Arabia Mercer is a successful businesswoman from Charlotte, North Carolina, with a group of amazing best friends: Exotic, Pasha, Choci, and Chyna, who all ride for Arabia like only true best friends would do. Their main goal and mission, aside from being true female hustlers and bosses, is to protect Arabia from the lies and schemes of her boyfriend, Savario. Arabia thinks her relationship with Savario is perfect, but the people closest to them know that Savario is far from being the ideal man for Arabia. Arabia is so blinded by Savario’s so-called love that she ...

Just when Camryn and Ace thought the drama was finally over in their lives, Ace finds himself at Camryn’s bedside after an almost tragic situation leaves her in the hospital after she’s seemingly drugged at her graduation party. When it is discovered that Ace’s ex-girlfriend, Mercedes, and his club manager, Malik, along with a bartender are behind the whole incident, Ace is out for revenge against the woman he once loved. Meanwhile, a trip to Cabo, San Lucas, Mexico turns into a summer that Camryn and Ace will never forget, especially when Ace begins talking to Camryn about marriage ...

Seventeen-year-old Camryn Piers has only one goal in mind: graduate high school and get as far away from Monroe as she possibly can. Camryn has a vision for her young life, and it doesn’t involve getting caught up like most of her peers. She wants to become a Journalist and one day write a best-selling novel or two. Camryn’s a good girl who only wants the best for herself and works hard to achieve her goals without the distraction of boys and the issues that come with them. She was perfectly fine being the single virgin who never had a boyfriend in her life. In walks Aasim, or Ace, as ...

Life for young Camryn quickly changes for the better when she goes from not caring about attention from guys to being the girlfriend of Monroe’s biggest drug dealer. What was supposed to be a beautiful love story in the making quickly takes a turn. All hell breaks loose when snakes emerge with twisted hate and drama. Ace’s brother, Kiyan, strikes back after Ace is shot at Camryn’s birthday party and left in an induced coma, fighting for his life. When love is on the line and lives are left hanging in the balance, blood is expected to be shed all over the gritty streets of Monroe. ...

Young, smart, and attractive, Nori is a college senior with a promising future. Majoring in Economics, she dreams of becoming rich and successful. Focused, she doesn’t have time for a man after her last relationship failed drastically. That is until her world dramatically collides with Kaleb's, who is ruggedly handsome and mysterious. He’s the type of man who isn’t what he seems to be, and his effortless charm reels Nori in like a fish on a hook. Kaleb is not the average young man in his early twenties. He has seen and done more than most men twice his age. Coming from one of the ...

Some people deserve love – that good kind. A love that experiences difficulties, yet never waivers. Ship has had enough traumatic experiences to last a lifetime. However, he still pushes through like the real one he is. Learning that his daughter isn’t actually his, he’s devastated and feels hopeless. Not to mention, Ship has no mama or daddy – just his best friends. Figuring it’ll be good for him, his bros encourage him to take advantage of his newfound fame and appear on the dating show Smoke with Me. Ship is presented with a flock of women; but he can only choose one to smoke ...

In the finale of this epic series of money, power, and loyalty, everything finally comes to a head for the Blood Mafia Family. While trying to move on with her life after finding out the man she’s loved for so long cheated on her, Sapphire is seemingly pulled right back into Rook when she finds out that she’s pregnant with twins. If that news wasn’t enough to shake some rattles, the entire crew worlds are rocked hard when Rook is fatally shot by a rival gang. With his life now hanging in the balance, Sapphire makes a tough decision to leave her involvement with Blood Mafia behind and ...

From the moment Dolcè Govan could walk and talk, his parents knew they’d birthed a star. His passion and knack for music, acting and art turned him into a child star when he got his first job in a commercial at the age of eleven. He was a natural talent excelling in not only acting, art, and music but also sports such as: track, football, basketball, boxing, and karate. By the age of thirty, Dolcè had taken the entertainment and business world by storm, becoming one of the youngest multimillionaire moguls in the world. Soon fame and business began to take an illegal turn with mafia ties...

A few girls from around the way are trying to find their way through life. Some friends are more real than others, so you have to watch the company you keep. Twenty-one-year-old Gianna Draymond has already endured a lot of heartache and pain. Bettering herself is her ultimate goal. Who would have thought she'd find love in Detroit’s most honorable Drug lord when dating wasn't even on her mind? This particular guy showed her that men with character still existed. He was just what she needed. He was tall, funny, caring, handsome with a cute smile and a lot of swag and drip. He indeed was ...