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.

Academy Award nominee Rachel McAdams stars in Mary Jane, a poignant and intimate drama following a single mother’s journey caring for her chronically ill young son. Set in New York City, the play unfolds in two parts—Mary Jane's small Queens apartment and a pediatric hospital. With unflinching honesty and unexpected humor, we witness Mary Jane's tireless devotion, her interactions with medical professionals, and her struggle to maintain her sense of self.

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.

He’s focused on money. She’s focused on the heart. Will love transcend the bottom line? When big city investment manager Noah inherits his aunt’s bakery in small town Huron Cove just before Christmas, he figures he’ll sell the place and never think about it again—and the sooner the better. But Aunt Kate had other ideas. Cake artist Allie, her one and only employee at CupKate’s Confectionery, is in need of a good man, and Kate knew just the right man for her. When her will requires them to work together to help the store make a profit within a month, Noah and Allie are forced to ...

He broke her heart, and she vowed to never forget. But will the law of love open her heart and bring them back together again? When her father’s health causes her to leave the big city and join the family law firm in Huron Cove, attorney Sabrina Slay never imagined she would come face-to-face with the hometown football hero and attorney, Logan Carson, the man who broke her heart. Not keen on forgiveness, she’s determined to show him the error of his ways. But when sparks fly in the courtroom, the judge holds Bree and Logan in contempt and their punishment forces them to work together on...

Her walk of fame stalled. He’s smarting from rejection. Can a bright-eyed orphan restore their faith and offer them a second chance at love? Olivia Daniels can’t believe her career is over. After the struggling actress’s director boyfriend calls it quits, she heads back to her small hometown determined to transform her parents’ ailing B&B into a wedding venue. But with the success of the business hanging by a thread, her only hope lies in the helping hands of the handsome man she once spurned. The last thing Ethan Stone needs is one more mouth to feed. So when an orphaned relative ...

Will she choose the billionaire who can buy her everything? Or the man who never stopped loving her? Lexi Larson and Cole Tucker thought they would love each other until their very last breaths. That was the plan. But then life got in the way. Lexi went off to college and became a veterinarian, and Cole became a firefighter in Huron Cove. Having drifted apart, they both thought they’d never see each other again. That was until Lexi got a job in Huron Cove, where everyone remembered they were meant to be together. There’s only one problem. She has a boyfriend—a billionaire boyfriend—...

He’s a big league baseball player, she’s a small-town librarian. He’s looking for a fling, but she wants the man of her dreams. Will their love strike out or last a lifetime? Having been recently cheated on by her boyfriend, librarian Hayley Sherman vows to never fall for another self-absorbed jock, no matter how good looking he might happen to be. Plus, she’d much rather focus on her career at the Huron Cove Public Library than risk opening her heart to love again. But life throws her a curveball when the handsome Flynn Runyan strolls into town. Big league baseball player Flynn is ...