No one knew how the seeds had come to rain down from the sky. No one knew how the trees that grew in the aftermath produced such tremendous amounts of oxygen. No one knew how to stop the atmosphere from flooding with O2. And then it was too late...Talik likes to pretend the apocalypse never happened. For five years, he's hidden away from the world, burying himself in history books and escaping the present. But when he's suddenly saddled with the care of his six-year-old niece, Piya...

In The Cleansing: Last Stand - Rising. Lucian Frost depicts a society where control has replaced consent and obedience is the cost of survival. A centralized digital currency and constant surveillance track every movement, judge every transaction, and erase privacy entirely. Silence is no longer a choice-it is protection. Ryder Blackwood has trained to exist outside the system, seeing it not as security but as weakness. When he encounters Anya Volkov, a chemistry instructor whose quiet que...

Have you ever noticed that some people capture attention effortlessly, while others say a lot… and provoke nothing?The difference is rarely in appearance. It is in the way they speak — and, above all, in what they make others feel.Words That Seduce is not a manual of ready-made phrases or a superficial flirting guide. It is a narrative, profound, and practical book that reveals how the right conversation, spoken in the right tone and at the right moment, can transform inter...

Tharok didn't negotiate for Elara Voss. He took her when her city fell.As a noblewoman claimed by the orc warlord's horde, she expected the worst the moment his stronghold doors closed behind her. Stone walls, torch smoke, the distant sound of his army settling in for the night. What she didn't expect was to be left untouched in his private chambers while he watched her from across the room with something that looked uncomfortably like patience.Tharok is battle-scarred and ...

An intimate, deeply moving queer coming-of-age novel that evokes '50s small-town life and the surprisingly wild pre-Stonewall '60sIn 1956, lonely teenager Teddy is drawn to the water and woods surrounding his small town, where he meets bad boy Wade and becomes overwhelmed by his attraction to him. During the rapturous early period of their friendship, the two range over the area’s mountains and waterways before falling out after high school over Teddy’s sexuality. ...

PROBABILITY IS A RIGGED GAME.Grant Sterling lives by the ledger. As a forensic auditor, he knows the world is governed by the cold laws of variance and the immutable balance of numbers. If the math balances, the system works.Lately, the macroeconomics of chance have developed a terrifying glitch.Behind the chaos of London's financial district, Grant begins to see golden threads — a hidden architecture of manufactured coincidences. Luck isn't an abst...

A crumbling English manor. A fiercely guarded aristocratic heart. And the vibrant American designer who tears down every wall between them.Adrian Vale, the Earl of Ashcombe, has spent the last two years running his life like a structural survey: cold, disciplined, and safely under control. Grieving his brother and drowning under the crushing debt of his ancestral estate, Adrian has buried his true desires beneath layers of duty, propriety, and neutral paint. Ashcombe Hall is dying,...

Are you tired of repeating yourself, losing your patience, or wondering why the same parenting battles keep happening again and again?How to Discipline the Montessori Way offers a practical, respectful approach to discipline that helps you move beyond punishment, shouting, and power struggles—and toward a calmer, more connected relationship with your child.Instead of asking, “How do I make my child obey?”, this book helps you ask a more useful question:

This New York Times–bestselling novel about a crime and cover-up at West Point offers "a compelling portrait of the military academy" ( The New York Times).Ry Slaight is a young cadet at the United States Military Academy, walking punishment tours in May 1968, when he hears that the body of a plebe has been found floating in Lake Popolopen. Supposedly, it was an accident—but it's not long before Slaight learns details about the autopsy suggesting ...

In 16 hours, the world as we know it will end…In less than a day, the most gigantic solar storms ever seen by modern man will overwhelm the magnetosphere of the planet squelching it down to a fraction of its normal size. The moment that happens, intense solar radiation will burn through the atmosphere and scorch the surface of the earth for the entire time the storms are active. After the monster flares cease, the magnetic field will take two centuries to restore full coverage and ...

From the bestselling author of Dress Gray. "Part-war story, part-family saga . . . zeroes in on the men of the Blue family, three generations of soldiers" ( The Washington Post).In the eagerly anticipated follow-up to his first novel, Dress Gray, Truscott turns his attention to the Vietnam War and delivers a suspenseful, sprawling court-martial drama set in Saigon in 1969.At twenty-three, platoon leader Lt. Matthew...

The death of a female cadet rocks West Point in this People Magazine "Beach Book of the Week" from the New York Times–bestselling author of Dress Gray.A female cadet has collapsed and died while parading past the reviewing stand on a hot September morning. The autopsy establishes that she had sex with three different men the night before. Some claim that it's evidence of a major military scandal.Superintendent Ry Slaight fears it ma...