Mark was never supposed to become the best VR tennis player in the world.He was supposed to be ordinary.Then he discovered an unfair advantage hidden inside the competitive world of virtual tennis, and everything changed. At first, the secret feels like a shortcut—one private edge, one impossible winner, one match nobody can explain. But every victory raises the stakes. Regional titles turn into national attention. National attention becomes international pressure. Rivals b...

Boston has a village that doesn't appear on any map.Twenty-three crooked houses surround a cobblestone square. One keeps forgotten names. Another protects abandoned memories. Another seems to bake cookies whenever the world is about to end.And at the center of it all is a door marked with a single number:Fifteen-year-old Leo Keene knows nothing about Bellweather Village until Boston wakes up one Wednesday morning and Tuesday has vanished.

Sixteen bikers. One reckless summer weekend. One small New York town that will never forget them.It is the mid-1980s, and Mack Mercer and fifteen of his closest friends are heading north toward Boonville, New York, for the Woodsmen's Field Days with motorcycles, bad attitudes, questionable judgment, and enough beer-fueled confidence to convince themselves they are still twenty-five.They are not.What begins as a wild weekend of lumberjack contests, bars, motorcycles,...

THE LAST VOICEMAILCharleston, South Carolina. 1979.Jack Sullivan is twenty-nine years old, running boats, dodging gas lines, trying to keep his head above water, and living in a South already boiling under heat, hurricanes, old money, and secrets nobody wants dug up.Then his answering machine records a message that should be impossible.A woman is crying.She says her name is Emma Sullivan.She says Jack is her father.There is only one p...

The Lizard King's Shadow is a raw, suspenseful, rock-and-roll fever dream about music, memory, addiction, survival, and the strange things that start whispering when a man has already survived too much.David has spent a lifetime learning that some songs save you, some songs haunt you, and some songs know things they have no business knowing. After addiction, loss, prison lights, damaged memory, and the kind of pain that leaves fingerprints on the soul, he wants peace. A quiet place....

friend's supposed ashes.Underneath the profanity, bourbon, criminals, wildlife, busted transportation, and threats to somebody's kneecaps is a surprisingly big-hearted story about what happens when life gives you one more run.You can sit home and behave.Accept that the wild part is over.Or you can climb into the Airstream, follow the alibi, and see how much trouble is still left in the tank.PhishStones chooses trouble.

In the summer of 1987, Danny Mercer comes back to Lake Mercy carrying a failed music career, a dead mother's secrets, and five years of guilt he has never been able to outrun.The town remembers him as the boy who was there the night Sarah Wren disappeared in 1982. Danny remembers blood on his shirt, a shattered stretch of memory, and the horrible certainty that whatever happened on Saint Mercy Island changed all of them forever.Then Maggie Vale's car is found underwater.

What if opening your home to one dog could change two lives at once?Keep the Bed: How to Be the Best Dog Foster Parent Ever is a heartfelt, practical, and deeply emotional guide to fostering dogs—the joy, the chaos, the heartbreak, and the incredible privilege of helping a frightened, abandoned, sick, elderly, or unwanted dog discover what it feels like to be safe.David Salmon writes about the part of fostering that no checklist can fully prepare you for: you are going to fal...

The Talking Stick is a deeply emotional later-in-life love story set against the mountains, lakes, granite ledges, and quiet campsites of the Adirondacks—a story about two people who have already lived enough life to know that love is never simple, but may still be worth risking everything for.Sam Mercer is fifty-four, rugged, capable, funny, and quietly romantic, with silver at his temples and the kind of steadiness that comes from having made mistakes and finally learning from the...

She grew up in the most famous house in America—but spent much of her adult life choosing a quieter path.AMY: A Life in the Public Eye, a Heart in the Private South tells the remarkable story of Amy Lynn Carter, the only daughter of President Jimmy Carter and First Lady Rosalynn Carter. From the small-town rhythms of Plains, Georgia, to the extraordinary pressures of life inside the White House, Amy's childhood unfolded against the backdrop of one of the most turbu...

The Garage That Never Died is a loud, funny, heartbreaking rock-and-roll novel about friendship, ambition, survival, and the kind of music that never really leaves you.Fairport, New York. 1982.Five teenage friends have three chords, a pile of mismatched equipment, a garage full of extension cords, and absolutely no idea what they are doing.Jax Malone, Eddie Cross, Tommy Rourke, Mick Calder, and Ray "Crash" Donnelly are not supposed to become rock stars. They are suppos...

The Summer Lake Pleasant Changed Everything is a clean, nostalgic coming-of-age love story set in the Adirondacks during the unforgettable summer of 1982.Fifteen-year-old Danny Sullivan has been coming to Lake Pleasant since he was a baby. His grandparents brought him there year after year, until the Christian camp, the cabins, the pine trees, the chapel, the old dock, and the shining water felt less like a vacation spot and more like a second home.But this...