Scientist Rayne Ryder has dedicated her life to studying Kaiju - the colossal beasts hell-bent on destroying the rest of humanity's twenty-one remaining cities. She just thinks they're neat!When her company discovers that she has an uncanny talent for piloting Machina, the giant robots used to fight the monsters one-on-one, her life is completely upended. Instead of staying in the comfort of the lab, she has to earn her place in the Crew of the best Machina operators Anchorage Prot...

Magic has returned to Earth in full force. The fate of the world as we know it is sealed.Valor, Brenda, and Odel have been captured by the US government. Their fate is unknown. The fragile alliance between humans and magical beings has shattered at the worst possible moment.Because now, with magic unleashed, both good and evil creatures have awakened to their full power. Vampire queens command armies. Dragons emerge from ancient slumber. Fairy royalty makes...

Magic has returned to Earth in full force. The fate of the world as we know it is sealed.Valor, Brenda, and Odel have been captured by the US government. Their fate is unknown. The fragile alliance between humans and magical beings has shattered at the worst possible moment.Because now, with magic unleashed, both good and evil creatures have awakened to their full power. Vampire queens command armies. Dragons emerge from ancient slumber. Fairy royalty makes...

Magic has returned to Earth in full force. The fate of the world as we know it is sealed.Valor, Brenda, and Odel have been captured by the US government. Their fate is unknown. The fragile alliance between humans and magical beings has shattered at the worst possible moment.Because now, with magic unleashed, both good and evil creatures have awakened to their full power. Vampire queens command armies. Dragons emerge from ancient slumber. Fairy royalty makes...

**The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!The Eye of the World, the first novel in Robert Jordan's #1 New York Times bestselling epic fantasy series, The Wheel of Time®, follows Moiraine Damodred as she arrives in Emond's Field on a quest to find the one prophesized to stand against The Dark One.**"These veteran narrators keep the plot moving and the narration fresh" — AudioFile Magazine

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings, Book One of the Stormlight Archive begins an incredible new saga of epic proportion.Roshar is a world of stone and storms. Uncanny tempests of incredible power sweep across the rocky terrain so frequently that they have shaped ecology and civilization alike. Animals hide in shells, trees pull in branches, and grass retracts into the soilless ground. Cities are built onl...

Kate thought finding the puzzle box would give her all the answers—but it only holds far more desperate questions.Kate is a Keeper—a storyteller, magic-wielder, and researcher—but a single mystery has evaded her all her life: What happened on the tragic day when two strangers stole not only the puzzle box that hummed with magic but so much more?She and her brother Bo have searched for twenty years with no luck. Until Venn, a surly elf, shows up on the hidde...

Something monstrous has been found in the magic world of Wonderland and it wants to get out.Lewis Carroll created a curious and fantastical world in his classic book Alice in Wonderland, but he secretly recorded the true story of his actual travels to Wonderland in four journals which have been lost to the world … until now.Celia and Tyrus discover the legendary Lost Diaries of Wonderland and fall into a portal that pulls them into the same fantasy...

From Brandon Sanderson—author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Stormlight Archive and its fourth massive installment, Rhythm of War—comes a new hefty novella, Dawnshard. Taking place between Oathbringer and Rhythmof War, this newest story (like Edgedancer before it) takes a deeper look at several characters in the saga, and brings them to the forefront.When a ghost ship is discovered, its crew presumed dead after trying to reach the storm-shrouded island Akinah, Navani K...

TRUTH AND FAILURE AT THE EDGE OF UNDERSTANDINGWinston doesn’t think like other people. He struggles to explain himself and questions basic mathematics. Fearing expulsion from his graduate program, he takes a leave of absence to test a new class of computer. Nothing about this computer is normal and Winston unleashes ambitious code to push its limits only to discover there is a reason he struggles with people and can’t follow norms. Now his greatest failure has him facing the truth ...

In January of 1950, Mary Church Terrell, an eighty-six-year-old charter member of the NAACP, headed into Thompson’s Restaurant, just a few blocks from the White House, and requested to be served. She and her companions were informed by the manager that they could not eat in his establishment, because they were “colored.” Terrell, a former suffragette and one of the country’s first college-educated African-American women, took the matter to court. Three years later, the Supreme Court vindic...

Cybersecurity incidents make the news with startling regularity. Each breach―the theft of 145.5 million Americans’ information from Equifax, for example, or the Russian government’s theft of National Security Agency documents, or the Sony Pictures data dump―makes headlines, inspires panic, instigates lawsuits, and is then forgotten. The cycle of alarm and amnesia continues with the next attack, and the one after that. In this book, cybersecurity expert Josephine Wolff argues that we should...