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...

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...

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 Alliance has toppled the tyrannical empire.It should be a time for celebration, but not for fighter pilot Captain Alisa Marchenko. After barely surviving a crash in the final battle for freedom, she's stranded on a dustball of a planet, billions of miles from her young daughter. She has no money or resources, and there are no transports heading to Perun, her former home and the last imperial stronghold.But she has a plan.Steal a dilapidated and ...

**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 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...

Over sixty years after Virginia Woolf drowned in the River Ouse, Olivia Laing set out one midsummer morning to walk its banks, from source to sea. Along the way, she explores the roles that rivers play in human lives, tracing their intricate flow through literature, mythology, and folklore.Lyrical and stirring, To the River is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape—and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.

Marj Charlier’s The Rebel Nun is based on the true story of Clotild, the daughter of a sixth-century king and his concubine, who leads a rebellion of nuns against the rising misogyny and patriarchy of the medieval church.At that time, women are afforded few choices in life: prostitution, motherhood, or the cloister. Only the latter offers them any kind of independence. By the end of the sixth century, even this is eroding as the church begins to eject women from the clergy...

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance, Book Two of the Stormlight Archive, continues the immersive fantasy epic that The Way of Kings began.Expected by his enemies to die the miserable death of a military slave, Kaladin survived to be given command of the royal bodyguards, a controversial first for a low-status "darkeyes." Now he must protect the king and Dalinar from every common peril as well as ...

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...