It's 2005. Blogs are becoming a thing, flip phones are the epitome of texting tech, and AOL still mails out those freebie trial discs.They're also tough times in Detroit, especially for Hamtramck girl and part-time tech blogger Toni Dzielny. Within days, she's lost her job, has to swear off coffee, and finds out her mom has been hiding a serious illness so as not to worry her.As if that weren't enough, a close friend is murdered less than two miles from her house. And the f...

Reason and science gave the Recindian Compact wonders like steam engines, telegraphs, and gunpowder. The world had order. It made sense.Until one night two multi-colored bands of light split the sky, spanning the horizons like rings around the planet. Soon after, unnatural storms assaulted the Compact's cities. Whispers spread of ghoulish creatures haunting Compact forests. And then a message from a legendary race called the Mystics - "ally with us to fight the growing evil, or we ...

Andea is a land where humans have learned to harness the life essence in all living beings to magically shape the world around them. It is a place where warrior-priests called dahkshari keep order by serving as judge, jury, and executioner. And where common Andeans called heretics strike out into the monster-haunted frontier to escape the dogmas of Andea's cleric lords.Raven Byrne is a novice dahkshari hunting heretic criminals when he discovers that an Andean war hero wants to use...

For Evereska, the last elven refuge on Faerûn, it’s a battle for survival.For the Chosen of Mystra, it’s a potent rival for their goddess’s dominion over magic.For the human realms of Faerûn, it’s a permanent shift in the balance of power.For a lost race of powerful archwizards, it’s a flying mountain they call home.From the author of The Summoning, Beyond the High Road, and Death of the Dragon (with Ed Greenwood), the Realms-shaking Return of the Archwizard...

Florida has two seasons. The rainy season brings hurricanes, the dry season delivers tourists - both can be nasty.Sherri Travis is tending bar at the Bath and Tennis Club where two women have been murdered. A rich socialite, who comes in daily for her quota of side-cars, decides to commit suicide by being the next victim,but first she has to decide who the murderer is.Sherri pours the drinks and listens to the stories, trying to make sense of it all.

A Darker Shade of Magic, from #1 New York Times bestselling author V. E. SchwabKell is one of the last Antari**—**magicians with a rare, coveted ability to travel between parallel Londons; Red, Grey, White, and, once upon a time, Black.Kell was raised in Arnes**—Red London—**and officially serves the Maresh Empire as an ambassador, traveling between the frequent bloody regime changes in White London and the court of George...

Now the people know that the dragon minions of Takhisis, Queen of Dragons, have returned. The people of all nations prepare to fight to save their homes, their lives, and their freedom. But the races have long been divided by hatred and prejudice. Elven warriors and human knights fight among themselves. It seems the battle has been lost before it begins.The companions are separated, torn apart by war. A full season will pass before they meet again--if they meet again. As the darkne...

For the first time as a premium edition, a reissue of the fourteenth J. P. Beaumont novel by New York Times bestselling author J. A. Jance.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab"Addictive and immersive, A Gathering of Shadows cements this series as a must-read." —Entertainment Weekly, grade AFour months have passed since the shadow stone fell into Kell's possession. Four months since his path crossed with Delilah Bard. Four months since Rhy was wounded and the Dane twins fell, and the stone was cast with Holland's dying body through t...

A TEENAGE GIRL IS MISSING. THE CLOCK IS TICKING. FIND HER, BEFORE HE DOES . . .'I LOVE THIS BOOK' LEE CHILD_______With the police struggling, CSI Darby McCormick is shocked to discover a terrified woman hiding in the shadows of a crime scene.A woman who was abducted herself, five years before, and has managed to escape.She could be their only lead.But what Darby doesn't know is that a serial killer ha...

On a warm September evening in the Millers Kill community center, five veterans sit down in rickety chairs to try to make sense of their experiences in Iraq. What they will find is murder, conspiracy, and the unbreakable ties that bind them to one another and their small Adirondack town.The Rev. Clare Fergusson wants to forget the things she saw as a combat helicopter pilot and concentrate on her relationship with Chief of Police Russ Van Alstyne. MP Eric McCrea needs to control th...

"Lucian was about to go up the steps to the loft when the soft sound of steel rang out from above. It was not at all loud, but the sound a blade would make being slowly pulled from its scabbard. Many years spent in the woods listening to the ambient rhythms of nature had trained his ears to pick up such out of place sounds. His body reacted reflexively, without thought as though he had done so thousands of times before. He jumped back off the steps just in time to see the glint of a sword ...