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Jennifer Charles (JC) has sort of figured out their life. They’re two months out of prison, clean, and sober, and just got a job at a coffeeshop: CaFae Latte, owned by the mysterious and powerful fairy who goes by Violet. They’re getting along with their knife-happy coworker and have even started dating one of the regulars who practices witchcraft.

A broken soldier. A second chance he never asked for. Trace Veeran was a veteran killing himself one bottle at a time—until he woke in a world where magic is currency, monsters rule the wilds, and a System measures your worth in numbers. The same damage that nearly destroyed him now makes him immune to the poisons and corruption spreading through this world. But immunity isn't freedom. Now armed with a weapon that has its own agenda, hunted by factions that want to control what he's becoming, Trace must carve out survival in a realm that does not believe in redemption.

Brought to by Penguin. The thrilling new novella in the globally bestselling series plus two gripping new stories from the master of suspense. 23 ½ Lies When SFPD Sergeant Lindsay Boxer is called to investigate a crime scene, nothing can prepare her for what she finds: her estranged father...

Marlowe never wanted to spend her week locked in a courthouse serving jury duty. But on the second day, a catastrophic EMP strikes, shutting down power, communication, and society as she knows it. Trapped in a city unraveling into chaos, Marlowe's only ally is Cristian, a hardened sheriff's deputy with a past as fractured as the streets they now walk.

When a commercial flight crashes, all 184 people on board perish—with the singular exception of a two-year-old boy named Ethan, who’s entrusted to family friends Matthew and Nicole per his late parents’ wishes. From the afterlife, Ethan’s parents, Tag and Amanda, watch helplessly as Nicole’s secret addictions, the family’s financial struggles, and the public’s fascination with their story ignite events that threaten their son’s welfare.

Master Specialist Kerry Sevvers and his illegal AI Six risked everything to expose the return of humanity's greatest enemy: the Concordat and their once-human cyborgs known as the Lost. Now a military tribunal seeks to silence him, and a Division architect wants Six for himself. When the Concordat derelict returns with a vengeance, unleashing its army of Lost on the Colonial Defense Force's orbital headquarters, Sev and Six must fight to protect the very organization that wants to destroy them. Failure means a total defeat for the CDF and the annihilation of the Three Colonies.

Technical Specialist Kerry Sevvers commands hundreds of combat drones through the AI cluster in his neural implant, making him the Autonomous Weapons Division's deadliest operator against alien raiders. But his secret weapon is also his greatest crime. Six is an unsanctioned intelligence with no safety protocols, no oversight, and one obsession: finding Sev's mother, taken by raiders sixteen years ago. Six is illegal. Six is unpredictable. And when everything goes wrong, Six is his only hope.

Before Their Crimes: Childhood Trauma, Youth Crime, and the Surprising Journey to Adult Healing is a groundbreaking book that sheds new light on the relationship of childhood trauma and juvenile crime. Wendy Smith uses the framework of Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) to explain how the toxic stress of early childhood trauma can make children vulnerable to committing criminal acts. Smith draws from interviews with twenty men and women from across the racial and social divide who spent years in prison after committing serious crimes as children.

Kerry Sevvers is a man on the edge, having sacrificed his career and freedom in relentless pursuit of the Concordat. Haunted by his and Six’s costly victory at Aegia Prime, Sev must navigate a treacherous web of conspiracies in a race to stop an even darker power from consuming the Three Colonies. But Six is evolving, becoming something more, even as Sev must forge an unlikely alliance with the AI and the enigmatic Section Delta to wage a final battle against humanity’s archenemy.

The night they took my son was the worst night of my entire life. I'm his mother, after all. I was the one who needed to protect him, and I failed miserably. Three long years later, he came back. It was a miracle. It should've been the best day of my life, but he came back a different child—violent and troubled. The monster who abducted him must've done unimaginable things to him, and the worst part is—he won't say a word. I can't blame him one bit. It was my fault; I should've saved him.

When Bresto's spec ops team boarded a derelict to rescue an undercover operative, they found themselves inside a Concordat forge ship, face to face with the ancient enemy that scoured Dead Earth centuries ago. They barely escaped, but something awoke inside that ship, and now it's coming for his home world Aegia. Bresto has seen what the Concordat do to the people they take. He fought the Lost—the twisted things that used to be human—aboard that derelict. Now, while commanders debate and politicians deny, he knows his family is running out of time.

The spectacular rise and dramatic fall of super-assassin Carlos the Jackal—one of history’s most infamous terrorist masterminds and the inspiration for numerous celebrated works of pop culture—told with new revelations from the Jackal himself, by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of...

I think we should take it through Guatemala. A random text from a stranger inspires agoraphobic Colin to leave New York. His first stop is Brownsville, Texas, where he meets the sender, half-Mayan Luci Bolon, her ancient but feisty great-uncle Ernesto, and Miss Mango, a bright-orange Kubota tractor. Ernesto’s dream is that Miss Mango be driven to Belize and given to the family he left behind nearly seventy years ago. Colin agrees to join Luci on the long journey through Central America.

What would you do to protect what’s yours? Donnie’s whole world changed the day he met Nate at The Stop, a cruising spot outside a small Texas town. Nate saw him, knew him, cared for him, and then one day, in an incomprehensible act of violence, Nate was taken from him. Broken but not beaten, Donnie steps into Nate’s role at The Stop with one goal in mind: Find the man who murdered his lover and see justice served no matter the cost.

Rev your engines and get ready for this exciting look at how Dale Earnhardt Jr. lived up to his family legacy and became one of the greatest professional stock car racing drivers in the world. No one was surpised when Dale Earnhardt Jr. began his racing career at age seventeen. His father and...