How does an iconic brand die? For more than two decades, Blockbuster was America's favorite way to watch movies. Millions of customers visited more than eight thousand stores around the globe every week, providing more data about movie audiences than anyone in history had ever owned. If any company should have predicted the disruptive forces coming down the pike, it was Blockbuster. But as new threats emerged, none of its five CEOs had answers, and the company collapsed long before its tim...

An exotic and ambitious collection in which deceptively simple structures are built to carry an impressive weight of interest and reference. – Andrew MotionThe guardian spirit of this book is a mahogany sculpture called Eve, part of the permanent collection in the Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield. She's looking over her shoulder. Her gaze takes in journeys across the Atlantic, beaches in the Caribbean, a boarding school in Yorkshire, departures and...

Murder . . . Romance . . . AdventureJake Starky gave thirty years to his country. He's earned his retirement. It's great. It's marvelous. He's stagnant. The man who made Inspector General of the Marine Corps before age fifty is rusting like a precision instrument left out in the rain.But when Carlos Dupree is brutally murdered in a dark alley on Capitol Hill and the police log it as a mugging gone awry, Dupree's rich widow has reasons to believe otherwise, and turns to Starky...

Albert Luderman was new in town. He didn't know the unstated rules. He was in for a big hurt. Or was he?

Having given up her high-powered career in the FBI, Jac Swann left the Bureau for the quiet life of a small town sheriff in rural Virginia. But the bucolic escape takes a grisly turn when a brutal murder happens on her new turf, and the dead man is a local businessman who apparently had no enemies. But as Swann and her lead investigator, Rob Lyle, begin to dig deeply, all is not as it seems. The man was not the stellar character he appeared to be, and the secrets he held would give rise to...

Intrigue . . . . Murder . . . . BetrayalA Pulitzer Prize is the only major award Jonathon Stone has never won. And now that he's left investigative journalism to write nice little articles for magazines, it seems he never will. But the embers still smolder, and when Leo Zimmer crashes head on into his life with a ragged tale of blackmail aimed at the highest echelons of government and diplomacy, the seed for the Pulitzer once again germinates and grows, and Stone is drawn deeper an...

A novel about love, loss and living in the moment, from the bestselling author of The HumansThe first rule is that you dont fall in love. There are other rules too, but that is the main one. No falling in love. No staying in love. No daydreaming of love. Because otherwise, of course, you slowly lose your mind . . .Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary forty-one-year-old, but he was born in 1581. Owing to a rare c...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this breakneck thriller, a young woman is confronted by the ghosts of her past and must race through the chaotic streets of New York City to find the truth—and hope that it doesn’t find her first. . . .“This mystery’s surprising twists will make your jaw drop.”—Cosmopolitan“Suspenseful, sensitive, sexy, subtle.”—Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher seriesIf Ridley Jo...

In this spectacular New York Times bestselling father/son collaboration that “barrels along like a freight train” (Publishers Weekly), Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?In a future so real and near it might be now, something happens when women go to sleep: they become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If they are awakened, if the gauze wrapping their bodi...

A highly-skilled practitioner of medicine saved Cooper's life and sanity while that same woman steals his heart.Being a SEAL is at the core of Cooper's being, but he isn't just doing his duty when the doctor who miraculously restored him to life is kidnapped. He's the first in line to volunteer in her rescue.Dr. Sasha Childs has devoted herself to helping others. Finding out her husband is helping himself to her best friend solidifies her sense of single-mi...

A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller!He Never Misses A TargetJake "the Snake" Sommers earned his SEAL code name by striking quickly and quietly-and with lethal force. That's also how he broke Michelle Carter's heart. It was the only way to keep her safe-from himself. Four long years later, Jake is determined to get a second chance. But to steal back into Michelle's loving arms, Jake is going to have to prove he can ta...

Bennie Rosato is a maverick lawyer, and business at her law firm has never been better. Then, without warning, a savage murder tears the firm apart. All evidence points to Bennie, who has motive aplenty and an unconfirmable alibi. Her world turns upside-down as the lawyer becomes the client, and the law is now after her. When another killing takes place, Bennie runs for her life, a fugitive armed only with her wits and courage. She is determined to find the real killer -- or die trying.