With only two days until Christmas, Hope Cove is pushed to the breaking point. The close‑knit Newfoundland town is rocked when word spreads that Susan Critch – a beloved daughter, friend, and soldier – has been declared missing in action overseas. As fear settles in, other families are quietly falling apart: a sudden layoff leaves the Sextons reeling, while a devastating diagnosis threatens to shatter the Stamp family forever. Watching his parishioners struggle, Father Walsh – himself no s...

On May Day, 2018, sixty meteors entered Earth’s atmosphere and exploded around the globe with a force greater than a nuclear blast. Earthquakes and tsunamis followed. Then China attacked Europe, Asia, and the United States in the belief the disaster was an act of war.Washington D.C. was obliterated. And the country’s leadership class was decimated. That left the surviving elements of the armed forces to try and impose order on chaos.As refugees across America engage in open...

Astronauts explore an alien spacecraft hurtling toward the sun in this Hugo and Nebula Award–winning novel—"a stone-cold classic" of hard sci-fi ( The Guardian).An enormous cylindrical object has entered Earth's solar system on a collision course with the sun. A team of astronauts are sent to explore the mysterious craft, which the denizens of the solar system name Rama. What they find is astonishing evidence of a civilization far more advanced th...

In the Retro Hugo Award–nominated novel that inspired the Syfy miniseries, alien invaders bring peace to Earth—at a grave price: "A first-rate tour de force" ( The New York Times).In the near future, enormous silver spaceships appear without warning over mankind's largest cities. They belong to the Overlords, an alien race far superior to humanity in technological development. Their purpose is to dominate Earth. Their demands, however, are surprisingly ben...

Can one spoiled cousin upend three kids' hard-won happiness? Find out in this hilarious, big-hearted, high stakes companion to the award-winning bestseller Parachute Kids! Perfect for fans of School Trip, A First Time for Everything, The Tryout, and The Squad.★ "Humorous and relatable...tugs at the heartstrings." -Kirkus Reviews, starred review★ "Powerful and triumphant." -Sc...

**Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Golden Girls in this humorous contemporary standalone fantasy about a group of former Chosen Ones coming out of retirement to save the world one last time"Buffy the Vampire Slayer meets Thursday Murder Club and thoroughly enjoyable from start to finish." —The Wall Street Journal**Three former Chosen Ones have joined together to spend their retirement in peace and quiet, running Second Life Books and Gifts ...

The mysteries of the monoliths are revealed in this inspired conclusion to the Hugo Award–winning Space Odyssey series—"there are marvels aplenty" ( The New York Times).On an ill-fated mission to Jupiter in 2001, the mutinous supercomputer HAL sent crewmembers David Bowman and Frank Poole into the frozen void of space. Bowman's strange transformation into a Star Child is traced through the novels 2010 and 2061. But now, a thousand years a...

Earth refugees threaten a peaceful space settlement in this influential novel from the Golden Age science fiction author of 2001: A Space Odyssey.More than two thousand years in the future, a small human colony thrives on the ocean paradise of Thalassa—sent there centuries ago to continue the human race before Earth's destruction.Thalassa's resources are vast—and the human colony has lived a bucolic life there. But their existence is threatened whe...

Commander Noa Sato doesn’t believe in aliens. She’s wrong.Imprisoned on her home planet, accused of aiding an alien invasion, Noa witnesses the beginning of a genocide—however, the murderers are not aliens, but her own people. Launching a daring attempt to reach the Galactic Fleet, she makes an unlikely ally in stranded professor, James Sinclair.But James is not all that he seems.James is not the man he once was. He has technological augments that g...

An evil spirit from the past haunts a family during the holidays. A woman's ghost watches her former friend take the wrong path. Two childhood friends are plagued by a sinister being.Presented with unspeakable danger and lessons learned at the cost of one's own soul, in The Heart of Elder Horrors: Holiday Edition, individuals will be tasked with using the lessons from the past to overcome the horrors of the present and future. Will they succeed? Or will the very a...

An Ancient Commentary Available for the First Time in EnglishFor the first time in English, discover the full text of Theodoret of Cyrrhus's Commentary on Isaiah. As part of the Ancient Christian Texts series, this volume provides a unique look into the biblical interpretation of the early church. Long thought to be lost, this commentary was rediscovered in 1899 and is now accessible in English to scholars, pastors, and students.Theodoret of Cyrrhu...

Welcome to Yesteryear, the small tourist town where every day is still 1950 or 1960-something. Poodle skirts are in, the sounds of Elvis Presley and The Supremes fill the air, everyone is kind, and bad things never happen... or at least that's what the brochure says.I wasn't looking for trouble when I returned to Yesteryear for my great-aunt's funeral, but I certainly came to the right place.My first surprise was that I'd inherited Aunt Della's bel...