Stranded beyond the edge of civilization.One crew. One secret. One shot at survival.Commander Jephora Cochrane and the crew of the Jakob Waltz stumble upon a secret lost to time — a half-billion-year-old relic that could change humanity’s path through history.Cut off from civilization and surrounded by uncertainty, Cochrane must lead his crew through chaos, betrayal, and shifting loyalties toward a discovery powerful enough...

For a thousand years, humanity’s empire ruled the stars. Now it rots from within. A dynasty despised as illegitimate has bled the realm dry, and its latest sovereign—a mad empress—drives the Fleet into civil war. Admirals rebel. Generals turn traitor. Sibling fights sibling as the empire tears itself apart.With the Navy shattered, the frontier lies exposed. From the galactic badlands, barbarian hordes surge forward—hard men and harder worlds, bred on violence and hunger. They plund...

The wise and charming international bestseller and hit Japanese movie—about a young woman who loses everything but finds herself—a cozy fiction tale of new beginnings, romantic and family relationships, and the comfort that can be found in books.Twenty-five-year-old Takako has enjoyed a relatively easy existence—until the day her boyfriend Hideaki, the man she expected to wed, casually announces he’s been cheating on her and is marrying the other woman. Suddenly, T...

The New York Times bestselling origin story of the Master Chief—part of the expanded universe based on the award-winning video game series Halo!The 26th century. Humanity has expanded beyond Earth’s system to hundreds of planets that colonists now call home. But the United Earth Government and the United Nations Space Command is struggling to control this vast empire. After exhausting all strategies to keep seething colonial insurrections from exp...

“Jody is a masterful storyteller, with beautifully developed characters, incredible landscapes and every now and then she throws in a plot twist that will leave you reeling.” —Goodreads reviewDid you hear the rumor about the girl from the wrong side of the tracks who intentionally got pregnant with her wealthy boyfriend’s baby?It's me. I’m that girl.Now an entire small town is convinced I intended to sink my claws into whichever of the King...

**2025 Oprah’s Book Club PickNew York Times Bestseller“Fresh, wise, funny, and compassionate…Cinematic from the outset, Dream State opens (just as if a circular lens were unscrewing) upon a beloved old family homestead, site of a doomed wedding—descriptions so warm and attentive, a reader can’t help falling in headfirst…a wonderful feast, and feat.”—The Boston Globe“A transporting wonder…Puchner’s final chapter is one of the most to...

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An epic adventure-the most brilliant escape and evasion from the Nazis ever written.Eric Williams, a Royal Air Force bomber captain, was shot down over Germany in 1942 and imprisoned in Stalag Luft III, the infamous German POW camp. Digging an underground tunnel hidden beneath a wooden vaulting horse, he managed to escape after ten months and, accompanied by a fellow officer, made his way back to England. In this thinly fictionalized retelling, Williams relates his...

Most startups fail. But many of those failures are preventable. The Lean Startup is a new approach being adopted across the globe, changing the way companies are built and new products are launched.Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty. This is just as true for one person in a garage or a group of seasoned professionals in a Fortune 500 boardroom. What they have in common ...

One afternoon, every single machine in sixteen-year-old Adam’s high school computer lab stops working. Outside, cars won’t start, phones are down, and a blackout is widespread. Soon Adam will discover that the problem has paralyzed not just his town but the whole country and beyond. As resources dwindle, crises mount, and chaos descends, he will see that his suburban neighborhood must band together for protection.Violence will erupt and Adam will understand that having a police cap...

A vanished colony. A forbidden landing,And an impossible choice that could cost it all.Captain Ethan Walker is just trying to haul freight, keep his ship flying, and live by the rules. But when he arrives at Starlight Colony with his cargo and two paying passengers, he finds it eerily abandoned.No people. No remains. No explanation.Just empty buildings and an echoing silence where one hundred thousand people should be.

Captain Siobhan Dunmoore wanted to believe the long war against the invading Shrehari Empire had finally banished the ghosts of her past. But when her ship Iolanthe, a heavily armed man-of-war masked as a bulk freighter, finds itself in need of replenishment after a long patrol spent stalking human and alien foes, she is confronted with events eerily reminiscent of a past she thought buried. When evidence of treason and marauders bold enough to strike a Navy outpost leave ...