The world has ended, and now I’m stuck here travelling the wasteland, waiting to die, but I can’t. I meet some incredible people who can do amazing things. I live a little, die a little. Come do it with me.

**A USA TODAY BESTSELLER!A New York Public Library Best Book of 2023!A starry-eyed romantic, a cynical writer, and (the ashes of) an elderly woman take the road trip of a lifetime that just might upend everything they believe about true love.**Millicent Watts-Cohen is on a mission. When she promised her elderly best friend that she’d reunite her with the woman she fell in love with nearly eighty years ago, she never imagined that would mean traveling from D...

A surreal exploration of one woman’s life and death against a landscape of meat, office desks, and bad men.The Book of X tells the tale of Cassie, a girl born with her stomach twisted in the shape of a knot. From childhood with her parents on the family meat farm, to a desk job in the city, to finally experiencing love, she grapples with her body, men, and society, all the while imagining a softer world than the one she is in. Twining the drama of the ever...

Welcome to the Wasteland, a post-apocalyptic world where lawlessness reigns, and around every bend is another pack of bloodthirsty raiders.Kid is trying to survive in a world gone mad.Hungry, thirsty and alone in a desert wasteland, she's picked up on the side of the road by Wolf, Dolly, Tank and Pretty Boy - outlaws with big reputations and even bigger guns.But as they journey across the wild together, Kid learns that her newfound crew may not be th...

The world changed when she went to the bathroom.Now, she's dead.She needs to prove she is not—and was not—the Villain of the story. She needs to reconcile with the choices she's made in the past. She needs to fight, tooth and ice cream scoop, through a purgatorial videogame where questionable humor and gory boss fights are the norm.But at least the dog believes in her.Because, for someone who wants redemption and revenge in the same breath, the end of their ...

In these pages, you will thrill to some of the most exciting superhero stories ever to star a caped avenger, all written by DC Comics writer Robert T. Jeschonek. Don't miss these edgy, exciting, and surprising tales from this award-winning storyteller. This volume includes six superhero stories for one low price:"Forced Retirement": What if Alzheimer's struck the World's Mightiest Hero? His daughter, heroic Hericane, finds out the hard way. Gripped by dementia, godlike Epitome tear...

**In this harrowing young adult novel, two teens try to save a class of first graders from a gun-wielding soldier suffering from PTSD.“Fast-paced, suspenseful thriller. . . . The hours-long standoff comes to a dramatic and violent climax. . . . A vividly depicted and gripping tragedy.”—Kirkus Reviews“A well-imagined and tragic story with surprising characters and an unforgettable climax. It’s hard to believe this was written by a first-time novelist.”—Todd Strasser...

Some doors were never meant to be opened. Some tales were never meant to be set free. When seventeen-year-old Sahara O'Saughnessy discovers a rift into the realm of lore, the most haunting stories she's been telling her friends come to life, and she must find a way to stop them before they tear her world apart. RIFT explores loss, longing, and courage with spine-chilling suspense. Set within the Appalachian Mountains, it walks the boundaries between the known and the unknown.

Pretty Vicious is a short story set in the post-apocalyptic Wastelanders universe, about a young woman on the run in a lawless, post-nuclear America.In a lawless, post-nuclear wasteland, Dolly lives in relative comfort working as a prostitute. She's got food and shelter, which is more than most have, but she wants to step out of the frying pan and into the fire, to break free and risk life on her own in the wastes. She escapes with a gun, a knife, and the c...

Stay calm and remain HAPPY. Help is on the way.Perfect for fans of Gordon Korman and Jennifer L. Holm, this adventure-packed middle grade story, set in a world not too far from our own, follows a family that moves to a remote company town that seems perfect on the surface....Keegan knows there’s something off about Happy Town.The isolated, high-tech company town is too perfect—with a dome keeping out bad weather and self-driving vehicles rumbling throughout the town...

Welcome to Fort Hook, a lawless port city teeming with gangsters and smugglers and dipshits. At the bottom of the ladder is Batya, who's worked as muscle-for-hire since she was a little girl.Last month, she tried to go straight by running a very mediocre food truck. That went real bad real fast, and now she's being hounded by the local kneecappers. Desperate and broke, she's forced to team up with her estranged (and rude) sister Mina for a week of increasingly hairy courier jobs.

Hal remains undead for one purpose: to seek vengeance for her own demise. But with her body falling to pieces, her memories nearly gone, and a magical storm on the rise, that's a tough job.When a dryad offers to help Hal retrace her steps to find her killer, it seems fate might finally be on her side. Forgotten pasts are not always friendly, though. With the dryad's life hanging in the balance, Hal must decide whether to hold to the goals of her life or choose a new path in her und...