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Philip A. Lee, Editor, Michael A. Stackpole, Blaine Lee Pardoe, Kevin Killiany, Craig A. Reed, Jr., Chris Hussey, Jason Hansa, Lance Scarinci, Michael J. Ciaravella, Patrick Wynne, Aaron Cahall

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BattleTech Magazine

JUMP BACK INTO THE COCKPIT!Picking up the battle standard for BattleTech fiction, Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine continues the tradition of hard-hitting stories set in the war-torn interstellar future of the 31st century and beyond. Fire up your ’Mech’s fusion reactor, secure your neurohelmet, and wade into battle with stories from the merciless front lines of the Clan Invasion and other eras, conspiracy theory articles, game scenarios, and more from ve...

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Angela Patrick Wynn

If you persist, you will win… When Heavy-weight boxing champion, Stacey “Red Bull” Walker is sentenced to community service at an all-male charter school, it doesn’t improve his temper. The nerdy kids don’t eat right or exercise plus they make him nervous. What if they find out he can’t read?No-nonsense principal, Millicent Houston swears no more favors as she reprimands the arrogant athlete who has opinions about her leadership when she’d doing him a favor. Even though her student...

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Patrick Modiano

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Frank Wynne

Modiano's debut novel is a sardonic, often grotesque satire of France during the Nazi occupation. We are immediately plunged into the hallucinatory imagination of Raphaël Schlemilovitch, a young Jewish man, torn between self-aggrandisement and self-loathing, who may be the heir to a Venezuelan fortune, may have lived during the Nazi Occupation, may have rubbed shoulders with the most notorious collaborators and anti-Semites of the time, may even have been the lover of Eva Braun . . . or he...

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Michelle Skeen, PsyD, Matthew McKay, PhD, Patrick Fanning, Kelly Skeen

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Heather Wynne

In an age of social media, texting, and ever-evolving technology, it's easy to forget how to engage in real, face-to-face communication, a critical skill for your future success! As you become more connected to your smartphone and the internet, your ability to connect in person may diminish. But technology doesn't replace the need for effective communication skills. In fact, successful personal and professional relationships are dependent upon connecting with people face-to-face.

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Virginie Despentes

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Gina Rogers, Patrick Zeller

Translated by

Frank Wynne

The French novel taking the world by storm: an ultracontemporary Dangerous Liaisons about sex, feminism, and addiction.Oscar is a B-list novelist in his forties. He used to be an alcoholic and a cokehead, but now he keeps himself busy by ranting on social media. When Rebecca, an actress whose looks he insulted, sends him an angry email, they strike up a combative correspondence—at the very moment that Oscar is accused of sexual harassment by his former pub...

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Nicolás Ferraro

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Stacy Gonzalez

Translated by

Mallory Craig-Kuhn

Fifteen-year-old Ámbar has never known any parent other than her father, Víctor Mondragón, nor any life other than his. On any given Friday night, Ámbar longs to be at the arcade or a rock concert, but she’s more likely to be patching up Víctor’s latest bullet hole in a dingy motel or creating a new set of fake identities for the both of them.When a tattooed mercenary kills Víctor’s best friend and vows that Víctor is next, father and daughter set off on a joyride across Argentina ...

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Fiona McFarlane

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Emma Jones

**"McFarlane’s skill in evoking individual inner lives and Jones’s deftness in capturing their spirit make every character distinct." —The Washington Post on The Sun Walks Down, one of The Washington Post's 10 Best Audiobooks of 2023A gripping, enigmatic collection of linked short stories about the reverberations of a serial killer’s crimes in the lives of everyday people.**In 1998, an apparently ordinary Australian man is arrested and charged for a series...

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Philip A. Lee, Editor

THE WAR RAGES ON!Shrapnel: The Official BattleTech Magazine returns with more explosive BattleMech action from the 31st century! Experience tales of hard-won survival from the gaming world of Solaris VII, the wilds of the Deep Periphery, and the annals of Clan history. Dive deep into in-depth technology articles, technical readouts, conspiracy theories, war-game and role-playing adventures, and more—all from veteran BattleTech authors, fan favorites, and o...

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Juan Gabriel Vásquez

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Sheldon Romero

Translated by

Anne McLean

An epic yet intimate novel about a Colombian man caught up in the sweep of global historical and ideological revolutions.The Colombian film director, Sergio Cabrera, is in Barcelona for a retrospective of his work. It's a hard time for him: his father, famous actor Fausto Cabrera, has just died; his marriage is in crisis; and his home country has rejected peace agreements that might have ended more than fifty years of war. In the course of a few intense days, as hi...

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Evie Wyld

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Sebastian Humphreys, Vivien Carter

From the award-winning novelist, a ravishing new novel set between London and rural Australia, both a love story and a ghost storyMax didn’t believe in an afterlife. Until he died. Now, as a reluctant ghost trying to work out why he is still here, he watches his girlfriend, Hannah, lost in grief in the apartment they shared and begins to realize how much of her life was invisible to him.In the weeks and months before Max’s death, Hannah was haunted by the s...

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Yasunari Kawabata

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Ami Okumura Jones

Available in English for the very first time, a powerful, poignant novel about three half sisters in post-war Japan, from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Snow Country.With the Second World War only a few years in the past, and Japan still reeling from its effects, two sisters—born to the same father but different mothers—struggle to make sense of the new world in which they are coming of age. Asako, the younger, has become obsessed with locating a third ...

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Gianfranco Calligarich

Narrated by

Mark Meadows

Translated by

Howard Curtis

The first novel from award-winning author Gianfranco Calligarich to be published in English, Last Summer in the City is a witty and despairing classic of Italian literature. Biting, tragic, and endlessly quotable, this translated edition features an introductory appreciation from longtime fan New York Times bestselling author André Aciman.In a city smothering under the summer sun and an overdose of la dolce vita, Leo Gazarra spends his time in an ...