**A New York Times, USA Today, and National Indie Bestseller!Everyone's favorite lethal SecUnit is back in the next installment of Martha Wells' bestselling and award-winning Murderbot Diaries series.**Having someone else support your bad decision feels kind of good.After volunteering to run a rescue mission, Murderbot realizes that it will have to spend significant time with a bunch of humans it doesn't know.Including human children. U...

This spirited, affectionate book celebrates floor play as a serious art of childhood imagination, happiness, and future-minded thinking. Speaking as a father and observer, the narrator argues that the best indoor games depend on a proper play space and a carefully chosen stock of toys—especially soldiers, bricks, boards, railway pieces, and figures that can be endlessly rearranged into islands, hills, bridges, stations, and cities. At the heart of the book is a witty, practical defense of ...

Carolyn Wells's charade collection turns language into a game of wit, misdirection, and discovery. Each short poem offers a compact riddle built from puns, double meanings, sound play, and clever clues, asking readers to solve the "first," "last," and "whole" of each hidden answer. The verses range widely through history, myth, religion, literature, and daily life, drawing on kings and queens, soldiers and sailors, schoolboys and scholars, storms and seasons, gardens and inns, animals, clo...

Betty's Happy Year follows fifteen-year-old Betty McGuire through a season of merriment, mischief, and family affection at Denniston Hall. Newly reunited with her mother after inheriting a fortune, Betty lives in a warm, unconventional household with Jack and little Polly, where her lively imagination and generous heart keep every day full of promise. From a sparkling winter sleigh ride in her new cutter with her pony, Dixie, to cheerful visits with friends like May Fordham, the story unfo...

In Carolyn Wells's Faulkner's Folly, secrets gather as tightly as the suspects. Joyce Stannard, still haunted by her late husband's death, is drawn toward a polished, unsettling letter from the self-styled psychic Orienta, despite warnings from Bobsy, Barry, and Mrs. Faulkner. Natalie proves unexpectedly versed in occult matters, and Joyce, determined to follow every possible clue, brings Orienta back for a séance and even invites detective Robert Roberts to witness it. In the shadowed stu...

Winner of the Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award for Best NovellaWinner of the Alex AwardA New York Times and USA Today BestsellerNow an Apple Original series from Academy Award nominees Paul Weitz and Chris Weitz and starring Emmy Award winner Alexander Skarsgård.A murderous android discovers itself in All Systems Red, a tense science fiction adventure by Martha ...

A 2026 Hugo Award Finalist for Best Novelette!Perihelion and its crew embark on a dangerous new mission at a corporate-controlled station in the throes of a hostile takeover...At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Winner of the Locus Award!From the breakout SFF superstar author of Murderbot comes a remarkable story of power and friendship, of trust and betrayal, and of the families we choose."I didn't know you were a... demon.""You idiot. I'm the demon."Kai's having a long day in Martha Wells' WITCH KING....After being murdered, his consciousness dormant and unaware of the passing of time while confined in an elaborate...

When a Victorian scientist propels himself into the year 802,701 AD, he is initially delighted to find that suffering has been replaced by beauty, contentment and peace. Entranced at first by the Eloi, an elfin species descended from man, he soon realises that this beautiful people are simply remnants of a once-great culture - now weak and childishly afraid of the dark. They have every reason to be afraid: in deep tunnels beneath their paradise lurks another race descended from humanity - ...

Murderbot—the sardonic, almost-homicidal, media-loving android created by MarthaWells—has proven to be one of the most popular characters in 21st century science fiction.Everything that makes this protagonist (it would be wrong to call Murderbot a hero) beloved offans is on display in Compulsory.While trying to watch episode 44 of The Rise and Fall of Sanctuary Moon, Murderbot is—again,what is it with humans?—distracted by some...

Written between 1895 and 1897, H. G. Wells' The War of the Worlds is one of the earliest stories that detail a conflict between mankind and an extraterrestrial race. Filmed numerous times, this science fiction classic retains its power to disturb readers more than a century later.

"As impeccably crafted as a Dior gown and as seductive as the scent of Guerlain’s Shalimar, this is pure reading bliss." — Library JournalSet against the backdrop of mid-century Parisian glamour and the timeless art of perfumery, a captivating tale of resilience, love, and the intoxicating pursuit of passion.Élodie Limeaux's beloved mother, Aurore, was the most legendary perfumer in France before World War...