**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...

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 ...

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...

At Valentine Loft's polished country estate, a weekend house party sparkles with flirtation, vanity, and razor-edged wit, but the guests' favorite pastime is a chilling one: talking murder. Around the veranda and dinner table, Anna Knox teases, Pauline Fuller glows with poised beauty, and Loft presides as a genial, self-assured host, while Bob Baldwin, Ned Knox, and the others trade theories about poison, strangling, stabbing, and the perfect undetectable crime. Into this clever, slightly ...

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...

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 ...

Eight spirited girls turn an ordinary summer into a whirl of jokes, teamwork, and affectionate mischief. From the first comic departure for the shore, with cuckoo clocks, banjos, cameras, and a coveted soup recipe in tow, their journey is marked by teasing, mock authority, and the easy camaraderie of close friends. At Long Beach, they crowd into a cottage that quickly becomes a bustling shared home, where windows are flung open, trunks are unpacked, rooms are claimed, and the practical bus...

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...

This elegant anthology celebrates vers de société in all its polished, playful variety: love lyrics, flirtatious exchanges, witty ballads, and graceful poems of courtship, beauty, and social life. Collected by Carolyn Wells, it gathers voices from Shakespeare, Herrick, Donne, Ben Jonson, Sidney, Tennyson, Browning, and many others, tracing the art of refined verse from Renaissance courtly song to Victorian and fin-de-siècle charm. The opening discussion wryly examines the elusive meaning o...

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.

This ebundle includes: All Systems Red, Artificial Condition, Rogue Protocol, Exit Strategy, Network Effect, and Fugitive Telemetry.Now an original series on Apple TV+, starring Alexander Skarsgård as Murderbot!The Murderbot Diaries, by bestselling author Martha Wells, is an action-packed, cerebral science fiction series about a self-hacking robot searching for the meaning of life.

Exoarchaeologist Evan McElroy has made a discovery about a long-extinct alien race. But his sponsors realize they can make huge gains if the new findings are kept completely secret. Step one of their plan is to kill the entire research team - starting with Evan.As Evan flees for his life, his trajectory awakens a long-buried struggle. The Infoterrorists, who believe all ideas are screaming to be free, have waited years for the right moment to take on the seven great families that c...