How does an iconic brand die? For more than two decades, Blockbuster was America's favorite way to watch movies. Millions of customers visited more than eight thousand stores around the globe every week, providing more data about movie audiences than anyone in history had ever owned. If any company should have predicted the disruptive forces coming down the pike, it was Blockbuster. But as new threats emerged, none of its five CEOs had answers, and the company collapsed long before its tim...

An exotic and ambitious collection in which deceptively simple structures are built to carry an impressive weight of interest and reference. – Andrew MotionThe guardian spirit of this book is a mahogany sculpture called Eve, part of the permanent collection in the Graves Art Gallery in Sheffield. She's looking over her shoulder. Her gaze takes in journeys across the Atlantic, beaches in the Caribbean, a boarding school in Yorkshire, departures and...

Having given up her high-powered career in the FBI, Jac Swann left the Bureau for the quiet life of a small town sheriff in rural Virginia. But the bucolic escape takes a grisly turn when a brutal murder happens on her new turf, and the dead man is a local businessman who apparently had no enemies. But as Swann and her lead investigator, Rob Lyle, begin to dig deeply, all is not as it seems. The man was not the stellar character he appeared to be, and the secrets he held would give rise to...

Albert Luderman was new in town. He didn't know the unstated rules. He was in for a big hurt. Or was he?

Intrigue . . . . Murder . . . . BetrayalA Pulitzer Prize is the only major award Jonathon Stone has never won. And now that he's left investigative journalism to write nice little articles for magazines, it seems he never will. But the embers still smolder, and when Leo Zimmer crashes head on into his life with a ragged tale of blackmail aimed at the highest echelons of government and diplomacy, the seed for the Pulitzer once again germinates and grows, and Stone is drawn deeper an...

Murder . . . Romance . . . AdventureJake Starky gave thirty years to his country. He's earned his retirement. It's great. It's marvelous. He's stagnant. The man who made Inspector General of the Marine Corps before age fifty is rusting like a precision instrument left out in the rain.But when Carlos Dupree is brutally murdered in a dark alley on Capitol Hill and the police log it as a mugging gone awry, Dupree's rich widow has reasons to believe otherwise, and turns to Starky...

A highly-skilled practitioner of medicine saved Cooper's life and sanity while that same woman steals his heart.Being a SEAL is at the core of Cooper's being, but he isn't just doing his duty when the doctor who miraculously restored him to life is kidnapped. He's the first in line to volunteer in her rescue.Dr. Sasha Childs has devoted herself to helping others. Finding out her husband is helping himself to her best friend solidifies her sense of single-mi...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In this breakneck thriller, a young woman is confronted by the ghosts of her past and must race through the chaotic streets of New York City to find the truth—and hope that it doesn’t find her first. . . .“This mystery’s surprising twists will make your jaw drop.”—Cosmopolitan“Suspenseful, sensitive, sexy, subtle.”—Lee Child, author of the Jack Reacher seriesIf Ridley Jo...

*THE MIDNIGHT TRAIN, Matt Haig's new novel from the world of The Midnight Library, is out now*If you loved The Midnight Library, read How to Stop Time next!HOW MANY LIFETIMES DOES IT TAKE TO LEARN HOW TO LIVE?Tom Hazard has a dangerous secret. He may look like an ordinary 41-year-old history teacher, but he’s been alive for centuries. From Elizabethan England to Jazz-Age Paris, fr...

Have you ever wished you could start over? That you could leave everything and everyone behind and find a new life? Our narrator takes that risk. He leaves a weary, dull, anesthetized existence, abandons his family and sets out to live as an explorer in the jungle that is called New York City, in the long-shot hope of finding contentment. He changes his appearance and takes a new identity, but he is not prepared for the obstacles he encounters and the enemies who surround him. He descends ...

A New York Times and USA Today Bestseller!He Never Misses A TargetJake "the Snake" Sommers earned his SEAL code name by striking quickly and quietly-and with lethal force. That's also how he broke Michelle Carter's heart. It was the only way to keep her safe-from himself. Four long years later, Jake is determined to get a second chance. But to steal back into Michelle's loving arms, Jake is going to have to prove he can ta...