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Beneath the sands of Giza, something ancient has awakened.Not a relic. Not a tomb. Something alive. Something that has been waiting for the one person capable of holding it.Amara Luniel came to Egypt as a scientist. She leaves as something the universe has never seen before. The Codex has chosen...

The world was never meant to be ordinary.It was meant to be connected.When Talen crosses a hidden threshold, everything he thought was real begins to fall away. Beneath Earth exists a vast living network of realms where Pegasus command the skies, unicorns guard time itself, and ancient...

The Cosmic Spiral: Book Two – The Temporal FractureTime is breaking. History is being rewritten. And the fate of humanity hangs on a single choice.After surviving their first journey through the Spiral, Jack Magnus and his companions discover that the fractures in time are spreading faster...

France, August 1944. In this alternate history WW2 adventure, American and British forces struggle to trap and destroy the still-potent German armies defending Normandy. But the Allies face another formidable obstacle of their own making: a seething rivalry between generals leads to a high-level...

In this classic thriller, Ira Levin imagines Dr Josef Mengele's nightmarish plot to restore the Third Reich. Alive and hiding in South America, thirty years after the end of the Second World War, Mengele gathers a group of former colleagues for a sinister project - the creation of the Fourth...

The Providence Rider is the fourth installment in the extraordinary series of historical thrillers featuring Matthew Corbett, professional problem solver. The narrative begins in the winter of 1703, with Matthew still haunted by his lethal encounter with notorious mass murderer Tyranthus Slaughter. When an unexplained series of explosions rocks his Manhattan neighborhood, Matthew finds himself forced to confront a new and unexpected problem. Someone is trying - and trying very hard - to get his attention.

Tragedy has struck His Majesty's Aerial Corps, whose magnificent fleet of fighting dragons and their human captains valiantly defend England's shores against the encroaching armies of Napoleon Bonaparte. An epidemic of unknown origin and no known cure is decimating the noble dragons' ranks, forcing the hopelessly stricken into quarantine. Now, only Temeraire and a pack of newly recruited dragons remain uninfected; they stand as the only means of an airborne defense against France's ever-bolder sorties.

The year is 2393, and the world is almost unrecognizable. Clear warnings of climate catastrophe went ignored for decades, leading to soaring temperatures, rising sea levels, widespread drought, and the disaster now known as the Great Collapse of 2093. Dramatizing science in ways traditional nonfiction cannot, The Collapse of Western Civilization reasserts the importance of scientists and the work they do, providing a welcome moment of clarity amid the cacophony of climate-change literature. 

The original Immortals, masters of magic, once reigned over every world in the known universe - until they suddenly vanished. The gods and demons have been fighting over the remains of their fractured empire ever since. Millennia later, new angel Leda, a soldier in the gods' army, is recuperating from her transformation. Her recovery is cut short, however, when a curse strikes New York City, a spell targeted directly at the Legion of Angels. Even as the Legion's soldiers succumb to wrath, jealousy, and fear, the beasts on the plains of monsters are growing in numbers and power.

The No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller from the author of A Little Life 'I’m not sure I’ve ever missed the world of a book as much' – The Observer To Paradise is a bold, brilliant novel spanning three centuries and three different versions of the elusive idea of utopia; driven by Hanya...

It's June 1993—the Summer of Hate. The Iron Curtain has shattered, the Balkans burn, and now the storm breaks along the Danube. As NATO forces surge into Slovakia, the Soviet Union fights for its very survival. The 101st Airborne Division plunges deep behind enemy lines in a lightning air...

Rome never fell. And something beyond its frontier is emptying the villages.Amis would have lived among books. Until the dead came to his door.An ink-stained apprentice in Paris, Amis was more at home with his studies and his master’s eccentricities than with soldiers or swords. That life ends...

From the internationally bestselling author of The Book of Doors and The Society of Unknowable Objects comes a gripping speculative thriller in which a disgraced detective is recruited into a secret government project on a remote island lighthouse—where the impossible science of time travel is...

Agent J and his A-team follow confusing clues into the bowels of the Vatican underground and the corners of South Africa, to hunt down a man claiming to be the second coming of Christ and to stop a world cataclysm. Are the leads accurate or deceptions? Are the Archangels from heaven or someplace...

Grimm Intentions is the follow-on volumes to the Reaper Series. Jane, narrating in first person who delivers a riveting confessional that bridges fact and fiction in a tale of shadowy conspiracies and unrelenting duty. Chronicling her transformation from a covert operative in the Grimm Reapers-a...

On the walls of Jönköping, the men of the north made their stand and held the Crusade at bay, paying the price in blood and the death of kinsmen. The Norse jarls, shaken and bloodied, must rally around their wounded and weakened king or choose an alternative path to cling to power. As the icy grip of winter falls and the snow, mud, and blood bind the oath-sworn enemies together in a lethal contest, hopes of glory are cast aside in the desperate fight for survival. Two armies marched into the deep woods in winter. Only the Norns know who will emerge from the cruel embrace of the Frostforge.

Heen Gru-Bares has been SERIES 5 for most of his adult life, traveling from planet to planet collecting data and filing reports for the CHAIRS, who run the universe. And then he lands on the planet Firdus for his next assignment, and he meets Borns and Lan Zing and Ziga Mey and Dill Tudd, and something unsettling begins to stir within him, something unnerving and profoundly disruptive.

Maddie Ryan is a 24-year-old English teacher at a predominantly Black high school in Houston. Teaching is just a job for her; it pays the bills, and she lives for band practices with her queer punk band, Bunny Bloodlust. When Maddie learns that the neighborhood where she teaches and her band plays is to be sacrificed for a new electromagnetic hyperway out to the suburbs, she joins a Black-led organizing movement fighting for the neighborhood. 

London, 1527: Jane Seymour arrives at court to take her place with Queen Katherine. Discovering a court dividing into factions between Katherine and Anne Boleyn, Jane finds herself caught between the old world and the new. Determined to have a son, the king appears to be prepared to take whatever steps necessary to secure the Tudor dynasty. When King Henry VIII succeeds in his pursuit of Anne, Jane witnesses the unravelling of his interest as she, too, fails to deliver a son.

Tesla Crane, one of the richest women in the world, is on her honeymoon on an interplanetary space liner, cruising between Earth and Mars. She’s traveling incognito and is reveling in her anonymity. Then someone is murdered and her husband is named as the prime suspect. To save him from the frame-up, Tesla will risk exposure and face demons from her past. Even though doing so might make her the next victim.