He was born feet first. His mother did not survive, and the nickname, Agrippa--mother killer--stuck. But the schoolyard taunting only served to hone his predilection for aggression. He defended a bullied young boy, Octavius, who turned out to be the nephew of Caesar himself, a chance encounter that would change the trajectory of his life. He eventually joined the ranks of the legionnaires and his prowess on the battlefield spoke for itself. When Caesar was murdered in the Senate, Octavius inherited the empire in name only. To assume the mantle he would have to fight for it, and Agrippa would be his closest advisor and the merciless agent of his military will.

 

Once comfortably middle class in Korea, John and Helen Koh and their three children - Bo, DH, and Mido - find their lives upended by the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Striving to regain their footing, they eventually settle in California - where new vistas of opportunity open up for the children as their parents must adjust to a new life in which they set their sights on whatever it takes to provide for their children's futures. The Kohs, their friends, relatives, and even their foes move in and out of each other's lives as they navigate new courses across the years, always nursing the almost all-consuming faith that education will lead the next generation to success and security.

 

In 1940 Paris under Nazi occupation, the Ritz Hotel remains open as a gathering place for German officers. Its head barman, Frank Meier, continues his work while hiding that he is Jewish. As scrutiny intensifies, Frank quietly forms alliances and uses his position to help protect other Jewish families in the city, risking exposure each night while trying to safeguard those close to him.

 

Born under the shadow of a birthing tree sacred to generations of Mi'kmaq women, Aliet Paul grows up outside a small Nova Scotia town with her fierce, loving grandmother Kiju. Her mother died bringing Aliet into the world under that very tree; her father remains a mystery no one will name. Aliet's childhood is shaped by seasonal apple pickers, the medicinal wisdom of the old ways, and the quiet, steadfast presence of John, a boy who becomes her anchor. Years later, when the call comes that Kiju has died, Aliet returns home to a crumbling house, a community scattered, and a past she thought she'd outrun.

 

The wolf Blacktail is faithful to his Forest God, but in these times, faith is not enough. His world is besieged by men. Soon his territory will be overrun, and then there will be nowhere left to go. When his mate, a house dog, is killed, Blacktail rebels. He invades the house of her owners, seeking vengeance. Blacktail's fury catches the notice of an ancient and terrible feline witch, who makes an offer. What if Blacktail could end the human race responsible for the death of his family and for the destruction of the natural world, altogether? To do so, Blacktail must find and wake the Forest God. But what will be the price of waking him?

 

In 1988, eight men in Kingston, Jamaica, begin rehearsals for a play. The men are strangers to one another and each has a different reason for being involved. But they all share one inescapable truth: All of them are gay--a "battyman" in Jamaican argot--and all of them must contend with the dangers that such a truth lays bare. One night a mob savagely attacks them, killing one of the men. For the survivors, their recovery is as much emotional as it is physical. As their bodies heal, each man grapples with the violence, the hatred, and the rage that the attack made plain.

 

She is Zora Ravenal: Knight Mage, Bear of the North, and only hope of her people against the ravenous empire. He is Aleksander the Sadistic: divinely ordained Emperor and Royal Mage, hellbent on capturing Zora once and for all. The Emperor will use everything and everyone in his power to possess her, even Tarantula, the deadliest assassin in the empire's arsenal. But there is something they don't realize-- Zora is hunting them back... For each, this obsession might prove their downfall. Who will bend the knee first?

 

Los Angeles, 2031: After the collapse of the United States, peacekeeping troops withdraw from the city and the curfew is finally lifted. Ari Waker and her roommate pass the gauntlet of bomb-sniffing dogs, shanty towns, and Red Cross tents as they walk to a party. The mood is ecstatic inside the apartment - and then - a shift. An uncanny doppelganger stumbles through the crowd and out into the night, and Kareem, the party's host, vanishes into thin air. Emily St. John Mandel unfurls a story that takes us from a future America splintered by civil war to the seaside cliffs of Greece where weapons dealers hide in an elegant resort, and from the domed city of Paris to a colony on the moon.

 

Slyly funny and disarmingly tender, Fallow is the story of a young woman who signs up to be the world's first in-house corporate surrogate, then finds herself caught up in a social experiment of another kind. Woundingly funny and deeply moving, Sarah Anderson's Fallow is a tender, hilarious, alarmingly real vision of a woman balancing on the knife-edge of capitalism as she comes to realize who she wants to be.

 

After Paul and Chelsea Tanner's fairytale wedding, their future is full of promise. But their honeymoon to Paris takes a dark, shocking turn when they are kidnapped while on a day trip to the French countryside. Who would target them, and why? It turns out this is not the first crime of its kind. The search for clues soon stretches across borders, with the FBI, CIA, and French Intelligence trying to work together to put the pieces of the puzzle together. Struggling to find answers, a young lawyer is recruited to be the bait in an elaborate CIA operation.

 

Trauma nurse Harlow Frye values the small town of Knightly and her close circle of friends, but her life is disrupted by anonymous threats and a friend’s death from a toxin. When she finds an injured CIA operative, Hawkin Wilder, she cares for him while investigating. As more attacks follow, Harlow and her friends work together to uncover the source before further harm occurs.

 

On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was two months old, her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never came home. Her father and the stepmother who raised her couldn't have loved her more, but she still grew up with a healthy dread of disasters. Now an adult, she runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness, mapping out ways to save lives during storms, epidemics, and airplane crashes. She and her husband, Jesse - a police polygraph expert with his own history of crisis - have found a love that is a solace in a dangerous world. But then the unexpected upends their new marriage, leading them both to question everything they thought they knew.

 

For rising young actors Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old is the opportunity they’ve both been waiting for. They’re on the verge of breaking out, and maybe even falling in love. Soon, the movie is blowing up, and so are their lives—in exciting, but also terrifying, ways. John Green blends a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story with an unflinching examination of the insatiable attention economy, juxtaposing Kai and Juniper's story with the on-screen study of Warhol’s life at the dawn of celebrity culture.

 

Kyoko Tanihara loves books, but working at the Musashino Bookshop is wearing her down. Instead of championing stories, she spends her days clashing with her manager, Takeru Yamamoto, whose fixation on self-help titles and awkward comments constantly frustrate her. While trying to build a place for herself in publishing, Kyoko receives a book that reframes her complaints and changes how she sees Yamamoto and her work.

 

Something lives under Willa's bed. As an adult, her fondest childhood memories are of the invisible entity under her bed who taught her how to read. Now thirty-two, Willa is a reclusive but successful painter until a news report exposes her as the controversial survivor of the unsolved Rapture Mystery Slayings, a small-town tragedy that splashed across headlines during her senior year of high school. Six teenagers died in the woods while Willa walked free, and everyone thinks she killed them. When a funeral calls Willa reluctantly back to her sleepy hometown, she is drawn toward the monster she left behind--and becoming the villain her hometown has always believed her to be.

 

It's the picture-perfect wedding weekend, but Willa Sullivan is having a bad time. She's excited to celebrate her best friends' big wedding, but this is the first time she's seen her ex-fiance in months, and he brought a date. Things start to look up when Willa meets Danny, the groom's charming and single childhood best friend, until a masked killer terrorizes the reception. Willa and Danny fight to save the ones they love and survive the night, but the killer is unrelenting. A final girl Willa is not. Or is she? She wakes up and it's the morning of the wedding. After a horrifying turn of events, Willa comes to understand that she's stuck in a loop of carnage and terror.

 

Missy Cooke grew up largely apart from her father, Marty Cooke, a Silicon Valley tech founder focused on work and his new family. As an adult pursuing a tech career, she struggles with his expectations. When illness forces Marty to step down from ipryy, he names Missy interim CEO. Thrust into boardroom politics and public scrutiny, she must manage the company, navigate strained relationships, and define herself beyond her father's legacy.

 

It's business as usual for Ship Leader Parnell Shi-Sawahla and the crew of the corvette Sassafras. Ride a Massif to a new system, fight the enemy, repeat. For more than two hundred years humans have been hitching rides on these sentient, starfaring mountain ranges, colonizing planets and exporting an on and off again war between Earth and Mars. But the big questions are always there: Why do the Massifs carry humans to the stars? What's in it for the Massifs? Ship crews aren't supposed to ask these questions, and they definitely aren't supposed to talk to Massif avatars. But now Parnell and his crew must try to find the answers, to save not only themselves but the future of humanity.

 

All the Sinners Bleed meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this literary thriller following the grandson of a famous Black actress from the 1940s and 1950s, now a filmmaker himself, who returns to his grandmother’s cabin retreat in the California mountains only to encounter the legacy of her rage.

 

At their twenty-fifth high school reunion, four former best friends discover that growing up is way messier than anticipated--and the past isn't nearly as finished as they thought.

 

What if your own family history turns out to be a terrifying lie? Every family has its story, and this one's deadly. Two sisters. One secret. And a race against time to find the explosive truth in this twisty and captivating thriller by USA Today bestselling author Hank Phillippi Ryan.

 

The Nantucket Christmas Stroll is the most wonderful time of year on the island, filled with holiday cheer and festive decorations. Excited holidaymakers crowd the streets, Santa arrives on a Coast Guard boat, carolers serenade with classic Christmas carols, and shop windows glitter with twinkling lights and merry displays. At the heart of this celebration is the Parsons family and the sparkling house party they host each year. Brick Parsons and his wife, Jane, eagerly anticipate the arrival of their three adult children who are all coming home for the holidays. But the holiday cheer is soon overshadowed by the stress of the season as secrets are revealed and emotions run high.

 

A disquieting, atmospheric debut horror novel about a young woman investigating her mother’s disappearance at an abandoned Nevada observatory. Haunting, darkly comic, and captivating, Observer reveals the pure cosmic terror of the desert, a place of wonder and menace, asking what happens when we look out at nature and find something inhuman looking back.

 

There is something haunting Nuhad's childhood home in Haifa. Cats avoid its perimeter, strange noises come from within, and residents have mysteriously vanished without a trace. After Nuhad passes away, her granddaughter, Marina, is determined to visit her grandmother's home after a lifetime of being kept in the dark about her culture and family history. Marina's mother, Haifa -- named for the city that was lost to their family -- reluctantly agrees to her trip, though she knows firsthand that some secrets are better left buried. But the house is no longer a home. It is a painful, festering wound that infects everything it touches.

 

For generations, Wester House has stood as a monument to influence and mystery in a small North Carolina town, and the Wester women have held the community enthralled. People respect them, many fear them, but no one truly understands them. How do they possess such an intimate, unsettling knowledge of those around them? Why is no one ever allowed inside the house? And why is Willamena Wester finally reaching out to the granddaughter she once pushed away? To truly understand, you have to meet Willamena fifty years before. Now Willamena's granddaughter, Bailey, is coming back to a town she tried to outrun, only to realize that the grandmother she feared was actually her fiercest protector.

 

Grace O'Malley was born to be a sea captain. But despite her natural skill on the water, Grace learns early that her dreams of a life at the helm are not compatible with the expectations of her noble family. Married off against her will to a brutal warrior, Grace performs her duty, all the while consolidating her husband's power, only to be ousted from his lands. But this betrayal offers Grace the opportunity to return to sea, finally leading clan O'Malley's mighty fleet. Just as she finds true independence, Queen Elizabeth's incursions into Ireland grow bolder and Grace must fight to defend her land, her ships, and the people she loves most.

 

When a hit-and-run shatters more than his body, a writer is plunged into a spiritual awakening he can't tell from madness. In its grip, he's drawn to a brilliant campus colleague by an uncanny pull, and into a scandal that threatens to destroy them both. What begins as a provocative portrait of academic and cultural warfare deepens into erotic entanglement, the exposure of a family secret, and the mystery surrounding the narrator's accident--both the violence and its aftermath.

 

Shipping magnate John Randall Williams is at sea after the recent death of his wife. About to face his first Christmas alone, John meets a young woman named Lillith at a dinner party and immediately invites her to share the holiday with him on his 350-foot sailboat in Saint Barts. Editor Charlotte Ramsay is on assignment in Saint Barts during the holidays. Known for her integrity as a journalist, she is there to interview another powerful man: the elusive high-tech billionaire Ben Sharpe. When she agrees to have dinner with him, she becomes intrigued by the real man behind the facade. A chance encounter between the two couples sets the stage for a face-off between the Charlotte and John.

 

In search of long-lost family and a little holiday magic, a young woman and her adopted mother go on a once-in-a-lifetime trip to London for Christmas.

 

Three horror stories. A dinner party. A quiet house. A roadside stop. You'll recognize the setup. You won't recognize what comes next.

 

A private plane cuts through the winter night, somewhere over Greenland. David, a retired executive, sits back in his leather seat, playing solitaire on his phone. The notebook in his jacket pocket is filled with urgent reminders to himself, but he struggles to recognize his own handwriting. This is what David knows: Cody, his assistant, asleep in the seat next to him, will shepherd him along the voyage. David glides through hotel rooms and airports and foreign cities, running out the clock on his mortal life. His grasp on the present slips away, and the past rushes in. As David's destination looms, a portrait of an unraveling mind emerges, both darkly humorous and profoundly moving.

 

College freshman Lily Chen is off to spend the summer in Taipei at an intensive language program, hoping to connect with the culture she inherited but never fully understood. But a promising start quickly unravels. Her classes are grueling, her roommate is driving her insane, and a reckless day trip with a guy she barely knows has her classmates gossiping. She feels adrift, a foreigner in a country she thought would feel like home. Then shocking news arrives: Lily's grandfather has passed away. The loss forces her to grapple with now-unanswerable questions about her family history, and her summer becomes a search for understanding--of herself, her family, and the meaning of home.

 

September at Tiffin Academy is always a heady time, especially for the senior class--"sixth formers," in Tiffin-speak--a season of college applications and intense pressure, of partying hard and last hurrahs. As the chapel bells ring in students and staff, everyone has something to look forward to--but in the midst of the anticipation and excitement, nagging questions and dark secrets lurk beneath the surface...

 

Bluebeard gets a gothic horror and sapphic romance twist in this fairy-tale retelling from the author of Serial Killer Support Group and Trad Wife. A young ceramic artist moves into her new wife’s isolated manor and gets drawn into dark discoveries that stain her marriage—and her very soul.

 

Graziella, the ninety-six-year-old matriarch and former nun, spends her days running the parish's food kitchen, convinced it is her responsibility to keep everyone fed in their working-class New York neighborhood. Her daughter, Grace, a respected psychology professor, appears accomplished and composed, yet finds herself unmoored as her personal life falters. Ella--Grace's daughter--is weary of defending her vegan diet and anti-capitalistic lifestyle; blind to her own brilliance, she longs, above all, for a place to belong. Living together again, the three Graces reckon with the distances that have shaped them, and with what it means, at last, to be fully known.

 

Scharisse Freeman ditched her humble roots and married a megachurch pastor fifteen years her senior. Grudgingly accepted into their fold, she doesn't have many allies, but that hasn't stopped her from building an enviable business empire and living the comfortable life her husband's power affords her. When she gets an invitation to participate in the First Lady USA pageant, it's her chance to finally be accepted by the other pastors' wives - First Ladies - who are like Jesus' disciples if they had been a group of mean girls. Then scandalous truths about Schar are revealed, and she is reminded that in the eyes of the church, optics can matter more than the truth.

 

Laurel Salter is hiding, working as a dishwasher at McMurdo Station in Antarctica. Though no one knows, before she arrived, she was a renowned young scientist. When a strange light appears across the ice, drawing a group of physicists to McMurdo, her former husband, Eli, won't be far behind. Laurel is captivated by the Arc: its surreal glow; the way it seems almost alive. And though Eli is reluctant to test her wildest theory, Laurel is convinced that the Arc leads down a rabbit hole and into a world they can barely imagine. Can she persuade him to risk everything to fix the burden that hangs between them - to turn back the clock and live their story a second time?

 

In Botswana, Mma Ramotswe visits Maun to help a former client protect his elephant rescue center after rumors damage its reputation. With Mma Makutsi away, Charlie runs the agency and investigates why a client’s profitable carwashes seem suspicious. He also risks trouble by sponsoring two musicians. As cases unfold, the team relies on judgment and compassion to resolve conflicts and maintain trust.

 

With all four kids out of the house, Lucy Stone's suddenly empty nest has put a damper on her usual zest for Christmas. She's got plenty of article ideas to keep her busy though, including reports of vicious social media posts targeting several town residents. On top of all that, after agreeing to play Mrs. Cratchit in "A Dickens of a Christmas," Lucy also decides to plan a pre-Thanksgiving family weekend. Despite her juggling, it's not a success--the kids and their partners come but the mood is tense, and Lucy is relieved to see them off. Then comes shocking news: bank manager Bert Cosgrove, one of the victims of the slanderous media posts, has been found dead.

 

Mitch Rapp, a covert American assassin, is assigned to track a Pakistani scientist who traffics in chemical weapons. When the target is abducted in Verona by a jihadist cell, Rapp must infiltrate the group to prevent them from using the scientist’s expertise. As multiple factions pursue the same threat, rising tensions risk destabilizing the region, forcing Rapp to stop a widening crisis before it escalates further.

 

Aisling Cathedral is in ruins. Rodrick Myndacious, Bartholomew, and Maude Bauer are rumored to be dead--and the king has taken Sybil Delling as his bride. To show off their union and solidify his power over Traum, Benji proposes a series of tournaments throughout the hamlets. Captive and drugged, Sybil remains determined to vanquish him as she once did the Omens, even if she destroys the kingdom's faith--and herself--in the process. But then a mysterious knave rises to the top of the tournament lists, a man with no name and no memory who may just be Sybil's ticket to undoing Benji's power.

 

Allhan, a computer genius who works for the Brotherhood, has a deadly secret. Torn between what he must do, and his increasing attachment to Vishous, he's not looking for any more complications in his life. He's not going to survive the one he has. Princess Dennesha, heir to the throne of the Shadows, is a live and let die kind of female. At least until she finds herself tangling in the destiny of a human--even though it goes against every instinct of hers and all common sense.

 

At a remote alpine hotel reached by a single mountain railway, a group of guests—a government official, a performer, a doctor, a socialite, and a reckless companion—arrive for a winter stay. Cut off by a blizzard after a body is found, tensions rise as past conflicts surface. Miss Marple, an observant outsider, reviews the guests’ histories and traces the connections behind the death.

 

Former head of Department Q Carl Morck has retired. That was the plan, at least. So when he comes across a disturbing audio recording, he turns it over to his former colleagues, who are struggling to keep the old department up and running on their own. That is until a new transfer unexpectedly arrives--Helena Henry, a Frenchwoman who throws herself into the investigation with gusto . . . but who may also have secrets of her own.

 

The next book in the blockbuster Empyrean series, Threshing Day contains thirteen stories starring your favorite characters and their dragons.

 

Some secrets are best left at the bottom of the ocean. But since that's not in Jack Ryan, Jr.'s nature, he'll battle all of China to stop them from finding a weapon of immense destructive power.