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From the New York Times bestselling author of The Sweetness of Water comes a gripping story about a brother and sister, emancipated from slavery but still searching for true freedom, and their odyssey across the deserts of Mexico to escape a former master still intent on their bondage. New...

A 2026 Audie Award Finalist for Ensemble Performance “Heartwood will keep you guessing the whole way through. I didn't want it to end.” —Liz Moore “The best thriller of 2025.” —The Boston Globe * “Genius.” —The Washington Post “A literary thriller of the highest order”...

Amity Shlaes, author of The Forgotten Man, delivers a brilliant and provocative reexamination of America’s thirtieth president, Calvin Coolidge, and the decade of unparalleled growth that the nation enjoyed under his leadership. In this riveting biography, Shlaes traces Coolidge’s improbable...

Mercy Reid thought she found a place where she could finally belong. Xavier Blood would do anything to protect his one true love. The next big threat is closer at hand that anyone ever considered possible, and the only person standing in the way of death itself is an ex-assassin with the darkest past of them all. Xavier Blood. One choice is all it takes to destroy everything they were trying to build. A life where they didn’t have to look over their shoulders. A life where they could be free, happy and in love. In an instant, everything is gone in a shower of blood and bone. When the dust...

As the half faerie daughter of a human king, my days were spent tucked out of sight—until the Seelie Fae sought an alliance with our kingdom. In exchange for my father’s help in defeating their Unseelie enemies, I would wed Atakan the heartless. The Seelie prince loathed everyone, but none more than me. Throughout the years leading to our nuptials, each encounter grew more terrifying than the last as he demonstrated how he’d earned his infamous reputation.

A lyrical and deeply affecting novel recounting the seven days a father spends on the road with his daughter after kidnapping her during a parental visit. Attending a New England summer camp, young Eric Schroder-a first-generation East German immigrant-adopts the last name Kennedy to more easily...

Set sail with author Dustin McNeill as he goes behind the scenes of Captain Jake’s Amity Boat Tours! Adventures in Amity is the ultimate guide to the legendary attraction that once stood at Universal Studios Florida. The book contains over 30 new interviews with the ride’s designers, engineers, and skippers for unprecedented insight into its creation and operation. Hear the untold story of the Jaws ride for the first time ever from those who were actually there!

A mother and her daughters drive for days without sleep until they crash their car in rural Oklahoma. The mother, Amaranth, is desperate to get away from someone she's convinced will follow them wherever they go: her husband. The girls, Amity and Sorrow, can't imagine what the world holds...

Prize-winning poet and journalist Eliza Griswold’s Amity and Prosperity is an expose on how fracking shattered a rural Pennsylvania town, and how one lifelong resident brought the story into the national spotlight. This is an incredible true account of investigative journalism and a devastating indictment of energy politics in America.

A Jaws universe expansion novel providing details and backstory to enhance the performances in the original movie. For the 50th Anniversary in 2025, after you experience The Book of Quint, watch Jaws again for the first time.

The highly anticipated second novel from the author of the Booker-longlisted THE SWEETNESS OF WATER 'Amity is deeply adventurous and astonishingly beautiful' Robert Jones, Jr., author of The Prophets 'A writer of great lyricism and power' i paper 'Harris will win over the hearts of many readers'...

In December 1975, the Lutz family moved into their new home on suburban Long Island. George and Kathleen Lutz knew that, one year earlier, Ronald DeFeo had murdered his parents, brothers, and sisters in the house, but the property - complete with boathouse and swimming pool - and the price were too good to pass up. This is the shocking true story of an American dream that turned into a nightmare beyond imagining for the Lutz family, who were forced to flee their new home in terror.

Today Americans of all backgrounds are on the hunt for a different politi­cal model. In fact, such a model awaits them, if only they turn their eyes to their own past...to America’s 30th president, Calvin Coolidge. Coolidge’s masterful autobiography offers urgent lessons for our age of exploding debt, increasingly centralized power, and fierce partisan division. This expanded and annotated volume, edited by Coolidge biographer Amity Shlaes and authorized by the Coolidge family, is the definitive edition of the text....

For the first time in her life, Juniper Rowe knows what it’s like to fall for a guy. After a string of tragedies, she’s given her heart to notorious bad boy rocker, Sebastian Hale. She’s all in, no matter the price his fame brings. As time goes by, Juniper’s doubts begin to grow. She’s not sure she belongs on the road with a bunch of wild rock stars—and her boyfriend’s ex is a glamazon with razor sharp claws—but she’s determined to try. Sebastian's worth it…isn’t he? The lines between love and lust are blurred and when it comes to the crunch, dating a rock star might ...

A New York Times Notable Book "Sea Wife is a gripping tale of survival at sea—but that’s just the beginning. Amity Gaige also manages, before she’s done, to probe the underpinnings of romantic love, marriage, literary ambition, political inclinations in the Trump age, parenthood, and...

A troubled rock star. An innocent small town woman. For these lost souls, unexpected passion may lead to the happy ending they both crave. Sebastian Hale is missing in action. As lead singer of the hot as sin rock band, Beneath, he’s got the world at his feet… but he wants out. He’s done with the empty relationships, the one-night stands, and the consequences of his wild celebrity lifestyle. Unable to break free of the darkness taking over his soul, he disappears, sending the media, his record label, and the world into a frenzy. When small town woman Juniper Rowe, meets a sexy, ...

The New York Times bestselling author of The Forgotten Man and Coolidge offers a stunning revision of our last great period of idealism, the 1960s, with burning relevance for our contemporary challenges. "Great Society is accurate history that reads like a novel, covering the high hopes and...

On November 13, 1974 the quiet village of Amityville was rocked by the murders of six members of the DeFeo family at 112 Ocean Ave. The only surviving member of this tragic ordeal was Ronald DeFeo Jr., who was later charged and convicted to six-life-sentences. Thirteen months later, the Lutz family moved into the lavish Dutch Colonial home, but moved out mysteriously after just 28-days, claiming that the house was haunted! Then came a media frenzy, and with the release of Jay Anson's runaway best-selling book The Amityville Horror, which was later transformed into a blockbuster movie, the story became an international phenomenon.

A broken fighter. A girl with nothing left to lose. In the ring, they’ll fight for more than pride. Ren Miller has been knocked down more times than she can count. Her father walked out. Her mother died too young. Now she’s twenty-two, alone, and desperate for something that doesn’t hurt. When she tracks down the father who abandoned her, she finds him running Beat—a rough, no-nonsense boxing gym that breeds champions and broken bones in equal measure. Ren steps into the ring and finds something she didn’t expect: strength, focus, and a way to take control of her life for the ...

Discover or return to the dystopian series that's captured the hearts of millions of teen and adult readers! This first in Veronica Roth's #1 New York Times bestselling Divergent series of books is the novel the inspired the major motion picture starring Shailene Woodley, Theo James, and Kate...