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In this unflinchingly honest and hilarious memoir, a woman discovers that her best life is a sober one. For Sarah Hepola, drinking felt like freedom; part of her birthright as a twenty-first-century woman. But there was a price–she often blacked out, having no memory of the lost hours. On the...

England, 1941. The tranquil village of Crofter’s Green seems like a haven from the chaos of wartime. But when a local air raid warden is found dead in the village churchyard, five villagers--some getting on in years and none of them policemen--decide they need to uncover the truth.

In her first novel since 2002, Nebula and Hugo award-winning author Connie Willis returns with a stunning, enormously entertaining novel of time travel, war, and the deeds - great and small - of ordinary people who shape history. In the hands of this acclaimed storyteller, the past and future collideand the result is at once intriguing, elusive, and frightening.

It’s time for a black exit. Political activist and social media star Candace Owens addresses the many ways that Democrat Party policies hurt, rather than help, the African American community, and why she and many others are turning right. Black Americans have long been shackled to the...

After what was supposed to be a simple job, Raven and Christian uncover a sinister plot against the higher authority, and the stakes are as high as the body count. The assassins are merciless, with anyone who stands in their way becoming collateral damage. Meanwhile, Raven is still struggling to make sense of her feelings for Christian following a memory wipe. During a blackout, the city erupts into chaos. With Breed on the brink of war, Keystone has only 24 hours to complete a secret mission. Raven seeks help from the most unlikely of places, but at what cost?

In the thirteenth book in Stuart Gibbs’s New York Times bestselling Spy School series, superspy middle schooler Ben Ripley goes off the grid to eliminate a cybersecurity threat. After a devious computer hacker pulls off the CIA’s worst-case scenario, shutting down power networks all over the...

I know all about being afraid of the dark. Like my uncle, in my thirties I found my way into my own dark forest, face-to-face with the big bad wolf. He was so close to me the whole time, I could taste the blood on his breath. Meeting him felt like a fairytale. I fact, I met him at a bar called the Wolf's Lair. A sensational trial for an historic serial murder. A missing woman with a trail of secrets. A top lawyer famous for defending notorious criminals. A retired homicide cop hunting for the truth.

New Jersey state police officer Doug Brock has been after infamous criminal Nicholas Bennett for years. When Bennett kills someone close to Doug, Doug's investigation - and his life - start spiraling out of control. He's placed on indefinite suspension from the police force and breaks things off with his fiancée, but he can't let the case go, and he continues an off-the-books investigation on his own.

Westley Flagg isn't your usual lawbreaker. He's a poacher, a moonshiner, and a prepper, out of necessity. Despite trying to live on the straight and narrow, he knows the law can turn things on you in a heartbeat. When Wes has to come up with money for his Grandpa's surgery, he gets involved with an unsavory group. Living deep in poverty for most of his life, he's become resilient and flexible, but college education can only take him so far. A solar storm sends the northern lights as far south as Texas, and cascading failures in the grid cripple the nation. Now, without communications, Flagg has to prove he has what it takes to still survive.

The lights went out without warning. This is the story of getting them back on. An EMP strike levels the modern world in an instant, and Grant Ashworth is three hundred fifty miles from his wife when it happens. Renata is stranded at a nursing conference in Nashville with nothing left running except her own two feet. Between them stands a warlord who calls his territory the Providence Zone and believes, genuinely, that he's the good guy. What follows is fourteen months that ask more of this family than anyone should survive. Grant holds a fence line and two children against raiders, ...

2022 Audie Award Winner! Six critically acclaimed, bestselling, and award-winning authors bring the glowing warmth and electricity of Black teens in love to this charming, hilarious, and heartwarming novel that shines a bright light through the dark. This full-cast audio edition is performed by...

I survived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me. ~Madison Ryman. The strongest emotion of man is fear and fear of the unknown is the greatest fear of all. Could you face fear head on? Can you forget all those moments when you thought you wouldn't survive, but did? The Blackout EMP Survival Episodes are EMP survival thrillers from international bestselling author, Bobby Akart, one of America's favorite storytellers, who has delivered up-all-night thrillers to over two million readers in 245 countries and territories worldwide.

As the Nazis tighten their chokehold on the capital, panic and paranoia fester as blackout is rigidly enforced. Every night the city is plunged into an oppressive, suffocating darkness - pitch perfect conditions for unspeakable acts. When a young woman is found brutally murdered, it's up to Criminal Inspector Horst Schenke to solve the case quickly. His reputation is already on the line for his failure to join the Nazi Party. If he doesn't solve the case, the consequences could be fatal. 

Everleigh Harper does everything in her power to stop a human trafficking operation—despite being trapped in a hellish dystopian prison—in the riveting final installment of the bestselling, Goodreads Choice Award–nominated 24690 series. For the briefest moment, revenge was sweet. My...

Evan Marshall has lost too many good people. Friends. Allies. People who trusted him. Now the enemy isn't just hunting him. They're hitting everyone he's ever worked with, and they don't care who dies in the crossfire. So Evan hits back. A desperate strike deep behind enemy lines changes the balance of power. But victory comes at a cost, and the window to stay ahead is shrinking fast. A breakthrough aboard the Ascendant reveals capabilities no one imagined, and points toward a destination that's been awaiting their arrival for four thousand years.

When the lights go out…the lies begin. A sudden nationwide blackout plunges America into chaos. Planes fall from the sky. Hospitals go dark. Cities grind to a halt. And for civil engineer Jake Bendel, it’s just the beginning. What looks like a catastrophic infrastructure failure quickly reveals something far more sinister—a coordinated attack powered by advanced drone technology and a level of precision no one thought possible. As the government scrambles to contain the crisis, Jake uncovers a terrifying truth: This wasn’t an accident. It was a test. Now the system is coming back online…

Five days after the EMP, America is collapsing. Blayne Mitchener helped stop a president who was using AI brain implants to control the population. Now federal forces are hunting him through the Virginia mountains. In Tulsa, his brother Jake is trying to convince his ex-wife to flee before the city implodes. She doesn’t trust him. She doesn’t know the truth. And she doesn’t want to run. But the silence after the blackout isn’t peace. It’s the sound of a nation tearing itself apart.

The Harbors are not preppers. They have no bunker, no plan, no idea what is coming. They are a normal family in a normal house, the kind who never once thought about where their water comes from. Then a storm rolls through, the power flickers, and the grid goes down for good. What follows is the gripping story of one family fighting to survive a year without electricity. No heat. No running water. No stores. Just the cold, the dark, the hunger, and the desperate people who come looking for what little the Harbors have left. Guided by Grandpa Mack, an old man who carries the lost knowledge ...

Zero Hour continues to follow the obstacles faced by Colton Ryman, his wife, Madison, and their teenage daughter, Alex. In 36 Hours, the Ryman family and the rest of the world was thrust into the darkness of a post-apocalyptic world. A catastrophic solar flare brought with it a blast of solar matter in the form of an EMP, leaving America in darkness.

Claire’s little sister Holly has been working on the millionaire’s playground of Martha’s Vineyard, going to barefoot beach parties and flirting with the local rich kids. But now she’s missing and none of the locals seem to care, including the police. They think a message Claire received is proof she’s safe. But Claire knows for a fact that her sister didn’t send it. What will she have to risk to find out the truth? Who are the locals protecting? And what does it have to do with another girl who went missing five years ago?