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The New York Public Library: a 100-year-old labyrinth of towering bookcases, narrow aisles and long hallways. For one night this building is to be the venue for a contest. The rules are simple: seven contestants will enter, only one will leave. With his daughter in his arms, Stephen Swain is plunged into a fight for survival. In this contest, unless you leave as the victor, you do not leave at all.

In a world of haves and have nots, where petty crime is punishable by death and magic is forbidden, a deadly contest unfolds in secret. Twelve competitors are mysteriously invited. The winner gets one wish. For Briar Bishop, this means saving her brother from execution by guillotine, and she’s not going to let anything or anyone get in her way. Especially not Leo Davenbrook, a mischievous flirt and the handsome High Prince. He's grown up with everything she never had and his very presence threatens her chance at survival.

Helene Hadsell was "the woman who won every contest prize she desired". In Contesting: The Name It & Claim It Game, she shares her winning secrets in the vibrant, warm, and folksy manner that was uniquely her.

An epic new Star Trek saga by New York Times bestselling author Greg Cox set during the original five-year mission! The planet Vok is holding its first free elections after years of oppressive military rule. Captain James T. Kirk and the crew of the Starship Enterprise have been dispatched by...

When treasure hunters Dane Maddock and Bones Bonebrake travel to the Mojave Desert to help launch an adventure race, they make a baffling discovery - a dungeon room hidden high in the desert hills, and beyond, a previously undiscovered network of caverns that seem to go on forever. But someone will kill to protect the secrets that are hidden there. When an attempt is made on Maddock's life, the assassin's trail sets the former Navy SEALs on a search for one of the greatest legends of the southwest. But to find it, they must unmask the notorious Black Dahlia killer!

Finally brought to the Grand Cosmic Contest as the latest and last arrival, Duke doesn’t get the luxury of preparation. Instead, he flows into the conflict, clawing his path through blood to fight for a top spot. Nearly every opponent is stronger, faster, and better connected, but Duke has his own hidden talents and now is the time to reveal them. As he fights his way up the ranks, the truth begins to unravel. The Contest isn’t just sport or spectacle. It’s the playground of the Entities, a vast manipulation where champions are pieces in a game that shapes the power structure of the Cosmos.

A Financial Times Best Book of the Year A groundbreaking exploration of the shifting landscape of technological innovation and how it has transformed into a global phenomenon, challenging the traditional dominance of Silicon Valley. The US is the source of just about all the technologies that...

ALL THINGS WINNING! Tune in as I either teach you how to find, organize, enter and win sweepstakes, contests, and giveaways or as I chat with the movers and shakers in the promotional industry, including contestors, promoters, marketers, and sponsors. As a Sweepstakes Teacher and Author, I have taught others how to win over $1M in cash and prizes! You can start for FREE by visiting www.ContestQueen.com and selecting 5 Steps to Begin Winning.

A young horseback riding instructor gets caught up in a geeky web of intrigue. It seems that Alexa has been refined to a new system named the Onyx. There's a problem, though. Onyx has her designs on taking over more than just those routine household tasks; she plans on revamping the entire human race. Who runs who? Can Melissa alert enough people before Onyx works her magic over all of mankind?

The adorable Disney Palace Pets take the Critterzens on an exciting tour of the Pawlace!

Once a child prodigy of puzzles and logic games, Gillian Charles now barely ekes out a living in Los Angeles. With her sick mother facing eviction from her care facility, Gillian can’t say no when her childhood nemesis, Tommy, shows up at her apartment with a $50k offer. All she has to do is return to the place where it all started, where she swore she’d never set foot again: Miscellany.

Jacs, an inventor’s apprentice from the Lower Realm, has only ever dreamed of what the land among the clouds holds. That is until she finds a letter from Connor, an Upperite boy hoping to learn more about the land below. Little does Jacs know, Connor is actually Prince Cornelius of the Queendom of Frea. With wooden boats and hot air balloons, the two begin a secret correspondence. But their friendship is divided by a heavily-guarded bridge and an inescapable prejudice.

When ex-Air Force computer genius Josh Lane is kidnapped at gunpoint and wakes up in a cell, he's faced with a deadly ultimatum: Solve a computer problem...or die. With no way out and no idea who his captors are, Josh must use all his skills and quick thinking to survive. But as he delves deeper into the complex puzzle, he realizes that the stakes are even higher than he thought.

Contested Boundaries: A New Pacific Northwest History is an engaging, contemporary look at the themes, events, and people that have shaped the history of the Pacific Northwest over the last two centuries.

THE TRIP OF A LIFETIME. A PRIZE WORTH KILLING FOR. 'Brilliant twists and an absolutely killer reveal in the final pages' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ READER REVIEW 'I flew through this in a day' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ READER REVIEW 'Karen Hamilton is the queen of thrillers' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ READER REVIEW...

On a moonless night in January 1991, a dozen US aircraft appeared in the skies over Baghdad. To the Iraqi air defenses, the planes seemed to come from nowhere. Each aircraft was more than 60 feet in length and with a wingspan of 40 feet, yet its radar footprint was the size of a ball bearing. Here was the first extensive combat application of Stealth technology. And it was devastating.

Empires of the Sea tells the story of the 50-year world war between Islam and Christianity for the Mediterranean: one of the fiercest and most influential contests in European history. It traces events from the appearance on the world stage of Suleiman the Magnificent through "the years of devastation" when it seemed possible that Islam might master the whole sea, to the final brief flourishing of a united Christendom in 1571.

Strap yourself in for another 'deeply immersive' Ivan Jefford femdom erotica story...if you dare! WARNING: THIS BOOK DEALS WITH EXTREME BDSM PRACTICES. NOT FOR THE SQUEAMISH! It’s the Eighth Annual Texas Milking Contest, and things get down and dirty. Pro-dommes from all over the world bring their subs to find out which one can shoot the farthest. The dommes know their slaves’ hottest kinks inside and out, and they use every femdom technique imaginable to excite and push their slaves to the limits. Anything goes to win the competition and take home the twenty-five thousand dollar prize....

NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE The brilliant and chilling first novel Stephen King ever wrote tells the tale of the contestants of a diabolically cruel competition where 100 boys start the “long walk” and there is only one winner—the one that survives. In a dystopian near-future, America has...

In Indigenous Continent, acclaimed historian Pekka Hämäläinen presents a sweeping counternarrative that shatters the most basic assumptions about American history. Shifting our perspective away from Jamestown, Plymouth Rock, the Revolution, and other well-trodden episodes on the conventional timeline, he depicts a sovereign world of Native nations whose members, far from helpless victims of colonial violence, dominated the continent for centuries after the first European arrivals.