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NATIONAL BESTSELLER A thrilling memoir from the first American woman to race a sailboat solo, nonstop around the world. “A must-read for every young woman with a dream.”—BILLIE JEAN KING “Brauer’s strength and resilience inspire us to challenge ourselves to venture out of our safe...

USA Today best-selling author Elizabeth Hunter weaves an enchanting adventure, full of mythology and romance, in the first installment of a brand new romantic portal fantasy!

The passengers were still clapping when she turned on her phone. “Meghan, we have a problem. Call me immediately.” The texts from her lawyer kept coming. Her husband never signed the papers. Nobody could find him. Captain Meghan Prescott had just landed a dead jet blind in the fog. Soon after, the EMP hit. Now the grid is gone, the phones are bricks, and Scott has their daughter. When the power dies, there's no rescue. No police. Just a mother and a frozen road into the mountains. In a world of EMP survival and post-apocalyptic ruin, the real emergency starts after the landing.

When the world falls into darkness, the ultimate battleground is the human soul. A civilization is coming apart. The institutions are hollowing. The voices are turning synthetic. The screens know us better than we know ourselves. Somewhere behind the ordinary surfaces of the day, an older, hidden power is closing its grip upon the human race — a darkness that has hunted the soul across every century of the world's long history, and that is rising again in our own hour with a hunger no one alive has seen before. What was gathering has arrived. But a silent, powerful resistance is gathering...

A mysterious letter written by Albert Einstein draws a physicist and a theologian into the Vatican. What they uncover reaches back to Hiroshima—and has implications far beyond science. First Light is an intelligent historical thriller that blends science, faith, and hidden history in a story of discovery and consequence. As long-buried knowledge begins to resurface, and science confronts truths it cannot unlearn, a chain of events unfolds across decades—from wartime catastrophe to a modern-day auction house, and into the heart of the Vatican. Blending real historical figures with ...

Nervous about meeting her fiancé for the first time, Ellie Spritzer’s lifelong hope of finding love is about to end—or rather, begin. She never imagined her quest for love would take her to the other side of the country with all eight of her siblings in tow, but after her mother dies unexpectedly, what choice does she have? At least the man she’s been writing for the past year is still willing to marry her and take in her siblings… or so she thinks until she arrives in the dusty town of Twin Rivers, Texas.

Sean knew he was in trouble the moment Alejandro walked in. Tall, muscular, and wearing nothing but a towel, Alejandro was Sean’s straight, Latin dream come to life. From the moment they became college roommates, the chemistry was undeniable—and it wasn’t long before curiosity gave way to something neither of them expected. When Alejandro catches Sean in an intimate moment, desire explodes into a first-time experience that changes everything. And both of their dreams came true! Indulge in "My Straight Hot College Roommate," a scorching short story of sexual exploration that will leave...

When Jaya Mill’s parents were killed and her brother was kidnapped in an attack on her childhood home, she saw only one future for herself: Enlist in the Union Starfleet and learn to defend herself. Now, as a lieutenant commander aboard the UNS Avalon, Jaya and her elite counter-terrorism unit enlist the help of Tynan Vasuda, an alien scientist from the Szacante Federation, to investigate the potentially sinister research of the new and mysteriously well-funded Sons of Priam.

PETER IS THRILLED to leave New York City to accompany his parents on an expedition to Greenland to study global warming. There he has visions of things that should be too far away for him to see. Generations ago, the people of Thea’s community were hunted for possessing unusual abilities, so...

Both a revealing self-portrait and dramatic fictional chronicle of his final African safari, Ernest Hemingway's last unpublished work was written when he returned from Kenya in 1953. Edited by his son Patrick, who accompanied his father on the safari, True at First Light offers rare insights...

Penguin presents the audiobook edition of First Light by Geoffrey Wellum, read by Andrew Brooke. Two months before the outbreak of the Second World War, eighteen-year-old Geoffrey Wellum becomes a fighter pilot with the RAF... Desperate to get in the air, he makes it through basic training to...

Bloomsbury presents First Light written and read by Emma Chapman. ‘Illuminating and entertaining’ The Washington Post Astronomers have successfully observed a great deal of the Universe’s history, from recording the afterglow of the Big Bang to visualising the shadow of a black hole...

It's been nine months since the catastrophe in Tucson sent Mia fleeing from her home. But she’s not running away from the darkness—she’s running toward it, obsessively pursuing the man who gave her mother a thirst for blood and destroyed their lives. But when Mia finds the monsters she’s been hunting and infiltrates a secret network of fugitives, she discovers she might have been their prey all along. To escape their clutches, she’ll have to reckon with her mother’s harrowing past and confront a painful truth: that they might be more alike than she ever imagined.

Founded by five enterprising Amish maidels, the new Morningstar Marketplace is a joyous success. What's even more remarkable is the gift the business bestows upon each of these unmarried women - the unexpected blessing of love.... 

No one is coming to save you "You find anything?” He asked from somewhere deeper in the house. “No.” She called. “It’s clean, like clean, clean. How about you?” She called. Pete hesitated. He stood over the bed in the far back bedroom and looked down at the corpse. The window was open; carrying most of the smell he had smelled when they first crossed the threshold out into the yard. The shelter of the house had been kinder to the body than the ones he had left under the tarp by the interstate. Her skin had a blackened mottling from where the blood had settled, but she looked at ...

Colton Beck has six months to live. He works for the Angor near Los Angeles, aware that any day could be his last. The Angor arrived 20 years ago, resolved to help mankind survive, but not everyone believes their motives are honorable. When the Angor offer humanity a colony world, Colton is determined to see another planet before his final breath. He’s been diagnosed with Xeno, a rare disorder that surfaced with the Angor’s arrival, but he won’t let this stop him.

Forky is excited to join Bonnie at kindergarten for her first ever Show and Tell. But when Forky is accidentally left at home, Buzz makes it his mission to get his friend to school on time. Join Buzz and Forky on an action-filled adventure in this Audible Original as they navigate the harrowing halls and oversized obstacles of elementary school. Will they find Bonnie’s classroom before Show and Tell starts, or will they be banished to the school’s Lost and Found forever?

REESE’S BOOK CLUB PICK | #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER “This fast-paced read has everything you could want in a thriller: secret identities, a mysterious boss and a cat & mouse game that kept me guessing the whole way through.” —Reese Witherspoon Evie Porter has everything a nice Southern...

A Broken World. One Hopeful Pup. An Adventure Beyond Imagining. ★★★★★ “Warriors, but Better” - Amazon Customer, Amazon ★★★★★ “I was immediately hooked and can’t recommend this book enough” - Sprout, Amazon ★★★★★ “Love this book! Intriguing path and creative plot. Can't wait got #2” - KKersten, Amazon Long after what humanity considered to be the end of the world, their former pets have come to inhabit the ruins of once great cities, and life has adapted to this strange new reality. Dogs walk where men once stood, forging a new path toward an ...

Two years after the death of his wife, Aubrey Hendricks is still weighed down by grief. He can’t focus on anything beyond working at the family farm, First Light. At the urging of a friend, he takes a step toward resuming a normal life and reopens the bakery his wife once ran. He places a help-wanted ad in the local paper, and to his surprise, an applicant shows up the next day.