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The year is 1973. As a freak winter storm bears down on an exclusive, affluent suburb in Connecticut, cars skid out of control, men and women swap partners, and their children experiment with sex, drugs, and even suicide. Here two families, the Hoods and the Williamses, com face-to-face with the seething emotions behind the well-clipped lawns of their lives-in a novel widely hailed as a funny, acerbic, and moving hymn to a dazed and confused era of American life.

Hockey's hottest expansion team is back in the latest Nighthawks novel from the USA Today best-selling author of Ice Hot and Ice Hard.

The powerful head of the covert mercenary organization The Committee, Isobel Lambert is a sleek, sophisticated professional who comes into contact with some of the most dangerous people in the world. But beneath Isobel's cool exterior a ghost exists, haunting her with memories of another life...a life that ended long ago.

THE BOOK BEHIND THE THIRD SEASON OF GAME OF THRONES, AN ORIGINAL SERIES NOW ON HBO. Here is the third book in the landmark series that has redefined imaginative fiction and become a modern masterpiece. A STORM OF SWORDS Of the five contenders for power, one is dead, another in disfavor, and...

When a bad boy enforcer meets his match, love is the only game worth playing. Harrison I'm not gonna lie. As a professional hockey enforcer, I've never backed down from a good fight. But while my bad boy reputation on the ice is warranted, when it comes to women, nothing could be further from the truth. Then I crash into Jessica Solomon, the curvy, goddess who lights my lamp with one look from those baby blues. I hope she's ready to be claimed now she's melted the ice around my heart because I plan on keeping my blonde angel ... forever. Jessica I don't know the first thing about hockey, ...

We Live in a Time Collectively, in which we are experiencing the most instability in our weather patterns in recorded history; We live in a time in which the Earth has shifted on its axis, and the polar ice caps are melting. WEATHER is the biggest threat to civilization we will ever face. We can fight everything else, but we can't fight nature. This Narrative Recreates the 2000 Ice Storm: Only once in a lifetime do we see storms of such power and significance that we know we have seen Nature’s Rage up close. I heard my great uncle speak of the notorious Blizzard of 1949, which was so ...

THE HEART-STOPPING MEMOIR, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING SHAILENE WOODLEY AND SAM CLAFLIN, AND DIRECTED BY BALTASAR KORMAKUR (EVEREST) A compelling, at times devastating, ultimately inspiring account of how much can go wrong on the ocean and how, miraculously, one woman conquered her own...

ICE As we all know, the ice storms are coming more often now than they used to. What if .... they were to come and not go away. How would we survive with constant cold and constant ice? Extreme cold. Maybe this would be God’s way of destroying the world? What if? What if nothing could survive this last ice storm? Maybe it would be too cold for anything to live outdoors, no more deer to hunt, no squirrels, no outside dogs, or cats? No cows or pigs, chickens … you get the point? Imagine the worst of times, the worst in people, and if you can do that, you had best pray this story never ...

Forbidden love ignites in a scorching royal romance, as we discover my true identity and a mystical prophecy that will save our world from darkness. The strong arms and broad chest of the Ice Prince burn against my skin during our scandalous fire and ice trysts at Haven Academy. The key to stopping an evil sorceress lies in our dormant powers and a mysterious prophecy. Though my desire for Fannar blazes brighter than a thousand suns, My secret past might tear us apart at the worst possible time. Together, we must unite with the Storm King and Ice Princess in an epic battle between good ...

HBO’s hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin’s internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE AND FIRE, the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A STORM OF SWORDS is the third volume in the series. The Seven Kingdoms are divided by revolt and blood feud, and winter...

Captain of his team, the privileged son of a hockey legend, Connor Kennedy is the league’s golden boy. And the one player who can always get under my skin. Our rivalry has been building for years, and when we’re forced to room together as Olympic teammates, I can feel the tension between us reach boiling point. The world might see me as hockey’s most feared enforcer, Alaska’s angriest export, but in our room each night after practice, I can’t maintain my facade.

Playing for the New Jersey Storm I know how to handle the heat – on and off the ice. But nothing compares to Nicki Sullivan. We collided in Vegas: One wild night, no strings and a spark I couldn't shake. We went our separate ways, but I never stopped thinking about her. When I see she's involved in an accident that nearly takes her life, I drop everything and drive to New York. She's broken, shaken… but still the woman who set my world alight. So I bring her home with me — to recover, to breathe… and maybe, to see if that spark between us still burns.

’Tis the season for mistletoe and holly, Santa . . . and suspense. And the gift that keeps on giving is Ice: premier thriller author Linda Howard’s breathless tale of a man, a woman, and a battle for survival against an unforgiving winter–and an unrelenting killer. Oh what fun it is to...

Nature doesn't just happen; it attacks. Experience the raw power of the atmosphere’s most violent whiteouts in this gripping narrative that spans centuries of human struggle. From the deceptive, mild morning of the 1888 Gilded Age to the hyper-connected, digital-age chaos of the 2022 Buffalo tragedy, these are the moments when civilization stood still and the elements took over. Discover the harrowing true accounts of teachers shielding students on the frozen plains, cities paralyzed by "bomb cyclones," and the catastrophic technical failures that left millions in the dark. This ...

They’d prepared for this moment all their lives without believing anything would ever come of it...they were wrong. Danae knew before she ever heard her brother’s voice that it was bad...and it didn’t take long to find out just how bad it was. She’d always understood the high cost of secrets...and quickly learned that sometimes the price of truths was far more costly. It took her even less time to realize that she’d never really known true fear. She did now and knew that the heart-pounding terror she’d experienced in those handful of moments when a gun was pointed at her brother...

As the children tour the famed Sydney Opera House, their next puzzle - and its key - falls right into their laps. They need to find the rightful owner of a rare Australian coin. Using their knowledge about Australia, the Aldens find the coin's owner, but a saboteur is again hot on their heels and nearly spoils their hard work. Next up, the Aldens travel to frigid Antarctica, where they need to return an artifact to the hut Shackleton used on his expeditions to the South Pole.

In the sleepy town of Cherrystone, Washington, Sheriff Emily Kenyon is consumed with the case of Amanda Crawford–young, pregnant, and days from giving birth–whose lifeless body is recovered from freezing waters. All evidence points to Amanda's controlling husband Mitch, but as Emily struggles to build her case, she's suddenly thrust into a nightmare that spans three states. When Emily is called to consult on a series of sorority murders, she finds herself investigating meticulously staged crime scenes. Each victim appears to be part of a calculated rehearsal for something more sinister.

The sirens were meant for spring. But the sky had a different plan. Harry Booker knows Kansas weather. After eleven years maintaining Mercy Consolidated High School, he’s seen his share of ice and wind. But when a late-March sleet suddenly escalates and the power grid fails, Harry quickly realizes this is no ordinary front. Trapped inside the school with a handful of stragglers—including a pregnant teacher, a pragmatic nurse, and an elderly man on dwindling oxygen—Harry watches the unthinkable unfold. A violent, massive twister touches down, tearing through the freezing, snow-blind ...

The legend says Spirit Mountain kills anyone who dreams of it. Seventeen-year-old Beth didn't believe in local ghost stories when her dad moved them to a snowy, isolated town in the Northwest. She was too busy mourning her mom, hating her new school, and trying not to fall apart. But the dreams start anyway. A white mountain under moonlight. A black void at its summit. A whisper promising she has just seven nights left. As the countdown ticks, Beth learns she’s not alone. Logan, the boy at school with haunted eyes of his own, is dreaming it too. Together they uncover a decades-old murder,...

On the ice, he owns you. Off the ice, you want him to. Four dark MM romances. Four forbidden age gaps. Four powerful men who break every rule for the athletes under their authority. COACHED — The head coach who keeps his rookie after practice. The sessions were supposed to be about hockey. STRETCHED — The team PT whose hands were supposed to fix an injury. They found something else entirely. BENCHED — The retired legend who sees the player nobody wanted. And shows him what it feels like to be chosen. TRADED — The GM who controls contracts, careers, and futures. He wants something ...