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“The pleasures of the novel go far beyond the crackling, breathless plot and the satisfaction of watching the puzzle fall into place. The book is shot through with humor, both laugh-out-loud and subtle.” —New York Times Book Review From National Book Award finalist and Printz Award winner...

Though forty miles away, Duston Heights is not safe from the flu that’s raging through Boston. When Johnny Dixon’s grandmother falls ill, he’s sent to live with his neighbor to avoid infection. So many locals are getting sick that school is canceled for a week, and the reclusive Dr. Abram Ashburn comes out of retirement to make house calls. After seeing a scary vision of his bedridden grandmother outside of a window, Johnny starts to feel on edge. Then he and his best friend find what looks to be a weird map of a cemetery in Dr. Ashburn’s house. 

FBI Special Agent Nina Guerrera escaped a serial killer’s trap at 16. Years later, when she’s jumped in a Virginia park, a video of the attack goes viral. Legions of new fans are not the only ones impressed with her fighting skills. The man who abducted her 11 years ago is watching. Determined to reclaim his lost prize, he commits a grisly murder designed to pull her into the investigation...but his games are just beginning. And he’s using the internet to invite the public to play along. 

The Pemberley Cipher: Shadows of Truth Marriage was supposed to be the end of the game. For Elizabeth and Fitzwilliam Darcy, it was only the beginning. A year has passed since the capture of Sir Alistair Finch. Life at Pemberley is everything Elizabeth dreamed of—a sanctuary of love, intellectual partnership, and the quiet joy of their young son. But in the world of the Darcys, peace is a fragile veneer. When a coded message arrives from a ghost of Mr. Bennet’s past, the Darcys realize that the Pemberley Cipher was only one piece of a much larger, more dangerous puzzle. A new adversary ...

Nicholas, a would-be poet, and Nakota, his feral lover, discover a strange hole in the storage room floor down the hall - "Black. Pure black and the sense of pulsation, especially when you look at it too closely, the sense of something not living but alive." It begins with curiosity, a joke - the Funhole down the hall. But then the experiments begin. "Wouldn't it be wild to go down there?" says Nakota. Nicholas says "We're not." But they're not in control, not from the first moment, as those experiments lead to obsession, violence, and a very final transformation.

The hit hopepunk sci-fi thriller starring Anya Chalotra and Chance Perdomo 'Pulse-pounding, breathtaking... like an HBO mini-series for the ear' LA Weekly When the cryptic Parallax puzzle appears online, it quickly becomes the world's most talked-about conundrum. A complex, multi-level cipher...

What if every war for the last 60 years was manufactured for profit? What if you could prove it mathematically? Harvard cryptologist Dr. Sarah Brennan discovers an impossible pattern: the mysterious deaths of JFK assassination witnesses form a perfect geometric code—one that predicts the next manufactured crisis with terrifying accuracy. When her mentor is murdered hours after sending her the evidence, Sarah has 48 hours to expose a shadow government that's been orchestrating wars, assassinations, and political chaos since 1963. The pattern is undeniable. The conspiracy is real. And ...

AN ANCIENT FORMULA. A ROGUE INQUISITOR. A CONSPIRACY TO PATENT IMMORTALITY. At 3:47 AM in Cambridge, Massachusetts, computational biologist Dr. Marcus Andersson receives his whole-genome sequence. The results uncover a biological impossibility: an active, unmutated peptide conserved across four centuries. Its origin traces directly to the suppressed court alchemists of Emperor Rudolf II. Before Marcus can grasp the magnitude of his discovery, an elite Vatican enforcement cell known as the Ordo Ignis levels his apartment. Simultaneously, a predatory Swiss biotech cartel deploys private hit ...

13-year-old Tag Whitmore is a math prodigy. Too bad no one cares. Not at school, where his love of prime numbers, pattern recognition, and solving ancient puzzles earns him nothing but weird looks. But when his dad’s engineering job takes them to Florence, Italy, Tag stumbles into a high-stakes mystery that’s been hidden since the Renaissance—and suddenly, math isn’t just a list of problems to solve. It’s the key to surviving secret societies, cracking historical codes, and unlocking the fabric of space and time. Inside a forgotten chamber beneath a centuries-old cathedral, Tag ...

It’s been seven months since Cipher, an Unfallen angel who straddled a razor thin line between good and evil, woke up in hell with a new set of wings, a wicked pair of fangs, and a handler who’s as beautiful as she is dangerous. As a laid-back cyber-specialist who once assisted guardian angels, he’d been in a prime position to earn back his halo.

Uncover the Revolutionary War’s Most Elusive Spy… A Woman Known Only by a Number. She had no name. No face. No known past. And yet, the fate of a nation depended on her silence. During the bloody crucible of the American Revolution, amidst betrayal, redcoat raids, and secret networks of rebel informants, there existed one spy so vital to Washington’s intelligence operation that her identity remains shrouded to this day. She was known only as: Agent 355. In The Silent Cipher, acclaimed historical nonfiction author Evelyn J. Harding plunges readers deep into the clandestine world of ...

FOLLOW THE AVALON CREW ON THE TRAIL OF AN ANCIENT MYSTERY STRETCHING BACK HUNDREDS OF YEARS INTO THE PAST… After finding a mysterious reference to an ancient doomsday weapon in the memoirs of a Dominican friar, the Avalon crew find themselves on an excavation in a Mexican convent. Following the clues to a famous archaeological site in western Belize, they soon realize they are not the only ones searching for the dangerous historical relic and the terrible power it wields. From the Mayan ruins of Belize and the deep jungles of Mexico, to the back streets of Havana and the warm waters of ...

Winner: 2024 International Firebird Book Award for African American Fiction Spring 2024 PenCraft Best Book Award for Historical Fiction 2024 Readers' Favorite Bronze Medal for Southern Fiction John Scobell risked everything to escape slavery at the outset of the Civil War. He thought he'd made his way to freedom – until the moment he was recruited and assigned back to the Confederacy as an undercover Union spy. Can Scobell avoid capture and certain death at the hands of brutal Rebel spy hunters? Will he find the one object that can break the Confederate codes and earn his emancipation? Or...

An ancient secret. A race against time. Can Alexander Hamilton save a fragile new nation from economic annihilation? When a high-ranking diplomat is found brutally murdered via a bizarre "hydraulic interrogation," he leaves behind a final, cryptic message addressed to a dead Benjamin Franklin. The message exposes a devastating secret: the young United States is being held hostage by an ancient Templar deed. To stop the truth from getting out, a frantic Alexander Hamilton launches a perilous, off-the-books expedition to the frozen, hostile shores of Oak Island, Nova Scotia. Inside the Money ...

My name is Nora Black, local shop owner and part-time psychic consultant in the resort town of Garden Cove. When an anonymous letter in the local paper exposes my extrasensory secret, our normally idyllic town is plagued by a series of mysterious accidents, and I find myself drawn into a deadly game of cat and mouse.

With an enchanted typewriter that bends reality to the will of her words, Eliza—now Cipher—writes to right the wrongs unseen by the law. As her best-selling novels captivate the day, her nights are a clandestine waltz of ink and intrigue.

Distant member of the royal Rampling family, Lucy Trenton's ability to detect majick has embroiled her in a dangerous intrigue that threatens her very life. Her only hope lies in her most persistent suitor, ship captain Marten Thorpe, but Lucy isn't sure she can trust him...