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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.

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.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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...

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.

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 FictionJohn 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 ...

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...

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.