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When Olivia Barnes moves into her dream fixer-upper on Maplewood Lane, she’s determined to leave behind her messy past in Chicago and start fresh with a garden, peace, and maybe even a little happiness. What she doesn’t plan on is Ethan Reid—the rule-obsessed, clipboard-wielding, vice president of the HOA whose idea of fun is measuring property lines and trimming hedges with surgical precision. From the moment her car tire nudges his lawn, a hilarious war of pranks, glitter mulch, flamingo armies, and motion-activated sprinklers erupts.

With courage, grace, and powerful insight, bestselling author Kristin Hannah captures the epic panorama of World War II and illuminates an intimate part of history seldom seen: the women's war. The Nightingale tells the stories of two sisters, separated by years and experience, by ideals, passion and circumstance, each embarking on her own dangerous path toward survival, love, and freedom in German-occupied, war-torn France—a heartbreakingly beautiful novel that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the durability of women. It is a novel for everyone, a novel for a lifetime.

I made a deal with a monster in a tailored suit. When my father died, I thought grief was the worst thing I’d ever face. I was wrong. He left behind dark secrets and a single lifeline keeping my mother alive—our family’s hundred-year-old restaurant. Then Knox Vale walked into my life and ended my world with a single look. Cold in his eyes. Controlled in his movements. Catastrophic in every way that matters. Heir to a multi-billion-dollar empire—and the man my father didn’t just work for… but betrayed. Knox owns the loan tied to our restaurant.

Harry Potter's summer has included the worst birthday ever, doomy warnings from a house-elf called Dobby, and rescue from the Dursleys by his friend Ron Weasley in a magical flying car! Back at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry for his second year, Harry hears strange whispers echo through empty corridors - and then the attacks start. Students are found as though turned to stone... Dobby's sinister predictions seem to be coming true.

From New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author Freida McFadden comes the next installment of the unbelievably twisty, tension-packed and globally bestselling Housemaid series. This book can be enjoyed as a standalone listen: and once you start, it will have you up all night until the final explosive twist.

Celaena has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak - but at an unspeakable cost. Now, she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth...a truth about her heritage that could change her life - and her future - forever. Meanwhile, brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world.

It began with the sound of laughter—faint, familiar, and entirely out of place. Tiara Water paused on the cobbled path outside her grandson’s school, the morning sun warming her back, unaware that within minutes her world would tilt. A whisper carried on the breeze led her to a truth buried beneath decades of marriage: her husband, Wally, and her half-sister, Sarah, bound together by a secret love. In the quiet corners of their home, behind the locked door of an old safe, lay the proof—letters, photographs, a life she was never meant to see.

The conclusion of the Mistborn trilogy fulfills all the promise of the first two books. Revelations abound, connections rooted in early chapters of the series click into place, and surprises, as satisfying as they are stunning, blossom like fireworks to dazzle and delight. It all leads up to a finale unmatched for originality and audacity that will leave listeners shaking their heads in wonder, as if awaking from an amazing dream.

I came from nothing and became known as the Reaper. The most feared CIA assassin in the business. Then I retired, faked my death, and now spend my time running my casino. But there’s one part of my past I can’t let go—the tiny female assassin who’s vowed to kill me. We were mentored by the same man, a man we both considered a father, but there’s nothing brotherly about what I feel for Lark. Now, we’re enemies and she won’t rest until I’m dead. I won’t rest until she’s mine.

Minalan the Spellmonger, in his guise as Mirkandar the Magnificent, Doge of Farise, is in a bind: the Duke of Merwyn has sent an armada of seventy ships to conquer his newly-independent realm...and Minalan has never fought a battle at sea. Thankfully, the legendary warmage Durgan Jole has a plan, and with the help of his fellow wizards from Sevendor, Minalan feels confident that Farise can survive the invasion. He doesn't want to kill that many people, but Merwyn has left him little choice.

Golden Son continues the stunning saga of Darrow, a rebel forged by tragedy, battling to lead his oppressed people to freedom from the overlords of a brutal elitist future built on lies. Now fully embedded among the Gold ruling class, Darrow continues his work to bring down Society from within.

Clara Wren thought her arranged marriage to Julian Voss was nothing more than a contract—an heir for his family, freedom for her career. Their quiet divorce seemed to close that chapter, until fate, ambition, and a glittering dating show threw them together again. Under the unblinking eye of cameras and the chaos of online fandoms, every glance, every word between them is dissected, twisted, and adored. Torn between rivals, rumors, and her own rising career, Clara must decide if love is worth the risk of exposure.

With the Builder threat behind them, the time has finally come for Jason and his team to hit the road. Eager to get back to the adventuring he’s been longing for, Jason is excited to not be at the center of world-changing events. But before he goes, one last attempt to pull him into politics has him leaving Rimaros with a strong final impression. With new places to visit and new people to meet, the remnants of recent events have scarred the land and left lingering dangers behind. It's a busy time for adventurers willing and able to fight with monsters.

Six days ago, astronaut Mark Watney became one of the first people to walk on Mars. Now, he's sure he'll be the first person to die there. After a dust storm nearly kills him and forces his crew to evacuate while thinking him dead, Mark finds himself stranded and completely alone with no way to even signal Earth that he’s alive - and even if he could get word out, his supplies would be gone long before a rescue could arrive. But Mark isn't ready to give up yet.

‘My baby’s been taken,’ I sob into the phone. Blood is everywhere. My fiancé, Alex, is slumped beside the birthing pool, his head gashed open. The baby? Gone. I cradle my empty stomach, my empty arms. And then Alex looks at me — not with love, but with blame. This wasn’t how it was supposed to go. The move. The fresh start. The antenatal classes. The new friends. But nothing about this feels right. And as the sirens wail closer, I realize something terrible — someone planned this. Someone in our new life wanted our baby.

Before he left, he didn't have a plan. He didn't have a lit screen, a set path, or a piece of paper with red and blue lines in his bag to show him where to go or how long it would take. Instead, he had a quiet restlessness that wouldn't go away until he had to move. He didn't say anything about it. The choice to leave was made during the dullest time. Early morning light hit the back of a chair, the edge of a table, and the half-packed bags that were lying on the floor in his small room. All over the city, people were already getting up.

The System has arrived. Soon, magic will permeate the entire planet, society will be disrupted, and Dungeon-spawned monsters will walk the Earth. A few lucky people — or unlucky enough to become merely the first die horribly - have been given the honor of becoming Exemplars and given System-provided power to either help or torment their fellow humans. This is one of their stories.

A floating fortress occupied by warrior gnomes. A castle made of sand. A derelict submarine guarded by malfunctioning machines. A haunted crypt surrounded by lethal traps. It was supposed to be easy. One bubble. Four castles. Fifteen days. Capture each one, and the stairwell is unlocked.

Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar are trying to get back to normal - they may have saved Crescent City, but with so much upheaval in their lives lately, they mostly want a chance to relax. Slow down. Figure out what the future holds.

For decades, a father in the Bay Area made his living taking people’s portraits, but he harbored a monstrous secret. When one woman vanished in 1976, the only clue police had was that she’d gone to a restaurant to meet a photographer about a modeling job. Other women who’d gone to get their pictures taken were found murdered in the woods in Marin County. This disconnected series of homicides and disappearances remained stubbornly unsolved. But then in 2010, a probation officer caught a lucky break.