Dark Genius

In brutally repressive sixteenth-century England, artists had been frightened into dull conventionality; foreigners were suspect; popular entertainment largely consisted of coarse spectacles, animal fights, and hangings. Into this crude world came an ambitious cobbler’s son with an uncanny ear for Latin poetry―a torment for most schoolboys, yet for a few, a secret portal to beauty, visionary imagination, transgressive desire, and dangerous skepticism. 

In the newest paranormal romance in #1 New York Times bestselling author J. R. Ward’s Black Dagger Brotherhood series, star-crossed lovers face the battles of their lives...in the midst of war with the Lessening Society. Allhan, a computer genius who works for the Brotherhood, has a deadly...

Acclaimed biographer Donald Spoto explores the roots of Hitchcock’s obsessions - with food, murder, and idealized love, among others - and traces the origins of his incomparable, bizarre genius, from his childhood and education to the golden years of his career. Based on interviews with his writers, actors, and longtime associates, and on exhaustive research, The Dark Side of Genius is the definitive biography of Alfred Hitchcock.

Author of The Kennedys at War and The Lion’s Pride, Edward J. Renehan, Jr. presents a fascinating biography of one of the most hated and most admired American entrepreneurs of all time. Here, he sheds light on Wall Street magnate Jay Gould and his frequently overshadowed creativity. Gould was the quintessential robber baron and the original modern businessman whose financial examples persist even today.

Emily Brontë (1818–1848) was only twenty-seven years old when she began work on one of the most important novels in the English language. Two years later, in 1847, she completed Wuthering Heights. It took the world almost a century to catch up to Brontë’s masterpiece, and it has taken even...

THREE HUNDRED GUESTS. ZERO PHONES. ONE KILLER. AND THE WORST POSSIBLE NIGHT TO FALL FOR A LINEBACKER. Rho Iota Pi is throwing the Halloween party of the decade. A haunted Victorian mansion. A twelve-hundred-pound pumpkin. Enough jungle juice to make three hundred college students forget their names. And a coffin full of confiscated phones, because apparently the dean's office hates fun. Ethan Dunleavy is six-foot-four, openly bisexual, captain of the football team, and president of the fraternity. He can read a quarterback's next move from fifty yards away. Reading the adorable computer ...

Merlin Mission Books 9-16 of the #1 New York Times bestselling Magic Tree House series available together for the first time ever! Magic Tree House Merlin Missions are more challenging adventures for the experienced Magic Tree House reader. In each adventure, Merlin the magician sends Jack...

COLLEGE ROMANCE LIKE YOU'VE NEVER SEEN. ANNABELLE WINTERS STYLE. Her wit is sharper than my route-running on the football field. Her mind is quicker than my fastball on the baseball pitch. She wears mom-jeans and is on a mission to graduate early and save the world or some nonsense like that. Too serious. Too nerdy. Too not my type . . . Or so I thought. Drama and madness with a touch of angst. Sweetness and a hint of darkness. No cheating. No cliffhangers. And a guaranteed happy ending. This is campus-love, Annabelle Winters style. HERE'S WHAT READERS ARE SAYING ABOUT THE CURVY IN COLLEGE ...

Lucas Izod is young, brilliant, and obscenely wealthy. He doesn’t grieve. He doesn’t regret. When something precious slips through his fingers, he begins a cold and calculated spree, mutilating and murdering innocent women. Each kill is methodical. Each victim a symbol. The Imperious Killer is born, and Lucas wears the name like a badge of honor. Ray spent years hunting monsters like Lucas. He knows how they think. But this one moves differently—too precise, too theatrical, too clean. When the daughter of Ray’s closest friend is found brutalized, he returns to the hunt and teams up ...

“Eunice Wong's narration is clear, well paced, and emotionally balanced…This is a thoughtful, slow-burning novel with a narration that complements the complexity of the plot.” — AudioFile From the New York Times bestselling author of The Atlas Six comes the story of three siblings who...

Have you ever wondered where the stories of dragons, trolls, and other mythical creatures really come from? What if they were more than the inventions of storytellers long ago? What if only a thin veil separates us from a magical world filled with extraordinary beings? Would you dare to tear through it? For Finn, there’s no choice. To save his life, he must leap through the veil—and straight into a whirlwind adventure with the fate of an entire world hanging in the balance. As if that weren’t enough, he must also come to grips with the magical powers suddenly awakening within him. And...

After his troubled past, Lawrence hoped for a fresh start at MIT when he met Emma. But before they could begin, their world turned into a lie. Everything was torn away from them and they were embroiled in computer hacking and murder. Dodging the FBI while hiding from cyber-terrorists, they were forced into the underworld of the dark web, anonymous encryption, and AI finance. While trying to throw off the ghosts of his haunted past, Lawrence had to run faster and faster to evade the shadowy forces that were after him and Emma.

Boys are being trained at one school for geniuses, girls at another. Neither knows the other exists—until now. The New York Times bestselling author of Bird Box invites you into a world of secrets and chills in a coming-of-age story like no other. NOMINATED FOR THE BRAM STOKER AWARD ...

A dark mafia romance where love is a risk and trust is a trap, where passions run high and so do the stakes. BIANCA Vaughn promised safety from the monsters chasing us, but his protective obsession quickly becomes my prison. The longer we run, the more I realize Im not just chased by monstersIm...

He vowed to be her ruin. She dared him to try. Dina Anthony is a prodigy. Her bass guitar is her weapon, and the university’s Battle of the Bands is her war. She plays with a technical perfection no one can touch, her focus absolute. Winning is not just a dream, it is her destiny. But Lorenzo Houghton, the campus rock god with a cruel smile, stands in her way. He does not just want to win. He wants to obliterate her. He launches a vicious campaign of psychological warfare, determined to shatter her confidence and break her spirit before the final showdown. His obsession spirals into ...

THE MAN WHO MADE THE WORLD AFRAID TO LOOK AWAY Behind every masterpiece of suspense lies a secret… and behind Alfred Hitchcock lay a shadow that refused to die. For over half a century, Alfred Hitchcock ruled Hollywood with his camera, his silence, and his genius. But behind the calm, droll smile and polished English wit was a man haunted by fear, driven by obsession, and consumed by the need to control everything—and everyone—around him. The Shadow Behind the Camera: The Untold Story of Alfred Hitchcock pulls back the curtain on the most shocking, little-known truths of cinema’s ...

Damon Williams is a bull-riding legend—famous, fearless, and built like a battering ram. But beneath the swagger lives something feral. His rage is volcanic. His mind, fractured. And when it erupts, young women vanish. Each act is deliberate. Each aftermath, disturbing. The Furious Bull isn’t hiding. He’s performing. And the show is just beginning. Juliette, once Ray’s partner, now leads the hunt on her home turf. She’s seen violence before—but nothing like this. Damon doesn’t just kill. He dominates. Arthur returns—brilliant, detached, and unflinching. Together, they ...

Brought to you by Penguin. Poor boy. Dark star. Spy. Transgressor. Genius. From one of the greatest writers on the Elizabethan era, Dark Renaissance is the thrilling and subversive life story of Christopher Marlowe – Shakespeare’s inspiration and rival, who helped to bring England out of the...

He promised to teach her how to save lives. Instead, he taught her how to beg. Lila Wren is a nursing major on the verge of failing. Her confidence is shattered after a humiliating incident in clinicals, a weakness her brilliant, cruel stepbrother is all too happy to exploit across campus. She’s become a walking cautionary tale. Rowan Holt, a med student who despises weakness, sees Lila as a pathetic project. Forced to share a townhouse, he makes her a twisted offer. He'll tutor her, forging her into the perfect nurse, but only if she submits to his sadistic BDSM games during their study ...

Every parent wants a genius child. Anne Mitchell got one. And it's her worst nightmare. Six-year-old Violet scores in the top two percent on every test. She smiles for teachers, helps her classmates, and says all the right things. She's perfect. But Anne knows the truth. When Violet gets accepted to Riverside Academy, an elite school for gifted children, Anne hopes everything will finally change. Maybe smart kids will understand her daughter. Maybe Violet will fit in at last. Instead, children start getting hurt. A project destroyed. A bullying campaign. Then a little girl falls from an ...