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. 

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.

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.

One world has no place for dragons. Another is ruled by them. After a brutal attack leaves Finn Jones in an eight-week coma, he wakes with a terrifying new gift: numbers speak to him. Quantities, patterns, impossible calculations--his mind solves them before he can think. Doctors call it savant syndrome. The wrong people call it opportunity. On the night of his nineteenth birthday, Finn is abducted and taken to a secret island facility, where other gifted captives are being used as guinea pigs for a forbidden experiment. Among them are Ken, a brilliant linguist, and Riku, a silent prodigy ...

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...

Finalist for the CALIBA Golden Poppy Award in Fiction "[A] noir delight of a novel . . . . Evil Genius is deceptively light on its feet, skittering across the page to deliver its scorpion sting.” — New York Times Book Review (Editors' Choice) A Recommended Read from: Alta * Bustle * Electric...

“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...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

GIA - I spent five years perfecting the art of being invisible. I pour drinks for monsters, catalog their sins with my photographic memory, and never, ever get involved. Until the Irish mafia’s most charming prince is framed for murder, and my memory is the only thing that can prove his innocence. Now, I’m locked in a safe house with Ronan Tiernan. He thinks I'm a helpless civilian. I know he’s a fraud whose "nice guy" routine hides a ruthless killer. We're both about to be proven dead wrong. RONAN - Everyone underestimates the youngest Tiernan brother. I’m the charmer. The golden ...

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 ...

I broke into the wrong apartment. He locked every door. And then he kept me. I’ve been surviving on my own since I aged out of foster care at eighteen. Quick hands, quick feet, quicker instincts. The DUMBO loft looked like an easy score… guy barely leaves, insane tech, a laptop worth enough to get me through winter. Forty minutes on the lock. Slipped inside. Found the laptop. Every door locked simultaneously. A face appeared on the central monitor… pale, dark-haired, dark circles under his eyes. Blinking at me through a camera I never saw. “That laptop’s encrypted,” Ronan ...

He destroyed her ambition, so he could rebuild her as his. Sienna Drake is an architecture student on the verge of greatness. Her final project is her masterpiece, until her brilliant and cruel stepbrother, Theo Kane, publicly shatters it, and her future, with a single, calculated critique. Humiliated and facing ruin, Sienna’s world collapses further when a family crisis forces them into a shared studio apartment. Trapped with her tormentor, she is cornered. Theo makes her a twisted offer: he will help her rebuild her career if she agrees to become his personal submissive. Under his ...