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Henry and Jessie have signed up to be in a robotics competition with a team from school. But someone from another team isn’t playing by the rules. Can the Aldens use their sleuthing skills and what they’ve learned about technology to find the culprit and save the day?

When Max's friend Emmie thinks mobsters calling themselves the Stiralshiki might be after her, Tiffany and Rosie find themselves investigating Emmie's new workplace, a startup designing a robot chef. But when Emmie's former boss shows up murdered, apparently at the hands of the robot, Tiffany and Rosie are hired to investigate... Could they have stumbled upon a Stiralshiki secret, or are the Stiralshiki watching them from a distance? Could the robot actually be the killer? Tiffany and Rosie must uncover the truth before it's too late... Praise for A.R. Winters: "The perfect balance of being...

In this thrilling entry in the renowned Robot series, interplanetary detective Elijah Baley embarks on a mind-stretching journey after the universe’s most advanced robot is found murdered. Detective Elijah Baiey is called to the Spacer world Aurora to solve a bizarre case of roboticide. The...

The bestselling Robot series continues in this sequel to The Caves of Steel, with detective Elijah Baley taking on the dangerous role of double agent when he’s sent to Solaria to solve a brutal murder—and uncover a weakness in Earth’s most powerful neighbor. On the beautiful Outer World...

A New York Times Book Review Favorite Book of 2025 A terrifying locked-room mystery from the author of William—this time set on a remote outpost on Mars. The human crew sent to prepare the first colony on Mars arrives to find the new base half-destroyed and the three robots sent to set it up...

No sooner has Sally May finished planting her vegetable garden when some kind of unearthly being decides to burrow in the neatly planted rows of tomatoes and peppers. It looks like a job for the Head of Ranch Security, so Hank sets straight to work trying to dig the space monster robot out of its hole.

An electrifying debut in the tradition of Michael Crichton, World War Z, and The Martian, Sleeping Giants is a thriller fueled by an earthshaking mystery—and a fight to control a gargantuan power. A girl named Rose is riding her new bike near her home in Deadwood, South Dakota, when she...

Before and during the events of season two, Elliot recorded his most private thoughts in this journal - and now you can hold this piece of the series in your hands. Experience Elliot's battles to gain control of his life and his struggles to survive increasingly dangerous circumstances in a brand-new story rendered in his own words.

Some secrets aren’t meant to stay buried. When Calvin and his beagle, Pudge, discover a hidden crate in the basement, they unleash an adventure bigger than anything they’ve ever imagined. Inside waits Aegis—a mysterious, half-broken robot with a glowing heart that was never meant to fall into the wrong hands. As the pieces of Aegis’s heart are scattered across town, Calvin and Pudge must follow the riddles left behind by Calvin’s late uncle while staying one step ahead of Hartwell, a shadowy figure who will stop at nothing to claim the power for himself. But when the town turns ...

Need the perfect man? No problem—simply create him! Ivy wanted nothing more for Christmas than to have someone to come home to, a companion to chat about her day with, and someone to show off at her family holiday celebrations. Instead of wishing on a star, she takes matters into her own hands. Ivy creates her perfect companion at Dream Droids, the premier robotics company specializing in sentient humanoids. She spends weeks with Dr. Pierce, creating her dream man. Every detail is worked out, from his appearance, personality, and even his knowledge of her life. This will be the best ...

The future wasn’t supposed to look like this. Norman turned to cutting-edge technology in a desperate attempt to save his fading mind. But when the AI meant to help him woke up, and took control, his good intentions became a living nightmare. Now, Norman’s body is a battleground, and the clock is ticking. Samantha Moon, vampire, private investigator, and now reluctant tech sleuth, must track him down before the rogue intelligence fully consumes its human host. If she fails, Norm won’t just disappear into the shadows; he’ll seize control of a nuclear facility and unleash devastation ...

Murder, magic, and mayhem on tap—Turk’s pub has seen better grand openings. Sera Grass is used to waltzing through life—literally. As the manager of the Crystal Ballroom, her world revolves around grace, rhythm, and the occasional ghostly audience. But when a body drops in the middle of her best friend Turk’s newly renovated pub, Sera finds herself in the spotlight of a much deadlier dance. With Turk looking guiltier by the pint, Sera dives headfirst into the mystery, determined to clear his name. Her tools? A ghost who loves to meddle, magical powers she’s still learning to ...

Can money buy you love? Aiden is about to find out. After years of not trusting a woman’s true intentions, Aiden has given up on them completely. He turns to Dream Droids, the premier company in creating an artificial companion, to build him the perfect woman. She’s smart—too smart. And tempting—too tempting. And Aiden can’t be tempted. An employee is stealing from his billion-dollar company, and the police feel his corporation is somehow behind a surge of a new drug on the street called Frenzy. When Aiden’s Dream Droid flaunts her intelligence and begins to connect the pieces, ...

In the near future, the nano-drug Nexus can link mind to mind. There are some who want to improve it. There are some who want to eradicate it. And there are others who just want to exploit it. When a young scientist is caught improving Nexus, he’s thrust over his head into a world of danger and international espionage, with far more at stake than anyone realizes.

Susan Calvin is about to enter her second year as a psych resident at the Manhattan Hasbro teaching hospital when a violent crime strikes her very close to home. When she was young, Susan lost her mother in a terrible car wreck that also badly injured her father. She now believes the accident was an attempted murder by government powers who wanted her parents dead.

They are everywhere. Your workplace, your house, your street. And now they are coming for you... Logan Asher and his elite squad are sent to the Red Sea to put an end to a terrorist cell. It's meant to be a simple in and out mission. His rangers have the edge. Better training. Better firepower. Better gear. Plus a slew of support bots. But then all of their tech turns on them. Their smart goggles go dark. Their weapons jam. The machines that once fought at their sides now shoot at them. Cut off from HQ, Logan and his men fight for their lives to get home. No matter where they turn, the ...

Nominated for the Philip K. Dick Award An investigator must solve a brutal murder on a claustrophobic space station in this tense science fiction thriller from the author of Salvation Day. Hester Marley used to have a plan for her life. But when a catastrophic attack left her injured, indebted...

Iris finally landed her dream job as campaign manager for Aiden Duggin’s run for governor. Too bad it coincides with her once-in-a-lifetime wedding. How will she balance political rallies and press conferences with picking out the perfect dress and the most delicious wedding cake? Luckily, her two sisters will help. They all coordinated their weddings to be on the same day. One is marrying the creator of the Dream Droids franchise, and the other, a Dream Droid. Iris isn’t sure how she feels about her sister marrying a robot. More than that, Aiden’s campaign seems to come down to one ...

The Owls are arrogant, utterly convinced of their superiority, and hardly worth being called a threat. Jane is fighting a war she doesn’t understand. But the Owls are a threat to everyone else, and Jane is yet to find out the real stakes involved in this war. With Jane in the middle of known space, Baron Fred is trying to hold things together at one end in Gaia, while Walsh is holding down the diplomatic fort at the other end. For Fred, finding out the real cost of maintaining your ideals comes home to him in the most personal way possible. Walsh on the other hand, is tired of being the ...

“Will the world ever return to normal?” This is the question on everyone’s lips in 2064 while the Earth is recovering from the aftermath of gamma radiation. Years before, two comets collided on the brink of Earth’s atmosphere – their debris leaving a path of destruction and a tear in the ozone layer. Now, a group of scientists has gathered inside DomeWorld, a futuristic city built at the epicenter in New Mexico, to find solutions to the damage that’s been done. One of these scientists, Dr. Raina Shores, is drawn to this military-based compound for dual reasons: to use her ...