Blackstone Publishing July - December 2022

TABLE OF CONTENTS INTRO LETTER....................................................................1 GOD, FAMILY, COUNTRY..................................................2 MICHAEL CRICHTON........................................................4 WEIRD TALES.......................................................................6 JUNE......................................................................................8 JULY......................................................................................10 MADE FOR SUCCESS.......................................................11 AUGUST................................................................................16 SEPTEMBER......................................................................25 ASSEMBLE ARTIFACTS.................................................29 OCTOBER...........................................................................33 NOVEMBER.......................................................................39 COMING SOON TO PAPERBACK................................45 LARGE PRINT....................................................................54 INDEX...................................................................................73

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We hope you are enjoying our new releases from the first half of 2022, including The Ravaged, the exceptional debut novel by Norman Reedus, star of The Walking Dead, which launched to great acclaim and is the first book in Reedus’ new bigbaldhead imprint with Blackstone.

In our fall 2022 catalog, we have an exciting lineup of new books that we can’t wait to share with you.

God, Family, Country is Craig Morgan’s inspiring memoir of his life as an American soldier, a country music star, and a family man. Morgan shares life experiences that may come as a surprise to even his most devoted fans, including how he suffered loss and battled depression, helped others with PTSD, and navigated the music industry.

Run Time, the highly anticipated new novel from internationally bestselling crime-fiction star Catherine Ryan Howard (56 Days), will release this season. In Run Time, former soap-star Adele steps in to replace another actress on the new psychological horror film Final Draft at the last minute.

But something isn’t right about Final Draft … strange goings-on in the script start to happen on set too, and Adele begins to fear that the real horror lies off the page.

Award-winning author James Wade, whose first two novels, All Things Left Wild and River, Sing Out, were praised as “rhapsodic” and “haunting,” delivers his most powerful work to date—Beasts of the Earth, a chilling parable about the impossible demands of hate and love, trauma and goodness, vividly set in the landscapes of Texas and Louisiana.

Alex Temblador’s captivating first adult novel, Half Outlaw, is an immersive and heartfelt story that explores self-knowledge, acceptance, and the meaning of family, as a woman goes on one last ride with the motorcycle club that raised her and gets more than she bargained for …

Matthew Betley’s gripping new novel, The Neighborhood is propulsive, brilliantly plotted, and packed with Betley’s trademark blend of gritty realism and edge-of-your-seat action, making this a can’t-miss read.

River Woman, River Demon by acclaimed, award-winning author Jennifer Givhan (Trinity Sight and Jubilee) is a psychological thriller that weaves together folk magick with personal and cultural empowerment.

New York Times bestselling author Charlie Lovett will take readers on an international thrill ride featuring a librarian, a professional assassin, and a code breaker, in The Enigma Affair.

Valley of Shadows by Rudy Ruiz, the award-winning author of The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez, is a visionary neo-Western blend of magical realism, mystery, and horror, and sheds light on injustice, isolation, and suffering along the US-Mexico border.

Blackstone will release our first middle-grade book this season! Children’s advocate and legal commentator Amy Feldman’s Ezra Exposed will be a perfect resource for parents and teachers to help kids understand the meaning and consequences of sexting through ten-year-old Ezra’s relatable story.

This fall, Blackstone will also launch the first novel under our new partnership with Weird Tales, the iconic brand known for innovative horror, science fiction, and fantasy. New novels publishing under our “Weird Tales Presents” imprint will be authored by some of the biggest names in horror and dark fiction and will also introduce compelling new voices. Stay tuned for more details coming soon!

We hope you enjoy reviewing Blackstone’s fall catalog, and we look forward to telling you more about our new releases.

—Lauren Maturo, Director of Publicity

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COMING 9/27/22

GOD, FAMILY, COUNTRY SOLDIER, SINGER, HUSBAND, DAD— THERE’S A WHOLE LOT MORE TO ME

Country music icon, Army veteran, father, outdoorsman—Craig Morgan shares all aspects of his life, revealing stories even his most avid fans don’t know.

In 1989, as US news outlets declared an end to Operation Just Cause, Craig Morgan was part of an elite group of military operatives jumping into the jungle along the Panamanian border on a covert operation. Fans know the country music star from his hit songs and acclaimed albums, but there’s a lot more to him—a soldier who worked with the CIA in Panama, an undercover agent who fought sex traffickers in Thailand, and a dedicated family man who lives the values he sings.

Craig details these many facets of his lifåe and more in God, Family, Country. An on-stage appearance with his father’s band at age ten may have planted the seeds for life as a country star, but first he trained as a paratrooper in the Army. After earning numerous distinctions, his path to sergeant major was all but assured.

Then came a momentous decision: he left the active military to pursue music.

With unwavering support from his wife and a pack of part-time jobs, he toughed out the lean years and achieved his first success with the poignant ballad, “Almost Home.” Other hits soon followed, from party songs like “Redneck Yacht Club” to the soul-rending “The Father, My Son, and the Holy Ghost.” Born from the anguish of his son Jerry’s passing, the song’s tribute has consoled and inspired millions across the world.

Duty to country has been a constant throughout his life and globe-spanning career. In 2006, as “That’s What I Love About Sunday” topped Country radio charts, Craig was riding in a convoy of Humvees in Iraq. An avid outdoorsman, a former sheriff’s deputy who’s still a member of the auxiliary and always a husband and father first, Craig Morgan will inspire you with his life lived by the deepest values: God, Family, Country.

CRAIG MORGAN AND GOD, FAMILY, COUNTRY WILL BE FEATURED ON THE KELLY CL ARKSON SHOW APRIL 13th!

CRAIG MORGAN has made a name for

himself as a country music icon, TV personality, celebrated outdoorsman, and patriotic Army veteran. One of country music’s best-loved artists, Morgan was inducted into the Grand Ole Opry in 2008 and has charted twenty-five songs on Billboard, thrilling massive crowds with signature hits like “Bonfire,” “Almost Home,” and “That’s What I Love about Sunday.”

JIM DEFELICE is the author of more than sixty

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• Official Facebook (1.2M followers) : @craigmorganmusic books, including sixteen that have been on the New York Times bestseller list. He is the author of • Official Instagram (122k+ followers): American Sniper with Chris Kyle, among other works. @cmorganmusic His most recent coauthored biography, Everyman • Official Twitter (260k+ followers): a Hero, the bestselling story of World War II army @cmorganmusic medic Ray Lambert, won the US Army Historical Foundation’s Distinguished Writing Award. Jim lives • Official Website: https://www.craigmorgan.com in New York’s Hudson Valley with his wife, Debra.

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From the creator of

Jurassic Park and ER #1 New York Times and USA Today bestselling author

PRAISE FOR THE AUTHOR

“[Crichton’s] stories are always page-turners of the highest order.”

—Denver Post

“Crichton is a doctor of suspense.”

—Des Moines Sunday Register

“Crichton writes superbly…the excitement rises with each page.”

—Chicago Tribune

“One of the great storytellers of our age…What an amazing imagination.”

—New York Newsday

“Michael Crichton has written some of America’s most fantastic novels.”

—Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Michael Crichton is the recipient of several awards including the

EDGAR ALLAN POE AWARD, EMMY AWARD, GEORGE FOSTER PEABODY AWARD, AND 4

WRITER’S GUILD AWARD

COMING SOON

The early works of Michael Crichton NOW WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY SHERRI CRICHTON

ZERO COOL Ancient secrets, dangerous dames, ruthless gangs—just another dream vacation.

American radiologist Peter Ross is in a rut. When he at last finds himself on a Spanish beach, ready to unwind, the company of dark-haired knockout Angela Locke appears to be a lucky bonus. Looks can be deceiving. This particular beauty is on the run from two warring gangs dead set on obtaining a mysterious artifact that dates back centuries, and they don’t care who they kill to get it. Desperate, Peter sets off on a whirlwind adventure to shine the light on an ancient secret before it snuffs him out.

Crichton cranks up the heat in this twisty crime caper that rockets around Europe and into some of its darkest corners.

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GRAVE DESCEND Under the sparkling blue water of the Caribbean Sea lies the mysterious wreckage of the Grave Descend. Tucked near the wall of a coral reef and protected by blood-thirsty sharks, the corpse of the sunken yacht is deemed unrecoverable by most. But for expert diver James McGregor, it’s just another job. Or so he thinks. There’s something not quite right about this wreck, and none of the survivors are telling the same story.

How did the ship really sink? What was her cargo? It’s up to James to find the answers—and they won’t come easily.

Packed with edge-of-your-seat underwater action and Crichton’s signature intrigue, Grave Descend is a fast-paced thriller that plunges you into the heart of a sinister plot in a breathtaking tropical paradise.

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Blackstone Publishing has forged a new partnership with Weird Tales, the iconic horror/sci-fi, and fantasy brand, to launch a brand new publishing program that will bring the amazing, innovative stories it is known for to a whole new generation of readers.

The first novel under the new Weird Tales Presents and Blackstone Publishing partnership is slated to release in Fall of 2022. The full plan is the creation of fifty books over five years, including original novels and anthologies, compilations, and more, penned by some of the biggest names in horror and dark fiction, while also elevating and empowering new and marginalized voices. The partnership also includes the creation and distribution of print books, e-books, and audiobooks under the Weird Tales Presents brand. Additionally, Blackstone will distribute the digital and audio versions of the Weird Tales magazine.

And in the Fall of 2023, readers can look forward to the 100 Year Weird Tales Commemorative Anthology, a project that will culminate a year-long centennial celebration.

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he forthcoming projects released under our partnership will bring fresh interest to this legendary brand with a variety of stories that readers will no doubt savor. This is going to be terribly fun.

—JOSH STANTON, President & CEO of Blackstone.

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eird Tales is one of the greatest brands in existence. Our delivery of the dark and mythical spans over 100 years and thousands of stories. Our work has been to expand Weird Tales far beyond our iconic magazine, and this relationship with Blackstone is an important step in this mission. They are a committed and supportive partner that we are excited to ride into the future with.

—JOHN HARLACHER, Weird Tales Publisher and President

ABOUT WEIRD TALES: Weird Tales is the place where two storytelling concepts meet: speculative and alternative. In 1923, when the magazine was originally founded, those two ideas amounted to the same thing. Weird Tales was launched to showcase writers trying to publish stories so bizarre and far out, no one else would publish them — stories of unearthly dimensions and dark possibilities, gothic seductresses and cosmic monstrosities.

Today, Weird Tales carries that mission forward into the 21st century, finding the most talented new writers, artists, and creators whose visions are too incredible to fit within the comfortable little boxes of everyday experience.

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The Hell Divers Series, Book 9 Fiction / Science Fiction / Apocalyptic & Post-Apocalyptic (FIC028070) • Unabridged • Book eakl • Hardcover • Large Print HC • MM Paperback • Trade E-book • Library E-book

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New monsters. New terrain. New threats. Welcome to Australia.

The battle for Panama is over, and King Xavier Rodriguez secretly deploys the airship Vanguard to Queensland. The hunt for the Coral Castle is on. The rest of the fleet returns to the Vanguard Islands with new ships and supplies, but tensions rise with rumors of a hidden food cache.

When two sky people are murdered, Chief Michael Everhart knows the stage is set for mutiny. And with King Xavier off in search of the Coral Castle, he feels the target on his back. At Panama, a new leader emerges as an ancient evil threatens Outpost Gateway. The only hope of defeating it is a youth who has learned to survive in the deadly ruins.

On Australia’s Sunshine Coast, King Xavier leads the search for the Coral Castle while Captain Rolo deploys the Hell Divers to hunt for a new source of seeds. As losses from both missions mount, the king wonders if finding this place is worth the cost. But turning back to the Vanguard Islands without a new food source could doom all humanity to starvation. Or to all-out war.

“Nicholas Sansbury Smith has created a compelling story about people we can care about…From the first page, I couldn’t stop reading.”

—ORSON SCOTT CARD, #1 New York Times bestselling author, on Hell Divers

“A well-told, action-packed tale…This story has something for even those who don’t favor military science fiction and Mr. Smith is to be applauded.”

—SFREVU on Hell Divers II: Ghosts 8

NICHOLAS SANSBURY SMITH is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of the Hell Divers series. His other work includes the Extinction Cycle series, the Trackers series, and the Orbs series. He worked for Iowa Homeland Security and Emergency Management in disaster planning and mitigation before switching careers to focus on his one true passion—writing. When he isn’t writing or daydreaming about the apocalypse, he enjoys running, biking, spending time with his family, and traveling the world. He is an Ironman triathlete and lives in Iowa with his wife, their dogs, and a house full of books.

MARKETING POINTS • New York Times and USA Today bestselling series • Science fiction media buzz mailing • Social media campaign and video trailer • Creative sci-fi and postapocalyptic fiction campaign • Featured author at major bookseller shows • Social media, newsletter, sweepstakes, and book trailer • Author website: NicholasSansburySmith.com • Books 1–8 in the Hell Divers series are also available

COMING SOON

HELL DIVERS COLLECTOR'S EDITION Releasing in July, a Collector's Edition of the USA Today bestseller Hell Divers

“Relentless action and danger…

Hell Divers is one hell of a page-turner!”

—BOB MAYER, New York Times bestselling author, on Hell Divers

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The second book in a major new series from #1 New York Times bestselling author Kristin Cast

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COMING JULY 5, 2022 AVAILABLE IN LARGE PRINT 10/25/22

Safety comes with a price The Key Corporation has kept Westfall safe from pandemics for the last fifty years. But that’s not all they’ve done …

After discovering the shocking truth behind the Key Corporation, nurse Elodie and misfit Aiden have managed to escape in search of New Dawn—the stronghold for the Eos resistance movement. There, they can fight for a better world, one where everyone can make their own futures.

But things aren’t always as they seem, and as they navigate the tricky paths between perception and reality, freedom and fighting for survival, the two young rebels must discover who they can trust, even as they learn more about who they really are …

And change also comes at a cost.

KRISTIN CAST is a #1 New York Times and #1 USA Today bestselling author who teamed with her mother, P. C. Cast, to write the wildly successful House of Night series.

The Key to Fear, Book 1 “The Key to Fear consumed me with its intricate world-building and richly layered characters…Look no further for your key to entertainment!”

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KATE FORSYTH

THE CRIMSON THREAD In Crete during World War II, Alenka, a young woman who fights with the resistance against the brutal Nazi occupation, finds herself caught between her traitor of a brother and the man she loves, an undercover agent working for the Allies.

May 1941. German paratroopers launch a blitzkrieg from the air against Crete. They are met with fierce defiance, the Greeks fighting back with daggers, pitchforks, and kitchen knives. During the bloody eleven-day battle, Alenka, a young Greek woman, saves the lives of two Australian soldiers.

Jack and Teddy are childhood friends who joined up together to see the world. Both men fall in love with Alenka. They are forced to retreat with the tattered remains of the Allied forces over the towering White Mountains. Both are among the seven thousand Allied soldiers left behind in the desperate evacuation from Crete’s storm-lashed southern coast. Alenka hides Jack and Teddy at great risk to herself. Her brother Axel is a Nazi sympathiser and collaborator and spies on her movements.

As Crete suffers under the Nazi jackboot, Alenka is drawn into an intense triangle of conflicting emotions with Jack and Teddy. Their friendship suffers under the strain of months of hiding and their rivalry for her love. Together, they join the resistance and fight to free the island, but all three will find themselves tested to their limits. Alenka must choose whom to trust and whom to love and, in the end, whom to save.

KATE FORSYTH is an Australian writer and prizewinning author of more than thirty

books, including novels for adults and children. She won five Aurealis Awards in a single year for her Chain of Charms series.

KateForsyth.com.au @KateForsyth @KateForsythauthor @Kate_Forsyth_

“Forsyth’s work is breathtaking in its imaginative virtuosity.”

—Good Book Guide

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Looking for the missing half of herself, a woman goes on one last ride with the motorcycle club that raised her, and gets more than she bargained for.

“Addresses the hard reality that nobody is perfect, even our guardians, and the slightly ambiguous conclusion is tantalizingly open to interpretation.”

—BOOKLIST

ON SECRETS OF THE CASA ROSADA After the tragic death of her parents when she was just four years old, Raqi is sent to live with her uncle Dodge in Escondido, California. Taking after her Mexican father, Raqi immediately faces hostility from the members of Dodge’s all-white, 1 percenter motorcycle club, the Lawless, and from her uncle himself. As soon as she can, she leaves the violence and bigotry behind and doesn’t look back. Years later, Raqi is a successful partner at a law firm in Los Angeles when she gets a call from Billy, the leader of the Lawless. Dodge is dead, and Billy wants her to go on the Grieving Ride, a special ride taken for all deceased members. There is no way Raqi would ever attend, except for one thing: Billy promises to give her the address of her Mexican grandfather. Learning for the first time that she has other family and desperate to connect, she agrees. But this will be no ordinary Grieving Ride.

ALEX TEMBLADOR is a Mixed Latinx award-winning author whose debut novel, Secrets of the Casa Rosada, received numerous industry accolades including Kirkus Reviews’ Best of YA Books 2018 and the 2019 NACCS Tejas Foco Young Adult Fiction Award. She is a contributor to Living Beyond Borders: Growing Up Mexican in America and Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology, and a travel, arts, and culture writer with pieces appearing in Conde Nast Traveler, Travel + Leisure, and Architectural Digest, among many other publications. She lives near Dallas, Texas. Visit her website at AlexTemblador.com.

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The Swift and the Harrier

By Minette Walters

A sweeping historical adventure set during one of the most turbulent periods of British history— featuring a heroine you’ll never forget ...

“Both gripping and fascinating. The civil war in Dorset is evoked brilliantly, the characters are real and intriguing, and the love story tender.”

— Elizabeth Buchan, New York Times bestselling author

“I loved every moment of this brilliantly evocative saga of struggle, love, and danger set against the horrors of civil war.”

— S. W. Perry, bestselling author of the Jackdaw Mysteries

Dorset, 1642.

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When bloody civil war breaks out between the king and Parliament, families and communities across England are riven by different allegiances.

A rare few choose neutrality.

One such is Jayne Swift, a Dorset physician from a Royalist family, who offers her services to both sides in the con9ict. Through her dedication to treating the sick and wounded, regardless of belief, Jayne becomes a witness to the brutality of war and the devastation it wreaks.

The Swift and the Harrier is a sweeping tale of adventure and loss, sacri8ce and love, with a unique and unforgettable heroine at its heart.

MINETTE WALTERS is one of the world’s bestselling crime writers and has sold over twenty-8ve million copies of her books worldwide. She has won the CWA John Creasey Award, the Edgar Allan Poe Award, and two CWA Gold Daggers. The Swift and the Harrier is her third historical novel. She lives in Dorset with her husband.

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HOTEL CALIFORNIA

MUSIC AND MURDER MYSTERY SERIES EDITED BY DON BRUNS

A COLLECTION OF N E W M Y S T E RY S T O R I E S B Y:

HEATHER GRAHAM, ANDREW CHILD, JOHN GILSTRAP, REED FARREL COLEMAN, AMANDA FLOWER, DON BRUNS, JENNIFER DORNBUSH, AND RICK BLEIWEISS AL SO I NC LU D E S A N E W JAC K R E AC H E R S T O RY B Y A N D R E W C H I L D

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“Graham wields a deftly sexy and convincing pen.”

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

on Ghost Walk by Heather Graham

A dangerous drifter, a hired gun, a grisly corpse—you never know who you’ll run into at the Hotel California.

Eight deliciously talented mystery authors have lent their skills of crafting murder and suspense to this collection of gripping short stories. Each of these eight provocative tales is designed to entertain and mystify— and maybe even chill you to your core. Get lost in the wild imaginations of such New York Times bestselling writers as Andrew Child, Heather Graham, Reed Farrel Coleman, and John Gilstrap, plus authors Rick Bleiweiss, Jennifer Dornbush, Amanda Flower, and Don Bruns.

From the titular tale “Hotel California” to a new, original Jack Reacher adventure, these stories have a little something for every mystery lover.

Go ahead. Check in, enjoy some room service, and stay until the very last tantalizing page. Just don’t forget to search the closet or behind the curtains.

DON BRUNS is a musician, advertising executive, and

award-winning novelist. He is the author of Jamaica Blue, Barbados Heat, and South Beach Shakedown, which also feature entertainment journalist Mick Sever. A former road musician, he has performed with Ricky Nelson, Ray Charles, and others. He divides his time between Ohio and South Florida.

“Classic Reacher, great story.

Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant...I hope there will be many more Reachers to come.”

—CONN IGGULDEN, New York Times bestselling 15

JOHN J. JACOBSON

CALIFORNIA FEVER SoCal surfer Dolphin Smoote just wanted to earn quick dough for a date with the browneyed beauty… what he got was G-men (and G-women), ghosts, and a Colt-45.

John Jacobson’s California Fever is the compelling fusion of mystery, crime, and Southern California beach charm. Top surfer Dolphin Smoote gets more than he bargains for when he works up the nerve to ask out a brown-eyed beauty on a date. The search of quick coin without having to work will always lead a surfer to precarious places, and Dolphin is no exception. With the help of his lovable surfer crew—who often have more to say about stylishness than anything else—Dolphin finds himself between con men, ghosts, an impending storm from the coast of Mexico … and still no money for a second date. Along the ride, Dolphin finds in himself capacity for storytelling that would make P. G. Wodehouse himself chortle with laughter.

Though JOHN J. JACOBSON didn’t join the French Foreign Legion after being jilted by a girlfriend, or over his displeasure of missing the last great cattle drive, he has, borrowing Churchill’s phrase, lived a rather variegated life. He was born in Nevada, grew up in the West, surfed big waves in Hawaii, circled the world thrice, survived the sixties and seventies, corporate America, and grad school. Among other degrees he has an MA in Renaissance literature from Claremont Graduate University.

“The kind of story we used to watch at the Saturday Morning Movies, one we hate to see end, and one we’d like to have return again and again in a series of sequels just as funny, exciting, and satisfying.”

—New York Journal of Books on All the Cowboys Ain’t Gone

“Jacobson has a master’s sense of storytelling, and he writes like he’s having a hell of a lot of fun doing it.”

—James Wade, author of All Things Left Wild, on All the Cowboys Ain’t Gone

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The Cold Hard Light

By Christopher Amenta

The Cold Hard Light is a spare and bracing literary debut that tells the story of a new father who falls into the grip of obsession.

“Resonating with a dark disturbing vision, The Cold Hard Light is an ambitious novel. The story, Andrew Harrison’s psychological struggle, is told with insights and nuances. An impressive accomplishment.”

— Ha Jin, National Book Award–winning author of Waiting

The novel begins when the man who assaulted Andrew Harrison’s sister is released from prison. Benjamin Williams was barely more than a kid when he was sentenced to eleven years, but it is impossible to know what he has become since. Andrew, nicknamed H, is compelled to learn for himself when his uncle Billy hands him a gun and says to go 5nd the man. As H’s interest in Williams grows, he struggles to keep his world in balance. His hockey career has stalled, his girlfriend suffers from postpartum depression that is neither understood nor diagnosed, and the allure of vengeance threatens to erase his moral self.

Set in present-day Boston, The Cold Hard Light explores the drama of modern American urban life, where the poor work gig jobs that cater to the rich, where race can be weaponized, guns are treated like toys, and the desire to blame others trumps the need to understand them.

These forces and more weigh upon the characters in this crystalline novel, hurtling them toward an irrevocable conclusion.

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MATTHEW BETLEY

THE NEIGHBORHOOD It’s not such a beautiful day in the neighborhood ...

From the critically acclaimed author of the Logan West thrillers comes a can’tmiss, brand-new novel that proves Matthew Betley is the modern master of the unputdownable page-turner.

When men claiming to be police officers show up in Hidden Refuge in the middle of the night, ordering the residents to evacuate for their own safety, it’s only the beginning of a long, dark night that will prove to be anything but ordinary. Hidden Refuge contains something that very dangerous men want very, very badly. But it also contains another secret—Zack Chambers, a seemingly unassuming programmer and suburbanite family man who will do whatever it takes to protect himself and his neighbors.

MATTHEW BETLEY

is the author of the Logan West Thrillers and a former Marine Officer of ten years. Trained as a scout sniper platoon commander, an infantry officer, and a ground intelligence officer, his experiences include deployments to Djibouti after September 11, and Fallujah and Iraq prior to the Surge. A New Jersey native who considers Cincinnati home but now resides on the East Coast, he graduated from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, with a BA in psychology and minors in political science and sociology.

“A brilliantly conceived thriller that surges from the first chapter through mounting deception to a powerful conclusion.”

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Manmade Constellations

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A modern-day love story that explores childhood trauma, the boundaries between idealism and selfrighteousness, and the heartaches we must confront in order to chart our courses forward.

“Misha Lazzara is an extremely talented writer with a compelling story to tell. Her dialogue is pitch-perfect and her setting so vivid, you feel you are there.”

— Jill McCorkle, New York Times bestselling author

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Lo Gunderson feels trapped in her small Midwestern hometown until she sees an ad for a free car in the local paper. To maintain her staunch anticapitalist values, she refuses to spend money on what she can nd for free, so this car is the perfect ticket out of the town. Though it doesn’t cost any money, it still comes with a price.

Blanche Peterson is dying and asks for a single favor— that Lo track down her estranged son, who Blanche hasn’t seen in over a decade. But before she can decide whether to ful ll Blanche’s dying wish, she needs to get the car started with the help of John Blank, a Southern auto mechanic who moved up north for a fresh start.

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An ingenious, new high-concept thriller from #1 internationally bestselling author of 56 Days and The Nothing Man

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The project: Final Draft, a psychological horror, being filmed at a house deep in a forest, miles from anywhere in the wintry wilds of West Cork.

The lead: Former soap-star Adele Rafferty has stepped in to replace the original actress at the very last minute. She can’t help but hope that this opportunity will be her big break—and she knows she was lucky to get it, after what happened the last time she was on a set.

The problem: Something isn’t quite right about Final Draft. When the strange goingson in the script start to happen on set too, Adele begins to fear that the real horror lies off the page …

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Dark Harvest

By Will Jordan

For fans of World War Z, a chilling mystery, an ancient threat, and a race against time to save humanity— inspired by the true events of the Dyatlov Pass incident Russia, 1959. Nine members of a Soviet mountaineering team on an ambitious expedition into the Ural Mountains are found dead, victims of massive and bizarre injuries. The Dyatlov Pass incident, as this grisly event came to be known, remains unexplained to this day.

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Iraq, 2019. Ex-soldier-turned-mercenary Cameron Becker is escorting a Russian businessman named Luka Belikov through Baghdad. It seems like a routine job, until Belikov is abducted on Becker’s watch. After forming an uneasy alliance with WHO medic Lori Dalton, Becker sets out to uncover the truth behind the attack, and quickly realizes he’s caught in the middle of something far bigger and more dangerous. As bio-terrorists prepare to unleash a virus that causes humans to descend into ravenous madness, the pair are thrust into a desperate race against time to prevent a global plague that could wipe out human civilization.

Who is behind the attack? What do they want? And how can humanity hope to survive? Becker and Dalton’s answers may just lie deep within the icy wastes of the Ural Mountains …

WILL JORDAN, born in Scotland in 1983, is the

internationally published bestselling author of the Ryan Drake series, and he cowrote the action thriller Deadly Cargo with James Patterson. In addition to his work as a writer, Will is also a prominent lm and media critic, amassing over a million subscribers under his YouTube persona the Critical Drinker.

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The Forty

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BY ERIN BLEDSOE

Inspired by the true story of Alice Diamond and the Forty Elephants, the first all-female gang of London.

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London in the 1920s is no place for a woman with a mind of her own. Gang wars, violence, and an unforgiving world have left pickpocket Alice Diamond scrambling to survive in the Mint, the gritty neighborhood her family has run for generations.

When her father goes to jail yet again and her scam artist brother finds himself in debt to the dangerous McDonald crime syndicate, Alice takes over. Fighting for power at every turn, she struggles to protect her father’s territory and keep the people she loves safe from some of London’s most dangerous criminals.

Recruited by the enigmatic Mary Carr, Alice boldly chooses to break her father’s edict against gangs and become of aher group of notorious lady shoplifters, was told in sixth gradepart that essay on Marie Antoinette thefueling Forty Elephants.

Leaving the Mint behind, she showed promise, her dream to write about historical and the other girls steal from the area’s poshest women. When she’s not writing, she’s exploring nature, collecting journals, or department stores, and for the first time in her life, rolling dice at a table with friends playing Dungeons and Dragons. She lives with Alice Diamond tastes success. But it’s not long before her husband and children in Michigan. she wants more—no matter the cost. And when her past and present collide, there’s no escaping the girl from the Mint.

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The Gravedigger’s Song

By Martyn Waites The Tom Killgannon Series, Book 3 When his song is over, so are you

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Under a starless winter night in rural Cornwall, four killers dressed in bizarre folkloric garb brutally invade the home of the wealthy West family. They destroy the posh house and kill the terri=ed family. All but one: traumatized seventeen-year-old Simon manages to escape, >eeing through snowy woods. Later, fears that he’s an active target of madmen or criminals lead the police to once more come knocking on ex–undercover cop Tom Killgannon’s door. Tom is reluctant to shelter Simon, but villains are soon circling the cottage like vultures. When there’s a break-in late one night, Tom must protect his own. Meanwhile, a local by-election arouses dangerous nativist sentiments. When Simon falls into the clutches of a fanatical political cult that see a way to brainwash him, Tom must summon the violent man he once was, risking the new life he created to face down the most lethal of foes.

MARTYN WAITES was born in Newcastle upon Tyne. He trained at the Birmingham School of Speech and Drama and worked as an actor for many years before becoming a writer.

His novels include the critically acclaimed Joe Donovan series, set in the northeast of England, and The White Room, which was a London Guardian book of the year. In 2013 he was chosen to write Angel of Death, the official sequel to Susan Hill’s Woman in Black, and in 2014 won the Grand Prix du Roman Noir for Born under Punches. He has been nominated for every major British crime-=ction award and has also enjoyed international commercial success with eight novels written under the name Tania Carver.

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The Enigma Affair

By Charlie Lovett

When a librarian and a professional assassin team up to solve a seventy-5ve-year-old Nazi mystery, they just might change the world.

When small-town librarian Patton Harcourt comes under 9re one morning while making pro9teroles, she has no choice but to trust the mysterious assassin, Nemo, who shows up in her kitchen. Fleeing a pair of German thugs, the two form an unlikely alliance as they try to decipher a seventy-9ve-year-old message encoded by Nazis on an Enigma machine. Traveling to Bletchley Park in England, they enlist the aid of Patton’s old :ame, Ruthie Drinkwater, an expert on Enigma. The trio soon 9nds themselves on the run, pursued by both the police and Ingrid Weiss, a white supremacist trying to unlock the secret of Heinrich Himmler’s research into alchemy. If Patton, Nemo, and their cohorts can survive a host of dangers—from trained killers to explosions to imprisonment—they might be able to prevent Weiss from acquiring untold wealth to promote her racist agenda.

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Times bestselling author of four previous novels, including The Bookman’s Tale and Escaping Dreamland. His academic writings include Lewis Carroll Formed by Faith and for children he has written The Book of the Seven Spells and twenty plays that have been seen in over 9ve thousand productions worldwide. A former antiquarian bookseller and avid collector, he and his wife, Janice, live in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and (when the pandemic allows) in the village of Kingham in England.

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Dark Harvest

By Will Jordan

Imposter

By Bradeigh Godfrey

For fans of World War Z, a chilling mystery, Twoansisters, ancient a lifetime of secrets threat, and a race against time to save humanity— Lilian and Rosie were once the closest of sisters, but the inspired by the true events of the Dyatlov Pass untimely death of their parents pulled them apart. Now, incident three years on, Rosie has reached out to her big sister, For fans of World War Z, a chilling mystery, asking an ancient to meet. Driving on an icy road in the middle of a threat, and a race against time to save humanity— snowstorm, Rosie admits that she has something inspired by the true events of the Dyatlov important Pass to tell Lilian—a secret she describes as a incident matter of life and death. But before she has a chance to tell Lilian, a car careens into theirs, with devastating Russia, 1959. Nine members of a Soviet mountaineering consequences … team on an ambitious expedition into the Ural Lilian survives unscathed, but Rosie is left with traumatic Mountains are found dead, victims of massive and bizarre injuries. The Dyatlov Pass incident, brain as thisinjury, grisly unable to communicate. Lilian is convinced that someone event came to be known, remains unexplained to this deliberately rammed Rosie’s car. But why?

As Lilian begins to explore her sister’s past, she uncovers day. a series of terrible and shocking events.

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Valley of Shadows

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

By Rudy Ruiz

Award-winning author of The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez A visionary neo-Western blend of magical realism, mystery, and horror, Valley of Shadows sheds light on the dark past of injustice, isolation, and suffering along the US-Mexico border.

Solitario Cisneros thought his life was over long ago. He lost his wife, his family, even his country in the late 1870s when the Rio Grande shifted course, stranding the Mexican town of Olvido on the Texas side of the border. He’d made his brooding peace with retiring his gun and badge, hiding out on his ranch, and communing with horses and ghosts. But when a gruesome string of murders and kidnappings ravages the town, pushing its volatile mix of Anglo, Mexican, and Apache settlers to the brink of self-destruction, he feels reluctantly compelled to confront both life, and the much more likely possibility of death, yet again.

As Solitario struggles to overcome not only the evil forces that threaten the town but also his own inner demons, he finds an unlikely source of inspiration and support in Onawa, a gifted and enchanting Apache-Mexican seer who champions his cause, daring him to open his heart and question his destiny.

As we follow Solitario and Onawa into the desert, we join them in facing haunting questions about the human condition that are as relevant today as they were back then: Can we rewrite our own history and shape our own future? What does it mean to belong to a place, or for a place to belong to a people? And, as lonely and defeated as we might feel, are we ever truly alone?

Through luminous prose and soul-searching reflections, Rudy Ruiz transports readers to a distant time and a remote place where the immortal forces of good and evil dance amidst the shadows of magic and mountains.

RUDY RUIZ is an award-winning author. His novel, The Resurrection of Fulgencio Ramirez, received two Gold Medals at the 2021 International Latino Book Awards. It was also a finalist for the Western Writers of America Silver Spur Award for Best Contemporary Novel. His shortstory collection Seven for the Revolution captured four International Latino Book Awards, including the Mariposa Prize for Best First Book. In 2017, he garnered the Gulf Coast Prize in Fiction. A bilingual native of the US-Mexico border, he earned his bachelor’s and master’s degrees at Harvard and now resides in San Antonio, Texas, with his wife and children. Visit his website at RudyRuiz.com.

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Toxic Effects

By Dr. Joel Shulkin The Memory Thieves Series, Book 2 Don’t forget to be afraid.

“A riveting adventure…Memorable characters and a chilling plot are certain to keep the reader turning pages deep into the night.”

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Soon after beginning her new job at the Longwood Memory Center, neuropsychiatrist Cristina Silva receives a startling phone call from her contact at the FBI: an assassin is crisscrossing the country, killing anyone connected to the now-defunct pharmaceutical company ReMind—people like Cristina.

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Indeed, an assassin is tracking Cristina, a literal femme fatale known as Dama Branca. Trans xed by the brilliant doctor, DB’s unsure what’s preventing her from killing Cristina. She senses their fates are entwined—with any luck, not fatally.

Cristina’s spurned lover, Wilson, is investigating the suspicious deaths of local teens, and there are now terri ed whispers of a hooded boogeyman called Sack Man. One exceptional young man, Reggie Horne, is clearly in the middle of this bedlam, and Wilson vows to protect him.

When Cristina is in danger, Wilson is never far away. With at least one killer in their wake, unlocking Cristina’s memories could save many lives—her own included.

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LEON URIS NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR

Leon Uris (1924–2003) was an American novelist. Having run away from home at age seventeen, a month after the attack on Pearl Harbor, to join the Marine Corps, he based several of his novels on his own experiences in the marines. His novels include Battle Cry and O’Hara’s Choice, as well as the bestsellers Redemption, Trinity, Exodus, QB VII, and Topaz, among others.

“A master at weaving historical fact and fiction.”

—USA Today From the internationally acclaimed author who enthralled the world with Exodus, Battle Cry, and other classics of twentieth-century fiction comes a sweeping and powerful epic adventure.

Leon Uris captures the “terrible beauty” of Ireland during its long and bloody struggle for freedom. It is the electrifying story of an idealistic young Catholic rebel and the valiant and beautiful Protestant girl who defied her heritage to join his cause. It is a tale of love and danger, of triumph at an unthinkable cost—a magnificent portrait of a people divided by class, faith, and prejudice. It is an unforgettable saga of the fires that devastated a majestic land—and the unquenchable flames that burn in the human heart.

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“The story has a kind of relentless power, based on the real tragedy of Ireland, and Uris’s achievement is that he has neither cheapened nor trivalized that tragedy.”

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Just as World War II threatens to break out, Mike Morrison arrives in Greece to collect his late wife’s inheritance. Hoping to quickly finish his business and leave before German troops invade, Morrison’s plans are derailed when he receives a letter listing the names of Greek patriots pretending to be German collaborators, a list Nazi strategists desperately need. With the outcome of the war hinging on Morrison’s ability to protect the letter, he embarks on an adventure across Greece in an effort to evade Nazi troops and keep the letter from falling into enemy hands.

Based on the diaries of Leon Uris’s uncle, this action-packed thriller will keep listeners in suspense until the very end. A 1959 film adaptation starred Robert Mitchum and Stanley Baker.

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“Uris uses history as the raw material for legend.”

—Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin on Trinity

At the end of World War II, American army officer Captain Sean O’Sullivan is commissioned with rebuilding Berlin. Reeling from the death of his brothers at German hands and faced with the direct horrors of the Holocaust, O’Sullivan struggles against his animosity toward the nation he is helping restore. Meanwhile, Soviet forces blockade Germany in a bid for power, and the Western Allies must unite to prevent a communist takeover. When the airlift begins, the Allies find their deepest convictions tested as they fight against a threat even more dangerous than Hitler.

Meticulously researched, this New York Times bestselling novel gives a historically accurate account of the early days of the Cold War and the fight for German redemption.

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“A vast panorama of people and places... dramatic moment after dramatic moment in a throbbing tempo.”

—New York Herald Tribune on Armageddon

Gideon Zadok arrives in Israel with every intention to research a new book, mend a broken marriage, and improve his dysfunctional family. But as political tensions escalate and his family is evacuated, Zadok asks to follow Israeli paratroopers to secure Mitla Pass and finds himself in the midst of one of the largest global crises of the twentieth century.

A sweeping novel of love, passion, and freedom, Mitla Pass stands as an epic look at modern Middle Eastern history and is quite possibly Uris’s most autobiographical work.

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“A riveting portrait of a man caught in personal crisis...It has in Zadok Uris’s most fascinating character.”

—Library Journal

A #1 New York Times bestseller, Topaz follows French intelligence chief André Devereaux and NATO intelligence chief Michael Nordstrom.

On the eve of the Cuban Missile Crisis in Paris, 1962, Devereaux and Nordstrom uncover Soviet plans to ship nuclear arms. But when nobody acts after sharing his findings, Devereaux becomes the target of an assassination attempt and soon realizes the plot extends far beyond Cuba—and himself.

A thrilling and well-placed novel filled with Cold War intrigue, Topaz features two agents on a journey around the world to save NATO and themselves.

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“Good Uris beats the best of John Grisham or Tom Clancy any time.”

—Fort Worth Star-Telegram, praise for the author

Originally published in 1953, Leon Uris’s Battle Cry is the raw and exciting story of men at war from a legendary American author. This is the story of enlisted men—Marines at the beginning of World War II. They are a rough-and-ready tangle of guys from America’s cities and farms and reservations. Led by a tough veteran sergeant, these soldiers band together to emerge as part of one of the most elite fighting forces in the world. With staggering realizm and detail we follow them into intense battles—Guadalcanal and Tarawa—and through exceptional moments of camaraderie and bravery. Battle Cry does not extol the glories of war but proves itself to be one of the greatest war stories of all time.

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“It’s terrific...Don’t miss it.”

—Kirkus Reviews (starred review) on Battle Cry

Israel is a land of contrasts—of modern hotels and ancient olive trees; of young girls in slacks and elders with traditional beards. It is a country of harsh desert, lush farmland, sandy beaches, and sun-dappled seas. Israel is the common homeland of the Jew, the Christian, and the Muslim.

It is a nation with a living history, a memory of violence and pain, a hope for the future, and a promise in its people.

In Exodus Revisited, Leon Uris returns to the scene of his famous bestselling novel, Exodus, which has sold over five million copleis. With power, compassion, and love, he writes a revealing commentary to accompany the sensitive and haunting photographs of Dimitrios Harissiadis.

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“A tale packed with romance and adventure.”

—Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin on Trinity 31

JILL & LEON

URIS • #1 New York Times bestselling author • National media coverage for this classic reissue • Showcase at bookseller and library trade shows • Digital and print advertisements • Social media promotion and giveaways • Internationally acclaimed novelist Uris earned enormous praise from major publications, with the Denver Post calling him “the best storyteller of his generation” • Will appeal to fans of James A. Michener and James Clavell • Other backlist reissues by Uris coming from Blackstone 32

IRELAND

A Terrible Beauty

The story of Ireland, the Irish, and the Troubles, told by Leon Uris and Jill Uris Jill and Leon Uris came to Ireland looking for answers.

Why has Ireland been bled by one internal war after another? How can one country contain such greatness and grief? What they discovered was more than the Ireland of peat fires and pubs, of fabled Irish wit and the haunts of the banshees. What they found was a people— trapped in mutual mistrusts, but with a a courage and kindness that brought them through centuries of bitter occupation and civil dissension, in a land as complexly beautiful as the people themselves. This then is the Urises’ “love song” to the Irish and to Ireland.

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JERUSALEM

Song of Songs

A magnificent historical tribute to the city of Jerusalem encompasses the five turbulent millennia of its history, and is accompanied by numerous photographs that illuminate every facet of the amazing city.

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Recipient of the 1997 New England Book Award for Nonfiction and recipient of the 2004 NEIBA Presidential Award

JAMES CARROLL James Carroll is the author of twelve novels, most recently The Cloister, which the New York Times called “incandescent,” and eight works of nonfiction. Other books include the National Book Award–winning An American Requiem; the New York Times bestselling Constantine’s Sword, now an acclaimed documentary; House of War, which won the first PEN/ John Kenneth Galbraith Award; and Jerusalem, Jerusalem, which was named a 2011 Best Book

by Publishers Weekly. Carroll is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences and an Associate of the Mahindras Humanities Center at Harvard University. For twenty-three years he wrote a weekly column for the Boston Globe and he contributes occasional essays to NewYorker.com. He lives in Boston with his wife, the writer Alexandra Marshall.

Supply of Heroes

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At the height of World War I, Douglas Tyrrell leaves Ireland and his wife to fight in the English Army, and his sister meets a revolutionary who is determined to fight for Irish independence even if it means siding with the Germans.

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Mortal Friends

a novel

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Colman Brady, an Irish farmer, involves himself in the Irish rebellion of the early 1920s and later escapes to Boston where he rises to and falls from political power and seeks a second chance through the life of his son.

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COMING OCTOBER 4, 2022

RIVER WOMAN, RIVER DEMON A Novel

by Jennifer Givhan When Eva’s husband is arrested for the murder of a friend, she must confront her murky past and embrace her magick to find out what really happened that night on the river.

Eva Santos Moon is a burgeoning Chicana artist who practices the ancient, spiritual ways of brujería and curanderisma, but she’s at one of her lowest points—suffering from disorienting blackouts, creative stagnation, and a feeling of disconnect from her magickal roots. When her husband is taken into custody for the shocking murder of their friend, Eva doesn’t know whom to trust—least of all, herself. She soon falls under suspicion as a potential suspect, and her past rises to the surface, dredging up the truth about an eerily similar death from her childhood.

Struggling with fragmented memories and self-doubt, an increasingly terrified Eva fears that she might have been involved in both murders. But why doesn’t she remember? Only the dead women know for sure, and they’re coming for her with a haunting vengeance.

“A rocket-fueled, indigenous culture–inspired Mad Max— what a ride!…Fierce, wrenching, and written with a poet’s eye for transformation and grace.”

—Brando Skyhorse, author of The Madonnas of Echo Park and Take This Man, on Trinity Sight Fiction / Thrillers / Suspense (FIC030000) Book #eh08 • Unabridged Hardcover 9781665057509 $28.99 Library E-book 9781665057516 $39.99 Trade E-book 9781665057523 $9.99

AVAILABLE NOW • National reviews and interviews • National print and digital ad campaign • Thriller and literary fiction media buzz mailings A 2020 READING THE WEST BOOK AWARD NOMINEE FOR ADULT FICTION

WINNER OF THE 2020 SOUTHWEST BOOK AWARD

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JENNIFER GIVHAN, a National Endowment for the Arts and PEN/Rosenthal

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Emerging Voices fellow, is a Chicana and indigenous novelist, poet, and transformational coach. She is the author of Jubilee, which received an honorable mention for the 2021 Rudolfo Anaya Best Latino-Focused Fiction Book Award, and Trinity Sight, winner of the 2020 Southwest Book Award. She has also published four full-length poetry collections and her honors include the Frost Place Latinx Scholarship and the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize. She raises her children in New Mexico.

COMING OCTOBER 6, 2022 THE FOURTH BOOK IN THE JOSEPH BRIDGEMAN SERIES

THE QUANTUM CHAIN Secrets of the past hold the key to the future.

Joseph Bridgeman is now a fully fledged member of the Continuum, a group of time travelers that heal the past to protect the future. When an antique focus object is stolen, he jumps at the chance to retrieve it. But what should have been a simple auction turns into a dangerous new mission deep in the past.

Alone and unprepared, Joe must not only complete the mission, but also investigate a secretive organization known as Extempero. Who are they? And why are they deliberately squandering focus objects? Somehow, all of this connects back to saving Amy, his own salvation in London, and his experiences in Paris.

With help from an old ally, Joe triggers a rare and unique type of mission and is flung into the past yet again. Caught up in a shocking natural disaster, he is faced with a terrible choice, a decision that will have farreaching consequences for the Continuum, and a delicate future that hangs in the balance.

“Smart, emotionally intelligent, and full of surprises–page-turning time travel, with a twist you won’t see coming.”

—Nicholas Sansbury Smith, New York Times bestselling author of Hell Divers and Extinction Horizon, praise for the series

NICK JONES was born in Stratford-Upon-Avon, Warwickshire, and now lives in the Cotswolds, England. In a previous life, he ran his own media company and was a 2nd Dan black belt in Karate. These days he can be found in his writing room, working on his latest mind-bending ideas, surrounded by notes and scribbling on a large white board. He loves movies, kindness, gin, and vinyl.

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AND THEN SHE VANISHED, BOOK 1 When a friend talks Joseph Bridgeman into visiting a hypnotherapist, the experience unlocks an unexpected Pandora’s box: time travel. Could it be a way for Joseph to solve the mystery of his sister’s disappearance?

THE SHADOWS OF LONDON, BOOK 2 Likable antiques dealer Joseph Bridgeman is back in the present and dreaming of a quiet life. But when a mysterious and enigmatic time traveler arrives in his shop, Joe learns that his first trip was just the beginning, and this time the rules of the game have changed.

THE OBSERVER EFFECT, BOOK 3 A missing time traveler, a mysterious fire, and the future at stake. All in a day’s work for Joseph Bridgeman.

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BEASTS OF THE EARTH

BY JAMES WADE

James Wade, whose first two novels were praised as “rhapsodic” and “haunting,” delivers his most powerful work to date—a chilling parable about the impossible demands of hate and love, trauma and goodness, vividly set in the landscapes of Texas and Louisiana.

Beasts of the Earth tells the story of Harlen LeBlanc, a dependable if quiet employee of the Carter Hills High School’s grounds department, whose carefully maintained routine is overthrown by an act of violence. As the town searches for answers, LeBlanc strikes out on his own to exonerate a friend, while drawing the eyes of the law to himself and fending off unwelcome voices that call for a sterner form of justice.

Twenty years earlier, young Michael Fischer dreads the return of his father from prison. He spends his days stealing from trap lines in the Louisiana bayou to feed his fanatically religious mother and his cherished younger sister, Doreen. When his father eventually returns, an evil arrives in Michael’s life that sends him running from everything he has ever known. He is rescued by a dying poet and his lover, who extract from him a promise: to be a good man, whatever that may require.

Beasts of the Earth deftly intertwines these stories, exploring themes of time, fate, and free will, to produce a revelatory conclusion that is both beautiful and heartbreaking.

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lives and writes in the Texas Hill Country with his wife and daughter. He is the author of River, Sing Out and All Things Left Wild, Wild, a winner of the MPIBA Reading the West Award for Debut Fiction and a recipient of the Spur Award for Best Historical Novel from the Western Writers of America. www.JamesWadeWriter.com

@jameswadewriter

PRAISE FOR ALL THINGS LEFT WILD “Transfixing…The author takes a classic western setup and refreshes it with sharp writing, strong characterizations, a vivid evocation of place, and a body count to rival The Wild Bunch. Fans of All the Pretty Horses will want to saddle up for this literary ride.”

—Publishers Weekly

“This is some kind of literary lightning, this first novel of James Wade’s.”

—Austin Chronicle 36

WINNER OF THE

SPUR AWARD FOR BEST HISTORICAL NOVEL

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COLD VENGEANCE

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BLACK PALM

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DEADLY REUNION BOOK 1

AVAILABLE 10/11/22

Mike McCray is a pseudonym for authors John

Preston and Michael McDowell, who teamed up to write the wartime adventure series the Black Berets.

“[I] instantly fell in love with these characters…Unlike other hightestosterone action-adventure series, the authors dedicated time and effort to tell a realistic story about Vietnam veterans. I just can’t say enough good things about this opening installment.”

—Paperback Warrior on Deadly Reunion

T H E

In the dirty war of covert operations, they were the government’s most deadly secret weapon—the CIA trained them for one thing and one thing only—to kill swiftly, silently, and mercilessly.

Then it turned them loose on the battlefields of Asia, sending them out on missions so ugly that not even the army could be told. But now the war was over. Beak, Rosie, Cowboy, Harry, and Runt were in limbo until their old CIA control sent them back into the hell of Vietnam in search of a man who should be dead. Could five shell-shocked vets become a combat-honed killing machine again? And, if they could, how long would it be before the CIA acted to stop them, to shut them down—for keeps.

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THE DEATH MACHINE CONTRACT

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THE RED MAN CONTRACT

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C O M I N G

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LOUISIANA FIRESTORM

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CONTRACT: TERROR SUMMIT

THE SAMURAI CONTRACT

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THE AKBAR CONTRACT

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DEADBEAT DRUID THE ADAM BINDER NOVELS, BOOK 3

BY DAVID R. SLAYTON

Adam makes the most dangerous deal of his life to rescue Vic when he bargains with Death herself, leading him on a road trip through hell with only his brother and Vran for backup.

Worse, Adam’s debts have come due: he must do what he swore and end the Dark Druid once and for all. As Adam struggles with the idea of killing the druid, Vic finds the afterlife is breaking down.

Death’s motivations come to light as Vic fights to escape the demons who’ve imprisoned him.

Adam and Vic must find each other and set the underworld right before the balance between death and life are broken forever.

• Major prepublication buzz and outreach • National and regional features, interviews, and reviews • Fantasy buzz mailing • Social media and digital ad campaign • Featured title at industry, bookseller, and library trade shows • Author website: DavidRSlayton.com • Author Twitter: @drslayton • Author Instagram: @slaytondavidr

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“Dark, funny, and full of devious twists. Highly recommended!”

—Jonathan Maberry, New York Times bestselling author of Rage and V-Wars, on White Trash Warlock

DON’T MISS THE FIRST TWO BOOKS IN THE SERIES! NOW AVAILABLE

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WHITE TRASH WARLOCK, BOOK 1 • Finalist for the Colorado Book Award • A 2020 Reading the West Book Award nominee for Debut Fiction • A Gizmodo Pick of the New SFF L& Horror Books • A Lambda Literary Pick of the Month’s Most Anticipated LGBTQ Books TRAILER PARK TRICKSTER, BOOK 2 • A Gizmodo Pick of the Month’s Best Books • A Lambda Literary Pick of October Books • An LGBTQ Reads Pick of the Month’s New Releases

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USA Today and New York Times bestselling author

BRIAN FREEMAN The Jonathan Stride Series, Book 11 THE ZERO NIGHT After nearly dying of a gunshot wound, Jonathan Stride has been on leave from the Duluth Police for more than a year.

When his partner, Maggie Bei, gets called about a suspicious abduction involving a local lawyer, she tells Stride it’s time for him to come back.

Attorney Gavin Webster says he paid $100,000 in ransom money to the men who kidnapped his wife. Now they’ve disappeared with the cash, and she’s still missing. Gavin claims to be desperate to find her—but Stride discovers that the lawyer had plenty of motive to be the mastermind behind the crime.

Even as Stride digs for the truth about Gavin Webster and his wife, he must also deal with a crisis in his own marriage.

His wife, Serena, is struggling after the death of her abusive mother, and Stride wonders whether going back to his detective work was the right decision.

• New York Times bestselling author • National and regional reviews and author interviews • Thriller-fiction buzz mailing • Digital and print advertising campaign • Bookseller and library trade show marketing • Social media campaign • Author website: BFreemanBooks.com • Also available: Funeral For a Friend and The Deep, Deep Snow

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“Brian Freeman is a first-rate storyteller.” —Nelson DeMille “Brian Freeman is emerging as one of our best dramatic storytellers, combining the pace of a DeMille with the plot twists of Preston and Child.”

—Larry Schweikart, #1 New York Times bestselling author

Brian Freeman

is a USA Today and New York Times bestselling author of psychological thrillers, including the Jonathan Stride series and many popular standalones. His books have been sold in forty-six countries and translated into twenty-three languages. His thriller Spilled Blood was named Best Hardcover Novel in the International Thriller Writers Awards, and his novel The Deep, Deep Snow was a finalist for the Edgar Award. Brian is widely acclaimed for his vivid “you are there” settings and for his complex, engaging characters and twist-filled plots. He lives in Minnesota with his wife, Marcia. For more information, visit BFreemanBooks.com.

Funeral for a Friend The Jonathan Stride Series, Book 10 Jonathan Stride’s best friend makes a shocking deathbed confession: he protected Stride by covering up a murder. Now Stride’s partner is forced to ask: Did Stride kill him? “[Stride] is in the company of Bosch, Throne, Tennison, and Skinner, some of my other favorite detectives time has not mellowed.”

—Minneapolis Star Tribune, praise for the series

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EZRA EXPOSED As entertaining as it is informative, Ezra Exposed provides a vital message to middle graders and their parents on how to navigate the perils of kids sexting today.

From renowned legal commentator and children’s advocate Amy E. Feldman comes a funny, heartfelt, and utterly authentic middle grade debut about a ten-year-old boy’s scary awakening to the meaning and consequences of sexting.

With a voice that evokes the best of authors like Rebecca Stead and Gordan Korman, Ezra Exposed also offers a practical toolkit for educators, families—and most important, readers—about the law and legal rights in an ongoing age of toxic social media.

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Amy E. Feldman

is a practicing attorney and syndicated legal commentator heard daily on thirty-five radio station in eighteen states. She has appeared on CNN, The Today Show Weekend, and Fox Sports, in addition to frequent appearances on local Philadelphia-area television stations. Amy has been a curriculum contributor and blogger for the National Constitution Center focusing on the intersection of technology and children’s rights. She also created programming for the Lower Merion School District, teaching students rights and responsibilities concerning their technology. She received her masters degree in education and JD from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Holmes Coming

By Kenneth Johnson

A brilliant, real-life Victorian detective and master chemist—who’d become known to the public under the name Sherlock Holmes—was inspired by his friend H.G. Wells to investigate the mysteries of the future. He devised a Jules Verne–worthy method to hibernate in 1899.

When accidentally awakened and his life saved by Dr. Amy Winslow in today’s San Francisco, the egoistic, uberBritish, cocaine-addicted, sexist genius is a century out of sync, so his still-astonishing deductions are sometimes laughably or dangerously incorrect. Amy reluctantly becomes his new Watson, perilously involved in a series of bizarre murders being committed by a descendant of Holmes’s late archenemy, Professor Moriarty.

The tone is classic, suspenseful Holmes, with refreshing twists of sh-out-of-water humor plus a surprising spark of romance.

KENNETH JOHNSON, creator of iconic, Emmy Award–

winning projects The Bionic Woman, The Incredible Hulk, Alien Nation and his original landmark miniseries V, the highest-rated work of science ction in television history. He received excellent reviews on his previous novels: V: The Second Generation, The Darwin Variant, and The Man of Legends—which was selected

by Publishers Weekly as “One of the most anticipated new novels” and became an instant Amazon bestseller ranking Johnson number two on Amazon’s Most Popular Author list, garnering more than four thousand reviews, and selling over one hundred thousand copies in less than a year.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2022

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FROM NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING AUTHOR DAVID FISHER

THE WAR MAGICIAN THE MAN WHO CONJURED VICTORY IN THE DESERT

“A RICHLY ENTERTAINING READ.” —SUNDAY TIMES (London)

Based on an extraordinary true story and soon to be a major film produced by and starring Benedict Cumberbatch, The War Magician is the remarkable tale of the man who used the powers of illusion to fight the Nazis.

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When England went to war against Hitler in 1939 it mobilized its entire military, but there was no place in that army for legendary magician Jasper Maskelyne. Maskelyne was determined to fight using his only weapon: he intended to apply the techniques of popular magic to the battlefield. Initially ignored by leadership, he eventually cajoled his way into the Camouflage Corps and created a new type of warfare.

With his small group of artists, he designed and developed ingenious weapons, tricked the Desert Fox into believing there were tanks and battleships where there were none, concealed the Suez Canal, and even successfully “moved” Alexandria Harbor. But it required all his skills to pull off the largest and most complex magic trick in history. soon to be a major film starring

BENEDICT CUMBERBATCH

COMING 11/8/22

This is the fact-based story of the illusion that won the war in the desert.

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has coauthored several New York Times bestsellers, including Gracie DAVID FISHER and All My Best Friends with George Burns and The Umpire Strikes Back with Ron Luciano. He has written on a wide variety of subjects, and his work has appeared on bestseller lists around the world.

“[MASKELYNE’S] FEATS WERE DEUCEDLY CLEVER, AND THE DETAILS OF THEIR CONTRIVANCE ARE INTRIGUING.” —KIRKUS REVIEWS

“A LITERALLY MARVELOUS WAR TALE, WELL TOLD.” —FOREIGN AFFAIRS

"THIS IS ONE OF THOSE BOOKS THAT ONCE YOU START, YOU CAN'T GIVE UP...A FASCINATING READ.” —REGIMENT

“A REMARKABLE TALE, DELIGHTFULLY TOLD." —SOLDIER magazine (UK) 42

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(Unedited is Barry’s brave decision to lay his process bare—to include every failure, abandoned direction, and wrong turn left out of Edited)

MIKE & PHIL & ALL THE WORLD

BY BARRY LYGA

The duology is both a fun collectible for readers and a must-have for aspiring writers Barry Lyga is a YA superstar with a vast and loyal fanbase that has been eagerly awaiting this project What doesn’t make the cut, can be as revealing as what does.

*COVER NOT FINAL

Enter the epic, one-of-a kind duology of Edited and Unedited, Barry Lyga’s meta writing adventure that revels in the magic and tension that exists between the rough and the polished. Contained in two separate volumes: Unedited lays bare Lyga’s rough draft, the roads not taken, things said only to be later left unsaid. Edited rewards readers with the tightened up transformation of Unedited, revealing what gets cut and what gets kept in the final draft of an unforgettably original teen love story. At its heart, it is a meta-love-story involving two teens, whose crumbling relationship coincides with a crumbling reality and sends them on a wild and surreal ride to their creator … Barry Lyga.

BARRY LYGA is the author of several acclaimed young adult novels, including his debut, The Astonishing Adventures of Fanboy and Goth Girl. Barry lives and writes in New York City.

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Kudos for another incredible read.”

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—Kirkus (starred review) on Boy Toy

“Lyga brilliantly combines the feel of a true crime story with mystery, adventure, and psychoanalysis in this intense story of a different kind of family bond.”

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“A taut, gory tale that can easily stand on its own as an adult thriller, with a large group of suspects and plenty of red herrings.”

—Publishers Weekly (starred review) on I Hunt Killers

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Finding a single assassin in a city of nine million people is daunting.

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It’s the biggest professional challenge the Red team has ever faced, and before it’s over, both Kylie’s and Zach’s personal lives will change. Forever.

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HELL DIVERS VIII: KING OF THE WASTES

By Nicholas Sansbury Smith

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56 Days

By bestselling author Catherine Ryan Howard

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When lockdown threatens to keep Oliver and Ciara apart, Oliver suggests they move in together. A month later, detectives discover a body in Oliver’s apartment. Has lockdown created an opportunity for the perfect crime?

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CATHERINE RYAN HOWARD is an internationally bestselling crime writer from Cork, Ireland.

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No Gods, No Monsters

By Cadwell Turnbull

“Riveting...[A] tender, ferocious book.”

—NEW YORK TIMES One October morning, Laina gets the news that her brother has been shot and killed by Boston cops. But what looks like a case of police brutality soon reveals something much stranger. Monsters are real. And they want everyone to know it.

As creatures from myth and legend come out of the shadows, seeking safety through visibility, their emergence sets off a chain of seemingly unrelated events. Members of a local werewolf pack are threatened. A professor follows a missing friend’s trail to a mysterious secret society.

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At the center is a mystery no one thinks to ask: Why now? What has frightened the monsters out of the dark? The world will soon find out.

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CADWELL TURNBULL is the author of The Lesson. His short fiction has appeared

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I Am Not Who You Think I Am By bestselling author Eric Rickstad

“A tale not just of profound misunderstanding but dynastic wealth and dysfunction, of how money and power can warp a community...[A] shocker of a finale.”

—NEW YORK TIMES One secret. Eight cryptic words. Lifetimes of ruin.

Wayland Maynard is just eight years old when he sees his father kill himself, finds a note that reads I am not who you think I am, and is left reeling with grief and shock. Terrified, Wayland keeps the note a secret, but his reasons for being afraid are just beginning. Eight years later, he makes a shocking discovery and becomes certain the note is the key to unlocking a past his mother and others want to keep buried.

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ERIC RICKSTAD is the New

York Times and internationally bestselling author of the Canaan Crime series novels, The Silent Girls, The Names of Dead Girls, and Lie in Wait. He lives in Vermont with his wife, son, and daughter.

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• New York Times bestselling author • A Strand Magazine Pick of Top Mysteries of 2021 • This book received praise from New York Times bestselling authors and a starred review from Publishers Weekly • Top crime/thriller media buzz, reviews, and features • Author website: Rickstad.com

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In All Good Faith

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The Ar hivist

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In this taut and explosive debut novel, one lapse in judgment lands a young mother in a government reform program where custody of her child hangs in the balance.

Frida Liu is struggling. She doesn’t have a career worthy of her Chinese immigrant parents’ sacriUces. She can’t persuade her husband, Gust, to give up his wellnessobsessed younger mistress. Only with Harriet, their cherubic daughter, does Frida Unally attain the perfection expected of her. Harriet may be all she has, but she is just enough.

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Until Frida has a very bad day.

Because of one moment of poor judgment, a host of government officials will now determine if Frida is a candidate for a Big Brother–like institution that measures the success or failure of a mother’s devotion. Faced with the possibility of losing Harriet, Frida must prove that a bad mother can be redeemed. That she can learn to be good.

JESSAMINE CHAN’S short stories have appeared

in Tin House and Epoch. A former reviews editor at Publishers Weekly, she holds an MFA from Columbia University’s School of the Arts and a BA from Brown University. Her work has received support from several major foundations. Chan lives in Philadelphia with her husband and daughter.

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NOW IN LARGE PRINT Yonder

A Novel

By Jabari Asim

“Majestic…Asim demonstrates all a novel can be: soaring and grounded, personal and epic, thrilling and quiet. A wonder-Qlled novel about the power of words and stories to bring hope to the most difficult situations.”

— Kirkus Reviews (starred review)

“A mesmerizing touch of magical realism…

As the enslaved embark on a soaring adventure in pursuit of freedom, a gripping and satisfying crescendo caps this lyrical story.”

— Booklist (starred review)

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“Asim delivers a fresh, sweeping, must-read tale.”

— New York Times

“Asim delivers a searing and redemptive story of slavery and survival.”

— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

The Water Dancer meets The Prophets in this spare, gripping, and beautifully rendered novel exploring love and friendship among a group of enslaved Black strivers in the mid-nineteenth century.

They call themselves the Stolen. Their tyrannical owners call them captives. They never know what harm may befall them, but it is the wanton destruction of love—the belief that Black people aren’t even capable of loving— that hurts the most. Their relationships begin to fray when a visiting minister starts to Ull their heads with ideas of independence. ConUned in a landscape marked by deceit and uncertainty, who can they trust?

JABARI ASIM is a writer and multidisciplinary artist. He directs the MFA program in creative writing at Emerson College, where he is also the Elma Lewis Distinguished Fellow in Social Justice. He has written for the Washington Post and is the former editor-in-chief of the NCAAP magazine The Crisis.

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NOW IN LARGE PRINT Lucky

By Marissa Stapley

“An electric story about an unconventional heroine…I loved all the twists and turns of this adventure, not knowing where Lucky was going to end up next.”

— Reese Witherspoon

“A wild and deeply satisfying roller-coaster ride…Propulsive and affecting, Lucky is the most fun I’ve had reading a book in quite a while.”

— Taylor Jenkins Reid, New York Times bestselling author of Malibu Rising and Daisy Jones & the Six

“A story of survival, redemption, and forgiveness, Lucky explores the power of second chances. A riveting caper full of heart, I loved this book!”

— Karma Brown, #1 internationally bestselling author of Recipe for

a Perfect Wife

A thrilling roller-coaster ride about a heist gone terribly wrong, with a plucky protagonist who will win readers’ hearts.

What if you had the winning ticket that would change your life forever, but you couldn’t cash it in?

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Lucky Armstrong is a tough, talented grifter who has just pulled off a million-dollar heist with her boyfriend, Cary.

She’s ready to start a brand-new life, with a new identity —when things go sideways and Lucky Unds herself alone for the Urst time.

When she discovers that a lottery ticket she bought on a whim is worth millions, her elation is tempered by one big problem: cashing in the winning ticket means she’ll be arrested for her crimes. She’ll go to prison, with no chance to redeem her fortune. To save herself and her future, Lucky will have to confront her past.

MARISSA STAPLEY is the bestselling author of Lucky,

The Last Resort, Things to Do When It’s Raining, and Mating for Life. Her journalism has appeared in newspapers and magazines across North America. She lives in Toronto with her family. Visit her at MarissaStapley.com or follow her on Instagram and Twitter @MarissaStapley.

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NOW IN LARGE PRINT A Ballad of Love and Glory A Novel

By Reyna Grande

A Long Petal of the Sea meets Cold Mountain in this sweeping historical saga following a Mexican army nurse and an Irish soldier who must Qght, at Qrst for their survival and then for their love, amid the atrocity of the Mexican-American War—from the author of the “timely and riveting” (People) Across a Hundred Mountains and The Distance between Us.

“A Ballad of Love and Glory astonishes with its passion and historical precision. A simply mesmerizing and unforgettable novel.”

— Patricia Engel, New York Times bestselling author of In7nite Country

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“Panoramic and sweeping, A Ballad of Love and Glory immerses us in the history of the Mexican-American War…This is indeed a grand and soulful novel by a storyteller who has hit her full stride.”

— Julia Alvarez, internationally bestselling author of Afterlife

A forgotten war. An unforgettable romance.

The year is 1846. After the controversial annexation of Texas, the US Army marches south to provoke war with Mexico over the disputed Rio Grande boundary.

Ximena Salomé is a gifted Mexican healer who dreams of building a family with the man she loves on the coveted land she calls home. But when Texas Rangers storm her ranch and shoot her husband dead, her dreams are burned to ashes. Meanwhile, John Riley, an Irish immigrant in the Yankee army, is sickened by the unjust war. In a bold act of deUance, he swims across the Rio Grande and joins the Mexican Army. When Ximena and John meet, a dangerous attraction blooms between them.

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REYNA GRANDE is an award-winning author, motivational speaker, and writing teacher. As a young girl, she crossed the US–Mexico border to join her family in Los Angeles, a harrowing journey chronicled in The Distance between Us, a National Book Critics Circle Award Unalist. Her other books include the novels A Ballad of Love and Glory, Across a Hundred Mountains, and Dancing with Butter8ies. She lives in Woodland, California, with her husband and two children.

COMING SOON TO LARGE PRINT Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter A Novel

By Lizzie Pook

“A luscious, mysterious adventure novel…An expert tale of corruption, fate, and family.”

— Adriana Trigiani, New York Times bestselling author

“An extraordinarily vivid tale…I could not put this book down. Lizzie Pook is an author to watch!”

— Kelly Rimmer, New York Times bestselling author of The Warsaw Orphan

“This is a stunning debut. From the very Qrst line, this novel drew me fully into its gritty yet captivating world.”

— Charmaine Wilkerson, author of Black Cake

For readers of The Light Between Oceans and The Island of Sea Women, a feminist adventure story set against the backdrop of the dangerous pearl-diving industry in nineteenth-century Western Australia, about a young English woman who sets off to uncover the truth about the disappearance of her eccentric father Western Australia, 1886. After months at sea, a slow boat makes its passage from London to the shores of Bannin Bay. From the deck, young Eliza Brightwell and her family eye their strange new home. Here is an unforgiving land where fortune sits patiently at the bottom of the ocean, waiting to be claimed by those brave enough to venture into its depths.

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Ten years later, the pearl-diving boat captained by Eliza’s eccentric father returns after months at sea—without Eliza’s father on it. Whispers from townsfolk point to mutiny or murder. Headstrong Eliza knows it’s up to her to discover who, or what, is really responsible.

LIZZIE POOK is a London-based travel writer and

journalist whose work has taken her to some of the farthest-Vung parts of the planet, from the transHimalayas—in search of elusive snow leopards—to the vast, uninhabited east coast of Greenland. She has written for The Guardian, The Telegraph, The Times (London), the Evening Standard, and Stylist. Moonlight and the Pearler’s Daughter is her Urst novel.

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COMING SOON TO LARGE PRINT First Born

By Will Dean

“Highly accomplished, dark, and dazzling.

First Born twists and deceives and cements Will Dean’s status as a truly rare talent. Pure brilliance.”

— Chris Whitaker, New York Times bestselling author

“This taut, twisted novel kept me guessing until the very last page. Clever, compelling, and utterly thrilling.”

— Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Night

She Disappeared

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From the acclaimed author of The Last Thing to Burn, a psychological thriller about the dark secrets that emerge when a woman’s twin sister is murdered, with his signature “intense, gripping, taut, terrifying, moving, and brilliant” (Lisa Jewell, #1 New York Times bestselling author) prose.

Sisters. Soulmates. Strangers.

Molly Raven lives a quiet, structured life in London, Unding comfort in security and routine. Her identical twin Katie, living in New York, is the exact opposite: outgoing, spontaneous, and adventurous.

But when Molly hears that Katie has died, possibly murdered, she is thrown into unfamiliar territory. As terrifying as it is, she knows she must travel across the ocean and Und out what happened. But as she tracks her twin’s Unal movements, cracks begin to emerge, and she slowly realizes her sister was not who she thought she was and there’s a dangerous web of deceit surrounding the two of them.

WILL DEAN grew up in the East Midlands of the United Kingdom and lived in nine villages before the age of eighteen. After studying law at the London School of Economics and working in London, he settled in rural Sweden where he built a wooden house in a boggy clearing at the center of a vast elk forest, and it’s from this base that he compulsively reads and writes. His debut novel, Dark Pines, was selected for Zoe Ball’s book club on ITV, shortlisted for the National Book Awards (UK), The Guardian’s Not the Booker prize, and was named a Telegraph book of the year.

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COMING SOON TO LARGE PRINT Complicit A Novel

By Winnie M Li

“A compulsive read—Winnie M Li’s powerful and beautiful writing immediately immersed me and kept me furiously turning the pages….I loved it.”

— Sarah Pearse, New York Times bestselling author of The

Sanatorium

“An utterly compelling read.”

— Liv Constantine, internationally bestselling author of The Last

Mrs. Parrish

“Winnie’s skill as a writer is to forge out of a familiar Qlm story one that is beautifully unique…Utterly compulsive reading.”

— Sarah Winman, author of Still Life

“A sharply written and absorbing dive into a dark and glamorous world. As timely as it is entertaining, this spectacular novel hooked me from the Qrst page. Winnie M Li is a remarkable talent.”

— Cristina Alger, New York Times bestselling author of Girls like Us

A Hollywood has-been, Sarah Lai’s dreams of success behind the camera have been put to the wayside. Now a lecturer at an obscure college, she wants nothing more than to forget those youthful ambitions. But when a journalist reaches out to her to discuss her own experience working with the celebrated Ulm producer Hugo North, Sarah can no longer keep silent. This is her last chance to tell her side of the story and maybe even exact belated vengeance. As Sarah recounts the industry’s dark and sordid secrets, however, she begins to realize that she has a few sins of her own to confess.

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WINNIE M LI is an American author and activist living

in the UK with her partner and young son. A Harvard graduate, Winnie worked as a Ulm producer in London before her career was disrupted by a violent rape.

Inspired by that experience, her Urst novel, Dark Chapter, was nominated for an Edgar Award and translated into ten languages. She is the founder of Clear Lines, the UK’s Urst-ever festival addressing sexual assault through the arts and discussion.

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COMING SOON TO LARGE PRINT The Ravaged

By Norman Reedus, with Frank Bill

“Powerful.”

— Joe R. Lansdale, Edgar Award–winning author of Moon Lake

“[A] deeply atmospheric debut…with strong character development and emotionally driven plots.”

— Booklist

“Norman Reedus cannonballs the ‘Grit-Lit’ world with this audacious, rollicking debut novel.”

— Matt Bondurant, internationally bestselling author of Oleander

City and Lawless

“A wild, gritty, propulsive work of Qction…

You’ll take the ride of your life with Reedus’s Qerce and unforgettable characters.”

— Adrian McKinty, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The

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“This country wasn’t built on good—only fought for with good intentions.”

Jack spent his life amassing wealth, but after losing his family, he has no one to share it with. Alone with his demons and a backpack, he heads to South America.

After thrashing his dog-abusing boss, Hunter learns of his father’s death in a mysterious Ure. Biker buddies Nugget and Itch ride with him from North Carolina to California. Seventeen-year-old Anne Vees Tennessee after her older brother attacks her. She whacks him with a skillet and hops a freight to Alabama with her best friend. The Ravaged explores three different personal quests with eerily parallel outcomes.

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seen in the tenth season of AMC’s hit series The Walking Dead and on AMC’s unscripted series Ride with Norman Reedus. He is best known for playing the role of Murphy MacManus in the cult movie The Boondock Saints, written and directed by Troy Duffy. Reedus is also a burgeoning director and an accomplished photographer. He lives in New York.

COMING SOON TO LARGE PRINT Snowstorm in August

By Marshall Karp

“Marshall Karp is the Woody Allen of the murder mystery. He’s up there with Carl Hiaasen and Donald Westlake and Janet Evanovich—smart, fast-paced, clever, and really, really funny.”

— Joseph Finder, New York Times bestselling author, on Bloodthirsty

“Talk about your killer snowstorm. Don’t Rake out, but Marshall Karp has written one stone-cold mystery!”

— Al Roker

“[An] adrenaline-fueled thriller from bestseller Karp.”

— Publishers Weekly

The new novel from Marshall Karp, cocreator and coauthor of the #1 New York Times bestselling series NYPD Red. Snowstorm in August features a sneak peek at the forthcoming NYPD Red 7.

Imagine Central Park buried under tons of snow.

Only it’s not snow. It’s cocaine.

Imagine Central Park buried under tons of snow. Only it’s not snow. It’s cocaine. Four thousand pounds of it.

Blanketing meadows and treetops and cutting a swath of death through unsuspecting joggers, cyclists, and picnickers enjoying a summer afternoon in Central Park.

So begins the war between Joaquín Alboroto, the most powerful drug lord on the planet, and his most hated enemy: the city of New York. But when the only NYPD unit trained to go up against this level of terrorism has been disbanded, the task falls on the shoulders of former NYPD captain Danny Corcoran.

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MARSHALL KARP has written and produced numerous television shows, plays, and movies. He is the author of the Lomax and Biggs book series.

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COMING SOON TO LARGE PRINT Oleander City

A Novel Based on a True Story

By Matt Bondurant

“Bondurant is a nimble writer…[His] prose is lyrical when the whiskey Roods in, but also when the blood Rows out.”

— New York Times, praise for the author

“This is a brilliant novel.”

— Julianna Baggott, national bestselling author of Girl Talk and Pure

“A surreal blend of the real and the imagined.”

— Michael Farris Smith, author of Nick and The Fighter

“Austere prose, compelling characters, and a gripping true story…A certiQable pageturner.”

— Adam Johnson, Pulitzer Prize–winning, New York Times

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bestselling author of The Orphan Master’s Son

In the wake of the 1900 Galveston hurricane, three lives converge despite persecution from the Ku Klux Klan, a bare-knuckle boxing match gone wrong, and the recovery efforts of the American Red Cross.

The hurricane of 1900, America’s worst natural disaster, left the island city of Galveston in ruins. Thousands perished, including all ninety-three children at the Sisters of the Incarnate Word orphanage—except sixyear-old Hester, who miraculously survived. Based on a true story, Oleander City is the tale of this little girl and the volatile collision between the American Red Cross, the Ku Klux Klan, and one of the most famous boxing matches in American history.

MATT BONDURANT is the author of the internationally bestselling The Wettest County in the World, which was made into the feature Ulm Lawless, starring Shia Labeouf, Tom Hardy, Gary Oldman, and Jessica Chastain. Matt has published numerous short stories, poems, essays, book reviews, and feature articles. He currently lives in Oxford, Mississippi.

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Internationally bestselling author of Lawless, the basis of the feature Qlm starring Shia LaBeouf

COMING SOON TO LARGE PRINT Cold as Hell

By Rhett C. Bruno and Jaime Castle Black Badge Series, Book 1

“Impressive…Blends its two genres perfectly and offers enough worldbuilding to sustain many sequels…A gritty romp sure to please fans of Jim Butcher and Mike Carey.”

— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“The rich mystical elements feel every bit as authentic to the west as the gunslinging and grit, all of which deftly bring the characters and setting to life.”

— Shirtaloon, Top 10 Amazon charts bestselling author of He Who

Fights with Monsters

In the West, there are worse things to fear than bandits and outlaws.

Demons. Monsters. Witches. James Crowley’s sacred duty as a Black Badge is to hunt them down and banish them from the mortal realm for good. Shot dead in a gunUght many years ago, now he’s stuck in purgatory, serving the whims of the White Throne to avoid falling to Hell. This time, he’s sent to investigate a strange bank robbery in Lonely Hill, where an outlaw with the ability to conjure ice has frozen and shattered open the bank vault and is now on a spree, robbing the region for all it’s worth.

In his quest to track down the ice-wielder, Crowley Unds himself face-to-face with hellish beasts, shapeshifters, and, worse … temptation. But the truth behind the attacks is worse than he imagined.

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The Witcher meets The Dresden Files in this weird Western series by the Audible number-one bestselling duo behind Dead Acre.

RHETT C. BRUNO is the USA Today and Washington Post bestselling and Nebula Award–nominated author of the Circuit Saga, the Children of Titan series, the Buried Goddess Saga, Vicarious, and The Roach, among other works. He is currently a full-time author and publisher living in Delaware with his wife and daughter.

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COMING SOON TO LARGE PRINT Greetings from Asbury Park

By Daniel H. Turtel

In a small seaside city on the Jersey Shore, three half-siblings confront the death of a distant and bullying patriarch. They now have the chance to imagine new futures, ones that would have been near-unthinkable while their father was alive. Slowly, however, they come to understand that everything—their future, their happiness—depends on whether they can face themselves.

Wise, perceptive, and provocative, Greetings from Asbury Park is a deep interrogation of place that depicts Vawed characters as they break through to adulthood and to a moral relationship with the world.

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COMING JULY 5, 2022

The Orchid and the Emerald

By Timothy David Mack Search for the Cure

After returning home from the Napoleonic wars, William Gunn accepts a position on the Duke of Devonshire’s idyllic estate.

Destiny, however, intervenes when his young daughter Sarah falls prey to a mysterious sickness, and Gunn must strike out in search for an unusual cure. Across the Atlantic, American frontiersman Nathanial Yankee has left his country and his past behind for a chance at a fresh start. For one man, the goal is a chance to save his daughter’s life; for the other, a priceless treasure beckons. But both men are pawns in a far larger game, and some secrets cannot be hidden forever …

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Brides of Rome

By Debra May Macleod The Vesta Shadows Trilogy, Book 1 A Novel of the Vestal Virgins It is a world of power and privilege, secrets and sacred duty. It is the world of ancient Rome. And it is the esteemed Vestal Virgins— priestesses of Vesta, goddess of the home and hearth—who protect the Eternal Flame that protects the Eternal City. Dedicated to a thirty-year vow of chaste service, Priestess Pomponia Unds herself swept up in the intrigue, violence, wars, and bedroom politics of Rome’s elite—Julius Caesar, Antony and Cleopatra, Octavian and his maneuvering wife, Livia—all the while guarding the secret affection in her heart.

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COMING JULY 5, 2022

To Be Wolves

By Debra May Macleod The Vesta Shadows Trilogy, Book 2 A Novel of the Vestal Virgins As chief Vestal Virgin of Rome, Pomponia devotes her life to protecting her order and the eternal Vame of Vesta. She has risen to a position of esteem in Rome and is a valued member of Caesar’s inner circle. But now a contagion ravages the city and tension rises among Rome’s inhabitants. While she struggles to manage the Vestal order and maintain the favor of the goddess, Pomponia must now face a malevolent nobleman whose machinations against her threaten not just her friendship with Caesar, but everything she loves.

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COMING SOON TO LARGE PRINT Present Evil, Active God

By Jered Gritters Can This World’s Evil Ever Be Resolved?

Can we truly believe God is active and good amidst such rampant evil? We tend to believe either God must not be loving or must not be actively involved. Yet throughout history, many have pressed forward to respond to this great challenge at the core of life. Adjunct professor of biblical studies Jered Gritters details how some of the worst evil has not prevented the greatest solution the world has ever seen from having its impact. Applying the Sermon on the Mount, an all-important “relational approach” demonstrates how anyone can help to solve the problem of evil in any time or place.

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COMING JULY 12, 2022

Finding Grace

By Janis Thomas A Novel

California: Twelve-year-old Melanie harbors a secret that, if discovered, would blow her world apart. Someone talks to her, a presence no one else can see or hear, and this presence has a message for her: something bad is about to happen. New York: Louise has managed to Und peace in her solitary existence until the day her troubled mother, Grace, crashes back into her life and entreats Louise to help her save a child from imminent danger.

Unwilling to get caught up in her mother’s madness, Louise resists. But she realizes the only way to be rid of Grace is to play along.

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COMING AUGUST 2, 2022

The World of Pondside

By Mary Helen Stefaniak

With help from Pondside Manor’s quirky, twentysomething kitchen worker Foster Kresowik, resident Robert Kallman creates The World of Pondside, a video game that delights the nursing home’s residents by allowing them to virtually relive blissful moments from days long past. But chaos ensues when Robert is found dead, and it’s far from clear if it was suicide or murder.

When Robert’s video game goes dark, its players grow desperate.

From Pondside Manor, this unlikely bunch of gamers embarks upon an astonishing journey—blissful, treacherous, and unforgettable.

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COMING AUGUST 2, 2022

Ain’t That A Mother

By Adiba Nelson Postpartum, Palsy, and Everything in Between No one said motherhood would be easy. For Adiba Nelson, the journey to parenthood started with a big bang and continues with a breakdown (or two) and several “why?” questions for God. When Adiba found herself unexpectedly pregnant, she also found herself unexpectedly falling into the same relationship patterns of the matriarchs before her. Mom to a new baby with high medical needs and with a slew of hardships that just won’t quit, she set out on a reckoning that was just as generational as it was personal, never losing her heart or her humor along the way.

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COMING SOON TO LARGE PRINT One of Us Is Dead

By Jeneva Rose

Buckhead is a place of expensive cars, huge houses, and competitive friendships. Shannon, once the queen bee of Buckhead, has been unceremoniously dumped by her politician husband and sets out for revenge. Crystal has stepped into Shannon’s old shoes, but she simply has no idea what she’s up against. Olivia has waited years to take Shannon’s crown but will need to use every manipulative trick in the book to get it. Jenny, owner of the most exclusive salon in town, knows all her clients’ secrets. But will she ever tell? They say that friendships can be complex, but no one said it could be this deadly.

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COMING AUGUST 9, 2022

Into the Inferno

By Stuart Palley A Photographer’s Journey through California’s MegaQres and Fallout For nearly a decade, Stuart Palley has been on the frontline of Ure. He’s captured, time and again, the tireless commitment of UreUghters as they work to save lives and homes, in terrain where Ure always seems to have the upper hand. In this memoir, Palley recalls how he went from learning to be safe on the Ureline to a Ure-savvy documentarian of wildUre and climate change.

Ultimately, the experiences, the voices, and the science shared in the memoir form an urgent call for climate action and shows just what kind of environmental tragedy we can expect if we do nothing.

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COMING AUGUST 9, 2022

The Reincarnationist Papers

By D. Eric Maikranz

Evan Michaels struggles with having the complete memories of two other people who lived sequentially before him. He believes he is unique until he meets Poppy, who is like him except that she is much older, remembering seven consecutive lives. But there is something else she must share with Evan—she is a member of the secretive Cognomina. They are, in effect, immortals— compiling experiences and skills over lifetimes to drive history over centuries. Poppy invites Evan into the Cognomina, but he must face their tests before entering this mysterious society as their equal.

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COMING AUGUST 16, 2022

The Roach

By Rhett C. Bruno

Reese Roberts was the guardian of Iron City. Its fearless protector.

The only one willing to do whatever it takes … until he was shot on the streets and left paralyzed from the waist down. Now, the vigilante known as the Roach has disappeared. Faded into legend.

It’s been years since Reese could take on crime and clean up the streets. But when a copycat steals his suit and takes justice into his own hands, a new killer emerges, leaving brutal messages behind.

Iron City needs the Roach again. Only, this time, he’ll need to save it without his legs.

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COMING AUGUST 23, 2022

COMING SOON TO LARGE PRINT The Nobodies

By Alanna Schubach

Jess and Nina, Nina and Jess … to everyone else they’re typical best friends, sharing closeness and conUdences in their own little world. But Nina and Jess have a secret. Simply by touching their foreheads together, they can swap bodies. Now, in crisis after her father’s death, Jess has reentered Nina’s life following a long separation. Once again they switch bodies, and their worlds begin to mesh. Each deceives the other, confesses, is forgiven. But how deeply can you sink into another’s life before there’s nothing left of you?

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COMING SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The Precious Jules

By Shawn Nocher

After nearly two hundred years of housing retardants, as they were once known, the Beechwood Institute is closing the doors on its dark history. Ella Jules, having arrived at Beechwood at the tender age of eight, must now rely on the state to decide her future. Ella’s aging parents have requested that she be returned to her childhood home, much to the distress of Ella’s siblings and to Lynetta, her beloved caretaker. The Uve adult Jules children, haunted by their early memories of their sister, are converging on the family home—secrets in tow—to talk some sense into their aging parents.

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COMING SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Beneath Cruel Waters

By Jon Bassoff

Holt Davidson, a Kansas UreUghter, hasn’t been back to his hometown of Thompsonville, Colorado, for more than two decades, but when he learns that his estranged mother has taken her own life, he returns for the funeral, hoping to make peace with her memory. He spends the night at his childhood home, rummaging through each room, exploring the past. But instead of nostalgic souvenirs, he discovers a gun, a love letter, and a Polaroid photograph of a man lying in his own blood. Who is the dead man? Was his mother the one who killed him, and, if so, why?

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COMING SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Vicarious

By Rhett C. Bruno In High Earth, entertainment is everything, and there’s something for everybody. For Asher Reinhart, nothing compares to Ignis: Live, a reality show that pushes human beings to their very extremes.

As a volunteer director, he closely monitors the lives of those on the show. Mission is the brightest young star. But now that it’s her turn to provide for the Ark, everything changes … With Mission’s life placed in danger in order to boost ratings, Asher must choose between protecting the show he’s dedicated his life to, or the woman who has been the focus of his attention since the day he was born.

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COMING SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

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COMING SOON TO LARGE PRINT The Seventh Sun

By Lani Forbes The Age of the Seventh Sun Series, Book 1 Thrust into leadership upon the death of his emperor father, Prince Ahkin feels completely unready for his new position.

Though his royal blood controls the power of the sun, he’s now responsible for the lives of all the Chicome people. And the sun is fading. Mayana, whose blood controls the power of water, is one of six noble daughters presented to him as a possible wife.

Mayana and Ahkin feel an immediate connection, but the gods themselves may be against them. As a bloodred comet and the fading sun bring a growing sense of dread, only two young people may hope to change their world.

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The Jade Bones

By Lani Forbes The Age of the Seventh Sun Series, Book 2 Cast into the underworld after an act of shattering betrayal, Mayana and Ahkin must overcome unimaginable odds if they are to return home and reclaim the throne of the Chicome.

Fortunately, they are not unequipped. Mayana’s royal blood controls the power of water, and Prince Ahkin wields the power of the sun itself. Ometeotl, the Mother goddess, provides them with other gifts—and an ominous warning that one of them may not survive.

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COMING SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

The Obsidian ButterRy

By Lani Forbes The Age of the Seventh Sun Series, Book 3 To the Chicome people, an eclipse is a time of terror. When darkness falls, the barrier separating the heavens and the earth becomes unstable. Then come the ravening Tzitzimime—the star demons who thirst for human blood. Mayana and Ahkin know the full extent of the coming danger, but they must gather support or the Chicome Empire is doomed. As the eclipse nears, many maneuver for power in this deadly game of worlds ending. As for Ahkin and Mayana, the entire empire seems to want to keep them apart. Can their love endure the end of the world?

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COMING OCTOBER 11, 2022

Good Night, Forever

By Jeffrey Fleishman The Sam Carver Series

Los Angeles is not itself. Rain falls hard every day. Homeless men are set on Ure in their tents. Detective Sam Carver chases leads into a maze of militias and neo-Nazis. But before he gets too deep into the case, a past that has haunted him for years returns in the name of Dylan Cross. The killer who got away. Carver knows she has murdered again, but no one believes him. He is drawn to her by the damage and demons they both carry. But he is certain that when they meet again, only one will survive.

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COMING OCTOBER 25, 2022

COMING SOON TO LARGE PRINT Reset

By Sarina Dahlan The Reset Series, Book 1 A Novel To prevent mankind from destroying each other again, the carefully controlled citizens of the Four Cities undergo a memory wipe every four years in a process called tabula rasa, a blank slate, to remove learned prejudices. No memories. No attachments. No wars. Aris, a scientist who shuns love, embraces tabula rasa. But after meeting Benja, a handsome free-spirited writer, her world is turned upside down. Thought-provoking and emotionally resonant, Reset will make you consider the haunting reality of love and loss, and the indelible marks they leave behind.

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COMING DECEMBER 6, 2022

Sons of Valor II: Violence of Action

By Brian Andrews and Jeffrey Wilson The Sons of Valor Series, Book 2

When a former teammate of Navy SEAL Lieutenant Commander Keith “Chunk” Redman is killed, rumors begin to Vy that an infamous Iraq War sniper has returned to target American SEALs. Chunk and his core team are mobilized to prosecute the threat.

But when their enemy strikes at the heart of what’s nearest and dearest to them, it will test not only their bonds but also the personal sacriUces they’ve made to keep America safe.

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COMING DECEMBER 13, 2022

Lady Fortescue Steps Out

By M. C. Beaton The Poor Relation Series, Book 1

Lady Fortescue and Colonel Sandhurst hatch a plan: What if they were to transform her decrepit home into a posh hotel, offering their guests the pleasure of being waited upon by nobility? With the help of other down-and-out aristocrats, they do just that, and the Poor Relation is born. But the Duke of Rowcester, Lady Fortescue’s nephew, is determined to shut the hotel down—until he meets Miss Harriett James, the Poor Relation’s lovely young chef.

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COMING JULY 19, 2022

Miss Tonks Turns to Crime

By M. C. Beaton The Poor Relation Series, Book 2

The oddly assorted group met some time ago and started The Poor Relation hotel. As the hotel prospered, they began to enjoy the fruits of their labor. But once more they are in need of funds.

To stoop to crime in their days of poverty was one thing, but to turn to it again when they have enjoyed a certain amount of success is quite another. But the hotel must go on. And so poor, faded Miss Tonks has been persuaded to steal something valuable from her rich sister. Miss Tonks’ chances for success are in doubt, but she has more than a few surprises in store.

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COMING SOON TO LARGE PRINT Mrs. Budley Falls from Grace

By M. C. Beaton The Poor Relation Series, Book 3

Eliza Budley is a beautiful widow whose husband gambled away his fortune. Lady Fortescue reminds the others that, to be fair, Mrs. Budley has no relatives on whom she can call. Gentle Mrs. Budley thinks she has escaped her fate until Sir Philip comes up with a plan. He has heard that the elderly Marquess of Peterhouse is senile, a widower, extremely rich, and unlikely to remember whether Mrs. Budley is a relative or not. So off Mrs. Budley goes to the bleak castle, where the marquess turns out to be not so old, hardly senile, and, in fact, quite handsome.

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COMING AUGUST 23, 2022

Sir Philip’s Folly

By M. C. Beaton The Poor Relation Series, Book 4 Just when everything at the Poor Relation Hotel seems to be running smoothly, Sir Philip brings in another poor relation, the lazy and incorrigible Mrs. Budge, his paramour. In the middle of all this commotion, a certain dishonest Lady Carruthers and her nineteen-year-old daughter Arabella come to stay at the hotel. It is up to the poor relations to deal with the lazy Mrs. Budge, Und Arabella a husband, and trounce her terrible mother!

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Colonel Sandhurst to the Rescue

By M. C. Beaton The Poor Relation Series, Book 5

The poor relations are once again scrounging around for a plan for solvency. This time it is Colonel Sandhurst to the rescue. After happening on Sir Randolph’s lovely daughter Frederica, who is running away to escape an awful marriage to Lord Bewley, the Colonel devises a plan to force Sir Randolph to settle his bill for six months’ stay and to save Frederica from her fate. But the clever plan is thwarted when Lord Bewley shows up at the drop point instead of Sir Randolph, and the poor relations must make a deal with Lord Bewley in order to get their money and stay out of jail.

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Back in Society

By M. C. Beaton The Poor Relation Series, Book 6 Life is Unally looking up for the poor relations. They have Unally reached a position comfortable enough to allow them to consider offers to buy the hotel. Their hard-earned success, however, is in stark contrast to the plight of their latest guest, Lady Jane Fremney. The slight, beautiful youngest daughter of the Earl of Durby has been cast out of her family for refusing to marry the man her father has chosen. Lonely and bankrupt, Lady Jane has decided to commit suicide. But when Miss Tonks uncovers her plans, the poor relations go into action again.

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TITLE INDEX TITLE

PAGE #

TITLE

PAGE #

56 DAYS...................................................................................................................46

LADY FORTESCUE STEPS OUT................................................................................71

AIN’T THAT A MOTHER...........................................................................................67

LOUISIANA FIRESTORM..........................................................................................37

AKBAR CONTRACT, THE..........................................................................................37

LUCKY ......................................................................................................................57

AND THEN SHE VANISHED.....................................................................................35

MADE FOR SUCCESS...............................................................................................11

ANGRY HILLS, THE..................................................................................................30

MANMADE CONSTELLATIONS...............................................................................19

ARCHIVIST, THE.......................................................................................................53

MASTER ARTIFICER.................................................................................................52

ARMAGEDDON........................................................................................................30

MISS TONKS TURNS TO CRIME.............................................................................71

ASSEMBLE ARTIFACTS............................................................................................29

MITLA PASS.............................................................................................................31

BACK IN SOCIETY....................................................................................................72

MOONLIGHT AND THE PEARLER’S DAUGHTER.....................................................59

BALLAD OF LOVE AND GLORY, A............................................................................58

MORTAL FRIENDS....................................................................................................33

BATTLE CRY..............................................................................................................31

MRS. BUDLEY FALLS FROM GRACE........................................................................72

BEASTS OF THE EARTH...........................................................................................36

NEIGHBORHOOD, THE.............................................................................................18

BENEATH CRUEL WATERS.......................................................................................69

NIGHT OF THE JAGUAR...........................................................................................37

BLACK PALM............................................................................................................37

NO GODS, NO MONSTERS......................................................................................47

BLUE WATER CONTRACT........................................................................................37

NOBODIES, THE.......................................................................................................69

BREEDER..................................................................................................................49

NYPD RED 7: THE MURDER SORORITY...................................................................44

BRIDES OF ROME.....................................................................................................66

OBSERVER EFFECT, THE...........................................................................................35

BUTCHER PEN ROAD...............................................................................................50

OBSIDIAN BUTTERFLY, THE.....................................................................................70

CALIFORNIA FEVER..................................................................................................16

OCEAN IN WINTER, THE.........................................................................................49

COLD AS HELL..........................................................................................................65

OLEANDER CITY.......................................................................................................64

COLD HARD LIGHT, THE...........................................................................................17

ONE OF US IS DEAD................................................................................................68

COLD VENGEANCE..................................................................................................37

ORCHID AND THE EMERALD, THE..........................................................................66

COLONEL SANDHURST TO THE RESCUE................................................................72

OUT OF TIME............................................................................................................53

COMPETITIVE GRIEVING..........................................................................................51

PRECIOUS JULES, THE.............................................................................................69

COMPLICIT...............................................................................................................61

PRESENT EVIL, ACTIVE GOD....................................................................................67

CONTRACT: TERROR SUMMIT................................................................................37

QUANTUM CHAIN, THE...........................................................................................35

CRIMSON THREAD, THE..........................................................................................12

RAVAGED, THE.........................................................................................................62

DARK HARVEST.......................................................................................................22

RED MAN CONTRACT, THE.....................................................................................37

DEADBEAT DRUID....................................................................................................38

REINCARNATIONIST PAPERS, THE..........................................................................68

DEADLY REUNION...................................................................................................37

RESET ................................................................................................................53, 71

DEATH MACHINE CONTRACT, THE.........................................................................37

RIGHT BACK WHERE WE STARTED FROM.............................................................51

DUPLEX....................................................................................................................52

RIVER WOMAN, RIVER DEMON..............................................................................34

EDITED.....................................................................................................................43

ROACH, THE.............................................................................................................68

ENIGMA AFFAIR, THE..............................................................................................25

RUN TIME................................................................................................................20

EVERYMAN..............................................................................................................50

SAMURAI CONTRACT, THE.....................................................................................37

EXODUS REVISITED.................................................................................................31

SCHOOL FOR GOOD MOTHERS, THE.......................................................................55

EZRA EXPOSED........................................................................................................40

SECOND SEASON, THE...........................................................................................50

FELONIOUS MONK..................................................................................................52

SEVENTH SUN, THE.................................................................................................70

56 DAYS...................................................................................................................46

SHADOWS OF LONDON, THE..................................................................................35

FINDING GRACE.......................................................................................................67

SIR PHILIP’S FOLLY...................................................................................................72

FIRST BORN.............................................................................................................60

SNOWSTORM IN AUGUST......................................................................................63

FORTY ELEPHANTS, THE.........................................................................................23

SONS OF VALOR II: VIOLENCE OF ACTION..............................................................71

FUNERAL FOR A FRIEND..........................................................................................39

SOULS OF FIRE AND STEEL.....................................................................................52

GOD, FAMILY, COUNTRY............................................................................................3

SUPPLY OF HEROES.................................................................................................33

GOOD NIGHT, FOREVER...........................................................................................70

SWIFT AND THE HARRIER, THE..............................................................................14

GRAVE DESCEND.......................................................................................................5

TO BE WOLVES..................................................................................................53, 66

GRAVEDIGGER’S SONG, THE...................................................................................24

TOPAZ ......................................................................................................................31

GREETINGS FROM ASBURY PARK..........................................................................66

TOXIC EFFECTS........................................................................................................28

HALF OUTLAW.........................................................................................................13

TRINITY....................................................................................................................30

HELL DIVERS VIII: KING OF THE WASTES...............................................................45

UNEDITED................................................................................................................43

HELL DIVERS IX: RADIOACTIVE.................................................................................8

VALLEY OF SHADOWS.............................................................................................27

HOLMES COMING...................................................................................................41

VICARIOUS...............................................................................................................69

HOTEL CALIFORNIA.................................................................................................15

WAR MAGICIAN, THE..............................................................................................42

HUSH, THE...............................................................................................................49

WE MARCH AT MIDNIGHT......................................................................................50

I AM NOT WHO YOU THINK I AM...........................................................................48

WE SHARE THE SAME SKY.....................................................................................51

IMPOSTER................................................................................................................26

WEIRD TALES.............................................................................................................6

IN ALL GOOD FAITH.................................................................................................51

WHITE STREAK, THE...............................................................................................49

INTO THE INFERNO..................................................................................................68

WORLD OF PONDSIDE, THE....................................................................................67

IRELAND...................................................................................................................32

YONDER...................................................................................................................56

JADE BONES, THE...................................................................................................70

ZERO COOL.................................................................................................................5

JERUSALEM.............................................................................................................32

ZERO NIGHT, THE.....................................................................................................39

KEY TO FURY, THE....................................................................................................10

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