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On an epic voyage far beyond the Republic, the Jedi will confront their most extraordinary enemy—and test the limits of honor and sacrifice against their most devastating challenge. The Clone Wars have yet to erupt when Jedi Master Jorus C’baoth petitions the Senate for support of a...

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Frozen River, this “enthralling nail-biter” (People) of a novel brings the fateful voyage of the Hindenburg to life. “At every page a guilty secret bobs up; at every page Lawhon keeps us guessing. Who will bring down the Hindenburg? And how?...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER A USA TODAY BESTSELLER A NATIONAL INDIEBOUND BESTSELLER From the author of The Guest Room, a powerful story about the ways an entire life can change in one night: A flight attendant wakes up in the wrong hotel, in the wrong bed, with a...

On an epic voyage far beyond the Republic, the Jedi will confront their most extraordinary enemy—and test the limits of honor and sacrifice against their most devastating challenge. The Clone Wars have yet to erupt when Jedi Master Jorus C’baoth petitions the Senate for support of a...

Two years before the events of Stranger Things: Season 4, Eddie Munson—Hellfire Club leader, metalhead, and Hawkins outcast—has one shot to make it big. Hawkins, Indiana: For most, it’s simply another idyllic, manicured all-American town. But for Eddie Munson, it’s like living in a...

Late at night Tori receives a random phone call. It's a wrong number. But the caller seems to want to talk, so she stays on the line. He asks for a single thing - one reason not to kill himself. The request plunges her into confusion. Because if this random caller actually does what he plans, he'll be the second person connected to Tori to take his own life. And the first just might land her in jail.

Dusk was falling as Patrick slowed the car and pulled into a lay-by. Scots pines swayed in the strengthening wind. He had heard on the radio that a storm was blowing in.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY KIRKUS REVIEWS In the National Book Award–winning Let the Great World Spin, Colum McCann thrilled readers with a marvelous high-wire act of fiction that The New York Times Book...

There was a time when “universe” meant all there is. Everything. Yet, in recent years discoveries in physics and cosmology have led a number of scientists to conclude that our universe may be one among many. With crystal-clear prose and inspired use of analogy, Brian Greene shows how a range...

As a member of the renowned Flying Doctors Service, Dr. Anne Spoerry treated hundreds of thousands of people across rural Kenya over the span of fifty years, earning herself the cherished nickname “Mama Daktari”—“Mother Doctor.” Yet few knew that what drove her from post-World War II...

The Golden Age of Aviation is brought to life in this story of the giant Zeppelin airships that once roamed the sky—a story that ended with the fiery destruction of the Hindenburg. “Genius . . . a definitive tale of an incredible time when mere mortals learned to fly.”—Keith O’Brien...

Her genetic secret could change humanity forever. Her DNA grants her the ultimate power. But all she wants is to disappear. Looming buildings rise into the sky of a near-future America, shadowing the desperate poverty of the soovie parks, death doctors, and fear bombs. In this world of...

After spending four years fighting for the Alliance, fighter pilot Alisa Marchenko wants only one thing: to reunite with her young daughter. But this involves a journey to her former home world, which has become the last imperial stronghold. Since the imperials have a lot of reasons to loathe members of the Alliance right now, just getting down to the planet will be a challenge, and it doesn't help that her passengers are stirring up trouble of their own.

At a time when Steve Jobs was only a teenager and Mark Zuckerberg wasn’t even born, a group of visionary engineers and designers—some of them only high school students—in the late 1960s and 1970s created a computer system called PLATO, which was light-years ahead in experimenting with how...

Oh no! Tom's stuck at home with a fractured ankle, and it's spoiling his fun. Doodling on his plaster cast helps to pass the time, along with visits from family (with treats), friends and even Rooster managing to sneak in. Tom remembers other fun times he's had, like metal detecting with Uncle Kevin and the cousins or inventing a new secret language with Derek. But only one thing will cheer Tom up - a caramel doughnut from the new bakery...trouble is, every other kid in town keeps getting there before him!

Sixteen-year-old Elly Gotz hides with his family in an underground bunker in the Kovno ghetto in Lithuania, prepared to die rather than be found by the Nazis. After surviving nearly three years in the ghetto, where thousands from the Jewish community have been murdered, Elly and his family refuse to be the Nazis’ next victims. But there is no escape from the liquidation of the ghetto in the summer of 1944, and Elly and his father are taken to Kaufering, a brutal subcamp of the notorious Dachau concentration camp. After the war, as his family tries desperately to flee from Germany and their ...

Hermia Mount, una inteligente analista británica empieza a sospechar de la existencia de una estación de radar secreta en la costa de Dinamarca. En Copenhague, el policía colaboracionista con los nazis Peter Flemming intenta descubrir la red la resistencia danesa. Entretanto Harald Olufsen, un joven estudiante danés se ve involucrado poco a poco en la investigación de Hermia.

Viajamos con el Escuadrón Cielo a Detritus, el último refugio de la humanidad frente al gobierno hostil de la Supremacía Galáctica. En Escuadrón, Spensa Nitghshade se convirtió en piloto de caza estelar y pasó a formar parte del Escuadrón Cielo de la Fuerza de Defensa Desafiante con el objetivo de combatir la amenaza de la Supremacía. En Estelar, se hizo pasar por la alienígena Alanik para infiltrarse en una estación espacial de la Supremacía y robar sus hipermotores.

5 de diciembre de 1945. La Segunda Guerra Mundial ha terminado y todos los soldados desean regresar a casa. Cinco aviones TBM Avenger despegan de la base de Fort Lauderdale para una sencilla misión de entrenamiento en el océano, pero tras una serie de dificultades y malas decisiones desaparecen sin dejar rastro. Al cabo de unas horas un avión del operativo de rescate, que ha salido en su búsqueda, tampoco regresa. Tras unos angustiosos días donde se articula un amplio dispositivo, todos los tripulantes del Vuelo 19 son dados por muertos.

Antes de Tom y Wren... estaba Anna Fang. Vuelos nocturnos es un Spin Off de la tetralogía «Mortal Engines», una trepidante y original historia llena de misterio, con una ambientación única en un mundo futurista y postapocalíptico. Las novelas en las que se basa la superproducción cinematográfica de Peter Jackson. Vuela. Lucha. Vive. En un peligroso futuro donde enormes ciudades motorizadas se atacan y devoran entre sí, Londres es un depredador que caza donde ningún otro se atreve. Pero Anna Fang, piloto, aventurera y espía, no conoce el miedo.