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Nathan Lee has exactly three talents: overthinking social encounters, avoiding responsibility, and farming in video games. When the apocalypse hits, he accidentally dumps all his rare skill points into… fishing. Just his luck.

A smash-hit reality show is offering a lifetime of luxury to the one person living the world's worst life, and now everyone is out to prove just how bad they've got it. Want in? All you've got to do is accept ocular implants that let the whole world see life through your eyes, 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Fortunately, there's still one person who hasn't lost faith in all humanity. The show's ever-smiling host is determined to wring some tiny bit of meaning out of this twisted competition and your unhappy existence.

It is 1975, and Ruby Drake is struggling to deal with the brutal murder of her lover, Michael Ward. As her children, Daisy and Kit, battle their own demons, her retail empire starts to crumble. Meanwhile, after the revenge killing of Tito Danieri, Kit is the lowest he's ever been. But soon doubt is thrown over whether Kit killed the right person, and now the Danieris are out for his blood and the blood of the entire Darke family.

England, 1351. The Pestilence has ravaged the land. Villages lie abandoned but for crows and corpses. Highways are patrolled by marauders and murderers. In these dark and dangerous times, the wise keep to themselves. But Gerard Fox cannot afford to be wise. The young knight has been robbed of his ancestral home, his family name tarnished. To regain his lands and reputation, he sets forth to petition the one man who can restore them. Fate places Fox on the wrong road at the wrong time as he hurtles towards a chance encounter.

The Collapse changed everything. Good men became killers. Strong women became property. And every day turned into a fight for survival. I once dreamed of becoming a nurse. That dream went up in flames the same day I graduated nursing school, when women were banned from holding any kind of medical license. Now as an unlicensed medic, I travel what was once the southwestern United States, trading medical services for food, transportation, and shelter with the hopes of reaching Canada.

The penultimate volume in John Jakes’s stirring Kent Family Chronicles finds America booming in its postwar prosperity. With this newly secured peace comes an opportunity for the Kent family to reconcile and to thrive, both personally and financially. Gideon Kent takes up his father’s vow to reunite the family, but when he brings his father’s widow back into the fold, the repercussions seem insurmountable.

Witches are evil. They’re everything that’s wrong with this world. My unit is tasked with finding and killing each and every one of them. Until he comes along. Caleb Carlyle. My next target. Silver hair, small with a big-boy attitude, and an offer I can’t refuse. Trade my cursed, frozen heart for his broken one. When we join forces, witches and hunters turn against us. Now we have to rely on each other for survival and I know this won’t end well.

When Lark was sentenced to 25 years behind bars, she thought San Judas was her lucky break. The primitive 16,000-acre community in rural New Mexico isn't like any other prison. There are no cells, there is no warden, and Mother Mercy is the law. She didn't realize she'd be fighting for survival on a daily basis - battling hunger, violent inmates, and Mother Mercy's iron fist. Lark's only friend is Bernie - an off-the-rails environmental activist doing time for arson - and a mysterious stranger who's been sending her illicit messages from the men's colony.

An incurable disease kills millions around the world. A selfish father is about to be its next victim. See what he wishes for in his last hour. Gene Carlotta is on his deathbed and won’t live long enough to see the next sunrise. As his life flashes in his mind’s eye he comes to realize the one thing he never gave his son and the heartbreaking remorse that consumes his last moments.

After Ryan Winn loses his wife Hayley, he discovers the journal she kept about raising their son Bert. Hayley and Bert shared a special mother-son bond, with Hayley making it her life's purpose to learn all she could about autism so she could help her son not just survive, but thrive. Based on the author's real-life experiences raising a son with autism.

Everyone knows what they need to about me. I’m a dangerous man with a dark and twisted soul. A killer. I’m in the business of power, and money flows through every corrupted vein in my body. They call me Push. I run the wicked streets of Washington, DC. I have everything I could possibly want, except one thing - Nadia. She’s like a delicious drug running through my sinister veins. I’ve wanted her ever since she was just a teenager. But I’ve held myself back, keeping my need for her hidden, even from her...especially from her.

Remmi McNally has problems. She's miserable and trying to navigate a breakup with a powerhouse futa attorney who can't quite give her what she needs or how she needs it. And she's been a detective for two years but has yet to be given a case. That is until a series of assassinations that have no patterns save for a calling card of a lipsticked napkin proves to be unsolvable. They call Niylah the femme fatale assassin, but she's a sexy futa wielding a hot and hard weapon far more deadly, and she's ready to use it on Remmi.