A new pandemic - the perma effect - has taken over Earth of the near future. Whenever you play your favorite online game, beware: your mind might merge with the virtual world and dump its comatose host. Woe be to those stuck forever in Tetris! And st...

AlterWorld

The New York Times best seller. From the celebrated neurobiologist and primatologist, a landmark, genre-defining examination of human behavior, both good and bad, and an answer to the question: Why do we do the things we do? Sapolsky's storytelling c...

Behave

The fabric of reality is bursting at the seams. The gnolls' negotiators are knocking at the gates of the Kremlin. Ancient half-forgotten gods take on a new lease on life as AlterWorld's avatars. A spark of the Creator's almighty will is still alive i...

Inferno

Once a seasoned gamer, Max has cheated fate, swapping his dying body for an immortal avatar in the world of sword and sorcery MMORPGs. He joins the ranks of a new race of people: perma players, forever stuck in the virtual castles and cities of Alter...

The Clan

A tour de force from acclaimed author Alan Gratz (Prisoner B-3087), this timely and powerful novel tells the story of three different children seeking refuge.  Josef is a Jewish boy living in 1930s Nazi Germany. With the threat of concentration camps...

Refugee

The perma players' new reality gains depth and color. The virtual world has seen its first birth - and its first death. The invisible umbilical cord connecting AlterWorld to Earth grows thinner, and even the Fallen One cannot prevent the looming cata...

The Duty

The Russian cluster. The ground shakes as the enemy approaches. The angered gods frown as they look down from the sky.  Intelligence agencies are locked in a brutal fight. Hundreds of thousands of sentient beings happily slaughter each other. This is...

The Battle

The magic flames are raging. Blades are melting. Souls are reduced to ashes in the fury of battle. The grand finale of the war for the First Temple is upon us. The last trump cards have been played, the reserves are all exhausted, and even the gods h...

The Ultimation: Play to Live, Book 7

The War

The explosive conclusion to the Newsflesh trilogy from New York Times best seller Mira Grant - a saga of zombies, geeks, politics, social media, and the virus that runs through them all. The year was 2014. The year we cured cancer. The year we cured ...

Blackout

Once you get in, there's no getting out.  For 16-year-old Dan Crawford, a summer program for gifted students is the chance of a lifetime. No one else at his high school gets his weird fascinations with history and science, but at the New Hampshire Co...

Asylum

Danny's life was going well. He had a steady job and plans to buy his own place. That was until some rogue junk mail decided he needed a change of scenery. Now Danny's got a new start in another world, and he needs to make sure he doesn't squander this opportunity at making the most of this new life.

Transcendental Misappropriation

It's been months since Aria learned of her mother's death.  Months since Perry became Blood Lord of the Tides, and months since Aria last saw him.  Now Aria and Perry are about to be reunited. It's a moment they've been longing for with countless exp...

Through the Ever Night

Coke and Pepsi McDonald didn’t want to jump off a cliff. They didn't want to get hit by poisoned darts from blowguns either. And they certainly don't want to get locked in their burning school, thrown into a pit at the top of a sand dune, or drowned ...

Mission Unstoppable

Benson Fisher thought that a scholarship to Maxfield Academy would be the ticket out of his dead-end life.  He was wrong.  Now he’s trapped in a school that’s surrounded by a razor-wire fence. A school where video cameras monitor his every move. Wher...

Variant

Danny died a less than heroic death on Earth, was reincarnated in a new world, gained access to a mental sanctuary that ranks his skills, learned he can do magic, discovered that he can't fly, tricked rich old ladies into buying handbags, crafted him...

Arcane Transmogrification

Thrills, spills, and cheating death are just part of an average day on a not-so-average summer vacation for these two smarty-pants siblings. Coke and Pepsi McDonald are still stuck on the wacky family road trip that began in Mission Unstoppable, and ...

Never Say Genius

The past is back to haunt them.  Dan, Abby, and Jordan remain traumatized by the summer they shared in the Brookline asylum. Much as they'd love to move on, someone is determined to keep the terror alive, sending the teens photos of an old-timey carn...

Sanctum

New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman delivers the definitive story of the life and artistic legacy of David Letterman, the greatest television talk show host of all time and the signature comedic voice of a generation.  In a career spanning mor...

Letterman

The most dangerous road trip in history continues for thirteen-year-old twins Coke and Pepsi McDonald. Just when they think they are safe, theMcDonald twins are chased by an evil Elvis impersonator, trapped in a pool of flesh-eating soda pop, nearly ...

You Only Die Twice

The wackiest road trip in history has reached its final destination...   But Coke and Pepsi McDonald aren't in the clear just yet! Before they reach the finish line, the twins will be:    Abducted by aliens,  Trapped with a venomous snake,  Pushed th...

The Genius Files #5: License to Thrill

A riveting, revelatory, and moving account of the author’s struggles with anxiety, and of the history of efforts by scientists, philosophers, and writers to understand the condition.  As recently as thirty-five years ago, anxiety did not exist as a d...

My Age of Anxiety

The heart-stopping third book in the New York Times best-selling Asylum series follows three teens as they take a senior-year road trip to one of America's most haunted cities, uncovering dangerous secrets from their past along the way. With all the ...

Catacomb

Robert Oppenheimer was among the most brilliant and divisive of men. As head of the Los Alamos Laboratory, he oversaw the successful effort to beat the Nazis in the race to develop the first atomic bomb – a breakthrough that was to have eternal ramif...

Robert Oppenheimer

The wackiest road trip in history continues in book four of the New York Times best-selling Genius Files series, following twins Coke and Pepsi as they dodge villains and visit weird-but-true landmarks from Texas all the way to Roswell, New Mexico. W...

From Texas with Love

You'd think being a Prince in a vast intergalactic empire would be about as good as it gets, particularly when Princes are faster, smarter, and stronger than normal humans. Not to mention being mostly immortal.  But it isn't as great as it sounds. Pr...

A Confusion of Princes

Kevin was a young man enjoying his college life when a car jumped the curb and crippled his body. Unable to support himself and dependent on others to meet his needs, Kevin was slipping into depression when his best friend convinced him to play a new...

Unwritten Rules

The book Politico calls “Moneyball for politics” shows how cutting-edge social science and analytics are reshaping the modern political campaign.  Renegade thinkers are crashing the gates of a venerable American institution, shoving aside its so-call...

The Victory Lab

Seventy years later, Pearl Harbor comes to life for a new generation of readers!  History's most terrifying moments are brought vividly to life in the action-packed fictional I SURVIVED series! Do you have what it takes to survive ... the bombing of ...

I Survived the Bombing of Pearl Harbor, 1941

Benson Fisher escaped from Maxfield Academy's deadly rules and brutal gangs. The worst was over.  Or so he thought.  But now he's trapped on the other side of the wall, in a different kind of prison. A town filled with familiar faces. People from Max...

Feedback

Eli knows corruption runs deep within the compound. It's a reality he's forced to confront every year on Bid Day. But when your job is to go out into the radiation-soaked Fringe so that others can live in peace, you don't ask too many questions. For ...

Recon

Don't miss the third chapter of The Fringe - the heart-pounding series dystopian fans are raving about. When Harper and Celdon escaped to compound 119, they thought they had a chance to start a new life away from Constance. What they found instead wa...

Outbreak

Twenty-year-old Russ arrives in the northern California town of Freedom to visit his dad. Freedom has peculiarities other than its odd name: the local mayor's ideas of "decentralization" have left it without normal connections to state or federal gov...

Everything Is Broken

Eli and Harper have fled the compound - running from people who once fought by their side. Owen has been captured, Sawyer is infected, and Celdon is facing a crisis of conscience.  When Eli gets wind of an attack that puts Owen's life in jeopardy, ev...

Annihilation

When two missing Recon operatives returned to the compound, speculations ran wild about where they had been. Harper is certain they're infected with a deadly virus, but she's locked away in the cages, facing 10 to 20 years behind bars. Blaze thinks H...

Lockdown

Don't miss the much-anticipated sequel to Recon! When Harper discovered the truth about Bid Day, she inadvertently painted a target on her back. Now Constance, the infamous espionage unit, wants her and her friends kept quiet at all costs. She and El...

Exposure

From the ruins of what used to be North America, a new nation was forged by survivors of the Fall. They called this new nation the Covenant, and two centuries later it is stronger than ever. The Moon people, descendants of lunar colonists who returne...

Rift

The acclaimed National Book Award finalist - "one of the United States' finest writers," according to Joshua Ferris, "full of wit, humanity, and fearless curiosity" - now gives us a novel that will join the short list of classics about children caugh...

The Book of Aron

Three young Americans captured by Iranian forces and held in captivity for two years tell their story.  In summer 2009 Shane Bauer, Josh Fattal, and Sarah Shourdwere hiking in Iraqi Kurdistan when they unknowingly crossed into Iran and were captured ...

A Sliver of Light

A gripping novel full of suspense and pathos that Dennis Lehane calls an "electrifying, tomahawk missile of a thriller".  Patrick Cusimano’s life can’t get much worse. His father is in jail, he works the midnight shift at a grubby convenience store, ...

Save Yourself

Brought to you by Penguin.  The audiobook edition of Behave by Robert Sapolsky, read by Michael Goldstrom. The New York Times best seller. Winner of the 2017 LA Times Book Prize. Why do human beings behave as they do?  We are capable of savage acts o...

The whimsical "autobiography" of an imaginary friend who doesn't know he's imaginary - perfect for fans of The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane and Toy Story. Jaques Papier has the sneaking suspicion that everyone except his sister Fleur hates him...

Confessions of an Imaginary Friend

A biker. A tattoo artist. A love to last a lifetime.  Maddox Cross has always had to be tough. When his father went to jail for murder, the teenager took care of his sister and mother. Now on his own and working security at a night club, Maddox wants...

Masquerade

A challenging labor for a teenage demigod...  A world in which shoes shall no longer be trod upon...  A scouting trip that turns deadly...  Welcome to Other Worlds, the fourth volume in the Guys Read Library. Prepare yourself for 10 trips into the un...

Guys Read: Other Worlds

The thing about Hank's new friend Inkling is, he's invisible. No, not imaginary. Inkling is an invisible bandapat, a creature native only to the Peruvian Woods of Mystery. (Or maybe it is the Ukrainian glaciers. Inkling hardly ever gets his stories s...

Invisible Inkling

From the author of the acclaimed novel Eternal on the Water, whose style is described as "Henry David Thoreau meets Nicholas Sparks" (Publishers Weekly), comes a novel about two brothers who save a girl from drowning when they are young - an experien...

The World as We Know It

Thorn is a member of the Pilot’s Guild - those who possess the magical ability to navigate Crosspointe’s deadly seas. When a malevolent master within the Guild bans him from the sea, it seems his life is over. Then he is kidnapped and forced to serve...

The Black Ship

A hilarious follow-up to the perennial favorite Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie. Scott Hudson has somehow managed to survive Freshman year. But with a new baby brother in the house and a whole host of adventures awaiting him at school, Sophomore year pro...

Sophomores and Other Oxymorons

“A first-rate fantasy for middle-grade readers”, declares Booklist in a starred review, comparing Gabriel Finley to Harry Potter, Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials series, and The Mysterious Benedict Society. A tangle of ingenious riddles, a malevo...

Gabriel Finley and the Raven's Riddle

Why is tonight different from all other nights?  Tonight we kill dad.  In 2022 American Jews face an increasingly unsafe and anti-Semitic landscape at home. Against this backdrop, the Jacobson family gathers for Passover in Los Angeles. But their imm...

Tell Me How This Ends Well

Ian was the one who chased the majestic buck into the forest. (His motto: act first, think later.) Kendra didn't want to become separated from the other sixth graders, but she followed Ian anyway, despite what her analytical mind told her. PJ followe...

Mountain of Bones

With eloquence and wit, Wayne Hoffman explores the unlikely camaraderie between a young Jewish man and an Orthodox rabbi, in this rich, insightful novel about love, honesty, faith, and belonging. In Yiddish, there is a word for it: bashert - the pers...

Sweet Like Sugar

This is a frank, intelligent, and deeply moving debut memoir.  With the precociousness expected of the only child of a doctor and a classical musician - from the time he could get his toddler tongue to pronounce deoxyribonucleic acid, or recite a Fre...

The Scientists

After the battle in Italy, Joseph tries to live a normal life, but that's just not in the cards for him. He's engaged to the Illuminator's sister Jenna, has a Fallen Angel bodyguard, and plans on adopting the cutest five year old anyone's ever seen. ...

Keepers

It is 1933, and Mikhail Bulgakov's enviable career is on the brink of being dismantled. His friend and mentor, the poet Osip Mandelstam, has been arrested, tortured, and sent into exile. Meanwhile a mysterious agent of the secret police has developed...

Mikhail and Margarita

Arthur Vance walks into P.I. Joe Scintilla's office and tells him an incredible story: his wife, Katharine, had commited suicide a year and a half before, and yet he is convinced that she is now passing under the name of Elena Cavalieri, having just ...

The Removal Company: A Joe Scintilla Historical Mystery Novel

The asylum holds the key to a terrifying past.…  A thrilling creepy photo-novel, perfect for fans of the New York Times best seller Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children.  For 16-year-old outcast Dan Crawford, the summer program at New Hampshir...

Jake’s mobile is going wrong. It’s sending weird texts to his friends. Then they start appearing on his phone - from himself. Then the voice messages begin. A girl is trapped in a storm drain, begging him for help. But the messages delete as soon as ...

The Haunted Mobile

A grand adventure that spans galaxies and lifetimes, A Confusion of Princes is also a gripping thriller, a tender romance and a powerful exploration of what it means to be human.  I have died three times and three times been reborn.  Taken from his p...

In a riveting novel of love and adventure, young Julius Meyer comes to the New World to find himself acting as translator for the famed Indian chief, Standing Bear. Young Jewish immigrant Julius comes of age surrounded by the wild world of 1867 Nebra...

Magic Words

With eviction looming, St. Ives searches for a big payday and a rare book. Philip St. Ives has no love for New York's drafty, broken-down Adelphi Hotel, but he is in no mood to be evicted from it. His cash dwindling, he is happy to learn about a job ...

Two Women

Haunting, fast-paced sequel to the New York Times best-selling novel Asylum. Perfect for fans of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. Sanctum is a mind-bending listening experience that blurs the lines between past and present, genius and ins...

Patrick Cusimano is in a bad way. His father is in jail; he works the midnight shift at a grubby convenience store; and his brother's girlfriend, Caro, has taken their friendship to an uncomfortable new level. On top of all that, he can't quite shake...

Everyone knows the flooded quarry is a dangerous place. But when Jacob spots the tail of a huge reptile disappearing into the undergrowth, nobody believes him! He needs to get a photo as proof before anyone will take him seriously. And that means hun...

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