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Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But he may never get what he wants, thanks to the Fuku - the curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, dooming them to prison, torture, tragic accidents, and, above all, ill-starred love. Oscar,…

Dennis Lehane returns to the streets of Mystic River with this love story wrapped in a crime story wrapped in a journey of faith—the basis for the major motion picture The Drop, from Fox Searchlight Pictures directed by Michaël Roskam, screenplay by Dennis Lehane, and starring Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, and James Gandolfini.

The Fall of Five is the fourth novel in the New York Times bestselling I Am Number Four series by Pittacus Lore. The Garde are finally reunited, but do they have what it takes to win the war against the Mogadorians?

Humans have been displaced at the top of the food chain, and now understand – to their outright horror – what it is to be not the consumer, but the consumed.

HE DIDN’T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS EXPECTING ON THE OTHER SIDE OF THE DOOR. BUT IT WASN’T THIS.

Secret Service Agent Jeremy Pike calls on the Gunsmith to help investigate the South Fork Sporting Club outside Pittsburgh, where the likes of Dale Carnegie and Henry Frick go hunting—and don’t take kindly to strangers. When Clint’s reputation earns him an invitation to the exclusive club, he starts asking questions that the venerable members would rather not answer—especially about the dam on their property that’s about to burst, leaving the town below to suffer the consequences. But…

Americans tend to cast slavery as a pre-modern institution—the nation’s original sin, perhaps, but isolated in time and divorced from America’s later success. But to do so robs the millions who suffered in bondage of their full legacy.

The unforgettable story about a family with a secret at its core, from Top Ten bestseller Lisa Jewell, author of Ralph's Party, The Making of Us and Before I Met You.Picture a picture-book cottage in a village. A family in a sun-drenched kitchen filled with love and laughter.Picture an Easter weekend when tragedy strikes – so unexpected, so devastating that no one can talk about it.The years pass; the children become adults. Gradually they lose touch as the secret between them tears them…

An extraordinary cutting-edge suspense novel from the "king of the pack" ( The Washington Times ), #1 New York Times bestselling author Frederick Forsyth.In northern Virginia, a secret agency named TOSA (Technical Operations Support Activity) has one to track, find, and kill those so dangerous to the United States that they are on a short, very close-held document known as the Kill List.Now a new name has been a terrorist of frightening effectiveness called the Preacher, who radicalizes young…

They Thought The End Came In A Flash Before WICKED was formed, before the Glade was built, before Thomas entered the Maze, sun flares hit the earth, killing most of the population. The Worst Is Yet to Come Mark and Trina were there when it happened. They survived. But now a virus is spreading. A virus that fills humans with murderous rage. There is no cure. No escape. They’re convinced that there’s a way to save those who are left—if they can stay alive. Because in this new, devastated world,…