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After nearly eighteen months at Basgiath War College, Violet Sorrengail knows there's no more time for lessons. No more time for uncertainty. Because the battle has truly begun, and with enemies closing in from outside their walls and within their ranks, it’s impossible to know who to trust. Now Violet must journey beyond the failing Aretian wards to seek allies from unfamiliar lands to stand with Navarre. The trip will test every bit of her wit, luck, and strength, but she will do anything to save what she loves—her dragons, her family, her home, and him.

Book 12 in the bestselling He Who Fights with Monsters series is here!

Many years and even more levels have passed since Jake and friends entered Nevermore. With quite a number of floors passed, they turn their attention to the Challenge Dungeons. These Challenge Dungeons offer – as the name suggests – unique challenges and circumstances, and completing them will earn each Nevermore competitor points and multipliers to their existing points. As things unfold, it quickly becomes clear it’s through these dungeons that the true top-scorer of the Nevermore Leaderboards will be found.

One cold December day, two men are blindsided by a hockey trade; one is the most decorated goalie in the league, while the other one is the youngest coach in the majors. Jethro Hale is the last player Coach Clay Powers wants to see on his roster, but the G.M. pulls a fast one. And it's not like he can even explain why. Nobody knows about their love affair fifteen years ago. Cue the all-star awkwardness, the painful memories and the reawakening of deep feelings on both sides.

Automne 1910. Ophélie a quinze ans lorsque son père, un éminent juge montréalais, la confie au monastère des Augustines, à Québec. La faute qu’elle a commise dépasse l’entendement, argue-t-il, pour cette infâme, c’est le cloître ou la prison ! Abandonnée dans le silence, l’adolescente est en proie à une profonde détresse. Au fil des ans, devenue sœur Marie-Hosanna, religieuse infirmière, elle parvient à donner un sens nouveau à sa vie en soignant les malades, jusqu’au jour où, à vingt-deux ans, son désir de liberté se fait trop pressant…

Why does positive thinking shatter despite our best efforts? Why does negativity so often seem to win? For nearly four decades, people have sought Medical Medium Anthony William’s wisdom on the mysteries of the afterlife and after-death, the forces of good and evil, and the supernatural influences that seem to undermine our lives. Finally, Anthony has decided to go public with these groundbreaking teachings to unveil the unseen forces shaping our reality.

For the first time, Regan Gallagher is facing the world without her best friend by her side—no, Sutton isn't dead but she is in Rome, following her dreams. And Regan really is thrilled for her. Left to her own devices, she's doing . . . fine. Oh, except for the fact that her new roommate, Emma Bordeaux, has hated Regan since the literal day they'd met two years ago. Sure, most of their interactions end in disaster and Regan is the root cause, but they are all accidents! She'll win Emma over though; she's determined to make this living arrangement work come hell or high water.

Over the fifty years that Lorne Michaels has been at the helm of Saturday Night Live, he has become a revered and inimitable presence in the entertainment world. He’s a tastemaker, a mogul, a withholding father figure, a genius spotter of talent, a shrewd businessman, a name-dropper, a raconteur, the inspiration for Dr. Evil, the winner of more than a hundred Emmys—and, essentially, a mystery. Generations of writers and performers have spent their lives trying to figure him out, by turns demonizing and lionizing him.

Gianna Mäkinen has been in love with her best friend Riley Beckett for her entire adult life. She'd long accepted that her place in life was Riley's best friend, and that was okay. It was more than okay. She never imagined that she would have the opportunity to confess her love to Riley, to marry her, to have a herd of children with her. Riley always knew she'd be building her life with Gianna, but she never knew it would be this kind of life. This all-consuming, passionate, together life.

Robert Langdon, esteemed professor of symbology, travels to Prague to attend a groundbreaking lecture by Katherine Solomon—a prominent noetic scientist with whom he has recently begun a relationship. Katherine is on the verge of publishing an explosive book that contains startling discoveries about the nature of human consciousness and threatens to disrupt centuries of established belief. But a brutal murder catapults the trip into chaos, and Katherine suddenly disappears along with her manuscript.

Huit ans plus tôt, j’ai eu une aventure d’été avec la petite sœur de mon meilleur ami, avant que nos vies ne prennent des directions différentes. Aujourd’hui, j’incarne le monsieur Grincheux d’un podcast populaire de dating, et Juliet est ma co-animatrice solaire. Quand une fan fortunée incroyablement généreuse nous fait don d’un charmant cottage sur la côte pour nous remercier, nous décidons de prendre la route pour la ville où j’ai grandi afin de le rénover. Pour découvrir que la maison n’a qu’un lit. Sous un plafond à miroir.

Lily isn’t exactly thrilled with her arrival in the Afterlife, but what awaits her there is more fantastical than she ever could have imagined: Deities wait in line at the coffee shop. Fae flit between realms. Souls find ways to make death a beginning. As she explores the many corners of the Afterlife, Lily finds herself surprisingly drawn to a place most people would avoid at all costs: Hell.

The Expeditionary Force saga continues with Gateway from epic sci-fi writer Craig Alanson and narrated by none other than R.C. Bray.

Why have so many Americans turned against democracy? In this deeply reported book, Katherine Stewart takes us to conferences of conspiracy-mongers, backroom strategy gatherings, and services at extremist churches, and profiles the people who want to tear it all down.

You won't want to miss the explosive insights and unfiltered perspective in legendary broadcaster Anthony Cumia’s latest book. In his much-anticipated second book, Spare Me, radio personality and podcaster Anthony Cumia returns, unleashing a scorching and unapologetic commentary that spans the spectrum from politics to entertainment, while sparing no particular individual deserving of his legendary wrath.

Haven’s Rock is a sanctuary town hidden deep in the Yukon for those who need to disappear from the regular world. Detective Casey Duncan and her husband, Sheriff Eric Dalton, are starting a family now that they’ve settled into their life here. As Casey nears the end of her pregnancy, she lets nothing, including her worried husband, stop her from investigating what happens in the forbidden forest outside the town of Haven’s Rock. When one of the town's residents is drugged and wanders too close to the edge of town, she’s dragged into the woods kicking and screaming.

Hoping to prevent a bloody war, Will departs in search of the mythical hidden gate to the elven homeland and believes the country is safe in his absence. He is wrong. Adept at manipulation, the elves seek to conquer from within, and their spies have already infiltrated the kingdom. As Selene prepares to defend her throne, she discovers that the elven plot runs deeper than the blackest shadows. Duty demands she put her nation first, but a loathsome ally urges a darker choice.

After his Superdungeon run, Zane Walker is ranked the most promising prospect in the Dragonspire Galaxy. With the eyes of the world on him and lucrative training offers from two Great Factions, he’s got a target on his back. But with great danger comes great opportunity—if he can take advantage of it. But with great danger comes great opportunity—if he can take advantage of it.

Rune Winters is on the run. Ever since the boy she loved, Gideon Sharpe, revealed who she was and delivered her into enemy hands, everyone wants her dead. If Rune hopes to survive, she must ally herself with the cruel and dangerous Cressida Roseblood, who’s planning to take back the Republic and reinstate a Reign of Witches—something Cressida needs Rune to accomplish.

As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves.