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October 1962. In Cuba: Soviet ships off-load what intelligence reveals to be nuclear missiles. In Washington, President Kennedy and his advisers are in furious debate over how long they can wait to discover what the Soviets intend before dropping the first bomb. And, in Ithaca, New York, Margo Jensen—a nineteen-year-old Cornell sophomore—is swept up in a bizarre concatenation of circumstances that will make of her the back channel liaison between Soviet Premier Khrushchev and Kennedy. Events unfold too quickly for her even to ask why me?

"Timely, thrilling, and gripping from start to finish. An absolute page-turner." —Karen M. McManus, #1 New York Times bestselling author of One of Us Is Lying Jay is living his best life at Karloff Country, one of the world's most famous resorts. He's got his family, his crew, and an incredible after-school job at the property's main theme park. Life isn't so great for the rest of the world, but when people come here to vacation, it's to get away from all that. As things outside get worse, trouble starts seeping into Karloff.

It was a mistake to trust him. Shivering and bruised, a teen wakes up on the side of a dirt road with no memory of how she got there—or who she is. The police don't know where she came from until a frantic man arrives at the station. He's been searching for her for hours. He has her school ID, her birth certificate, and even family photos. He is her father. Her name is Mary. Or so he says. When Lola slammed the car door and stormed off into the night, Drew thought they just needed some time to cool off. Except Lola disappeared.

"Amazing! One of the twistiest time-tales I've ever read ..." —Diana Gabaldon. "Crichtonesque thrillers don't come much better than this intricate outing which combines a fantastic premise ... with a closed-circle whodunit. Readers won't be able to turn the pages fast enough." —Publishers Weekly, starred review. PANGEA, 202,320,641 BC. Quantum physicist Sam Anderson is trapped, 202 million years in the past. Sam has helped create a machine able to unpick the threads of spacetime, casting objects eternally into the past.

Renowned author Silvia Moreno-Garcia's first thriller, Untamed Shore, is a coming-of-age story set in Mexico which quickly turns dark when a young woman meets three enigmatic tourists. Baja California, 1979. Viridiana spends her days watching the dead sharks piled beside the seashore as the fishermen pull their nets. There is nothing else to do, nothing else to watch, under the harsh sun. She's bored. Terribly bored. Yet her head is filled with dreams of Hollywood films, of romance, of a future beyond the drab town where her only option is to marry and have children.

Success used to be this savvy lawyer's only rule. But now she's putting everything on the line to bring a killer corporation to justice. Since childhood, Yolanda Vance has forged her desire to escape poverty into a laser-like focus that took her through prep school and Harvard Law. So when her prestigious New York law firm is raided by the FBI, Yolanda turns in her corrupt bosses to save her career—and goes to work for the Bureau. Soon she's sent undercover at Red, Black, and Green—an African-American "extremist" activist group back in her California college town.

Solomon Jones is an Essence best-selling author, and Kirkus Reviews raves that Pipe Dream is an "impressive debut." Black, formerly known as Samuel Jackson, is a crack addict caught in the violent world of the drug trade on Philadelphia's mean streets. But that doesn't mean Black is guilty of murdering city councilman Johnny Podres. And his innocence doesn't mean he won't be tried and convicted. He and three of his friends are going down for the killing, and Black has only one chance to turn things around.

Someone has murdered the queen bee of Sierton High School. All the dead girl's friends are suspects. And each one has a reason for wanting her to die. Ella Moore was the most popular girl in school ... and also the most hated. When she's murdered at her own party, there are too many suspects to count. And too many people who think she deserved it. The police's prime suspect is the new girl, Dawn Foster. Dawn was the last to hand Ella a drink on the night she died.

In Where Sleeping Girls Lie — a YA contemporary mystery by Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé, the New York Times–bestselling author of Ace of Spades — a girl new to boarding school discovers dark secrets and coverups after her roommate disappears. "It's like I keep stumbling into a dark room, searching for the switch to make things bright again..." Sade Hussein is starting her third year of high school, this time at the prestigious Alfred Nobel Academy boarding school after being home-schooled all her life.

This program includes an author's note read by Stacey Abrams. From popular former gubernatorial candidate, lawyer, and New York Times bestselling author Stacey Abrams comes an audiobook reissue of her romantic suspense novel, Never Tell, written under the name Selena Montgomery. Criminal psychologist Dr. Erin Abbott wants nothing more than to live a quiet life. That means no danger, no intrigue—and absolutely no romance. But when Erin suspects a serial killer is roaming New Orleans, her investigation throws her straight into the arms of the only man who can help her.