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As he stands on the auction block, the ragged, starving boy, Thorby, is purchased by the crippled beggar Baslim, who leads him into adventures on the starship Sisu.

Whoreson Jones is the son of a beautiful black prostitute and an unknown white john. At age twelve, his street education begins as he learns trickology.

Emily Shepherd's dad, a former soldier suffering from PTSD, emerges from the woods carrying the broken body of Ashlee Parker and finds himself accused of murder.

Having escaped Miss Peregrine's island, Jacob and his friends must journey to London, encountering new allies, peculiar animals, and other surprises along the way.

Ike, a New York-based Nigerian cab driver, is desperate. Despite having a degree in economics, his strong accent has barred him from the corporate world.

Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. After eleven unsuccessful expeditions to survey the area--most of which ended in death--the twelfth expedition is set to go.

War has come to Long Earth. Joshua, now married and a father, is summoned by Lobsang.

Jessica Trent is determined to save her brother from the destructive influence of Sebastian Ballister, the notorious Marquess of Dain, even if it means facing the devil himself.

On June 14, 2007, the king and prime minister of Sweden went missing. Later it was said that both had fallen ill. The truth is different.

The Reverend Curtis Black hasn't spoken to his son, Matthew, in over a year. Then there's Dillon Whitfield-Curtis's long-lost-son-who has settled in as a member of the Black family.

August 30, 1975. Fifteen-year-old Nola Kellergan is glimpsed fleeing through the woods before she disappears.

Mike Ford's brother is in over his head in a conspiracy to steal a secret worth billions from the little-known but unbelievably influential trading desk at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Until the moment he receives a frantic call from his father, Daniel believed his parents were headed into a peaceful retirement.

In the years after the cataclysmic Yellowstone eruption, populations flee to myriad Long Earth worlds.

Atlanta, 1974. It's Kate Murphy's first day on the job, and the Atlanta Police Department is seething after the murder of an officer.