From fan-favorite Marc Andreyko comes the next chapter of DC Universe Presents featuring the New 52 debut of Black Lightning and Blue Devil!The team of two VERY different heroes must work together to solve a mystery that could unlock a new corner of the New 52. But danger threatens the uneasy alliance from outside and within as mobster Tobias Whale makes a deal with the demon Neibros that pits the heroes against the damned souls of Los Angeles.Collects #13-18 of DC Universe Presents.

Boy meets boy. Boys become friends. Boys fall in love. The bestselling LGBTQ+ graphic novel about life, love, and everything that happens in between: this is the fifth volume of the much-loved HEARTSTOPPER series. Nick and Charlie are very much in love. They've finally said those three little words, and Charlie has almost persuaded his mum to let him sleep over at Nick's house ... But with Nick going off to university next year, is everything about to change? By Alice Oseman, winner of the YA Book Prize, Heartstopper encompasses all the small moments of Nick and Charlie's lives that together make up something larger, which speaks to all of us. Contains discussions around mental health and eating disorders, and sexual references.

“The first year is when some of us lose our lives. The second year is when the rest of us lose our humanity.” —Xaden Riorson Everyone expected Violet Sorrengail to die during her first year at Basgiath War College—Violet included. But Threshing was only the first impossible test meant to weed out the weak-willed, the unworthy, and the unlucky. Now the real training begins, and Violet’s already wondering how she’ll get through. It’s not just that it’s grueling and maliciously brutal, or even that it’s designed to stretch the riders’ capacity for pain beyond endurance. It’s the new vice commandant, who’s made it his personal mission to teach Violet exactly how powerless she is–unless she betrays the man she loves. Although Violet’s body might be weaker and frailer than everyone else’s, she still has her wits—and a will of iron. And leadership is forgetting the most important lesson Basgiath has taught her: Dragon riders make their own rules. But a determination to survive won’t be enough this year. Because Violet knows the real secret hidden for centuries at Basgiath War College—and nothing, not even dragon fire, may be enough to save them in the end.

Auschwitz, 1944. La zona è un cantiere edile e rimbomba del rumore sordo del legno, dei cani che abbaiano e delle grida delle SS e dei Kapò. Walter Rosenberg controlla con cura la machorka, il tabacco russo, infilata nelle fessure delle assi della catasta di legno perché i cani trovino l’odore repellente. È nascosto con Alfred Wetzler in quella catasta da tre giorni. Ha udito migliaia di stivali che calpestavano il terreno, gli ufficiali che imprecavano, i cani con la bava alla bocca alla ricerca del minimo, fragile, trepidante segno di vita umana e, ora che l’anello esterno delle torri di avvistamentoè sgombrato, è il momento giusto per scappare. Fuggire da Auschwitz a diciannove anni insieme con Fred, l’amico bohémien conosciuto a Trnava, in Slovacchia. Due ragazzi ebrei prigionieri dell’orrore nazista. Cosí comincia una fuga che è senza precedenti nella tragica vicenda della Shoah, una fuga che farà di Rudolf Vrba, – il nome che prenderà Walter Rosenberg peregrinando nei paesi dell’Europa dell’Est governati dagli alleati dei nazisti – un testimone meritevole di stare accanto ad Anna Frank, Oskar Schindler e Primo Levi.È una storia che mostra «come le azioni di una sola persona, anche adolescente, possano piegare l’arco della Storia, se non verso la giustizia, almeno verso la speranza». Rudolf Vrba racconterà, infatti, in maniera dettagliata e precisa, dello sterminio e del progetto della «soluzione finale». Non sarà creduto, sulle prime. Le trentadue pagine del suo rapporto arriveranno, tuttavia, fino a Roosevelt, a Churchill e al Papa e diventeranno poi il documento chiave del processo di Norimberga.La sua impresa è raccontata in questo libro perché «si esibisca in un’ultima sottrarsi all’oblio ed essere ricordato».«Pensavo di conoscere la storia di Auschwitz, ma Freedland la racconta da una prospettiva totalmente nuova». Tracy Chevalier«Un libro acuto e straziante che si interroga su temi universali, tra cui il potere dell’informazione e della è possibile fermare un genocidio dicendo la verità?» Yuval Noah Harari«Due giovani fuggiti da Auschwitz denunciarono lo sterminio. Ma all’inizio molti ritennero che si trattasse di esagerazioni». Paolo Valentino, Corriere della Sera«È più facile macellare degli agnelli che dare la caccia ai cervi». Jonathan Freedland

Legendary storyteller Stephen King goes deep into the well of his imagination in this spellbinding novel about a seventeen-year-old boy who inherits the keys to a parallel world where good and evil are at war, and the stakes could not be higher—for their world or ours. Charlie Reade looks like a regular high school kid, great at baseball and football, a decent student. But he carries a heavy load. His mom was killed in a hit-and-run accident when he was ten, and grief drove his dad to drink. Charlie learned how to take care of himself—and his dad. Then, when Charlie is seventeen, he meets Howard Bowditch, a recluse with a big dog in a big house at the top of a big hill. In the backyard is a locked shed from which strange sounds emerge, as if some creature is trying to escape. When Mr. Bowditch dies, he leaves Charlie the house, a massive amount of gold, a cassette tape telling a story that is impossible to believe, and a responsibility far too massive for a boy to shoulder. Because within the shed is a portal to another world—one whose denizens are in peril and whose monstrous leaders may destroy their own world, and ours. In this parallel universe, where two moons race across the sky, and the grand towers of a sprawling palace pierce the clouds, there are exiled princesses and princes who suffer horrific punishments; there are dungeons; there are games in which men and women must fight each other to the death for the amusement of the “Fair One.” And there is a magic sundial that can turn back time. A story as old as myth, and as startling and iconic as the rest of King’s work, Fairy Tale is about an ordinary guy forced into the hero’s role by circumstance, and it is both spectacularly suspenseful and satisfying.

From a renowned historian comes a groundbreaking narrative of humanity’s creation and evolution—a #1 international bestseller—that explores the ways in which biology and history have defined us and enhanced our understanding of what it means to be “human.” One hundred thousand years ago, at least six different species of humans inhabited Earth. Yet today there is only one—homo sapiens. What happened to the others? And what may happen to us? Most books about the history of humanity pursue either a historical or a biological approach, but Dr. Yuval Noah Harari breaks the mold with this highly original book that begins about 70,000 years ago with the appearance of modern cognition. From examining the role evolving humans have played in the global ecosystem to charting the rise of empires, Sapiens integrates history and science to reconsider accepted narratives, connect past developments with contemporary concerns, and examine specific events within the context of larger ideas. Dr. Harari also compels us to look ahead, because over the last few decades humans have begun to bend laws of natural selection that have governed life for the past four billion years. We are acquiring the ability to design not only the world around us, but also ourselves. Where is this leading us, and what do we want to become? Featuring 27 photographs, 6 maps, and 25 illustrations/diagrams, this provocative and insightful work is sure to spark debate and is essential reading for aficionados of Jared Diamond, James Gleick, Matt Ridley, Robert Wright, and Sharon Moalem.

Vandal Savage has walked the Earth since the early days of man and has been a criminal just as long.  Point to a historic crime or horror and most likely, the immortal Savage was there.   Savage's daughter, Kass Sage, chose a different path and is now know as the FBI's greatest criminal profiler.  When a serial killer appears of Kass' radar, she must seeek her imprisoned father's help to put an end to the murder spree.  Kass' life is full of tough choices, but when forced to make the ultimate choice between two killers - and her father may be the worse of them!Also included in this collection, the very first solo adventure of Kid Flash as well as five other adventures featuring the Blackhawks' Mother Machine, Hawk and Dove, Mister Terrific and O.M.A.C.

A woman trapped on a mountain attempts to survive more than one kind of monster, in a dread-inducing horror novel from the national bestselling author Christina Henry. Mattie can't remember a time before she and William lived alone on a mountain together. She must never make him upset. But when Mattie discovers the mutilated body of a fox in the woods, she realizes that they're not alone after all. There's something in the woods that wasn't there before, something that makes strange cries in the night, something with sharp teeth and claws. When three strangers appear on the mountaintop looking for the creature in the woods, Mattie knows their presence will anger William. Terrible things happen when William is angry.