"Pitch-perfect science fiction about linguistics and consequences. This book destroyed me."—Yoon Ha Lee, New York Times bestselling author of Ninefox GambitSpeak another people's language. Know them. Become them.And discover you've destroyed them.In his training as a spy, Ro was you will always be living a lie.Jumping into a Star Eater's mind in the first place requires a moment of perfect psychic connection, and he has studied all his life to comprehend their species. Admires them, respects them, is reverent at the idea of being one of them—the only species physiologically capable of mining the element needed for lightyear-spanning space travel. The species all others crave to know more of, but who have notoriously shared so very little. The species Ro's own small civilization, with its dwindling resources and withering reach, needs to know more about.It will feel real, his elders impressed upon him. It will never be real.But Ro's certainty runs he will be different. Ro will not be an imposter hiding the truth of his past, because his heart will be one of them. He will be one of them.To understand is to become. It never occurs to him that the mere act of understanding can destroy.At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

In the deadliest village in England, everyone's a suspect. Everyone's a liar. And someone's getting away with murder.Evelyn Harrington made one she thought she could save her old friend from a blackmailer's grip. Now there's a corpse under the ancient oak tree on the village green, poison in the teacups, and half the village wants her gone—or dead.Marcus Pemberton controlled Old Fossilton with secrets and silence for thirty years. Blackmail. Extortion. Ruin delivered with a gentleman's smile. When he's found murdred beneath the old oak, his killer leaves behind more questions than answers—and a terrifying Stop digging, or you're next.Enter Lionel Danbury, mystery novelist turned real-life detective, who knows a conspiracy when he sees one. Together, he and Evelyn race against time to unmask a killer who's always three steps ahead. But every door they open reveals another lie. Every witness has something to hide. And the deeper they dig, the more dangerous the game becomes.Because twenty-five years ago, something happened in Old Fossilton Something involving smuggling, betrayal, and blood money that built a church's fortune. Evelyn knows—she was there, working undercover with a different name and a dangerous mission. She thought those secrets died with the operation.She was wrong.Now someone's eliminating anyone who gets too close to the truth. A second body appears. Threatening notes escalate to break-ins. Evidence vanishes. And Evelyn realizes with mounting horror that the gentle vicar, the charitable church treasurer, and the pillars of this picture-perfect village are hiding something truly deadly.The blackmailer had fifteen victims.Any one of them could be the killer.But only one person is cunning enough to frame them all—and walk away free.In a village where tea parties hide murder plots and everyone's playing a role, can Evelyn expose the mastermind before she becomes the final victim? Or will the killer do what they do best—manipulate, deceive, and bury the truth forever?A gripping cozy mystery where nothing is cozy about murder, and the only thing more dangerous than the killer... is the truth.

Leonora Carrington (1917–2011), the distinguished British-born Surrealist painter who made her home in Mexico City, was also a writer of extraordinary imagination and charm, and The Hearing Trumpet is perhaps her best loved book. It tells the story of 92-year-old Marian Leatherby, who is given the gift of a hearing trumpet only to discover that her family has been plotting to have her committed to an institution. But this is an institution where the buildings are shaped like birthday cakes and igloos, where the Winking Abbess and the Queen Bee reign, and where the gateway to the underworld is wide open. It is also the scene of a mysterious murder. Occult twin to Alice in Wonderland, The Hearing Trumpet is a classic of fantastic literature that has been translated and celebrated throughout the world.

Before there was J. K. Rowling, before there was Stephenie Meyer or Suzanne Collins, there was R.L. Stine. Witty, creepy, and compulsively readable, his books defined horror for a generation of young readers – readers who have now come of age. In Red Rain, Stine uses his unerring knack for creating terror to tap into some very grownup fears. Travel writer Lea Sutter finds herself on a small island off the coast of South Carolina, the wrong place at the wrong time. A merciless, unanticipated hurricane cuts a path of destruction through the island and Lea barely escapes with her life. In the storm’s aftermath, she discovers two orphaned boys – twins. Filled with a desire to do something to help, to make something good of all she witnessed, Lea impulsively decides to adopt them. The boys, Samuel and Daniel, seem amiable and immensely grateful; Lea’s family back on Long Island – husband Mark, a child psychologist, and their two children, Ira and Elena – aren’t quite so pleased. But even they can’t anticipate the twins’ true nature – or predict that, within a few weeks’ time, Mark will wind up implicated in two brutal murders, with the police narrowing in. For the millions of readers who grew up on Goosebumps, and for every fan of deviously inventive horror, this is a must-read from a beloved master of the genre.

Desperately seeking a fresh start in a new town, a reluctant ghost whisperer is bitterly disappointed when she realizes to defeat the demons in her present, she'll first have to face the ghosts of her past. When Holly Daniel moves to the small mountain town of Glenwood Springs, she's hoping for a peaceful life as a hotel bartender. But what she finds instead is a mystery that will take all the courage she can muster. It's up to her to use her secret gift as a ghost whisperer to solve the mystery of the missing tiara or face the demise of the beloved historic hotel. Will she be able to confront the ghosts from her past and save the town? Or will her anger management issues get in the way? You won't want to miss this series starter, where you'll come to know not only Holly but her talking ghost cat and 143-year-old flannel nightgown-wearing roommate.

Twelve stories of ghosts, demons and wild women: of sharp-toothed children and stolen skulls. In this sleep-stealing collection, Enríquez transports the reader to the crime-ridden street of post-dictatorship Buenos Aires, where exhausted fathers conjure up child-killers, and young women, tired of suffering in silence, decide there's nothing left to do but set themselves on fire.

Femicide is generally defined as the murder of women simply because they are women. In 2018, 139 women died in the UK as a result of male violence (The Guardian). In Argentina this number is far higher, with 278 cases registered for that same year. Following the success of The Wind That Lays Waste, internationally acclaimed Argentinian author Selva Almada dives into the heart of this problem with this journalistic novel, comparable to Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood or John Hersey’s Hiroshima, in response to the urgent need for attention to a serious problem of our times. Almada narrates the case of three small-town teenage girls murdered in the 1980’s; three unpunished deaths that occurred before the word ‘femicide’ was even coined. In this brutal but necessary novel, Almada brings to the fore these crimes committed in the interior of the country, while Argentina was celebrating the return of democracy. Three deaths without culprits: 19-year old Andrea Danne, stabbed in her own bed; 15-year old María Luisa Quevedo, raped, strangled, and dumped in wasteland; and 20-year old Sarita Mundín, whose disfigured body was found on a river bank. Selva Almada takes these and other tales of abused women to weave together a dry, straightforward portrait of gender violence that surpasses national borders and speaks to readers’ consciousness all over the world. This is not a police chronicle, although there is an investigation. This is not a thriller, although there is mystery and suspense. The real noir element of Dead Girls lies in the heart of the women described here and of the men that have abused them. With her unique style of prose that captures the invisible, and with lyrical brutality, Almada manages to blaze new trails in this kind of journalistic fiction.