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Mira thought she could escape her past by running–but fate leads her to Dominion Farm's secret hucow barn, where a ritual of transformation awaits. In The New Heifer, a dark initiation unfolds as the 23-year-old is collared, restrained, and prepared to be remade into a yielding "human cow." Under the stern training of the farm's head handler, Cain Hart, Mira endures the infamous Bell Rite–a public branding and bell-collar ceremony that marks her as part of the herd.

Joe wakes up with something nice in his mouth.

A second pregnant woman is here. She's not so nice.

Joe is back in the dark. So is the silver woman.

The silver woman has returned.

Things have been weird. Things have been crazy. Things are about to get dangerous.

Joe is enjoying the weird women. But then things go from weird to crazy.

Another young woman gets inside Joe's apartment.

Joe is looking for something weird, when something weird finds him.

The next weird girl approaches Joe in a parking lot.

Another weird young woman shows up at the gym.

At 11:40 PM on April 14, 1912, the most confident civilization in human history collided with the one thing it refused to believe in: its own limits. What does it mean to build something "unsinkable" — and what happens to the world when it sinks anyway? How many of the 1,500 who died that night were killed not by the iceberg, but by the arrogance that came before it?

Crayons have feelings, too, in this funny back-to-school story -- now a #1 New York Times bestseller! Poor Duncan just wants to color. But when he opens his box of crayons, he finds only letters, all saying the same thing: His crayons have had enough! They quit! Beige Crayon is tired of playing...

Facia is a young woman with big dreams. Maybe Joe can give her the confidence she needs. Maybe she can give him something in return.

Every story in this collection is a raw, intimate confession—as if you've stumbled upon a stranger's hidden diary, or overheard the kind of secrets whispered only in the dark. Whether you're here to indulge in your own fantasies or experience the electrifying passion of others, this book will leave you breathless, captivated, and desperate for more.

Lord Nathaniel Ashford has little to his name but a tarnished title and an unyielding sense of honor. In the glittering world of Regency England, that makes him an easy target for gossip—and for Lord Blackwood, a rival determined to claim power at any cost. Lady Charlotte Pembroke longs for more than a match arranged for fortune and rank. When her path collides with Nathaniel’s, a spark of understanding ignites between them—one built not on society’s rules, but on courage and truth. Yet their growing devotion soon faces trials neither could have imagined.

Joe has his first extramarital affair with a weird young woman at work.

Accused of treason and stripped of his knighthood, Crispin Guest has survived on the gritty streets of London by reinventing himself as The Tracker, an investigator for hire who can locate lost objects and uncover secrets. When the merchant Nicholas Walcote hires Guest to investigate his young wife Philippa for adultery, he discovers an underground world of danger and dirty dealings. Philippa is indeed hiding something—but she's not the only one. Walcote himself is rumored to possess a holy relic so powerful that some would even kill for it.

Two men. Two empires. One unstoppable hunger to own the world — and two spectacular falls that proved no conquest, however vast, outlives its conqueror. This bundle puts the two greatest military minds in human history side by side, so you can see exactly what separates a slave from an emperor, a tent on the steppe from a throne in Paris — and discover how little that distance actually mattered once ambition took hold.

The bombs were still falling when America's future changed forever. What if the warnings had been heeded? What if one morning's catastrophic failure had permanently broken the most powerful nation on earth—rather than forged it? In Pearl Harbor, historian Dominic Haynes delivers the definitive account of the attack that shattered American innocence and ignited the most consequential military response in modern history.