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"Is it possible, that by telling these tales, one might indeed save one's self?" The character, Scheherezade thought so. In fact, she tells each of the Arabian Nights tales in order to survive a little longer at the mercy of her listener, the Sultan. The Arabian Nights stories are some of the world's great treasures. They have existed for thousands of years, consisting of tales told in Persia, Arabia, India and Asia. The Arabian Nights have inspired writers the world over with the ancient power of story.

It's 2105 and Cray has a killer life - literally. He spends every night hunting zombies to keep everyone else in New York safe. Of course he's alone, had a dysfunctional childhood, and could die at any moment, but that's not so bad. Right? After all, thanks to his tireless efforts and the efforts of the other Night Sweepers, society has a fighting chance of recovering from the zombie apocalypse and being normal again. Enter Jonathan Harbin, the son of the psychopath that made the virus that created the zombie horde.

The magical kingdom of Havenwood is everything a girl could want...except a girl like Bella. While everyone else there loves painting dragons, fairies, pixies, and other such creatures of light, and bringing those paintings to life, Bella finds herself drawn to the darkness. To death and rot and the undead. Her best friend is an undead dragon called Nemesis, after all. She just doesn’t fit in...and she knows it. So when Gideon offers to take Bella to a faraway city to meet Petrusa, the Queen of the Dead, Bella jumps at the opportunity.

Bella was sixteen when she discovered the truth: For the last decade, she’d been lost in a book. Literally. For the world she’d known her whole life was a fiction, everyone she’d ever known merely a character created by the magic of a powerful Writer. Bella discovers that she’d been sent into the book’s world by her late mother to escape the clutches of a murderous villain known as the Collector, the man who murdered Bella’s mother...and will stop at nothing to destroy her. Now Bella must learn the art of painting to fight back against the Collector.

It's fall 1987, and life as normal is ending for the Malone family. With their sterile Dallas community a far cry from the Irish-American Bronx of their youth, Pat and Anne Malone have reached a breaking point. Pat, faced with a debilitating MS diagnosis, has fallen into his drinking. Anne, his devoutly Catholic wife, is selected as a juror for a highly publicized attempted murder trial, one that raises questions - about God, and about men in power - she has buried her entire life. Together, they try to raise their only son, Daniel.

Kyle Griffin has never felt so mortal. Defeated by his longtime nemesis and taken captive, the mutant soldier struggles to cope with the loss of his celestial powers. And refusing to give up despite his metal bindings, his fury builds as he’s made to witness his brothers-in-arms suffer under their enemy’s savage torture. Left behind when some of his men manage to escape, Kyle battles to find his own way out as the rebel forces race to reverse the Dominion’s newfound invincibility.

Majoring in Love: Two very different worlds collide in 1975 at an urban university in the south. Linda and Sandy are opposites in every way, with one thing in common: an intense attraction. Majoring in Love is a coming-of-age interracial love story and is a prequel to Be One with Me. Be One with Me: At age forty, city girl Sally never imagined she’d be all alone in the world. Following a violent attack and a deathbed confession from her mother, she runs from the only life she knows, heading south in search of security and family.

Jim Lord always knew he wanted to be a cop. But getting stuck working as a school resource officer after a tour in Iraq isn’t what he pictured for his life. Still, he manages to find a sense of purpose, as well as love, at Portage High … until a moment of cowardice strips it all away. Undone emotionally and professionally, Jim spirals into a drunken depression, before a friend pulls him back from the brink. Determined to usher in a new chapter, Jim embarks on a journey of self-discovery that leads him south.

Sergeant Ryan’s forced optimism hasn’t been contagious, at least not since their aircraft crashed under mysterious circumstances. They had to scrap their mission of finding the missing explorers who were supposed to greenlight colonization on the alien planet. Even before being hunted, they were down a soldier, so he understands his compatriots’ frustration.

Agent Farrell and his team have Joshua backed into a corner. At the NSMZ base, a Maelstrom permie rig and a team of scientists await Joshua’s arrival. Silently observing from the sidelines is Peter Yee of the Siuping Clan, a powerful crime boss to whom Joshua owes a favor.

Destined to be an apprentice of Elazar the Magician, Magnus’s future is destroyed when his best friend Tyrus betrays him. Magnus can only watch as everyone he loves is destroyed by the terrible power of Tyrus’s magic Kagi mushroom. Magnus barely escapes with his life, spending the next two decades running from his horrible past.

After he’s given a warning by a dying man that Russian terrorists are coming after him, black ops agent Blake Jordan pushes everyone he cares about away to keep them safe. But Russia has a long memory. When a cyberattack is unleashed against hospitals and government agencies, Blake teams up with his lost love to investigate. But he never expects her to be used as leverage for the release of a terrorist who Blake thinks is dead.

After he’s fired from the Department of Domestic Counterterrorism, former agent Blake Jordan heads to DC for President-elect Keller’s inauguration. But there are men in power who won’t let that happen.

After his wife’s murderer is captured, Blake Jordan heads to Chicago to propose to the woman he loves. But while millions of Americans are distracted with New Year’s Eve celebrations, Russian terrorists are making other plans. When they force a hacker to crash a train in DC, Blake learns that a prisoner warned authorities about the attack. But he discovers the prisoner is his wife’s killer, and she claims another strike is imminent.

Kyle Griffin and his Infinity team made sure of that. After the assault on Aeron’s palace, the galaxy suddenly seems turned upside down. The Splinter revolution is no longer an afterthought. Poised to make their first true push toward overthrowing the established order, Commander Griffin takes the reigns of an eager and burgeoning army, leading them into a new age in the galaxy, one where the Dominion doesn’t appear invincible.

For Sergeant Pete “Hardball” Talbot, recently returned from being wounded on Tarawa seven months earlier, Saipan is just another battle as the United States leaps island to island toward an invasion of the Japanese homeland. But the Japanese have learned, all too well, how to defend their islands, with carefully constructed and concealed bunkers and machine gun nests. Talbot and the dozen men of Second Squad have no idea they are running headlong into thirty-five thousand Japanese soldiers who have sworn to fight to the last man.

Everyone has amnesia. None of them remember who they were before their arrival. Considering the danger they now face, not being able to remember their past might be for the best. This world is a mysterious winter planet, and surrounding them is a place they call the Moat, where something deadly lurks. No one knows for sure what it is, but anyone who goes exploring goes missing. But they must find a way off this planet, so the survivors are gearing up for another push into the Moat. It’s the only way.