Adventure

In the blockbuster and bestselling tradition of Jurassic Park comes the breakneck new adventure from the New York Times and #1 internationally bestselling author Matthew Reilly whose imaginative, cinematic thrillers “make you feel like a kid again; [they’re] a blast” (Booklist). It is a secret the Chinese government has been keeping for forty years. They have proven the existence of dragons—a landmark discovery no one could ever believe is real, and a scientific revelation that will amaze the world. Now the Chinese are ready to ...

Spring Break Iraq details the journey of an activated Marine reservist as he is deployed for the first time for war. The story is set in Kuwait and Iraq in the spring of 2003 as US Marines and coalition forces prepare, and subsequently invade Iraq. The story is told from the perspective of Marine Corporal John Klein, a full-time college student and a part-time Marine who finds himself at the precipice of war. Caught between two identities, he is forced to choose between them. A ...

The closer Amos Decker comes to the truth, the deadlier it gets in #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci’s latest Memory Man thriller. Something sinister is going on in Baronville. The rust belt town has seen four bizarre murders in the space of two weeks. Cryptic clues left at the scenes–obscure bible verses, odd symbols–have the police stumped. Amos Decker and his FBI colleague Alex Jamison are in Baronville visiting Alex’s sister and her family. It’s a bleak place: a former mill and mining town ...

This book begins with twenty-eight-year-old Jessica bound, gagged, and fearing for her life aboard a luxury sailboat. She’s being held hostage by Somali pirates. Based on real events, we’re told. After twenty-eight years of playing by the rules, Jessica Gregory moves from her small Indiana town to Phuket, Thailand. But her newfound routine is upended with the arrival of Grant Flynn, a captivating, elusive man who is sailing around the world while trying to move on from a past tragedy. Jessica volunteers to help crew ...

The debut novel from Elliott Baker, The Sun God’s Heir: Return is a new addition to the great historical fantasy tradition of Wilbur Smith, Guy Gavriel Kay, and Patrick O’Brian. For three thousand years a brother’s hatred burns. In seventeenth century France two souls incarnate, one born the child of a prosperous merchant, the other, forces his way into incarnation, determined to continue a reign of terror begun long ago. One remembers, one does not.

Everywhere, waters are rising–and that is just the beginning of the world’s peril, unless the NUMA crew can beat the clock in this thrilling novel from the #1 New York Times-bestselling grand master of adventure. An alarming rise in the world’s sea levels–much larger than could be accounted for by glacier melt–sends Kurt Austin, Joe Zavala, and the rest of the NUMA scientific team rocketing around the globe in search of answers. What they find at the bottom of the East China Sea, however, is even ...

Relic Guardian. Defender of Mankind. Witch. Magic is real – but you knew that, right? I’m Zoe Stark, and the last thing I need after saving London from a possessed African mask is the theft of another magical artifact – one that’s far more deadly. When Kukulkan’s Skull is found and promptly stolen, it’s up to me to recover this legendary relic before its demonic powers are unleashed upon mankind. With the Day of the Dead, and the zenith of the skull’s devastating powers fast ...

They call him father, liberator, warlord, Slave King, Reaper. But he feels a boy as he falls toward the war-torn planet, his armor red, his army vast, his heart heavy. It is the tenth year of war and the thirty-third of his life. A decade ago Darrow was the hero of the revolution he believed would break the chains of the Society. But the Rising has shattered everything: Instead of peace and freedom, it has brought endless war. Now he must risk all he has fought ...