Charles Maxwell is a thirty eight year veteran CIA agent who has been told he has only six months to live from cancer. He finances a good death by selling $100,000 worth of second rate secrets to the Russians and retreats to a secluded Swiss chalet in the shadow of the Matterhorn. A Soviet dissident, Constantin Vronsky, is hiding nearby. The KGB and the CIA converge, forcing Maxwell into a final deadly game of cross and double cross.

Told through poignant letters, the novel chronicles correspondence between Yatou, a young woman battling cancer, and her mentor Guru Xue. As Yatou confides pain, fear, and fleeting moments of grace, the letters unfold into a story of love, suffering, and transcendence. Under Guru Xue's steady spiritual guidance, Yatou learns to embrace life's impermanence and discovers a path to redemption.

This fictional account follows Mother Seton, the first American-born saint. It traces the tragedies and triumphs of her life, portraying the challenges she faced and the ways those events shaped her. The narrative centers on her struggle to triumph over pain and to find meaning in life, presenting a portrait of endurance and inward searching.

A media colossus is set to form in a merger between Lawrence/Sunshine Productions and MacGregor Communications. A breathless cross-country pursuit from Maine's rocky coast to Hollywood's glitter palaces brings James Whiting, who is already fighting for his life, together with Jeanne Darrow, a young widow dangerously close to a secret that kills. Their discovery of the unholy union between the two entertainment giants could save the soul of a nation but will require one final, unthinkable sacrifice.

Hedley Vaughn tenaciously clings to his farm, determined to keep his place. His young wife, Janet, seeks an escape from her unbearable boredom in the arms of Lucien Quirk, a battle-scarred World War II veteran. Their conflicting attachments shape the novel's focus on longing, loyalty, and the strains of domestic life. It presents their choices and the pressures each faces.

A new war brews between the Shadowlands and the mortal world, a conflict the Brotherhood of Culo has warned about for generations. An Empress in exile struggles to regain her crown while the warrior sworn to protect her fights to return, confronting an enemy even the Empire's greatest living sword master may not defeat: time itself. Time is running out for the soldiers of the House of Dorsa. This is book two of a three book series.

Four and a half years after the Battle of the Empress's Last Stand ended Empress Natasia's reign and the War in the East, the peace does not match what the Empire expected. Linna refuses to accept that the Empress and Joslyn of Terinto are gone and travels alone into the East to uncover what really happened in that battle. She plans to continue past former borders toward the mysterious Kingdom of Persopos in hopes of finding the truth and her leaders alive.

The book examines Robby Wilde, a man with paranoid schizophrenia who first heard a voice at age nine. Ten years before his death at fifty-three, Wilde asked his friend Elizabeth Kytle to write about his condition. Kytle traces his life from rural North Carolina to impoverished last days in Columbus, Ohio, using twice-told tales in which Wilde's recollections alternate with differing accounts from friends, family, and coworkers, and chronicles the slow unraveling and final breakdown of his life.

A collection of early-20th-century social-realist narratives set largely in rural Bengal, focusing on intimate human relationships and everyday lives marked by poverty, tradition, and moral struggle; the stories center on dignified, often tragic characters—especially women—who confront rigid social norms, caste and class constraints, unfulfilled love, and family pressures, conveyed in compassionate, lyrical prose that combines emotional intensity with a critique of social injustice while evoking vivid village landscapes and the slow, bittersweet changes in society.

On April 12, 1961 Yuri Gagarin sat inside a tiny capsule atop a Soviet intercontinental ballistic missile and became the first human to orbit Earth, circling the globe in 106 minutes. Beyond recounts that flight and the wider Cold War race, contrasting Soviet secrecy with American publicity as both sides pushed astronauts and cosmonauts, scientists and engineers to the limits. Using original research and eyewitness testimony, the book uncovers details that were hidden for decades.

Little Blue Encyclopedia follows a queer trans narrator processing unrequited love for a straight trans friend who died. The novel mixes narrative with encyclopedia-style entries about a fictional TV show set on an isolated island. This experimental form examines how pop culture and small pleasures such as karaoke, birding, and butt toys can soothe grief while revealing who the narrator loved, why, and the extent of her loss.

Julie Wells and Barry Irving share an idyllic love that is threatened by Jo-Jo, an imaginary companion from Julie's childhood. Jo-Jo sets forces in motion to keep Julie to himself. Julie turns to psychiatrist Russell Dunn for help as the couple faces this challenge. The story centers on Julie's attempts to deal with Jo-Jo and on the couple's response to the threat.

The novel is set in the sequestered, eccentric, amiably self-indulged WASP world of Old Hampton, Long Island. The Hampton sisters are rich, desirable, and single, yet their shabby-genteel shorefront estate reeks of murder and madness. Lydia is a gentle recluse and amateur ornithologist. Emily is a star amateur tennis player and budding novelist whose amorous manipulations take her and her lovers between Manhattan's fast-paced publishing world and the leisurely country club of Old Hampton.

Scriptwriter Cliff Dandridge needs a break from his demanding job and girlfriend. He becomes accidentally involved with Nazi hunters, war criminals and the FBI. That accidental involvement draws him into dealings with those hunters and suspected war criminals, and into contact with a series of beautiful, mysterious and dangerous women. The narrative follows his accidental involvement with those forces and the women he meets.

Madeleine Gibbons is a traditional wife and mother of two who becomes drawn to the sensuous, reckless Joy Castleman. Joy intrigues Madeleine even as she betrays her. The relationship forces Madeleine to confront and question much of what she believes about herself, her family, and her role. She must reevaluate her choices and the life she once accepted.

Humanity learns that an alien fleet will arrive centuries hence and faces crippling sabotage of science by alien probes, so world leaders launch the Wallfacer program—granting four individuals near-limitless secrecy and resources to devise hidden strategies against the invaders. The novel follows shifting political maneuvers, the rise of a reluctant strategist who develops a chilling cosmic theory that the universe is a “dark forest” where revealing any civilization’s location invites annihilation, and the use of that logic to create a deterrent that forces a tense, morally ambiguous standoff between species. Themes of trust, sacrifice, fate, and the limits of knowledge drive a suspenseful saga of human resilience and existential dread as long-term plans, betrayals, and technological constraints shape the struggle for survival.