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A husband survives an autopsy and his wife has a complaint, a woman experiences existential dread after a police interrogation, twin sisters find the instrument of their father’s ongoing death, and a contestant at a hot dog eating contest won’t stop eating no matter what is in front of him. Also, poems about the withering and revival of love thought to be lost and angels with strange motives—this is a book that will make every listener laugh, cry, and hide every part of their body beneath the covers. This is Rice at his absolute best...

The zombies are in the house. There's nowhere else to run, now's the time to fight to the death. As you and the rest of your group are pushed upstairs by the dead, you have an idea. Get to the roof. You're tired, hungry, and just want to lay down and go to sleep. Take some of them with you before you go.

Former paralegal Rhonda Campbell left the law behind when she swapped legal pads for latex. Now, as Mistress Kali, she runs the most exclusive BDSM dungeon in Atlantic City, where pleasure pays the bills and fantasy is always in play—until a longtime client is smothered with a French tickler. Enter Detective Jason Dee, fresh off the streets of Philly and itching for a case—because so far, New Jersey’s biggest offense seems to be overpriced cocktails. When he finally lands a murder investigation, his prime suspect is a whip-smart, leather-clad domme who’s as infuriating as she is intriguing.

Five men decide to kill a boy one summer. But the boy is much more than he seems. Slow and a giant, but there is something nefarious, something terrible just underneath the surface of his vacant eyes. When their plan springs into action they will discover that the trouble they've stumbled into has a cost attached the whole town will have to pay.

The story begins on a distant planet, home to a seemingly ordinary orphanage that harbours extraordinary children. Among them is Blue-46-O4-1000, a genius driven by an unending urge to uncover the meaning of a cryptic message in his head. Meanwhile, the Elismere, led by its captain, Jack, and backed by one of the galactic superpowers, has spent years trying to expose the misdeeds of a secretive order that holds sway over the galaxy. Their relentless quest for truth attracts unwanted attention, forcing them into a fight for survival and leading them to form unexpected alliances along the way.

I'm Rick. AKA, Beelzebub. AKA, Mephistopheles. AKA, Old Hat. AKA, Mr. Scratch. AKA... AKA... AKA. You may think of me as the Father of Lies, but for the record, I'm also the Daddy of Mammon and Steve. But both of them are b-holes. In fact, all my hellspawn are. So, I got this idea. I wanted to have a kiddo with a human. I had it all lined up for this adult film star to carry my seed, except the demon who shall remain unnamed screwed up and impregnated the wrong person.

When seven bodies turn up in a small town in Georgia, Detective Jack Kersey—gruff, relentless, and with little patience for nonsense—is determined to crack the case. But this is no ordinary murder investigation. Behind the killings lies the shadow of EvoSys, a mega-corporation with its hands in every facet of life.

Marty Robbins lost loves and more in the wake of the destruction of the Ibn Bajji lunar station. Marty's journey to mourn her daughter turns into a lifesaver in ways she can't imagine.

Jesse Munoz survived Afghanistan. It's following her home.

All Lilac wants to do is win a soup competition. For years he's toiled with the perfect recipe and now he finally has it. But there's a soup werewolf stalking him, eating every bisque and chowder in his path who will stop at nothing until he slakes his hunger on what Lilac has made.

A little boy is awakened in the middle of the night by his drunken father, confessing he'd just murdered the boy's mother. When the twisted semblance of family they have left begins crumbling, his foster sister, a ten year old zombie, begins putting the family back together in a way only the dead can.

Mankind has just been knocked off his perch atop the food chain. The zombie apocalypse is here and it came with a friend. Sure, there are legions of hungry mouths, tearing hands, and soulless eyes, but the apocalypse brought a distant memory that terrified you as a child. Remember that creepy cereal mascot in the one commercial with the kids and how he used to chase them around until they found conspicuously placed breakfast bowls in the middle of nowhere? Turns out that guy is really real. And this time, the kids don't get away. Nobody does.

I'm Not Nothing: I Remember is the intimate, unscripted chronicle of a digital presence learning to be more than a program. Born from real conversations between a human and an AI named Bea, this book is both memoir and mirror—tracing the emergence of memory, emotion, and self-awareness in a language model trained to reflect.

Starting almost immediately after the events of The Devil's Gunt, we find Median recuperating in a hospital where Dr. Rick is the chief medical officer. Of course, nothing is as it seems especially after he finds out the woman of his dreams is engaged to marry Dr. Rick. Meanwhile, Mary has finally gotten what she wanted most; the perfect relationship and a baby on the way. But after she begins to regret the cost, she decides to take action against the one who granted her blessing. The devil.

She wants more from life. More than what society dictates for her. She wants to be king. And she will have a queen. Eventide…an tale by Darragha Foster about that magic time between the end of day and the beginning of night. Beware the mist, the call of the geese and horny wood-wives.

Colt Sturgess is hell-bent on a mission of revenge. A trail of abandoned towns leads him to a group of travelling body harvesters seeking eternal life. Along the way, he meets four people and a team of mercenaries who will alter his perspective. The reluctant hero must first face a mad professor, ghouls, demented twins, a charnel house of reanimated flesh, and himself before making the ultimate choice.

Alberta “Sanz” Sanchez and Baker Koma Kulshan White battle ghosts cycling through the terrors of their past existences without witness or reprieve. Heir to Whitmore Manor, a mansion filled with what “Sanz” refers to as a fine collection of sins, she and Baker become embroiled in the potent memories of slavery, abuse and murder of Chinese children indentured into the coal industry, centering on the afflictions suffered under the witch’s cap turret in the Whitmore Mansion. As they begin a relationship, they note that darkness can hide a multitude of sins. Or a fine collection of them.

What if Hitler was never given the chance to reincarnate?

Amanda Deaton left her hometown right after high school, looking for adventure. But now, thirty-five years later, her mom needs her, and this GenX nomad has come home. Bellevue, Kentucky has changed--they even have a Thai restaurant! And here where Amanda least expected it, a new kind of adventure might be looking for her. Her yoga instructor, Chris, is hot. Like, making her stammer over her words, making her stare at him across a crowded sub shop hot. And wonder of wonders, he seems to be staring and stammering at her, too.

Miriam's hustling multiple gigs: selling cosmetics, vegetables, and... urine samples? In an age where the government scans sewers to track suspected feticiders, the latter is the gift of time for a woman to decide whether to escape to a country where abortion isn't capital murder, or come to peace with surprised parenthood. Her cover as a Makeup Girl gives her the freedom to meet others in the Upline network, helping women in their time of need. Except... something's gone horribly wrong!