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Salt to the Sea

At the end of WWII, three refugees from East Prussia believe their way to safety is on the ship the Wilhelm Gustloff. Just when freedom seems in their grasp, tragedy strikes: the sinking of that ship ias one of the worst maritime disasters that ever occurred.

The Light We Lost

The story follows a young couple who meet at Columbia University on the morning of Sept. 11, 2001. Their relationship to one another – and to the world – is forged on the day.

Anubis

A mummy's curse condemns Dr. George Henry's spirit to the Egyptian Underworld. While trying to free him, Henry's son Chance plumbs the depths of the Underworld and encounters a variety of monsters.

Best Served Cold

This story is about a famous soldier named Monza Murcatto (Ferguson). She is betrayed and cast out by her comrades, so she sets out on a mission for revenge. Along the way, her actions end up changing the fate of an entire nation.

Chaos

Writer Tom O’Neill disappears into the complex and shadowy cultural vortex on the 1960s.

Incarceron

Set in a world run by computer, Finn, a 17-year old, is a prisoner in Incarceron. He is determined to escape the prison fashioned centuries ago as a solution to the chaos created by man. Claudia, the warden's daughter, lives sequestered in a castle surrounded by servants. But she, too, longs for escape—from a father who frightens her and from betrothal to an insipid prince. Finn and Claudia each discover a crystal key and are amazed to find that they can communicate with each other. As their trust in one another builds, each pledges to help the other.

Long Way Down

Set during a sixty second elevator ride, a young man struggles to decide whether or not he's going to murder the guy who killed his brother.

Love Letters to the Dead

High school student Laurel's beloved older sister has died under mysterious circumstances. Emotionally frayed by the loss, she unexpectedly finds catharsis in an assignment from her English teacher: write a letter to a dead person. Instead of handing in the assignment, though, she begins an ongoing series of letters to an eclectic group of rock stars, poets, and popular icons such as Kurt Cobain, Judy Garland, Amelia Earhart, and Amy Winehouse. She writes to her epistolary confidants about navigating new and complicated friendships, learning to live with her splintering family, falling in love for the first time. Ultimately, the letters reveal the painful truth about her past.

Rendezvous with Rama

Two centuries from now, scientists detect a 10 trillion ton object, nicknamed "Rama," hurtling through Earth's solar system at an unfathomable speed. After deploying a space probe, it turns out: Rama is an extra-terrestrial spacecraft. The Spaceship Endeavor commander leads a team of astronauts discover a self-contained world of alien wonders and unknown purpose.

Shibumi

Details the struggle between the “Mother Company,” a conspiracy of energy companies that secretly controls much of the Western world, and a highly skilled assassin named Nicholaï Hel.

Storming Las Vegas

Jose Vigoa, a Cuban-born commando veteran of the Soviet army, and his crew embarked on a violent 16-month crime wave that targeted some of Las Vegas' most prominent casinos. He was pitted against a 23-year vet of the Vegas police force, who was charged with tracking down Vigoa and his cohorts without letting the story make the papers and spoil Vegas's image.

Billy Summers

Follows 44-year-old hitman (Billy Summers) who is considering retirement when he accepts one last job from a regular client.

Bunker Hill

The unease between Bostonians and British troops turns violent after the Boston Tea Party, when violent sieges erupt in Lexington and Concord and a British blockade leads to outright war in the Battle of Bunker Hill, a bloody clash that unites the colonies and starts the war for independence. A group of participants, including a 33-year-old physician named Joseph Warren, who becomes a leader of the Patriot cause; Paul Revere, George Washington, British General Thomas Gage, and others.

China Rich Girlfriend

On the eve of her wedding, Rachel Chu has a flawless Asscher-cut diamond, a wedding dress she loves, and a fiancé willing to thwart his meddling relatives and give up one of the biggest fortunes in Asia in order to marry her. Still, Rachel mourns the fact that her birthfather, a man she never knew, won't be there to walk her down the aisle. But when a chance accident reveals his identity, Rachel is drawn into a dizzying world of Shanghai splendor, a world where people attend church in a penthouse, where exotic cars race down the boulevard, and where people aren't just crazy rich … they're China rich.

Dragonology

A group of dragonologists go on a globetrotting quest to keep a corrupt man from taking control of the world's dragons and using them to wipe out humanity.

Dry

When a California state sponsored deal for diverted water falls through and the water mains in Southern California run completely dry. Stores of bottled water last only a matter of days, and the government can't mobilize fast enough to provide water for its 23 million citizens. A group of teenage friends are forced to band together when chaos breaks out in their community, and what ensues is a frighteningly real survival scenario.

Empress

Centers on the wife of a galactic dictator who makes the decision to leave her evil husband and take her three kids with her. With the aid of a bodyguard, she escapes with her kids to her home world. But the dictator husband, with armies at his disposal, isn’t going to let her go without a fight.

Follies

Set in 1970s' New York when the performers who made Dimitri Weismann’s “Follies” such a hit gather for a farewell party.

Grounded

Tells the story of a conflicted American Air Force pilot tasked with operating an unmanned drone.