A mysterious cargo plane, flanked by a squadron of Russia’s most lethal fighters, has just taken off from a remote airbase. Closely monitored by the United States, no one inside the Pentagon has any idea where it’s going or what it’s carrying. A high-level Russian defector, a walking vault of secrets that could shatter the West, seeks asylum in Norway. Across the continent, in the heart of Paris, a lone French agent stumbles upon a conspiracy so explosive it could ignite a global firestorm. As alarm bells ring in Washington, the CIA’s most lethal weapon, Scot Harvath, is forced to choose between his conscience and his country. You’ll be left breathless as Harvath is swept into a whirlwind of double agents, international intrigue, and heart-stopping chases. Brad Thor is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-three thrillers, including Dead Fall, Black Ice (ThrillerFix Best Thriller of the Year), Near Dark (one of Suspense Magazine’s Best Books of the Year), Backlash (nominated for the Barry Award for Best Thriller of the Year), Spymaster (named “One of the all-time best thriller novels” —The Washington Times), The Last Patriot (nominated Best Thriller of the Year by the International Thriller Writers association), and Blowback (one of the “Top 100 Killer Thrillers of All Time” —NPR). Visit his website at BradThor.com and follow him on Facebook @BradThorOfficial, on Instagram @RealBradThor, and on X @BradThor.People

Waite “Schoolboy” Hoyt’s improbable baseball journey began when the 1915 New York Giants signed him as a high school junior, for no pay and a five dollar bonus. After nearly having both his hands amputated and cavorting with men twice his age in the hardscrabble Minor Leagues, he somehow ended up the best pitcher for the New York Yankees in the 1920s. Based on a trove of Hoyt’s writings and interview transcripts, Tim Manners has reanimated the baseball legend’s untold story, entirely in Hoyt’s own words. Schoolboy dives straight into early twentieth century America and the birth of modern day baseball, as well as Hoyt’s defining conflict: Should he have pursued something more respectable than being the best pitcher on the 1927 New York Yankees, arguably the greatest baseball team of all time? Over his twenty three year professional baseball career, Hoyt won 237 big league games across 3,845 ⅔ innings—and one locker room brawl with Babe Ruth. He also became a vaudeville star who swapped dirty jokes with Mae West and drank champagne with Al Capone, a philosophizer who bonded with Lou Gehrig over the meaning of life, and a funeral director who left a body chilling in his trunk while pitching an afternoon game at Yankee Stadium. Hoyt shares his thoughts on famous moments in the golden age of baseball history; assesses baseball legends, including Ty Cobb, Stan Musial, and Pete Rose; and describes the strategies of baseball managers John McGraw, Miller Huggins, and Connie Mack. He writes at length about the art of pitching and how the game and its players changed—and didn’t—over his lifetime. After retiring from baseball at thirty eight and coming to terms with his alcoholism, Hoyt found some happiness as a family man and a beloved, pioneering Cincinnati Reds radio sportscaster with a Websterian vocabulary spiked with a Brooklyn accent. When Hoyt died in 1984 his foremost legacy may have been as a raconteur who punctuated his life story with awe inspiring and jaw dropping anecdotes. In Schoolboy he never flinches from an unsparing account of his remarkable and paradoxical eighty four year odyssey. Waite Hoyt (1899–1984) pitched twenty one seasons in the Major Leagues, most notably with the Yankees’ first dynasty, leading them to three World Series championships in the 1920s. He played for a total of seven clubs before retiring in 1938. Hoyt became a popular broadcaster for the Cincinnati Reds and was elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969. Tim Manners is a writer, communications consultant, and baseball fan. He is a native of Norwalk, CT and has lived in Westport, CT for the last 34 years. Bob Costas was a broadcaster for NBC Sports television for four decades and now does play by play and commentary work for MLB, MLB Network, and CNN. #yankees , #yankeesfans

#1 New York Times bestselling author Maureen Johnson is out with her first stand-alone mystery in many years! The life-longAgatha Christie aficionado, who has delighted countless critics and fans with her Truly Devious series featuring teen sleuth Stevie Bell, now offers DEATH AT MORNING HOUSE. Johnson’s latest features Marlowe Wexler, a queer teen who unlike Stevie, is no detective. Heartbroken after a disastrous date, she finds herself in a summer job working at a grand but dilapidated house on an island in northern New York at the Canadian border. It’s there she stumbles upon two mysteries— one in the present day and one kept concealed since the 1930s.

Kristy Ventura is a teenage girl with the deepest of emotional and psychological problems. From family drama (her mother left her at a young age, and she blames her dad) to constantly starting fights with people, Kristy has a hard time keeping herself in check and out of trouble, and as a result, she lost what she considered her best partner, Violet Wayne. One day, Kristy tries to make up with Violet, but then finds out that Violet was in a completely different part of the globe. From this point, Kristy jumps through a plethora of hoops to get the slightest bit of interaction with Violet. Kristy understands that she must do everything in her limited amount of power to reunite with Violet and get a step closer to repairing her shattered spirit.

This work serves as a debut publication for A.J. Bozeman, an author residing in Minneapolis, MN. A.J. graduated from Hopkins High School in 2019, and was one of two speakers within the ceremony. A.J. is a music lover, ranging from genres such as rap, pop, EDM, indie folk, and house music. A.J. is also a college graduate recently receiving a Bachelor’s of Arts degree in psychology from Metropolitan State University. A.J. has maintained a passion for creative writing from the early age of 12, and this passion was fully realized as he began writing ‘The Door Behind Me’ in June of 2020. A.J. is an avid fan of the 2020 critically acclaimed video game, The Last Of Us Part II, which served as the primary inspiration for this novella.

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Scores of biographies have been written about Winston Churchill, yet none examine his frequent, sometimes furtive, trips to the White House, where he resided for weeks on end—the (often unclothed) visitor who “dropped out of the sky.” Drawing on years of research, Robert Schmuhl not only contextualizes the days Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, and Dwight D. Eisenhower spent together, but also vividly portrays the individual characters, from Churchill himself—a devoted fisherman who never stopped “angling”—to a resentful Eleanor Roosevelt. MR. CHURCHILL IN THE WHITE HOUSE is an illuminating portrait of these spirited, even entertaining occasions which took on a new level of diplomatic significance and an insightful work for our own fractious times. It demonstrates just how influential a foreign leader can become in shaping American foreign policy. About the Author: Robert Schmuhl is the Walter H. Annenberg–Edmund P. Joyce Chair Emeritus in American Studies and Journalism at the University of Notre Dame. He’s the author or editor of fifteen books, including The Glory and the Burden about the US presidency.

In sports, not all the long shots who succeed are athletes. In 1984, Tom Hammond, a forty-year-old sportscaster who had primarily worked in Kentucky and the Southeast, got an unlikely opportunity to appear on the NBC Sports telecast of the inaugural Breeders' Cup. Assigned to report from the stall area on what was supposed to be a single broadcast, Hammond performed so well that an NBC executive offered him a chance to call NFL games on the spot. That broadcast launched Hammond's thirty-four-year career with NBC Sports and his rise to the top levels of American television sportscasting. Along with cowriter Mark Story, Hammond pulls back the curtain to reveal how a Kentucky native who started out reading horse racing results on Lexington radio went on to broadcast from thirteen Olympic Games.

Tom Hammond is a retired American sports broadcaster. Mark Story, a sports reporter with the Lexington Herald-Leader for more than three decades, has been a sports columnist since 2001. He writes about college football and basketball and has covered every Kentucky Derby since 1994.

In LONG HAUL: Hunting the Highway Serial Killers (Mariner Books), veteran FBI special agent, NBC News National Security Contributor, and bestselling author Frank Figliuzzi takes us inside his year-long quest to understand the mysterious subcultures of long-haul truckers, sex trafficked victims, and the crime analysts trying to stop the killing. “Part cowboy, part fighter pilot, and part hermit, long-haul truckers glide along the edge of a certain seam in the fabric of our society—the seam that separates their reality from ours,” Figliuzzi observes. “Killer truckers exploit that seam.” FRANK FIGLIUZZI was the Assistant Director for Counterintelligence at the FBI, where he served 25 years as a special agent and directed all espionage nvestigations across the government. In his current role as a respected national security analyst, he is a regular contributor to NBC News and MSNBC and a sought-after speaker on violence prevention and the threats, both external and internal, facing the United States. He is also the author of the national bestseller The FBI Way: Inside the Bureau’s Code of Excellence.

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In TOM CLANCY SHADOW STATE, Jack Ryan, Jr. finds himself on the run after confronting a Chinese spy ring operating within the American technology supply chain. The vibrant economy of the new Vietnam is a shiny lure for Western capital. Not wanting to be left behind, Hendley Associates sends Jack to acquire a rare earth mining company operating in the Vietnamese highlands. However, the Chinese are determined to keep Jack from discovering a backdoor into critical American defense technology enabled by industrial espionage. He’s got to stay one step ahead of a pack of killers, and he’ll get no help from the government—because in the jungle, it’s the shadow state that rules. ABOUT THE AUTHORS: M.P. Woodward is the author of The Handler CIA espionage series (The Handler and Dead Drop). Woodward served for a decade as a U.S. Naval intelligence officer before going on to an international career in tech and streaming media. He lives in the Pacific Northwest. Thirty-five years ago, Tom Clancy was a Maryland insurance broker with a passion for naval history. Years before, he had been an English major at Baltimore’s Loyola College and had always dreamed of writing a novel. His first effort, The Hunt for Red October, sold briskly as a result of rave reviews, then catapulted onto the New York Times bestseller list after President Reagan pronounced it “the perfect yarn.” From that day forward, Clancy established himself as an undisputed master at blending exceptional realism and authenticity, intricate plotting, and razor-sharp suspense. He passed away in October 2013.

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