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Levi Butcher is singularly devoted to his work. As team leader for the GO-Team, his unwavering focus is on the mission. Levi knows all too well that one minor distraction can hold deadly consequences. But with the soothing, sensual voice of 'Babe', the team's communication expert, constantly in his ear, keeping his concentration on the dangerous work at hand is becoming extremely difficult. Jina Modell definitely doesn't feel like a 'Babe', especially when she's working with the gruff, no-nonsense Levi. When the base where she's stationed is attacked, Jina manages to escape - but the rest of the team, working some distance away, is exfiltrated, thinking Jina died in the explosion and leaving her stranded.

In Hello Everybody, A.M. Homes shows that when you’re young, when your world is sheltered and your options for exploration limited, even a visit to a friend’s house becomes an anthropological expedition; each family, an as-yet unknown tribe. In Whose Story is it and Why is it Always on her Mind? Homes explores the nature of therapy and trauma through the generations.

Only six months have passed since 9/11 and New York is still reeling. For Hailey, living back with her parents after graduation, life feels like a struggle - to find a job and to come to terms with her new post 9/11 home. But when she meets Adrian, a recent Brown graduate, she finds her world view turned upside down and begins to realise that there is more to life and love than she ever believed.

Sometimes a lie seems kinder than the truth...but what happens when that lie destroys everything you love? When Tess is sent to photograph Greg, a high-profile paediatric heart surgeon, she sees something troubled in his face and feels instantly drawn to him. Their relationship quickly deepens, but then Tess, single mother to nine-year-old Joe, falls pregnant, and Greg is offered the job of a lifetime back in his hometown of Boston.

With her signature humor and compassion, A. M. Homes exposes the heart of an uneasy America in her new collection - exploring our attachments to each other through characters who aren't quite who they hoped to become, though there is no one else they can be. In 'A Prize for Every Player', a man is nominated to run for president by the customers of a big box store while he and his family do their weekly shopping.

Florida, 2012. Summoned by the daughter of an old friend, Dorian finds himself confronted by the actions of his past...and a familiar picture that holds a dreadful secret. But can he stop history from repeating itself, or is it already far too late?

The circus has come to Collinwood. Tad Collins, a man haunted by an unhappy childhood, is rich, arrogant and so terribly lonely. Marie Olson, the tattooed lady, is haunted by a past that she has tried to escape. Naturally they hate each other. But when a mysterious and sinister clown breaks into Collinwood to steal a book on the occult, Tad and Marie have to work together. They don't realise, though, that the clown has plans for them both....

Overconsumption, population growth, dwindling natural resources, climate change, disease, contamination, storms, thirst, war... Will the struggle to simply stay alive become humanity's future rather than its past? What happens when vast population growth endangers the world's food supplies? Or our water? Our energy needs, climate, or environment? Or the planet's biodiversity? What happens if these all become critical at once? Just what is our future?

Alfie Chapman and Emma Finney, a young English couple, are on a road trip, travelling across America. When their car breaks down, they find themselves having to stay overnight in the small town of Collinsport. And on that night, people start dying. As Alfie and Emma become acquainted with the residents, they discover that there's more to the sleepy little town of Collinsport than they first thought.