The gripping account of a once-in-a-lifetime football team and their lone championship season

For Rich Cohen and millions of other fans, the 1985 Chicago Bears were more than a football team: they were the greatest football team ever a gang of colorful nuts, dancing and pounding their way to victory. They won a Super Bowl and saved a city.

It was not just that the Monsters of the Midway won but how they did it. On offense, there was high-stepping running back Walter Payton and Punky QB Jim McMahon, who had a knack for pissing off Coach Mike Ditka as he made his way to the end zone. On defense, there was the 46: a revolutionary, quarterback-concussing scheme cooked up by Buddy Ryan and ruthlessly implemented by Hall of Famers such as Dan Danimal Hampton and Samurai Mike Singletary. On the sidelines, in the locker rooms, and in bars, there was the never-ending soap opera: the coach and the quarterback bickering on television, Ditka and Ryan nearly coming to blows in the Orange Bowl, the players recording the Super Bowl Shuffle video the morning after the season s only loss.

Cohen tracked down the coaches and players from this iconic team and asked them everything he has always wanted to know: What s it like to win? What s it like to lose? Do you really hate the guys on the other side? Were you ever scared? What do you think as you lie broken on the field? How do you go on after you have lived your dream but life has not ended?

The result is "Monsters: The 1985 Chicago Bears and the Wild Heart of Football," a portrait not merely of a team but of a city and a game: its history, its future, its fallen men, its immortal heroes. But mostly it s about being a fan about loving too much. This is a book about America at its most nonsensical, delirious, and joyful.

Sometimes the worst storms aren t from Mother Nature, and sometimes the worst nightmares aren t the ones in our heads.

Mike Mitchell, an average New Yorker already struggling to keep his family together, suddenly finds himself fighting just to keep them alive when an increasingly bizarre string of disasters starts appearing on the world s news networks. As both the real world and the cyberworld come crashing down, bending perception and reality, a monster snowstorm cuts New York off from the world, turning it into a wintry tomb where nothing is what it seems.

Anyone who enjoys insightful, cutting-edge fiction mixed with action and adventure won t want to miss "CyberStorm."

Archer Mayor s "New York Times" bestselling Joe Gunther series returns with a complex case involving two corpses, one escaped mental patient, and a long-held secret that binds them together.

Three can keep a secret, if two of them are dead. Ben Franklin

Joe Gunther and his team the Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI) are usually called in on major cases by local Vermont enforcement whenever they need expertise and backup. But after the state is devastated by Hurricane Irene, the police from one end of the state are taxed to their limits, leaving Joe Gunther involved in an odd, seemingly unrelated series of cases. In the wake of the hurricane, a seventeen-year-old gravesite is exposed, revealing a coffin that had been filled with rocks instead of the expected remains.

At the same time, an old retired state politician turns up dead at his high-end nursing home, in circumstances that leave investigators unsure that he wasn t murdered. And a patient who calls herself the Governor has walked away from a state mental facility during the post-hurricane flood. It turns out she was indeed once Governor for a Day, over forty years ago, and she might have also been falsely committed and drugged to keep her from revealing something she saw all those years ago. Amid the turmoil and the disaster relief, it s up to Joe Gunther and his team to learn what really happened with the two corpses one missing and what secret the Governor might have still locked in her brain that links them all.

"Quake" hits eight points on the Richter scale it is a disaster novel of epic proportions that will have listeners thinking twice about their next trip to New York City.

"Quake" is the sort of disaster novel that has become the mainstay of the SyFy Channel. In it, Manhattan and its boroughs become the epicenter of terror as fault lines wreak havoc on the city. Terrorists, floods, blackouts, and hurricanes add to the destruction. Bridges and skyscrapers collapse, and the nightmare begins.

Amid the chaos, FBI agent Hector Mendoza is trying to reunite with his wife and assistant US Attorney Nick Dykstra is trying to find his college student daughter. Meanwhile, the Indian Point nuclear power plant, just forty miles north, is compromised, and a deadly cloud of radiation is drifting toward densely populated areas. Even the subways aren t deep enough to get away from the menacing conditions above ground."

A threat has emerged from the cosmos: Thanos. A ruthless warlord who plans to collect all six Infinity Stones. Joined by his formidable allies, he will be near-unstoppable at achieving his goal. The Avengers, the Guardians of the Galaxy, Doctor Strange, and Spider-Man must join forces and fight side by side to stop Thanos, while the fate of the Earth and the universe lays in the balance.As the stage is set for Marvel’s Avengers: Infinity War, each Super Hero involved has no way of knowing how their lives will be forever changed. Captain America, Thor, Doctor Strange, and the Guardians of the Galaxy all have a role to play in the coming cosmic war—but fresh off their own independent adventures, they’ll have to come together as Thanos prepares his conquest.Told from unique perspectives, each hero finds their stories accelerating down the road to Infinity War!