Lock your seatbelts in place and get ready for the newest and wildest TRANSFORMERS ride date! "The DECEPTICONS, feeding off the energy of captured MINI-CONS, are about to begin a hostile takeover of the TRANSFORMER home planet: CYBERTRON. Do OPTIMUS PRIME and the heroic AUTOBOTS stand a chance of defending the planet against these super-powered villains? And will the MINI-CONS ever get their freedom back? The action is so explosive that the shock waves will shake not only CYBERTRON but even planet EArth right down to the core!" Written by Chris Sarracini (TRANSFORMERS G1: Prime Directive) and penciled by talented newcomer James Raiz, TRANSFORMERS ARMADA: "First Contact", collects issues one through five of the ongoing Dreamwave comics series. It also contains the hard to find eight-page preview, a complete cover gallery, and more... If you missed these issues the first time around, here's your second chance to catch all of the action and excitement that pushed this series to the top of the sales chart!

Collecting Asgardians of the Galaxy #1-5. Spinning out of INFINITY WARS comes an epic space opera! Angela, Thor’s half-sister. The hotheaded Valkyrie — and Annabelle Riggs, the human who shares her form. Skurge the Executioner, freshly returned from Hel. Throg, the mighty frog of thunder. Kevin Masterson, the boy who took his father’s mace to become the hero Thunderstrike. And the Destroyer, the Asgardian armor built to take down Celestials — its current occupant unknown. A team of murderers, assassins, heroes — and frogs — assembles to save the universe from a weapon even Thor himself would fear to fight! Thanos’ deadly granddaughter, Nebula, is out to rule the galaxy — and not even the dead will stand in her way! Allied uneasily with Loki and targeted by the Nova Corps, can the Asgardians possibly triumph over Nebula’s armada?

The Decepticons, feeding off the energy of captured Mini-Cons, are about to begin a hostile takeover of the Transformers home planet, Cybertron. Do Optimus Prime and the heroic Autobots stand a chance of defending the planet against these super-powered villains? And will the Mini-Cons ever get their freedom back? The action is so explosive that the shock waves will shake not only Cybertron but even planet Earth right down to the core! All 18 issues of Transformers: Armada are collected in this omnibus edition.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Now a major motion picture directed by Steven Spielberg. “Enchanting . . . Willy Wonka meets The Matrix.”—USA Today • “As one adventure leads expertly to the next, time simply evaporates.”—Entertainment Weekly A world at stake. A quest for the ultimate prize. Are you ready? In the year 2045, reality is an ugly place. The only time Wade Watts really feels alive is when he’s jacked into the OASIS, a vast virtual world where most of humanity spends their days. When the eccentric creator of the OASIS dies, he leaves behind a series of fiendish puzzles, based on his obsession with the pop culture of decades past. Whoever is first to solve them will inherit his vast fortune—and control of the OASIS itself. Then Wade cracks the first clue. Suddenly he’s beset by rivals who’ll kill to take this prize. The race is on—and the only way to survive is to win. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY Entertainment Weekly • San Francisco Chronicle • Village Voice • Chicago Sun-Times • iO9 • The AV Club “Delightful . . . the grown-up’s Harry Potter.”—HuffPost “An addictive read . . . part intergalactic scavenger hunt, part romance, and all heart.”—CNN “A most excellent ride . . . Cline stuffs his novel with a cornucopia of pop culture, as if to wink to the reader.”—Boston Globe “Ridiculously fun and large-hearted . . . Cline is that rare writer who can translate his own dorky enthusiasms into prose that’s both hilarious and compassionate.”—NPR “[A] fantastic page-turner . . . starts out like a simple bit of fun and winds up feeling like a rich and plausible picture of future friendships in a world not too distant from our own.”—iO9

Enter the world of Holly Well Springs... where the Christmas spirit lives on. Amid the fierce battle for the future of Holly Well Springs, a new romance is beginning to bloom. Belle, a lively, fun-loving photographer from Texas, has headed back to Holly Well Springs for her best friend Hannah’s wedding. But this time, her reason for showing up out of nowhere has nothing to do with the town that celebrates Christmas all year long. Jesse, the lawyer grandson of Holly Well Springs’s resident Santa Claus, Kris, hasn’t been home in years. But the mysterious Astext Construction Company is threatening the town and is poised to change everything about Holly Well Springs, so he’s back and ready to defend the place he loves. Things are tricky enough with Jesse’s father defending the other side of the lawsuit, but Jesse just can’t get his mind off the spunky brunette from Texas, the first woman to truly catch his eye. Belle and Jesse weren’t looking for romance, but will they find the love of their lifetimes in Holly Well Springs? Or will the secret threat from Texas and the new, terrifying danger from the magic realm destroy their future before it even begins?