A deeply damaged female soldier home from the war in Afghanistan becomes obsessed with finding a missing girl, gains an unlikely ally in a stray dog, and encounters new perils beyond the combat zone.
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"In this riveting new novel by the New York Times bestselling author of the Chet and Bernie mystery series, a deeply damaged female soldier home from the war in Afghanistan becomes obsessed with finding a missing girl, gains an unlikely ally in a stray dog, and encounters new per...
In the days immediately following September 11th, the most powerful people in the country were panic-stricken. Radical decisions about how to combat terrorists and strengthen national security were made in a state of chaos and fear, but the key players, Vice President Cheney and ...
Determined to avenge the deaths of their fathers, Sara Sandoval and Maria Alvarez vow to seize the ill-gotten gains of robber baron Tyler Jackson. With the help of a retired bank robber and a jittery criminologist, these two beauties become unlikely outlaws, blazing a trail of la...
Intrepid eleven-year-old Johnny Test and his faithful dog, Dukey, return for another season of wacky lab mischief. As the guinea pig for his genius twin sisters Mary and Susan, Johnny risks bizarre side effects and even gains the occasional superpower. Contains all 26 episodes fr...
Living in Munich with relatives, Beth Bridgewater, a German American, finds herself in a nightmare as World War II erupts in a war which she takes no side, for she is a Quaker pacifist. Just as she gains opportunity to escape Germany, Beth decides to stay.
"The White City, 1893: In turn-of-the-century Chicago, with the World's Fair bringing bustle and excitement to her home city, sixteen-year-old Emily Wheiler should be reveling in her youthful beauty and the excitement around her. But her whole life changed when her mother died, l...
The second burglars were Bernie and his dog grooming partner, Carolyn. They came to rob the Colcannons' West Side brownstone while the couple was out of town. They discover, however, that they've already been beaten to the punch. Fortunately, the first burglars left some valuable...
"To help her destitute parents, Emma Mercer must marry very well. And very soon. Love is irrelevant. Only security matters-- doesn't it? Aided by her friend Olivia--and Olivia's brother Marcus, Earl of Westin--Emma quickly gains society's notice. But Marcus himself, the only man ...
Frank Morgan survived his first trip to Alaska. Barely. Now, in Western Canada, Morgan and a band of survivors encounter an archenemy with a fortune in ill-gotten gains. He plans to supply murderous Metis rebels with stolen U.S. Army Gatling guns to use for a bloodbath - and the ...
"John Brown, Rose and the Midnight Cat: John Brown, Rose's loyal sheepdog, feels he can look after her without any help from outside, but Rose has different ideas. John Brown becomes very jealous when his beloved mistress befriends a cat."--Container.
"The Hunger Games meets Cormac McCarthy's The Road in this richly imagined first novel in a new post-apocalyptic trilogy by award-winning poet Francesca Haig. Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuclear fire that has laid waste to civiliza...
After leaving the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston-under dire circumstances, of course-Jacky Faber boards a whaling ship bound for London, where she hopes to find her beloved Jaimy. But things don't go as planned, and soon Jacky is off on a wild misadventure at sea...
A pirate at heart, unlikely heroine Jacky Faber returns to the sea in a truly swashbuckling tale filled with good humor, wit, and courage. After Leaving the Lawson Peabody School for Young Girls in Boston-under dire circumstances, of course-Jacky boards a whaling ship bound for L...
"Book Two in the critically acclaimed The Fire Sermon trilogy -- The Hunger Games meets Cormac McCarthy's The Road in this richly imagined post-apocalyptic series by award-winning poet Francesca Haig. Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nu...
One of the unifying themes that wends its way through Honore de Balzac's immense body of work is the corrupting danger of greed-and the often-absurd lengths to which people will go to secure material wealth. In the wonderful novel Rise and Fall of Cesar Birotteau , the title cha...
"Book Two in the critically acclaimed The Fire Sermon trilogy--The Hunger Games meets Cormac McCarthy's The Road in this richly imagined post-apocalyptic series by award-winning poet Francesca Haig. Four hundred years in the future, the Earth has turned primitive following a nuc...
"Xavier "Scarecrow" Wallace, a mixed-race MMA fighter on the wrong side of thirty, is facing the fight of his life. Xavier is losing his battle with chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE), or pugilistic dementia -- a struggle he can no longer deny. Through the fog of memory loss,...
"Pastor Jeremy Freeman shares the miraculous story of his son's 10 percent chance of survival after a devastating car accident, the darkness that nearly overtook their family, and the #butGod movement that captured the prayers of believers and brought hope and healing ... From th...