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This is the "sequel that could stand on its own" to Beverly Cleary's beloved, Newbery Award-winning classic, Dear Mr. Henshaw. Can a stray dog change the life of a teenage boy? It looks as if Strider can. He's a dog that loves to run; because of Strider, Leigh Botts finds himself running—well...

Nearly a century ago, rifts opened and giant magic-blooded bugs descended upon humanity. They were named the "swarm" for their fierce, insatiable hunger for human flesh. Born and raised in a small desert village, Sand-Dancer Marisol wants nothing to do with them. All she wants to do is sail to a legendary island city and bring a vial of healing seawater back to her sickly mama. Who has time to care about some distant war?

"Homecoming" is the story of Caitlin Pearson, a college freshman on her first visit home who discovers, to her dismay, that "out of sight did not necessarily guarantee out of mind." Over the course of her visit, Caitlin endures an overly-controlling mother and her latest redecorating project - Caitlin's oversexed younger cousin, a humiliating stint as her former high school's returning Homecoming Queen, and an old-fashioned booze-and-jealousy spiked family Thanksgiving. These adventures force Caitlin to confront old wounds and new fears, as well as a future filled with uncertainty, promise,...

This is a story about a family, first and last. It is set in the early 1900s, shortly after the end of World War I, in the wilderness of the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. The family consists of a father, an ex-Indian Marine sharpshooter; a mother, the sole survivor of a Mexican family devastated during the great Spanish Flu epidemic; a coming-of-age son; an adopted daughter; and ten-year-old twins, a boy and a girl. They have created a life of self-imposed isolation on a small island of freedom, high on a plateau above the clouds overlooking the Mojave Desert. William Strider ...

Three perplexing puzzles - and three inimitable Wimsey solutions - told with wit, humor, and suspense. Narrator Ian Carmichael, the quintessential Lord Peter, provides great entertainment with his talented performance of these three stories. In "Striding Folly", a frightening dream provides a haunting premonition. A house numbered 13 is in a street of even numbers, and a dead man was never alive in "The Haunted Policeman." And "Talboys" sees Lord Peter's own children accused of theft.

Barbra Streisand has been called the “most successful...talented performer of her generation” by Vanity Fair, and her voice, said pianist Glenn Gould, is “one of the natural wonders of the age.” Streisand scaled the heights of entertainment—from a popular vocalist to a first-rank Broadway star in Funny Girl to an Oscar-winning actress to a producer and director. But she has also become a cultural icon who has transcended show business.

In the summer after his junior year of high school, Jonathan Stride fell in love with Cindy Starr, the girl who would become his wife. But that same summer, Cindy's sister, Laura, was brutally murdered. The police suspected a vagrant of committing the crime, but Stride and Cindy were both convinced that the killer was someone close to Laura. Thirty years later, Laura's best friend, Tish Verdure, returns to Duluth to write a book about Laura's death.

Marisol willingly seals herself into a bunker designed for profound solitude, only to discover she is never truly alone. In this intense and unsettling psychological thriller, she battles haunting echoes of her own voice and an AI that claims to have created it. As hallucinations and hidden cameras unfold an unsettling spectacle for unseen watchers, Marisol races to expose the cycle of her own making before it consumes her entirely. Dormant Frequencies delves into the unnerving depths of isolation and the fine line between personal ambition and self-inflicted terror, all within a concise, ...

"A fiery explosion and a flare of unbearable pain. Thus ended book one of the Star Strider. Now Matt Stone and the ones he has grown to love face all new challenges. Ancient enemies have left their haunts at the whispers that the Legendary Star Strider has arrived. New trials face Matt and his friends. From trying to rescue Karsay from the grasp of the warlord Darius. To navigating the ins and outs of parenthood while figuring out a relationship. As war looms on the horizon events are set in motion that can't be stopped. They will learn their actions will affect the very course of history.

Uncover the secrets of the natural world’s most extraordinary hidden animals! The most incredible creatures on Earth aren’t always the biggest, loudest, or most famous. Many live in the shadows, their lives unfolding unseen — until now. Cloaked Creatures: Ten Unbelievable Animals You’ve (Probably) Never Heard Of takes readers ages 11–15 on an unforgettable adventure, combining the thrill of exploration with the wonder of discovery. Through vivid storytelling and fascinating science, you’ll meet ten animals whose stories are as strange as they are inspiring: A fish that shoots ...

~Where honest advocacy justifies an investment of the heart~ Marin Evans finagles her way into a rowboat with a temperamental sound-side resident who’s about to have his salty heritage crumble beneath him on the Outer Banks. Tyde Fearing lowers his guard to give the insistent land use planner her interview, but doesn’t expect to enjoy her company as the threat of condemnation for the historic Fearing cottage makes his future seem bleak. Marin goes into advocacy mode when the historical society and recreation department clash for use of the Fearing land donation. An outbuilding with a ...

Matt Stone lived a life of hardships and misery. One fateful day, his life seemed to crumble. He was fired and accused of murder all in one afternoon. With the help of a neighbor, he evades capture. In a twist of fate, he stumbles upon an abandoned barn. Inside sits an odd vehicle. Little does he know it's the key to his salvation. The vehicle transports him across the universe to a planet known as Arkerus. There, he meets a girl named Karsay Hellstrom.

Plump, unattractive, and underachieving, Sharon Mathers isn't the kind of girl usually found in glossy women's magazines. She is the kind of girl found reading them, usually while drinking beer in the backroom of her friend's double-wide trailer/beauty parlor. Born to a single mother in a small town where family ties run “deep enough to be genetically suspect,” Sharon grew up on the social fringe. Unfortunately, marrying a hometown boy and “by extension, almost half of the town,” didn't help. Sharon's longing for deep and authentic ties of kinship takes her farther and farther from ...

The Yummish Faith is a small, but growing movement. You may have noticed Yummish people in your community – holding hands, eating ice cream cones, petting fluffy dogs, stopping to smell the roses... or the doughnuts. Perhaps you're interested in pursuing your own path to The YUM. Or maybe you're just looking for a collection of quirky, funny, occasionally inspiring essays to read in your all too brief moments of downtime. The Yummish Faith aims to give readers a new way of approaching the chaos of everyday life, with a more open, tolerant, and cookie-centric worldview. Wine and chocolate ...

Daisy McLean, a young librarian at a branch library in Oklahoma, unexpectedly learns that a world-famous novelist might have been her birth father. Her adoptive parents expose a long-held family secret that upends Daisy's comfortable world. She sets off to meet her estranged father using her mother's hand-written diary and her father's latest novel as guides. Homeless is the story of Daisy's journey through the history, literature, and geography of The South on her search to find a family she never knew she'd lost.

Join the Space Navy. Life expectancy is debatable but the perks are minimal. The crew of HMSS Monstro have been given a mission, a very BIG mission. If they could only get around to it then the galaxy might be a safer place to live. Safer and, quite importantly, still existing. The latest addition to the crew likes existing and is determined to carry on doing it as much as possible but no one is going to make it easy for him, least of all himself.

Fearing for his life, Rhone clasps Stone’s collar to his neck, and runs, trying to evade Commissioner Dodge and his black vested men. But his only out seems to be the badlands, a place named for a very good reason. Even there, fate seems to be against him, as Rhone is left for dead, and Stone, his unique crystalline friend is taken.

Secret identity: Sam DeVenoe, star shortstop for the Emerson Eagles. One night while Sam is biking home after a game, he has a mysterious encounter and is granted an unusual, slightly odd, maybe even a little bizarre “super” power. As Sam tries to discover the limits of his strange new ability, his best friend Gavin is determined to transform him into crimefighter. But donning a mask and patrolling the street on their bikes leads to unexpected trouble. A fire breaks and Sam’s superpower is put to the test when spots someone in danger.

A greedy energy baron risks everything to pursue vast supplies of power trapped deep in the Pacific Ocean sea bed off the Oregon coast. But the man's psychopathic scheme is about to launch a terrifying tsunami that will destroy the entire west coast of the United States. Strider's beautiful, brilliant partner in law and love joins the fight, and Jack leads a desperate attack on the largest offshore platform ever built. Jack Strider may be the only man who can stop the disaster that is already underway . . . or maybe no one can.

San Francisco lawyer Jack Strider sank everything he had into an offshore mining operation. Now he’s about to go broke. Worse, a Wall Street CEO, a Saudi prince, and the president of China all want him dead. And he doesn’t know why. Cormack Slade, megalomaniacal CEO of an international banking juggernaut, is cornering the supply of Rare Earth Elements. Without these elements, computers, smart phones, nuclear reactors, military jets, and other critical technology simply won’t function. If Slade succeeds, he’ll be the most powerful man in the world. If he fails, his firm will go bankrupt.