Cats Robots

#1 New York Times bestselling author Margaret Stohl and Lewis Peterson’s hilarious middle grade debut has it all: robot overlords, secret feline agents, and earthling humans who are in for a real catastrophe. With examples of why coding is fun and other STEM applications cleverly woven into...

Lacey Chu has always dreamed of working as an engineer for MONCHA, the biggest tech firm in the world and the company behind the "baku" - a customizable "pet" with all the capabilities of a smartphone. But when Lacey is rejected by the elite academy that promises that future, she's crushed. One night, Lacey comes across the broken form of a highly advanced baku. After she repairs it, the cat-shaped baku she calls Jinx opens its eyes and somehow gets her into her dream school. But Jinx is different than any other baku she's ever seen.... He seems real.

#1 New York Times bestselling author Margaret Stohl and Lewis Peterson are back for book two in the hilarious middle grade series! Book one of the Cats vs. Robots series was praised for its ""mix of tech and kitties, STEM and heart"" by the Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books. In book...

Eva thought fifth grade was going to be her biggest challenge this year. She was wrong. When two mischievous Magicmals—Pookie and Gray Baby—secretly stow away on a journey across the galaxy, Eva, Diego, Jenny, Puma, Luna, Snowball, and Willie Whiskas must race to rescue them before they cause disaster on an alien world. Their adventure takes them far beyond Earth to frozen planets, advanced civilizations, giant creatures, robot guardians, asteroid fields, and even space pirates. But Pookie and Gray Baby have a talent for finding trouble wherever they go, and their latest scheme may put ...

The Owl war is over, but for Snark, normal isn’t what it used to be. He's on his way home from seeing Jane crowned Queen, and the Kingdom of Hunter's Run come into being. The war might be over, and the trade deal he made at the end of it might finally be enough for this wayward cat to be allowed back into cat society. The only thing faster than human ships, is the stories about their entry into sector ten, which ripple into the adjacent sectors. On the Cat Homeworld in sector eight, this triggers long awaited, and long stifled change. For a Warlord in sector nine, human tech would allow ...

Things are rarely what they seem in the city of New Orleans. A wild and powerful love story. Let the games begin. ◆◆◆ It was midnight when FBI Special Agent Piper Pierce arrived in New Orleans with her luggage, a new assignment, and a head full of secrets. She was a strikingly beautiful woman with long silky brown hair and sultry blue eyes. But the gun, the badge, and the attitude warned that she was tough. On purpose. All day. Every day. Even in the French Quarter. And just a few miles away, Detective Maverick Patterson with the NOPD was ending a biker undercover case. You know, ...

Everyone wants something. Snark wants Seasprite, owned by Anna, who seeks the Destiny Stone. Jamie wants Anna, but she’s obsessed with the Stone, so he wants the Stone to give to her. Warspite wants to end the secrecy of his presence on Seasprite. The enigmatic and evil Brotherhood want the Stone, and don’t care how many die in the process. Jane cares how many die, but is busy building her Kingdom, making alliances across four sectors, ensuring Duke Fred sorts out Cat World issues, and enlisting her AI brethren to stave off boredom, and join in the quest for the Stone. The big news ...

Step into the golden age of imagination with Classic Science Fiction Short Stories, a powerful collection of visionary tales from the masters who defined the genre. Featuring works by Isaac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Philip K. Dick, Ray Bradbury, Andre Norton, and E. E. Smith, this anthology explores humanity’s future, the limits of technology, distant worlds, and the nature of reality itself.

With only his genetically modified cat for companionship, Emmett Carson finds himself stranded deep in the asteroid belt after his tiny asteroid hunter ship suffers a catastrophic power plant explosion... Deep in debt and on the outs with his long-suffering girlfriend, things are looking grim. Carson needs to get his act together... But first, he must figure out how to survive the next twenty-four hours...

The World’s Worst Superheroes, from Children's author David Walliams. When is the queen not just the queen? When she is WONDERQUEEN! KAPOW! Is that an especially large bird? Is it a weirdly small plane? No: it’s THUNDERHOUND! BLAM! When her schoolteachers turn into deadly dinosaurs, who can...

Edgar Allan Poe is one of my ancestors. He was one of the most significant authors of a literary genre known as Detective Fiction. The Black Cat is one of his most beloved bedtime stories. Once upon a midnight dreary, I came up with the idea of updating The Black Cat for 21st century readers. I chopped, I cut, and then I chopped some more. I did this work in the dark hours and thought that my ancestor would approve. For several nights, I woke up in the middle of the night, haunted with some new idea to add to the story. The best of those ideas was to make the second cat a robot with AI ...

The quest to find the Destiny Stone, is now a race to discover the Amulet of Truth. Snark might have bitten off more than he can chew, but Jane and her team of AIs step up to provide even more military protection, while Duke Fred and his team provide some unusual diplomacy, taking the once private quest to a whole new level. The Brotherhood’s web of corruption, deceit, and deception, spreads wider than anyone suspects, and the mysterious Brother Prime lies at the heart of the growing unrest and attacks across four sectors. While Jamie seeks to re-join his friends from a backward planet ...

A clean station is a happy station... or is it? Three weeks after saving The BlackHole Cafe from a gravity-thief, Nova is finally getting the hang of latte art in zero-G. The coffee is hot, the customers are weird, and the tips are good. But when the station's eccentric Robot Poet goes missing, Nova discovers that "cleaning up" has taken on a terrifying new meaning. Enter the White Rabbit—a pristine, obsession-driven AI determined to sanitize the station of all "clutter." Unfortunately, the Rabbit’s definition of clutter includes emotions, memories, and Nova’s favorite customers. ...

The Raffle: The Complete Novel Parts 1-4 is the page-turning complete collection of The Raffle Series, originally released with Part 1 in January 2016 eerily predicting many impactful events in our country today. The year is 2027. After a biological, nuclear and electromagnetic attack on July 4, 2016 gave rise to a widespread blackout and racial war among Los Angeles inhabitants, Southern California is then isolated and quarantined away from the newly-organized The New United States (NUS), a security-obsessed, ultra-religious and isolationist country secretly policed by humanoid robots. But...

Of all the gin joints... ...wait, this is a space station, right? Some hotshot Councilwoman decided it was time to take a stroll out of an Airlock, and diligent Jain is on the case! Plain Jain is the name she gives herself because 'Jarco Artficial...yadayadayada is a mouthful, so it's just 'Plain' Jain. She's a crazy dame who thinks she's living in a Dashiell Hammet novel, whatever that is. For a Neuro, she's pretty much engineered flesh and blood, but the best part is; she can take the shape of any woman that she wants, from a hot Nesbit player to the girl who snubbed her assistant last ...

Penguin presents the audio download edition of Doctor Who: Tales of Terror read by Sophie Aldred, Adjoa Andoh, Rachael Stirling, David Bailie and Derek Jacobi. A new spine-chilling collection of twelve illustrated adventures packed with terrifying Doctor Who monsters and villains, just in time...

An enticing collection of award-winning fantasy stories. THE KILLING FIELDS By Joshua Carstens SUMMER AND WINTER By Melynda Fleury THE NIGHT STALKER By Pat Hatt THE BASALISK'S FEATHER By Carrie Seymour ESTRANOX By Leetah East Additional stories by Janie Goltz, Susan Kane, Siv Maria Ottem, EC Stilson, Shane Stilson, and Shannon Williams.

A collection of four more Supertato stories now available in an audio edition, read by the authors Sue Hendra and Paul Linnet. Supertato: Veggies in the Valley of Doom When a game of hide-and-seek turns into an EPIC treasure hunt, the veggies must face fearsome foes, the impassable Cactus Canyon...

Volume 2 in the Half-a-Rat, Post Apocalyptic YA Science Fiction series. Genetically modified animals struggle to survive on a future earth no longer inhabited by mankind. An Artificial Intelligence rules The City where a select group of survivors are ordered to re establish contact with a few returning humans, whether they want to or not.

Another zany adventure with the Cats of Laughing Thunder - Fritz, Pumpkin, Sven, and Yolanda! The antics begin with the arrival of Wee Fiona, a exchange student cat from Scotland. The cats encounter giggle juice, space elevators, foam swords, weird forks, robotic clams, bow wrapping machines, a young beaver, and a lime-chip eating bully. Teacher Ms. Robo Kitty is at the end of her wits! Will peace ever return to Cat School?