Anna watches as her older brother upsets the family by involving himself in illegal activities to escape from the poverty of his home life in South Africa.

    A game controlled by a rich, powerful family. A game with a secretive history dating back to the Civil War. Ten million dollars to the victor; death to the losers. With time running out, Mary must find a way to keep Randall alive, or help him win, while chasing down leads and uncovering lies that connect to the unlikeliest of places...the White House.

    Read about his cunning plan to get out of doing chores, his inspired idea for saving himself the trouble of writing thank you letters and his brilliant scheme to get rich by selling his little brother.

    Schulz, starring all your favorite characters and even some underrated ones like Belle and Rerun. Collects issues #17-20.

    In the late 1970s twelve-year-old Dara joins a refugee camp in war-torn Cambodia and becomes seperated from her family.Contents:Clay marble / Minfong Ho --All the people of Khmer were very troubled / Ven Yem --My life story / Lan Nguyen --Oppression / Langston Hughes --Birthday box / Jane Yolen --Holes / Lillian Morrison --Childhood and poetry / Pablo Neruda --All-ball / Mary Pope Osborne --Dear World, January 17, 1994 / Alma Luz Villanueva.

    Together, they built an unshakable brotherhood, one that’s stood the test of time. 
That was until they crossed paths with Lorenzo. A man who’s so evil and vile that he kidnapped the little girls of the club to use as an advantage… to gain the upper hand and force the club to do his bidding. It caused a war to break out, one that took out several brothers and a beloved old lady. 
The MC was forever changed by the outcome. 
Since they were children, the boys were raised to protect their women, and trained like soldiers going off to war. The girls were trained just as hard and are just as lethal. 
It’s a battle of wills inside the clubhouse. 
Who will come out the victor? The men who want to keep things as they’ve always been, or the women who fight for a change in club politics?
Stay tuned for this installment of the Crossroad Soldiers.This is intended for mature audiences.

    The smart sister from Baltimore City has looks, brains, a promising job offer, and now, it looks like she's met her dream guy in handsome law student, Devin Patterson. Though their backgrounds couldn't be more different, wealthy, sheltered Devin falls hard for savvy, inner-city Clark. They're more than lovers; they're soul mates, and their storybook romance is the envy of the campus. Caught Up In Love - But out in the real world, their bond will be tested again and again. From the strain of long-distance love and the pull of two high-powered careers to the well-meaning-but-misdirected advice of friends, the prejudices of family, and the strong allure of new passion and players, Clark and Devin are in for a ride that could tear them apart for good. Caught In The Mix Now - for two people caught in the mix of secrets, family drama, lies, career struggles, and the hard truths of growing up and moving on, love is anything but easy- and doing the right thing by yourself is the hardest lesson of all.

    With plans to visit with family, I want us to start a tradition we will cherish for years to come.But Christmas with the Carters is never a dull affair, and it seems life has other plans for us.When the snow falls…When the light dims…Everything is about to fall apart.And I’m not sure the Christmas magic can help me.But maybe, just maybe, my dad and crazy uncles with stories from their past, can.

    Andi makes a last-minute decision to buy a lottery ticket for a drawing worth $212 million and learns that she is the sole winner. After she quits her job but before she cashes the ticket, she loses the ticket itself. For the next 182 days, Andi tries to find a way to support herself and her daughter, Rue, while searching for the lost ticket. These six months become a trial in self-discovery for Andi. There are clashes with her nymphomaniac mother, who is on her sixth divorce and the reason Andi has sworn off dating. There is peer pressure to start dating and to get her job back, from her best friend of ten years, who may have had a hand in losing the ticket. On this life-changing journey, Andi gets life lessons from her ten-year-old daughter, picks up odd jobs, dabbles in awkward dating attempts, money-making schemes, and a new friendship with an eighty-seven-year-old pot-smoking crackerjack of a woman, Poppi. By the time the 182 days are up, will Andi have found the ticket? More importantly, what else may she have managed to find?

    

    He leaves behind his beloved wife, Sarah Ann; a six-year-old daughter, Lila; and a thirteen-year-old son, Will, Jr. They live in a trailer on the coast of Maine, and parked beside the trailer is their father's beautiful but unreliable lobster boat, the "Sarah Ann." The "Sarah Ann'"s graceful curves and beautiful wood are a painful daily reminder of Will Sr.'s plans and dreams -- dreams now lost with him.The December afternoons are lonely and dark for Lila and Will, who must come home alone from school while their mother works. They get scared when they find evidence that someone has been visiting the trailer, and when they come home to find a rugged, cantankerous, somewhat smelly old man watching TV, it takes them a while to realize he's...Santa Claus.What Santa does with the lobster boat and how he handles Will's one and only Christmas dream -- to have his dad back -- is the story of "The Boat of Dreams." It brings laughter, surprises, and tears and tells through an unforgettable story how love is the one power that can overcome all.

    Porcine wonder. Fan of toast with a great deal of butter on it. Mercy Watson’s disarming personality and hilarious hijinks are captivating early chapter-book readers everywhere. Now it’s easy to jumpstart a Mercy Watson collection with this enticing boxed set combining the first three adventures of the series: MERCY WATSON TO THE RESCUE (an American Library Association Notable Children’s Book), MERCY WATSON GOES FOR A RIDE (winner of a 2007 Theodor Seuss Geisel Honor), and MERCY WATSON FIGHTS CRIME.

    But Peter loves Lincoln, and Peter is the only one who knows about Lincoln's unusual dreams.And Peter's mom has been lying to him about his real dad. If his dad died, why can't he find any information about the fishing boat accident that was supposed to have killed him? With the help of Lincoln and some friends from Resthaven, Peter begins a journey that could change his life forever.

    Eight ships have mysteriously disappeared from Sol System, each winking out of existence as they entered hyperdrive, and the trio's theories for the inexplicable phenomena run from human pirates to hyperspace monsters. When Carlos solicits an opinion from a gravitational expert working on a project nearby, Bey and Sigmund decipher just enough of their technical conversation to realize the gravity of the situation. Hugo Award Winner, Locus Poll Award Nominee

    His captain, Lieutenant Johnson, has previously withheld a recommendation for command – Richard is too ill at ease with his men and too fond of his Bible. Just as Johnson changes his opinion, the submarine is involved in a tragic accident and sinks, leaving Johnson dead and the survivors trapped on the seabed with a diminishing air supply. It’s a race against time for Richard to save his men. In March 1912, Richard’s cousin, Elizabeth Miller, is an activist in the Women’s Social and Political Union, standing alongside the Pankhursts to gain the vote for women. When Elizabeth faces arrest and is later imprisoned, Richard comes to her aid and the two become engaged, to the disapproval of his mother. War is brewing, and no one knows what the future brings. After her father dies and her brother goes off to fight, Elizabeth is left to run Miller’s Shipyard, building submarines and ships for the Navy, whilst Richard takes command of a submarine and heads off to war. The fight for women’s equality takes a backseat to the war effort, but Elizabeth knows where women can do the most good – in her shipyard. Set in the dying days of the Edwardian era, and the violence and heartache of World War I, The Custom of the Trade is filled with rich, historical details of the hazards of life in early submarines, the successful submarine campaign in the Dardanelles and women’s own battles against prejudice to gain the vote.