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An afternoon of readings and lively discussion with contemporary authors, including Blue Balliett ( Chasing Vermeer), Chris Grabenstein ( Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library), Wendy Mass ( The Candymakers), and Alexander London ( The Wild Ones) who have been inspired by E. L. Konigsburg's Newbery Award-winning classic about a sister and brother who run away to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and find themselves caught up in a mysterious adventure.

Stealing from Outer Planet rebels is dangerous. Stiffing the psychotic crime boss that hired you is insane. Captain Melissa Stone did both. Now she’s got to steal back the rebel secrets to save her daughter. Every pirate has an origin story. This is hers.

Il mondo di Christian Grey è ordinato, metodico e completamente vuoto fino al giorno in cui non vi irrompe Anastasia Steele. Timida e ingenua, Ana sembra arrivargli dritto al cuore - un cuore freddo e ferito - e vedere oltre la sua immagine di imprenditore di successo. Christian riuscirà a scacciare con lei gli incubi della sua infanzia? Oppure gli oscuri desideri, l'ossessione per il controllo e l'odio verso se stesso che riempiono la sua anima distruggeranno la fragile speranza che Ana gli sta offrendo?

Shifter Duncan Kincaid enjoys dancing. Country dancing to be precise. After all, the lasses love nothing more than a man who can swing them around a dance floor. And that's the other thing Duncan loves—the lasses. A wink and a smile is all it takes to have a partner for the night, until a Faerie with dark curls and brazen curves throws him off his game and shakes him to his core. He's a danger to her life, and a risk she's willing to take.

There's a fine line between WHO you love and WHAT you hate. For Lucian Kincaid, that line may as well be a wall. As far as this Scottish shifter is concerned, the only good Faerie is a dead Faerie. With the Fae's deceitful nature, his wolf is forever on edge when they're around, ready to bust out at the slightest provocation. Until a chance encounter with a human woman captures the interest of the predator inside of him. His need to be near her is unexpected. His hunger for her insatiable. Before the truth of her identity is revealed…

Thor’s hammer was stolen by the Frost King! Without it, he is unable to defend Asgard. In order to get it back, Thor must give Freya the Lovely to the Frost King to be his bride. Unwilling to marry a giant, Freya comes up with a plan to steal back the hammer—have Thor dress up in disguise! Will Thor be able to get his hammer back?

Stream of consciousness refers to the practice of writing down ideas as they come into your head. The conventions of grammar and appropriateness of language is usually ignored when using this literary technique. For those of you who cringe at the misplaced metaphor, or the comma splice, or the occasionally correctly spelled wrong word so frequently seen in this day of spell-check reliability, don’t worry there are a lot more things in here to worry about. Concern yourself with the raw emotions expressed when two individuals are consumed, destroyed, reformed and recreated by love.

Savannah Briggs built her life on one rule: never look back. A decade ago, she fled Firelight Falls with a shattered heart and a devastating secret, trading dusty roads for city skylines. But when her matchmaking grandmother takes a suspicious tumble, Savannah is forced to return to the one place she swore she’d never see again. She expected the suffocating nostalgia and the small-town gossip. She didn’t expect to run straight into Luke Carter. He’s not the lanky boy she abandoned; he's the town’s heroic Fire Chief, with shoulders as broad as his resentment and a gaze that still ...

In Tensions in the American Dream, Melanie and Roderick Bush ask how a "nation of immigrants" pledge inclusion, yet marginalize so many citizens based on race, class, and gender. The authors consider the origins and development of the US nation and empire; the founding principles of belonging, nationalism, and exceptionalism and their lived reality.

Un an après avoir quitté Chicago, le cœur en morceaux, Léonie est contrainte d'y revenir pour s'occuper de son père, gravement malade. Léonie et Tobias se croisent et l'un comme l'autre ne peuvent ignorer les sentiments qui rejaillissent ! Léonie et Tobias parviendront-ils à se pardonner et surtout à surmonter les nouvelles épreuves qui les attendent ?

Léonie Foster s'installe à Chicago, où elle compte bien profiter de la vie étudiante avec ses deux meilleurs amis. Tobias, à peine sorti de prison, est bien décidé à reprendre sa vie là où il l'avait laissée : sur le ring. Boxeur invaincu, craint par tous, celui qu'on surnomme The Devil évolue dans un univers sombre, sanglant, violent. Tobias croise le regard de Léonie et ne peut s'en détacher. L'attraction est immédiate. Même si tout les oppose, leurs sentiments ne semblent pas mentir et Léonie entrevoit petit à petit l'homme qui se cache sous le masque du diable.

In this post-apocalyptic anthology, nothing matters except survival. Many are forced to scavenge every day to get by while others are part of the remaining vestiges of society. Some face zombies and other monstrous creatures while others watch their backs from fellow humans. Regardless of their numerous challenges, when the end arrives, life finds a way. Featuring twelve stories by the following authors: Jon Douglas Rainey, Kenneth Gwin, L.A. Knight, Linn Thomas, Rob Nisbet, Larry Hodges, Eric J. Juneau, Aidan Hass, Daividh Eideard Mitchell, Stephanie Bedwell-Grime, Gary K. Shepherd, and ...

Ten years after leaving his ancestral homeland, Michael Singleton returns—haunted, hunted, and running out of time. Marked by a deadly curse, Michael is doomed to have his soul claimed by the Shadowlands, the eternal domain of the Witch Goddess. His only hope lies in opening a portal to the Otherworld, the realm of Corvus, god of beasts. The key to this spell is a secret known to only one man: the powerful Guardian of the Dead.

I'm called Sapphire to those that would bring about death and evil to an otherwise peaceful domain. It is a name that has earned me a modicum of respect and a hell of a lot of enemies. I know this shit. It's what I crave. Tonight's enemy better be cooperative. I'm really not in the mood to play around. Princess Arabella Gwin has a secret that she's been keeping from the members of her council and the inhabitants of her kingdom.

Jamie and July are both eleven-year-olds living in London – but they have very different lives. They meet for the first time at Waterloo Station in the last week of the holidays. They are both desperate to get away from home. July is really worried about her unreliable mum - she needs to get help. Jamie has done something terrible - and left in a panic. Despite their worries, the sun is shining and, as they escape everything they've left behind in the city, Jamie and July can't help but sense adventure in the air. But running away isn't just harmless summertime fun.

The visual arts teach us to look for the image behind the image—not the tree without leaves—but the cutout left after the foreground is removed. I think that life’s key secrets are hidden from our minds in this way. All You'll Never Be: Because of Who You Are looks at reality through this reversed perspective, seeking to understand the backgrounds that often shadow our lives.

A nameless, ageless, genderless protagonist wishes nothing more than to be someone- anyone- else. And they can. Sort of. They can "ride backseat" in other people's lives. They see what they see, hear what they hear, think what they think, and feel what they feel, but they have no control. I Am You follows our protagonist as they follow the lives of three individuals.

Ryker finally told me what happened all those months ago. He explained his distance, his coldness. Now everything makes sense. I've been with Zeke for a long time now, and everything is exactly how I want it to be. I adore him. No, I love him. But there's a warning deep in my gut. Zeke is acting differently, and Ryker isn't the same either. It's the calm before the storm. I can feel it.

Robbers' Cave: A Tale of Italy follows the journey of young Horace Cleveland, who is kidnapped by bandits while traveling through Calabria. As he struggles to escape, he uncovers secrets about his captors and finds unexpected allies. A thrilling tale of adventure, bravery, and redemption in the heart of Italy.

When Captain Robert Andrew, recently retired from forty years active service in the army, walks into the law office of Hugh Kerr and Associate, Ellen Kerr has grave misgivings about him. His legal quest is simple enough: is he legally responsible for his father if the elder Andrew could no longer care for himself? Offered his legal options, Robert states his belief his father, Ian Andrew, is in need of professional care. He asks Hugh to substantiate his opinion and after interviewing Ian, the Kerrs are reluctantly forced to agree. After obtaining a power of attorney for Robert, who promptly...