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The Gregg family loves hunting, but their eight-year-old neighbor can't stand it. After countless pleas for them to stop are ignored, she has no other choice -- she has to put her magic finger on them. Now the Greggs are a family of birds, and like it or not, they're going to find out how it feels to be on the other end of the gun.

Great Expectations

by Charles Dickens

Great Expectations, described by G. K. Chesterton as a “study in human weakness and the slow human surrender,” may be called Charles Dickens ’s finest moment in a remarkably illustrious literary career. In an overgrown churchyard, a grizzled convict springs upon an orphan named Pip. The convict terrifies the young boy and threatens to kill him unless Pip helps further his escape. Later, Pip finds himself in the... (more)

Three

by Ted Dekker

The award-winning, best-selling suspense masterwork, now a major motion picture event. Enter a world where nothing is what it seems. Where your closest friend could be your greatest enemy. Kevin Parson is alone in his car when his cell phone rings. A man calling himself Slater offers a deadly ultimatum: You have exactly three minutes to confess your sin to the world. Refuse, and the car you're driving will... (more)

Plum Island

by Nelson Demille

Nelson DeMille's narrative engine is one of the best in the business, and it chugs away in grand style in this story of buried treasure and biological warfare on a tiny spit of land off Long Island. As told by a wry, wounded New York City detective who is drafted to explore a couple of murders, Plum Island is a rich pudding of flavorful (if familiar) ingredients, including a ferocious storm at sea. Other DeMille... (more)

Night Fall

by Nelson Demille

Five years after the horrific crash of TWA Flight 800 over Long Island which killed 230 people, John Corey is inadvertently caught up in the now closed case by his FBI lawyer wife, Kate, who believes the government's findings of mechanical failure is wrong. The FBI don't take kindly to the case being looked into again and, as John Corey's instincts and investigations clearly show anomalies, he and Kate are sent... (more)

Up Country

by Nelson Demille

In Up Country, Nelson DeMille cannily revives the army career ofChief Warrant Officer Paul Brenner, the cynical, hardworking CriminalInvestigation Division man who was forcibly retired after solving the high-profile killing in The General'sDaughter. Brenner's called back to investigate the murder of a youngarmy lieutenant by his captain. The catch is, the crime took place during theheat of the Tet Offensive, and... (more)

The Lion's Game

by Nelson Demille

John Corey and Asad Khalil have both lived hard-knock lives. As revealed in Nelson DeMille's monster bestseller Plum Island, the gruff, wisecracking NYPD homicide cop Corey stopped a hail of bullets--but he couldn't stop his wife from walking out on him. Asad, raised under Muammar Qaddafi's eye after his dad's murder, lost his surviving family in the 1986 bombing of Libya. He's heard the nasty rumors about his mom... (more)

The Charm School

by Nelson Demille

Three Americans are pitted against the Russians, whose espionage project code named The Charm School imperils the free world.

The Gold Coast

by Nelson Demille

The upmarket and salubrious area of Long Island is the stamping ground for a dying breed of America's super-rich. It is also the residence of John Sutter, lawyer - very top-drawer, old money, right clubs - and his sensual wife, Susan. Their lives are about to be turned dramatically upside down by their new 'next-door' neighbour - a certain Mr Frank Bellarosa, top Mafia don and master manipulator. It is he who will... (more)

High School Musical: The Junior Novel (Junior Novelization)

High School Musical: The Junior Novel (Junior Novelization)

by N. B. Grace

Goodbye, classroom! Hello, summer! But for Troy, Gabriella, Chad, and Taylor, this vacation is no day at the beach; they're all working at a country club founded by none other than Ryan and Sharpay's grandfather! And with the club's annual Midsummer Night's Musical right around the corner, Sharpay's competitive instincts are sizzling. If she can manage to win the Star Dazzle Award just one more time, the country... (more)

Drawing for older children & teens

by Mona Brookes

Applying the same principles but with higher-level material and more sophistication than she used in her bestselling Drawing with Children, Brookes clearly and comprehensively teaches readers everything they need to know to draw for themselves. Includes specific instructions, work sheets, and over 200 sample illustrations.int.

Dark Mirror (X-Men)

by Marjorie M. Liu

Feared and mistrusted by the very people they have sworn to protect, the X-Men are a band of mutant heroes dedicated to defending humans from those mutants who would use their powers to harm and destroy. Blessed -- some would say cursed -- with awesome abilities, the members of the X-Men are Earth's last defense against villains and madmen...and the future's only hope. Jean Grey awakens in an unfamiliar room. She... (more)

Broken Heart: Book 2

Don't Talk Back To Your Vampire

by Michele Bardsley

being a mother is never easy-especially when you're undead. Eva LeRoy, Broken Heart, Oklahoma's librarian, got "vampified" when everyone else did: during a rogue vampire's feeding frenzy. But books still make her undead heart beat-and, strangely enough, so does Lorcan the Loner, the vampire who killed her...

Absolute Planetary

by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday

Powers Volume 11: Secret Identity TPB

by Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Avon Oeming

A dead Cosmic Avenger shows the world that there are forces at work that no mere mortal cop could possibly understand, but it doesn't matter either way because Internal Affairs has set their sights on Deena Pilgrim. Walker and Pilgrim have been homicide detectives and partners for years, but secrets they've kept from each other are now too big and too dangerous to remain secrets for long. Things are about to get... (more)

StormWatch Vol. 4: A Finer World

by Warren Ellis

Futurama

by Matt Groening

Get ready every "Futurama" and Matt Groening fan, here comes Futurama-O-Rama, the very FIRST comic compilation based on the Emmy-nominated television show "Futurama."It's a long way from making a pizza delivery on New Year's Eve to the bustling cityscape of New York in the 31st century, but for Phillip J. Fry it only took one little cryogenically frozen nap. Awakening in a future imagined by "The Simpsons"... (more)

Futurama: The Time Bender Trilogy

by Ian Boothby

The four-part trilogy returns in an all new trade paperback collection. Fry, Leela, Bender, and Professor Farnsworth's clone/ward Cubert take an intergalactic trip, and when they return to Earth, they find the planet uninhabited. First, our merry band of messengers must fight off alien invaders bent on claiming the planet as their own. Then they must go in search of their missing colleagues as well as billions of... (more)

The Door in the Tree (The Magician's House, Book 2) (Magician's House Quartet)

The Door in the Tree (The Magician's House, Book 2) (Magician's House Quartet)

by William Corlett

Thirteen-year-old William Constant and his two younger sisters, Mary and Alice, have come to ancient, mysterious Golden House in Wales for the holidays. Their lives will never be the same once they enter the Magician's House -- and discover their destiny. The Secret of Magic It's vacation again -- time for William, Mary, and Alice to return to Golden House. They've made a solemn vow not to speak of... (more)

Rockets Red Glare

by Greg Dinallo

Houston oil magnate Theodor Scoville Churcher has a rather unholy alliance with Soviet minister of culture Aleksei Deschin: Churcher provides U.S. military secrets and the Russian pays in priceless works of art from the Soviet archives. Churcher discovers a couple of Soviet secrets too: One, they're still deploying missiles in the Caribbean and, two, they're paying him in fake paintings. He confronts the minister... (more)

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by Roald Dahl, Tony Ross

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by Ted Dekker

by Nelson Demille

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by Nelson Demille

by Nelson Demille

by N. B. Grace

by Mona Brookes

by Marjorie M. Liu

by Michele Bardsley

by Warren Ellis, John Cassaday

by Brian Michael Bendis, Michael Avon Oeming

by Warren Ellis

by Matt Groening

by Ian Boothby

by William Corlett

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