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When Mary goes to Las Vegas for a wedding, she anticipates a weekend filled with drinking and cheating on her husband. However, once she sees an attractive stripper at the bachelorette party, she considers doing the unthinkable: having sex in front of all her old college friends. After all, what...

Set in suburban Connecticut in 1983, The Fainting Room is about a young girl with a Philip Marlowe alter ego who becomes involved in a bizarre and ultimately destructive love triangle with a troubled married couple who take her in for the summer.

Now the fog was clearing and the mist was lifting, and the bright sunshine was struggling to penetrate the billows of damp vapor and touch with its glory the things of the world beneath. In the lower harbor there still was a chorus of sirens and foghorns, as craft of almost every description made way toward the metropolis or out toward the open sea.

What would happen if time, the fragile thread that both leads and binds us, could be unwound as simply as untying a knot? Would we go back, charging through our own history, changing and tweaking, plucking at that fragile thread until time itself unraveled all around us? Would we create countless...

Tiger has lost almost everything. Her village. Her community. Her father. But her brother Tarren, who has been kidnapped by the deadheads that razed her village, still lives. With only the loyal but enigmatic old man Sai to guide her into the nightmare-jungle that was once North America, Tiger must face...

A very funny story about the children at Pirate School. Fourth in the series within Colour Young Puffins. The children are planning to raid Patagonia Clatterbottom's food store - but grown-up pirates, the Woppagobs, are trying to steal the goodies as well. But the children outwit them all, particularly when Ziggy brings out his bun gun - a cannon that fires sticky buns and doughnuts.

The fifth collection of poems by the author, LOVE, SUPREME makes no excuses for the heart. The poetry offers a glimpse into the mind and heart of the poet as he relishes the soberness of having found his true love. Having been described by some as poetry from another time, the language is both robust and imaginative.

The hilariously funny story of Heathrow (affectionately named after London's airport) whose TOTALLY EMBARRASSING parents will do anything to be on TV, even if it involves rice pudding or a racing car or a rhinoceros! But in the end it's Heathrow's quick thinking that makes the news headlines! Laugh your socks off with this highly silly story specially for Pocket Money Puffins.

In his 6th full-length, thought-provoking, collection of poetry, the poet brings together a tapestry of ancient and modern histories to tie the lost Hebrew tribes from the biblical narrative with the African-American and American Indian.

THREAT OF EXPOSURE Framed for a sabotaged military operation, Preston Tyler has allowed everyone to believe he's dead-until he witnesses someone planting a bomb in his childhood sweetheart's cabin. To save Holly Fontaine's life, he must blow his cover. Holly is shaken…both by the explosion...

The Garden is set in Dublin in the early years of the twentieth century.Dermot, whose family has settled in England, returns for his summers from English Public School to visit his Grandfather, and develops affection for the city. During the course of the novel, war breaks out, bringing an end to the Edwardian summer for a whole generation...

For Mary, the only thing worse than turning 40 is turning 41. On her birthday, she has a minor midlife crisis. She feels that she's married a boring husband and has boring children. Of course, she'd never tell them that. To work through her angst, she buys a sexy black dress, hits a night club, and...

With the Northern City under construction, Micah and Eden's lives are about to change again, when Micah is given new directions. It's time for the Watchers, the fallen angels buried in the earth, to make their final choice—serve the captain or choose to remain loyal to Semjaza, the dark leader who...

The third very funny story about the children at pirate school. The children hide a stray dog on board, while Patagonia Clatterbottom, the head teacher, is plagued by school inspectors, who are not impressed by the lessons. So, the children decide to sail the school away. The inspectors give chase,...