The most important parts of the Christmas season are not the presents or the tree, baking or decorations. It's the people—family and friends—who enrich our lives and make the holidays so special.Christmas Quilt is actually a collection of people who will make you laugh and cry, remember and wish, and like good friends, you'll want to visit them every year.You'll meet Billy and Mrs. Clayborne, who have holiday ghosts to deal with; Megan and her siblings, orphaned just before the holiday.There's the children of the coal mining village of Snow and a group of lumberjacks, all of whom learn to believe in magic.Read one mother's need for holiday tradition, letters from friends full of holiday cheer, verses and rhymes about luminaries and Christmas Eve traditions.And meet all the people touched by The Christmas Quilt, made with love for a daughter's holiday wedding, as it appears at Christmas time throughout the century. Views: 25
I feel like I just woke up. Nothing in my life is as it seemed. I'm not sure who I can trust. Blaise is a monster. Roman is... disturbed. Who is going to save Clarissa? Can she ever be saved? ... Can I? It's time to enter their world. Views: 25
Dark servants clash!Medieval maiden Beate, who's grieving over the mysterious evisceration of her best friend, Gisela, must escape a Bavarian castle under siege by sadistic creatures.Standing in her way—beyond towering walls and crossbow-toting guards—are Saint Nicholas's demonic helper, Krampus, and Frau Perchta, a belly-slitting hag who prowls the countryside during First Night festivities to punish naughty teens. Beate wants out. Krampus and Frau Perchta want in, determined to breach the castle to snag their prey. Beate has no idea why these monsters want her, but she must use her wits to save herself from horrors both human and inhuman—lest she wind up like Gisela. Views: 25
"Reader beware—you choose the scare! GIVE YOURSELF GOOSEBUMPS! You and your cousin Gina are vacationing on Tiki Island. It's so beautiful, you don't even care when you hear a rumor that people have been mysteriously disappearing from the island. While you're snorkeling, Gina finds a dark undersea cave. Should you follow her in? Or go after that gleaming object on the ocean floor? Quick! Make up your mind! A shark is zooming straight at you! If you choose to dive for the object, you'll find a Tiki Eye. It has the power to erupt a volcano — and summon Tiki warriors from the dead! If you explore the underwater cave you'll find a sunken ship filled with treasure... and some very active skeletons. The choice is yours in this scary GOOSEBUMPS adventure that's packed with over 20 super-spooky endings! Views: 25
A Trickstars Adventure with Ruby, Lexie and Kit, the fantastic trick-riding triplets.The Trickstars can't believe their luck when they are cast as stunt riders on their favourite TV show, Horses of the Sands. But there's trouble with the star's horse, and Lexie and Featherfoot are called in to help. Will Lexie's stage fright stand between her and stardom? Views: 25
From the author of The Wishing Tide comes a stunning new novel about two summers, one journal, and the secrets that can break and open our hearts.... Pragmatic, independent Lily St. Claire has never been a beachgoer. But when her late father leaves her a small house on Hideaway Key—one neither her mother nor she knew he owned—she's determined to visit the sleepy spit of land along Florida's Gulf Coast. Expecting a quaint cottage, Lily instead finds a bungalow with peeling shutters and mountains of memorabilia. She also catches a glimpse of the architect who lives down the beach.... But it's the carton of old journals in the front room that she finds most intriguing. The journals were written by her mother's sister, an infamous beauty whose name has long been banned from the St. Claire home. The journals tell a family tale Lily has never heard, of her mother and her aunt as young girls in Tennessee and the secrets that followed them into... Views: 25
