The Code Busters are excited for their class field trip to Angel Island, known as the Ellis Island of the West. One of Mika's ancestors passed through the island's immigration station in the early twentieth century, and Mika thinks he may have left behind some secret messages . . . plus a very special box. But as the Code Busters search for hints from the past, they get caught up in an even bigger secret.Can you crack the code? Test your brain with the Code Busters to see if you have the right stuff to be an ace detective. Answers are in the back, in case you get stuck. Views: 21
A Tree or a Person or a Wall gives us Matt Bell at his most inventive and uncanny: parents and children, murderers and monsters, wild renditions of the past, and acute takes on the present, all of which build to a virtuoso reimagining of our world.A 19th-century minister builds an elaborate motor that will bring about the Second Coming. A man with rough hands locks a boy in a room with an albino ape. An apocalyptic army falls under a veil of forgetfulness. The story of Red Riding Hood is run through a potentially endless series of iterations. A father invents an elaborate, consuming game for his hospitalized son. Indexes, maps, a checkered shirt buried beneath a blanket of snow: they are scattered through these pages as clues to mysteries that may never be solved, lingering evidence of the violence and unknowability of the world.A Tree or a Person or a Wall brings together Bell's previously published shorter fiction—the story collection How They Were... Views: 21
From USA Today Bestselling Author J.D. Tyler comes a sensual, moving tale of the Alpha Pack--a top secret team of former Navy SEALs with supernatural abilities...Wolf shifter and Firewalker Phoenix "Nix" Monroe has finally met his ultimate Bondmate--Alpha Pack nurse Noah Brooks. Unable to accept his own sexual identity, Nix rejects Noah despite the intense attraction he feels towards him. By the time Nix realizes he has cast aside the love of his life, it may be too late to save Noah from a terrifying enemy...Includes a preview of *Chase the DarknessPraise for the Alpha Pack Novels"Shifter heroes whom readers will fall head over heels for."--New York Times Bestselling Author Angela Knight"Rapid-fire...red-hot."--Publishers Weekly*"Amazing characters, wonderful drama...hot and to die for."--Dark Faerie Tales** Views: 21
When two cons doing several respective back to back life sentences for murder make a daring, if not Hollywood style escape from the Dannemora Maximum Security Prison in Upstate, New York, Jack Marconi PI receives a personal invitation from the Governor of New York State to track the murderers down, and deliver them personally to the front door of the Governor's Mansion on Eagle Street. But what Marconi and his side-kick, Blood, don't yet realize, is that something more insidious than a simple prison break has occurred in the small town of Dannemora. Because in the course of tracking the criminals down, the two gumshoes will also expose the Crypt, an insidious operation taking place down deep inside the depths of the 160 year old prison. What kind operation is it? Something so evil it will reduce the tough-as-nails Marconi to tears.From bestselling Thriller and Shamus Award winning author Vincent Zandri comes a riveting crime novel in the acclaimed mystery series that fans... Views: 21
Sometimes a first love lasts forever...Carrie Miller has only loved one man. Cage McCann. As children, they meant everything to each other, but as teens, Cage had to leave town to escape his future as leader of the local motorcycle gang. Despite his promise to return, Carrie has nearly given up on seeing him again. That is, until a dark-haired stranger swaggers into her bar dressed in biker leather and gives her a kiss that shakes her to her soul. Somehow, for some reason, Cage is back.Cage has never forgotten Carrie. After serving in the armed forces and starting a private security firm, he has just been waiting for the right time to go back and claim her for his own. After all, it's not easy to tell the woman you love that you can shift into a bear. But when Cage needs to protect Carrie, he drops everything to run back to Winter Falls. The only problem? For this mission, he'll need to be undercover as the very thing Carrie hates most: an Ace.Making Carrie fall in love with him while wearing Ace leather isn't going to be easy, but if Cage blows his cover, he risks losing his chance to rid the town of the Aces once and for all. Now Cage will just have to prove that the Aces may be bad to the bone, but Cage is bear to the bone, and no one messes with what a bear holds dear. Views: 21
Merry Wrath has seen dangers galore in her former job as a CIA field agent. But nothing has prepared her for this—an overnight Mommy and Me lock-in with her Girl Scout troop, complete with movies, dodgeball, four cats, a baby...and a dead body. When the mysterious corpse's identity is revealed, Merry and her former handler, Riley, realize they might have a domestic terrorist situation on their hands...one that needs diffused quickly before any more dead bodies appear. Merry once again calls on her former professional skills to track down a killer. Between a new, hottie female medical examiner—who seems a bit too interested in Merry's boyfriend, Rex—the demanding President of the United States, the world's 2nd largest snail collection, and an incident with pink hair dye, Merry has her work cut out for her. Can she stop an attack before it begins? Or will this be one Movie Night without a happy ending? Views: 21
