Combine the thought-provoking time travel of When You Reach Me with the humorous storytelling of Lemony Snicket, and you get a wholly original journey through time, space, and the depths of the human heart.This is a story of things that are not possible.It's not possible for Amy to see spirits. (She does.)It's not possible that Amy and Moo can communicate using only their minds. (They do.)It's not possible to time-travel. (Yet.)And it's definitely not possible that witches exist. (Seriously?)None of these things are possible. (Until now . . .) Views: 682
"I'll have your guts for guitar strings, Jeremy Six!"If you've ever seen a she-bear defend her cub against a pack of wolves, you'll know what Ma Marriner was like, only maybe she was bigger and meaner and the wolves were on her side.What the marshal of Spanish Flat had done was to shoot Ma's husband, Buel, while he was going about his business of robbing the town's bank. And neither Ma nor her ornery son Cleve were going to let that go unavenged. Especially when Jeremy Six had added insult to injury by tossing Cleve into the calaboose.So Ma gathered up the clan and all their thirty or more border-rider friends, and the whole pack of them set out for Spanish Flat to skin Jeremy's hide once and for all. Views: 681
Seven days, seven nights... One week of passion. One week of submission. One week where anything (and everything) goes. Hope Stiles needs. She needs inspiration. She needs tuition money. She needs a mentor who will teach her how to turn iron into art.
Enter Deacon Vick, world-famous sculptor and recluse extraordinaire.
When Hope answers his ad for an artist’s model, she gets more than just a job. She gets the answer to her every fantasy...including the ones she didn’t even know she had.
From the minute Hope opens her gorgeous mouth, Deacon knows neither his art nor his life will ever be the same. He plans to use every second of their week together to push Hope to her limits—for art and for pleasure. Views: 681
Kathleen Hale has been known to stalk people from time to time. Not recently, of course, and only online. Well, mostly online. She once tracked a mountain lion running loose in the Hollywood Hills, while pregnant with her daughter. And then there was that time she hunted eight-foot, three-hundred-pound feral hogs in Florida—all for the good of mankind, of course. In these six extraordinary essays, Hale proves herself to be an exhilarating new voice whose commentaries on womanhood, obsession, and the Internet are both hilarious and profound. In "Catfish," she recounts a standoff with a caustic Goodreads reviewer who writes under an alias, spurring Hale on a treacherous Instagram investigation that ends badly at the reviewer's house. In "Prey," she tells the troubling story of her assault at a massage parlor in the days before her fresh-man year at Harvard, sending her to seek shelter in the library, where she spends hours researching and memorizing the weak spots of... Views: 681
In the woods that butt up against their quiet east Texas town, middle schoolers Lucas, Elijah and Tyler have spent the last three months building a secret treehouse. On the first night of spring break, they sneak out to finally spend the night in the finished project. Things quickly turn nightmarish when they witness a man bury a body just a few yards from their perch above the forest floor.
High school junior Allison Beaker isn't allowed to have a boyfriend, but she sneaks out at night to spend time with Brandon, a senior boy who plays on the varsity baseball team. On one of these occasions, their midnight rendezvous is interrupted when she and Brandon witness a man dump a body in the trunk of a car. Unable to tell their parents what they've witnessed or where they were, the boys decide it's up to them to catch the killer, in fear that he may strike again. However, his next victim may be close to home and they quickly discover themselves, and their loved ones, in the killer's crosshairs.
The debut novel from author Andrew J. Brandt, THE TREEHOUSE offers a page-turning coming-of-age affair of murder and mystery in the quiet town of Henderson, TX. Fans of The Goonies and Stranger Things will both rejoice and tremor in fear as the characters are pursued by a killer whose motives remain an enigma. Views: 681
