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Acclaimed musician and painter Stephen Tunney is also the author of Flan—a surprise hit that drew positive comparisons to William S. Burroughs’ Naked Lunch and Miguel de Cervantes’ Don Quixote. Sixteen-year-old Hieronymus Rexaphin has an amazing talent—he has the ability to see the fourth primary color, and therefore the unique future paths of time and matter.

In The Flame Alphabet, language is toxic to everyone but children. For adults this means no speaking, no reading, no writing, no listening—at least not without severe allergic reaction, depression or crippling pain.

Suzanna and her father, Peter, head to Andros Island, a diving paradise in the Caribbean. There, she learns the basics of scuba diving and eventually swims with fifteen reef sharks in this lively true underwater adventure.

For this book, best-selling children’s author Mary Pope Osborne was inspired by a Fourth of July she spent in a small Pennsylvania town. Her warm account captures the joy of America’s favorite summertime celebration. On the Fourth of July, a family joins the rest of their town in Memorial Park to celebrate America’s Birthday. When the sun goes down, everyone sits on the grass for the concert. The band plays, then the fireworks start. Millions of lights fill the night sky with bright colors.

In these otherworldly landscapes, characters resort to extreme survival strategies to navigate the terrors of adulthood, one opting to live in a lightless cave and another methodically setting out to recover total childhood innocence; an automaton discovers love and has to reinvent language to accommodate it; filial loyalty is seen as a dangerous weakness that must be drilled away; and the distance from a cubicle to the office coffee cart is refigured as an existential wasteland, requiring heroic effort. In these piercing, brilliantly observed investigations into human vulnerability and failure, it is often the most absurd and alien predicaments that capture the deepest truths.

Murder, politics, seapower, Middle East instability, and intrigue in the White House are all part of this action thriller. Set against a background of modern piracy in the Gulf of Aden, the story begins as the new Ambassador to Yemen, C.J. Sumner, is assigned to negotiate access to the oil fields off the island of Socotra and enlist help countering pirates who are capturing ships at will off the Horn of Africa. Meeting with resistance to her diplomatic overtures, Sumner recruits Connor Stark, a former naval officer turned mercenary who knows the region, as her defense attache.

Jonathan Sweetwater has been blessed with money, a fulfilling career, great kids, and Claire, his smart, gorgeous, sophisticated wife. But there is one thing Jonathan never had: a relationship with his father. Percival Sweetwater III has been absent from his son's life since Jonathan was nine years old. A five-term U.S. senator, Percy was beloved by presidents, his constituents, and women alike, especially the five women who married him after he and Jonathan's mother divorced.

Adam Jordan wrote the best and worst articles of his journalistic career on the same day. The worst was bad enough to get him fired - but the best landed him a new job, penning lurid articles for Real Detective magazine, one of the last of the true-crime pulps. Only the case they've got him working on, involving a beauty pageant contestant found dead on an Atlantic City beach, is one some very powerful men would rather see covered up than covered.

After the unexpected death of his daughter, musician Adam Anker loses all sense of direction in his life. Adrift, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery, one that will take him from New Zealand, to Poland, and finally to Sweden for a reunion with his daughter's mother.

I have solved countless clues and numerous riddles, all to bring you the answers you seek regarding case number thirteen. Now, in this file, you will find the next chilling chapter in the adventures of Nick, Carter, and Angelo, three monster-obsessed boys whose trip into the woods turned so ghastly, so foul.…

Teen TV celebrities Jenna and Jonah can't stand to be in the same room as each other. But to boost the TV ratings their agents make them a 'real life' couple. When the truth is uncovered by the paparazzi, Jenna and Jonah must disappear. It’s only when they're far from Hollywood that they realise there's more to each other than a winning smile.

Carter Coleman delivers a novel about the Rutledge brothers: Cage, the golden boy, Nick, slow to blossom but full of potential, and Harper, struggling to live up to his brothers. When the tragedy of Nick’s death throws Cage into the vicious cycles of manic depression, Harper and his family discover the true strength of love in their attempt to hold together a broken home.

In the 1990s, five young American expatriates meet in Budapest. As they seeks fortune and success, their lives reflect various facets of a city that is shaped by its history, culture, and the aftermath of Communism.

The manatee has been swimming the oceans for ages. But today this ancient animal faces an uncertain future. Stephen Swinburne takes young readers into the underwater world of manatees as he assists marine biologists who monitor the health of manatees in Homosassa Springs, Florida, and snorkels in the Crystal River with a dozen fourth-graders to observe manatees in the wild.