The robot (STR-5) was built for the purpose of teaching science to children, but someone wanted to use STR-5 to build a robot army. Aiden knew that he and his dad had to stop it from happening.

It can be very frustrating as an independent restaurant manager to be constantly training your serving staff and, let’s face it, you really don’t have the time.    You don’t always have available to you specific training aids such as those that the big chain restaurants do.  And when you do find something, it’s just too costly.  Well….. until now, that is.    The Server Training Manual was developed as a simple guide to help the...

Olivia's life had just gotten back to normal after the death of her parents, when her beloved grandmother passed away.  This was when her world began to turn upside down. She would soon discover some shoking things about her family, especially the grandmother who she had lived with for so many years, and her sister had turned into someone completely different than the beautiful person that she thought she knew.  How could anyone know so little about the family they grew up with?...

The double life of a hardworking wife and mother leads to murder in this true-crime story by the New York Times bestselling author of I'll Be Watching You.In the lovely town of Pleasant Valley in upstate New York, the maple trees were ablaze with fall's blood-red color. The air was crisp. And a woman named Susan Fassett left her weekly choir practice at a church—when a killer emerged from the shadows and mercilessly gunned her down . . .St...

A train ride home from a school field trip turns sinister when two kids spot a body on the tracks. A short story from Guys Read: Thriller, edited by Jon Scieszka.

"An eloquent testimonial to the power of love and the devastation of loss" from the National Book Award–winning author of Becoming a Man ( Publishers Weekly).In 1974, Paul Monette met Roger Horwitz, the man with whom he would share more than a decade of his life. In 1986, Roger died of complications from AIDS. Borrowed Time traces this love story from start to tragic finish. At a time when the medical community was just beginning to unders...

Vicki Shea, a San Francisco malpractice lawyer with a medical degree, is a good choice for surgeon Arnold Jones. Jones faces a malpractice suit that could virtually wreck his career. He is accused of having caused the sudden death of a rich and powerful businesswoman. He is urged by everyone to settle, but he refuses. He knows he wasn't at fault, and won't say he was.As Vicki begins work on the case, she finds that someone wants her to stop: a concrete block is dropped on her car on...

At last, a noir novel from the Argentine master of suspense and surprisesMaxi, a middle-class, directionless ox of a young man who helps the trash pickers of Buenos Aires’s shantytown, attracts the attention of a corrupt, trigger-happy policeman who will use anyone — including two innocent teenage girls — to break a drug ring that he believes is operating within the slum. A strange new drug, a brightly lit carousel of a slum, the kindness of strangers, gunplay... no matter how seri...

At 7:00 am in a Boston boardroom, there's a disaster in the making. High in an office tower in the heart of the financial district, lawyers and bankers are fighting a deadline to close an $840,000,000 leveraged buyout. Under the pressure of the crowded agenda, no one notices that a zero has been dropped from the mortgage document. The papers are signed, cheers and applause roar from the boardroom--and the fuse of a time bomb is lit. When it explodes, there will be hell to pay. As the partn...

After the death of her estranged grandmother, Marisa Marrero finds herself bequeathed a surprising inheritance: a house in the New Orleans French Quarter, left to her with a variety of bizarre conditions attached. Among the surprising consequences of Marisa’s acceptance is a friendship with a man called Jack St. Germaine, an alleged alchemist who may or may not be hiding a questionable history, and a series of encounters with Elisabeth Clavier, a vampire known for hunting mortals for sport...

** From USA Today Bestseller Lila Lacroix **For five years Vanessa has been running. Running from her ex, running from her past, running from any kind of meaningful relationship.When her boss, billionaire property developer Jonathan Jergen, offers her millions of dollars to marry her so he can stay in the country, Vanessa can't help but be tempted. After all, with that kind of money, she could escape her past forever. It should be easy, right, pretending to be in love for a...

By the prizewinning author of the classics Red is Best, The Bare Naked Book and Big or Little, this chapter book is about a man who spends every day in a school but who cannot read. Mr. Elliot has a job he loves. He is the custodian in a primary school. H