Inside the covers of a novel is a story the characters tell, sometimes with hesitancy. Such is the case in the newfound community at Hidden Cove. While vacationing, the shaken resort guests are confronted with a life-altering event of unknown origins. Within the isolated walls of the retreat resort, they struggle to adjust and sustain themselves. How do you move on when all former things have passed away? Behind their survival, a shadowy narrative unfolds. Life is not always as it appears ...

On his eleventh birthday, Tray Whitfield is enjoying a meadow walk with his grandmother when they discover an unusual egg-shaped stone and a shiny copper penny with the current year stamped on it. When he puts the stone and the penny together in his pocket, Tray is suddenly transported back in time to an unfamiliar world. Where on earth did he go, how did he get there, and why does the penny now say that the year is 1957?In StonePenny: The Keepers of the StonePenny —the first book o...

Evergreen Award WinnerThe Strand Critics Awards Best Debut NomineeCrime Writers of Canada Best First Novel Award FinalistOff the storm-lashed coast of the Pacific Northwest, Ess regains consciousness with no recollection of who she is or why she's alone on a sailboat in the wilderness. Her only clue is a chilling typewritten note—cryptic and urgent—and the instinctive knowledge of how to sail, survive, and stay invi...

Dive in to this whimsically adventurous graphic novel from Caldecott Medalist and National Book Award Winner Dan Santat!Ever since her father was lost at sea, Sophia has been moping around Aqualand, the marine theme park her dad and uncle created. But Sophia's world is turned upside down when an "aquanaut" breaks into the park's research lab.To her amazement, Sophia discovers that the aquanaut is not what it seems -- inside lives a band of four goofy sea creatures! And when...

After forming a contract with the Misty Lodge and returning to town, Takahiro and his group once more bump into the cheater Fukatsu Aketora and his traveling companion Thaddeus. The circumstances of their encounter lead to Thaddeus revealing that he is actually a dragon.Thaddeus’s goal, the reason why he’s in town, is to find a stray dragon who has escaped their settlement before any human casualties lead to inevitable repercussions. Agreeing to help, Takahiro embarks on a path tha...

Jesse McDermitt has returned to the Florida Keys. But things in the islands are different now. The locals are worried, but nobody can explain why. A sense of foreboding hangs in the humid July air.One of the locals, an investment banker, is waiting tables at the Rusty Anchor Bar and Grill. He seems a shell of the man he used to be—a hollow man whose fortune and wife are gone. He’s tight-lipped about how he came to be a guest in Rufus’s little shack behind the bar.Something ...

Drifter John Walker has no friends, but he's so engaging that Maxie invites him over for dinner. The next day he moves on-and is later found dead in his motel room. What looks like a simple suicide quickly grows more complicated when police discover that Walker was living under an assumed identity. Maxie tries to fathom why he would choose to end his life where the U.S. highway system ends-and where Maxie just might meet a dead end of her own.

Jesse McDermitt is finally ready to retire. But life has other plans. While diving on a remote reef deep in the backcountry of the Florida Keys with his wife, son and two friends, he discovers of all things, a car.Not just any car, but a 1928 Duesenberg Model J, the most powerful and stylish automobile of its time. The car was once owned by a Saudi prince who was attempting to develop Johnston Key in the heart of Turkey Basin before Henry Flagler even finished the rail line to Key ...

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In 1915, farmer and amateur archaeologist Robert Thomson disappeared from Scotland's Orkney Islands with a priceless Stone Age artifact. A century later, his great-great-grandson, Pete Ferguson, is coming to Scotland with boyfriend Jamie Brodie to meet his distant cousins and investigate Robert's disappearance. But the homophobia of the Thomson patriarch threatens to derail their quest - and a chance meeting in a pub in Oxford brings Pete and Jamie's relationship to a turning point.

Upgraded to second edition on 9/3/2011.Psychics. Aliens. The occult. Zombies. Starships.This baroque collection of stories explores the darkness that waits ahead of us, from the monster lurking around the next corner to sweeping dystopian visions of the future. It includes multiple stories by J.L. Bryan, three drabbles by Michael Crane, two shorts by Amanda Hocking, the entire "Day of Sacrifice" novella by S.W. Benefiel, and additional contributions from paranormal/horror a...

Twelve-year-old Gordy Stitser is one of the few people who knows the truth about the secret society of potion masters, because not only is Gordy’s mom on the Board of Ruling Elixirists Worldwide (B.R.E.W.), but she has also been training Gordy in the art of potion-making.Gordy is a natural, and every day he sneaks down to the basement lab to invent new potions using exotic ingredients like fire ant eggs, porcupine quills, and Bosnian tickling juice.One afternoon, Gordy rece...