This is a story about redemption. A grown man, Francis hangs out at home doing drugs. His mother Elizabeth kicks him out. Twenty years later, he comes home to ask her for help rebuilding his life. Despite his age, he is like a fledgling bird that can't yet fly. Elizabeth re-discovers that she loves him when he proves that he's the same honorable son that he always was. Length: about 200 pages.

When the dead whisper, he listens.Once a brilliant forensic investigator, Brian now works with an unearthly gift—an "obsession" that lets the murdered speak through him. Each case drags him deeper into the shadows, where truth is never clean and justice comes at a cost. But when the corpses start demanding more than answers, Brian must decide if he serves the living… or the dead.

The depth, intensity, and long-standing nature of the disagreements between differing schools of social thought renders more critical than ever the treatment of dialectical reasoning and its relationship to the social sciences. The nature of these disagreements are deeply rooted in fundamentally differing beliefs regarding, among many things: (1) the nature of man, (2) the role of theory versus data in constructing social theories, (3) the place and function of values versus facts in inqui...

In this irresistible story, Kasie West explores the timeless question of what to do when you fall for the person you least expect. Witty and romantic, this paperback original from a fan favorite is perfect for fans of Stephanie Perkins and Morgan Matson.Autumn Collins doesn’t let anyone get close.She can’t tell anyone about her anxiety, especially not Jeff—he’d never be her boyfriend if he knew.But then she gets trapped in the library, instead of ma...

"You hide behind your camera instead of stepping out and engaging life with both hands. You're so afraid you'll fail at something, you won't even try."For some people, Alaska is a breathtaking wilderness adventure, full of light and beauty. For Haley, it is a dangerous world of dark dreams and tortured memories. On the surface, she's here to document wildlife activist Kipp Nowak's bear encounters. But her real reason is to unearth the truth about a past murder. The suspense mounts ...

Join Robin and Marion fighting for the desperate and destitute again in the fourth action-packed adventure from international bestseller Robert Muchamore.'Strikes the bullseye.' - The Times Children's Book of the Week (Robin Hood: Hacking Heists & Flaming Arrows)As conditions in Sherwood Forest grow more precarious, time is running out for inhabitants of the abandoned shopping mall. With constant pressure on them from Sheriff Marjorie and g...

Sidney Mason is a hard-edged espionage novelist who is as gritty and self-reliant as the great-grandmother who raised her. When Mattie Mason dies, Sidney drives herself even harder to mask her grief.Steven Wade, Sidney's literary agent, fears his top writer is headed for a mental meltdown and urges her to hire an assistant. Enter Parker Bannister, wannabe writer and house sitter, whose career as a Postal Inpector abruptly ends the day a lone assailant shoots her in a post office ro...

The Winter Market in the French Quarter is in full swing, but murder isn’t taking a holiday in this festive mystery in the New York Times bestselling Scrapbooking series.The holidays are a busy time for scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand—but not so hectic that she doesn’t have time to enjoy browsing the booths at the Winter Market with her best friend, Ava. The last thing the ladies expect to see is a lurching man stabbed by a serving fork, dying in fro...

The New York Times bestselling author of Gossamer Ghost returns to the Big Easy and the historic Garden District, where scrapbook shop owner Carmela Bertrand discovers a bride-to-be murdered in the legendary Lafayette Cemetery…Carmela couldn’t imagine a finer evening than dinner at Commander’s Palace with her beau, Detective Edgar Babcock. The food and the company are equally divine—with the exception of Isabelle Black stopping by to brag about he...

The third installment in the must-read horror fantasy series for fans of Small Spaces, Nightbooks, and WednesdayThis house is keeping secrets . . .Can what lurks below the house be as frightening as what's hidden inside?Terrifying things have happened to Olive in the old stone house, but none as scary as starting middle school—or so she thinks. When she plummets through a hole in her backyard, Olive discovers two ...

They were only faking it….A landscape designer for his family’s construction firm, Joe Walker, is nearing completion on one of the most important projects of his career—gardens for spec homes that if they wow, Walker Construction will survive. When a freak accident sidelines him with a broken leg, the firm hires a competitor. Her ideas are radically different, but his stalker ex arrives to play nurse, and Joe needs more than gardening help.After six-years working in English...

An innocent group of campers ventures into the Adirondacks where they quickly learn that there’s something deadly lurking in the shadows at Shadow Creek in this heart-pounding thriller by the New York Times bestselling author of See Jane Run and The Housekeeper.Due to a last-minute change in plans, a group of unlikely traveling companions finds themselves on a camping trip in the Adirondacks. They include the soonto- be-divorced Valerie; ...