"[A] drool-inducing, photo-heavy cookbook . . . [Klivans] guides even the least confident baker to a cocoa-dusted kitchen and full-on chocolate ecstasy." — Publishers WeeklyThere are enough people out there obsessed with chocolate cake to warrant an official holiday: National Chocolate Cake Day, January 27. Beloved baker Elinor Klivans, author of the best-selling Cupcakes! and Cupcake Kit, has dedicated her new cookbook to the stuff of chocoholic fantasy: c...

Jane Ross has just been shanked with a ball point pen. Who knows why? So here she is, in the emergency room, waiting to get a ball point pen extracted from her innards.Surgery goes well. The neighbors, not so much. The nurses, slightly better, even is they do make her do her breathing and belly exercises.Then they hand her off back to prison, where things are pretty much he way they are. *shrug* It's prison. What are you going to do?Trial, yeah. Pretty much the same...

It's almost Meggan's birthday and she's looking forward to the pretty new dress, the cake her Dad made or her, her friends and grandparents celebrating with her...Except for those stupid squirrels who keep eating the bird seed Dad puts out for the birds. If it weren't for that stupid squirrel, Arthur wouldn't be bugging her about finding his Mamma!But he does. He comes to her at all the wrong times to ask for help. Meggan has no idea who his Mamma is, or where he lives. He ...

It's the end of the world as we know it and we... don't feel fine.Something blew up and set the house on fire, and Rafael and Ada must fight the fire and escape, somehow.Outside, the whole neighborhood looks to be in the same condition their own house is in. There is no place left to go, but go they must.Will they make it to the end of the street?Or will they drop dead in the middle of the street?And what about their neighbors?

Leona Norris and her co workers, Oona Doose and Erick Erickson, are fighting the good fight, bringing awareness and responsibility to the world, or trying, at least. Young Emo Shunt has inherited a considerable estate with all that entails, along with an entire town depending on him. Problem is, he's doing good to take care of himself, much less someone else.Ridiculous name or not, Bally Hole is a nice little place, with interested and involved people. it's the end of the school ye...

Axelander is lost. He is broken. He wanders. He speaks to things that don't talk back. The voices in his head shout and call. They are familiar, but he can't grasp them and they are gone, like a breeze through the grasses.The little girls who come to him, with bandaged heads, are leading him somewhere, he does not know. But they are a force that can't be denied, so he goes where they lead, to their home.And then the door opens wide...A psychological study of someone...

Eden's so called friends locked her in the witch's house. The leader, Angelica, stole a knick knack from the witch's house to prove she was there.How can Eden get herself out of this mess, when Angelica dumps the knick knack on her? Can she get it back to the witch, or is she doomed to have weird battle dreams forever?

A collection of ten stories about people who meet each other under strange circumstances and how they interact:Old Maid: Tilly reads cards in the park and meets someone who is not what he looks like.Man in the Maze: Cameron stands in the rain with a knife, under orders to assassinate the matriarch.Meeting the Elephant: Jenda takes food to the elephant tenders in the barn.Footprints in the Dark: Jesus finds something very strange in the old church during a pa...

Pearl Waidler works from home, if you could call a repurposed hotel room home. It's not much, but it's what she has, sharing with her very significant other, Nicky Lightfoot. They make do with what they earn or can scavenge, including an old coffee table that serves as handy flat spot, kitchen table, dining room table, or office desk.At least until it starts feeling her leg...What's a woman to do, when the furniture propositions her and won't take no for an answer?

This ranch house in the middle of nowhere was a godsend, as Roger Thompson and Elena Mercado had no idea where they were or how long it would take to get there. These kindly people took them in, offered them a place in the hay barn--the house was full--and fed them breakfast.Thankfully, they get back on the road, but it's not as simple as all that...

Claudia Weber's little town is under seige. Someone has been committing minor crimes on the entire populace, like grafitti and vandalism. Annoying and inconvenient ad expensive to repair or clean up, but no big deal.And then it does become a big deal. Azo commits arson and people die.The city rises up in arms. They demand action. They call in a task force from the Federal and State authorities, because the local law is just not up to investigating terrorism. Claudia makes h...

Eugene has a broken spring. Without the spring he has no water. Without the water he will have to sell his home and go elsewhere.His buddy Eddie offers to lend him some of his children to see what they can to in digging the spring out in hopes of bringing back the water. Maybe they can help him get his rain harvesting project set up too.With Eddie's children's help, they get the well cleaned out. Thanks to the miraculous Teecee, who breaks into the water table and refills t...