Who knew a knitting needle could be mightier than the sword?In a land of glittering armour and gallant knights, the king is in quite a pickle! Trolls have stolen his underwear and are causing chaos in the kingdom.Despite the best efforts of many strong and shining knights, no one can outwit the mischievous trolls. Yet just when hope seems lost, an unlikely hero steps forward armed not with a sword, but with knitting needles! With a quick wit and nimble hands, this humble knight weaves a cl...

She has been running for as long as she can remember, but from whom and for what reason eludes her as much as the rest of her missing past...Mairi’s search for answers leads her to a dark secret: a shadowy program that turns children into killers. When she risks her life to save a fellow agent from an elite government taskforce with whom she is co-operating, Mairi finds herself wounded and facing new dangers. Seemingly, the only way to be free is to take down those responsible for her trou...

On her teeth-stealing adventure, Mouse begins her mission to steal children's teeth in the hope that she can save her fairies before it's too late. But is this drastic course of action the answer? What happens when a little girl finds her out? Is the jig up or is there another way? Meet Faith, a young girl desperate still to believe in a world that's starting to forget. Faith decides to help Mouse find an alternative way to save the fairies without stealing the teeth. Together they adventu...

Old Friends is a collection of experiences with people, places, and things; some real, some imaginary? These poems, short stories, and essays were years in the making and experiencing, yet can apply from adolescence to the deep wisdom of great age and all betwixt the two. Between the covers youll find contrasts between light and dark, kind and cruel, and insightful and blind as the author delves into the challenges, changes, and acceptances of life. May you find insight and memori...

This short collection of poems is meant to emphasize two distinct time periods in my, or anyone’s, life: early adulthood and early seniorhood. I thought that creating such a collection would reveal a maturing picture of me, coupled and instructed with the wisdom of experience. However, it turned out to reveal something quite different, which was not at all what I expected.

**In her first novel since the Pulitzer Prize–nominated The Quick and the Dead,the legendary writer takes us into an uncertain landscape after an environmental apocalypse, a world in which only the man-made has value, but some still wish to salvage the authentic."She practices ... camouflage, except that instead of adapting to its environment, Williams’s imagination, by remaining true to itself, reveals new colorations in the ecology around her.” —A.O. Scott, The New Y...

**The internationally best-selling romantasy series!New York Times best-seller!**Gwen's life has been a rollercoaster since she discovered she was the Ruby, the final member of the secret time-traveling Circle of Twelve. In between searching through history for the other time-travelers and asking for a bit of their blood (gross!), she's been trying to figure out what all the mysteries and prophecies surrounding the Circle really mean.At least Gwen has plent...

Mary Karr describes herself as a black-belt sinner, and this -- her fourth collection of poems --traces her improbable journey from the inferno of a tormented childhood into a resolutely irreverent Catholicism. Not since Saint Augustine wrote "Give me chastity, Lord -- but not yet!" has anyone brought such smart-assed hilarity to a conversion story.Karr's battle is grounded in common loss (a bitter romance, friends' deaths, a teenage son's leaving home) as well as in elegies for a ...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the award-winning, bestselling author of Snow Falling on Cedars comes an emotionally charged, provocative novel about what happens when a fifteen-year-old pill-popping runaway receives a visitation from the Virgin Mary. • "Surely one of this year’s best novels.”—The Plain DealerAnn Holmes is a fragile teenaged runaway who receives a visitation from the Virgin Mary one morning while picking mushrooms in the woods of North...

From "a genuine American Dostoevsky" ( The Washington Post): a dazzling, funny, bittersweet exploration of the mysteries of relationship, both human and animal.When his favorite cat Biscuit goes missing, Peter Trachtenberg sets out to find her. The journey takes him 700 miles and many years into his past-- into the history of his relationships with cats and the history of his relationship with his wife F., who may herself be on the verge of disappearing. Wh...

Longlisted for the 2014 National Book AwardNever has there been a book of poems quite like Gabriel, in which a short life, a bewildering death, and the unanswerable sorrow of a father come together in such a sustained elegy. This unabashed sequence speaks directly from Hirsch’s heart to our own, without sentimentality. From its opening lines—“The funeral director opened the coffin / And there he was alone / From the waist up”—Hirsch’s account is poignantly direct and open to the st...

In her award-winning memoir Here If You Need Me, Kate Braestrup won the hearts of readers across the country with her deeply moving and deftly humorous stories of faith, hope and family. Now, with her inimitable voice and generous spirit, she turns her attention to the subjects of love and commitment in Marriage and Other Acts of Charity.As a minister, Kate Braestrup regularly performs weddings. She has also, at 44, been married twice and widowed once, and accordin...