It's graduation time for Hank Zipzer and all his friends— time to move on from PS 87 to middle school. Trouble is, there are tests Hank has to pass to get into the same middle schools as his friends, and his learning differences might get in the way. Luckily, a life-altering audition at a performing arts middle school helps him find his true path.Watch a Video

This mystery **short story** features characters from the author's novels featuring depression-era private investigator Maggie Sullivan.A blonde in an expensive hat approaches Maggie at a dime store lunch counter, offering a staggering amount of money if the detective will meet a man who wants to hire her. Suspecting something amiss, Maggie refuses. But her empty bank account, plus curiosity, prompt her to turn up at the time and place appointed — only to encounter a body that's still warm.Irked when the detectives questioning her only snicker at the leads she suggests, and even more so by their insinuation that she solves cases by batting her eyes instead of using her brains, Maggie baits a trap for the killer.He shows up at Maggie's office ready to use a knife to get information he wants. But the gritty little private eye handles a .38 as competently as she does an emery board. The killer isn't the only one involved in a lucrative crime... and Maggie wants the satisfaction of...

Lillian Christian believed she left her troubles behind when she escaped Ohio and headed west to be the mail-order bride of Mr. Charles Gray. But her troubles are just beginning. Taken from the Stagecoach by a group of outlaws looking for Mr. Gray's intended, she finds not everything is as it seems and no one is safe.A simple rancher who just wants to be left alone, Mic, leader of the Nichols' Boys Gang, is forced into the life of an outlaw and the distasteful act of kidnapping a woman. But he won't let his honor stand in the way of protecting his family or helping the innocent woman's who life he's destroyed. He'll do what he has to to fix the mistakes of his past, and hopeful he'll be the only one to pay the price.

MiMi Landry takes what promises to be an unforgettable trip to an exotic Caribbean Island with a sexy and well-to-do new boyfriend. Unforgettable is right. MiMi ends up behind bars and calling on her two best buddies, Willa Crown and Jazz Vaughn, for help.

Following her sensational debut novel, Swept Away by a Kiss, author Katharine Ashe was named one of the 'New Stars of Historical Romance' by the American Library Association publication Booklist. With each new book she has proven them right – and never more so than with her novel How to be a Proper Lady. Continuing her phenomenal Falcon Club series, Ashe enchants with this tale of a woman kidnapped as a child by pirates and returned years later to her English family. She must now learn how to be a cultured lady…and to navigate the treacherous waters of love with the notorious sea captain who brought her, kicking and screaming, back to society. This is witty, emotionally rich, and wonderfully imaginative storytelling that readers of Lisa Kleypas, Eloisa James, and Johanna Lindsey will absolutely adore.

Horrific experiences of the blitz in wartime London and the spiritual bankruptcy of her lover and his Marxist acquaintances are seen through the eyes of Nan, a young Scotswoman, who has returned to her native Highlands to recover from a nervous breakdown. Written with all the power of a master hand this is a subtly thoughtful and gripping novel that has a strange relevance to today's events.

Dead escort Brandilynn Payson goes undercover with a shape shifting motorcycle gang: Beauty, meet the Beasts.