"What do the queen bee, star athlete, valedictorian, stoner, loner, and music geek all have in common? They were all invited to a scholarship dinner, only to discover it's a trap. Someone has locked them into a room with a bomb, a syringe filled with poison, and a note saying they have an hour to pick someone to kill ... or else everyone dies."--Amazon.

"Hold your breath. Mercury Hale is hunting Syndax, the evil soldiers bent on summoning astral fiends, when he finds himself reliving the trauma of his battle against the Hedron of Orbits. Suddenly his bravado, his boldness, and his abilities are called into question. Meanwhile, Homeland Security dogs his steps as he and Loredana trace a mysterious mutated creature across the country, from the American heartland to the Floridan coast. Forces converge...

Heir to the Duncan and Zuniga crime family fortunes, Nevada Duncan must attend the world's most elite school for the children of underworld figures where he learns the importance of friendship as an enemy who wants what Nevada has lurks in the shadows.

"Mercury Hale is out of a job. That's not stopping him from fighting crime in San Camillo--for a fee, of course. His much simpler yet financially unstable situation is interrupted when Procyon Foundation comes to him with a problem: one of their top Tracking specialists is missing. The good news? Mercury may have found a way to get back into his employer's good graces. The bad news? A new breed of monster is terrorizing his city. Couple that challenge...

Third-grader Max pursues neighborhood adventures with his dad as they both adjust to recent changes in their family.

"Nancy stars in a horror movie about a monstrous River Heights urban legend -- but is it really an urban legend? And will Nancy, Bess, and George live long enough to find out? Read all about it in "The Demon of River Heights!" Plus, it's double trouble for the world's greatest teen super sleuth in "Writ in Stone!" A sweet young boy Nancy has often babysat has gone missing, and while Nancy picks up the trail, a historic stone marker that may prove...

The story of former basketball star and current urban farmer and activist, Will Allen, whose vision of gardening from abandoned urban sites led to a grassroots feeding craze.

Kat Redding is a vampire and is also known as Lady Death for killing her own kind in order to protect human "Purebloods". But now a vampire Count is intent on merging his house with a werewolf cult tp create a force of terrifying power. Can Kat stop the Count before her own dark nature rises to the surface and costs her whatever is left of her humanity?

Niles has just returned from eight years of serving his country as a Special Forces sniper. He's looking forward to a consulting job with Dynamic Defense and spending time with his family, including his bi-polar mother, Lorna, and his hard-drinking uncle, Willie. What Niles doesn't know is that Dynamic Defense is actually a CIA front. He's not interested in joining them, but they won't take no for an answer. Bridget St. John is one of the most beautiful...

It is 1983 and Vanessa Martin, a thirteen-year-old African American girl in Newark's public housing, dreams of following in the footsteps of the first black Miss America, Vanessa Williams; but with a dysfunctional family (mother in jail, father withdrawn, drunken grandfather, gay cousin) the odds are against her--until a new teacher at school organizes a beauty pageant and encourages Vanessa to enter.