"Later, I would think of it as crossing over. From a known territory into an unknown. From a place where people know you to a place where people only think they know you." Sometimes Franky Pierson has a hard time dealing with life. Like when her parents separate and her mother vanishes, Franky wants to believe that her mom has simply pulled a disappearing act. Yet deep within herself, a secret part of her she calls Freaky Green Eyes knows that something is terribly wrong. And only Freaky can open Franky's eyes to the truth.

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Tate is fighting for her life. Amelia, Duncan and Charlie are mysteriously transforming into slime creatures and they are desperate to "recycle" all of the living cells -- into their own bodies. But Tate has something Amelia wants even more than cells. She'll manage to save her life by forging a strange alliance with these creatures. Tate is haunted by a strange reoccurring dream of the renewed Earth. Do the dreams mean Tate can use the powerful ship to undo the devastation caused by the Rock?

Cool is cool and geek is geek, and at Eldridge the two definitely do not mix.Sari and Jess are best friends and total opposites. They've liked each other ever since they discovered that they are the only two normal people at Eldridge Alternative. As they prepare to face the trials of ninth grade, Sari is psyched. Jess is not. How can she face the Prada Mafia, the most evil clique in school? Or Mr. McGuiness's unnervingly long nose hair? What if something really interesting happens to Sari and nothing whatsoever happens to Jess?But not even Jess can predict the mayhem that erupts when Sari falls madly in love with David Cole. David is a senior. He's been dating Thea Melendez for forever. So he couldn't possibly be interested in Sari. Or could he? And if he is, where does that leave Jess?

Outnumbered, outsmarted and desperate, the hunters are on the run, pursued by the vampaneze, the police, and an angry mob. With their enemies clamoring for blood, the vampires prepare for a deadly battle. Is this the end for Darren and his allies?

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A Lucas Davenport thriller by internationally bestselling novelist John Sandford Two bodies are found hanging from a tree in the woods of Northern Minnesota. 'Lynching' is the word everybody is trying not to say. But when the bodies are those of a black man and white woman, it's hard to see how it could be anything else. Lucas Davenport, now married and a new father, has moved up to state level. His new job is to work on those cases too complicated or politically touchy for others to handle. As he begins to investigate, he discovers that the murders are not, in fact, what they appear to be. Nor are they the end of it. There is worse to come – much, much worse . . . With the young girl who discovered the bodies, feisty twelve-year-old Letty, acting as his unofficial guide, Lucas faces one of the most challenging cases of his career. Will he be able to protect the girl who is far too observant for a murderer to have around . . . ?***READERS LOVE THE...

Would you be able to spend a million dollars in cash and leave yourself penniless if it meant you would then be given many more millions? That\'s poor Monty Brewster\'s dilemma in this charming tale. Just as poor Monty Brewster, twice heir to a fortune, is beginning to adjust to his cold and distant grandfather\'s "paltry" million-dollar bequest, an even more mysterious benefactor emerges offering to leave him some "real" wealth. All he has to do is be penniless at nine o\'clock on the morning of his 26th birthday. It seems like an easy task, but Monty discovers that it is no simple matter to divest oneself of a million dollars, especially as the bank insists on paying him $19,607.84 in interest per day. And what can you do when each ridiculous "sure-loss" suddenly skyrockets when you invest in it? Money seems to flow in faster than a person can throw it overboard. And then there are Peggy and Barbara; how are they going to react to each attempt to squander a fortune? Can Monty keep the girl while losing the money? First published in 1902 under the pseudonym Richard P. Greaves, Brewster\'s Millions was one of George Barr McCutcheon\'s most successful titles. The prolific author was noted for his ability to write page-turners, full of vivid characters and with an attention to detail. There have, in fact, been six movie versions of this one book, most recently starring Richard Pryor and John Candy. That is vivid testament to a great story well told.

National bestselling author Amanda Ashley has created a world of seductive, preternatural creatures whose passions are as limitless—and as dangerous—as their powers. In this sensual and gripping new novel, love, desire, and ambition collide in a city that is both home and hunting ground to its population of darkly irresistible vampires... He Has Become What He Once Destroyed. Edward Ramsey has spent his life hunting vampires. Now he is one of them. Yet Edward\'s human conscience—and his heart—compel him to save beautiful Kelly Anderson, and soon their growing love is his reason for living. And as the ancient, stunning, and merciless vampire, Khira, seeks supremacy among Los Angeles\' undead, Edward and his former nemesis, Grigori Chiavari, once Khira\'s lover, must unite to stop her— before the city, and everything they cherish, is in her power...After Sundown.

A ravishing historical novel of one of China's most controversial historical figures: its first and only female emperor, Empress Wu, who emerged in the Tang Dynasty and ushered in a golden age. In seventh–century China, during the great Tang dynasty, a young girl from the humble Wu clan entered the imperial gynaecium, which housed ten thousand concubines. Inside the Forbidden City, she witnessed seductions, plots, murders, and brazen acts of treason. Propelled by a shrewd intelligence, an extraordinary persistence, and a friendship with the imperial heir, she rose through the ranks to become the first Empress of China. On the one hand, she was a political mastermind who quelled insurrections, eased famine, and opened wide the routes of international trade. On the other, she was a passionate patron of the arts who brought Chinese civilization to unsurpassed heights of knowledge, beauty, and sophistication. And yet, from the moment of her death to the present day, her name has been sullied, her story distorted, and her memoirs obliterated by men taking vengeance on a women who dared become Emperor. For the first time in thirteen centuries, Empress Wu flings open the gates of her Forbidden City and tells her own astonishing tale–revealing a fascinating, complex figure who in many ways remains modern to this day.

The dramatic lives of two bold, independent adventurers--Paul Gaugin and his grandmother Flora Tristan, a trail-blazing women's suffragist--as imagined by "one of the master storytellers of our time" (Chicago Tribune Book World) In 1844, Flora Tristan embarked on a tour of France to campaign for workers' and women's rights. In 1891, her grandson Paul Gauguin set sail for Tahiti, determined to escape civilization and paint primitive masterpieces. Flora died before her grandson was born, but their travels and obsessions unfold side by side in this deft, utterly absorbing novel. Flora, the illegitimate child of a wealthy Peruvian father and French mother, grows up in poverty, and after fleeing a brutal husband, journeys to Peru to demand her inheritance. On her return, she makes her name as a popular writer and a champion of the downtrodden, setting herself the arduous task of touring the French countryside to recruit members for her Workers' Union. Paul, struggling painter and stubborn visionary, abandons his wife and five children for life in the South Seas, where his dreams of paradise are poisoned by syphilis, the stifling forces of French colonialism, and a chronic lack of funds, though he has his pick of teenage Tahitian lovers and paints some of his greatest works. Affectionate, astute, and quietly caustic, this double portrait is a rare study in passion and ambition, as well as the obstinate pursuit of greatness in the face of illness and death, from Mario Vargas Llosa, whose previous novels, "The Feast of the Goat," "pushed the boundaries of the traditional historic novel [in] a book of harrowing power and lasting resonance" ("The New York Times").

Judkins the butler introduces two unexpected guests. Vargo and Multova have arrived at Glensalich Castle, ostensibly to fetch more tea, but they also tell our heroes, the Professor Brane, Tiger, Toby and Rex, about continuing problems with the planet Ardilla. The effects of the rays have been getting worse. A spaceship on a survey mission to the planet Petroconda has gone missing. Amongst the crew was a friend of Vargo's called Quantos and he, Vargo, now intends to lead a rescue mission. Our heroes ask to go with him. Returning to the Tavona, a 12 year old boy called Donald Macdonald is caught trying to stow away on the ship. He is sent on his way. Multova tells everybody of the strange world of Dacoona where nobody seems to die. The planet has a low birth rate and high accident mortality rate to compensate. The people work for a period of time equivalent to eight months of the year and sleep for four months. The people have an unusual gland that acts as a super-repair device. Landing for a short time on Mars, where the work to reinhabit the planet has continued to progress, the Tavona then goes on to Mino, and from there on to Petroconda. Here the lost spaceship is found, deserted. A search is organised and three bodies are found, savagely beaten to death. Quantos is not amongst the dead. Storm clouds start to quickly gather in the sky. Borron is seen in the distance with a figure. It is Quantos. They are signalling for everybody to return to the ship. Everybody reaches the ship just in time before huge lumps of hail fall, like bricks. Quantos tells his story, the hail had killed his companions and he had been trapped. Borron tells everybody about a previous visit he had made to the moon of Petroconda, which had been named Selinda. The place had been highly civilised but had been laid waste by something mysterious. After hearing the account, the Professor suspects it may have been radioactivity that was responsible and a decision is made to go and investigate. On Selinda a volcano is discovered that ejects black smoke every 15 seconds. The remains of the last survivor of Selinda are found. A form of radioactivity has killed the population and laid waste to the planet. The Tavona returns to Petroconda and then on to Mino. The Professor sets his mind to dealing with the problem of the rays emanating from Ardilla. The trip to Terromagna is now extremely difficult as the rays have extended their influence and Multova departs to return home. The Tavona follows as Rolto, a space captain known to our heroes, has also disappeared whilst trying to find a way through. A strange planet is found on the journey, that is not on any of the space charts. Landing on the planet, it is found to be exceptionally cold, but strange tunnels are also found. Here strange ant- like creatures are found. Whilst moving on to another planet to look for Rolto, which the Professor names Aquania, Rex and the others begin to feel the effects of Ardilla's rays. Gator comes up with the idea of out-distancing the ray, that is, travelling faster than the ray. Rolto is not found on Aquania, but it is discovered that he had been there, before the Tavona is almost swept away by a tidal wave. Landing on another unknown planet, our heroes are attacked by birds. Arriving at Terromagna, Multova is there to meet them. He tells them that the scientists of Terromagna have worked out a way of emitting a reflecting medium at Ardilla, to reflect back the rays. A satellite will be sent up by rocket to orbit Ardilla. Our heroes go to see the launch of the satellite. The project is successful and all of the rays are blocked. A message is then received from Rolto, who was being held prisoner on Ardilla. The people of Ardilla are in a state of panic now that their rays are being reflected back on themselves and they want peace. The problem solved, our heroes discuss their plans for the return journey home.