Calvin Waffle is still 100% weird in the newest installment of David A. Adler's laugh-out-loud chapter book series, Danny's DoodlesDanny Cohen and his brainiac sidekick Calvin Waffle are back with a brand new experiment!Something is amiss in Danny and Calvin's fourth-grade class when their loud, rule enforcing teacher Mrs. Cakel suddenly transforms into a whole new person. Danny and Calvin decide the only way to find out what's really going on is to spy on their personality switching teacher. But spying soon leads to a greater mystery filled with dog chasing, jelly injected donuts, peanut butter induced experiments, riddle mania, and more!

Every bad girl has a great story.Formerly known as the “town slut,” Liz Pritchard has a fantastic opportunity to ditch her less-than-stellar reputation and become Elizabeth Picard, primped and perfect socialite, by marrying a man she doesn’t love. To complete the transformation, though, she must return to her hometown to sell her childhood home. But when the only man who'd ever held her heart shows up in Meadowview, he opens the door to doubt…because erasing her past means erasing everything that was once in her heart…including Hunter.Fourteen years earlier, Hunter Thorne had loved Lizzie Pritchard. But when he thought she’d gone behind his back and hurt him, he’d lashed out and broken both their hearts. Now a wildfire fighter, back in Meadowview, he realizes he wants more than forgiveness from Liz. Unlike him, however, Liz wants only to look to the future—a future devoid of love.Like an out-of-control forest fire, passion and love build to raging flames within, and Hunter finds himself faced with allowing Liz to shove their former life back into a dark closet, or daring her reach for love…and claim her as the one he’s always held in his heart.

A Tanner Sequence Novel 2402 AD CCF homicide investigator Kyle Tanner and his girlfriend are on their way to Pluto, en route to a new life together. Just one little death to check out in the asteroid belt first. But when you’re as tangled up in conspiracy as Tanner is, a few hours on a case can change your life. Or end it. The mystery is a strange one—one man dead, a cryptic message his dying breath. Still, Tanner’s ready to wrap it up until another gruesome murder shakes him to his core. The discovery of a microscopic bomb near his own heart offers the first faint clue, but the clock is ticking. He has four days.... A desperate search for answers takes Tanner to The Freezer, an isolated facility on one of Jupiter’s moons. With anti-CCF dissidents targeting the facility, a team of scientists conducting experiments the military would rather remain hidden, and a mysterious man in white hunting him on the ice, Tanner will have to choose his allies carefully. Putting his faith in the wrong person will leave him bleeding out in seconds.

Ben Watt's father was a working-class Glaswegian jazz musician—a politicized left-wing bandleader and composer—whose heyday in the late 1950s took him into the glittering heart of London's West End. His mother, Romany, the daughter of a Methodist parson, was a Shakespearean actress who had triplets in her first marriage before becoming a leading showbiz feature writer and columnist in the '60s and '70s. They were both divorced and from very different backgrounds, and they came together at a fateful New Year's Day party in 1957 like colliding trains.Romany and Tom is Ben Watt's honest, sometimes painful, and often funny portrait of his parents' exceptional lives and marriage, depicted in a personal journey from his own wide-eyed London childhood, through years as an adult with children and a career of his own, to that inevitable point when we must assume responsibility for our own parents in their old age. Spanning several decades—and drawing on a...

'Reads like a cross between I Capture the Castle and Love, Nina' Cathy Rentzenbrink,* Bookseller*Life is full of terrible things. Ghosts of dead relatives, heartbreak . . . burnt toast.In 1987, Sue Bowl's world changes for ever. Her mother dies, leaving her feeling like she's lost a vital part of herself. And then her father shacks up with an awful golddigger called Ivana.But Sue's mother always told her to make the most of what she's got - and what she's got is a love of writing and some interesting relatives. So Sue moves to her Aunt Coral's crumbling ancestral home, Green Place, along with a growing bunch of oddballs and eccentrics. Not to mention the odd badger or two . . . There she fully intends to write a book, fall in love, and learn to live decadently.Campari for Breakfast is a heart-warming, eccentric novel that joins the ranks of great British coming-of-age novels such as Dodie Smith's I Capture the Castle and Nancy Mitford's The Pursuit of Love.

Starship pilot Alan Abrams crippled his younger brother Jimmy in a childhood scuffle, and spent his entire life trying to make up for it. But when humanity turns away from the stars, his career evaporates and he can no longer afford his brother's care. Then Alan gets a mysterious offer to join an interstellar expedition searching for a long-lost starship. The paycheck will support his brother forever. The downside? An untrustworthy, fractious team. An evasive, domineering backer. And a murder attempt before Alan even takes the offer. Alan finds himself piloting a ship attacked by a hostile universe outside, and inside filled with sabotage, deceit, and murder. For centuries, humanity sought intelligent life among the stars. Alan's expedition finds it. Unfortunately. Amazon 5 star review - The protagonist has a lovely dark past. The science fiction has original ideas. The internal threats are all too human, the external ones solidly inhuman. The science fiction tinged with horror works on many levels. And there's sabotage, and trust, and arguments. Full of love and sacrifice and broken promises and secrets and the need to not only survive, go home again. This book is about xenophobia. It's about the many ways we face the fear of The Other.

Can their new love survive the scrutiny of the public eye?After his father’s heart attack, Australian Football League player Tyson Gaspaldi takes his parents on holiday to a small place at the New South Wales coast. One morning, following a surfing session, he comes across a crying woman on the beach. Everything about her intrigues him, and he can’t walk away. She’s not only sexy and humble, but, as he soon finds out, vulnerable as well. It’s only been a few months since Katie Cassidy lost her sister in a car accident. Still overwhelmed by the loss, a chance encounter on the beach with an attractive stranger awakens unexpected emotions inside her. She’s instantly drawn to his caring nature, but also his looks. However, Tyson’s past quickly catches up with them, causing Katie’s childhood demons to return, and the road to romance becomes anything but smooth.

The Cricket on the Hearth is a novella by Charles Dickens, written in 1845. It is the third of Dickens' five Christmas books, the others being A Christmas Carol (1843), The Chimes (1844), The Battle of Life (1846), and The Haunted Man (1847).