## A hero’s tournament. A defiant contender. Does one girl have the courage to take on Mount Olympus? ### \*Hope’s world doesn’t have room for heroes. \* She barely has time for schoolwork, swim team, and taking care of her ailing mother. But when she’s invited to a mysterious tournament,

*"Greetings! To the imaginary and the unimaginary! To the living, the dead and everyone in between, my name is Keys... Skeleton Keys. And these fantabulant fingers of mine can open doors to hidden worlds and secret places ... doors to the limitless realm of all the imagination."* Ben can't believe

**From an historian who advised on the BBC’s *Wolf Hall*, an erudite romp through the intimate details of life in Tudor England.** On the heels of her triumphant *How to Be a Victorian*, Ruth Goodman travels even further back in English history to the era closest to her heart, the dramatic period f

Ceux d'Altéa manifestent un désir d'autonomie qui se traduit par des sabotages, et désirent se détacher de l'Empire. Tout près de leur planète passe un «rail de l'Espace» comparable à nos actuelles voies maritimes. Un supercargo d'Orion s'échoue avec sa cargaison de Marée Noire... un pro

### From Publishers Weekly Rebuilding after the ship-shattering climax of 2009's *Maelstrom*, Capt. Matt Reddy and the crew of the dimensionally misplaced *USS Walker* continue pushing their Bronze Age allies, the Lemurians, through the Industrial Revolution to take the war to the invading reptilia

SUMMARY: It was the apex predator of all time, the most fearsome creature that ever lived - a 70-foot, 70,000 pound Great White shark. Hundreds of 7-inch serrated teeth filled jaws that could swallow an elephant whole. It could sense its prey miles away, inhaling its scent as it registered the bea

Als privéverpleegster zorgt Claire Turner voor mensen in de laatste fase van hun leven. Het is haar roeping, en het tijdelijke karakter van het werk komt haar perfect uit. Ze is namelijk al jaren op de vlucht voor haar verleden. Haar patiënt George Bellamy zoekt het verleden juist op. Hij wil nog éé

**Adam Cade is the most arrogant man I've ever had to work with. He's handsome, rich--and he doesn't remember our shared past, the jerk.** No matter how quickly my heart beats when Adam walks into my office, decked out in an Armani suit, I remind myself of how he treated me years ago. When

What if all of London were really an amusement parka whole city returned to Victorian times to entertain visitors from the twenty-first century? That's the wildly original premise of Ian Beck's *Pastworld,* a high-stakes mystery set in a simulated past. Eve is a lifelong resident of Pastworld who d

### From Publishers Weekly Asher's enjoyable if violent SF novel pits heavily augmented posthumans and the AIs who rule them, the Polity Collective, against the Prador, vicious, bug-eyed aliens out to conquer all human space. The Polity Collective, an eminently civilized society, despite a small se

After losing lives on a mission gone wrong, Maji Rios feels anything but ready for a covert operation to protect volatile Spanish pop star Erlea from the paparazzi and death threats. Celeste, in-house physician for the hotel hosting Erleas show, has had enough of putting on a pretty face for th

Maxine is catering a Halloween party in historic Craigdarroch Castle But when a ghost scares a guest to death Maxine doesn't know what to think. Is it one of the Dunsmuirs, haunting the castle, or perhaps something more sinister? Add in a dognapping and maybe more, self-defense lessons that are

I’m Ellen Arizona, and I’m a murderer. I know you’ve heard my name. They’re all talking about what I’ve done. But no one really understands why I did it. And no one understands me. Except for the other killers at Cain University. The Cain graduate program for killers is the only safe place left f

SUMMARY: Facts collide with fiction in the pulse-pounding sequel to the highly praised The Alexander Cipher, featuring archaeologist Daniel Knox.THE EXODUS QUESTOn the trail of the lost Dead Sea Scrolls, archaeologist Daniel Knox stumbles upon a theft in progress at an ancient temple near Alexandr