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Live by Night is a riveting epic layered with a diverse cast of loyal friends and callous enemies, tough rumrunners and sultry femmes fatales, Bible-quoting evangelists and cruel Klansmen, all battling for survival and their piece of the American dream.

“The Cutting Season is a rare murder mystery with heft, a historical novel that thrills, a page-turner that makes you think. Attica Locke is a dazzling writer with a conscience.”—Dolen Perkins-Valdez, New York Times bestselling author of Wench After her breathtaking debut novel, Black Water Rising, won acclaim from major publications and respected crime fiction masters like James Ellroy and George Pelecanos, Locke returns with The Cutting Season, a second novel easily as gripping and powerful…

Dick Wolf makes his literary debut with this tense, driving thriller, reminiscent of the classic The Day of the Jackal , an extraordinary tale filled with the ingenious twists and high-wire suspense we have come to expect from this master storyteller Days before the July Fourth holiday and the dedication of One World Trade Center at Ground Zero, an incident aboard a commercial jet flying over the Atlantic Ocean reminds everyone that vigilance is not a task to be taken lightly. But for…

Not so very long ago, Eragon—Shadeslayer, Dragon Rider—was nothing more than a poor farm boy, and his dragon, Saphira, only a blue stone in the forest. Now the fate of an entire civilization rests on their shoulders.

In this latest picture book in her Hairy Maclary and Friends series, Lynley Dodd captures the essence of cat behaviour with her trademark rhythm and rhyme as Slinky Malinki rouses the family before dawn - ("He tipped over lamps and he sat on their heads, until he had pestered them out of their beds!") - and then promptly goes back to sleep . . .

CAPTAIN UNDERPANTS returns! In their ninth epic adventure, George and Harold encounter a familiar face - Professor Poopypants! He now goes by the name Tippy Tinkletrousers and is determined to seek revenge for all of the teasing his old name inspired. Armed with his laser-shooting Freezy-Beam 4000, Tippy Tinkletrousers is ready to zap anyone who stands in his way. Now it's up to George, Harold, and the amazing Captain Underpants to stop Tippy Tinkletrousers' reign of terror before it's…

The classic fairy tale. When Jack sells his cow for some magic beans, they grow into a beanstalk with a GIANT surprise at the top! Fee, fi fo fum! Read it yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird's best-selling series. For over thirty-five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills. Each Read it yourself book is very carefully written to include many key, high-frequency words that are vital for learning to read, as well as a limited…

In this classic fairy tale, a miller's daughter has to spin straw into gold for the king. A funny little man comes to help her, but if she can't guess his name, this Rumpelstiltskin will take her first-born child! Read it yourself with Ladybird is one of Ladybird's best-selling series. For over thirty-five years it has helped young children who are learning to read develop and improve their reading skills. Each Read it yourself book is very carefully written to include many key, high-frequency…

THE STRANGERS WERE CHANGING. THEY WERE FASTER, STRONGER... MORE HUMAN. THAT WAS THE SCARIEST PART.