Kids Thriller

A novella with the quirkiness of Japanese mysteries and lingering suspense that grows with every page. They barely know each other, but their lives are about to entangle in unexpected ways. Paul, Krishna, Gloria, and Varsha have nothing in common. Only that they have time on their hands to take Spanish language classes and are free for an hour after it to hang around in a café. Over the course of three months, the four grow close to each other, sharing the joys and tribulations of their lives. Paul is lonely after his wife’s death and wanders about the city, collecting plants. Krishna is...

Meet Adam and Summer, two teenagers who are about to discover the world is far stranger than they could ever imagine... After a series of unfortunate choices, the two find themselves living on the fringe of society. Not a bad place to be for two lost souls choosing to live anonymously in the shadows. Sadly, twisted characters tend to live in the shadows, too. Some even creep into their aimless lives, while others ignore them. Until one day something occurs to them... Only certain people can see them. Convinced they’re going insane, Adam and Summer fight to survive even while questioning ...

For many of those who have been left behind, the sudden disappearance of millions of people throughout the world is completely baffling. For Judd, Vicki, Lionel, and Ryan - four kids who have lost their families - the explanation couldn’t be clearer: the faithful have been taken to heaven in fulfillment of Biblical prophecy. With no one to turn to but each other, the four young people have banded together, finding strength in their faith. So when Ryan discovers some unbelievable news regarding Lionel’s uncle....

In The Struggle, Uri sets fire to his house by accident right before his bar mitzvah, killing his mother. He will spend many years searching for relief from the guilt that plagues him. His status as a foster kid, his burn scars, and his monstrous appearance leave him lonely and suicidal in high school. Then, in his college years, he falls under the spell of The Professor, head of a cult called The Struggle. To please the insatiable and expensive demands of The Professor, he becomes a brutal debt collector. He allows The Professor to control him, even telling him who to marry. FBI agents, ...

When 17 yr old Jason Hunter sets out to discover the identity of the mystery girl at Ocean Drive he and his friends find themselves caught up in a risky intrigue. Jason is delivering newspapers on his motorbike when a Mercedes sweeps out of a driveway in front of him. He loses control of his scrambler and almost ends up under the car’s wheels. An attractive teenage girl leaps out to ask if he is hurt, but before Jason can reply the girl is bundled back into the Mercedes and driven off. Jason’s instincts warn him that the girl is in trouble. The following day he sees her in an upstairs ...

Get ready for a hilarious, fart-filled adventure with Ford Foghorn in *The Fart Activated Monster: The Hunt For Blue Blob. This action-packed series will leave young readers laughing out loud and begging for more. Ford Foghorn is still getting used to his new life as a Fart Activated Monster. During a camping trip with the Boy Scouts on Mount Methane, he accidentally eats a bowl of chili beans, sending his fart gas into overdrive. When Ford transforms into his blue monster form, his friends mistake him for the legendary Blue Blob Monster. As the Scouts turn into a lynch mob, Ford must find ...

Brother and sister Diego and Corin Townsend are on the trip of a lifetime: two weeks in Rome with their new best friend, Desmond, and his treasure hunter parents to open their new exhibition. All expenses paid. Insider access to all the museums and monuments the kids have long dreamed of exploring. But their plan to dig into history’s mysteries in one of the world’s great ancient cities quickly turns dangerous when the kids discover a hidden treasure map dating back to the time of Julius Caesar. But is the map real? Does it point to actual buried treasure? Well, some wicked, greedy men ...

Kidnapped by a cult of religious fanatics, an Austin school bus driver and 11 of his young charges have been held underground at the group's highly fortified compound for 46 days. While a team of federal negotiators begins to lose all hope of rescuing the hostages, crime reporter Molly Cates sets out to discover everything she can about the cult's iron-willed leader, Samuel Mordecai.

Beak-a-boo, it sees you! Cooper Klavan and his sister Anna are fishing with their parents at a woodland pond when they come across an injured bird. Anna, a huge animal lover, insists on taking it home to rehabilitate. But the bird really does not want to be rescued. It bites Anna, and scares Cooper. Soon, Anna is behaving very strangely. She's perching high up in trees, gathering sticks to hide in her room, and refusing to eat eggs-- once one of her favorite foods. Cooper doesn't want to jump to any conclusions, but his sister seems to be going to the birds.

You’re home alone, and there’s a knock on the door. You find two kids on the doorstep, and they demand you let them inside. But something is very wrong because their eyes are completely black. College professor and paranormal investigator Rand Casey doesn’t believe in the black-eyed kids. Stories of the alleged sinister, otherworldly kids knocking on doors and tricking people into letting them inside are unsubstantiated.

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So far in the new life of Lance and Luna Lingmell, they’ve been adopted into a mysterious town called Mistylock, fought vampires, battled evil birds, been turned to stone, discovered lost family, and discovered that magic is real. But terror descends over the town and the Lingmell siblings as they are thrust into adventure once again. A fight against a complete unknown; monsters from another planet. Not only have the aliens come to steal resources from Earth; but they intend to steal the souls of Mistylock first. And it’s up to Lance and Luna to get them back.

Drawing on contemporary accounts, period photographs, dime novels, and his own prodigious fund of empathy and imagination, Michael Ondaatje's visionary novel traces the legendary outlaw's passage across the blasted landscape of 1880 New Mexico and the collective unconscious of his country. The Collected Works of Billy the Kid is a virtuoso synthesis of storytelling, history, and myth by a writer who brings us back to our familiar legends with a renewed sense of wonder.

“They took a clean-cut kid and they made a killer out of him, that’s what they did” – Bob Dylan From Innocence to Assassin Logan Connor was the perfect all-American boy—adopted into a loving family, living a quiet life in a small town. But that idyllic image shatters when a buried secret about his past is uncovered, throwing Logan into a brutal world he never knew existed. Enter Titus Crow, a master manipulator and government operative who sees raw potential in Logan. Crow recruits him into a shadowy network of covert operations, where lies, murder, and betrayal are just another ...

In the future, true love is something that can be created to a person's specifications. Meet Denise Merritt - the perfect woman. She is beautiful, caring, emotional, sensitive, smart, friendly, and has the best personality a person could possibly have. She is also not real. Denise is an android (model) and she was made for the man, Steven Adams (mate), who wants to spend the rest of his life with someone special. Once he finally meets her, he had hoped to live out the rest of his life with the only person in the world he truly loves, but he gets swept into an unwelcome adventure when he ...

Growing up in a remote part of Alaska, Ivan and September Crane know that autumn is an unpredictable season - days of clear blue skies can give way to fierce, sudden storms in a blink. They know the trouble signs: changes in the wind, the temperature, or even the color of the dawn. But somehow, this time, left alone when their fisherman father is delayed at sea, even their keen sense of their surroundings and the lessons they've been taught fail them.

Lorton McCroy returns to take on the Treasure of Oak Island! Summer vacation is off to a great start when Lorton’s archaeologist uncle, Tom McCroy, invites him to join in on the search for the legendary Oak Island treasure. After convincing his reluctant parents to let him go, Lorton soon finds himself on a plane to Nova Scotia...and to adventure! Once there, they meet their guide, a mysterious one-eyed man with secrets of his own. With a treasure map in hand, the trio descend into the tunnels, where they must overcome ingenious booby traps, flooded tunnels and deadly sinkholes—and two ...

Meet Agent Calder Flint, a top-secret shapeshifter working deep undercover for the C.I.A. His assignments are dangerous, bizarre, and sometimes downright gross (ever shapeshift into a sewer rat?). But nothing has prepared him for Operation Chameleon—the code name for a case involving mysterious wildfires, disappearing agents, and something ancient stirring beneath the surface of the Earth. When Calder discovers clues pointing to a hidden society of reptilian shapeshifters—ones who aren’t so friendly—he must use every skill in his arsenal to stop them from unleashing chaos on the ...

Although his work is technically illegal, Hubie Schuze has no qualms with digging up ancient Native American artifacts. The government calls him a thief, but Hubie thinks of himself as a treasure hunter - and his latest quest could be his last. After lowering himself into a cave in search of Anasazi pottery, Hubie uncovers a long-dead corpse, buried where the Anasazi would never have left a body. As he puzzles over this discovery, he hears a chilling sound: his truck, left behind on the cliff face, being driven away.

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