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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 ...

Augie is dying to know Izzie Crilly’s secret, and death may be the price he pays for figuring it out. When a student is killed in a freak accident outside the comic book shop, Augie writes it off as tragedy—until he spots Izzie, Hollowbrook High’s newest outcast, watching the scene with eerie calm. The dead boy was her boyfriend. But instead of grieving, she strolls away and orders a sandwich. Strange? Definitely. But things get weirder. Izzie starts dating Mateo. Augie’s baffled. Mateo’s popular, good-looking—everything Izzie isn’t. With her bulging eyes, obsession with the ...

Oliver was always a jerk. Now that he’s dead, he’s downright terrifying. Augie Doyle eats, sleeps, and breathes horror. Vampires? Real. Werewolves? Absolutely. Zombies? Don’t get him started. His best friend, Ethan, thinks it’s all nonsense—until Oliver Hackl shows up to school. Five days ago, Oliver fell off the Old Mill Bridge and broke his neck. The paramedics pronounced him dead. Now he’s back. Pale. Slow. Wrong. Augie’s convinced it’s the zombie apocalypse. Ethan’s sure there’s a logical explanation. Then Oliver’s friends start dropping like flies. One vanishes, ...

“A vivid, action-packed story that is based as much on confrontation and problem-solving as it is on Theo’s evolution and courage.” Midwest Book Review praise for The Last Hunter Theo might ride a dragon, but is he strong enough to face the Orc King? While the magical society huddles within Sanctuary, Wolvere’s armies ravage the outside world. Theo holds the mantle of Hunter, but his tenuous grasp on magic continues to elude him. He needs more if he hopes to fight Wolvere. An immortal stranger promises him the answers lie with the fabled Storm Riders, who wield electricity and move ...

Twelve years old one day… eighty the next. When Azie and her family move into a creepy old Victorian house in a quiet New York town, she’s just hoping to survive another boring summer. But the house has a horrifying secret — and a curse that’s been claiming kids for generations. The locals call it Old Person Disease. The symptoms? Rapid aging, gray hair, wrinkled skin… and death within days. Now Azie’s showing signs of the same terrifying illness — and if she can’t uncover the truth behind the curse, she won’t be the last. Can Azie and her new friends break the cycle ...

Beneath the serene facade of Twin Pines, an ancient evil waits in the shadows. For Emma Flowers, a troubled teenager grappling with her father's mysterious disappearance and her mother's overbearing nature, life has become a labyrinth of bad moods and unanswered questions. Then, after a night of bad storms, Emma finds her neighbor’s dog dead in the middle of the street. As the mystery intensifies, teenagers around town begin falling into coma-like, nightmare states. As the creature moves in on Emma, she begins to uncover the evil’s origins, discovering dark parts of her own past in the ...

In 1978 America is still licking its wounds from the Vietnam War, an impeached president and skyrocketing oil prices. The people of the country are suspicious, questioning their government at every turn, and it’s an environment allowing conspiracy theories to flourish. It shouldn’t be a surprise one of these theories parallels a long-standing enigma we typically laugh at when we see it – and we see it all too often. Specifically, we look in wonder at the people who not only have a complete ineptitude when using power tools, but we also fear for their lives when they do so. Ironically,...

The "blue flu" has struck the Seattle Police Force and the majority of officers are on an unofficial strike. Overworked and understaffed, detective Lou Boldt is committed to remaining on the job no matter what. But when a string of robberies and the brutal near-murder of a female cop descend on the city, the pressure of being a nearly one-man operation threatens Boldt's psyche and his marriage.

Eight years before Denny Colbert was born, his father was involved in a tragic accident that killed 22 children. Now Denny is 16, and all he wants is to be like other kids his age. But he isn't allowed to answer the telephone or have a driver's license, and his family is constantly moving from town to town - all because people can't forget what happened long ago.

He was the first man, husband, and father. It is said all men have sinned because Adam sinned. But what was Adam really like in those antediluvian days? In this intimate and surprising Bible Character Adventure, we encounter a joyful human who becomes a man of sorrows when he fails to protect his wife from a cunning enemy. In exile, Adam strives to become the man God designed him to be. Yet his every effort and joy are threatened by the great adversary, that serpent of old. When the enemy exploits Cain's jealousy over his younger brother, Adam rises to the challenge, boldly striving to ...

There's a new knot in the Pamirs and Dubai's finest have been called to un-knot it. The Tajik Consulate is threatening the Azeri Embassy for no apparent reason. Requesting non-existent prisoner swaps, demanding reparations for non-going wars, expelling phantom diplomats and above all damming the Amu Darya. Located a Caspian Sea length away, the Azeris have nothing to do with the Amu Darya or any of these issues. All out of diplomatic sauce, the Azeris inanely resort to the services of Detectives Rush and Ahmed.

Jeff and genetically engineered spy dog Chipper are on the run from the mysterious and sinister government organisation knows only as The Institute. Due to a combination of bravery, luck and some of Chipper's more useful modifications, they've managed to evade their pursuers so far. But The Institute is closing in, and Chipper and Jeff will have to be stay one step ahead if they want to stay alive....

A young woman is murdered in Middle Falls, Oregon in 1952. The police never make an arrest, but the town convicts Ned Summers of the crime anyway. He banishes himself to a small house in the woods where he lives alone for the rest of his life. When he dies, he opens his eyes back in 1952, just a few days before the murder occurred. Can Ned Summers stop the murder and save his friend?

For my birthday, my best friends Gilly and Pippa signed us up for a weekend at the Central Midwest Spa Convention. Yay. Massages, fine dining, maid service, and best of all, as long as we attend a few workshops, the weekend is a tax write-off. It should be all sunshine and roses, right? Wrong. My former intern at Belliza Beauty aka the Job Stealer, Carmen Carraway, is a featured presenter. Yuck. Throw in an ex-boyfriend, a number one fan, a brewing scandal, and a dead body, and my relaxing birthday weekend is DOA.

Just released in the fall of 2024! The Ghost Warriors and the Cannibals of Dracul (Book 3): In this exciting conclusion to the best-selling series, Tioga, Kopi, and Hanna are forced out of ghost warrior retirement for an unimaginable tribal challenge. With the Gangas Witch by their side, they are empowered to do the unthinkable - take on a tribe of man-eating cannibals deep in their jungle lair. The result is a heart-pounding adventure that you will keep you entertained from start to finish.Fiction based on real-life events (including some violent situations). Age 11 to 15+

Yossi Abulafia, an Israeli policeman is on reserve army duty, and is photographing antelopes instead of watching the border. His post collapses suddenly, injuring him seriously. After recovering, he discovers that during the collapse he has unwittingly taken a picture of what appears to be a murder - on the other side of the border. Now on ‘easy duty’, he goes to an Interpol conference in Amsterdam where he meets a Jordanian police office, and they are attacked by an unknown assailant. After this second injury, he is discharged from the police force and takes a job in the Prime ...

When a highly sophisticated missile guidance device, developed in US, finds itself in the hands of an unscrupulous group of rebels in Afghanistan and were planning to escalate the tension in the region by targeting cities throughout the middle east. The US President was demanding every resource to be used to find these missiles but without success. Back in the middle of the Indian Ocean, a couple of young sailors find themselves caught up in these world events by just being anchored in the wrong place at the wrong time. There world is turned into a living nightmare as they unwittingly ...

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 ...

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 ...

Toby is back… and paying the price for going rogue. Following an unsanctioned and personally motivated undercover operation in the back yard of Great Britain’s number one ally, Toby Miller’s government career seems to be all but over. Simultaneously, two high profile journalists go missing in the world’s most dangerous conflict zone. Miller is summoned by his handler and offered a way back in, but the chances of him making it home seem remote, at best. With time their enemy, the only viable government plan is high risk and unlike anything ever done before, but Toby, who is resigned ...