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There are only a few weeks left before an asteroid destroys the planet. It’s the countdown, and all of humanity is just waiting for the end. In Phoenix, AZ, the sheriff’s department and National Guard are battling for supremacy, gas is as good as cash, and elementary school kids are out for blood. Most people in town have become the worst versions of themselves. Except for Dutch Kovaks, private detective. Dutch wants to right some wrongs, help a few people in need, and use the days he’s got left for good. Most of all, he wants to track down a bottle of gin.

The land of Orijon has been ravaged by the selfish rule of the usurper king, Malos Tabis. Many have lost their homes, families, and the hope to live. But even the darkest night must yield to the spark of the dawn. A voice calls out to the true heir to the throne, Leonidas Orijonno, begging him to return. Leonidas led a simple life among the people of Sulson, the kingdom of the south. There he had grown up and learned their ways. What was he to Orijon? Often, he had dreamed of returning to the land of his father and freeing her people from the oppression they endured.

Seventeen-year-old Brook Grigsby's life was never the same after her father died. When her mother remarried, she thought the worst was over, but it was only beginning. Her stepdad is a werewolf, and among his people, she's known as "Missy Mistake" because to them she should've never been born. Ryder Williams has taken his brother's name and place in the exchange with his uncle's pack, Black Mountain, so that he can find a way to bring his uncle's cruel reign to an end. When Ryder sees Brook for the first time, he recognizes her as his mate.

Waverly Manor was a place where people went to die. After the end, it became the last bastion of life in a dead city. For Charlie, those walls of brick and mortar had always provided sanctuary against a world he feared, even before the dead started to rise. When other survivors showed up on Waverley's doorstep, another man might have been thrilled to know that he was not the last living soul on Earth. But not Charlie. The monsters trying to batter down the walls were frightening enough. The thought of the kind of men who could survive among the living dead was the stuff of nightmares.

MollyJay Bijou is a woman of almost 30 who works three jobs and has fewer friends, and as an orphan, she has no family. Her life had been a perfect series of screw-ups and disappointments until an obnoxious stranger and his rowdy friends change all that. Werewolves from the moon? You have got to be joking...right?

It is 1934 and Dr. Zho’s once idyllic planet Dagan is ruled by a brutal dictator. Zho is now a refugee hiding on the primitive planet Earth. Of course, in 1934 the United States was in the throes of the Great Depression, and Dr. Zho experiences a very different America. On Dagan, the Dictator Arixn is using a modified version of the Roman Coliseum to divert the citizens' attention. Running low on gladiators, Arixn decides to send a force to “harvest Earthlings” to fight to the death on Dagan. Zho elicits the help of old friend Major Mike Kelly to stop the Harvesters.

Jack Cassidy heads the team opening the next in an exclusive line of boutique hotels, this one in wine country. Working with his best friend’s sister should make it easier, with her expertise. The pair have been friends for years, so sharing an apartment shouldn’t pose any issues…except for the simmering heat between them. Campbell Taylor’s one of only a few women to battle the all-boys club and go for the title of master sommelier. Living and working with her brother’s best friend—the man she’s secretly crushed on for years—might prove to be her greatest challenge.

A founding member of the Sin Vegas Union, Hector Contreras was a child when Earth was commandeered by the Lorians. Along with those left, he spent the next 50 years fighting their extraterrestrial adversaries. For his reward, Hector helped create one of the few overpopulated, advanced megacolonies left on the planet. Drained from decades of service to humanity and the loss of his wife, Hector now spends his remaining years with a new companion in relative peace. However, his peace comes at great cost.

Meet Horton Moon, a street-wise (if improvident) family man trying to get by as best he can in Depression-era Minneapolis. Beside the hard times, Moon does battle with his own demons: A fickle heart, a taste for the drink, and a bad habit of slipping rather too easily from one side of the law to the other. When he meets a remarkable young girl newly arrived in the city from the Dakota plains, Moon falls in love and falls off the edge. His marriage disintegrates, he loses his job and his bearings, and he steps into a dark underworld of crime and retribution.

Puffin presents a collection of magical stories from master storyteller Dick King-Smith.This collection of exciting stories includes The Magic Carpet Slippers! The other brilliant stories included in this collection are: Uncle Bumpo, Philibert the First and The Ghost at Codlin Castle....

Did you know that Theodore Roosevelt was shot before a rally, and went on to give his speech with the bullet in his chest? Or that he skinny-dipped in the Potomac River? Bet you didn’t know that he had a zebra, a lion, and a one-legged rooster at the White House! Siblings Paige and Turner have collected some of the most unusual and surprising facts about the larger-than-life president, from his childhood and his Rough Rider days to his rise to politics and his complicated presidential legacy.

When chemical weapons are set off deliberately by a US senator within the country's borders, a chemistry teacher and his students are set on a race with time to find a cure before the disease, which resembles vampirism, swallows the country's population. The senator, in an attempt to stop them, convinces the president and all of Congress to bomb every major city in an attempt to stop them.

Have you always wanted to try your hand at gardening, but somehow could never find the time? Worried that you just don’t have the right spot? Your worries are over. The raised garden bed revolution has already begun, and now could be the perfect time to join in! With its elevated height and easily reachable interior, the raised bed makes it possible for anyone to garden. Raised Bed Gardening covers everything you need to know to get started.

It was a day like no other for Sheriff Tom Cooper. Reports of animal attacks had been coming in since dawn, and it looked like they might never stop. Once the news channels began filling up with accounts of similar attacks from around the world, it became clear that this was no local phenomenon. For whatever reason and by whatever mechanism, it seemed that all of nature had chosen that one particular day to declare war on mankind.

Tyvian Reldamar — criminal mastermind, rogue mage, and smuggler of sorcerous goods — has just been betrayed by his longtime partner and left for dead in a freezing river. To add insult to injury, his mysterious rescuer took it upon himself to affix Tyvian with an iron ring that prevents the wearer from any evildoing.

A beautifully written poem about a butterfly named Prince and his unwavering dedication to his belief in himself, his dreams, and his goals, no matter where he comes from or what challenges arise.

Three friends head out into the Alaska Bush to explore an abandoned gold mine. Their adventure turns into a nightmare when the old mine starts caving in. The story then goes back in time to earlier that same year in Anchorage, Alaska, where a young boy, Daniel, starts training one of his grandfather's homing pigeons to be in a race. He discovers that pigeons have special abilities and learns how they have been used in the past for communication. His pigeon, Streak, and Kayla, who gets lost while going for help, meet when they both take refuge under a big spruce tree during a storm.

Apropos is the unlikely noble whose life began in the lowest of ways: as the result of a gang assault by a group of drunken knights on a helpless tavern wench. Last time out, Apropos attempted to seize control of his own fate, and ended up with, appropriately, nothing. Time has passed since he fled the kingdom of Runcible, and Apropos leads a quiet existence as a tavern owner.

Jake Rose's girlfriend, Em Tullis, has mysteriously disappeared, leaving only a one-word clue: "Phoke." His search takes him around the world to fabled Aberforth Hills in the North Sea, home of Earth's native aquatic people, the Mer, who are now known as Phoke. They've remained hidden for centuries, only emerging now in a desperate search for a cure to a Risonian water-borne illness.

Jake Rose joins the courageous crew of the Eagle 10 as they streak across the galaxy to Rison, the other blue planet. Their goal is to find the umjaadi starfish, the host of an organism that is deadly to the Phoke, the water people of Earth. The mission is foolhardy because Rison will soon implode. The catastrophe is mere days away from a science-gone-wrong scenario. Forced to enter the Risonian society at its darkest hour, the team struggles against local politics and race against time to find the starfish.