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An act of defiance that will either kill her or change her life forever… Sixteen year old Makayla Summerlin's life with her drug-addled mom and skeezy boyfriend was hard, really hard – but it was hers! She barely remembers the grandfather she now has to live with. Completely uprooted, Makayla feels exactly how little control she has over anything... until she looks at her grandfather's sailboat and suddenly it seems like the perfect escape from her life. Makayla sets sail – with an unintended passenger – and begins a journey around the coast of Florida that will challenge everything she has ever believed about herself. What will it take to survive the elements? 2016 Gold Finalist in the Wishing Shelf Book Award! A NY Times and USA Today bestselling author, the internationally acclaimed S.E. Smith presents a new story with her signature humor and unpredictable twists! Exciting adventure, sweet romance, and iconic characters have won her a legion of fans. Over TWO MILLION books sold!
Critically acclaimed Sibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson brings to bold life the remarkable story of the Danish resistance and rescue of over 7,000 Jews during WWII. When the Nazis invaded Denmark the morning of Tuesday, April 9, 1940, the people of this tiny country to the north of Germany awoke to a devastating surprise. The government of Denmark surrendered quietly, and the Danes were ordered to go about their daily lives as if nothing had changed. But everything had changed. Award-winning author Deborah Hopkinson traces the stories of the heroic young men and women who would not stand by as their country was occupied. Rather, they fought back. Some were spies, passing tactical information to the British; some were saboteurs, who aimed to hamper and impede Nazi operations in Denmark; and 95% of the Jewish population of Denmark were survivors, rescued by their fellow countrymen, who had the courage and conscience that drove them to act. With her extraordinary talent for digging deep in her research and weaving real voices into her narratives, Hopkinson reveals the thrilling truth behind one of WWII's most daring resistance movements.
Literary Nonfiction. Evicted from his Tofino pyramid for the last time, writer Andrew Struthers has the solution: buy an old fishing boat going cheap via the federal government's Mifflin Plan. He takes up residence onboard with his nine-year-old daughter Pasheabel, and his perennial housing problems are solved. Or are they? THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE LOCH RYAN picks up where the author's prize-winning The Green Shadow left off, offering a tragicomic account of small-town life in British Columbia and of how its residents are affected by the decline of the West Coast fishing fleet. Packed to the gunwales with fascinating West Coast ship lore, hilarious and affectionate account of the author's neighbors, it boasts at least one good laugh per page.
In the tradition of Seabiscuit and The Summer of ’49, a gripping sports narrative that brilliantly tells the amazing individual stories of the unforgettable athletes who gathered in Mexico City in a year of dramatic upheaval. The 1968 Mexico City Olympics reflected the spirit of their revolutionary times. Richard Hoffer’s Something in the Air captures the turbulence and offbeat heroism of that historic Olympiad, which was as rich in inspiring moments as it was drenched in political and racial tensions. Although the basketball star Lew Alcindor decided to boycott, heavyweight boxer George Foreman not only competed, but waved miniature American flags over his fallen opponents. The sprinters Tommie Smith and John Carlos became as famous for their raised-fist gestures of protest as their speed on the track. No one was prepared for Bob Beamon’s long jump, which broke the world’s record by a staggering twenty-two inches. And then there was Dick Fosbury, the goofball high jumper whose backwards, upside down approach to the bar (the "Fosbury Flop") baffled his coaches while breaking records. Though Fosbury was his own man, he was apolitical and easygoing. He didn’t defy authority; he defied gravity. Witty, insightful, and filled with human drama, Something in the Air mixes Shakespearean complexity with Hollywood sentimentality, sociopolitical significance, and the exhilarating spectacle of youthful, physical prowess. It is a powerful, unforgettable tale that will resonate with sports fans and readers of social history alike.
King Tamblin, ruler of the Kingdom of Glitter, prepares for battle. The aliens foretold by his sister, Tia, have returned, and he will stop at nothing to prevent the creatures from decimating their home moon again. Yet, it seems there is little he or the Kingdom of the Sand People can do to stop the invasion. With all hope fading, Tia tells Tamblin that he must go on a quest to find the beautiful and mysterious Arosa, Queen of the Wood Fairies. Arosa, considered a Goddess on many worlds she visits, is stunned when a playful trick to entertain the Dragonlings of Valdier turns her life upside down. She never expects to feel the strange yet exhilarating emotions that Tamblin stirs inside her. Her kind were supposed to observe other species, not fall in love with them! She will risk breaking all the rules to protect him. Arosa recognizes love blossoming within, but will the King return her feelings when he discovers that she is more than just the Queen of the Wood Fairies? A NY Times and USA Today bestselling author, the internationally acclaimed S.E. Smith presents a new story with her signature humor and unpredictable twists! Exciting adventure, sweet romance, and iconic characters have won her a legion of fans. Over TWO MILLION books sold! Previously released in Pets in Space 5, The King's Quest now joins the Dragon Lords of Valdier series as a standalone novella.
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The author of The Devil in the White City and Dead Wake delivers an intimate chronicle of Winston Churchill and London during the Blitz—an inspiring portrait of courage and leadership in a time of unprecedented crisis “One of [Erik Larson’s] best books yet . . . perfectly timed for the moment.”—Time • “A bravura performance by one of America’s greatest storytellers.”—NPR NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • Time • Vogue • NPR • The Washington Post • Chicago Tribune • The Globe & Mail • Fortune • Bloomberg • New York Post • The New York Public Library • Kirkus Reviews • LibraryReads • PopMatters On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, and the Dunkirk evacuation was just two weeks away. For the next twelve months, Hitler would wage a relentless bombing campaign, killing 45,000 Britons. It was up to Churchill to hold his country together and persuade President Franklin Roosevelt that Britain was a worthy ally—and willing to fight to the end. In The Splendid and the Vile, Erik Larson shows, in cinematic detail, how Churchill taught the British people “the art of being fearless.” It is a story of political brinkmanship, but it’s also an intimate domestic drama, set against the backdrop of Churchill’s prime-ministerial country home, Chequers; his wartime retreat, Ditchley, where he and his entourage go when the moon is brightest and the bombing threat is highest; and of course 10 Downing Street in London. Drawing on diaries, original archival documents, and once-secret intelligence reports—some released only recently—Larson provides a new lens on London’s darkest year through the day-to-day experience of Churchill and his family: his wife, Clementine; their youngest daughter, Mary, who chafes against her parents’ wartime protectiveness; their son, Randolph, and his beautiful, unhappy wife, Pamela; Pamela’s illicit lover, a dashing American emissary; and the advisers in Churchill’s “Secret Circle,” to whom he turns in the hardest moments. The Splendid and the Vile takes readers out of today’s political dysfunction and back to a time of true leadership, when, in the face of unrelenting horror, Churchill’s eloquence, courage, and perseverance bound a country, and a family, together.
The Dragon Lords of Valdier universe is vast but each book can stand alone! Jump in at any point in the series. Carmen Walker has spent the last three years of her life focusing on avenging the murder of her husband, and she’s closing in on his killer. To meet with her informant, she catches a ride on the business jet her sister is co-piloting to California, but plans change when one of the women is kidnapped and Carmen is mortally wounded. She wakes on board an alien warship heading to a distant world. Creon Reykill is credited with transforming the wars between the Valdier, Curizan, and Sarafin into a strong alliance, but that victory came at a cost. Creon has given up hope that he will ever find his true mate, believing his soul is too dark to deserve such happiness—until a human female unlike anything he has ever seen before is brought to his world, and Creon discovers he would do anything to chase the shadows from her eyes. Carmen has a destiny, however, and she cannot give up on it, even if it means crossing the galaxy alone to finish what she started. It will take every skill Creon possesses to stay one step ahead of her, but ultimately it will all come down to one challenge. Can Creon convince Carmen to give love a second chance before she throws away everything—including her life—for revenge? A NY Times and USA Today bestselling author, the internationally acclaimed S.E. Smith presents a new story with her signature humor and unpredictable twists! Exciting adventure, hot romance, and iconic characters have won her a legion of fans. Over TWO MILLION books sold!
The Dragon Lords of Valdier universe is vast but each book can stand alone! Jump in at any point in the series. Twin Dragons is a USA Today and New York Times Bestseller! Among the Valdier, twin dragons are feared above all others. Within a prison camp on a mining asteroid, Melina has disguised her gender for years…. Long ago, Cree and Calo witnessed the catastrophic end of the only other twin dragon-shifters in existence, and they swore they would never let themselves go that far down the path of madness. Since then, they have earned the Dragon Lords' trust, but the infamous insanity that besieged the first twin dragons is now beginning to take over their senses, just as all the Dragon Lords have found their true mates. After so long without a mate of their own, Cree and Calo's dragons are pushing them to do something that would surround them with devastating death and a bitterly waged war. There has never been a woman who can handle a lifetime with two dragon-shifters, and they don’t expect that to change now when they desperately need a partner to save their sanity. Hope can spring from unexpected places however—as the twins find out when they rescue an old man and his suspiciously mysterious grandson from an abandoned mining asteroid. The twin dragon-shifters are two of the most fearsome warriors in the galaxy, but helpless to resist, they are launched into a confused and conflicted journey to a distant planet called Earth... at the behest of their... true mate. For this beauty in disguise, life has certainly not been easy, and her journey is just beginning. A NY Times and USA Today bestselling author, the internationally acclaimed S.E. Smith presents a new story with her signature humor and unpredictable twists! Exciting adventure, hot romance, and iconic characters have won her a legion of fans. Over TWO MILLION books sold! Over TWO MILLION books sold!