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Santa is in trouble - he catches a cold at the most inconvenient time of the year. As he rests in bed, he ponders anxiously: Who will deliver the presents this year?

One woman learns the consequences of having a PlaceNook account when all her "friends" show up on her doorstep unannounced.

The Swedish playwright August Strindberg was one of the founding fathers of naturalistic theater. A feature of many of his plays is the minute dissection of attitude and motivation by individuals within tightly bound groups. As in the present drama, such relentless inspection of behavior often has drastic consequences. Thekla, married to the needy Adolf, has a surprise encounter with her former husband, the lordly Gustav. Or is it really a surprise?

Despite its patina of humor, the work is a merciless exposé of the commercial middle class dishonesty, and the convenient immorality hiding behind social conventions, which are characteristic of a developing urban society. The most noble character, Serafima, is a compelling mixture of naïveté, whimsicality, sentimentality, and obstinate practicality - one of the finest character portraits in Russian drama.

The Colonial Scouts are an elite group of explorers who seek out habitable planets for the Colonial Expansion Board. They travel through space via programmable wormholes. Impani, a brilliant girl with a dark past, dreams of escaping the streets by becoming a Scout. Because she is homeless, she feels she must study twice as hard to get into the program. The day before her final exam, however, a transporter malfunction sends her jumping uncontrollably from planet to planet.

Interplanetary visitor Moop has been sent on a mission: to investigate Christmas. When he meets Santa, Moop discovers that there is rather more to Earth's greatest festival than he had expected.

Polly Parrett meets Polly parrot. Together, can they solve a murder mystery? Things just don't always go the right way for pet-sitter, Polly Parrett. Dogs and cats can be tough enough; now she finds herself having to cope with a moody macaw, a volatile new resident at her mother's halfway house for veterans, and oh yeah, a dead body. What's more, the parrot and Polly share the same name, which not only makes for a lot of confusion, but it just might be that the parrot is the smarter of the two.

Polly Parrett finds herself in the midst of another murder mystery. This time it involves two little girls, a wicked stepmother, and a missing father. Oh, and Christmas is almost here. It all begins with a mysterious gift box that’s left on Polly's doorstep. Along the way she encounters problems with her pet-sitting customers and her arch nemesis, Britney Harris, who has her eye on Polly's boyfriend Tyler.

Polly Parrett is juggling the care of her wheelchair-bound mother, her pet-sitting business, and the sale of the family home. On top of that she finds herself having to deal with an arrogant but really sexy realtor, and Christmas is coming! None of that seems important, though, when she finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation and must find the real killer before an innocent homeless man and his dog are wrongly convicted.

Guilt, the venom running through humanity’s veins. The cancer eating mankind’s soul. Death, both courted and earned, well-fed upon denial. Balanced on the delicate edge between madness and damnation, clarity comes to us all. There is one thing more terrifying than the darkness at the edge of your vision staring back. The seed of that darkness peering from within your heart. What is real? What is imagined? Right, or wrong, the price of your answer is your soul.

What if I told you witches lived among us? In this ninth and final book of the Brittany Meyer Novellas, Brittany finds herself inducted as the Witch Queen of Florida. Overwhelmed by her obligations, she secretly creates a doppelganger to share her royal duties with hilarious results. All the while, Darcella, the murderous sorceress from the Chord, is hunting her with a dagger in her hand and revenge in her heart. Can Brittany fit her into her schedule? Or will Darcella jump the line?

Brittany is a 17-year-old witch with magical powers she doesn’t want and can’t control. When she is told that her birth father is an actual angel who was banished to a different dimension for fraternizing with a human, she decides to find and hold him accountable. But when she gets there, she realizes he is more in need of saving than she is.

Deborah’s husband was hung for murder ten years ago. She still believes he was innocent. Deborah turns to the judge who sentenced her husband as the one person who can help her clear his name … and in doing so, she learns that Dark Hollow holds more secrets than she imagined …

At the ass-end of the galaxy, Allied Forces—including the 142nd Mobile Special Ops Team, better known as Daire’s Devils—stand ready to defend the contested colony planet Demeter from military invasion and corporate exploitation. But when the ranks are infiltrated by those determined to secure the top-secret designs of AeroCom’s new prototype flagship, the Cromwell, the newest member of the Devils, Corporal Katrion Alexander, finds herself facing off against an unexpected menace, synthetic operatives indistinguishable from living beings.

After 14 years making maps at TerraPlaya, every day feels like a Monday to Lucy. Just when she resigns herself to an uninspired existence, her reality is shaken when a mysterious woman joins her team. Lucy soon learns that the world is full of magic, and not everyone is using it for good.

From a kitsune slinking through the mists … to an elven champion tied to every crossroad in the moment of Midnight … to the heir of Underhill ruling the road on a Harley, the mystical and magical intersect nearly unrealized with the world of man. Do you dare to walk among them with open eyes? Do you seek a glimpse of their power? Take care and proceed with soft steps among the folk of magic and moonlight.

Bacchus was once the god of a bountiful harvest but has since become the god of excess. He rewards his followers with wealth and power, and his followers honor him by sacrificing girls. When a coven takes her friend, a teenage witch rushes to rescue her. She is outnumbered and outmatched. The only thing on her side is...nothing. There’s nothing on her side. Will she be the next sacrifice on the table?

First published in 1881, the subtitle of this book tells us that it was written “for children and those who love children”. Heidi, a 5-year-old orphan, is handed off by her young Aunt Dete to live with her grandfather in the Swiss Alps. Though her new life is foreign, Heidi soon falls in love with her grandfather, and he with her. They share a contented life of goat-herding. But when Grandfather refuses to allow Heidi to attend school in the small village below, quarrels ensue.