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“A heartbreakingly resonant debut, The Turtle House is a tender, big-hearted story about women, family, and the complicated history of Texas. These characters, and their tentative, flawed stumblings toward grace, will stay with me.”—Elizabeth Wetmore, author of Valentine “Sweeping yet...

“The Bean Trees is the work of a visionary. . . . It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling.” — Los Angeles Times A bestseller that has come to be regarded as an American classic, The Bean Trees is the novel that launched Barbara Kingsolver’s remarkable literary career. It is the...

In this “thrilling” love story (Lily King, author of Writers & Lovers and Five Tuesdays in Winter), a teenage girl with a checkered past finds instant chemistry with a mysterious stranger.​ When sixteen-year-old Cindra Zoeller is sent to a reform camp in Montana after being involved in an...

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Religious fanatics inform historian Cameron Thorne that a medieval stone tower in Newport, Rhode Island is a secret portal—built by the Knights Templar—through which the Antichrist will appear. A group of Native Americans share this belief, claiming that the shape of Turtle Island, their name for North America, was revealed to them by ancient aliens passing through this same portal centuries ago. It all seems utterly ridiculous, until Cam's teenage daughter Astarte is kidnapped and dragged into an occult ritual designed to bring about the Apocalypse.

School is out and summer has begun. For 11 year old Timmy Quinn and his best friend Pete Marshall, the dreary town of Delaware, Ohio becomes a place of magic, hidden treasure and discovery. But on the day they encounter a strange young boy sitting on the bank of Myers Pond, a pond playground, rumor saying it may hide turtles the size of Buicks changes everything.

Analysis, thoughts, and random musings on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics.

Second story in a collection of interlinked tales of crime and retribution laced with dark humour, set around the festive season When a double suicide arrives at the city morgue, Sandra thinks it’s a Christmas like any other. But she’s about to get a very nasty shock – make that two very...

The trio decide to help out Mort with a galactic Easter egg hunt, competing against a fellow space traveller

The trio are sent out by the President of Nexus to find the fireworks intended for the city's annual new year's fireworks show after they are seemingly stolen

What starts as a friendly sandcastle building competition between the trio quickly turns to chaos on the beach of Nexus when Officer M. seeks a small helping hand from a mysterious figure

The trio think that they've met Santa Claus whilst out looking for trees, and agree to help him spread jolly holiday spirit. But Officer M. suspects fowl play at hand, since Santa looks and is acting rather strange

Two of Shakespeare’s most revered and elegiac poems. In The Phoenix and the Turtle, the mythical phoenix consumes itself in fire, from the ashes of which another phoenix is born. In Shakespeare's poem, the phoenix is female and the turtle (that is, a turtledove) is male. In A Lover’s Complaint, originally published with the sonnets, a young woman is overheard lamenting her betrayal by a heartless seducer.

Sassy tomboy Ginger Atkinson would rather be captaining a deep-sea fishing boat than baking pies, yet she still wishes she had a man to bake for. Sure, the pretty redhead is happy running her late father's Turtle Island ferry business, but everyone in the world is finding love except her. Stuck on the wrong side of thirty, she's trying to accept singlehood by building a dream home - for one.

Da Wither Lord and Mikhael Latif take you through the Turtle Man and DaPhantom iceberg, showing off secrets about the show, never-before revealed information of the characters and games and more... as well as some really obvious stuff....

The Passionate Pilgrim, a collection of beautiful verses by Shakespeare and other contemporary poets, is here paired with the Bard's intriguing allegorical work The Phoenix and the Turtle, which focuses on the love and death of two birds - a Phoenix and a Turtle Dove. Mysterious and haunting, these rarely recorded works are richly rewarding, performed to perfection by Gerard Logan.

La novela continúa con la vida de las y los protagonistas de Los ojos amarillos de los cocodrilos: Joséphine y Zoé se han instalado en un buen barrio de París gracias al éxito de la novela que finalmente ha reivindicado su verdadera autora. Horténse se ha ido a estudiar moda a Londres y ve frecuentemente a Gary, el hijo de Shirley, quien también ha decidido vivir una temporada en Inglaterra.

La novela continúa con la vida de las y los protagonistas de Los ojos amarillos de los cocodrilos: Joséphine y Zoé se han instalado en un buen barrio de París gracias al éxito de la novela que finalmente ha reivindicado su verdadera autora. Horténse se ha ido a estudiar moda a Londres y ve frecuentemente a Gary, el hijo de Shirley, quien también ha decidido vivir una temporada en Inglaterra.

Samuel et Ariane sont amis depuis leur enfance, amoureux depuis presque aussi longtemps. Cependant, certaines décisions déchirantes peuvent ébranler la fondation d’un couple, même le plus solide. Malgré toute leur volonté, leur amour n’a pu faire oublier des blessures trop profondes. Bouleversée, Ariane a fui en Amérique du Sud, où elle a tenté tant bien que mal d’oublier Samuel.