SUMMARY: Neither the Clans nor the Great Houses of the Inner Sphere are ready to become ComStar's puppets. And within ComStar's upper echelon a new power struggle is about to begin. As the Clans continue their inward drive, can ComStar mobilize the Inner Sphere's last defenses--or will their own internal political warfare provide the final death blow to the empire they are sworn to protect?

Seventeen-year-old Sonny Gossage is infatuated with Naomi Shamir, the Israeli woman who lives down the street. He wants romance; all she can offer is a plate of hummus and occaisional babysitting job.mrs. ima wordlover is what her name suggests—a word lover. she is a teacher. she likes to make up word games for her students to play. she wants her games to show that words can be fun. she wants her games to show that using words can be serious. she knows that words and imagination are a team. when imagination creates a story, words bring the story to life. she knows that words can have more than one meaning. she knows some words make us feel good. she knows some words make us hurt. for mrs. wordlover, a word game is a lesson. and she wants every word to belong to every child. every classroom has rules. mrs. wordlover’s rules look and sound different. for some, they are funny. for others, they are weird (jiggery-pokery). by the end of class, it all makes sense. and the students have a lesson on idioms.

A collection of poems about the uncertainties of life.Every day, thousands of people board an airplane without a second thought. Their minds are full of where they’ve been and their destination. However, sometimes, life has different plans.Flight 437 is such a story. On a flight from Paris, France to New York City, the crew and passengers find themselves trapped on a flight none of them expected. As events unfold, they soon realize they are no longer on the planned flight, but are now, in fact, headed to an unknown destination.

Lizzy Caldwell is so excited when she's asked to join the Camp Fear Girls. It sounds like such a cool club. Even though the clubhouse is on Fear Street--the spookiest street around. Even though the troop badges show coffins and hangman's nooses. Even though the Camp Fear Girls are mysteriously vanishing...

The Vampire dumped on Pack land is a handsome devil. Bringing him home to meet my Alpha is risky, but something tells me I'm going to need him around. Lycanthropes and Vampires don't mix. So why do I insist on keeping him close to me? Why do I dream about him biting me? BrE. 16+

The award-winning author of The Memory of Water delivers a gripping tale of family, fate, and forgiveness.When Piper Mills was twelve, she helped her grandfather bury a box that belonged to her grandmother in the backyard. For twelve years, it remained untouched.Now a near fatal riding accident has shattered Pipers dreams of Olympic glory. After her grandfathers death, she inherits the house and all its secrets, including a key to a room that doesnt existor does it? And after her grandmother is sent away to a nursing home, she remembers the box buried in the backyard. In it are torn pages from a scrapbook, a charm necklaceand a newspaper article from 1929 about the body of an infant found floating in the Savannah River. The necklaces charms tell the story of three friends during the 1920s each charm added during the three months each friend had the necklace and recorded her life in the scrapbook. Piper always dismissed her grandmother as not having had a story to tell....

Revisit the beginning of New York Times bestselling author Karen White's signature style in one of her earliest novels—a story about a love that defies time... IN THE SHADOW OF THE MOON When Laura Truitt first sees the dilapidated plantation house, she's overcome by a sense of familiarity. Inside, the owner claims to have been waiting for years and offers an old photograph of a woman with Laura's face. Soon afterwards, when a lunar eclipse inexplicably thrusts Laura back in time to Civil War Georgia, she finds herself fighting not just for her heart, but for her very survival.... Includes an exclusive preview of Karen White's next hardcover Praise for Karen White "There is a rhythm to the writing of Karen White. It has a pace, a beat, a cadence that is all its own."—The Huffington Post "The ultimate voice of women's fiction."—Fresh...