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A terrorist crashes an explosive-packed rental truck into Major Brooke Grant's Washington, DC, wedding, detonating the deadliest bomb ever exploded in the capital on what should have been the happiest day of her life and killing a US president. Saved by a last-minute fluke, Brooke seeks revenge against the master terrorist responsible.

Seventeen year old Veronica "Ronnie" Miller's life was turned upside-down when her parents divorced and her father moved from New York City to Wilmington, North Carolina. Three years later, she remains angry and alientated from her parents, especially her father--until her mother decides it would be in everyone's best interest if she spent the summer in Wilmington with him. Ronnie's father, a former concert pianist and teacher, is living a quiet life in the beach town, immersed in creating a work of art that will become the centerpiece of a local church.

With his best friend awarding him points, Rafe tries to break every rule in his school's oppressive Code of Conduct. But when Rafe's game starts to catch up with him, he'll have to decide if winning is all that matters, or if he's finally ready to face the truths he's been avoiding.

Spanning the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, this enthralling story follows the fortunes of the Whittaker family. The brilliant Alma, a botanist, falls in love with a man who draws her into the realm of the spiritual as they are united by a need to understand the mechanisms behind all life.

When the twins and their friends enter worlds crafted from Conner's imagination, finding allies no one else could have ever dreamed of, the race begins to put an end to the Masked Man's reign of terror. Can the twins finally restore peace in the fairy tale world?

After the emotional cliffhanger of The Land of Stories: A Grimm Warning, shocking secrets are revealed about Conner and Alex's past, and they once again find themselves fighting to save the fairy tale world--this time from a villain neither could have ever imagined.

In Kabul, 2007, with a drug-addicted father and no brothers, Rahima and her sisters can only sporadically attend school or leave the house. Their only hope lies in an ancient custom that will allow Rahima to dress and be treated as a boy until she is of marriageable age.

Back home, Detective Bennett receives an unusual call: a man claims to have seen a group of men holding a bizarre party in a condemned building. Bennett dismisses the report. But when a charred body is found in that very same building, he is forced to take the caller seriously.

After a rough summer, Rafe has just learned that he's going to be held back a year unless he can prove himself on an outdoor survival excursion--complete with dangerous white-water rafting, dizzying rock climbing, and fanatical counselors.

It was never easy for Sammy Hayes-Rodriguez to fit in, so he's dreading the day when his genius mom insists he bring her newest invention to school: a walking, talking robot called "E" that thinks it's Sammy's brother. Will E be Sammy's one-way ticket to Loserville? Or will he prove to the world that it's cool to be square?