Seven-year-old Lola Levine is fierce on the soccer field. She can do a slide tackle (although she's not supposed to) and even likes gooey worms. Nothing scares Lola! That is, until she is auditioning in front of EVERYONE for her class play. After Lola is overcome with stage fright, she's cast as Squirrel #2, a non-speaking part! Lola is more than a little disappointed, and she looks to her bubbe for advice and comfort. But on opening night, the curtain rises, and she finds herself smack in the middle of an exasperating turn of events. In this fun and heartfelt chapter book, can Lola give Squirrel #2 her own special stamp and make it a play to remember?

This holiday season special edition from Quincy J. Allen contains two fun-filled science fiction short stories. The first story is entitled "17," a distant future yarn about what ol' St. Nick might look like in a few hundred years when he is "not of this earth." The second story is an alternate history action adventure where young engineering genius takes on rebel airships and must save his home town from annihilation. It's called "Jimmy Krinklepot and the White Rebels of Hayberry," and it's bound to leave you dreaming of a white Christmas.

Tammy’s got everything: wealth, designer clothes, store cards with unlimited credit, and Ralph Forrester, a drop-dead-gorgeous first-year law student who is going to take her to the end-of-term dance. There’s only one problem: Ralph Forrester doesn’t exist. He’s only alive in the pages of the Trudy Kensington novels, and unable to face being humiliated in front of the girls she longs to be like, Tammy runs away and headfirst into trouble. Gary’s life is spiralling out of control after Grace dies. On a mission to prove he’s nothing like his physically abusive father, he comes to Tammy’s rescue and agrees to be Ralph for just one night. But the lie that brought them together threatens to tear them apart forever when Tammy decides to continue the deceit, and without realising it, she puts Gary’s life at risk. Determined to make things right, she sets about trying to rebuild Gary’s broken home. But has she done enough to convince him he still has a family worth living for?**

The heat of the Florida summer is relentless. Lucas is coasting to retirement in a mundane Florida police precinct. His world falls apart when a brutal serial killer codenamed Mechanic lands on his patch. Three years ago they thought Mechanic was dead. But Mechanic is very much alive and the savage ritualistic murders continue. No family is safe from the threat of slaughter at this sadistic killer’s hands. Mechanic is always one step ahead and Lucas is forced to operate outside the law. Who can he trust? The shocking truth is more terrifying than Lucas could ever imagine ... and he has to put his life on the line to get it.

No Getting Over You – Book Seven, MacLarens of Fire Mountain Contemporary Romance Series Cassie MacLaren has come a long way since being dumped by her long-time boyfriend, a man she believed to be her future. Successful in her job at MacLaren Enterprises, dreaming of one day leading one of the divisions, she’s moved on to start a new relationship, having little time to dwell on past mistakes. Matt Garner loves his job as rodeo representative for Double Ace Bucking Stock. Busy days and constant travel leave no time for anything more than the occasional short-term relationship—which is just the way he likes it. He’s come to accept the regret of leaving the woman he loved for the pro rodeo circuit. The future is set for both, until a chance meeting ignites long buried emotions neither is willing to face. Forced to work together, their attraction grows, even as multiple arson fires threaten Cassie’s new home of Cold Creek, Colorado. Although Cassie believes the danger from the fires is remote, she knows the danger Matt poses to her heart is real. While fighting his renewed feelings for Cassie, Matt focuses on a new and unexpected opportunity offered by MacLaren Enterprises—an opportunity that will put him on a direct collision course with Cassie. Will pride and self-preservation control their future? Or will one be strong enough to make the first move, risking everything, including their heart? No Getting Over You, book seven in the MacLarens of Fire Mountain Contemporary Romance series, is a full-length novel with an HEA.

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Miss Jane Austen's fictionalised account known as "Pride and Prejudice" was informed mainly by the recollections of her friend Miss Elizabeth Bennet, supplemented by information from others in Miss Bennet's circle.More than two hundred years later, a trove of documents has finally emerged to suggest that Miss Austen's understanding of the events she portrayed, was less complete than she apparently believed.I refer, of course, to the recent discovery of the so-called "Pemberley Papers", a bundle of notes, diaries, maps, letters and other ephemera that had lain hidden in the library of that great house through the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The trove includes records kept by Mr Darcy starting in 1806 and covering the years up to his wedding; several detailed diaries from the Bingley family and others; and many items of correspondence sent during that same period between Mr Fitzwilliam Darcy, his cousin Captain Richard Fitzwilliam,...