Welcome to Frog and his world. He enjoys nothing better than spending time floating in his pond or visiting with his friends. He appreciates the simpler things in life and would prefer that things stay just the way they are - nice and peaceful. From acclaimed children's writer Eve Bunting comes a new beginning reader series featuring the delightful Frog and his friends Rabbit, Possum, Raccoon and Squirrel. In the first book, Frog is alarmed when he...

"When Barbara Van Laar is discovered missing from her summer camp bunk one morning in August 1975, it triggers a panicked, terrified search. Losing a camper is a horrific tragedy under any circumstances, but Barbara isn't just any camper, she's the daughter of the wealthy family who owns the camp--as well as the opulent nearby estate, and most of the land in sight. And this isn't the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared in this region: Barbara's...

AN INSTANT CLASSIC" -- ReadersFavorite.com "A THOUGHTFUL, INTELLIGENT WORK" -- OnlineBookClub.org "THIS SERIES HAS A CHANCE TO MAKE IT BIG" -- SFReader.com ";MORE THAN MERELY A GREAT STORY" -- LongAndShortReviews.com An exciting adventure for readers 12 and up. Adults: Share your love of science fiction with your child or grandchild. Young readers: share it with you parents of grandparents. When a former child prodigy unveils a revolutionary new technology,...

Mitchell Gray is a man without color. Husband, father and workaday white-collar employee, he suddenly comes to realize that his life is woefully incomplete. A part-time pilot, he is offered the opportunity to ferry a small plane from coast to coast, a chance he seizes with the hope of finding the substance he lacks. It is to be a solo trip, a meditative respite over the American continent—a solo trip, that is, until he meets Maynard Bodell. A...

From the next generation of characters that have made Bluewater famous comes the most infamous of them all. Take youthful energy. Add in some over-active imagination. Mix in some powdered donuts. Sprinkle it with delusional disorder and you get Insane Jane! She's the kookiest action hero of the 21st century. Will Jane save the day? Will Jane destroy the world? Will she remember to take her medication?

Out in the desert in a place called the Palace, a young man tends to a dying soul, someone he once knew briefly but who has haunted the edges of his life: Juan Gay. Playful raconteur, child lost and found and lost, guardian of the institutionalized, Juan has a project to pass along, one built around a true artifact of a book—Sex Variants: A Study of Homosexual Patterns—and its devastating history. This book contains accounts collected in the early...

Jed's quiet life as caretaker of the San Francisco Columbarium is turned upside down when he comes upon a dead woman's body and a crying baby just inside the gate. His search for answers thrusts him into a world of corruption, bigotry and drug trafficking and he becomes one of the principal suspects.

A powerful family saga like no other ... At the height of the Vietnam War in 1971, Jake Abrams is desperate to leave his oppressive home in Colorado and begin a new life in college in LA, but his dreams are waylaid when he meets Leah, an antiwar protester who pushes him into marriage and family. Jake tries to juggle school, his job, and raising four children, but Leah turns to drugs and drinking, and finally runs off with her rock band, leaving Jake...

Adam West has almost gotten used to the idea of traveling across time and fictional dimensions, but what happens when those different dimensions come together around him? And in the process, bring together the most unique team of heroes EVER assembled, whose members include Dirk Benedict, Julie Newmar, Vincent Price, Eartha Kitt and Bill Mumy. Their mission: to save the universe from imploding... and figure out the mind-bending truth behind Adam's...

A little girl vanished 100 years ago. Her name was Sophie. Where did she go?An old house in Balmain. A portrait and perfume bottle hidden in a chimney.Unknown and untouched, while a century passed, their memory slowly fading.Glimpses of an eight year old girl and her school friend, missing, never found.The grief of those left behind, those who searched, those who yearned.So begins a journey to discover an Australian family, five generations, from...