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With more than 300 bright and colorful stickers, this engaging, interactive sticker-activity book invites creative young artists to transform everyday objects into festive Christmas friends.   This entertaining, engaging sticker-activity book provides hours of artistic fun while strengthening a child''s creativity! Humorous prompts and puns encourage young artists to transform everyday objects such as a potato, an onion, a stocking, a present, a tambourine, a bow, and even a cookie into festive Christmas friends. Children can add a variety of stickers to change the objects, including eyes, mouths, hats, scarfs, beards, ears, antlers, halos, and other items. Includes more than 300 bright and colorful stickers. Transform everyday objects into fun Christmas characters! Each book in the Crazy Stickers series includes more than 300 stickers. Add eyes, mouths, arms, and more to pictures of fruit, sports equipment, vegetables, toys, and other items. These are ideal activity books for young artists with big imaginations!

Do you believe in magic? Lexi and her friends do! And when they meet the Star Animals, a whole world of magical adventure unfolds in this exciting new chapter book from the Star Friends series featuring black-and-white illustrations throughout.When strange things begin to happen in Westport, Lexi, Mia, Violet, and Sita suspect that someone is doing dark magic. Mia has a scary dream about someone casting spells in the girls'' special clearing in the woods. The adults seem to have forgotten about their responsibilities. And one night, the girls all notice that ivy begins crawling up the windowsill in their bedrooms! Can the Star Friends--with the help of their beloved Star Animals--figure out who is behind the dark magic before it is too late?In the Star Friends chapter book series, Mia and her friends Lexi, Sita, and Violet all discover that they are Star Friends -- they can communicate with the animals that have traveled from the Star World. The animals show the girls how to use their unique magic abilities to do good. A whole world of magical adventures awaits!

A couple find themselves at a fading, grand European hotel full of eccentric and sometimes unsettling patrons in this "e;faultlessly elegant and quietly menacing"e; allegorical story that examines the significance of shifting desires and the uncertainty of reality (Garth Greenwell, author of Cleanness).An American couple travel to a strange, snowy European city to adopt a baby, who they hope will resurrect their failing marriage. This difficult journey leaves the wife, who is struggling with cancer, desperately weak, and her husband worries that her apparent illness will prevent the orphanage from releasing their child.The couple check into the cavernous and eerily deserted Borgarfjaroasysla Grand Imperial Hotel where the bar is always open and the restaurant serves thirteen-course dinners from centuries past. Their attempt to claim their baby is both helped and hampered by the people they encounter: an ancient, flamboyant chanteuse, a debauched businessman, an enigmatic faith healer, and a stoic bartender who dispenses an addictive, lichen-flavored schnapps. Nothing is as it seems in this mysterious, frozen world, and the longer the couple endure the punishing cold the less they seem to know about their marriage, themselves, and life itself.What Happens at Night is a "e;masterpiece"e; (Edmund White) poised on the cusp of reality, told by "e;an elegantly acute and mysteriously beguiling writer"e; (Richard Eder, The Boston Globe).

Lisa Jackson''s very first Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli thriller, LEFT TO DIE, is repackaged in trade paperback for the first time.From #1 New York Times bestselling author Lisa Jackson comes the chilling, riveting novel that first introduced Detectives Selena Alvarez and Regan Pescoli, hunting for a serial killer who is both savior and executioner...In the lonely woods around Grizzly Falls, Montana, the first body is discovered, stripped naked and tied to a tree. Alvarez and Pescoli have been hoping for a career-making case, but this is a nightmare. The killer stages car accidents on icy, isolated roads and "rescues" his victims. He toys with them, heals them, earns their trust... before subjecting them to a slow, agonizing death.When Jillian Rivers opens her eyes, she''s trapped in a mangled car. Then a stranger, claiming to be a trail guide, pries her free. Though she''s grateful, something about him sets Jillian on edge. And if she knew what was lying in wait for her, she''d be truly terrified . . .Even with the FBI involved, Selena and Regan have nothing to go on but a series of cryptic notes, and the unsettling knowledge that there is much worse to come. Piece by piece, the killer''s brutal plan is taking shape. But his final move will be the most shocking--and personal--of all . . .

The Sisterhood: a group of women from all walks of life bound by friendship and a quest for justice. Armed with vast resources, top-notch expertise, and a loyal network of allies around the globe, the Sisterhood will not rest until true justice is served. Before they became the indomitable force they are today, the Sisterhood were seven devoted friends who had been tested but not broken by bad luck and betrayal. They vowed to empower themselves, back each other, and right some wrongs. Especially when it’s time to put a powerful man in his rightful place... The women of the Sisterhood know life isn’t fair, but that doesn’t mean they have to like it—or let it pass. Even reeling from the loss of one of their own, the Sisterhood is always prepared to rally behind a new friend. For years, Paula Woodley has suffered the broken bones and shattered self-esteem caused by an abusive marriage. But what can she do? Her high-profile, Washington powerbroker husband is not a man to be crossed. Or so he thinks. The Sisterhood may not be an organization found in any of his memos, but he’s about to take a meeting with them—and they’ll be setting the agenda...  

From bestselling author and law enforcement veteran Sean Lynch, the fourth installment in the epic saga of Samuel Pritchard, a young man coming of age in the Civil War, riding tall with the Texas Rangers, and becoming one of the greatest gunfighters of his time… Gunfighting legend Sam Pritchard tracks down a notorious train saboteur—and nearly goes off the rails—in this fast-paced Western adventure from acclaimed author Sean Lynch... DEMENTED. DERANGED. DERAILED. 1875. The escalating rivalry between the two major railroad companies takes a dangerous—and deadly—turn when a train is deliberately derailed. Many are killed. More are injured. And Marshal Samuel Pritchard’s longtime friend is crippled for life. The mastermind behind the train wreck claims to be the infamous Civil War criminal Jem Rupe, aka “The Trainwrecker of Platte Bridge.” There’s just one problem: Rupe has been dead for ten years... With an oath of vengeance on his lips—and a pair of Colt .45s on his hips—Pritchard sets off to find the trainwrecking fiend, whether it’s really Jem Rupe or some copy-cat maniac. Either way, he’ll have to ride the rails with some pretty deranged characters—crooked railroad tycoons, ruthless bounty hunters, trigger-happy gunfighters—before he reaches the end of the line. There’s just one way to stop a mass transit murderer...and that’s dead in his tracks. 

SOMETHING SHE CAN’T REMEMBERWhen Claire Shaw wakes in a Seattle hospital, she remembers nothing of what has happened to her. She doesn’t recognize the concerned faces of her husband and friends. She knows only that she is lucky to be alive, the single surviving victim of a vicious serial killer. SOMEONE WHO WON’T FORGETShe was a mistake—not like the others. She didn’t understand. That was obvious now. But she would come to understand. Next time, there would be no escape—and her eyes would fill with that perfect, beautiful terror... SOME THINGS YOU CAN’T IMAGINEOn an island isolated from the mainland, Claire has returned to a life she barely knows anymore. A town that feels as if it, too, is hiding something in its dark woods, remote cabins, and chilly smiles. Bit by bit, Claire’s memory is taking terrifying shape in a place where fear is very much at home...

From bestselling author and law enforcement veteran Sean Lynch, the third installment in the gritty, realistic saga of Samuel Pritchard, a young man coming of age in the Civil War, riding tall with the Texas Rangers, and becoming one of the greatest gunfighters of his time…When the legend becomes fact, kill the legend.  When the legend becomes fact, kill the legend. The saga of gunfighter Samuel Pritchard continues in this violent story of blood and bullets from acclaimed Western author Sean Lynch. THE DEVIL CAME DOWN TO IDAHO As both a former Confederate guerilla and Texas Ranger, and now a U.S. marshal, no one knows the dangers of the frontier and cowtowns like Marshal Samuel Pritchard.  A couple of wagon trains traveling the Oregon Trail have vanished and Pritchard’s got miles of bad road across hostile territory to investigate. But he must also reckon with a price on his head. Bounty hunter Captain Laird Bonner is the greatest manhunter throughout the west—and he’s as ruthless as he’s relentless in pursuing his prey. Then the trail for both Pritchard and Bonner ends in an Idaho mining town named Whiskey Falls. Ruled by a man who earned his stripes in Andersonville, the town is a literal hell for everyone who lives there, slaving and dying to satiate their captor’s lustful greed. To escape, Pritchard and Bonner must declare an uneasy truce and take on an army of gunmen. This is the story of Samuel Pritchard. A frontier-town peacekeeper who left many outlaws dead in the dust . . . 

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of its publication, this trade paperback edition of Czerneda''s Aurora Award-winning sci-fi novel features an all-new author’s note and an introduction by Tanya Huff, plus the finale short story “The Franchise”!With Earth overcrowded by its own population, humanity must look to the stars to survive. Advance crews of terraformers prepared alien worlds in advance of the colonists to come.When those terraforming crews introduced the alien Quill to worlds where they did not belong, they saw them only as a mindless form of fungal life. But the Quill multiplied and mutated until they were no longer harmless, making the planets impossible for humans to inhabit. People expecting their new homes were crowded into space stations waiting for a solution to be found. In the ensuing chaos, many stations were lost.For the survivors, their only hope rests in finding a way to wipe out the Quill before the final stations fail.

This fifteenth anthology of short stories set in the beloved Valdemar universe features tales by debut and established authors and a brand-new story from Lackey herself.The Heralds of Valdemar are the kingdom''s ancient order of protectors. They are drawn from all across the land, from all walks of life, and at all ages--and all are Gifted with abilities beyond those of normal men and women. They are Mindspeakers, FarSeers, Empaths, ForeSeers, Firestarters, FarSpeakers, and more. These inborn talents--combined with training as emissaries, spies, judges, diplomats, scouts, counselors, warriors, and more--make them indispensable to their monarch and realm. Sought and Chosen by mysterious horse-like Companions, they are bonded for life to these telepathic, enigmatic creatures. The Heralds of Valdemar and their Companions ride circuit throughout the kingdom, protecting the peace and, when necessary, defending their land and monarch.