Dreams of Drowning is a work of magical realism that moves between real time where lives are buffeted by political conflict, tragedy and loss and another mysterious time where pain is healed, and love is eternal. It's 1973 and Amy, an American ex-pat, is living as an illegal immigrant in Toronto where she's fled to escape the scandal surrounding her twin sister's death by drowning. Joanie's been gone two years, but Amy still hears her cries for help. Romance would jeopardize the secrets Amy has to keep, but when she meets Arcus, a graduate student working to restore democracy in Greece, she falls hard. Arcus doesn't know about Amy's past, and she doesn't know Arcus has secrets of his own, including the shady history of an ancient relic he uses as a paperweight. In 1993 Toronto, Jacob Kanter, a retired archaeologist, is mourning his dear wife and grappling with his son's plans to move him to a nursing home. Despite double vision, tremors, and...

Jess has some time off, so for the first time in a while, she is going on a date. It's a blind date set up by her General Manager, Noah. However, after waiting for two hours, Jessica is devastated to think she's been stood up. He seemed so nice via texts. As she is leaving the restaurant they were meeting at, she sees police have blocked off the street two blocks down. That's when she learns the truth about her date. He was murdered. For her peace of mind and at the begging of Noah, she begins investigating his death and things get strange and too close to home.

A boy living on Mars unexpectedly becomes a dragon rider in this first book in the sci-fi and fantasy mash-up The Dragonships series, sure to delight fans of Skandar and Eragon.Keep your eyes down and your feet moving, or this planet will rust you. That's what Lunar Jones tells the other kids at the relocation clinic. All of them were born on Mars, a planet that never wanted people in the first place. With resources scarce and hope even scarcer, it's easy to get distracted looking up. After all, their ancestors descended from the stars. Martian history always starts with Earth. The first astronauts discovered that space was already occupied. Not by little green men or flying saucers. It was full of dragons. One for every moon, every planet, every star. When humanity discovered that Earth's dragon had sacrificed herself to make their home planet habitable, they set their sights on Mars. If one dead dragon could breathe life into a world, why...

A mysterious attack destroys poultry on an unprecedented scale. Retaliation brings the supply of eggs in Scotland tumbling down. But when the next attack deals a result of human blood, can Macleod and McGrath determine the pecking order to find out who's the fox in the hen house? When a body is found at the bottom of the latest attack on poultry in Scotland, Macleod finds himself treading through the hen house muck in order to crack open the most scrambled case of his career. Warring factions are absorbed in a melee stirred up by animal rights factions, leaving Macleod with more suspects than feathers. Can the team shift through the hen house remains, and keep the nation's eggs on the table without cracking? You can't make an omelette without cracking a few eggs!

When you're 12 years old and 6 foot tall, people ask the most annoying questions. The #1 Most Annoying Question according to Alma T. Best is, 'Do you play basketball?'Uh, no. She hates basketball. Then Alma wins a scholarship to attend Holy Grace, a fancy, basketball-obsessed girls school, and she worries about fitting in.Rather than admit she lives in Shellsville, home to Holy Grace's biggest basketball rivals, she pretends to have grown up on a distant peach farm.But when a twist of fate means Alma has to suddenly produce large quantities of peaches, she finds herself in a bit of a jam ...