"For Harry's second year at Hogwarts, fresh torments and horrors arise, including an outrageously stuck-up new professor and a spirit who haunts the girls' bathroom. But then real trouble begins--someone is turning Hogwarts students to stone. Could it be Draco Malfoy, a more poisonous rival than ever? Could it possibly be Hagrid, whose mysterious past is finally told? Or could it be the one everyone at Hogwarts most suspects ... Harry Potter himself?"--P....

On her eighteenth birthday, Cleo is given clues for a mysterious scavenger hunt that sends her around Columbus, Ohio, and through her past relationship with Declan, who drowned on a group rafting trip the previous year.

Terrier Max is coping with some major life changes. His owner is now married and has a toddler, Liam. Max is so worried about protecting the boy that he develops a nervous tic. On a family trip to a farm, Max and Duke encounter many creatures who elevates Max's anxiety. Luckily, Max gets some guidance from veteran farm dog Rooster, who pushes Max to ditch his neuroses, find his inner alpha, and give Liam a little more freedom. Can Max and the gang...

While reclaiming the first edition books her mother left to her, human-trafficking survivor Hope Sparrow realizes she holds the key to finding a famed Lake Superior pirate treasure, forcing her to place her trust in a man just as broken as she is to piece together something beautiful. Hope Sparrow mastered the art of outrunning her tragic past: She never stays anywhere too long, and will never allow anyone control over her life again. Coming to Wanishin...

While Ballet Cat and Sparkles the Pony are trying to decide what to play, they each share an important secret.

A psychotic, dangerous stranger blames a famous mystery writer for plagiarizing his story.

He had just graduated from university when he found himself reborn in an ancient world, becoming an orphan with the same name as in his previous life. Although there were legends of immortals in this world, no one had ever truly seen one.Stumbling upon a mysterious cave in a dilapidated temple, he obtained a scroll of Daoist texts and a cultivation manual called "Hongmeng Strategy," which had enabled ancient Daoists to train for millennia. Relying...

The continuing adventures of seventh-grader Mackenzie Blue as she tries to juggle her time and attention between a developing crush, the school musical, her family, and her friends.

The Secret Agent is widely considered one of Conrad's greatest literary achievements. Set in gloomy 1886 London, the novel follows the life of Alfred Verdoc, a Soho shop owner and secret agent who is a member of a largely ineffectual anarchist cell. During a meeting at an unnamed foreign embassy where he is a covert employee, Verdoc is tasked with bombing the Greenwich Observatory-ostensibly to create public outrage and goad a lax British government...

A look at the inner workings of the U.S. Secret Service shares insights into the reactionary approaches of the agency's increasingly politicized management and how new strategies are placing presidential security at risk.