Susan Cooper
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On the happy occasion of a wedding between two police officers, all hell breaks loose: the town bank is robbed, a sheriff's deputy is murdered, and a city police officer is left for dead, and when Sheriff Milt Kovak sends the happy couple off on their honeymoon to escape the carnage, he little suspects that it will be complicated by a hurricane, psychotic pirates, and semi-naked hotel employees.
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The Edgar Award-nominated author of 17 previous mystery novels, Susan Rogers Cooper spins perplexing whodunits that delight her many fans. In Romanced to Death, E.J. Pugh is six years removed from her last crime scene, but little does she know death awaits her at a romance writers convention.
23) Lying Wonders
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In Lying Wonders, Milt deals with some unfriendly faces from his past. As sheriff of Prophesy County, Milt must come to his ex-girlfriend's aid when her son, Trent, goes missing at the Seven Trumpets religious retreat. To make matters worse, when Milt arrives at the retreat, he finds the dead body of Trent's girlfriend.
24) The word pirates
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When word-eating Captain Rottingbones and his crew steal from the Word Wizard while she is telling a story, her pen proves mightier than the pirates' swords.
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THE SHOW MUST GO ON follows former Home and Away actor and filmmaker Ben Steel on a soul-searching investigation into why are there so many entertainment workers developing and struggling with anxiety, depression and substance abuse and for the first time opening up a much-needed public conversation about their mental health and wellbeing.
29) The seeker
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During Christmas break from school, a seemingly typical teenager discovers that he is anything but ordinary. As the seventh son of a seventh son, Will Stanton is The Seeker - a chosen warrior destined to restore the delicate earthly balance between Light and Dark. Guided by ancient protectors of the Light, young Will must travel through time to gather the hidden signs that hold the ultimate power to protect the world.
31) Frog
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A young boy learns how to swim by watching a small frog that makes its way into the family swimming pool.
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The political murder of a Moscow lawyer, an American father’s tragic mistake and the cancellation of 259 pending U.S. adoptions of Russian orphans are seemingly disparate events found to have an insidious connection in this chilling expose. Winner of a Documentary Prize at the **Nashville Film Festival**. *"Cooper took a ubiquitous topic and told it in an innovative way through both human love and human suffering." - Morena Duwe, **HuffPost***
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E.J. has a surprise twentieth wedding anniversary present for Willis--a weekend away in the Texas hills. She's found the perfect Bed and Breakfast- the Bishop' Inn in the quaint town of Peaceful. Unfortunately, they've barely arrived before the inn's troubled elderly owner, Carrie Marie Hutchins, confides in them about a harrowing event from her childhood involving her dead father...and his spirit, which won't go away...E.J. has little time to digest...
35) The selkie girl
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A retelling of the legend from British coasts and islands in which a man falls in love with a beautiful seal girl and forces her to live on land and be his bride.
36) Green boy
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Twelve-year-old Trey and his seven-year-old brother Lou, who does not speak, cross the barrier between two worlds, that of their island in the Bahamas, and a land called Pangaia, and play a mysterious role in restoring the natural environment in both places.
38) Full circle
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Someone is stalking fourteen-year-old Elizabeth, aka Bessie, and wreaking all kinds of havoc. Who is this person who at first claimed to be her dead brother Aldon? Who seems to be willing to take out her entire family to get to her? The Pugh family is taken aback, full circle, to where it all began.--From front inside flap of book jacket.
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Milt Kovak mysteries volume 3
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When Lois Bell, the neat, well-dressed teller at the Longbranch bank, and her family are found dead of carbon monoxide poisoning in their home, the people of Prophesy County, Oklahoma, are shocked by the garbage-strewn interior of the Bell household.
40) Matthew's dragon
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The dragon in Matthew's picture book comes to life and takes him for an amazing nocturnal ride.