by admin | Dec 24, 2025 | Children & Middle Grade |
A rather large problem has befallen the Huit girls. (Sisters, actually. Octuplets to be exact.) One particular New Year’s Eve, the girls wait for their mommy to bring them hot chocolate and their daddy to return with more wood for the fire. But they don’t. Mommy and Daddy, that is. They’re gone. Poof! Maybe dead—no one knows for sure.
You must see the problem here. Eight little girls on their own, no mommy or daddy to take care of them. This is not a good thing.
So now these little girls, must take care of themselves. Get to school, cook the meals, feed the cats (eight of them, too), and pay the bills. They can’t ask for help, oh no. Any self-respecting adult would surely call in social services, and those well-meaning people would have to split them up. After losing their parents, being split up would be completely unbearable.
At the same time, the question remains: What happened to Mommy and Daddy? The Sisters Eight (as they are called, affectionately and otherwise) are determined to find out. Luckily, they do seem to have someone or something helping them. Notes keep appearing behind a loose brick in the fireplace.
It’s a good old-fashioned mystery with missing (or dead) parents, nosy neighbors, talking refrigerators, foul-smelling fruitcake (is there any other kind?), and even a little magic. Eight little girls, eight cats, and one big mystery—let the fun begin!
Durinda’s Dangers, wherein Durinda, second in line, discovers her power and gift. Boy, is her power a doozy!
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by admin | Dec 24, 2025 | Science & Natural World |
Repackaged with a new afterword, this “valuable and entertaining” (New York Times Book Review) book explores how scientists are adapting nature’s best ideas to solve tough 21st century problems.
Biomimicry is rapidly transforming life on earth. Biomimics study nature’s most successful ideas over the past 3.5 million years, and adapt them for human use. The results are revolutionizing how materials are invented and how we compute, heal ourselves, repair the environment, and feed the world.
Janine Benyus takes readers into the lab and in the field with maverick thinkers as they: discover miracle drugs by watching what chimps eat when they’re sick; learn how to create by watching spiders weave fibers; harness energy by examining how a leaf converts sunlight into fuel in trillionths of a second; and many more examples.
Composed of stories of vision and invention, personalities and pipe dreams, Biomimicry is must reading for anyone interested in the shape of our future.
by Philip Eliot | Dec 24, 2025 | Christian Fiction |
She’s a debutante with broken dreams…He’s a preacher with an unsavory past…Both want to bury their secrets…Charles Bailey’s life has done a complete turnaround. He may still be a logging crew foreman, and he may still have a past that would make a godly man weep, but he’s also a man with a changed heart and a mission to serve as pastor to a small logging community. If only walking the narrow path weren’t so difficult. The last thing he needs is the temptation of the vulnerable—and beautiful—new cook’s assistant. It’s clear she needs a friend, but anything more than that is completely off-limits…Disgraced and grieving, Isabelle Franklin is packed off to work in a logging camp’s kitchen in the Rocky Mountains. Though feeding a crew of barbaric lumberjacks can’t be further from her life’s dream, she finds a small measure of solace in the beauty of the land. And in the unexpected kindness of the camp’s foreman, who’s broad shoulders and gentle eyes make her feel…almost safe. Is it too much to hope that her unspeakable past can stay buried?But not even the great Rocky Mountains can hide a person’s secrets forever—not when God means to bring them to light. When all the gritty truth is laid bare, two hearts are forced to decide what they truly believe about God’s amazing grace.
by Philip Eliot | Dec 24, 2025 | Paranormal & Fantasy Romance |
Get the first trilogy in the epic Lair series, a dark vampires-on-yachts romance packed with spicy tension and edge-of-your-seat twists—perfect for those hungering for Pirates of the Caribbean meets Van Helsing.????? “I had all of the feels and I am obsessed!” -Library of LindsThey live on yachts. They feed on your blood. And I’ve fallen in love with one of them.I thought I’d left darkness behind. I thought I’d started over in the glamorous world of yachting. But the mysterious billionaire owner who’s swept me off my feet is not what he seems, and now I have a terrible choice.Can I live with another man with violent needs? Or will I find a way to free my vampire lover from his curse?Ready yourself for a world of yachts-as-vampire lairs, secret yachting club covens and ancient terrors. Where a young woman can be drained dry . . . or become something that threatens the very vampire patriarchy itself.Welcome aboard the Lair.????? “Simply awesome. If you are a sucker for a beautiful vampire romance, you need to buy this book right now!” -Bryckk Loves Books
by admin | Dec 23, 2025 | Dark & Urban Fantasy |
The first book in #1 New York Times bestselling author Kim Harrison’s Hollows series!
All the creatures of the night gather in “the Hollows” of Cincinnati, to hide, to prowl, to party . . . and to feed.
Vampires rule the darkness in a predator-eat-predator world rife with dangers beyond imagining—and it’s Rachel Morgan’s job to keep that world civilized.
A bounty hunter and a witch with serious sex appeal and an attitude, she’ll bring ’em back alive, dead . . . or undead.
