It’s high time for stella lane to settle down and find a husband – or so her mother tells her. this is no easy task for a wealthy, successful woman like stella, who also happens to have asperger’s. analyzing data is easy; handling the awkwardness of one-on-one dates is hard. to overcome her lack of dating experience, stella decides to hire a male escort to teach her how to be a good girlfriend. faced with mounting bills, michael decides to use his good looks and charm to make extra cash on the side. he has a very firm no repeat customer policy, but he’s tempted to bend that rule when stella approaches him with an unconventional proposal. the more time they spend together, the harder michael falls for this disarming woman with a beautiful mind, and stella discovers that love defies logic.

In a future north america, where the rulers of panem maintain control through a televised survival competition pitting young people against one another, sixteen-year-old katniss’s skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister’s place. |

The #1 bestselling shiver, linger and forever trilogy rejacketed for a new generation of fans. in shiver, grace and sam found each other. now, in linger, they must fight to be together. for grace, this means defying her parents and keeping dangerous secrets. for sam, it means grappling with his werewolf past … and figuring out a way to survive the future. but just when they manage to find happiness, grace finds herself changing in ways she could never have expected…

The #1 new york times best-selling series. bonus features • q&a with author ransom riggs • eight pages of color stills from the film • sneak preview of hollow city, the next novel in the series a mysterious island. an abandoned orphanage. a strange collection of peculiar photographs. it all waits to be discovered in miss peregrine’s home for peculiar children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. as our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen year-old jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of miss peregrine’s home for peculiar children. as jacob explores its decaying bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that miss peregrine’s children were more than just peculiar. they may have been dangerous. they may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. and somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.

“the internationally acclaimed, new york times bestselling author returns to the magnificent universe he constructed in his bestselling novels the shadow of the wind, the angel’s game, and the prisoner of heaven in this riveting series finale–a heart-pounding thriller and nail-biting work of suspense which introduces a sexy, seductive new heroine whose investigation shines a light on the dark history of franco’s spain. in this unforgettable final volume of ruiz zafón’s cycle of novels set in the universe of the cemetery of forgotten books, beautiful and enigmatic alicia gris, with the help of the sempere family, uncovers one of the most shocking conspiracies in all spanish history. nine-year-old alicia lost her parents during the spanish civil war when the nacionales (the fascists) savagely bombed barcelona in 1938. twenty years later, she still carries the emotional and physical scars of that violent and terrifying time. weary of her work as an investigator for spain’s secret police in madrid, a job she has held for more than a decade, the twenty-nine-year old plans to move on. at the insistence of her boss, leandro montalvo, she remains to solve one last case: the mysterious disappearance of spain’s minister of culture, mauricio valls. with her partner, the intimidating policeman juan manuel vargas, alicia discovers a possible clue–a rare book by the author victor mataix hidden in valls’ office in his madrid mansion. valls was the director of the notorious montjuic prison in barcelona during world war ii where several writers were imprisoned, including david martín and victor mataix. traveling to barcelona on the trail of these writers, alicia and vargas meet with several booksellers, including juan sempere, who knew her parents. as alicia and vargas come closer to finding valls, they uncover a tangled web of kidnappings and murders tied to the franco regime, whose corruption is more widespread and horrifying than anyone imagined. alicia’s courageous and uncompromising search for the truth puts her life in peril. only with the help of a circle of devoted friends will she emerge from the dark labyrinths of barcelona and its history into the light of the future. in this haunting new novel, carlos ruiz zafón proves yet again that he is a masterful storyteller and pays homage to the world of books, to his ingenious creation of the cemetery of forgotten, and to that magical bridge between literature and our lives.”–provided by publisher.

Whit lancaster burst into my life like a storm. the school with his family name on the sign. he can do no wrong here. this is his domain. he’s a menace on campus. yet his intense gaze fills me with a longing i don’t understand. when he comes to my rescue one night, i welcome him into my room only for him to leave me alone in the night, taking my journal with him. now he knows my secrets. and he promises to use them against me. i’ll be ruined if my darkest secret gets out. so i made a deal with him.