A young adventurer embarks on a surreal quest to escape the clutches of Death in this tale inspired by—and featuring—beautiful woodcuts by Gustave Doré. In a world between legend and dream, A Wild Ride Through the Night describes the exhilarating and comic adventures of its twelve-year-old protagonist Gustave, a boy who aspires one day to be a great artist. When a disaster at sea puts Gustave in the uncompromising hands of Death, he has the choice to give up the ghost or take on a series of six impossible tasks. Gustave embarks on a strange and perilous journey during which he must save a princess from an angry dragon, pull a tooth from the Most Monstrous of All Monsters, fly over the moon, and even, somehow, meet his own self. Armed only with the power of his imagination, Gustave must save himself from a terrible fate.

Stanley discovers a way out of his yard and five other dogs join him in a night out, ending with a wild ride.

Swindle meets Ferris Bueller's Day Off in this action-filled comedy! No parents. No rules. No curfew. Things are about to get dangerous... The grownups are out-of-town, and for Charley Decker that means one thing: a last epic weekend with her older brother Greg before he leaves for college. Bring on the burgers, milkshakes, and movie marathons! So when Greg ditches Charley for a date night downtown, she’s kind of crushed. Worse, he gets their mom's boyfriend’s super-expensive, super-rare Mustang towed and needs Charley’s help to get it back. What's an unsupervised seventh grader to do? Grab her best friends, sneak into the city, pull off the ultimate car heist, and then make Greg pay, of course! Only now the Mustang has a new feature in the trunk: a stowaway named Mitch who’s guarding a world-changing secret. And a pair of seriously big, seriously scary dudes are after him. What follows is an all-night race around the clock as Charley and her friends try to dodge the twin terrors, save Mitch, fix a sibling squabble...and get the Mustang home before morning!

Wild Ride is ... [an] investigation of the fast-track, multibillion-dollar thoroughbred industry racing what the New York Yankees are to baseball- a sporty dynasty. From Library Journal.

Something strange is out in the woods. Something Hannah has never seen before. Good or evil, she can"t tell. But she knows she must go out and meet it.Hannah lives in the lonely frontier backwoods. Her mother has abandoned her for reasons she can only guess. And her father spends all his time hunting for some mythical treasure she knows he"ll never find. So for food and shelter and the warmth of a fire, Hannah must do all the work.Then her father sells her to be a house servant and she is sent away. For a whole year she"s condemned to work like a slave for the brutal, cruel Barrow brothers.There, in the dead of night, she sees a strange white figure. And she begins a curious friendship and starts her adventure of escape, discovery, and reclaiming what is rightfully hers.

The beautiful Martina Josefina Catalina Cucaracha doesn't know coffee beans about love and marriage, so when suitors come calling, what is she to do? Luckily, she has her Cuban family to help! While some of the Cucarachas offer Martina gifts to make her more attractive, only Abuela, her grandmother, gives her some useful advice: spill coffee on his shoes to see how he handles anger. At first, Martina is skeptical of her Abuela's suggestion, but when suitor after suitor fails the Coffee Test, she wonders if a little green cockroach can ever find true love. After reading this award-winning retelling of the Cuban folktale, readers will never look at a cockroach the same way again. Carmen Agra Deedy delivers a delightfully inventive Cuban twist on the beloved Martina folktale, complete with a dash of café Cubano.

What happens in Vegas stays in Vegas… Unless that includes waking up married, tattooed, and in bed with a reality TV star. Marrying the woman of my dreams shouldn’t be an issue, right? But it's a huge problem since my wife belongs on the other side of the long-running feud between the Ryker and the Wilde families. Yes, TV viewers around the world, I'm Sutton Wilde and my new bride is none other than Sera Ryker. Oops. The easy solution is to get a quickie divorce and move on...until the video of our wedding pops up all over social media the next day. Time for plan B -- stay married for thirty days to satisfy her TV contract and prevent a PR nightmare. Trouble is, I’ve carried a torch for Sera Ryker for a long time, and she doesn't want to have anything to do with me. Guess that means I have thirty days to make my wife fall in love with me. Game on.

Tracing the history of the biker movement, from its beginnings in the years following World War II to its current, some would say crass, commercialization in the form of Harley Davidson cafes, this book provides the most comprehensive and engaging look at motorcycle culture ever published. Photos.

Blaze, AJ, and Zeg want to ride the new Dinocoaster at the amusement park, but their ticket blows away! Help the Monster Machines by sliding, spinning, and pulling as they race to rescue their missing ticket! With STEM concepts and movable pieces, this book is sure to be a delight for busy fingers and early learners.

AJ and Pax are a team of motorcycle riders working as undercover agents for a government agency. While on vacation they encounter AJ's old girlfriend Teresa and promise to clear her brother of a murder charge.