He's kidnapping what's his... I was only in the woods for my film class. When I wake up over some guys shoulder, being carried through the woods, I wonder if coming out here all alone maybe wasn't my best idea. I should be scared of my kidnapper, but there's something about him that draws me in. He's lonely, just like me. It's more than that though. There's something in the way that he touches me that has sparks lighting inside of me. Maybe that's why I don't try to run away that first night, but what about every other night. Could I actually be falling for my kidnapper? *Warning! This book alpha is over-the-top, head over heels in love with his girl. If you're looking for a steamy instalove story then this book is for you!

Auden Glaser is always the new girl. With a mother who jumps from boyfriend to boyfriend and town to town she's been forced to tag along with her. Now that she's turned eighteen she's hoping that this will be the last town she moves to. She just wants to graduate high school and find a job and an apartment. Then she meets Ryker. Ryker Holden is the rich kid. He's the son of wealthy oil barons. With parents who would rather traipse around Europe than be parents, he's left alone far too often. Then he meets Auden and senses something in her that chases the loneliness away. He knows as soon as he sees her that she's the one and he'll stop at nothing to make her his. Forever, *Warning! This book alpha is over-the-top, head over heels in love with his girl. If you're looking for a steamy insta-love story then this book is for you!

Loosely based on real-life events, this suspenseful story, by a debut novelist, is also funny and touching and will have readers riveted from start to finish. Lucy's mother is the U.S. Ambassador to Ethiopia, so Lucy's life must be one big adventure, right? Wrong. Lucy's worrywart mother keeps her locked up inside the ambassador's residence. All Lucy can do is read about the exotic and exciting world that lies beyond the compound walls and imagine what it would be like to be a part of it. That is, until one day Lucy decides she has had enough and she and a friend sneak off for some fun. But to their horror, Lucy gets kidnapped! With only herself to rely upon, Lucy must use her knowledge of African animals, inventiveness, will, and courage to escape, and in the process embarks on an adventure beyond her wildest imagination. Includes bonus material! - Book Club Discussion Guide

Soon to be a major motion picture from Steven Spielberg. A National Book Award Finalist The extraordinary story of how the vatican's imprisonment of a six-year-old Jewish boy in 1858 helped to bring about the collapse of the popes' worldly power in Italy. Bologna: nightfall, June 1858. A knock sounds at the door of the Jewish merchant Momolo Mortara. Two officers of the Inquisition bust inside and seize Mortara's six-year-old son, Edgardo. As the boy is wrenched from his father's arms, his mother collapses. The reason for his abduction: the boy had been secretly "baptized" by a family servant. According to papal law, the child is therefore a Catholic who can be taken from his family and delivered to a special monastery where his conversion will be completed. With this terrifying scene, prize-winning historian David I. Kertzer begins the true story of how one boy's kidnapping became a pivotal event in the collapse of the Vatican as a secular power. The book evokes the anguish of a modest merchant's family, the rhythms of daily life in a Jewish ghetto, and also explores, through the revolutionary campaigns of Mazzini and Garibaldi and such personages as Napoleon III, the emergence of Italy as a modern national state. Moving and informative, the Kidnapping of Edgardo Mortara reads as both a historical thriller and an authoritative analysis of how a single human tragedy changed the course of history.

A front row seat to the breaking news, photos and hype surrounding history's most mysterious disappearances. Breaking History books offer a front row seat to history as it broke (like “breaking news”) and give the blow-by-blow of historical discovery—what we learned, when we learned it, who made the discovery, and how. Vanished! is an illustrated tour of history’s most confounding cases of disappearance from Amelia Earhart to Jimmy Hoffa; DB Cooper; Alcatraz escapists Frank Morris, John Anglin, and Clarence Algin; Jim Thompson; Judge Joseph Force Crater; and more. Starting with the first 30 days surrounding each incident, and then looking at efforts up to this very day to solve each case, this book covers in photos and text history’s most perplexing vanishings.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER I see dead people. But then, by God, I do something about it. Odd Thomas never asked for his special ability. He’s just an ordinary guy trying to live a quiet life in the small desert town of Pico Mundo. Yet he feels an obligation to do right by his otherworldly confidants, and that’s why he’s won hearts on both sides of the divide between life and death. But when a childhood friend disappears, Odd discovers something worse than a dead body and embarks on a heart-stopping battle of will and wits with an enemy of exceptional cunning. In the hours to come there can be no innocent bystanders, and every sacrifice can tip the balance between despair and hope. You’re invited on an unforgettable journey through a world of terror and transcendence to wonders beyond imagining. And you can have no better guide than Odd Thomas.

Brexly Vos just has to finish one more semester and she'll have her degree. Then she can start her own business and finally help out her parents. All that stands between her and her future is a film class. At a loss for a film subject, she finally remembers the local lore that Bigfoot lives in the woods bordering campus. She's never really believed the legend but she figures it will be an interesting subject and easy to film. She'll just go out into the woods and get some shots of the scenery and maybe some animal tracks, edit it together and hopefully get at least a C. She heads out over spring break with her camera and supplies, ready to get this class over with. She's just not prepared for what she'll find. *Warning! This book alpha is over-the-top, head over heels in love with his girl. If you're looking for a steamy instalove story then this book is for you!

Grayson Mackleroy is probably going to regret this. He's regretted a lot of things in his life. Not standing up to his dad, not moving away from Rosewood when he had the chance, but none of them come close to his biggest regret. Not making Nora Mason his the second that he laid eyes on her. Now too much time has passed and while he’s been in love with her since he first saw her in the third grade, she sees him as nothing but a best friend and roommate. Or does she?

Banks Mitchell has a dirty little secret. He’s in love with his new next door neighbor. Palmer Calter is everything that he wants in a woman. She's gorgeous, insanely smart, and hilarious. There's just one problem. She's too young for him. I mean, she just graduated from high school for goodness sake. He knows that he should just let go and move on, but how can he when she keeps showing up and looking at him like he's the best thing that she's ever seen? When he sees some rich prick sniffing around her, he knows that he has to make a choice. Should he claim his curvy girl or let her go and try to move on? Will pursuing Palmer ruin everything? Or will he finally get the happily ever after that he's been dreaming about ever since he first laid eyes on her?

Regan Day was just trying to earn enough money to pay for college and get out of working dead end jobs. She agrees to be a surrogate, but one mix up leaves her pregnant with the wrong baby. Haiden Luck is focused on his career and nothing else. He doesn’t have time for a family or dating but a mix up at a local fertility clinic leads him to Regan. One look at her and he realizes there’s more to life than work. Neither of them asked for it, but it looks like Haiden has himself a baby mama. *Warning! This book alpha is over-the-top, head over heels in love with his girl. If you're looking for a steamy insta-love story then this book is for you!