When Tony Starling puts his three-week-old daughter into an orphanage, little did he realise how wrong he could have been to give Lucy away. Many years later, as Lucy grows up. She has become a cold assassin with narcissist tendencies towards the men who have made the person she is today. The deep-routed hate has been building up inside all her life into a murderous rampage that will bring her life full circle. Murder comes easy to Lucy, and finding those responsible for her evil intent, will see her travel the world in search for that missing part of her life she craves. A child of her own. After meeting Stephen Brookes, they fall in love and with her new life in the England, it seems the most idyllic life she could have ever dreamt of having, but that was never going to last, not now that she has opted into the Baby Market. An organisation so despicable, it is using the latest technology for the sole purpose of harvesting those unfortunate children for spare parts for those who can afford it. On Christmas eve, Lucy's baby is ready to be born into her hidden world, but that is just the beginning of her crusade as she has been slowly finding the person responsible for this immoral business she has willingly entered, and now it is time to finish what She started!

When Lucy goes to market she finds everything she needs, from an Asparagus Angel and a Delicate Dragon, to an Invisible Igloo and a pair of Wacky Wellingtons. But will they all fit in her doll's house?

An irresistable and hilarious collection of New York Times bestselling author Lucy Knisley's cartoons about new motherhood. Lucy Knisley is one of the great memoirists of the graphic novel format. Following the completion of her pregnancy memoir Kid Gloves (and the birth of her baby), Lucy embarked on a new project: documenting new motherhood in short, spontaneous little cartoons, which she posted on her Instagram, and which quickly gained her a huge cult following among other moms. The best of those wildly popular little cartoons are collected in this adorable gift book, Go to Sleep (I Miss You), a perfect read for expecting parents, new parents, and anyone who loves funny, relatable comics storytelling.

Michael Karol, the author of Lucy A to Z, has done it again! Lucy in Print digs deep to give Lucy fans (and who isn't one?) a unique look at Lucille Ball, her TV shows, and her co-stars, as reported by the press over the past 60 years. With commentary and analysis by the author, and visit to Lucy's birthplace in Jamestown, NY, and two lost plays about I Love Lucy!

The Maasai believe in two gods. Enkai Narok, the Black God, is benign. Enkai Nanyokie, the Red God, is the god of anger, vengeance, and death. Nairobi, 2007. In Africa's sprawling megacity, a small elite holds power over an impoverished, restless majority. Corruption, exploitation, and ethnic rivalry are part of everyday life. Amid claims of vote rigging and fraud, the presidential elections could be the spark that sets this city ablaze. With chaos looming, few care about one dead prostitute. But Detective Mollel does. For Mollel is a former Maasai warrior, and the dead girl was a Maasai, too. As he ventures from slums to skyscrapers, from suburbs to sewers, Mollel begins to realize that there is more at stake than just this murder. But even as he is forced to confront his turbulent past, he begins to doubt his warrior's instincts. Can Mollel manage to find the killer and solve the case before the Red God consumes all? With the sophistication of Ian Rankin and Colin Harrison, and set against the backdrop of Kenya's turbulent 2007 elections, Richard Crompton's Hour of the Red God brings Nairobi vividly to life: gritty and modern, with an extraordinary blend of tribal and urban elements. In this dark thriller, tradition and power collide, arriving at a shocking, unforgettable end. And in the Maasai hero Mollel, a new detective icon is born. One of Publishers Weekly's Best Mystery/Thriller Books of 2013

Michele Goodwin and a group of contributing experts examine the ways in which Westerners create families through private, market processes.

When Tom Hansen invents the quantum chip, he is surprised to discover that three years later that the military had taken his technology and built the world’s first quantum computer called Ava, (Advanced Virtual Algorithm). The only thing missing enabling Ava to reach her full potential, is the programming codes Tom has hidden away in his mind, and now they need him, alive, to finish the project. Kidnapped and trapped deep below ground, he soon realises that his life and his families, is in danger and must now find a way to finish what he started. Inspector George Billings is woken early from yet another drinking binge, and with another hangover, is informed of the multiple killings the night before. As the pieces start coming together, and camera footage that reveals something so fantastic, he never thought possible. The real reasons why these seemingly innocent people have been murdered starts coming to light. With the military trying to cover everything up, he is on a mission to try to find the truth, before it all lost, buried deep beneath a secret military underground facility where Ava is learning, and ultimately planning what to do with the troubled people of Earth! Will she succeed? Or will we remain oblivious to what is really coming our way! With an alien signal to decode, time is running out, to find a way to save planet Earth and now Ava is born, the human species future hangs in the balance of the world’s first Quantum computer.

When Layton Johnson wakes one morning to find a perfect square of chest hair has been removed in the night, little does he realise that this was the first sign he has been chosen. Layton has been promoted to his dream job and after three months, begins to feel the pressure of being the new Bank Manager. His homelife is suffering and the pressure is mounting but not just from work. His wife Clara wants their new house refurbished and so far, Layton has been working late every night to just cope with his own workload. Suspicions begin to be aroused in Clara and discovering the strange square patch of hair that is now missing on his chest fuels her belief that he is having an affair. She too has no idea what is coming to their once idyllic lives because Layton is about to change, now his body has accepted the first phase in his transformation by a person he never thought he would see again. His father, Frank, has been in the military all Layton’s life. Frank has been an absent father, but what Layton did not know was that his father has been working on reverse engineering Alien technology for the last two decades, and now his son is becoming a new breed of human. Transforming into something so out of this world, it is going to blow Layton’s reality and life apart in this Alien invasion Sci-fi thriller. The Greys have been coming to Earth for over five-thousand years. Plotting, planning, and planting technology to not give the human species a better way to live, but to bring about their demise. When Layton finally puts all the pieces together on why the Greys now want him, and with his future in danger, Layton must now make the ultimate choice. Will he sacrifice his life for the love of his life? Or will Layton accept his fate and do the right thing for all humanity?

Lucy's Eggs: Short Stories and a Novella is a collection of four stories and a novella, all set in Homer, a town in upstate New York that is both particular and universal in its representation of small-town life. Rick Henry’s vivid characters, at once intimately familiar and wholly unique, are combined with masterful narration to deliver a series of stories the reader will not soon forget. Set in the late 1800s and early 1900s, the title story chronicles the life of Lucy Delano as she bears witness to the dramatic changes that her small town confronts. Fiercely independent and deeply connected to the land, Lucy endures the loss of her parents, desertion by her husband, and alienation by the "townsfolk." Through Lucy’s blend of strength and vulnerability, Henry powerfully explores issues of individuality, loneliness, and grief. In The Telephone Girl, a young man struggles to act on his emotions for Mimi, the telephone girl of the title. His paralysis, naïveté, and repression are deftly treated with humor and poignancy. Cardinal Wars details the competition between two neighbors to attract birds, specifically, colorful cardinals, to their backyards. For both women the birds represent the desire for companionship and survival, a bright, warm blast of color during the long, bleak winter. Filled with energy and life, each story depicts vivid images of rural life and the deep but subtle range of human emotion. Henry’s lyrical, often elegiac, prose is evocative of Thornton Wilder and William Kennedy. This book will appeal to the general reader but especially to those with an interest in regional literature.