When Lenora Oakley wakes up in a hospital bed, she remembers falling down the stairs. She remembers the fleeting glance of a red dress. But did she trip or was she pushed? Only Lenora knows and she won't tell because she's frightened that no one will believe her. 'The Girl in the Red Dress' is a contemporary ghost story with a chilling twist.

A Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue meets Miss Fisher's Murder Mystery in this rollicking romp of truth, lies, and troubled pasts. New Year's Eve, 1929. Millie is running the show at the Cloak & Dagger, a swinging speakeasy in the French Quarter, while her aunt is out of town. The new year is just around the corner, and all of New Orleans is out to celebrate, but even wealthy partiers' diamond earrings can't outshine the real star of the night: the boy in the red dress. Marion is the club's star performer and his fans are legion--if mostly underground. When a young socialite wielding a photograph of Marion starts asking questions, Millie wonders if she's just another fan. But then her body is found crumpled in the courtyard, dead from an apparent fall off the club's balcony, and all signs point to Marion as the murderer. Millie knows he's innocent, but local detectives aren't so easily convinced. As she chases clues that lead to cemeteries and dead ends, Millie's attention is divided between the wry and beautiful Olive, a waitress at the Cloak & Dagger, and Bennie, the charming bootlegger who's offered to help her solve the case. The clock is ticking for the fugitive Marion, but the truth of who the killer is might be closer than Millie thinks.

Every old house has its secrets. However the secrets living inside the walls of this old house were more than Brian and Jess could understand. Soon after moving in the "events" would begin. Despite their struggles to maintain composure in the face of all fear, Brian and Jess would soon be pitted against each other in a struggle for life and death. What they didn't know, what no one bothered to tell them prior to moving in was that there house was built by a man with a past more sinister than anyone could imagine. Their house was being run by a man hell bent on keeping all the souls he had collected over the years under his control, while adding fresh ones when the opportunity of new homeowners came knocking. For the love of their kids, and the love they have for each other, Brian and Jess become the exception to a long chain of "takings" by the house. They fight to prove to themselves that their is still love between them, they fight to save their kids.

When Rifke runs away from home on a train out of Johannesburg, she ends up in the middle of nowhere with no way to return for a month, and must stay with the mysterious and unwelcoming van Niel family on their farm.

Writing in free verse honed to a wicked edge, the incomparable Ron Koertge brings dark and contemporary humor to twenty iconic fairy tales. Once upon a time, there was a strung-out match girl who sold CDs to stoners. Twelve impetuous sisters escaped King Daddy’s clutches to jiggle and cavort and wear out their shoes. A fickle Thumbelina searched for a tiny husband, leaving bodies in her wake. And Little Red Riding Hood confessed that she kind of wanted to know what it’s like to be swallowed whole. From bloodied and blinded stepsisters (they were duped) to a chopped-off finger flying into a heroine’s cleavage, this is fairy tale world turned upside down. Ron Koertge knows what really happened to all those wolves and maidens, ogres and orphans, kings and piglets, and he knows about the Ever After. So come closer — he wants to whisper in your ear.

"In this adaptation of a Texas folk song, the illustrations show the story of Katy Bear's birthday party, while the repetitive verses are a catalog of what the guests wore. . . . The pictures pick up color as the guests arrive and the activities get livelier. To further focus attention on color, the words are printed in boxed insets of the appropriate hue. . . . The music-a simple, singable tune-is printed at the end. The subject and the highly predictable pattern of text have appeal for just-beginning readers as well as for preschool listeners and singers."-Language Arts

"A Red Dress" is the haunting biographical fiction about a brutal attack on two twelve-year-old girls in a quaint town in Rural Vermont. Police officer Ben Fields and his team undertake the desolate journey to solve the crime. A must-read for Vermonters and all true crime buffs, this story reveal the fight to rid the state of Vermont of their shocked grief and deliver them the perpetrator. This book is based on real places and events. Names have been altered to preserve anonymity. It must be read as a work of historical fiction about a deeply troubling time, and the fight for justice.

The Girl in the Red Dress is the story of a vivacious, talented young woman whose life falls apart through a succession of bad marriages. Driven by her refusal to accept advice and her insistence upon nursing grievances, she gradually loses contact with her close relations and friends. Left only with relatives she rarely sees, internet acquaintances she has never met, and a large collection of gemstone jewelry, she dies impoverished and alone. Sixty Years on the Rockpile is a humorous, often tongue-in-cheek account of a housewife that evokes tears as well as laughter in the reader. It appeals to women of all ages and to everyone who has ever tried to raise a family. Written over a period of six years, the final compilation is basically a memoir containing nostalgic references to the early forties, when the prevailing mindset relegated women's position in society to cooking for their families or typing for their bosses. The author hopes this book will further the efforts of the more liberated women of today to fulfill their goals.

Jack Burton was never quite sure why he went into his sister's bedroom that afternoon. He certainly had no way of knowing that it would quickly change his life and end up with him going to school as a girl.

"This is a Borzoi book published by Alfred A. Knopf"--Title page verso.