#17 in the Milan Jacovich mystery series. The sudden death of a former client leads Milan and his young assistant K.O. O'Bannion to look behind the scenes at a harness racing track. Investigating the backstretch (as insiders call the working side of the track) they find no shortage of colorful characters and suspicious activities.

Your children are part of the magic of nature and a huge part of the miracle of the world we live in. Young children believe in magic and see the beauty in everything. When we get older we tend to loose that touch with magic and the amazement and beauty of the life that we are born into. This book is an attempt to assist them from a young age to see the real magic that happen everyday in our world. It is a book to show them that life is magic and should always be respected. It also looks at interesting facts in the animal kingdom and the environment around us- things that are magic but a reality and things that will always be that way- Magic that they can cling to for the rest of their lives. The book is written for my daughter Simone- and I believe this is the first step to show her how magic our world really is. May this book assist you as an educational tool for your children and for yourself to know life and everything within it is magic and this will remain this way till the end of time if we preserve the world we live in. Thank you for taking this step to allow your child to be part of the Magic of Nature."

Danny Dragonbreath knows girls are nothing but trouble. And the new foreign exchange student, Suki the Salamander, is the worst: she's reduced his best friend, Wendell, to a blithering, lovesick tadpole. But when a group of ninja frogs attempt to kidnap her, Danny knows he must step in. Danny and Wendell have watched lots of kung fu movies and can totally take on a bunch of ninja frogs. Or, um, so he hopes . . .

When the Developers of the new Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game, Thila Online cancelled the project, someone it seems, forgot to turn off the servers, leaving the artificial intelligence of the game worlds more ingenious characters to finish the job themselves. Three years later, thanks to the endeavours of an I.T Department consisting of seven Gnomes in a dark shed round the back of an online pub with an online bank account, the world of Thila has evolved to become the flagship game of one of the largest entertainment software houses, boasting tens of thousands of players from all around the world. George Steel was intending to become one of those players just as soon as he'd entered his Dad's Credit Card details, which, following a brief battle with his conscience, he'd liberated from a drawer in the kitchen. One lightning strike later and he was well and truly logged in, the only problem now being that logging back out didn't seem to be an option as he found himself no longer in his bedroom, but alone in a dark forest somewhere within the world of Thila. Wolfgang meanwhile, is busy working his usual nightshift, deep within the Leafshade forest. It's been a quiet night all in all, but the cool evening breeze carries an unfamiliar scent. Most likely a lost Newbie, this shouldn't take long. With a cough to clear his throat and a quick shake down to loosen up and get into character, the creature raises himself to full height, head to the moon and lets forth a blood chilling howl. It's game on !

Hide-and-seek is a great game, but Nick always finds where Sally is hiding. And that's no fun! Enter the Cat in the Hat. His friend Gecko is an expert at hiding. Maybe Gecko can share some tips with the kids? So off they go to the jungle, where Gecko teaches them how to hide in plain sight—using camouflage! Kids won't be able to hide their delight in this rhymed Step 2 book based on an episode from the hit PBS Kids TV show The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That! (Step 2 is a Step into Reading title for children who recognize familiar words and sound out new words with aural and visual cues. Step 2 books have simple stories, basic vocabulary, and short sentences.)

A fun-filled collection of stories starring Dr. Seuss's Cat in the Hat that can each be read aloud in five minutes! Nick and Sally have questions about everything from trees to outer space. Luckily, the Cat in the Hat has the answers. Based on the TV series The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That, this hardcover collection of rhyming tales is sure to fascinate and entertain boys and girls ages 3 to 7. Each story can be read in five minutes or less, so they're perfect for bedtime--or anytime!

Covers the responsibilities and rewards of keeping a pet gecko, including how to care for it, what to feed it, and the equipment needed.

Lou Martin's just gained incredible superpowers! Too bad all he wants to do is stay firmly planted on the couch. But an alien got Lewis Martin, slacker extraordinaire, and Martin Lewis, promising young lawyer, confused and sent an Extreme Enhancement Module to the wrong guy, and now Lou's got superheroes trying to get him to . . . ugh . . . contribute to society--and outlandish supervillains, monsters, and aliens are out to take him down! * Created by John Arcudi (B.P.R.D., The Mask, A God Somewhere) and Doug Mahnke (The Mask, Final Crisis, Green Lantern). * Major Bummer collects all fifteen issues, long out of print and collected here for the very first time!

A fantasia inspired by E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India, PASSAGE is set in the fictional Country X, which is a neocolonial client of Country Y. B, a local doctor, and F, an expat teacher, begin to forge a friendship that is challenged after a fateful trip to a local attraction. A meditation on how power imbalances affect personal and interpersonal dynamics across a spectrum of situations, the play allows a director wide latitude in casting the roles by race, ethnicity, and gender, with different casting choices highlighting different societal structures.

Surf’s up . . . and so are the stakes when veterinarian and amateur sleuth Jessica Popper escapes to the land of hula, hibiscus, and geckos for a professional conference. The last time she and boyfriend Nick Burby touched down on the island of Hawaii, Nick caused a volcanic eruption when he unexpectedly popped The Question to commitment-phobic Jess. But this trip proves just as dangerous when Jess befriends an ambitious young reporter whose body later washes up on the sand . . . and someone thinks Jess holds the clue to the killer’s motive. There’s no end of suspects among the exotic flora and fauna, from the victim’s journalistic rivals and a mystery boyfriend to an eccentric beachcomber and a governor’s aide with ties to a controversial biotech firm bringing progress to paradise. One of them is a killer with the chameleon-like ability to stay hidden—and if Jessica doesn’t uncover hula-dunnit in time, she’ll be saying aloha . . . permanently.