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Henry--a Canadian Mountie like his father--struggles between the call of duty and the call of his heart. When he informs a young logger's wife of her husband's death, the memory of that loss haunts him for years. Assigned to a new beat five years later, he rediscovers Amber and gains her trust...and eventually her heart.

Jack and Annie don't need another mummy. But that's what they get when the magic tree house whisks them back to ancient Egypt. There they meet a long-dead queen who needs their help.

Every family has its problems. But even among the most troubled, the Plumb family stands out as spectacularly dysfunctional. Years of simmering tensions finally reach a breaking point on an unseasonably cold afternoon in New York City as Melody, Beatrice, and Jack Plumb gather to confront their charismatic and reckless older brother, Leo, freshly released from rehab. Months earlier, an inebriated Leo got behind the wheel of a car with a nineteen-year-old...

A twelve-year-old boy named Moose moves to Alcatraz Island in 1935 when guards' families were housed there, and has to contend with his extraordinary new environment in addition to life with his autistic sister.

The determination of two youngsters to win a Chincoteague pony is greatly increased when the Phantom and her colt are among those rounded up for the yearly auction. This book also includes information about the real Misty and about horses in general.

At the beach, Pinkalicious and her brother help a tiny mermaid, a merminnie, to go back home.

Despite their best efforts, Carter and Sadie Kane can't seem to keep Apophis, the chaos snake, down. Their only hope: find an ancient spell that might turn the serpent's own shadow into a weapon.

After gaining her freedom, poison taster Yelena returns home to Sitia where she starts her magic training, which unexpectedly hurls her into the middle of a plot to reclaim Ixia's throne and exposes a plan, orchestrated by her brother, to take her life.

Moose Flanagan, who lives on Alcatraz along with his family and the families of the other prison guards, is frightened when he discovers that noted gangster Al Capone, a prisoner there, wants a favor in return for the help that he secretly gave Moose.

Meet the Moffats - Sylvie, the oldest; Joey, who though only twelve is the man of the house; Janey, who has a terrific upside-down way of looking at things; and Rufus, who may be the littlest but always gets in the biggest trouble. A Moffat day is packed with extraordinary fun and only a Moffat can turn mistakes and mischief into hilarious one-of-a-kind adventures.