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Abducted by teen genius Bounce and her drifter friends Wiggins and Orange, three-year-old Frog seems content to eat cereal and play a video game about wolves all day--a game that parallels the reality around her--until Wiggins is overcome by guilt and tension and takes action.

Illegal drag racing is tearing up the streets of Hong Kong and only the fine-tuned skills of a former racing champion, now sports car mechanic, can shut it down. But when he puts a stop to a high-speed hot-rodder - who is also a powerful syndicate boss - Chan's most perilous race has just begun. Now he has to beat a super-criminal drag racer in order to release his kidnapped sister.

WHEN THE HUNTER BECOMES THE HUNTED... DI Amy Winter faces her toughest case yet as a serial killer couple kidnap and hunt their prey. After capture, the victims are released from an unknown location each day. But freedom does not come easily as the victim's injuries become more severe, and if they haven't escaped by day four, they won't live to see the fifth. At five months pregnant, Amy is feeling backed into a corner as the father of her child,...

Thin ice: Jesse Stone is shot while moonlighting on a Boston stakeout, leaving his friend fighting for his life and Stone out for justice. His rogue investigation to find the shooter leads him into Boston's shady underworld. This leads him right into the bed of a Boston PD investigator, who wants his head on a platter if he continues to pursue the case. Meanwhile, Stone is approached by a broken-hearted mother who is convinced her kidnapped son is...

When Patricia returned the missing sapphire of Zangrabar she had no idea the Maharaja would consider himself eternally in her debt. Hardly surprising then that she has been invited to his son's coronation as the new Maharaja. There's intrigue and mystery afoot though; the Marahaja's invite suggested he had a mystery for her to solve, but in true Patricia style, it's nowhere near that simple. Someone in Zangrabar wants her dead but they didn't count...

The "Moors murders" were committed by Ian Brady and Myra Hindley from 1963 to 1965 and remain England's most notorious case of serial murder. Three children and two teenagers were adbucted, sexually assaulted and brutally murdered, their bodies buried in shallow graves on Manchester's desolate Saddleworth Moor. The crimes were so horrific that they will haunt England forever. It was the "trial of the century."

In 2001, audiences first met and fell in love with a twelve-year-old criminal mastermind named Artemis Fowl. Since then, the series has sold over seven million copies in the United States alone. Now, this phenomenally successful series is being translated into a graphic novel format. Eoin Colfer has teamed up with established comic writer Andrew Donkin to adapt the text. For the first time, rabid fans will be able to see what Foaly's tin hat looks...

Rock drummer Joe and his band are about to make it big as the opening act for America's hottest pop star in Moscow. Fame and glory quickly turn into chaos as armed terrorists storm the arena, capturing the pop star and the guests of honor - Russian President Alexander Petrov and his two teenage daughters. With the death toll rising and the hostages' lives on the line, it is up to one man to come to the rescue and save the day.

A thief of religious artifacts whose archeologist father has found the lost scripture of a mysterious religious order, is mysteriously kidnapped. He finds himself cruising around the twisty streets of Jerusalem, getting into dynamic kickboxing battles while disguised as a Hasidic Jew. With the help of a beautiful Israeli cop, he uncovers a plot within the religious order that leads to secret catacombs beneath the holy city.