Growing up in a small North Carolina town, Jess Hall is plunged into an adulthood for which he is not prepared when his autistic older brother, Stump, sneaks a look at something he is not supposed to see, which has catastrophic repercussions.

When two of her friends, thousands of miles apart, are struck down, Kenzie, an expert trainer of combat dogs, turns to Link Bannon, a high-level intelligence officer, for help in finding the truth--a dangerous mission that puts them in the path of an unhinged killer.

When Andrew Apperley visits his brother David in the East, he brings along an unexpected companion. Andrew's giant wolf dog, Comanche, is so wild that he has to be chained up for the safety of others. However, when the Apperley brothers come across a man drowning in the East River, Comanche breaks loose from his chains and swims to the man's rescue. In fact, this man, Single Jack Deems, is a convict who has just escaped from Blackwell's Island. Deems...

A young boy imagines what it would be like to drive a train and take his little brother along for the ride.

"En la arena, muy juntos, hay dos huevos. Cuando los hermanos salen del cascarón aparecen un pájaro... y un cocodrilo. Pero ¿pueden ser hermanos un pájaro y un cocodrilo?"--P. [4] of cover.

"Haunted by the freak accident that killed their father when they were children, Jim and Bob Burgess escaped from their Maine hometown of Shirley Falls for New York City as soon as they possibly could. Jim, a sleek, successful corporate lawyer, has belittled his bighearted brother their whole lives, and Bob, a Legal Aid attorney who idolizes Jim, has always taken it in stride. But their long-standing dynamic is upended when their sister, Susan--the...

During the the annual "Fun With Camping" event at Bayport State Park, Frank and Joe investigate when tent decorations start to go missing and they find mysterious footprints around the camp.

"Horrid Henry and his neighbor Moody Margaret decide to make the most sloppy, slimy, sludgy, sticky, smelly, gooey, gluey, gummy, greasy, gloppy glop possible. Is it the best glop in the world or the worst thing that's ever happened to them? Plus three other stories so funny we can't even mention them here." -- (p.4) of cover.