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Some stories are all about the crime. These stories are about the maelstrom of what happens afterward. A hard-bitten crew of professional thieves pull of the score of their lives, coming away with millions in cash, enough to change their lives, make new identities, start fresh. But that's when the real trouble begins. In this linked anthology, we follow each member of the crew of culprits after the heist and watch as this perfect score ends up a perfect nightmare.

It’s picture day at school! Lots of people are dressed up, and Bea is even wearing a fluffy dress, which she’s not exactly excited about. When she tells Buddy that he should take his glasses off for the photo, he listens. Everything will be blurry without them, but he decides he won’t take them off for long. Except then his glasses go missing. Are they lost? Did someone take them? Bea volunteers to help track them down, though her “help” isn’t always helpful.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the How to Catch series, Adam Wallace, comes a 2-in-1 audiobook bundle for 4- to 10-year-olds that includes A Very Dinosaur Birthday and A Very Dinosaur Christmas. A Very Dinosaur Birthday will make your family roar with laughter at this funny book that includes prehistoric presents, games crashing out of control, and snacks going extinct. A Very Dinosaur Christmas will help you deck the holidays with giggles in a new dino disaster adventure that includes an Ankylosaurus stuck in the chimney, a chomped tree, and a devoured Christmas dinner.

New Rotterdam is no place for a kid—and that’s what Emrys Houtman likes about it. Emrys obsessively documents his town’s urban legends and cryptid sightings in a Wiki, along with his neighbors and fellow horror fans Hazel and Serena. It’s all in good fun until one day, the trio stumbles upon the Doomsday Archives, a collection of relics with dazzling powers and dangerous consequences. When a mysterious blood-red hourglass begins appearing around town and children begin to go missing, the trio must band together to stop the horrors plaguing New Rotterdam, or risk losing their home.

One week in late 1999, more than 50,000 people converged on Seattle. Their goal: to shut down the World Trade Organization conference and send a message that working-class people would not quietly accept the runaway economic globalization that threatened their livelihoods. Though their mission succeeded, it was not without blowback. In the oral history One Week to Change the World, award-winning journalist DW Gibson pieces together a complex and compelling account of what really went down in Seattle.

Felix Powell can talk to animals. Just ask his dog, Mary Puppins! They talk all the time. When a mysterious, magical spell turns Felix into a dog, Mary Puppins is amazed. But not as much as Felix! Will his tail ever stop wagging? Will he ever see in full color again? How will he deal with Gumbo, the snobby neighborhood cat? Most importantly, will he ever return to being a regular boy?

In a Philippines of desperate beauty and rank corruption, two seemingly unrelated events occur: the discovery of an ancient lost tribe living in a remote mountainous area and the arrival of a celebrity-studded, American film crew, there to make an epic Vietnam War movie. But the lost tribe may be a clever hoax and the Hollywood movie seems doomed as the cast and crew continue to self-destruct in a cloud of drugs and ego.

Jessica Hagedorn's edgy and entertaining new novel centers on the lives of two women who are neighbors in Manhattan's West Village. Mimi Smith is a filmmaker of low-budget slasher movies in search of new material. Her neighbor Eleanor Delacroix is a legendary writer of erotic fiction, now nearing eighty and addicted to cocaine and gin. Their personal and artistic lives begin to collide in unexpected ways.

When a magic spell is put on Harmony’s trumpet, his music puts all the Smurfs to sleep.

Scaredy Smurf is afraid of heights, the water, the dark … and just about everything! So when he sees a big spider, naturally he’s terrified. Until he realizes the spider is just as frightened of him as he is of it! Soon Scaredy Smurf and the spider are best friends, and they surprise everyone! This gently spooky story is perfect for Halloween or anytime for Smurfs fans.

In Off to School!, Papa Smurf sends all of the Smurfs back to school. At 100 years old, they really need to brush up on their spelling and reading skills!

Cook Smurf is baking a cake for everyone, and he’s run out of eggs! He only needs one more, so Papa Smurf asks Smiley and Grouchy to help get another egg. Smiley and Grouchy have opposite personalities—but can they work together to get an egg from the farmer’s chicken coop?

Handy Smurf tries every way he can think of to fly in the air like a bird.

Join Monty, Ivory, and their trusty A.I. robot, Echo, in this epic space series! Launch into space on an exciting new mission to each planet in the Solar System. From the frigid deserts of Mars to the red storm of Jupiter, every planet presents a new adventure.

Join Monty, Ivory, and their trusty A.I. robot, Echo, in this epic space series! Launch into space on an exciting new mission to each planet in the Solar System. From the frigid deserts of Mars to the red storm of Jupiter, every planet presents a new adventure.

Here’s what’s so cool about the beach. Kids are everywhere! Kids you know, kids you want to know. Wandering from one blanket to another, from one family to another. Somebody’s mom reads a fat summer novel. Somebody’s dad snores with an iPad on his chest. Babies cry. Girls laugh. Frisbee players whoop! Kites in the perfect blue sky. Some kids bodysurf. Some don’t even like the water. They build sand cities for their friends and sand jails for the grown-ups, and when the tide comes in everything gets washed away.

From Harlequin Intrigue: Seek thrills. Solve crimes. Justice served. This collection includes Killer in the Kennel and Danger in Dade.

Determined to make his own way, Jose Gonzalez wants no part of the family business. Helping South Beach Security find land for its growing K-9 division should be easy, though—and working alongside search-and-rescue specialist Sara Hernandez is an unexpected perk. When her bloodhound detects two bodies on the property he purchased, everything changes. Jose will be a part of SBS until he’s certain that Sara is safe. He knows that their attraction is mutual, but will the serial killer they’re tracking rob them of a future together?

Unlike her friends Emrys and Serena, Hazel is struggling to adjust to magic and to their new roles as the secret protectors of New Rotterdam. She’s already worried about her mom, who works endless shifts at the hospital to make ends meet, and now she also has to defend their entire town from supernatural forces. If only Hazel could figure out how to use her relic, the Magnus Crown, which has the power to transform matter, including turning lead into gold … gold that would certainly help ease her family’s financial issues.

Zack and Zara, along with Tessa and the bears, have found themselves stranded on Earth. It was not somewhere they intended to go, let alone knew existed, but it's where they found themselves. Their journey back to Aperra will be revealing and show them just who they truly are. Truths that will have to take a backseat amidst the turmoil they find in Albion. Much has changed while they were gone, including the still somewhat unfamiliar concept of having people who care for them and that they were missing.