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Intended for parents to listen along with their children: This is a beautifully descriptive retelling of the original Hansel and Gretel story set in modern-day Montana. Told by Gretel herself, it weaves into the fairy tale wonderful new oddities and characters.

Lindsay is in her final year of high school, and is forced by her mother to take a babysitting job for one of her co-workers, Priscilla Thomson. Lindsay arrives at the home and finds out that the boy she is babysitting is named "Fang". The little boy talks ominously of "monsters outside", while waiting for the full moon to appear. Lindsay scoffs at the boy's ideas, until she hears howling outside the window.

Cynthia, a 12-year-old child, finds herself living alone in a gritty neighborhood of flophouses, bars, and drug dealers. Violence is her path to survival. The cartel recruits her into the underground world of drugs, guns, violence, and betrayal. Cynthia rises in the organization to become the only woman enforcer. She learns to love only to find that her loved ones die a horrible death. Can she survive in her kill or be killed world?

When Shay Hamilton picks up a young woman, Lori Mysek, fleeing from her husband on I-90 near Drummond, Montana, he has no idea the set of events his action will unleash. A motel owner and would-be private eye, Shay has lost hope of a loving relationship after finding his wife with another man.

After my first boyfriend Nelos vanished off the face of the earth, leaving me shattered and questioning even my own sanity, I sort of lost my way. And just as I started to find footing again, to come back from the pain, a chance encounter with a god ripped it all away. The last thing I expect is to meet three dangerous men who are too broken for repair - who need me and want me for reasons none of us can explain. But this desire, this fate, it's dangerous. It threatens everything I am and everything I might be. Because these men have dark secrets. Secrets that will destroy me.

In Angel the Assassin, Larry's father is a former military sniper who takes Larry at age 12 to be trained by ex-military snipers in the hills around Los Angeles, California. A vulnerable trans child, Larry/Lisa is supported by her mother. Lisa becomes a strong, successful, courageous, loving, and dangerous woman. When drug runners kill her father, Lisa vows revenge. After her first hit, she is recruited by the CIA to assassinate drug lords traveling to many countries around the world.

Dana's young life revolves around her martial arts, taught to her by her mother, her father's art gallery, and her girlfriend. Having witnessed her mother's brutal murder, Dana descends into the dark underworld of drug lords and murderers, relying on her martial art skills for revenge. The drug lords she chases quickly give Dana the nickname "Red Bitch" Dana assembles a small crew of confident, successful women and goes after the killers.

Logan is in second grade. Every day, he dreads lunch because his food doesn't look like the food the other kids are eating. Every day he tries to make his lunch look like theirs. Finally, he goes to show and tell and talks about food allergies. He brings some of his food for kids to try. They like it. The lesson of the story is that everyone needs to be tolerant of difference.

This story is about two siblings: a girl who is 16 years old and her little brother who is eight. Oh, boy, how he makes her crazy! Well, that's how she feels. But wait a minute? They were inseparable before, so what happened now?

Anna dives into the dark underworld of drug lords, gangs, and killers. She quickly becomes known as the Red Bitch with a price on her head. Can she live her daytime young innocent life, and still survive her dark underworld?