Guess what — Gary Paulsen was being kind to Brian. In Guts, Gary tells the real stories behind the Brian books, the stories of the adventures that inspired him to write Brian Robeson's story: working as an emergency volunteer; the death that inspired the pilot's death in Hatchet; plane crashes he has seen and near-misses of his own. He describes how he made his own bows and arrows, and takes readers on his first hunting trips, showing...

Stunning statuesque Brittany Callaghan isn't used to seeing Nordic gods in her tiny California town. But when the spectacular blond Viking-whose name is Dalden-turns up at her doorstep, Brittany knows her dream man is very real. Dalden claims to be a barbarian warrior-since Brittany's passion has been running red–hot since she first saw him, the sexy giant can fancy himself anything he pleases!The truth is a very rude awakening-for Dalden is exactly...

For maverick LAPD homicide detective Harry Bosch, the body in the drainpipe at Mulholland Dam is more than another anonymous statistic. This one is personal...because the murdered man was a fellow Vietnam "tunnel rat" who had fought side by side with him in a hellish underground war. Now Bosch is about to relive the horror of Nam. From a dangerous maze of blind alleys to a daring criminal heist beneath the city, his survival instincts will once again...

When FBI agent Dane Carver's twin brother, Father Michael Joseph, is brutally murdered in his San Francisco church, husband-and-wife agents Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich take a personal interest in the investigation. Then Nicola "Nick" Jones, a homeless woman and the only witness to the shooting, is scared out of her mind because she's trying to hide from her own monsters-who are drawing closer and closer. The chase goes from San Francisco to the...

In this edge-of-the-seat finale to the trilogy that has reunited the Coleman and Thornton families, New York Times bestselling author Fern Michaels sets our pulses pounding as horsewoman Nealy Coleman faces her greatest challenge--to produce another Derby winner and show the world that a determined woman never quits... Kentucky Sunrise When it comes to men, Nealy is very content with her new husband, lawyer Hatch Littletree. When it comes to horses,...

High school junior Jordan MacKenzie's life was pretty typical: fractured family, new boyfriend, and a dead-end job. She'd been living with her father, the predictable optometrist, since her mother, the hippie holdover, had become too embarrassing to be around and Jordan finally felt that her life was normal. That is, until she met Gayle D'Angelo, her father's girlfriend.

When the Lusitania sank, one of the survivors kept a small statue that would become a family heirloom. Now, nearly a century later, the statue is stolen, and the family wants it back so they can reunite it with the other two long-separated statues to form the Three Fates and use them to make their fortune.

When Dr. Blake Hunter discovers Casey Edwards wandering along a Sweetwater, Georgia, road, she's a woman without a past, her memory stripped of the terrifying events that shattered her innocence a decade ago. The scrap of paper she clutches in her hand bears the address to Swan House, the magnificent mansion where Casey's mother lives with her mysteriously ailing husband. But "home" turns out to be anything but a safe haven. . . Casey is determined...

Son of an ex-FBI agent, Miles Kettering, six-year-old Sam Kettering is kidnapped and taken to eastern Tennessee. The boy manages to escape. But the kidnappers do not give up. Miles Kettering joins Lacey Sherlock and Dillon Savich to investigate why the kidnappers want this little boy so badly - and they also soon find themselves drawn into the investigation of the murders of three math teachers in the Washington, D.C. area.

When her notorious past catches up with Laine Tavish, proprietor of the antique shop Remember When, it's up to her and an enigmatic stranger named Max Gannon to find out who's chasing her-and why.