Grab your helmet and rev up your engine—Handy Manny’s motorcycle is here with a great new play-pattern for preschoolers! Manny’s NewWheels When Manny and the Tools take to the open road on their motorcycle, loads of adventure and fun are sure to follow. This motorcycle-shaped board book features a free-wheelin’ story plus attached wheels that turn for plenty of play value!
A new novel by bestselling author, Joe Nobody, The Archangel Drones examines the intersection of two of society’s most important topics: Drone surveillance and police brutality. With a bright future and loving family, Jacob’s dreams and aspirations are about to come true. Hard work and a positive attitude have left the teenager poised at the threshold of a promising adult life. Then a chance encounter with the police changes everything. Jacob finds himself thrust into the bowels of a corrupt and overwhelmed criminal justice system. His life devastated, his future in jeopardy. Caught in a swirling tempest of abusive police, powerful unions, and a legal system that is completely inadequate to deal with modern realities, Jacob and his parents are overmatched in the fight for justice – until the Archangel Drones join their cause.
In booming high tech Silicon Valley, Sheriff Rusty Carter loses interest in police work when his wife dies of cancer. After he retires, the Sureos gang, for unknown reasons, almost succeeds in murdering Rusty, who kills two gang-bangers in self-defense. Rusty turns to his former Department for help only to fi nd that the Sheriff s Department may be complicit. And a sleazy D.A. may be about to indict him for murder. As if that isnt enough, its also not clear to Rusty whether or not a young, hot, sexy female lieutenant heading the Homicide Squad wants to bed him or put him on death row in San Quentin. Aware that he and his closet friends are in danger of assassination by the gangs, Rusty turns to his former allies in the FBI and the DEA. They inform him that Mexican Drug Cartels and the local Sureos have put out a contract on him. They advise him to disappear. But Rusty isnt about to be run out of town by gangsters. Working to fi nd out who has marked him for death and why, the ex-sheriff finds himself pondering preemptive strikes against his powerful enemies. Whack them before they whack you!
Horses, motorcycles, a learning disabled little brother, and possibly a girlfriend, complicate Randys life. He thinks he has outgrown his pony; competing in arenacross resulted in a debilitating leg injury; his little brother commands his parents attention; and his girlfriend - if she is his girlfriend - fights a battle with cancer. He is a teenager trying to find maturity surrounded by circumstances that are spinning his life out of his control. Yet, Randy has an anchor. Boomer, the pony he thinks he has outgrown, remains a constant in his life, and she is ready to teach him that pain and loss are not insurmountable. Boomer and Randy enter the world of competitive carriage driving, demonstrating that she is a for always pony.
Kip is addicted to the pure adrenaline rush that hits when the stakes are high and the bets are laid down. His gambling addiction uses up his money, his mother’s money—and then their real trouble begins. Dennis Foon’s believable portrait of a teen caught in a gambling addiction crackles with suspense and a foreboding sense of where Kip will land. Originally published in 2000, this highly acclaimed novel has been revised to reflect new technology and the rise of online gambling.
XILLOS (ZEE-los) is a story of intrigue woven around a quintet of major characters whose lives intertwine through stages of survival, ambition, love, violence, and revenge. The beginning finds us twenty years in the future where World Government sans frontiers has been established. XILLOS is now the enforcer of peace on planet Earth, ushering in a new order of law and justice. All is well until one of the Committee of Nine, the highest office that rules, cunningly perpetrates an act of duplicity and subterfuge. Two brilliant doctors and a Supreme Court justice collaborate to change the world. A death camp survivor stumbles on a new, and most important invention of the millennium. The rapacious CEO of one of the world's largest companies embarks on a quest that unravels in a way he never could have anticipated. His most trusted employee carries out his directives with an alarming ruthlessness and brutality. A teenage boy finds himself an innocent fugitive and is stymied in his efforts to extricate himself as the target of both an assassin and the police, eventually becoming an unwitting hero. The closing pages stun and surprise even the cleverest of mystery buffs.
