"Fifteen-year-old Jennifer Strange runs an agency for underemployed magicians in a world where magic is fading away, but when visions of the death of the world's last dragon begin, all signs point to Jennifer--and Big Magic"--

"Imagine a world where all humans must hibernate through a brutally cold winter, their bodies dangerously close to death as they enter an ultra-low metabolic state of utterly dreamless sleep. All humans, that is, apart from the Winter Consuls, a group of officers who diligently watch over the vulnerable sleeping citizens. Charlie Worthing is a novice, chosen by a highflying hero Winter Consul to accompany him to the Douzey, a remote sector in the...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The first novel in the renowned Thursday Next series, which “combines elements of Monty Python, Harry Potter, Stephen Hawking, and Buffy the Vampire Slayer” (The Wall Street Journal).

“A literary wonderland [that] recalls Douglas Adams’ Hitchhiker series [and] the works of Lewis Carroll.”—USA Today

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Benito Mussolini (1883-1945) was the founder of Fascism and iron-fisted ruler of Italy for two decades. He was also an extremely able politician who won the esteem of many statesmen, including Winston Churchill and influential persons in the United States. This biography describes Mussolini's childhood, his education (including his suspension from school for attacking other boys with knives), his World War I experiences and severe wounding, his involvement...

"Civilization has been rebuilt after an unspoken "Something that Happened" five hundred years ago. Society is now color vision-segregated, professions, marriages, and leisure activities all dictated by an individual's visual ability, and everything run by the shadowy National Color in far-off Emerald City. Out on the fringes of Red Sector West, twenty-year-old Eddie Russett is being bullied into an arranged marriage with the powerful DeMauve family,...

IT’S SUMMER, IT’S HOT, IT’S OUR WORLD, but not as we know it. Entire cities lie buried beneath overgrown fields and forests. Technology from another time litters the landscape, and there is evidence of great upheaval. Welcome to Chromatacia, where for as long as anyone can remember society has been ruled by a Colortocracy. In this world, you are what you can see.
Eddie Russett wants to move up. He has better-than-average red...

'The Waiting Room' is Jasper's second book featuring Detective Brodie Foxx, a psychological profiler and Detective Jake Miller, from Homicide. Detectives Miller and Foxx are, haunted by several unsolved missing children cases. When a mother is, murdered, during the kidnapping of her daughter, the two detectives may finally have a link to the other kidnapping cases. The husband of the murdered woman and kidnapped daughter, Austin Campbell, recently...

Three generations of Koopmans live-uneasily-under the same roof of a farm house twenty miles from the center of Holy Cross, Iowa.Thirty-year-old William Koopman needs to move out. But Dad wanted him on the farm after Grandpa died, so William stayed, married his girl Marcy, and even brought her to the farmhouse to live. The poor girl made it a year before she bolted at the end of a rough winter.A week after Marcy leaves, William's shiftless younger...

Upon her return, Nora meets Cade, the quiet and skilled ranch hand with a mysterious past. Together, they embark on an ambitious plan to revitalize the farm, facing numerous challenges along the way. As they work side by side, a deep bond forms between them, blossoming into love. Throughout their struggles and triumphs, Nora and Cade's relationship deepens, anchored by their shared passion for the land and their vision for its future. Set against...