Mesopotamium Blue cat, Varjak Paw, has never been Outside before; he and his family have always lived in the isolated house at the top of the hill. Bu <more...>t Varjak is forced out into the city when the sinister Gentleman and his two menacing cats take over his home. With help from his mystical ancestor, Jalal, Varjak manages to overcome challenges such as self-survival and a threat from the gangland cats, and he ultimately discovers the terrifying secrets behind the Vanishings. But can he save his own family from their fate?

Stanley Yelnats is under a curse. A curse that began with his no-good-dirty-rotten-pig-stealing-great-great-grandfather and has since followed generat <more...>ions of Yelnats. Now Stanley has been unjustly sent to a boys' detention center, Camp Green Lake, where the warden makes the boys "build character" by spending all day, every day, digging holes: five feet wide and five feet deep. It doesn't take long for Stanley to realize there's more than character improvement going on at Camp Green Lake. The boys are digging holes because the warden is looking for something. Stanley tries to dig up the truth in this inventive and darkly humorous tale of crime and punishment, and redemption.

Septimus Heap, the seventh son of the seventh son, disappears the night he is born, pronounced dead by the midwife. That same night, the baby's father <more...>, Silas Heap, comes across an abandoned child in the snow, a newborn girl with violet eyes. The Heaps take her into their home, name her Jenna, and raise her as their own. But who is this mysterious baby girl, and what really happened to their beloved son Septimus?

Meet Harry Pickles, the fastest boy in the world (well, at least in school), big brother to Daniel (who runs like a girl but is, in his own twerpy way <more...>, a star), and the firstborn son of Mo and Pa, the best-looking parents in their Notting Hill elementary school parking lot. Harry's life, like any other nine-year-old's, is a colorful, frenetic, and fun blur of lunch boxes, vocabulary tests, and keeping up with his pals Piggy and Terry, not to mention keeping an eye on his kid brother Daniel. Mo, a successful, well-known journalist, and Pa, a surgeon, have built a wonderful world for Harry and Daniel to grow up in, but when a school outing results in Daniel's vanishing, the complicated adult world of police investigations and interviews, searches of the countryside, recriminations, and ultimate responsibility comes crashing in on a very confused Harry.

Although he doesn't usually handle burglaries, playboy-sleuth Archy McNally agrees to handle a "discrete" case for a society matron. And his search fo <more...>r stolen property leads Archy into a maze of sex, lies, and blackmail, uncovering a secret that's much too close to home.

In a low-down, high society caper, suave and sexy sleuth Archie McNally investigates a family as mysterious as the House of Usher, but twice as twisted...

Wealthy bird-store owner Hiram Gottschalk feels his life is in danger. And he's right, as playboy-turned Palm Beach P.I. Archy McNally realizes when h <more...>is mutilated body is found. Between Gottschalk's shady employees, his paranoin son and heir, and his twisted twin daughters, there's no shortage of pieces to this scandalous puzzle. But for Archy and his sidekick, Binky, the biggest piece is still missing, the killer with a motive to kill two more birds with one stone.

Everyone's favorite playboy-turned-sleuth, Archy McNally, is back in Palm Beach. This time, he's investigating the deathstyles of the rich and famous, <more...> in particular, a strange increase in business at the posh funeral homes owned by the wealthy Whitcomb clan. There seem to be more caskets than corpses and more family secrets than family members.

After shooting her philandering husband in the heat of passion, Melva calls on her friend Archy McNally to shield her daughter from the media. When he <more...> finds big holes in the stories of the mother and daughter, McNally must find an elusive woman who knows the truth.

In the basement of a Boston bookstore, Firmin is born in a shredded copy Finnegans Wake, nurtured on a diet of Zane Grey, Lady Chatterleys Lover, and <more...>Jane Eyre (which tastes a lot like lettuce). While his twelve siblings gnaw these books obliviously, for Firmin the words, thoughts, deeds, and hopesall the literature he consumessoon consume him. Emboldened by reading, intoxicated by curiosity, foraging for food, Firmin ventures out of his bookstore sanctuary, carrying with him all the yearnings and failings of humanity itself. Its a lot to ask of a ratespecially when his home is on the verge of annihilation.