Describes how pumpkins come in different shapes and sizes, how they grow, and their traditional uses and cultural significance. Includes instructions for carving a pumpkin and drying the seeds.

"Young Savannah Dubrinsky was a mistress of illusion, a world-famous magician capable of mesmerizing millions. But there was one-Gregori, the Dark One-who held her in terrifying thrall. Whose cold silver eyes and heated sensuality sent shivers of danger, of desire, down her slender spine. With a dark magic all his own, Gregori-the implacable hunter, the legendary healer, the most powerful of Carpathian males-whispered in Savannah's mind that he was...

As Valentine's Day approaches, Froggy thinks that he is falling in love with the new girl in class, but his feelings change when she gives him their first kiss.

An old hound that has been chained up at his hateful owner's run-down shack, and two kittens born underneath the house, endure separation, danger, and many other tribulations in their quest to be reunited and free.

A curious Scottish terrier decides to investigate the strange noise coming from the other side of the hedge.

Settling into ranch life outside Reno, Nevada, with her gregarious great-aunt Jeep Reed and Jeep's German Shepherd, King, former Wall Street trader Mags doesn't miss the cutthroat world of investment banking- because its destructive tentacles have reached westward to the Silver State. The foreclosure crisis has taken a huge bite out of the local real estate market, where rows of homes sit unsold and forsaken - but not empty. A group of squatters,...

"When the body of a young man is found stomped to death, Detective Chief Inspector Banks believes that he has an open-and-shut case, but he soon finds himself thrust into a violent maelstrom of hate, greed, and twisted neo-Nazi philosophy."--from NoveList.

Soon after the mysterious death of her husband, Mary Roffe is appointed as ambassador to Romania by the president of United States. Up against Mary and the new president are a secret alliance of political extremists and a ruthless international assassin known as Angel.

A woman desperate to hide a devastating secret in her past is drawn into a murder investigation.

A distillation of the Durants' 10 volume work, "The Story of Civilization," seeking in great lives, great ideas, and great events the meaning of human's long journey through war, conquest and creation.