A seductive thiefLady's maid Molly Wilkins is done with thieving—and cheating and stabbing and all the rest of it. She's determined to keep her hands to herself, so she really shouldn't be tempted to seduce her employer's prim and proper companion, Alice. But how can she resist when Alice can't seem to keep her eyes off Molly?Finds her own heartFor the first time in her life, Alice Stapleton has absolutely nothing to do. The only thing that seems to occupy her thoughts is a lady's maid with a sharp tongue and a beautiful mouth. Her determination to know Molly's secrets has her behaving in ways she never imagined as she begins to fall for the impertinent woman.Has been stolenWhen an unwelcome specter from Alice's past shows up unexpectedly at a house party, Molly volunteers to help the only way she knows how: with a little bit of mischief.

Featuring three Little Golden Books based on the hit PBS Kids' TV show The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, this omnibus makes an ideal gift for holidays, birthdays, and happy occasions of all kinds. In The Thinga-ma-jigger Is Coming Today!, readers are introduced to the cast of the TV show; in Bamboozled, the Cat and Co. visit with a panda and learn about its favorite food (bamboo); and in Born to Run, the gang go swimming upstream with a spawning salmon. Perfect for new viewers of the show—as well as die-hard fans—this is a seasonless gift that will keep on giving!

In this science fiction short story, artist and single mother Petra Mookjai tries to cope with a toxic world where feminism has become a bewildering and increasingly splintered state. When she is given a toy for her teenage daughter, a breeding kit for tiny multicolored mermaids, she finds herself obsessed with the mermaids as a new form of self-expression.Nebula and World Fantast Award nominee Rambo spins another compelling, chilly story of a future that lies closer at hand than one likes to think.

Attending what seems to be a routine break-in, troubled Detective Garda Cathy Connolly makes a grisly discovery: an old wedding dress - and, concealed in its hem, a baby's bones. And then the dress's original owner, Lavinia Grant, is found dead in a Dublin suburb. Searching for answers, Cathy is drawn deep into a complex web of secrets and lies spun by three generations of women. Meanwhile, a fugitive killer has already left two dead in execution style killings across the Atlantic - and now he's in Dublin with old scores to settle. Will the team track him down before he kills again? Struggling with her own secrets, Cathy doesn't know dangerous - and personal - this case is about to become...

Could this surprise pregnancy be the ultimate betrayal...or her Cinderella moment? Meek and mild Mia Navarro has spent her entire life in her twin's shadow. But a brief and secret affair with superstar singer/producer Nate Tucker is about to change all that. Their one night together on tour has left her pregnant and torn between her obligation to her pop-princess sister and claiming the life she longs for. But as Mia gears up to put her own needs first for once, she faces an even starker moment of reckoning: Will her pregnancy news strike the wrong chord...or be music to Nate's ears? Little Secret, Red Hot Scandal is part of the Las Vegas Nights series.

Harry and Cat are steady customers at Gretchen's Kitchen, a shabby, pleasant restaurant where Cat can warm her scarred body by the woodstove and Harry can slump in a booth, drink Gretchen's $4 a gallon wine, and contemplate the folly of his declining years. They're existential drifters, content to let life take the line of least resistance.So when Gretchen asks Harry to do her a favor and help her dying friend, Eva, he at first declines. But he's cursed with an overactive curiosity, and he visits Eva to see what there is to see. He learns that Eva's husband, Frank, was found dead of a heart attack ten years ago, but she's sure that's not what happened as Frank was a very healthy fellow.Enticed by Eva's $5,000 reward offer, Harry and Cat team up with her granddaughter, Priscilla Matson, a diminutive bodybuilder with a nine pound mouth and an aversion to cats.They travel central New Hampshire seeking answers. They learn that another man went missing around the same time as Frank's death and suspect a connection. Harry bribes a policewoman, robs a funeral home, and makes an error in judgment that has horrific consequences.They carry on, getting ever closer to the truth until finally, in a subterranean hell, they find it in a soul-ripping encounter with horror and death.

Featuring three Little Golden Books based on the hit PBS Kids' TV show The Cat in the Hat Knows a Lot About That!, this omnibus makes an ideal gift for holidays, birthdays, and happy occasions of all kinds. In The Thinga-ma-jigger Is Coming Today!, readers are introduced to the cast of the TV show; in Bamboozled, the Cat and Co. visit with a panda and learn about its favorite food (bamboo); and in Born to Run, the gang go swimming upstream with a spawning salmon. Perfect for new viewers of the show—as well as die-hard fans—this is a seasonless gift that will keep on giving!

From Newbery Honoree Marion Dane Bauer comes a heartwarming novel in verse that's a companion to the "wholly satisfying" (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) Little Dog, Lost.When an indoor calico cat named Patches spots a golden autumn leaf fluttering past her window, she can't help but venture outside to chase it. But soon, Patches feels something tugging at her, telling her to find a special place—one she won't know until she sees it. Why must she go on this search? She doesn't know yet. Along the way, Patches finds herself in dire circumstances, but with the help of the other neighborhood animals, she faces off against the scariest dog in town and continues on her journey to her special place. Beautifully told in verse and accompanied by adorable illustrations by Jennifer A. Bell, this heartwarming novel from Newberry Honor­–winner, Marion Dane Bauer, is a timeless, touching, and fulfilling story about finding your way home.

Two novels, two young women at the frontiers of sex.Like a series of Penthouse letters penned by Kathy Acker, Lie With Me recounts a woman's sexual escapades, picking up random men in bars for a series of increasingly extreme encounters, hoping to understand love from the far side of sluttiness.In The Way of the Whore, Mira, an introverted Jewish girl obsessed with Jean Genet, allows herself to be seduced by the sex industry, determined to find meaning in her tormented relationships with cruel men.Tamara Faith Berger's first two novels have been languishing out of print. They were scandalous when they were first published; substantially revised and returned to print, they're just as titillating and troubling now."Treading a line between sublime experimentation and unsettling honesty, Little Cat rides a wave of female sexual energy. . . . 'Please, I want you to stay with me till it's over,' the narrator of 'Lie With Me'...