*A Today Show Gift Guide Pick!* Lucy is having a terrible day. She’s falling down a mountain. As she passes various characters—a mountain man, a bungeeing duck, and a pile of shuffling bears—she tries to ask for help. But everyone misinterprets her requests. As Lucy gains velocity, the story grows in silliness. Ending eventually in a giant, rolling snowball that lands Lucy safely at a hot-chocolate chalet. No harm done! With a perfect blend of Looney Tunes–style comedy and breezy short text from Kevin Cornell, Lucy Fell Down the Mountain offers a simple solution to bad days: Just roll with it! In the tradition of When Sophie Gets Angry and Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible . . . Very Bad Day, Lucy's ability to face the day head-on—and then move on—will prove itself a new classic.

This is a book with twisted horror stories. Each one has its one twist to it. You never quite know what to expect when you turn each page. Some are strange, some are gory and some are just down right petrifying!

Rescue mission to hostile planet of scaly aliens This science fiction story occurs on the two remote planets of Eden and Vkani. Peaceful Eden has an independent colony of humans from Terra and a small population of alien Atrapako with their spiky crest and scales colored by their class. When the Blue, Sa Kamizan Veedak, and Dr. Lucy Stannis receive a distress message from his sister, Veela, they must undertake the dangerous mission to rescue her from the war-torn planet of Vkani. As an exile, Sa Kamizan risks death if he is recognized, while the humans will face slavery or worse. The motley crew of Atrapako and human scientists will need all their skills to combat treachery by brutal warlords and survive the hostile environment. If you enjoy adventures with battles, betrayals, and scientific explorations, read Book 2 in the series, Atrapako on Eden. The meeting and earlier adventures of Sa Kamizan and Lucy are described in Book 1, The Lady is Blue.

A band of outlaws has chosen the wrong man to mess with in this gritty Western in the New York Times bestselling series . . . Deal with the devil Smoke Jensen has seen the worst that men can do on a lawless frontier. But even the mountain man is not prepared for what happens while he's away from his home. An outlaw band strikes as two women are visiting at Smoke's ranch. Now, the women are gone and a ranch hand and his young daughter are dead. And pay the price in blood . . . Outlaw ReeceVan Arndt is the mastermind behind the attack, and he thinks he has Smoke where he wants him: Van Arndt will give back the women if Smoke is willing to cut a deal. It's a ploy no sane man would ever attempt. One of the kidnapped women is desperately trying to give Smoke one last chance to find her and the killers. And when he does, no words, no money and no promises will be exchanged: only bullets—and lives . . .

A collection of sketches, drawings, comics and inane commentary provided by one man: German Chancellor Otto Von Bismark. Wait... no... Kevin Cornell! Kevin Co-

She swore she'd never trust again. Buying the old courthouse near the Barrington Tops ragged mountain ranges was a fresh start for Nicole and daughter Lucy. Renovating the run-down building into a home and B & B accommodation would help them recover from the trauma they had endured. Nik promised Lucy it would be just the two of them. Always. But the removal truck getting stuck in the driveway on the first day threw them into neighbour Robbie’s path. He sorted the problem, then returned with son Harry to help them unload. Nik instinctively liked him, but she couldn’t trust her instincts. And more importantly, she vowed to keep the promise she’d made to Lucy.