**The long-awaited follow-up to the New York Times bestselling *Shades of Grey—*in an EXCLUSIVE EDITION for North American readers, complete with a never-before-published short story“Fforde's books are more than an ingenious idea. They are written with buoyant zest and are tautly plotted . . . and are embellished with the rich details of a Dickens or Pratchett.” —The Independent**Welcome to Chromatacia, where life is strictly regulated by one’s limited col...

The final instalment of the Last Dragonslayer Chronicles, demonstrating that with a small band of committed followers, a large tin of resolve and steely determination, almost anything can be achieved . . .Sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange and her sidekick and fellow Orphan Tiger Prawns have been driven to the tip of the UnUnited Kingdoms - Cornwall - by the invasion of the Trolls. Their one defence is a six-foot-wide trench full of buttons, something which ...

Kezia's an African American city girl and college student, angry that her mama wants to take her out to the country just to impress her new husband...Kezia's a city girl at heart and she can't think of any good reason to stay posted up in this small town.When she meets an attractive older white hunter named Levi, Kezia starts to change her opinions on what the American Midwest has to offer.Perhaps life in the country has more to offer than she could have eve...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Enter the seedy underbelly of nursery crime, where characters are never as they seem, in this “brilliantly, breathlessly odd” (USA Today) novel from the renowned author of The Big Over Easy and the Thursday Next series.“Like the best novels of Douglas Adams or Terry Pratchett, Fforde goes beyond his genre.”—Los Angeles Times Book Review“Jasper Fforde is able to write di...

"The second volume in The Chronicles of Kazam is just as full of inspired silliness as the first. . . . Fans will cheer this new installment." — BooklistMagic has been in a sad state in the Ununited Kingdom for years, but now it's finally on the rise, and boneheaded King Snodd IV knows it. If he succeeds at his plot, the very future of magic will be at risk! Sensible sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange, acting manager of Kazam Mystical Arts ...

Jasper Fforde's bestselling Thursday Next series has delighted readers of every genre with its literary derring-do and brilliant flights of fancy. In The Big Over Easy, Fforde takes a break from classic literature and tumbles into the seedy underbelly of nursery crime. Meet Inspector Jack Spratt, family man and head of the Nursery Crime Division. He's investigating the murder of ovoid D-class nursery celebrity Humpty Dumpty, found shattered to death beneath a wall in a sha...

Book Four: A tough American NAVY Seal falls hard and fast for a bratty African heiress adopted by a Russian mafia family.AMINATA USMANOVMy adopted father has lied to me my entire life.I promised myself I'd never fall for a man like him...Strong...Stern...Rippling with cold authority.With Mace, I can't help myself.The fact that he's off-limits turns me on even more.One wrong move and I'm in his arms, breaking every rule...

Although she's an orphan in indentured servitude, sixteen-year-old Jennifer Strange is pretty good at her job of managing the unpredictable crew at Kazam Mystical Arts Management. She already solved the Dragon Problem, avoided mass destruction by Quarkbeast, and helped save magic in the Ununited Kingdoms. Yet even Jennifer may be defeated when the long-absent Mighty Shandar makes an astonishing appearance and commands her to find the Eye of Zoltar—proclaiming that if she fails, he will eli...

Bestselling author of And the Good News Is... Dana Perino is back with stories of friends, family, and how America's love for a dog named Jasper is a place where even political opponents can find common ground.Dana Perino is a popular and beloved host on Fox's The Five, with over two million followers on social media. While readers admire Dana for her charm, warmth, and insight, she also knows who the real star in her family is: her Vizsla, Jasper-A.K.A. A...

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A “hilarious” (The Guardian), “blindingly inventive,” (The Seattle Times) and “wonderfully weird dystopian thriller” (Shelf Awareness) from the author of The Constant Rabbit and the Thursday Next series“A cause for celebration . . . Fforde writes witty, chewy sentences, full of morsels, and delivers them deadpan. . . . [His] relentless imagination and his affection for his characters a...

"It is not my right to be jealous. I am merely a slave…"1 queen of the Nubian empire…1 Greek slave thousands of miles from home…An African kingdom torn apart by conflict that isn't ready for interracial love.Exposing assassination plots and betrayal to the crown of Nubia threaten Lateefah and her loyal slave, Lycus.Can Lateefah discover who plots to kill her? Will she have to choose between the outsider and her kingdom?Stay Alert! The hottest scene...

Burgundy is France's most prized and prestigious wine region today as well as being one of its oldest and most traded, if not always by the English. Its wines, to quote Jay McInerney who contributes, are ‘for lovers, lunatics and poets…’ and are the textbook definition of what terroir is all about. Villages mere metres apart produce wines of startlingly different personalities, and it is one of the rare regions in Europe whose red and white wines are equally celebrated. For all of its prec...