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"The New York Times bestselling author and Queen of the Beach Reads, delivers her next page-turner for the summer in The Newcomer. IN TROUBLE AND ON THE RUN . . . After she discovers her sister Tanya dead on the floor of her fashionable New York City townhouse, Letty Carnahan is certain she knows who did it: Tanya's ex; sleazy real estate entrepreneur Evan Wingfield. Even in the grip of grief and panic Letty heeds her late sister's warnings: "If anything...

When Mavis's monster friend Hank wishes he could be like everyone else, she accidentally turns him into a human boy.

Tyler Yu lives and Charlie Hitchcock, who live in a magical hotel, must unite against all odds to solve an incredible mystery. Combines two stories also published separately, Out the rear window and To catch a ghost, in which Charlie Hitchcock and Tyler Yu investigate mysteries at the Abracadabra Hotel.

While Rumble the dragon and his staff argue with the leader of the orchestra Rumble hired about whether the violinist, a snake, can come into the hotel, she slithers in, eats some porridge, and falls asleep in a just-right bed.

Follows the antics over the course of one summer of six-year-old Moonee who lives with her mother in a budget motel near Walt Disney World.

"Twelve-year-old orphan Warren's pride and joy is his family's hotel, but he's been miserable ever since his evil Aunt Anaconda took over the management. Anaconda believes a mysterious treasure known as the All-Seeing-Eye is hidden somewhere on the grounds, and she'll do anything to find it"--

"Twelve-year-old Milo is stuck spending the winter holidays in a house full of strange guests who are not what they seem-again! He will have to work with friends old and new to uncover clues in search of a mysterious map and a famous smuggler's lost haul"--

"... a young woman takes over a frontier hotel during Oklahoma's oil boom and carves a place for herself in a man's world"--Jacket.

Back at the Winterhouse hotel for another holiday season, Elizabeth and Freddy, who love puzzles, dig deeper into the mystery surrounding a hotel guest who left behind odd artifacts, including a magical book that evil Gracella Winters once attempted to use to gain destructive power over the entire Falls lineage.

Mavis is eager to prove she can take care of a living creature and rescues a so-called “bad egg” from Quasimodos clutches. Mavis raises little Weggsley until he hatches and soon has a vampire-eating, bad little egg on her hands. What will Mavis do?