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y winning the annual Hunger Games, District 12 tributes Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark have secured a life of safety and plenty for themselves and their families, but because they won by defying the rules, they unwittingly become the faces of an impending rebellion.

In a future North America, where the rulers of Panem maintain control through an annual televised survival competition pitting young people from each of the twelve districts against one another, sixteen-year-old Katniss’s skills are put to the test when she voluntarily takes her younger sister’s place.

Katniss Everdeen’s having survived the Hunger Games twice makes her a target of the Capitol and President Snow, as well as a hero to the rebels who will succeed only if Katniss is willing to put aside her personal feelings and serve as their pawn.

Rookie PI Paige Holden shares the information given her by a dying client with State Attorney Grayson Smith since it cast doubts on a murder conviction, a shocking discovery that plunges them into a world of blackmail and murder.

A series of murders in Washington, D.C., during the mid-term elections reveal some disturbing facts about the intrigues of the city’s elite when Detective Robert Miller discovers that the victims do not officially exist.

Presents a dramatic account by one of the few survivors born in North Korea’s infamous political prison camps, describings the brutal conditions he was forced to endure as a child, his witnessing of his family’s executions, and his harrowing escape.

Combines original sources, archival research, and personal interviews to relate the story of 230 women of the French Resistance who were captured and imprisoned by the Gestapo outside of Paris before being transported to Auschwitz.

Mere Christianity is C. S. Lewis’s forceful and accessible doctrine of Christian belief. First heard as informal radio broadcasts and then published as three separate books – The Case for Christianity, Christian Behavior, and Beyond Personality – Mere Christianity brings together what Lewis sees as the fundamental truths of religion. Rejecting the boundaries that divide Christianity’s many denominations, C. S. Lewis finds a common ground on which all those who have Christian faith can stand together, proving that “at the center of each there is something, or a Someone, who against all divergences of belief, all differences of temperament, all memories of mutual persecution, speaks with the same voice.”

A latest entry in the blockbuster series that most recently includes Smokin’ Seventeen and Explosive Eighteen continues the adventures of the intrepid Stephanie Plum.

Bilbo Baggins, a middle-aged hobbit, reluctantly agrees to participate in an adventure with a band of Dwarves who seek to relaim their stolen treasure from an unpleasant Dragon named Smaug.