Revealing the secret history of punctuation, this tour of two thousand years of the written word, from ancient Greece to the Internet, explores the parallel histories of language and typography throughout the world and across time.

Jacobia "Jake" Tiptree is the tart-tongued, sharp-minded woman at the center of this quaintly crooked universe. It's Jake's past as a financial manager that gets her in deep trouble when a man seeks revenge against her. Years earlier, Jake denied a man a loan, and loan-shark enforcers killed him. Now his son is out for blood. He wants Jake to feel as hunted as his father was.

CIA boss Lance Cabot hires Stone Barrington to watch over his brother Barton, a former army intelligence officer suffering from amnesia. As Stone discovers, Barton is a spy with a rather unusual hobby: building and restoring antique furniture. Barton is also a man with a past that is linked to the jungles of Vietnam more than thirty years earlier. Stone soon finds out that Barton, and some shady characters of his acquaintance, may be hiding a lot...

PI Sharon McCone of San Francisco is hired by a hippie drug dealer from her college days. Now a "turnaround man" who fixes corporations in trouble, he has many enemies and needs protection. No sooner does Sharon take the case, than the man's wife is murdered and he disappears. By the author of Wolf in the Shadows.

In an attempt to save her broken game, Ralph and Vanellope race against the clock -- and some shady characters in a gritty, urban racing game -- in the vast world of the Internet! When faced with the lure of new cars and exciting racing routes, Vanellope considers leaving the arcade for good, and Ralph recognizes that he may lose the only friend he's ever had.

Two years after the events of Pride and Prejudice, Miss Caroline Bingley is staying at her brother's country estate within an easy ride of Mr. and Mrs. Darcy's home, Pemberley, and wondering if there's more to life than playing cribbage and paying calls on country neighbors. So when Georgiana Darcy's maid, Jayani, vanishes -- and worse, Georgiana disappears in search of her -- Caroline races to London to find them both, and quickly discovers a shocking,...

It seems like an ordinary day when Tui and Kae, fourteen-year-old twins, get home from school – until they find their mother, Maia, has disappeared and a swirling vortex has opened up in her room. They are sucked into this portal and dragged down to Rarohenga, the Māori Underworld, a shadowy place of infinite dark levels, changing landscapes and untrustworthy characters. Maia has been kidnapped by their estranged father, Tema, enchanted to...

Kill some time with former hit man Taro Sakamoto! Taro Sakamoto was once a legendary hit man considered the greatest of all time. Bad guys feared him! Assassins revered him! But then one day he quit, got married, and had a baby. He's now living the quiet life as the owner of a neighborhood store, but how long can Sakamoto enjoy his days of retirement before his past catches up to him?! Team Sakamoto enters an airsoft tournament organized by the shopping...

"Late-seventies Los Angeles was rampant with killers and shady characters, but all the go-getters at Space Matters saw was possibility. Richard Kasparov was handsome and charismatic; his younger associate, Jerry Schneiderman, brilliant and nerdy. When the pair hired a veteran contractor to oversee construction, the space planning firm they operated out of a hip mansion in LA's Miracle Mile district appeared poised to transform the boundless skyline...

"Two western stories--'Black Rock Desert' and 'The Desert Rider'--find two young men returning to the towns where their hopes were shattered. Each one finds that past experiences have prepared him to face the challenges waiting for him as he helps expose and stop shady characters"-- Provided by publisher.