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Sunshine, secrets, and swoon-worthy stories—June's featured reads are your perfect summer escape.

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He doesn�t need a woman in his life; she knows he can�t live without her.


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A promise rekindled. A secret revealed. A second chance at the family they never had.


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A cowboy with a second chance. A waitress with a hidden gift. And a small town where love paints a brand-new beginning.


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She�s racing for a prize. He�s dodging romance. Together, they might just cross the finish line to love.


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She steals from the mob for justice. He�s the FBI agent who could take her down�or fall for her instead.


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He�s her only protection. She�s carrying his child. Together, they must outwit a killer before time runs out.


Airborn by Kenneth Oppel

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Also by Kenneth Oppel:

Best of All Worlds, June 2025
Hardcover / e-Book
Every Hidden Thing, October 2016
Hardcover / e-Book
Such Wicked Intent, September 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
This Dark Endeavor, September 2011
Hardcover / e-Book
Starclimber, March 2009
Hardcover
Darkwing, September 2008
Paperback
Firewing, April 2008
Paperback
Sunwing, April 2008
Paperback
Silverwing, September 2007
Paperback
Dead Water Zone, September 2007
Paperback
Skybreaker, January 2007
Paperback
Airborn, June 2005
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Airborn
Kenneth Oppel

EOS
June 2005
On Sale: May 24, 2005
Featuring: Matt Cruse
544 pages
ISBN: 0060531827
EAN: 9780060531829
Mass Market Paperback
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Fantasy Steampunk | Young Adult

Sailing toward dawn, and I was perched atop the crow's nest, being the ship's eyes. We were two nights out of Sydney, and there'd been no weather to speak of so far. I was keeping watch on a dark stack of nimbus clouds off to the northwest, but we were leaving it far behind, and it looked to be smooth going all the way back to Lionsgate City. Like riding a cloud. . . .

Matt Cruse is a cabin boy on the Aurora, a huge airship that sails hundreds of feet above the ocean, ferrying wealthy passengers from city to city. It is the life Matt's always wanted; convinced he's lighter than air, he imagines himself as buoyant as the hydrium gas that powers his ship. One night he meets a dying balloonist who speaks of beautiful creatures drifting through the skies. It is only after Matt meets the balloonist's granddaughter that he realizes that the man's ravings may, in fact, have been true, and that the creatures are completely real and utterly mysterious.

In a swashbuckling adventure reminiscent of Jules Verne and Robert Louis Stevenson, Kenneth Oppel, author of the best-selling Silverwing trilogy, creates an imagined world in which the air is populated by transcontinental voyagers, pirates, and beings never before dreamed of by the humans who sail the skies.

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