Hidden in Benny Alden's fortune cookie is a handwritten riddle which must be solved.

"Thirteen thirteens make an evil curse. Can Joseph defeat the evil before his thirteenth birthday ends in horror? Joseph has always had such good fortune that his nickname is Lucky. His luck has come in thirteens. He's the thirteenth of his parents' thirteen children. And both of his parents were thirteenth children. But just before his thirteenth birthday, his luck is about to change. Two mysterious visitors warn him that if he collects thirteen...

When a hard-luck horse named Jinx comes to River Bend, everyone thinks he's a curse. Samantha knows he;s not, but he is unruly, skittish, and the fastest horse she's ever seen. Then there's a runaway in the middle of the night, and someone gets a snakebite. Is the bronco really a jinx? Or could he be the good-luck charm Sam needs to save the day?

Zack visits a very strange Chinese restaurant called Wun Dum Guy and finds that the fortunes in his fortune cookies start coming true.

"In 1547 Scotland is clinging to independence after a humiliating English invasion. Paradoxically, the country's freedom may depend on a man who stands accused of treason. He is Francis Crawford of Lymond, a scapegoat nobleman of crooked felicities and murderous talents, with a scholar's erudition and a wicked tongue. Clawing his way back into a country that has outlawed him, and to a family that has turned its back on him, Lymond will prove that...

Lew Weldon has been a tumbleweed, rolling where the wind blew him, up to Canada and down to Mexico. Over time he has earned a reputation as a gambler and a gunfighter. Riding into San Trinidad, Weldon accepts the job offer of Dr. Henry Watts, who wants to hire Lew to protect his patient dying of consumption, Helen O'Mallock. Helen's father had hidden a fortune in the house before his death, and her house has already been entered twice by strange men....

A man with no apparent connection wants to pay detective Dan Fortune too much money to find the killer of a cocktail waitress. But the only way to find out why is to solve the crime.

Features the story of pilots who have earned their living by flying in other people's wars.

Outsider Marnie begins reading tea leaves for fun, but when basketball star Matt asks for a reading related to his friend who disappeared, Marnie's readings begin to seem real--and potentially dangerous. Emily Arsenault (The Rose Notes) makes her YA debut with a "page-ripping whodunit" about Marnie Wells, who comes face-to-face with the occult when she discovers her ability to read tea leaves might help solve the mystery of a classmate's disappearance.Marnie...

"Empress Elizabeth of Austria, known as "Sisi," is the Princess Diana of nineteenth-century Europe. Famously beautiful, as captured in a portrait with diamond stars in her hair, she is unfulfilled in her marriage to the older Emperor Franz Joseph. Sisi has spent years evading the stifling formality of royal life on her private train or yacht or, whenever she can, on the back of a horse. Captain Bay Middleton is dashing, young, and the finest horseman...