Cardiac surgeon Dr. Kim Reggis, crazed that cost-cutting procedures at the hospital are keeping his daughter from getting the care he believes she needs to recover from E.coli bacterial poisoning, launches his own investigation into how and why the child got sick.

When just ten kids from two cliques at Hubble Middle School get sick after eating in the cafeteria it seems like somebody is deliberately trying to poison them, and while there are several suspects for who might want to get back at the super-cool girls, the other group are the innocuous comic book buffs--so it is up to Zoe and the other members of the S.M.A.R.T.S. to solve the mystery.

"Something isn't right at Caseham High School. Last year, the school was rocked by scandal: a teacher was accused of having an inappropriate relationship with a student. Now, Addie is a pariah and will do anything to get through the year. More than that, she's desperate to keep the truth from coming to light. Evie, a colleague of the disgraced teacher, is horrified to find Addie in her class. She knows the girl can't be trusted and soon realizes she's...

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Private detective Cormoran Strike is called in to investigate the disappearance of novelist Owen Quine and learns that Quine's latest manuscript is a poisonous tell-all about everyone Quine knows. When Quine is found brutally murdered, Strike finds himself in a race against time to understand the motives of a murderer unlike any he has previously encountered.

The further adventures of Harry and George, two young poisonous centipedes, as they travel across the sea to a mysterious new land filled with dangerous hoo-mins.

In every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born--three queens, all equal heirs to the crown and each possessor of a coveted magic. Mirabella is a fierce elemental, able to control storms or flames with the snap of her fingers. Katharine is a poisoner, able to ingest the deadliest poisons without harm. And Arsinoe, a naturalist, can control nature. But becoming the Queen Crowned isn't solely a matter of royal birth--each sister...

When sixteen-year-old Kyra, a potions master, tries to save her kingdom by murdering the princess, who is also her best friend, the poisoned dart misses its mark and Kyra becomes a fugitive, pursued by the King's army and her ex-boyfriend Hal.

Jordan Sandor reluctantly returns to serve in the Central Intelligence Agency to look into a new terrorist conspiracy involving a poisonous gas attack, and when he follows a dangerous trail to Portofino, Italy, he discovers a rogue agent and tries to prevent a catastrophe.

Former New York police officer Stone Barrington is hired to search for a man in Key West whose father needs his signature to sell the family business, but when he finally tracks him down, Stone learns the man believes his father poisoned his brother and hired a hit man to kill him and has ulterior motives for wanting to sell, prompting Stone to do some further investigating.