Books with author Wendy Wax

From the USA Today bestselling author of My Ex-Best Friend's Wedding comes a wonderfully entertaining book about what to do when life comes at you full swing. At forty-one, Vivian Armstrong Gray's life as an investigative journalist is crumbling. Humiliated after taking a bullet in her backside during an exposé, Vivi learns that she's pregnant, jobless, and very hormonal. This explains why she says 'yes' to a dreadful job covering suburban living back home in Georgia, a column she must write incognito.Down South, it's her sister's ballroom dance studio that becomes her undercover spot where she learns about the local life-and where unexpected friendships develop. As she digs up her long buried roots, she starts to wonder if life inside the picket fence is really so bad after all.

From the USA Today bestselling author of My Ex-Best Friend's Wedding comes a wonderfully entertaining book about what to do when life comes at you full swing. At forty-one, Vivian Armstrong Gray's life as an investigative journalist is crumbling. Humiliated after taking a bullet in her backside during an exposé, Vivi learns that she's pregnant, jobless, and very hormonal. This explains why she says 'yes' to a dreadful job covering suburban living back home in Georgia, a column she must write incognito.Down South, it's her sister's ballroom dance studio that becomes her undercover spot where she learns about the local life-and where unexpected friendships develop. As she digs up her long buried roots, she starts to wonder if life inside the picket fence is really so bad after all.

From the author of The Accidental Bestseller comes a wonderfully entertaining book about what to do when life comes at you full swing. At forty-one, Vivian Armstrong Gray's life as an investigative journalist is crumbling. Humiliated after taking a bullet in her backside during an exposé, Vivi learns that she's pregnant, jobless, and very hormonal. This explains why she says 'yes' to a dreadful job covering suburban living back home in Georgia, a column she must write incognito. Down South, it's her sister's ballroom dance studio that becomes her undercover spot where she learns about the local life-and where unexpected friendships develop. As she digs up her long buried roots, she starts to wonder if life inside the picket fence is really so bad after all. Read Wendy Wax's post on the Penguin Blog.

Praise for Haunting Charlie:"I just couldn't put your book down!" ~Teresa A. "If I hadn't had to get up early this morning, I would have stayed up last night until I finished it!" ~W.Landes."Scary in all the best ways." ~ Peggy H.Ignoring the dead can get you killed...All Charlie Payne wants is to lead a normal life and to be a good mom. But Charlie’s not normal. She's from a long line of witches and she can see the dead. Susan Tate has inherited a beautiful old southern mansion on the coast. Unfortunately, the property came with a million necessary repairs. And ghosts. When Charlie meets Susan, the woman is desperate for help. Taking on a spirit that who doesn’t want to see the light can be dangerous but ignoring it? Ignoring the dead can get you killed.Get your copy of this fast-paced, page turner today!

Filled with photographs from the movie as well as behind the scenes, interviews with cast and crew, and exclusive information about the making of the movie, the official companion book to the major motion picture from Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies offers Spiderwick fans a chance to go behind the scenes of this fantastical movie. Original.

Boys come and go but best friends are forever...Haunted by an accident that took her best friend's life nearly 30 years ago, JJ Stoddard has many regrets about how her life has unfolded. When an encounter with a little red convertible transports her back to 1984 she comes face to face with her biggest regret. Her best friend Lacey's death on prom night. Now she's got a week to save her best friend's life, all while navigating the world as a seventeen-year-old again. Keeping Lacey safe will be mission critical because this time she's going to get it right. This time friends forever is going to last.

These Halloween board books are the perfect treat for this fun holiday! Eye-catching, captivating photo-collage illustrations and rhyming text really make these books stand out. In Bus to Booville, a bus driver gets spooked when he picks up ghosts, witches, and skeletons on Halloween night. All the spooky characters are just kids in costumes on their way to a Halloween party...but it turns out that the normal-looking bus driver is a little monster, in a bus driver costume, and he's going to the party, too! You Can't Scare Me! is about a little girl whose friends keep trying to scare her with their spooky Halloween costumes. Nothing scares her...until she catches a glimpse of herself in the mirror, all dressed up in the spookiest costume of all! Written and illustrated by Wendy Wax.

Evil comes in many forms. Not all of them are human.They call her the Blue Lady, the harbinger of storms and destruction. For psychic Charlie Payne, is the appearance of the ghost of the Blue Lady signaling just a hurricane? Or devastation from beyond?When Charlie is asked to use her considerable talents to help Deputy Jason Tate with a series of murders, she sees the face of the real assassin in a dream.Faced with jeering and disbelief from the FBI agent consulting on the case, and doubts from the deputy, Charlie must face the evil threatening her community alone. As a hurricane barrels toward the South Carolina coast, will her cousins and fellow witches be able to stop the killer before he can take another victim?If you like spine-tingling supernatural suspense, witches, ghosts, and other paranormal creatures you will love the fifth book in the Witches of Palmetto Point series. Grab your copy today.

Get ready to laugh it up with Timmy and his fairly odd friends in this funny fill-ins book all about their favorite time of the school day -- recess! Did Timmy manage to get away from Francis in Dodge Francis? Did Timmy beat Jorgen Von Strangle in volleyball? Who got picked for Timmy's team? Find out when you fill in the blanks and create fairly odd, sidesplitting recess stories of your own!