Benbrook Public Library

Killing Machine tells the tale of Franklyn J Hurt, an undercover agent for the Global Crime Task Force sent to infiltrate the criminal organization only known as The Syndicate Six. When his cover is blown, his wife taken and daughter murdered before his eyes, Frank wakes up barely a man, a torso with an unrecognizable face, hanging in a warehouse and used as an example for those who betray The Syndicate Six. However, Frank is rescued by Special Forces...

Free-spirited artist Stormy Jones-Smythe was raised by two talented Wizard fathers but never showed the slightest hint of magical abilities. Which is why she's totally surprised when three famous fairy godmothers show up at her door to tell her she's one of them. Surprised, and none too happy. The godmothers are fugitives, framed for treason, and the last thing the magical Council wants is another fairy godmother going rogue. Hence Stormy's new full-time...

The Coalition of Grakis Major has a long-standing custom of inviting League volunteers to help monitor and collect data for its elections. Now, though, its economy is near-disaster and only getting worse. Micah Stone and his team are assigned to assist a candidate who may just be able to change things. Young, charismatic and full of hope, he's also an advocate of increased League trade and is willing to ask for help. After a few suspicious incidents,...

Blue Magic, the latest designer drug linked to a rash of overdoses, might explain the needle mark on the arm of a young woman found dead in her Kansas City apartment. But when Star reporter Rich Azadian digs deeper, the clues point to a far more explosive story: MaryLee Stock was a special protégée of evangelical megapastor and power broker Cobalt Becker, who is poised to deliver his followers and the presidency to a firebrand right-wing...

The twenty-eighth edition in the bestselling bathroom-reading series is jam-packed with 512 pages of absorbing trivia material. Uncle John gets a Factastic facelift for the twenty-eighth all-new edition of this beloved book series. All of Uncle John's Bathroom Reader favorites are packed into these 512 glorious pages-from little-known history to the origins of everyday things-plus odd news, weird fads, quirky quotes, mind-bending science, head-scratching...

I was Culled at age five into the Bastille Military, the World of Rondure's superpower… …Having lived on-base for thirteen years, military life taught me two things: Mastery of the Smoke Element and to never apologize about using it on enemies Now that I'm awaiting a sure death sentence for the crime of exposing Bastille's true crimes, they've left me with no choice. When they try to extradite me, I will call upon my Sword of Smoke and escape...

GOING ROGUE. He's the Fastest Man Alive. But now, the Flash is really on the run. After his climactic confrontation with Zoom, the Scarlet Speedster has been declared a threat to Central City, the town he's sworn to protect both as the Flash and as Barry Allen, member of the CCPD. Now he's on the wrong side of the law, racing to clear his name. But it's not just cops in hot pursuit: it's his worst enemies, the Rogues! Captain Cold, Mirror Master,...

She refuses to be mated without love. His Wolf wants no other.Liam McAllister is on a mission of peace. Representing the Macconwood Pack at the gathering of the Shifter Council to appoint a High Alpha was an honor he wasn't sure he deserved. Especially when his head gets turned by a curvy little she-Wolf with a reputation for being ice cold. Annoyed that his Wolf refuses to back down, Liam starts things off by putting his foot in his mouth. He has...

The Nebula Award–winning author "continues to dazzle us with brilliance in combining science, romance and adventure." -Romantic Times MIT professor Megan O'Flannery is one of the world's leading research scientists on artificial intelligence for androids. Most of her work consists of working with computer simulations, so when the company MindSim gives Megan an opportunity to work with an android, she jumps at the chance. Hidden and secret,...

OFFICER ROBYN WEAVER expected this case to be just like any other she worked on. Duplicating a mind is a delicate task, and sometimes the copy doesn't quite agree with the new status quo. She didn't expect that she would become so close to the case.Set in Vancouver after a devastating population crunch, Robyn is just one of millions in Canada who use technology to duplicate their consciousness. These secondary bodies, called Aspects, are seen as an...