New Releases by Meg Cabot

Suze goes on her most dangerous adventure yet in Mean Spirits, the third book in Meg Cabot''s The Mediator series. It''s a hot Californian summer and Suze''s best friend, Gina, is visiting from New York. Bliss! All Suze wants to do is check out the cute guys down at the beach. Unfortunately, being a mediator makes hanging out like any normal teenager pretty hard. So Suze is hardly surprised when a fatal car accident wreaks havoc on her perfect summer. The spirits of four high-school students are hungry for revenge. And if Suze tries to protect their target, she might find herself involved in a nasty ''accident'' of her own . . . Other books in the series include Love You to Death, High Stakes, Young Blood, Grave Doubts and Heaven Sent.

Swimming to Catalina

Former pop star Heather Wells has settled nicely into her new life as assistant dorm director at New York College—a career that does not require her to drape her size 12 body in embarrassingly skimpy outfits. She can even cope (sort of) with her rocker ex-boyfriend''s upcoming nuptials, which the press has dubbed The Celebrity Wedding of the Decade. But she''s definitely having a hard time dealing with the situation in the dormitory kitchen—where a cheerleader has lost her head on the first day of the semester. (Actually, her head is accounted for—it''s her torso that''s AWOL.) Surrounded by hysterical students—with her ex-con father on her doorstep and her ex-love bombarding her with unwanted phone calls—Heather welcomes the opportunity to play detective . . . again. If it gets her mind off her personal problems—and teams her up again with the gorgeous P.I. who owns the brownstone where she lives—it''s all good. But the murder trail is leading the average-sized amateur investigator into a shadowy world. And if she doesn''t watch her step, Heather will soon be singing her swan song!

Cartoonist Jane Harris is delighted by the prospect of her first-ever trip to Europe. But it''s hate at first sight for Jane and Cal Langdon, and neither is too happy at the prospect of sharing a villa with one another for a week—not even in the beautiful and picturesque Marches countryside. But when Holly and Mark''s wedding plans hit a major snag that only Jane and Cal can repair, the two find themselves having to put aside their mutual dislike for one another in order to get their best friends on the road to wedded bliss—and end up on a road themselves ... one neither of them ever expected.

Enemies come lovers when rivals find themselves facing the Alaskan wilderness together in this romantic comedy from a New York Times bestselling author. There are a few places screenwriter Lou Calabrese would rather be than crammed into a helicopter with Jack Townsend, star of her claim to fame, Copkiller, and whose ex just ran off with Lou’s ex. Talk about uncomfortable. But when, halfway out to the isolated arctic location where Copkiller IV is currently shooting, their pilot turns murderous and their helicopter crashes, Lou realizes her day has just gotten a lot worse. Now, while family and friends back home fret over her disappearance, Lou is on the run in the arctic wilderness with America’s sweetheart Jack Townsend and only the contents of her purse, his pockets, and their mutual knowledge of survival movie trivia to keep them alive. Can these two children of Hollywood put aside their differences and make it back home without killing each other? Or much, much worse, actually start to like one another? “Cabot will knock your socks off!” —Atlanta Journal-Constitution

Nine-year-old Allie Finkle''s list of rules helps her navigate a tricky situation with a new girl at school.

Student body president, that is—nominated by her power-mad best friend, Lilly. This is not how Mia imagined kicking off her sophomore year, but as usual, she has bigger problems to worry about, like Geometry. And now that Mia''s one true love, Michael, is uptown at college, what''s the point of even getting up for school in the morning? But the last straw is what Lana whispers to her on the lunch line about what college boys expect of their girlfriends. . . . Really, it''s almost more than a princess in training can bear!

No one ever said being a princess was easy. Just when Mia thought she had the whole princess thing under control, things get out of hand, fast. First there''s an unexpected announcement from her mother. Then Grandmère arranges a national primetime interview for the brand-new crown princess of Genovia. On top of that, intriguing, exasperating letters from a secret admirer begin to arrive. Before she even has the chance to wonder who those letters are from, Mia is swept up in a whirlwind of royal intrigue the likes of which hasn''t been seen since volume I of The Princess Diaries.

Nate, le fils des nouveaux voisins de Jessica a mystérieusement disparu. Il est retrouvé sans vie, un étrange symbole dessiné sur son torse. Peu de temps après, Jessica a une vision cauchemardesque d''un autre garçon, Seth, séquestré et torturé par ses ravisseurs. Quel genre d''individus est capable de ces actes barbares ? Jessica accompagnée de son petit ami Rob mènent leur enquête...

While Mia tries to get over breaking up with her boyfriend, she discovers a diary kept by a former princess of Genovia from the 1600s, the contents of which could change the fate of her country forever.

Memories of Summer

From the #1 bestselling author of the Princess Diaries books comes a spooky, funny, and addictive supernatural novel about a girl named Jinx, so named for her persistent bad luck. Could she actually be a witch?

Now a high school junior, Samantha tries to decide whether she is ready to have sex with her boyfriend, who happens to be the President''s son.

Having moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with her medievalist parents, high school junior Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School where several students may or may not be reincarnations of King Arthur and his court.

Princess just want to have fun This spring, Mia''s determined to have a good time, despite the fact that the student government over which she presides is suddenly broke. Fortunately (or unfortunately, depending on how you look at it) Grandmère has an elaborate scheme to simultaneously raise money, catapult Mia to theatrical fame, and link her romantically with an eligible teen bachelor, not her boyfriend. It''s no wonder that Michael, the love of her life, seems to think she''s a psycho, or worse: not much fun. Is it possible that Mia, soon-to-be star of the stage, president of the student body, and future ruler of Genovia, doesn''t know how to party?

Princess Diaries, Vol. VI.

Grandmere is determined to prove that boy (aka Michael) isn''t the right one for the crown princess of Genovia. Mia isn''t having much luck proving otherwise, since Michael has a history of being decidedly against Valentine''s Day.

Avalon High seems like a typical high school, attended by typical students: There''s Lance, the jock. Jennifer, the cheerleader. And Will, senior class president, quarterback, and all-around good guy. But not everybody at Avalon High is who they appear to be ... not even, as new student Ellie is about to discover, herself. What part does she play in the drama that is unfolding? What if the bizarre chain of events and coincidences she has pieced together means -- as with the court of King Arthur -- tragedy is fast approaching Avalon High? Worst of all, what if there''s nothing she can do about it?

"New York Times" bestselling author Meg Cabot''s wild, wonderful, sexy, and hilarious "Reading with Ripa" smash hit is available in this mass-market edition for a limited time only. Reissue.

Mia and her subjects from the #1 "New York Times" bestselling Princess Diaries series demonstrate how to have a jolly holiday no matter what is being celebrated. Illustrations.

Darkest Hour

"Mia Thermopolis lives with her artist mother and her cat, Fat Louis, in an apartment in Greenwich Village. She is an ordinary New York teenager. Ordinary, that is, until Mia finds out the shocking truth - she is a princess!" -- back cover.

Sixteen-year-old Carmel, California teenager Suze Simon is a typical high school student except for the fact that she is a "shifter" who can mediate between the living and the dead, and she is in love with a ghost from the nineteenth century.

Sixteen-year-old Susannah Simon is a mediator, one who communicates with the dead, and she also happens to be in love with Jesse, a 19th-century ghost.

The RLS Angels are out for blood, and only Suze can stop them—since she''s the only one who can see them. The four ghostly teenagers died in a terrible car accident, for which they blame Suze''s classmate Michael... and they''ll stop at nothing until he''s joined them in the realm of the dead. As Suze desperately fends off each attempt on Michael''s life, she finds she can relate to the Angels'' fury. Because their deaths turn out not to have been accidental at all. And their killer is only too willing to strike again.

Suze is used to trouble, but this time she''s in deep: Ghostly Jesse has her heart, but Paul Slater, a real flesh—and—blood guy, is warm for her form. And mediator Paul knows how to send Jesse to the Great Beyond. For good. Paul claims he won''t do anything to Jesse as long as Suze will go out with him. Fearing she''ll lose Jesse forever, Suze agrees. But even if Suze can get Jesse to admit his true feelings for her, what kind of future can she have with a guy who''s already dead?

Suze''s new life in California is pretty cool. There are the pool parties, the new friends, and the fact that the hottest ghost in history happens to live in her bedroom. But when a screaming spirit appears at the end of her bed, Suze is thrown on to the trail of a murderer. All the clues lead to the freaky father of Tad Beaumont, the cutest boy in school . . . and the only guy who’s ever asked Suze out. Not only is her potential beau''s dad probably a killer, but he also seems be some kind of vampire. No one said that life as a mediator was going to be simple. But this is getting ridiculous . . .

What? A princess Me Yeah, right. Mia Thermopolis is pretty sure there''s nothing worse than being a five-foot-nine, flat-chested freshman, who also happens to be flunking Algebra. Is she ever in for a surprise. First Mom announces that she''s dating Mia''s Algebra teacher. Then Dad has to go and reveal that he is the crown prince of Genovia. And guess who still doesn''t have a date for the Cultural Diversity Dance?

Princess Mia is introduced to her Genovian subjects, and more importantly, she goes out on a date.

The sixth hilarious novel in the best-selling THE PRINCESS DIARIES series which has taken the world by storm leaving her to face a new school year all alone (well, nearly). stand her, and a totally transformed Boris to get used to, life for the world''s most reluctant royal is looking like it can''t get much worse. Until Grandmere and Lilly step in - with a plan to save Genovia and Albert Einstein High. A plan that involves Grandmere showing up at school in her fur cape and tiara