Age range: 10 years. Summary: When we last saw Oliver and Celia Navel, they had fallen into the clutches of Sir Edmund S. Titheltorpe-Schmidt III and were doomed to spend their entire summer vacation doing his deadly bidding. In their second unwanted adventure, We Dine with Cannibals, Oliver and Celia will travel from the ruins of ancient temples to the shadowy forests of the Amazon. They'll ne…
In the aftermath of the 2004 tsunami in Sumatra, two teenagers, American Sarah and Acehnese Ruslan, meet and continue together arduos climb inland, where Ruslan hopes to find his father and Sarah seeks a doctor for her brother.
When a young man in the Uplands blinds himself rather than use his gift to "unmaking" a violent talent shared by members of his family, he upsets the precarious balance of power among rival, feuding families, each of which has a strange and deadly talent of its own.
Two brothers share many adventures after their death when they are reunited in Nangiyala, the land from which sagas come.
The last case of police negotiator Jack Nightingale’s career ended in the death of nine-year-old Sophie Underwood. Since then, he’s saved his own soul from the devil...but now he is haunted by Sophie’s cries for help. When the police drag him to the hospital to meet a supposedly comatose gangbanger who keeps saying Jack’s name, Nightingale realizes that this is Sophie’s desperate atte…
Summary: This is really a wonderful enjoyable quirky adventure tale of a courageous young orphan, Clemency Wrigglesworth, who travels alone from India to England, not knowing where she is going or who will look after her. She is taken under the wing of Mrs Potchard and her son Gully, and his aunt Mrs Marvel and her children Whitby and Leicester. An ad is put in The Times newspaper publicizing h…