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.
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…
Sick with influenza during the 1918 epidemic and sparated from her two sisters, a young Jewish girl living in Boston relies on the help of an old German man, and her visions of angels, tp get better and to reunite herself with her family
Ray Atlee is a professor of law at the university of Virginia who is forty-three and newly single. He has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi; a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for many years and is now a recluse. With the end in sight, Judge Atlee issues a summons to Ray to return home to Clanton,…
When 7th grade twins Payton and Emma switch places, they shake up the social hierarchy at their new middle school.
Two sisters spend a bizarre summer holiday at a gothic boarding school and learn that, although they are different, when times are hard they can always count on each other.
Re-enter the fascinating world of Healers and Takers in the gripping sequel to astonishing fantasy debut novel 'The Pain Merchants'. Nya has survived her battles with the Luminary and freed the Takers who were enslaved at the Healer's League. But all is not well in Geveg and war rages on. Nya, Tali and friends are in hiding, plotting their escape as the Duke posts a ransom for their capture. Bu…
With the rebellion in full swing, fifteen year-old Nya's loyalties are put to the ultimate test, and she is forced to choose between leading an army against the Duke or abandoning her people to save her sister.