A carjacker lurking in a shopping mall parking lot. An abusive husband pounding on the door. A disgruntled employee brandishing a gun. These days, no one is safe from the specte...
From School Library JournalGr 8 Up–Liv went through more than mere pubescent changes on her 13th birthday, and as time goes on, she only feels like her true self when she is in the...
SUMMARY: When a young boy is found murdered in a park, the boys brother says that his sister was the murdererbut shes nowhere to be found. Constables Hart and Tain find evidence th...
FromSixth-graders Mac and Vince have been running an advice and assistance service for fellow grade-school students since they were in kindergarten. Mac is a problem solver, Vince ...
From Library JournalPublished in 1953, 1952, and 1979, respectively, this trio of novels follow Clarke's recurring theme of humans thrusting themselves into space and then not nece...
As riveting as a World War II thriller, The Forger's Spell is the true story of Johannes Vermeer and the small-time Dutch painter, Han van Meegeren, who dared to impersonate Vermee...
Amazon.com ReviewWith such novels as and , Edward Rutherfurd has laid claim to place, in which the characters tend to play second fiddle to the setting. The ...
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Horrified by the misuse of magic they had witnessed during the First War of the Races, the Druids at Paranor devoted themselves to the study of the old sciences, from the ...