SUMMARY: One night, desperate for money to support her grandfather, Jessy Sparhawk places the bet that will change her life forever. Just as she's collecting her winnings, a man st...
From Publishers WeeklyThe Truman franchise chugs along with little sign of losing steam in the 20th entry (after 2002's Murder at Ford's Theatre) in this reliably entertaining ser....
From Publishers WeeklyThe spirit of Chandra Levy hovers over Truman's latest Washington, D.C., mystery (Murder on the Potomac, etc.), which, despite a sometimes confusing plot and ...
EDITORIAL REVIEW: Raised on their parents’ Kentucky horse farm, Charlotte and Knox Bolling grow up steeped in the cycles of breeding, foaling, weaning, and preparation for sale tha...
SUMMARY:"I shall burn thee with blistering heat and with bitter destruction. I will send the teeth of beasts upon thee, with the poison of serpents of the dust..." Award-win...
From School Library JournalGrade 1-4-In her fourth "First Grader" book, Junie B. grapples with the ethical issue of cheating and learns how to work collaboratively. She gets caught...
"What happens between you and me stays here. It's nobody's business but ours." "But isn' using steroids sort of like cheating?" I asked. "It would be if you were the only one doing...
One of the worst natural disasters in American history, the 1896 New York heat wave killed almost 1,500 people in ten oppressively hot days. The heat coincided with a pitched presi...