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By Bruce Coville. 2003
By Barbara Ewing. 2011
New York, late 1840s, and in the wild, noisy, brash and beautiful circus of Silas P. Swift a shadowy, mesmeric…
woman entrances crowds because she can unlock the secrets of troubled minds. Above them all her daughter sweeps and soars: acrobat and tightrope-walker. People cannot take their eyes from the mysterious woman in the Big Top who can help so many others - but she cannot unlock dark, literally unspeakable, memories of her own. In London memories fester in the mind of an old and venomous duke of the realm. He plots, with an unscrupulous lawyer (and a huge financial reward) against the mother and the daughter: to kill one, and to abduct the other and bring her across the Atlantic to him: She is mine. The actress and mesmerist Cordelia Preston and her daughter Gwenlliam live with their unusual family in the exciting new city among exciting new ideas: the telegraph, the daguerrotype, anaesthesia, table-tapping. And among the dangerous street-gangs of New York also, whose raw violence meets Cordelia and Gwenlliam and those that they love, with unexpected results.By Krystyna Kuhn. 2012
Mount Ghost looms high above Grace College, and holds as many secrets as The Valley itself. Secrets of missing students,…
lies and betrayal.Julia has barely scratched the surface of The Valley's secrets and she's determined to discover what connects her father to the mysterious Grace College. The answer, she's sure, lies on Mount Ghost, so when Katie suggests that they investigate the students who went missing there forty years ago, Julia jumps at the chance. But Julia can no longer hide from her past in The Valley. And she's not the only one. . .By Charlene Sands. 2016
Twins...and another baby on the way for this cowboy from USA TODAY bestselling author Charlene Sands! After Wyatt Brandt rescues…
Brooke McKay en route to a Texas wedding, they spend one hot night together before going their separate ways. Now Brooke's back with news she isn't sure the wealthy rancher is ready to hear-especially when she discovers he's already a father...of twins! Being a single dad is a full-time job Wyatt can't do alone. He doesn't expect the ideal nanny to be the beauty who briefly shared his bed. But he accepts her help gladly-not knowing her little secret will change his family forever...By Nina Bell. 2011
Clover Jones and Laura Dangerfield have been best friends since their children were born. Along with Clover's stylish, powerful friend,…
Alice, they share holidays, sleepovers, school runs and childcare. They're like one big family.But all families have their secrets. When the children leave home, Clover and Laura's lives and marriages change forever, and the old rules on love and loyalty no longer apply. And when Alice decides she wants what they've got, Clover and Laura have to find out who they really are. Without the children, can their marriages - and friendship - survive?By Norah Mcclintock. 2004
By Duncan Falconer. 2004
Two hundred miles south of the Devon coastline, Palestinian freedom fighter Abed Abu Omar and twenty men prepare for their…
most daring mission yet - the hijack of a supertanker, a five-storey superstructure laden with oil. Meanwhile, in an Elizabethan country house, SBS operative Stratton has been seconded to bodyguard work and is bored by the lack of challenge. Not for long.With the helter-skelter pace that defined Duncan Falconer's brilliant debut THE HOSTAGE, Stratton has been whisked away by helicopter to assist in a daring rescue. THE HIJACK ranges from London to the Gaza Strip, from Riga in Latvia to Jerusalem.With a rich cast of characters from Russian secret service operatives to Al Qaeda terrorists and the Israeli military, the authentic detail and heartstopping narrative will propel Duncan Falconer to the highest class of adventure writers.By Peter Matthiessen. 1983
By Claire Irvin. 2011
Caroline Walker has it all. At 42, her immaculately groomed looks and toned body belie her age. She's wife to…
City trading sensation Les Walker, mother to their teenage daughter, Zoe, and a successful international entrepreneur with a string of luxury accessory boutiques. But when Caroline learns that Les has been having an affair, her perfect world falls apart.Now divorced, Caroline is unexpectedly single - something she hasn't been in a very long time. With the help of Maryanne, her outgoing and ex-Hollywood starlet friend, she is introduced to a hectic social life and Caroline discovers her missing twenties . . . and the young men she should have been dating then, too - including the beautiful, sensitive male model, Adam, who is almost the same age as her daughter.But when she finds herself in a situation she thought she'd never have to worry about, Caroline has to answer some big questions about her life - again.By Jack Stout, Rita Stout. 2009
Between filing for our homestead on Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land in 1957 and the government granting of the…
patent in 1962, we spent five years on the homestead on Point MacKenzie in Southcentral Alaska. This point is across four and a half miles of water from Anchorage, yet the area is still remote and without road access. A boat made getting back and forth a possible commute.... We walked everywhere. We tied our kids to a packboard because no one had yet come out with a baby pack. The trail was too rough for wheels, so a stroller or wagon didn't work. Disposable diapers were not available, and with a baby less than a year old, we washed cloth diapers on a scrub board. Our grandparents worried about Indians; we worried about bears... It was when I was eight months pregnant and helping to dynamite a drainage ditch across a swamp that I decided to write a book and call it To Hell With Togetherness. I lived in a totally male environment. Games were wrestling or fighting with socks in the toe of other socks. Always lots of hungry males around. Fleshing a moose hide for tanning was free-time activity. This is a journal-like essay of those five years that Jack and I have written together and it is what we believe to be true. We thought we knew a lot about living, as most young people do, but, gad, did we have a lot to learn. I can't tell you why we did what we did, except once we got started, we were too stubborn to quit.By Greg Farshtey. 2009
By Aldous Huxley. 1948
A savagely satiric successor to Brave New World, this is Huxley's horrific view of the world in the 22nd century,…
after the Third World War, when a civilization dedicated to 'perfection' attempts to suppress all man's rebellious desires.By Suzanne Ruta. 2011
Louise, an American innocent, takes up a scholarship in the south of France in winter 1961 and promptly falls for…
Wally, a gregarious Algerian worker in flight from brutal colonial war. He teaches her about life and love in a chilly furnished room, against a background of French pop music that makes it all seem easy. But families and history reassert their claim and the inevitable separation leaves lasting wounds. Forty years later, finally 'old enough to understand how young I was back then' Louise enlists the help of another Algerian exile in an attempt to make amends. To Algeria with Love is a lucid, witty novel about the personal and the political, about love and home and about the cruel and merciful law of unintended consequences.By Patricia C. Mckissack, Fredrick L. Mckissack. 1994
Describes the customs, recipes, poems, and songs used to celebrate Christmas in the big plantation houses and in the slave…
quarters just before the Civil War.Winner of the Coretta Scott King MedalBy Ben M. Baglio. 1997
Mandy is delighted to help her parents care for Polly, a friend's daughter, and the girl's beautiful Shetland pony at…
Animal Ark. She is surprised, however, to find that Polly has a deep-rooted fear of horses.By Kristiana Gregory. 2008
It's a new school year in Cabin Creek and the cousins have a new mystery. When Claire and David look…
out the art room window and see a girl's pale face, they suspect it's a ghost.By Ben M. Baglio. 1999
By Katherine Applegate. 1998
At College, Aisha has room mate troubles, Jake has no room, Zoey loves everything about California, Claire is realizing how…
good it was to have friends on the island, and Ben's sight is getting worse and worse. Back on the island, Lucas and Nina are missing their friends, especially Zoey. And, don't forget Lara. As if anyone could! She's lied, schemed, and manipulated herself into everyone's lives. But now she's turning her own life around, and it feels great. There's only one problem--the terrifying dreams of fire that haunt her sleep. Their lives have changed drastically since Zoey fooled around in the first book of the Making Out series and bigger changes are ahead in the last three books that follow Don't Forget Lara. Read the full story in this 28 book series about these teenagers who flirt, get hurt, fall in and fall out of love, including: #1 Zoey Fools Around, #2 Jake Finds Out, #3 Nina Won't Tell, #4 Ben's In Love, #5 Claire Gets Caught, #6 What Zoey Saw, #7 Lucas Gets Hurt, #8 Aisha Goes Wild, #9 Zoey Plays Games, #10 Nina Shapes Up, #11 Ben Takes A Chance, #12 Claire Can't Lose, #13 Don't tell Zoey, #14 Aaron Lets Go, #15 Who Loves Kate?, #16 Lara Gets Even, #17 Two Timing Aisha, #19 Kate Finds Love, #20 Never Trust Lara, #21 Trouble With Aaron, #22 Always Loving Zoey, #23 Lara Gets Lucky, #24 Now Zoey's Alone, #26 Zoey's Broken Heart, #27 Falling for Claire, and last, #28 Zoey Comes Home.By Penny Rudge. 2011
When big-boned, eager-to-please, accident-prone Taras Krohe ambles into a stiff English public school on a puzzling scholarship with his funny…
foreign name, an eccentric and over-protective Bukovinian mother, and no father at all, disappointment beckons. A decade later, Taras and his mother are still living off their benefactress Mrs Bartlett in a cramped South London flat, while Taras's promising job has warped into a Kafkaesque nightmare, and his truculent Russian girlfriend has decamped with a ponytailed aesthete. When the mysterious Mrs Bartlett dies, an old schoolfriend with a grudge emerges and eviction looms. Now even the terminally easygoing Taras must show his mother he's a man, and uncover the secret behind his family's plummet into disaster. But she has other ideas for her little pourchi: she's determined to wrestle him away from the dangerous influences his search reveals. And it's by no means certain who will come out on top . . .By Bruce Coville. 1998