Author: Caryl Phillips A prim and increasingly apprehensive Englishwoman observing the peculiarities—and barely veiled brutality—of a sugar plantation in the nineteenth-century West Indies. A devout black slave whose profoundly Christian...

Author: Lee Martin A dark, harrowing novel about a nine-year-old girl's disappearance and the lasting impact it has on her close-knit communityOn an evening like any other, nine-year-old Katie Mackey,...

Author: Wendy Holden A witty, winning escapade through the south of France from the internationally bestselling author of Gossip Hound. The only intrepid reporter in her hometown hamlet, Kate Clegg...

Author: Barbara Smith California's rich and colorful history has produced a wealth of tales about the supernatural. These unique stories of scary folklore come from all over the state and...

Author: Catherine Macphail It was as I was walking into the drama class that I remembered the girl I had bumped into and the green sweater just like mine. That...

Author: Tim Vicary November. Terrorists blow up the Queen's coach outside Parliament. The Queen escapes, but five people are killed, and forty others badly hurt - ordinary, innocent people, like...

Author: Peter Eisner A conspiracy within the Vatican—to stop an outspoken PopeIn 1938, Pope Pius XI was the world's most prominent critic of Hitler and his rhetoric of ethnic "purity."...

Author: Michael Baldwin Set in the Loire Valley, this is the story of William Wordsworth's sojourn in France and his marriage to Annette Vallon. France becomes too dangerous for the...

Author: Teddy Slater Preparing for her first meet, Dana finds her position at the head of her gymnastics team challenged by friendly and talented newcomer Amanda, and Dana begins a...

Author: Lloyd Jones In a novel that is at once intense, beautiful, and fablelike, Lloyd Jones weaves a transcendent story that celebrates the resilience of the human spirit and the...

Author: Dwight R Lee Dwight R Lee and Richard B McKenzie Picking up where the smash bestseller The Millionaire Next Door leaves off, Getting Rich in America reveals eight simple,...

Author: Sharon Creech Kidnapped!The kidnappers are actually her Aunt Sandy and Uncle Max, but that doesn't matter to Domenica Santolina Doone, better known as Dinnie. She feels as if she's...