The power of reading is beautifully captured in this 2006 Newbery Honor-winning book. Bernie keeps a barn full of animals the rest of the world has no use forâ€"two retired trotters, a rooster, some banty hens, and a Muscovy duck with clipped wings ...
ANDREW HAS grown up near the Plymouth docks hearing the sailors talk about America. Knowing that Andrew's heart is set on going to the new world, his father sends him up to London to serve as page in the house of Walter Raleigh. In Queen Elizabeth's ...
Eleven-year-old Mark's anthropologist father has disappeared into the Gobi desert while tracing Marco Polo's ancient route from Venice to China. When Mark and his mother travel to Venice to gather information about Mark's missing dad, Mark meets Doc ...
Tinged with violence on an unprecedented level this novel touches the heart and mind with shock waves of human depravity. The remoteness of an isolated village in the Derbyshire Peak District forms the nucleus of a business built on the misery of dru...
A death triggered a sequence of events that led to Catharine Ann Chandler's abduction. A distraught father finds her in a nomadic Berber camp where he discovers values that remain hidden to the Western way of life. Every page lifts the veil from read...
In the spring of 1947, outer space was an unexplored realm. But eleven year-old Alexis (Alex) Heart and her impulsive brother, Chuck, believe that the stars are within reach. In the midst of building their own rocket, Alex befriends Captain Ebbs, and...
It is 1974. The Khmer Republic of Cambodia is cornered by the murderous Khmer Rouge forces led by Pol Pot. The Republic's defenses continue to deteriorate. Reporting from America turns increasingly dark. Indications are that the United States is goin...
Joshua Blackburn is middle-aged, balding software project manager with a problem. Twenty-nine years ago, the love of his life broke his teenage heart, and now he wants to find her. That's only part of his problem. The other part is that he's married....
In the Days of Lachoneus is an epic story of politics and patriotism, intrigue and murder,war and violence, love and betrayal, friendship and loyalty, believers and unbelievers, good andevil, set in the landscape of pre-Columbian Mesoamerica. The his...
People are not Edward's forte, but despite his best efforts, people are unavoidable. An autistic adult, Edward finds his routine life disrupted by events that force him to face uncomfortable changes. First, he receives an unusual job assignment that ...