The trust and love that develop between Eric, who is on police probation, and old Mister Beck, who commands him to measure and study his garden, enable the teenager to defend his friend, an ex-convict, against the cruelties of gang members...
The trust and love that develop between Eric, who is on police probation, and old Mister Beck, who commands him to measure and study his garden, enable the teenager to defend his friend, an ex-convict, against the cruelties of gang members...
Set against the turbulent, apocalyptic world of medieval Europe, this richly textured novel follows the odyssey of Anne and Niklas Valens, orphaned by the murder of their parents and raised by their uncle, a clockmaker, who teaches Anne the secrets o...
Set in the Indonesia of Sukarno, Stranger at the Gate is a passionate love story that takes place against the background of a land torn by strife, corruption, and political intrigue, hovering restlessly on the edge of anarchy. At its center is Maggie...
After a mutant offshoot of AIDS virtually destroys human life across the United States, a multi-racial group of ravaged survivors in lower Manhattan joins forces to face the grave new world that awaits them. Reprint....
Three explorers-fifteen-year-old orphan Harry Windsor, Bayang, a young Iban tribesman, and Tombong, an outcast Iban girl-find mystery and adventure in the jungles of Borneo.Gripping... This story withstands comparison to Kidnapped, Treasu...
Fifteen-year-old Hong and his older brother Chen face famine, flood, pirates, and jealous rivals on their journey through fifteenth century China as Chen pursues his calling as a scholar and Hong becomes involved with a secret society known as the...
While traveling, Arjun's caravan is waylaid by robbers who kidnap his beloved sister and murder his guardian uncle. Arjun's life is spared, but he is captured and sold into slavery, losing his privileges as a Brahmin. Instructed in the care and train...
Malcolm Bosse has captured and character of London in the 1770s in this exuberant tale that intertwines the lives of Henry Fielding, the Earl of Sandwich, and John Wilkes, among others, with the fate of a livery boy who has come to the city to make h...