Seven-year-old James wants to be a brave and noble knight like his father. He dreams of the day that he too will wear the golden spurs that symbolize knighthood. But before his dreams are realized, James must work for seven years as a page and for se...
Planet Jurassica is under siege. The sinister space pirates have raided the Imperial palace and stolen the famous Jewels of Jurassica. This looks like a job for . . . Captain Raptor!. . . hero of a thousand space missions; champion of truth, justi...
As we look back to the beginnings of the space race, 2009 is also the year for looking forward to humankind?s next step toward the stars. In the spirit of books that once imagined colonies on the moon, Patrick O?Brien has created a unique look at you...
Birmingham UK gentleman detective, Johnny Doyle, agrees to trace Pat Malone, disappeared from a brutal Irish orphanage 30 years previously. Doyle straightaway meets corruption and deadly violence from renegade monk, Br. Julius Griswold,and his Europe...
KEVIN NEAL, at the foot of the Blackstairs Mountains, fails to bait a Púca to fight. In this compelling, heartrending, Irish coming-of-age story, he learns too well what it costs when monsters are unleashed.Decades before the great famine, the y...
From the author of Hero's Choice, comes the second book in the FitzHero series about Ryan 'Fitz' Fitzgerald. It was the morning after Fitz had solved the murder of his girlfriend's father. It had been hectic past several months with him moving from N...
Life sailing with the Royal Navy in the 1780's was particularly miserable: sailors slept in crowded hammocks, ate moldy cheese and maggoty bread, and were subject to very harsh discipline. So when the HMS Bounty arrived in Tahiti after 11 months a...