Ami lives on Culion, an island for people who have leprosy. Her mother is infected. She loves her home--but then islanders untouched by sickness are forced to leave. Ami's desperate to return before her mother's death. She finds a strange and fragile hope in a colony of butterflies. Can they lead he

Kaum ein Vorgang veränderte die Welt im 20.Jahrhundert so sehr wie das Ende kolonialer Herrschaft in Asien und Afrika. In systematischen und chronologischen Kapiteln beschreibt das Buch diesen Prozess mit seinen weiten Ausläufern im gesamten Jahrhundert und bietet lokale, imperiale und globale Erklä

WHITE-HOT, DOWN-AND-DIRTY PASSION IGNITES WHEN A SEXY SOLDIER ENCOUNTERS AN IRRESISTIBLE THIEF WHO'S CHANGED HER WAYS. Six years ago, the Special Defense Force mourned the loss of J. T. Chronopolous. Now the striking soldier is back with scant memory, a new name--Conroy Farrel--and one single missi

**The Guardians powers are put to the ultimate test in their final battle in this conclusion to the epic chapter book series from William Joyce.** When we last saw the Guardians, they were celebrating their victory during Bright Night, the final great Battle of the Moon, where they defeated Pit

**The Guardians powers are put to the ultimate test in their final battle in this conclusion to the epic chapter book series from William Joyce.** When we last saw the Guardians, they were celebrating their victory during Bright Night, the final great Battle of the Moon, where they defeated Pitch o

This Courage Classic is reformatted into a smaller trim size and a lower price sure to make them necessities in any library. Beautiful, rich, and vibrant illustrations accompany these classic tales and make them treasures for all to read. Don Daily’s exquisitely detailed illustrations make this hard

He prepared their family for every natural disaster known to man--except for the one that struck. When Nicole Reed's father forces her family to move to a remote area of the Sierra Foothills, one without any modern conveniences, it's too much too handle for her mother, who abandons them in the mid

The second installment in the darkly intelligent series that *The Independent* called "As noir as they get." 1927, Breslau, Poland: Two elaborate and sadistic murders are discovered within days of each other. The body of an unknown musician, bound and gagged, is found behind a false wall in a s

"When unethical drug researchers discover that they can induce amazing mental powers using psychotropic drugs ... this gets the attention of Aerune mac Audelaine, lord of the dark Unseleighe Sidhe," and both sides are threatened by the existence of Eric Banyon.

Pursued by a gang of insane sorcerers who want to destroy the planet, Ryan's only chance for survival rests with skeleton-detective Skuduggery Pleasant and his teenage partner, Valkyrie Cain. They have only one day to save Ryan. One day to save the world. The clock is ticking.

December 2009. MPs are being murdered in revenge attacks for the expenses scandal, and Westminster is in a state of turmoil. With the government on the verge of collapse, the last Labour Prime Minister — desperately clinging to power — decides there is only one way to reclaim the government’s author

Pursued by a gang of insane sorcerers who want to destroy the planet, Ryan's only chance for survival rests with skeleton-detective Skuduggery Pleasant and his teenage partner, Valkyrie Cain. They have only one day to save Ryan. One day to save the world. The clock is ticking.

**When a villager returns, evil stirs.** **Bad omens appear in a shop.** Two decades after a teenager's suicide, her manner of death is brought into question. The police refuse to reopen the case, but someone else has taken an interest. Postwoman Jenny Reid reluctantly gets caught up in the myst

**The ruthlessly engrossing and beautifully rendered story of the Brodskys, a family of artists who realize, too late, one elemental truth: Creation's necessary consequence is destruction.** Each member of the mercurial clan in Adam Mansbach's bold new novel faces the impossible choice between