Natuurlijk wist Eden Carlbough dat het niet gemakkelijk zou zijn een zomerkamp voor meisjes te runnen. Ook al omdat ze, voordat haar vader plotseling overleed, in haar hele societybestaantje nog geen dag heeft hoeven te werken. Maar dat die kleine schatjes haar letterlijk de boom - om precies te zij

SUMMARY: A daughter of privilege in the most powerful empire the world has ever known, Claudia has a unique and disturbing "gift": her dreams have an uncanny way of coming true. As a rebellious child seated beside the tyrannical Roman Emperor Tiberius, she first spies the powerful gladiator who wi

"So what happens now?" "Now? Now we go change the world." Alek Konstantin sounded so certain. But Hannah Jordan, changed forever by the events of Dominion of the Damned, doesn't share his certainty. No longer fully human, not quite fully vampire, Hannah hovers somewhere in between, so

**'I should like to go to France,' said Ma.** **'God Almighty,' Pop said. 'What for?'** **'For a holiday of course,' Ma said. 'I think it would do us all good to get some sun.'** **** And so at the end of a rainy English August the Larkins - all ten of them, including little Oscar, the family's

Thirteen-year-old Theodore Boone knows every judge, police officer, and court clerk in Strattenburg. He has even helped bring a fugitive to justice. But even a future star lawyer like Theo has to deal with statewide standardized testing. When an anonymous tip leads the school board to investigate a

**Set in the South Pacific, this debut novel is "a brilliant, discordant, and vulnerable picture of running away to sea and coming of age" (Matthew P. Murphy, editor, *WoodenBoat* magazine).** It's been two years since fifteen-year-old Gabe's father uprooted his family and left the United Sta

WINNER OF THE 2017 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZEIn a dive bar in a small Israeli city, Dov Greenstein, a comedian a bit past his prime, takes the stage for his final show. Over the course of a single evening, Dov’s patter becomes a kind of memoir, taking us back into the terrors of his childhood. A

**The first book in R. F. Delderfield's bestselling A Horseman Riding By saga of twentieth-century England introduces Paul Craddock, a young war veteran who stakes his future on a neglected country estate in Devon** After serving his country in the Boer War, injured Lieutenant Paul Craddock retur

As dawn breaks on the Chinese New Year 2034, a flotilla of Chinese warships is poised to strike an unsuspecting Australia. China's intention is to stamp its primacy of the Pacific and, in so doing, secure Australia's enormous mineral and energy resources to fuel its relentless economy. Amidst wide

Meridon knows she does not belong in the dirty, vagabond life of a gypsy bareback rider. The half-remembered vision of another life burns in her heart, even as her beloved sister, Dandy, risks everything for their future. Alone, Meridon follows the urgings of her dream, riding in the moonlight past

Grace Divine, almost seventeen, learns a dark secret when her childhood friend--practically a brother--returns, upsetting her pastor-father and the rest of her family, around the time strange things are happening in and near their small Minnesota town.

When the first humans came to settle the planet Pern, they did not come alone: intelligence-enhanced dolphins also crossed the stars, to colonize the oceans of the new planet while their human partners settled the vast continents. But then disaster struck in the form of Thread, deadly silver spores

This third volume of Alan Ayckbourn plays includes _Haunting Julia, Sugar Daddies, Drowning on Dry Land_ and _Private Fears in Public Places_ , with an introduction by the author. _Haunting Julia_ 'A play for today. It touches on the failures of education and parenting, on media pressure and overd

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction "An addictive, sprawling epic; I wolfed it down.” —Miranda July, author of The First Bad Man and It Chooses You “Easily the funniest book I’ve read this year.” —GQ A por

Tanger Island, baie située à quelques kilomètres des côtes de Virginie, se soulève et menace de faire sécession. Au bord de la guerre civile, la région sombre dans le chaos, et une bande de criminels en profite pour voler, violer et tuer. Le gouverneur est impussant à ramener l'ordre. La police ne p

Galactic empires. Mighty heroes blasting their way to victory. Galaxy-spanning quests. They're all essential ingredients for a space opera! Here are 6 classic novellas from the pulps, showcasing galaxy-spanning adventures. Included are: "Thunder to Venus," by Joseph J. Millard "The Last Outpost,"