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Four kids are stranded on a deserted island in the middle of the South Pacific with no supplies. They just lost their only shelter and possibly their one chance at being rescued.

Rich, old practical joker Andrew Trent summons his kin to his remote home to torment them with a new bag of unfunny jokes.

Maria Worth's gluttonous friend, Peta Gore, is always spoiling her carefully planned singles' gatherings.

Darren Shan and Mr. Crepsley embark on a dangerous trek to the heart of the vampire world. But they face more than the cold on Vampire Mountain--the vampaneze have been there before them.

The trials: seventeen ways to die unless the luck of the vampire is with you.

In 1940 a Jewish boy in Poland escapes the Nazi soldiers who killed his family and is rescued by a Greek geologist.

In a Lao village, a woman is killed and her body burned. Three days later she is back home as if nothing happened--and she can speak to the dead.

Lochdubh constable Hamish Macbeth's life is going to pot. He has unwillingly been promoted, his new boss is a dunce, and a self-proclaimed traveler named Sean has been found dead in his camper.

All Sergeant Hamish Macbeth wants to do is fish and drink coffee with his fiancée.

Branded a traitor, betrayed by a friend, hunted by the vampire clan--Darren Shan faces certain death. Can he reverse the odds and outwit a vampire prince?

Darren Shan, the Vampire Prince, leaves Vampire Mountain on a life or death mission. As part of an elite force, he searches the world for the Vampaneze Lord.

Joel McAllister, a former lieutenant in the Confederate Army, takes his steadfast sergeant, Riley, and heads west for Idaho Territory, seeking peace and gold.

In 1925, Elijah Winters brings his daughter to a remote trading post in Arizona, but ranch life bores her.

Twins Coke and Pepsi resume their trip across America and land in Texas.

Darren Shan, Vampire Prince and "vampaneze" killer, faces his worst nightmare yet--school. But homework is the least of Darren's problems.