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An adventure story based on true events, real characters and legends.

Growing up in the Fiji Islands in the late 1960s, Kalyana Mani Seth is an impressionable, plump young girl suited to the meaning of her name: blissful, blessed, the auspicious one.

In 1955, girls who played hockey were rare, and there was no chance for them to play on a boy's team.

Rachel, a young Jewish woman from a small town in Russia, has made an incredible journey.

When Violet's father comes to pick her up at school, one of her classmates asks: How come your Dad is blue and you're not? Violet comes to appreciate the beauty of being different.

It is 1957, and Amal is an inmate of the “Bethlehem Oasis for Troubled Women,” having feigned insanity to avoid being put to death for the murder of her abusive husband.

The first of its kind, this anthology contains four children's stories by young Deaf authors and Deaf illustrators.

During World War II, Hendrik, the son of a fisherman, notices his Jewish friends being ostracized.

Jane Yeats, a crime journalist with a passion for hard-boiled adventure, is forced to confront the murder of her lover, Pete, when the imprisoned killer says he falsely confessed to the crime.

Immediately upon her arrival in London to train as a spy, sixteen-year-old Nicki Haddon is assigned to help the British Secret Service infiltrate a drug cartel that is smuggling large amounts of he

Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ is a novel by Lew Wallace published on November 12, 1880 by Harper & Brothers.

he Prince and the Pauper (1882) represents Mark Twain

Fresh out of high school, Babe Vogel should be thrilled to have the whole summer at her fingertips.

27 août 1935. Kyoto, Japon. Kaï O’Hara vient de France pour retrouver son père, le capitaine (héros de L’Enfant des sept mers) qui a disparu avec son bateau, le Nan Shan.

Edith is ready for the mad scientist and the snake-infested laboratory—but is she ready to admit she needs a little help from her friends?