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Based on real events and real characters!

It's a dangerous time for thirteen-year-old Clara and her family.

When Poppy's supply teacher disdainfully calls her a "bird brain," Poppy turns into an imaginary bird. But the neighborhood cat soon threatens!

Born in China, Nicki was abandoned to an orphanage before being adopted by a wealthy North American family.

After years of being passed around to various relatives, Cassandra Jovanovich has found a home where she feels she belongs.

In a deadly game of multinational terrorism, detective Helen Keremos searches for a long-lost 60s revolutionary who happens to be the daughter of a right-wing U.S. presidential candidate.

When Pia Keyne, a feisty political reporter, becomes entertainment editor at a large urban newspaper she finds herself embroiled in the vicious murder of a high-profile politician.

For ages 8+. The heroine, Gabi, recounts how as a young Jewish girl she lived on a family farm in Eastern Europe during the Second World War.

Meryl's mother was a great bard—a storyteller and musician who sang of life and the world around her. Meet Meryl, already an orphan, who wants to follow in her mother's footsteps.

The fifth book in a highly successful series, The Butterfly Effect takes detective Helen Keremos to Japan.

Arthur Scott Bailey (1877 – 1949) was the author of more than forty children’s books. “Mr.

Despite her family's threat to disown her, Idil, a young Somali woman, rejects her high Bliss status to marry Sidow, a poor Boon man.

This hilarious sequel to Jeremy and the Aunties will entertain readers as they follow the antics of the aunties -- weird and wonderful old lady mannequins who come to life and take over the air wav

It is the end of the First World War, and thirteen-year-old Meredith yearns to become a teacher.

Peggy is starting to outgrow Notherland, the imaginary world she created as a child, and wants to cut her ties - not knowing it will destroy Notherland completely.