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A seemingly sleepy Devonshire village, Burracombe is in fact full of intrigue and drama.

Hadley Jamison is shocked when she hears that her classmate, ArcherMorales, has committed suicide.

Although unfinished at the time of the author's death in 1966, this novel delivers a full measure of action at sea.

1805, and Hornblower is both humbled and honoured in quick succession...

Sailing the frigate Lydia, Captain Hornblower has orders to track down and sink the Natividad, a Spanish ship with twice his fire power.

In late 1948, Ernest Hemingway made his first visit to Italy in thirty years.

Quinn Cutler is sixteen and the daughter of a high-profile Brooklyn politician. She's also pregnant, a crisis made infinitely more shocking by the fact that she has no memory of ever having sex.

His Majesty's Ship Sutherland - of two decks and seventy-four guns - is a humdrum ship of the line.

Zeke and Zack Taylor, motherless six-year-old identical twins, are facing "real" school--first grade--and they are worried.

In Seven Ways We Lie, a chance encounter tangles the lives of seven high school students, each resisting the allure of one of the seven deadly sins, and each telling their story from their seven di

Hornblower becomes a national hero when he escapes a French firing squad.

It's the end of the summer, which means one thing: Color War time! Color War is the event of the summer, a massive camp-wide competition.

As commander-in-chief of His Majesty's ships and vessels in the West Indies, Admiral Hornblower faces pirates, revolutionaries, and a blistering hurricane in the chaotic aftermath of the Napol

As his naval battles with Napoleon conclude, Horatio Hornblower must rescue a man he knows to be a tyrant from the mutiny of his crew.

If middle school were a race, Joseph Friedman wouldn't even be in last place-he'd be on the sidelines.