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Sitting by his father's deathbed, William Bloom tries to understand the man quickly slipping away, who is more interested in evading his son's questions than answering them.

Harry, bored with her sheltered life in the remote orange-growing colony of Daria, discovers magic in herself when she is kidnapped by a native king with mysterious powers.

As the incessant bickering between her troubled husband and her abusive mother reaches a violent climax, Ruth must find a way to survive.

When the Romans brutally kill Daniel bar Jamin's father, the young Palestinian searches for a leader to drive them out, but comes to realize that love may be a more powerful weapon than hate.<

A cryptic message from an oddly familiar winged visitor is all Paul Jonas has to help him survive in the complex virtual reality world known as "Otherland."

A careful tracing of the movements of both the Union and Confederate armies which offers fascinating vignettes of daily life within the ranks.

Seventeen-year-old April finds her comfortable life changed forever when death threats to her father, a witness in a federal case, force her family to go into hiding.

When we think of pirates we conjure up images of Blackbeard and Captain Kidd, but these characters hailed from one period.

Forbidden by her father to indulge in music in any way, a girl on the planet Pern runs away, taking shelter with the planet's fire lizards who, along with her music, open a new life for her.

Baltimore investigator Tess Monaghan has her hands full with five murder cases that have gone cold.

Presents an Inspector William Monk mystery set in Victorian England.

The author explores her own conflicting feelings as a mother as she protects her offspring and probes the roots and tendrils of the girlie-girl movement and concludes that parents who think through

Former journalist turned P.I. Tess Monaghan thought she knew Baltimore like the back of her hand--but what she doesn't know just might kill her in this grim yet irresistible novel.

After the destruction of their floatplane, sixteen-year-old Gabe and his friend, Raymond, struggle to survive a winter in the wilderness of the Northwest Territories.

Tuchman takes a fresh look at the men and events that produced and decided America's struggle for independence.