A 19th-century boy, floating down the Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom.
In Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees, 14-year-old Lily Owen, neglected by her father and isolated on their Georgia peach farm, spends hours imagining a blissful infancy when she was loved and nurtured by her mother, Deborah, whom she barely remembers. These consoling fantasies are her heart's answer to the family story that as a child, in unc...more
January 24thAfter you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs....It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would ro...more
A 19th-century boy, floating down the Mississippi River on a raft with a runaway slave, becomes involved with a feuding family, two scoundrels pretending to be royalty, and Tom Sawyer's aunt, who mistakes him for Tom.
Holly Black, author of a bestselling children's fantasy series, the Spiderwick Chronicles, writes for a somewhat more mature audience with this urban YA fantasy, set in the same milieu as her debut novel, TITHE. After Valerie "Val" Russell discovers her boyfriend and her mother in a compromising position, the teenager runs away from her New Jersey ...more
Having run away with her younger brother to live in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, twelve-year-old Claudia strives to keep things in order in their new home and to become a changed person and a heroine to herself.
Audrey Niffenegger began writing this novel but interrupted it to write THE TIME TRAVELER'S WIFE, which sold more than two million copies. In what then became her second novel (and is equally influenced by magical realism), THE THREE INCESTUOUS SISTERS, Niffenegger tells the sad story of Bettine, Clothilde, and Ophile, three sisters who share a lon...more
Gemma:"My parents are incompetent. They haven't got a clue..."Tar: "I know it sounds stupid, but it was like the flowers had come out for Gemma..."Lily: "They did everything they could to pin me down...my mum, my dad, school..."Rob:"We stood for a while breathing big long breaths of air. It was cold and pure...You could feel it inside you, doing yo...more
The Pulitzer Prizewinning New York Times columnist presents her third novel, which traces the dissolution of a passionate marriage into a violent nightmare, forcing Fran Benedetto to start a new life, and a new identity. Reprint.
The spellbinding Orphans series concludes in this thrilling new novel from V.C. Andrews®... "All for one and one for all" was the girls' motto. In the grim foster home for orphans run by Louise and Gordon Tooey, at least Brooke, Crystal, Raven, and Butterfly had each other. Calling themselves "sisters," together they could forget the past and dre...more