An overweight fourteen-year-old boy experiences a turningpoint summer in which he learns to stand up for himself.

Born to British parents from families with a tradition of service in India and China, Kaye's "conversation" is rich with recollections of a carefree childhood in British-governed India (The Raj) and of a more restricted adolescence in school at "home"--In drab England so far from her real home and from her beloved father and social butterfly of a mother. This rag-bag of exotic and mundane scraps (a metaphor that Kaye establishes in the foreword) spills...

Traces the history of baseball as an Olympic sport.

Provides an overview of gymnastics competition at the Olympics.

An ambitious complex epic that spans three generations of a family from Czarist times in Russia to the fall of Communism. A Graham Green-style thriller that opens up like a sinister Russian doll.

In The White Horse Talisman, Chantel, Adam, Holly and Owen must help Equus, the great white horse, find his mate and foal and regain his magical talisman. But as the horse rises, so does the dragon. The age-old battle between good and evil threatens the bond between Chantel and Adam and endangers the quest. This is fantasy as its best, a story that raises hairs on the back of the neck and sends satisfying chills up and down the spine, a story that,...

At the beginning of seventh grade, Ariadne moves to a Tennessee town near a former farming community submerged under a man-made lake and meets the ghost of a girl from the past.

"It seems that Molly's up for a promotion--or a firing--at her newspaper job if she doesn't get an impressive scoop immediately. Enter Jane, agreeing to take Molly's place at a beachfront retreat for bigshots who might recognize Molly from her disastrous stint as a Washington intern. Jane gains admittance on the arm of an insufferably nerdy reporter named John Patrick Romanowski. What she doesn't know is that her "escort" is none other than bestselling...