Adventure | Adventure
Jul.14.2008
Lily Kingman was always a little strange. On her eighteenth birthday she finds out why.
Lily discovers a secret gate at the bottom of a river that takes her to FeyTerrah, a fantastic world of enchantment and danger. While there, she encounters Dreamer, the captivating elf she is destined to marry...
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May.12.2008
The riveting story of a Canadian who serves as a senior officer in Israel’s legendary Mossad.
In 1982 a young Michael Ross joins the legion of Canadian twenty-somethings backpacking in Europe. Through happenstance, he winds up working on a Kibbutz in Israel, where he falls in love with the land and...
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Mar.23.2008
If you're looking for high-altitude tales of frostbit bravery and perilous icefalls, keep looking. This is the story of what happens when a man goes down instead of up.
With plenty of sunscreen and a cold beer swaddled in his sleeping bag, writer and botanist Jim Malusa bicycled alone to the lowest...
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Mar.07.2008
A smart and sassy heroine, an exotic rain forest setting, and a plot with more twists and turns than a coiled cobra. In this fifth book of the Storm Series, Megan has disappeared into the Costa Rican rain forest and it's up to Delta and Connie to find her. Out of their element, with few clues to go...
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Mar.05.2008
Fourteen-year-old Maximum Ride and the other members of "Flock"--Fang, Iggy, Nudge, Gasman and Angel--are just like ordinary kids--only they have wings and can fly. It seems like a dream come true--except that they're still being hunted by new threats at every turn.
This time, the US...
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Feb.28.2008
Measles is a boy with Down`s syndrome who is a computer whiz. Owl is a fellow outcast, with a cleft lip and a hooked nose. The two boys find a unique friendship in their oddness and in a mutual desire to do away within illegal toxic dumpsite outside town. But there`s magic in the junkyard, as Owl...
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Feb.12.2008
Sit Down Young Stranger—One man's search for meaning
John Graham's new memoir, Sit Down Young Stranger, is an often intense,sometimes funny, always honest exploration of the most importantquestions for any of us—what is the path to a meaningful life? How do Ifind the courage and skill to walk it?...
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Jan.31.2008
The afternoon of the day before her fourteenth birthday, Beatriz comes home from school to find her parents missing without a trace. After a brief, futile search, she is shipped off from her home in Des Moines to her uncle's New York apartment, where she finds a portal to a peculiar magical land,...
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Jan.27.2008
After escaping from the slave-galleys of the bloodthirsty Murghai, Korendir, a man whose past is shrouded in mystery, sets off on a series of extraordinary quests: to battle the sorceress Anthei; to challenge the elemental Cyondide and win the lost hoard of the dragon Sharkash; to free the people...
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Jan.19.2008
A compelling standalone tale on a epic scale, filled with intrigue, adventure and dark magic.
When Princess Anja fails to appear at her betrothal banquet, the tiny, peaceful kingdom of Sessalie is plunged into intrigue. Charged with recovering the distraught king's beloved daughter is Mykkael the...
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