The Saturday Boy
School Library Journal Gr 5–8—It's been more than eight months since Derek, 11, has seen his dad, a soldier who flies Apache helicopters and is stationed in Afghanistan for another tour. They keep in touch through letters that Derek keeps in his dad's old school lunch box. He's read them so often he knows exactly […]
The Secret Place
Publishers Weekly ★ 07/28/2014 In French’s mesmerizing fifth Dublin Murder Squad mystery (after 2012’s Broken Harbor), Det. Stephen Moran, who works in the cold-case unit, is biding his time until he can make the Murder Squad. When 16-year-old Holly Mackey, a colleague’s daughter, shows up with a clue to an old crime, Moran sees his […]
The Magician's Land
Kirkus Reviews ★ 2014-06-05 Deeply satisfying finale to the best-selling fantasy trilogy (The Magicians,2009;The Magician King,2011).After being dethroned and exiled from the magical kingdom of Fillory for helping his friend Julia become a demigoddess, Quentin returns to Earth to teach at his alma mater, Brakebills College for Magical Pedagogy. But when his student Plum stumbles […]
Buddy
This book was received as part of a grant from the Children's Literacy Foundation (clif).
The Wicked Girls
Library Journal Marwood's riveting debut novel explores how a single act of violence committed by two 11-year-old girls not only shadows the rest of their lives but also connects them to a series of killings at a seaside vacation community years later. It's been 25 years since Jade Walker and Annabel Oldacre were convicted of […]
The Bookman's Tale : a Novel of Obsession
“. . .A gripping literary mystery that is compulsively readable until the thrilling end. For fans of Geraldine Brooks’s People of the Book, Shakespeare aficionados, and bibliophiles.â€â€”Library Journal (Starred)
A Delicate Truth
“The narrative dominoes fall with masterly precision….As ever, le Carré’s prose is fluid, carrying the reader toward an inevitable yet nail-biting climax.”—Olen Steinhauer, The New York Times Book Review
The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
"Canny, seductive and utterly transfixing…A first novel with the strength and agility of a great cat leaping through rings of fire." –Booklist (starred review)
Shadow of the Hawk
"…this will find broad appeal among lovers of adventure fantasy, especially those mourning the end of John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice.†—Kirkus Reviews
Rage of Lions
Kirkus Reviews The second episode in a series projected to run to at least six cranks up the stakes, the gore, the body count and the number of super-powered were-creatures as the kingdom of Westland is overwhelmed by huge armies of invaders. The cruel, depraved, deposed Lion King (take that, Disney) sits besieged in his […]