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Bert's eyes went to the labyrinth which he was so eager to finish. His heart gave a leap, and he stopped still. Over the top of the hedge near the entrance, he could see the head of an animal moving. "It's a huge, brown bear!" Bert thought wildly. The Bobbsey Twins -- Bert and Nan, Freddie and Flossie -- have won millions of fans since their first adventure. Now Grosset & Dunlap is proud to reissue the classic editions of these mysteries.
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An isolated beach on the island of Guernsey in the English Channel is the scene of the murder of Guy Brouard, one of Guernsey’s wealthiest inhabitants and its main benefactor. Forced as a child to flee the Nazis in Paris, Brouard was engaged in his latest project when he died: a museum in honor of those who resisted the German occupation of the island during World War II.
It is from this period of time that his murderer may well have come....
It is from this period of time that his murderer may well have come....
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"Kiela has always had trouble dealing with people. Thankfully, as librarian at the Great Library of Alyssium, she and her assistant Caz--a magically sentient spider plant--have spent the last decade sequestered among the empire's most precious spellbooks, preserving their magic for the city's elite. Then a revolution begins and the library goes up in flames. She and Caz flee with all the spellbooks they can carry and head to a remote island Kiela...
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A year ago, Irene Steele had the shock of her life: her loving husband, father to their grown sons and successful businessman, was killed in a plane crash. But that wasn't Irene's only shattering news: he'd also been leading a double life on the island of St. John, where another woman loved him, too. Now Irene and her sons are back on St. John, determined to learn the truth about the mysterious life -and death - of a man they thought they knew. Along...
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"Twig and Ben are hard at work taming the last free unicorn herd on Lonehorn Island when Ben's loyal unicorn, Indy, disappears. When their search leads them to the island's secret passageway of Terracornus, the land of unicorns, they discover a bold thief at work. There Twig learns the tangled truth about Ben and the evil queen who's enslaved all of the unicorns. Now all of the captive unicorns are in danger and only Ben and Twig, the last unicorn...
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"Bermooda is a tropical island that is full of walking, talking cows. Here in Bermooda the sun is perfectly bright and the breeze is perfectly warm. It's the kind of perfection that makes it seem like nothing in this mootopian paradise could ever change. But when a hu'man washes ashore, everything changes!"--from publisher's description.
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Like Gabriel GarcIa Marquez, Edwidge Danticat, and Maryse Conde before her, Tiphanie Yanique has crafted a debut collection that is heartbreaking, hilarious, and mesmerizing. Set mostly in the U.S. Virgin Islands, these lyrical and haunting stories are part oral history, part postcolonial narrative, but ultimately a loving portrait of a wholly unique place.
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"More bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another over-filled, ill-equipped, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians, Ethiopians, Egyptians, Lebanese, Palestinians, all of them desperate to escapeuntenable lives in their homelands. And only one has made the passage: nine-year-old Amir, a Syrian boy who has the good fortune to fall into the hands not of the officials but of V�anna: a teenage...
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A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of peculiar photographs. A horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off teh coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its decaying bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that Miss Peregrine's children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They...
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K'os, a Cousin River woman, nurses her hatred after being brutalized by a trio of Near River men, and when she discovers an abandoned baby at the site of the attack, she believes him to be a sign that she will eventually be avenged, but when Chakliux grows to manhood he embarks upon a mission of peace between the two peoples, not realizing his mother is out to sabotage his efforts.
15) Abel's island
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Castaway on an uninhabited island, Abel, a very civilized mouse, finds his resourcefulness and endurance tested to the limit as he struggles to survive and return to his home.
16) Sea Glass Island
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Under summer skies, New York Times bestselling author Sherryl Woods evokes family, friendship and heartfelt emotion. With her two younger sisters heading for the altar, will Samantha Castle exchange old dreams for new ones? Lately she'd rather be on the North Carolina coast with family than in New York with agents and actors. Though she vows not to let her teenage crush on Ethan Cole influence her decision, it's hard to ignore her feelings for the...
19) The island
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While walking on the beach, Beth Anderson stumbles upon a human skull, which then disappears, and it is only when a body washes up on shore that people believe her story, especially Keith Henson, a stranger who follows her every move.
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"On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. It's a wedding for a magazine, or for a celebrity: the designer dress, the remote location, the luxe party favors, the boutique whiskey. The cell phone service may be spotty and the waves may be rough, but every detail has...
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