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The book tells the story of the Fox family - father Jim, who has lost his wife to depression/suicide - and his three lovely daughters. Thayer documents the girls' return home to Nantucket Island.

In a village at the edge of the wilderness of northern Russia, where the winds blow cold and the snow falls many months of the year, a stranger with piercing blue eyes presents a new father with a gift - a precious jewel on a delicate chain,intended for his young daughter. Uncertain of its meanin...

What begins as just another ordinary day for Demon ends up being far from normal, because travelling on a rainbow to Mount Olympus is a bit odd for anyone, even if your dad is the Greek god Pan! When his long-lost father appears and takes him to the kingdom of the gods to look after their mythica...

It is 2120 and London is in ruins. The young Prince Alfred has never known a life outside Buckingham Palace - but when strange goings-on breach its walls and stalk the corridors in the dead of night, he is thrust into a world of mystery, adventure and monsters. And when his mother, the Queen, is ...

Fate takes many forms. When Henry receives a letter from an elderly taxidermist, it poses a puzzle that he cannot resist. As he is pulled further into the world of this strange and calculating man, Henry becomes increasingly involved with the lives of a donkey and a howler monkey named Beatrice a...

Lady Beatrice is fleeing an arranged marriage by stagecoach to Brighton, where the proud beauty meets her match in Miss Hannah Pym who is determined to find her a proper beau.

Miguel is beautiful. His beauty is so rare and miraculous that it has made him the object of cult-like devotion in the city. Santiago, his older brother, watches with a mix of admiration and disquiet the prodigious effect that Miguel's looks have on his mother and father, on passersby, their neig...

In a windowless building in a remote part of town, the newly employed Josephine inputs an endless string of numbers into something known only as the database. After a long period of joblessness, she's not inclined to question her fortune, but as the days inch by and the files stack up, Josephine ...

This novel is set in India in 1947 at the time of Partition. Although the backdrop is this key event in Indian history, the novel is even more far-reaching, touching on the importance of tolerance, love and family. The main character is Bilal, a boy determined to protect his dying father from the...

One summer's day India Opal Buloni goes down to the supermarket - and comes back with a dog. Winn-Dixie is big, skinny and smelly with a winning smile. Through him, Opal gets to know lots of people and finally discovers what happened to her mother.