Shape Shifters Willow's soft spot for critters finds her spending a cold winter morning along the coast as part of a volunteer rescue team, cleaning up an oil spill that has damaged the marine habitat.
It was hard to believe that this little scamp would grow up into the murderer and despoiler she knew him to be. The man who would slaughter thousands, and laugh while he did it, and then set up the whole system of warlordship which ...
A cure for obesity, worth billions.
As George Blakeslee outlined in the Outlook in 1915: “The opening of the Canal has already stimulated an important movement ... At the end of their trip, David R. Francis, chairman of the Missouri delegation, gave voice to the assembled ...
Tired of an arrangement that allows his wife, Melinda, to take as many lovers as she wants in exchange for not deserting the family, Vic tries to win her back by asserting himself with a tall tale of murder, a lie that eventually comes true ...
David served with VSO, the English volunteer organization, during the mid-1970s in the Turks and Caicos Islands. Later he was involved in fisheries development in Papua New Guinea. Ba in England, Shepherd became a self-employed fish ...
The dark side of paradise is exposed when a terrified couple reveals their daunting experience on a remote island to their rescuers—only to realize they’re still in the grips of the island’s secrets—in this intense and startling ...
When a dive off the coast of Alabama goes horribly wrong, 12-year-old Julie and one of her father's scuba clients struggle to survive after reaching an abandoned oil rig.
Documents the experiences of a group of elite teen swimmers in a 1971 southern California beach town who began trafficking drugs between Mexico and California, an illicit operation that grew into a multimillion-dollar global operation and ...
An emerging master of long-form reportage, Leslie makes the crisis vivid through the stories of three distinctive figures: Medha Patkar, an Indian activist who opposes a dam that will displace thousands of people in western India; Thayer ...
From Watt Key, the author of the acclaimed Alabama Moon, comes a thrilling middle grade survival story about a scuba dive gone wrong and two enemies who must unite to survive.
Deep water
Synopsis: On April 20, 2010, the Macondo well blew out, costing the lives of 11 men, and beginning a catastrophe that sank the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and spilled over...
And the only way to save her family from a bitter curse is to embrace her incredible new gift. Originally published by Usborne, Deep Water was the winner of the Mslexia Novel Prize in 2015.
Thomas Ruys Smith’s Deep Water: The Mississippi River in the Age of Mark Twain is the first book to provide a comprehensive narrative account of Twain’s intimate and long-lasting creative engagement with the Mississippi.
A gripping mystery about a missing boy and a group of teenagers who know more than they're telling about the night he disappeared, from the award-winning author of Small Spaces.
Deep Water blends a gentle but compelling modern day romance with an enigmatic storyline that uses the legends of Britain’s pre-history as its thrilling backdrop" - Lancashire Evening Post “Wonderfully atmospheric and magic oozes from ...
Deep Water is based on extensive research into the Dean murder, including thousands of pages of FBI documents, Grand Jury testimonies, newspaper accounts, private correspondence, and the archives of the Jaffrey Historical Society.
When Jon agrees to skip school with Ryan, he never dreams their adventure will end in such a terrifying way. Ryan is depending on him. But who is Jon more afraid of, his mother of the police? Suggested level: primary, intermediate.
On April 20, 2010, the Macondo well blew out, costing the lives of 11 men, and beginning a catastrophe that sank the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig and spilled nearly 5 million barrels of crude oil into the Gulf of Mexico.