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Forced to flee England, the Andrews family books passage to a fresh start in a distant country, only to discover a barren, inhospitable land at the end of their crossing. To seventeen-year-old Lavinia, uprooted from everything familiar, it seems a fate worse than the one they left behind. Driven by loneliness she begins a journal. Random Passage satisfies the craving for those details that headstones and history books can never give: the real story...

Maddy slips into an alternate world called Marus where she helps Queen Annison protect the believers in the Unseen One from persecution. Maddy slips into an alternate world called Marus where she helps Queen Annison protect the believers in the Unseen One from persecution. "This was supposed to be a fairy tale, but it's turning into a nightmare!" Squeezing farther beneath the musty porch of her house, Maddy Nicholaivitch is sure she's found the perfect...

Kyle and his sister Anna find themselves in an alternate world in which they have special powers to help carry out the will of the Unseen One. Kyle and his sister Anna find themselves in an alternate world in which they have special powers to help carry out the will of the Unseen One. Introducing the first four titles in a new series from the creators of Adventures in Odyssey "TM" . An old notebook found in the bottom of a trunk sends Whit and Jack...

Danny, his younger brother Wayne, and their bossy cousin Michelle are transported to a parallel world, where they help the people of Marus overcome their slavery and reclaim their homeland.

In The Ruby Kingdom, readers were captivated as Amelia Hammer and her cousin, Simon, and friend, Ike, discovered a secret gate leading from the small, southern-Ontario town of Dunstone to the extraordinary land of Mythrin - a world populated by dragons. Now, dragon leader, Mara, seeks the help of Amelia and her friends again. This time, a peculiar race of humans from a world called Cassar is searching for the Prism Blade - a legendary weapon forged...

The great viral plague had left a small group of survivors clinging to life amidst a world transformed into a nightmare. Led by the mysterious, charismatic Amy, they go on the attack, leading an insurrection against the virals--the first offensives of the Second Viral War--infiltrating a dozen hives, each presided over by one of the original Twelve. Their secret weapon: Alicia, transformed at the end of book one into a half human, half viral--but...

Sandria, Brixton and the mysterious Rose help Darque stay one step ahead of the deadly Epoch Twins. But when the fabric of time itself begins to fray, how long can Darque hold back the shadows?

It is night. A lover caresses a bare stomach. A dancer writhes to a rhythmic beat. A needle slides into an engorged vein. A scream dissolves into silence. It is night. A time for games. And no one plays the game of night as well as Alexandre Darque. He is a supernatural favor broker. What you need. He can get you. The coin of exchange is merely a little piece of your soul. That's the price you have to pay, but have you ever wondered what it costs...

Presenting the two novels in the Mythrin fantasy series, all about Amelia Hammer's adventures in another world. Amelia's globe-trotting parents have dumped her in tiny, boring Dunstone in the middle of winter with her grandmother and her geeky cousin Simon, who isn't having much fun either, saddled with a sulky stranger. But life in safe little Dunstone turns dangerously exciting when tall, proud, fearless Mara comes to town. Mara is not what she...

As Silence Is Your Witness is the first book of poems in The Golden Passage, a trilogy of books by internationally known poet Charlotte Brady. In this newest collection of poems, Brady deeply explores the spectrum of human emotion. She boldly faces existential dilemmas that lie within each of us, and releases profound responses that sweep across our minds and make us see ourselves and the world around us more clearly. Her method of asking pointed...