In this five-book collection by the author of the Baby-Sitters Club, a group of teenage friends deals with the ups and down of growing upDawn just moved back to California from Connecticut. Sunny's mom has lung cancer. Maggie will do anything to be perfect. Amalia's boyfriend has got a scary idea of love. And Ducky is the loneliest boy on the West Coast.A spin-off of the bestselling Baby-Sitters Club series, the California Diaries are first-person accounts of five teenagers managing new friendships, new relationships, and a host of new problems. Diary One contains the first journal of each of the main characters, books one through five in the series.This ebook features an illustrated personal history of Ann M. Martin, including rare images from the author's collection. Views: 63
Blake Wrightman died during the Vietnam War. Not on a Southeast Asian battlefield, but on an American college campus. He died the day the bomb he planted at an anti-war protest claimed a small boy's life--and forced Blake Wrightman to vanish. Now, after twenty-years as "Charlie Ochs," Cape Cod lobsterman, Blake finds out that the feds are closing in. But a vengeful G-man gives Charlie a choice: face the music or help smoke out the beautiful hardcore radical who seduced him into the anti-war movement back in the '60s. So begins a long, strange trip for the former Blake Wrightman, as he revisits the scene of a deadly revolution that didn't end with the Vietnam War--and is about to claim a few more casualties. . . .From the Paperback edition. Views: 63
Frabbles are fables written in the style of 100-word drabbles. Each piece is exactly 100 words long. Views: 63
Come for the apocalypse.
Stay for cupcakes.
Die for love.
Madeleine Cost is working to become the youngest person ever to win the
Archibald Prize for portraiture. Her elusive cousin Tyler is the perfect
subject: androgynous, beautiful, and famous. All she needs to do is pin him
down for the sittings.
None of her plans factored in the Spires: featureless, impossible, spearing
into the hearts of cities across the world – and spraying clouds of sparkling
dust into the wind.
Is it an alien invasion? Germ warfare? They are questions everyone on Earth
would like answered, but Madeleine has a more immediate problem. At Ground Zero
of the Sydney Spire, beneath the collapsed ruin of St James Station, she must
make it to the surface before she can hope to find out if the world is ending.
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A comical choose-your-own-adventure book from the bestselling author of the Tomorrow series.If you're about to enter this book, we have a piece of advice for you!Be careful in here.Be very careful.Making the wrong moves in Creep Street can get nasty!You could find yourself up to your ankles in blood. . .or with flesh-eating spiders crawling all over you. . .or with a skeleton stalking you through an attic. . .Is there any escape?It's up to you! Views: 63
"Quirky and charming, wise and unpredictable." —Khaled Hosseini, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Kite Runner Discover the secret to success in this incisively funny debut, for fans of John Corey Whaley, David Arnold, and Ned Vizzini!Scott Ferdowsi has a track record of quitting. Writing the Great American Novel? Three chapters. His summer internship? One week. His best friends know exactly what they want to do with the rest of their lives, but Scott can hardly commit to a breakfast cereal, let alone a passion. With college applications looming, Scott's parents pressure him to get serious and settle on a career path like engineering or medicine. Desperate for help, he sneaks off to Washington, DC, to seek guidance from a famous professor who specializes in grit, the psychology of success. He never expects an adventure to unfold out of what was supposed to be a one-day visit. But that's what Scott gets when he meets... Views: 63
The offspring of Simon Tregarth, half earthling, half witch-brood, realized that they alone could perceive the four directions-for everyone else, there was no East! It was a blank in the mind, a blank in legend and history. And when new menaces threatened, the Tregarths realized that in that mental barrier there lay the key to all their worldsomewhere to the unknown eastward must lie the sorcery that had secretly molded their destinies! Views: 63
Aloysius Archer, the straight-talking World War II veteran fresh out of prison, returns in this riveting new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author David Baldacci.The 1950s are on the horizon, and Archer is in dire need of a fresh start after a nearly fatal detour in Poca City. So Archer hops on a bus and begins the long journey out west to California, where rumor has it there is money to be made if you're hard-working, lucky, criminal—or all three. Along the way, Archer stops in Reno, where a stroke of fortune delivers him a wad of cash and an eye-popping blood-red 1939 Delahaye convertible—plus a companion for the final leg of the journey, an aspiring actress named Liberty Callahan who is planning to try her luck in Hollywood. But when the two arrive in Bay Town, California, Archer quickly discovers that the hordes of people who flocked there seeking fame and fortune landed in a false paradise that instead caters to their... Views: 63
