For Kylene Danners, there's only one fate worse than death: enteing a beauty pageant. So when her friends (and a shot at a twenty-thousand dollar college scholarship) push her into one, she assumes she's found hell on earth--until girls start dropping out under suspicious circumstances, and Ky finds herself smack dab in the middle of another dangerous mystery--a twisted web of duplicity and deceit far more deadly than she expected.

The greed of his family has led wealthy old Martin Chuzzlewit to become suspicious and misanthropic, leaving his grandson and namesake to make his own way in the world. And so young Martin sets out from the Wiltshire home of his supposed champion, the scheming architect Pecksniff, to seek his fortune in America. In depicting Martin's journey - an experience that teaches him to question his inherited self-interest and egotism - Dickens created many...

Jonathan is a Jewish college student searching Europe for the one person he believes can explain his roots. Alex, a lover of all things American and unsurpassed butcher of the English language, is his lovable Ukrainian guide. On their quixotic quest, the two young men look for Augustine, a woman who might have saved Jonathan's grandfather from the Nazis. As past and present merge, hysterically funny moments collide with episodes of great tragedy --...

Ben shu zuo zhe hui yi wai gong zai mei ri liang guo sheng huo de jing li, jiang shu liao zi ji jia ting de kua wen hua jing yan, bu jin huan qi dui jia zu, min zu, meng xiang de ren lei gong tong de qing gan, ye zai dong xi fang liang zhong wen hua zhi jian da qi yi zuo qiao liang.

"En parcourant les mémoires que son grand-père Urbain Martien lui a confiés, l'écrivain retrace la vie de celui-ci. Né à Gand en 1891, il a été contraint de travailler à la fonderie locale à 13 ans, et n'a pu s'adonner à la peinture que lorsqu'il a été mis à la retraite pour invalidité militaire. Il raconte, après sa mobilisation en 1914, sa participation à la Première Guerre mondiale."--Various websites. "A novel about his grandfather,...

Earth is dying. Luna is uninhabitable. Mars is our last chance. Once considered humanity's future home, Mars hasn't worked out like anybody hoped. Plagued by crime and a terraforming project that's centuries from completion, Mars is a red hell. Denver Moon, P.I., works the dark underbelly of Mars City. While investigating a series of violent crimes linked to red fever--a Martian disorder that turns its victims into bloodthirsty killers--Denver discovers...

Elena is finally old enough to sell flowers with her abuelo in his shop. But she notices that many of the people who visit have tears in their eyes. Abuelo tells her the shop is the last stop before people visit the garden beyond the gate. A place for telling the ones you've loved and lost, "Te recuerdo y te extraño," I remember you, and I miss you. Tender and insightful, Abuelo's Flower Shop celebrates the beauty of intergenerational love while...

Shoreditch, London, 1963. The Beatles have beaten John Smith and the Common Men to number one. Satellites are being launched into outer space, whilst on Earth a master thief is stealing some highly specialized equipment. In the streets and bombsites around Totter's Lane, the normally placid teenagers of Coal Hill are running riot--searching out the different and hunting down the alien.Schoolgirl Susan Foreman just wants an easy life for herself and...