Action & Adventure

It is the cusp of World War I. The Austro-Hungarians and Germans have their Clankers, steam-driven iron machines loaded with guns and ammunition....

The behemoth is the fiercest creature in the British navy. It can swallow enemy battleships with one bite....

UNLIKE MOST VICTORIAN women, Sally is completely independent, with her own successful business and a comfortable home for her young daughter, Harriet. But Sally’s whole world is about to collapse....

It's one thing to learn to curtsy properly. It's quite another to learn to curtsy and throw a knife at the same time. Welcome to Finishing School....

The riveting conclusion to Scott Westerfeld’s New York Times best-selling trilogy that’s “sure to become a classic” (School Library Journal)....

In 1800, 13-year-old Pierre LaPage dreams of becoming a voyageur and paddling a fur trade canoe. But this is something that older, more experienced men do....

The vivacious Jacky Faber return in the 10th tale in L. A. Meyer's Bloody Jack series! Once again under the thumb of British Intelligence, Jacky is sent to Spain....

“BEWARE THE SEVEN blessings . . . ” When she first utters these words, 16-year-old Sally Lockhart doesn’t know their meaning. But when an employee of her late father hears them, he dies of fear. Thus begins Sally’s terrifying journey into the seamy underworld of Victorian London....

WHEN ONE OF Sally’s clients loses a large sum of money in the unexpected collapse of a British shipping firm, Sally sets out to investigate....

The storming of the Bastille in July, 1789, ushered in the French Revolution. Within four years, the king was executed and a revolutionary tribunal was established to judge "enemies of the people"....

Jacky Faber makes waves, even when docked in her adopted city of Boston to attend to the business of Faber Shipping Worldwide....

AFTER WITNESSING A mysterious explosion, three young Londoners—Becky, Jim, and Adelaide—journey to a tiny country high in the mountains of Central Europe in 1882....

When fourteen-year-old Irene Sauvelle moves with her family to Cape House on the coast of Normandy, she's immediately taken by the beauty of the place - its expansive cliffs, coasts, and harbors....

Danelaw life is good! Practicing martial skills, grumbling over chores, listening to scary stories, and shadowing his brothers everywhere, Finn is a normal boy of 10 in the Viking Kingdoms of ninth-century England. A bit timid, his father plots his apprenticeship....

The genuine recollections of a gold rush prospector, barber, dentist, and his frontier philosophy. Set during the mostly forgotten Georgia gold rush of the 1830s this tale focuses on Bob - a lucky, but grumpy gold prospector who doesn’t get along with anybody....

Brought to China by a Syrian monk, the Scrolls contain a timeless wisdom for humanity. For hundreds of years, they have remained in the East. Now, a Chinese master gives Captain Jacob van Horn a sacred mission—find the one in the West destined to receive the Scrolls’ wisdom....

Fesselnd bis zum Ende. Als Lukas’ Mutter als Hexe angeklagt wird und sein Vater beim Versuch, sie zu retten, stirbt, ändert sich alles. Während er selbst...

Leira's family flee to the island of Crete just before a huge volcanic eruption destroys their island and sends a tsunami to where they thought they had found safety....

Lukas und seine drei Freunde wollen nur eins – die zerstörte Burg Lohenstein wiederaufbauen. Doch da taucht der Sterndeuter Senno auf und...

1634 – der Krieg in Europa geht in sein 17. Jahr und der große Feldherr Wallenstein ist tot. Steckt der Inquisitor Waldemar von Schönborn...

Nuria es una joven estudiante mexicana de informática y ha recibido un inquietante correo electrónico. El profesor griego Dimitri Constantinopoulos le propone que intente descifrar el mensaje escrito en el disco de Festos, en la remota isla de Creta. Le envía el pasaje aéreo y una laptop.

During a plague in ancient Egypt, a Pharaoh forces his favorite cat to stay indoors — for her health and his entertainment. No one likes social distancing and quarantining, but for B’sst, a mighty warrior cat, being locked up is pure torture....

When Mestenga arrives in Mexico the time of the conquistadors is over—it is no longer the time of the warrior, but that of the settler, and the planter. But when their Capitán discovers a map that promises lost treasure they embark on one last exploration....

Young Marco Polo meets Kubla Khan, the King of Siam, and Saint Paul, and he falls in love with Khan's beautiful daughter, Golden Bells....

Dos hermanos adolescentes, desconocedores de su parentesco, son ocultados por error en un recóndito internado rural, se sienten atraídos por ciertos niveles de reconocimiento familiar a pesar de que nunca se habían conocido antes.