Kirjahaku

Anny, the girl of Bernie's dreams, is half a world away, but that's not the problem. Much more troublesome is that Anny has been dead for 71 years. She and her mother were arrested in a Nazi-directed Jewish roundup in Paris during the summer of 1942. They were packed into overcrowded cattle cars, deported to Auschwitz, and murdered in the gas chambers. So now in 2013 it's up to Bernie to rescue the girl he loves. Only Hitler, the whole Nazi army, and those 71 years stand in his way.

(This book is intended for older teens and adults.)Glenda Mason has just started college, and though she has a disability, her prospects are promising. She's good-looking, smart, ambitious, outspoken, and likeable. She is also recently pregnant, a secret problem she is eager to solve. When an opportunity presents itself, unscrupulous though it is, she takes the chance.Glenda's classmate, Trace Agora, has led a disadvantaged life, and money is a perpetual problem. Consequently, she attempts blackmail to solve her own unplanned pregnancy.These schemes play out against the background of an unsettled faculty: a history professor whose wife has recently died; an English professor at odds with her university; and a chemistry professor whose loneliness makes him an easy target.Plans go awry, and minds change. This is a story about people discovering their own hearts.

Molly is a ten-year-old orphan, who has an amazing talent. She talks to animals, and they talk back. That they talk back is the amazing part, of course. In this story, Molly puts her talent to good use because she's being pursued by some bad guys, and the animals are a helpful resource. Molly isn't alone. Charlie, a local high school teacher, and Alexa, a princess, are with her. That's right. A princess. Alexa is the princess of a tiny isolated kingdom nestled high in the Pyrenees Mountains. This unlikely trio is on the run through some deep, dark woods, and the odds are against them-except the animals are on their side.