Alydia Rackham

The denizens of Pendy Corner and the occupants of Baker Street lead interesting lives, to say the least. Their adventures take them to the depths of an Oxford laboratory on a Halloween night, to an illegal Shoreditch boxing match, across the ice of the Serpentine River, and trailing after the mysterious Keeper of Her Majesty's Broom Cupboard. Here are a few glimpses into these, and even more, of our heroes' thrilling daily escapades.

Captain Lady Rackham has been captured, and she demands an audience with the king himself. But a young lord with a bitter vendetta is determined to see her hang before she even comes close to the throne. Now, Rackham's former crew must attain elusive evidence that their captain is responsible for Blackbeard's death, and obtain a royal pardon--or be forced to watch her go to the gallows.

John Cannon was once a ruthless killing machine. The Elder Knight for the Kingdom of Novus--a new world where emotions had been eradicated by an implant, and everything that created perceived "inequality" between citizens of Novus was confiscated and destroyed. But John Cannon became a Traitor and killed the King, and rebels destroyed the emitters to the implants, allowing the people of Novus to experience emotion again. Now, John is learning to navigate this foreign territory with the help of these rebels, and to raise his children in a more "human" way than he's ever known, all the while trying to salvage remnants of the world that existed before. But not everyone is content with sailing the rough seas of these newfound emotions--especially other former Knights of Novus, who want nothing more than to go back to the implant, and erase all emotion, and the old world, forever.

A heartwarming, romantic comedy about the struggle against drug addiction and the magic of Broadway in New York City...Anne's whole life has been "by the script"...Until fate calls her to improvise. To play with the possibilities. To go a little mad. Anne studied to be a speech therapist, and she lives in a little apartment in New York, actively searching for a job in a non-scary school system. She has a steady, reliable boyfriend named Jim. She also has premonitions. She secretly calls them "Pictures," and she's never been able to stop even one from coming true. Now, her dad has suggested she try out for a role in a play written by his old college friend-a play about a time-traveling, mad scientist. And the last scene is always improvised. Battling her doubts and inexperience, Anne tries out, and is stunned when she gets the part of the female lead. As production begins, Anne is pulled into the orbit of a luminous, fiendishly-innocent young actor named Peter Wren, who teaches her how to fire her own imagination, and leads the show into mind-blowing popularity. But what happens when Anne begins to care deeply for Peter and the show, at the expense of her relationship with Jim? And what does she do when she begins to have Pictures of Peter's reckless drug abuse? Now, Anne is caught between the fear that this venture may ruin all her plans for the future-and the knowledge that trying to save Peter Wren may be the role of a lifetime.

An unexpected, romantic retelling of the classic fairy tale...A fathomless tale of a girl who dreams of another world--but if the prince refuses to marry her, she will die, and the great seal she protects will fall into the hands of the Sea Witch. For the sake of the entire realm, young Galahad Stormcrane, a great Curse-Breaker, must somehow convince a royal prince to fall in love with a mermaid who cannot speak."A lone, black figure stood upon the crest of a hill, astride a muscular horse-equally black. The young rider's cape twisted out behind him, borne on a cantankerous wind that had wound its way up through the craggy valley from the sea. That same wind disturbed the long, rolling mane of the horse, sending it writhing across the rider's gloved hands-and it troubled the rider's shoulder-length, ebony hair. The young rider turned his pale, scarred face toward the towering forest wall to his left, as his steed's shod hooves shifted and scraped against beaten stone. Even at the distance from whence he stood, he could feel an unearthly cold wafting out from between the gnarled fir trees. And though steely clouds covered the sky, he could glimpse the dark sparkle of frost amongst the branches.Frost. In summer.The young man narrowed his black eyes and set his jaw. "Cryck " The throaty, creaking cry echoed through the shallow valley from above. The rider glanced up to see the familiar form of a large, tattered raven swoop past, and glide ahead of him toward the deepening of the cleft in the hills. The rider adjusted his grip on the reins, and, giving one last black look at the border of woods, urged his horse down the hill. He balanced easily as his mighty horse trotted down the wide gravel road, ignoring the cut in the wind-so different from the sun-soaked, sweeping hills he'd recently left behind. He passed down through the gully, and urged his steed into a canter. The long sword at his side beat a rhythm against his thigh, and his cape slapped the horse's hindquarters. The raven overhead gave another absent squawk, and flapped his wings against the breeze.Within an hour, they left all sight of the woods behind, and the gully opened up to a broad moor dotted with rugged heath and exposed stone. The sun shattered the clouds here, spilling down in waterfalls upon the earth below. And at the edge of this moor, the earth fell away, and the sea spread like a glittering carpet all the way to the horizon-interrupted only by a set of islands, the foremost island striking a vast and soaring form against the brilliance of the water."

PART OF "THE MUTE OF PENDYWICK PLACE" SERIESProfessor Basil Collingwood of Pendywick Place, London, has never disclosed his inner thoughts--or dangerous double life in Victorian Shoreditch--to anyone.At least, not anyone alive. However, he's shared everything with his deceased brother David, within these pages. And Basil needs a confidant more than ever when a brilliant--and infuriating--young mute woman shows up at his doorstep.(Reads like an authentic diary, with cursive writing, inkblots, and British spellings.)

It is too late to retrieve the code. Victoria and Basil must instead recreate it, and get it to the queen. To do that, they must travel to the remote Yorkshire seaside, along with Basil's sister and her husband, and their friend Fred Brody, to a vast, empty house of Professor Winchester's. But as they dig through Victoria's old reference books, a phantom begins to stalk them through the hollow corridors and musty smugglers' tunnels. And it may lead the Pendywick Pair to a watery-or fiery-clash with the very enemies that mean to destroy them.

KL-62 was created in a test tube--a perfect specimen of a human male. His body and life belong to science, but his mind is quiet, cold and sharp. On the way to be transferred to a remote space station, he learns he is about to be the subject of one last experiment--and it will prove fatal. So he chooses to break out of the only environment he has ever known, and crash-land on an abandoned prison planet called Tenebrae. Now he must maneuver his way through a perilous web of dark dead-ends and patrol droids with the help of the only other living being on the planet: the intelligent security system. A woman called LILI.

A cold-hearted prince is bound in an arranged marriage to the Snow Queen, in this fairy tale retelling...Rose has lived in a mountain fortress with curse-breakers almost all her life, never venturing out in to the wilds. But now, her masters have sent her on a mission to free a lost kingdom that crafts unbreakable glass. But this task may prove impossible, for the prince has a heart of stone, and the kingdom is frozen under the hand of the Snow Queen.

Companion to "The Mute of Pendywick Place" mystery series, this charming little book provides you with the inspiration to bring a Victorian-style Christmas into your home, with authentic recipes, decoration design, and a delicious dash of history.

Lady Gwendolyn Montgomery has defied her father, dressed as a boy and bargained passage aboard a merchant ship to save her beloved, who has been banished to the Caribbean. But when her ship is waylaid by pirates, Gwen must join with the flashy and dangerous Captain Lady Rackham if she hopes to save her betrothed

An intruder has broken into Pendywick Place, attempting to steal back Victoria's torn page. This spurs Basil and Victoria to strike up an alliance with Lord Fred Brody and his siblings-and it sweeps them to the bustling city of Bath in pursuit of the menacing Professor Winchester. But while they attempt to navigate the treacherous social waters, the tenuous bond between Basil and Victoria may be strained to breaking. And the looming confrontation with the increasingly-volatile Winchester-even with help from the denizens of Baker Street-if approached without heed, could prove to be fatal.

Christmas is forbidden at Pendywick Place. A tragic shadow from Basil Collingwood's past looms over the season. Nevertheless, he plans to take Victoria to the Hampton Court Christmas Ball, to confront his former mentor-and her attempted-murderer-Professor Winchester. If they can steal back Victoria's unbreakable code from him, they may save England itself. If they cannot, it will put all of Europe in grave danger.

A novel rich in the legends of norse gods and goddesses, romance and adventure...When young, solitary archaeologist Marina Feroe meets a beautiful young man with an interest in Norse myths, she believes her life has turned for the better. But the last thing she expects, when she sneaks after him into the woods one night, is that he is actually Bauldr, younger son of Odin.Days later, winter suddenly descends. Bauldr has been killed. Marina is the only one who knows how to bring him back-but to do so she must travel all through Midgard, with Hel's wolves on her heels. She has no choice but to bargain help from the only one who will listen: Loki, the Mischief Maker. The one who murdered Bauldr.