Patricia Bow

"Drumbeats in the empty forest. No drummer: just drums. Night falls, and the drums beat, and a shadow comes creeping out of the woods... That's how the killing starts." Linnet shrugs off the lurid stories about Lynx Leap. But she's a guest in the huge, decaying house in the north woods, and it's hard not to get spooked. Especially at night, when she hears drumbeats, and voices crying. And when something stalks her in the stairwell and in the attic, with its menagerie of stuffed dead animals. Her friend Mark is chasing other shadows. He believes his beloved Great-Uncle Lot, the last owner of Lynx Leap, was murdered. Before he died, Lot tagged Mark to find the truth behind the horror stories. Horrors that really happened, scattered across time, but with oddly similar details. Digging deep, the two teens unearth an ancient crime that still has to be paid for. Lot's murder was the shock that woke the sleeping hunter. Unless they can end the cycle of death and vengeance, it's all about to happen again.

Nora Brooke drowned last year. Her heart stopped: long enough to leave, deep inside, a shadow of death that opened her to other shadows. Coming to Holdfast Island for remedial school, Nora finds a garden in the woods: an old, overgrown prison yard. She enters by a gate that then vanishes, glimpses a restless figure who is suddenly gone, and finds thousands of blue flowers like watching eyes. She finds friends, especially irrepressible Jack McKie. And Adam: seen in the prison ruin and met underwater while swimming, when Nora nearly drowns again. A local boy, they think, until they learn of an old tragedy. Three teens died here: Ursula stabbed, Graham hanged, Adam drowned. Triple suicide? Or murder? Adam says he loved Ursula but lost her. Now he's bound here. Questions swarm. Why does Nora sleepwalk nearly to her death? Why is Jack suddenly accident-prone, like Graham? Who haunts the prison, where the warden, Adam's grandfather, was called the Hangman? What will happen if Nora sets Adam free?

Explains the innovative strategies conservationists are using to prevent the demise of chimpanzee populations, particularly since their biology, being so similar to humans, makes them desirable for HIV studies and susceptible to deadly viruses such as Ebola. Simultaneous.

When Jessie and her friend Pete sneak into August Erasmus's lab, they mean to rescue his abused animals. Instead they find a boy in a cage. Horrified, they set him free, and Jessie promises to hide him. The strange, pale boy is August's son, Lucan. He knows he's strange. He can't bear the sun, sleeps by day, bursts with energy by night, and can only digest raw blood. Like August, he has the family disease: nothing sinister about it. But sinister does describe August's lizard-like hounds, and the grey-faced servant who haunts Jessie's dreams of her parents' death. None of it matters when she runs with Lucan under the moon. Her senses sharpen. Energy sizzles through her body. But deep down, a terrible hunger grows. She recalls how her blood mixed with Lucan's during the escape, when their cut hands clasped. Lucan finally confronts August, but who wins? And Jessie, fighting to stay human, has only Pete's loyalty and her own new powers to pit against the oldest, deadliest enemy of all.

The Starry Window is an urban fantasy for young readers. Amelia, accidentally part-dragon, and her cousin Simon are after a secret that threatens both sleepy little Dunstone and the dragon world of Mythrin. Something has sickened the hidden gates and passages linking Earth and Mythrin, with horrible results. When two memoryless strangers appear in Dunstone, Amelia knows the boy is her dragon friend Ty. But who is the man with lilac eyes? Amelia and Simon trace the poison to Dunstone's new mall, where escalators are turning carnivorous, and to the grim jail and school that stood there before. The world gate in the caves beneath has gone rotten, and Simon hears a boy's voice calling for help in the passage. Answering the call sends the cousins on a journey through the one gate they fear, and into the shadow lands beyond. The Starry Window is the sequel to The Ruby Kingdom and The Prism Blade, Books 1 and 2 of the Passage to Mythrin series.

This book looks at the lightning-fast, hard-hitting game of modern tennis. It explains how players are turning to science and technology to help stay on top of their game. They are using racquets made from the latest high-tech materials to hit harder shots, and are using the latest training techniques to build endurance and strength.

Mountains, travel, adventure Amelia Hammer wants it all. Instead, her globe-trotting parents have dumped her in tiny, boring Dunstone, Ontario, in the middle of winter with her grandmother and her geeky cousin Simon. Simon isn't having much fun either, saddled with a sulky stranger in black leather and with neon hair.And he has to be nice to her. But life in safe little Dunstone turns dangerously exciting when Mara comes to town. Amelia is enchanted by this tall, proud, fearless girl, but Simon worries that Mara might be mixed up in something weird. Hes right. Mara is not what she seems, and neither is the shape-shifting assassin whos tracking her. When the cousins take Mara's side in a war for an alien world, Amelia has to spread her wings literally and Simon must find out how far he will go to save a cousin who has become a friend.