A band of con artists–cum–spiritual mediums focus their psychic and sleuthing powers on a murder mystery in Depression-era Long Island, on the posh North Shore. Diego, a 17-year-old Mexican illegal immigrant, narrates the escapades, as he follows his mentor and surrogate father Thomas Schell, who rescued him from the street and tutored him in subjects from English to chicanery. Disguised as a Hindu swami, Diego helps Schell conduct phony séances to bilk wealthy Long Islanders. But when Schell sees the apparition of a young girl during a séance and then hears of the disappearance of Charlotte Barnes, daughter of shipping magnate Harold Barnes, he determines to solve the case. For older teens and adults.
Book of the Day: The Girl in the Glass by Jeffery Ford
A band of con artists–cum–spiritual mediums focus their psychic and sleuthing powers on a murder mystery in Depression-era Long Island, on the posh North Shore. Diego, a 17-year-old Mexican illegal immigrant, narrates the escapades, as he follows his mentor and surrogate father Thomas Schell, who rescued him from the street and tutored him in subjects from English to chicanery. Disguised as a Hindu swami, Diego helps Schell conduct phony séances to bilk wealthy Long Islanders. But when Schell sees the apparition of a young girl during a séance and then hears of the disappearance of Charlotte Barnes, daughter of shipping magnate Harold Barnes, he determines to solve the case. For older teens and adults.
Book of the Day: The Dead and the Gone by Susan Beth Pfeffer
After a meteor hits the moon and sets off a series of horrific climate changes, seventeen-year-old Alex Morales must take care of his sisters alone in the chaos of New York City.Gaming Blog!
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Book of the Day: The Ruins : a novel by Scott Smith
Just saw this move last night and I enjoyed it, but heard that the book is much, much better. What do you think? Here's the description from Publishers Weekly, "Four American friends on vacation in Cancún, Mexico—Jeff, Amy, Eric and Stacy—meet a German tourist, Mathias, who persuades them to join his hunt for his younger brother, Henrich, last seen headed off with a new girlfriend toward some ruins. The four soon regret their impulsive decision after they find themselves lost in the jungle and freaked out by signs that they're headed for danger. Smith builds suspense through the slow accretion of telling details, until a deadly menace starts taking its toll, leaving the survivors increasingly at each other's throats."
Book of the Day: Nim's Island by Wendy Orr
Nim loves her island home and the animals she shares it with even while her scientist father is away doing research, but trouble is on the way and a new e-mail friend could be the only one who can help.Another book into movie! Which did you like better?
Book of the Day: The Martian Child : a novel about a single father adopting a son by David Gerrold
A recently widowed science fiction writer forms an unlikely family with a close friend and a young boy he adopts who claims to be from Mars. The new couple ignores some sage parenting advice from the widower’s sister and gets more than they bargained for when a series of strange occurrences leads them to believe that the child’s claim may be true.Did you know so many movies were books first!?
Book of the Day: I am Legend by Richard Matheson
Did you see the Will Smith movie? Check out the story by Richard Matheson and also, download FOR FREE another version of the story, The Last Man on Earth starring Vincent Price. This movie is in the public domain, which means it is totally legal to download and watch and keep! :0
Book of the Day: Cherry Heaven by L.J. Adlington
Ten years after the war ripped through City Five and killed their parents, Kat and Tanka J move to the New Frontier with their adopted family. They are the lucky ones. The leader of the New Frontier has taken the family under his wing and arranged for them to live in a house to die for, situated in the middle of a beautiful and renowned cherry orchard. Cherry Heaven. Heaven. Utopia. Or so it seems.Book of the Day: Code Orange by Caroline B. Cooney
While conducting research for a school paper on smallpox, Mitty finds an envelope containing 100-year-old smallpox scabs and fears that he has infected himself and all of New York City.
Book of the Day: The Storm Thief by Chris Wooding
With the help of a golem, two teenaged thieves try to survive on the city island of Orokos, where unpredictable probability storms continually change both the landscape and the inhabitants.
Book of the Day: So Yesterday : a novel by Scott Westerfeld
Hunter Braque, a New York City teenager who is paid by corporations to spot what is "cool," combines his analytical skills with girlfriend Jen's creative talents to find a missing person and thwart a conspiracy directed at the heart of consumer culture.
Book of the Day: Phoning a Dead Man by Gillian Cross
When John, a British demolitions expert, is supposedly killed blowing up a building in Siberia, his fiancee Annie insists on investigating, despite being in a wheelchair, and John's teenage sister Hayley goes along and finds that the Russian Mafia is involved.
Book of the Day: Odd Thomas by Dean Koontz
Odd Thomas is just that. He works as a fry cook in the fictional California town of Pico Mundo. Should he ever leave that position, he sees a future in selling tires or shoes. What he lacks in ambition, he makes up for with a special gift. He communes with and sees the dead, some of whom enlist his help in avenging their deaths from foul play.Book of the Day: Wizards of the Game by David Lubar
Mercer is an eighth grader who loves nothing more than the role-playing fantasy game Wizards of the Warrior World. When a group of students protest the game, Mercer finds himself being stalked by real-life wizards who need his help!
Book of the Day: Crusader by Edward Bloor
There's a secret in Roberta Ritter's past. Her mother was murdered years ago. Now, Roberta must separate the real from the virtual as she begins her own crusade to discover the cause of a new rash of crimes and the truth behind her mother's death.Book of the Day: Straydog by Kathe Koja
Rachel, a teenager with a healthy dose of both aptitude and attitude, begins to feel at home volunteering at an animal shelter.
Book of the Day: Prey by Lurlene McDaniel
Told from their separate points of view, fifteen-year-old Ryan has a secret affair with his thirty-three-year-old history teacher at an Atlanta high school, and his best friend Honey becomes determined to uncover the reason he is increasingly distant.
Book of the Day: Water for Elephants by Sara Gruen
Ninety-something-year-old Jacob Jankowski remembers his time in the circus as a young man during the Great Depression, and his friendship with Marlena, the star of the equestrian act, and Rosie, the elephant, who gave them hope.
Book of the Day: Cheater by Michael Laser
When brilliant high school student Karl Petrovsky gets talked into participating in an elaborate cheating operation at his school, he ends up involved in a bigger problem than he ever anticipated.Book of the Day: Never Let me Go by Kauzo Ishiguro
A reunion with two childhood friends draws Kathy and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into their lives at Hailsham, an isolated private school in the English countryside, and a confrontation with the truth about their childhoods.
Book of the Day: The Last Apprentice: Revenge of the Witch by Joseph Delaney
Young Tom, the seventh son of a seventh son, starts work as an apprentice for the village spook, whose job is to protect ordinary folk from "ghouls, boggarts, and all manner of wicked beasties."
Book of the Day: The Boys of San Joaquin by D. James Smith
In a small California town in 1951, twelve-year-old Paolo and his deaf cousin Billy get caught up in a search for money missing from the church collection, leading them to complicated discoveries about themselves, other family members, and townspeople they thought they knew.
Book of the Day: Avalon High by Meg Cabot
Having moved to Annapolis, Maryland, with her medievalist parents, high school junior Ellie enrolls at Avalon High School where several students may or may not be reincarnations of King Arthur and his court.
Book of the Day: Ithaka by Adele Geras
The island of Ithaka is overrun with uncouth suitors demanding that Penelope choose a new husband, as she patiently awaits the return of Odysseus from the Trojan War.
Book of the Day: Devilish by Maureen Johnson
Jane Jarvis, a senior at a Catholic girl's school in Providence, Rhode Island, tries to save her best friend by making a pact with a demon--in the form of a very friendly, cupcake-eating teenage girl.
Book of the Day: Fly on the Wall : how one girl saw everything by E. Lockhart
When Gretchen Yee, a student at the Manhattan High School for the Arts, wishes she were a fly on the wall of the boys' locker room, she never expects her wish to come true in such a dramatic way.
Book of the Day: Mismatch by Lensey Namioka
Their families clash when a Japanese-American teenaged boy starts dating a Chinese-American teenaged girl.
Book of the Day: Enthusiasm by Polly Shulman
Julie and Ashleigh, high school sophomores and Jane Austen fans, seem to fall for the same Mr. Darcy-like boy and struggle to hide their true feelings from one another while rehearsing for a school musical.
Book of the Day: The Melting Season by Celeste Conway
Giselle, the sheltered daughter of two famous ballet dancers, comes to terms with her relationships with both her late father and her mother, realizing some important truths that help her move forward both in her life and with her own dancing.
Book of the Day: Other Side of Dark by Joan Lowery Nixon
Seventeen-year-old Stacy awakens from a four-year coma ready to identify, locate, and prosecute the young man who murdered her mother and wounded her.Book of the Day: America: a novel by E.R. Frank
Teenage America, a part-black, part-white, part-anything boy who has spent many years in institutions for disturbed, antisocial behavior, tries to piece his life together.
Book of the Day: Rob&sara.com by P.J. Petersen
Rob, who lives at a school for troubled teenagers, and Sara, the sixteen-year-old daughter of an army colonel, meet in a poetry chat-room and develop a close relationship via email.Book of the Day: Twelve Again by Sue Corbett
Twelve year old Patrick's mother is missing and unless he can get her back, he faces a life of waiting on his brothers.Book of the Day: Nothing to Lose by Alex Flinn
A year after running away with a traveling carnival to escape his unbearable home life, sixteen-year-old Michael returns to Miami, Florida, to find that his mother is going on trial for the murder of his abusive stepfather.
Book of the Day: Beastly by Alex Flinn
A modern retelling of "Beauty and the Beast" from the point of view of the Beast, a vain Manhattan private school student who is turned into a monster and must find true love before he can return to his human form.Book of the Day: Sleeping Freshmen Never Lie by David Lubar
While navigating his first year of high school and awaiting the birth of his new baby brother, Scott loses old friends and gains some unlikely new ones as he hones his skills as a writer.
Book of the Day: Gingerbread by Rachel Cohn
After being expelled from a fancy boarding school, Cyd Charisse's problems with her mother escalate after Cyd falls in love with a sensitive surfer and is subsequently sent from San Francisco to New York City to spend time with her biological father.Book of the Day: Jake, Reinvented by Gordon Korman
Rick becomes friends with the popular new boy, Jake Garrett, football player and host of superlative parties, and in the process discovers the true nature of his schoolmates and uncovers the mystery of Jake's past.
Book of the Day: The College Hook by Pam Proctor
Increase your chances of admission to the college of your choice! College consultant Pam Proctor has designed this book to help you define your "hook".Essay and Poetry Contest!
Win Barnes and Noble Giftcards by getting involved in this year's One Book, One Community!
The essay/poetry contest is open to all those in grades 9-12. This year the theme is true friendship and mentoring.
CLICK HERE for more information about this year's One Book, One Community title, I'm Proud of You by Tim Madigan.
CLICK HERE for more info about the essay/poetry contest and to download an application.
The essay/poetry contest is open to all those in grades 9-12. This year the theme is true friendship and mentoring.
CLICK HERE for more information about this year's One Book, One Community title, I'm Proud of You by Tim Madigan.
CLICK HERE for more info about the essay/poetry contest and to download an application.
Book of the Day: The diary of Pelly D. by L.J. Adlington
When Toni V, a construction worker on a futuristic colony, finds the diary of a teenage girl whose life has been turned upside-down by holocaust-like events, he begins to question his own beliefs.Book of the Day: Girl stories by Lauren R. Weinstein
A collection of comics about the ins and outs of being a girl on the verge of adolescence, many of which appeared originally on the website gurl.com.
Book of the Day: Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes by Chris Crutcher
The daily class discussions about the nature of man, the existence of God, abortion, organized religion, suicide and other contemporary issues serve as a backdrop for a high-school senior's attempt to answer a friend's dramatic cry for help.Book of the Day: Betrayal by Scott Wallens
Reed has promised himself that he will always look out for his brother T.J. After all, he owes T.J. But last week, T.J's coach at Boston College called and offered Reed the starting quarterback spot for the fall position T.J. thinks will be his.
Book of the Day: Swollen by Melissa Lion
A teenaged girl copes with the death of a star track and field athlete by running.
Book of the Day: The Arrival by Shaun Tan
In this wordless graphic novel, a man leaves his homeland and sets off for a new country, where he must build a new life for himself and his family.Book of the Day and a Question for you HARRY POTTER fans!
Wizard's Hall by Jane Yolen was published eight years before Harry Potter, and a lot of people have noticed the similarities. Read the book and let me know what you think-- Did Rowling steal HP from Yolen? Check out Jane Yolen's own words, "I read the first three. The fourth one stopped me in my tracks, partially because even though the story moves along, I just don't feel like they're well written. Besides, I wrote a book called "Wizard's Hall" [in 1991, eight years before the first "Harry Potter" book]. And there's an awful lot of "Wizard's Hall" in it [the Harry Potter books]. I always tell people that if Ms. Rowling would like to cut me a very large check, I would cash it. ["Wizard's Hall"] has got a boy named Henry [who] goes to wizard school, doesn't think he has talent. He has a good friend with red hair. There's a wicked wizard who's trying to destroy the school, and the pictures on the wall move and speak and change. I have kids who write to me all the time and say, "I thought you had stolen Harry Potter, but my teacher pointed out that you published it eight years before Harry Potter."BookS of the Day: I Kissing Dating Good-bye and I Gave Dating a Chance
I Kissed Dating Good-bye by Joshua HarrisTired of the game? Kiss dating goodbye. Going out? Been dumped? Waiting for a call that doesn’t come? Have you tasted pain in dating, drifted through one romance or, possibly, several of them? Ever wondered, Isn’t there a better way? I Kissed Dating Goodbye shows what it means to entrust your love life to God. Joshua Harris shares his story of giving up dating and discovering that God has something even better—a life of sincere love, true purity, and purposeful singleness.
I Gave Dating a Chance by Jeramy Clark
Clark gives his interpretation of a Christian approach to dating.