Product Description: As a World War One recruit onboard the Admiral, all Bob Thompson can think about is how much he will earn. Bob's mother doesn't want him to join the ship, for fear that he will be injured as the crew defends themselves against German subs...read more

Product Description: When Grace, Adam, and Ruby get lost in the fog they stumble into a parallel world, similar to ours, but one where a terrible catastrophe has occurred. A flood has destroyed half the country and there is a single survivor, Dave, in the town they stumble across...read more

Product Description: It is Rebecca Jane's birthday, the first in her family since her mother died. Dad eagerly gives her a present, but when Rebecca opens it she unwittingly steps into a living nightmare. The sampler is somehow the key to a restless ghostly presence that haunts the young teenager until she understands the secret...read more

Every aspect of Penna's life is controlled for her: a computer programme tells her when to get up, eat, sleep. But one day the programme goes wrong. Suddenly Penna and her new friend, Veeka, don't know what to do. Can they trust the mysterious Queltus who alone seems to know what is happening? It seems a virus has been put into the programme.

Product Description: The essays in this volume analyze a wide variety of cultural forms to demonstrate the centrality of masculine sentiment in American literary and cultural history from the early republic to the progressive era. Challenging the association of sentimentality exclusively with femininity in studies of American culture, the contributors analyze sentimentalism not just as a literary genre but as a structure of feeling manifested in many areas: temperance testimonials, begging letters, historiography, philanthropic performance, photography, portraiture, and poetry...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)