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Un Prisionero Dentro
by Alfred Bram Zoer J. M. NorthupDescripción del libro: ¿Qué tan lejos irías para defenderte… de tu propia madre? Tiffany es una chica de diecisiete años atrapada en una batalla por la existencia. Mientras trata de reclamar los derechos por su propia vida y mete, su abusiva madre lucha por mantener el control. Derramando todo su odio por el mundo sobre su hija, Tiffany sufre bajo el velo de preocupación de su madre mientras ella convence a todos de que las heridas de su hija son hechas por ella misma. Peleando para probar que no es mentalmente inestable y buscando escapar de su madre, Tiffany deberá tomar la elección decisiva sobre quién morirá y quién vivirá. ¿Pero qué tan lejos estará dispuesta a ir? ¿Y es acaso su alma el precio justo de la redención? A Prisoner Within (La Prisionera Interior) es una poderosa y convincente historia de manipulación, abuso y miedo.
Half Past Dead
by Zoe Archer Bianca D'ArcThere are good guys, there are bad boys, and then there are men with a danger all their own--these are the ones who take you places you never imagined. . . and will never forget. The Undying Heart by Zoe Archer Samuel Reed had no idea magic existed, until it almost destroyed him. Thirsting for vengeance against the enemy who made him something less than human, Sam returns to England and crosses paths with Cassandra Fielding. His best friends little sister has become a fearless woman on a dangerous mission of her own. And against all odds, she sees past what hes become, and stirs a desire he thought hed lost forever. . . Simon Says by Bianca DArc Special Forces soldier Simon Blackwell ended his affair with Mariana Daniels three years ago, but he hasnt stopped protecting her. Mariana has no knowledge of the dark, deadly creatures that lurk in the forest surrounding her clinic, or of the mysterious powers that make Simon the only one who can defeat them. But soon hell have no choice but to reveal the truth, and urge her to trust in an explosive passion that never faded. . .
Punching the Air
by Ibi Zoboi Yusef SalaamFrom award-winning, bestselling author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam of the Exonerated Five comes a powerful YA novel in verse about a boy who is wrongfully incarcerated. Perfect for fans of Jason Reynolds, Walter Dean Myers, and Elizabeth Acevedo. <p><p> The story that I thought was my life didn’t start on the day I was born <p> Amal Shahid has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. “Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white. <p> The story that I think will be my life starts today <p> Suddenly, at just sixteen years old, Amal’s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it? <p> With spellbinding lyricism, award-winning author Ibi Zoboi and prison reform activist Yusef Salaam tell a moving and deeply profound story about how one boy is able to maintain his humanity and fight for the truth, in a system designed to strip him of both. <p> <b>A New York Times Bestseller</b>
Bombay Monsoon
by James W. ZiskinThe last thing Danny wants to see published is his obituary The year is 1975. Danny Jacobs is an ambitious, young American journalist who's just arrived in Bombay for a new assignment. He's soon caught up in the chaos of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi's domestic "Emergency." Willy Smets is Danny's enigmatic expat neighbor. He's a charming man, but with suspicious connections. As a monsoon drenches Bombay, Danny falls hard for Sushmita, Smets's beguiling and clever lover—and the infatuation is mutual. "The Emergency," a virtual coup by the prime minister, is only the first twist in the high-stakes drama of Danny's new life in India. The assassination of a police officer by a Marxist extremist, as well as Danny's obsession with the inscrutable Sushmita, conspire to put his career—and life—in jeopardy. And, of course, the temptations of Willy Smets's seductive personality sit squarely at the heart of the matter. Democracy is fragile and the lines of loyalty and betrayal often cross and cannot be untangled.Perfect for fans of Ken Follett and Steve Berry
Cast the First Stone: An Ellie Stone Mystery (Ellie Stone Mysteries #5)
by James W. ZiskinFebruary 1962: Tony Eberle has just scored his first role in a Hollywood movie, and the publisher of his hometown newspaper in upstate New York wants a profile of the local boy who's made good. Reporter Ellie Stone is dispatched to Los Angeles for the story. But when she arrives on set to meet her subject, Tony has vanished. The director is apoplectic, Tony’s agent is stumped, and the producer is found murdered. Ellie is on the story, diving headfirst into a treacherous demimonde of Hollywood wannabes, beautiful young men, desperately ambitious ingénues, panderers, and pornography hobbyists. Then there are some real movie stars with reputations to protect. To find the killer, Ellie must separate the lies from the truth, unearthing secrets no one wants revealed along the way. But before she can solve the producer’s murder, she must locate Tony Eberle.
Heart of Stone: An Ellie Stone Mystery (Ellie Stone Mysteries #4)
by James W. ZiskinIn the waning days of a lazy August holiday, Ellie Stone is enjoying a bright Adirondack-lake morning. Nearby, two men plummet to their deaths just a few feet short of the water of a dangerous diving pool. A tragic accident, it seems. But the police quickly establish that the two victims--one a stranger to the lake and the other a teenaged boy from a nearby music camp--surely didn't know each other. So how did they come to die together? Wading into a slippery morass of free-love intellectuals and charismatic evangelicals, Ellie's investigation forces her to navigate old grudges and cold war passions, lost ideals and betrayed loves. As usual, she sticks her nose where it's unwanted, rattling nerves and putting herself in jeopardy. But this time it's her heart that's also at risk.From the Trade Paperback edition.
No Stone Unturned: An Ellie Stone Mystery (Ellie Stone Mysteries #2)
by James W. ZiskinIn her second mystery, Ellie Stone--a young reporter in 1960s' upstate New York--plays by her own rules while searching for a killer, putting her own life at risk.A dead girl in the woods. Three little oil spots on the dirt road. A Dr. Pepper bottle cap in the shallow grave. And a young reporter, armed with nothing but a camera.Evening is falling on a wet, gray, autumn day in upstate New York. Ellie Stone, twenty-four-year-old reporter for a small local daily, stands at a crossroads in her career and in her life. Alone in the world, battling her own losses and her own demons, Ellie is ready to pack it in and return to New York a failure. Then she hears the dispatch over the police scanner.A hunter, tramping through a muddy wood north of the small town of New Holland, has tripped over the body of a twenty-one-year-old society girl half-buried in the leaves. Ellie is the first reporter on the scene. The investigation provides a rare opportunity to rescue her drowning career, but all leads seem to die on the vine, until Ellie takes a daring chance that unleashes unintended chaos.Wading through a voyeuristic tangle of small-town secrets, she makes some desperate enemies, who want her off the case. Dead if necessary.From the Trade Paperback edition.
Stone Cold Dead: An Ellie Stone Mystery (Ellie Stone Mysteries #3)
by James W. ZiskinDecember 21, 1960, the shortest day of the year: Fifteen-year-old Darleen Hicks slips away from her school bus as it idles in the junior-high parking lot, waiting to depart. Moments later the bus rumbles away without her, and she is never seen again.New Year's Eve 1960: The small upstate town of New Holland, New York, is in the grips of a severe cold snap, when Ellie Stone receives a late-night caller--Irene Metzger, the grieving mother of Darleen Hicks. She tells Ellie that the local police won't help her, that they believe Darleen has run off with some older boy and will return when she is ready. Irene has read Ellie's stories in the paper on an earlier murder case and believes Ellie is her last hope. Ellie Stone is on a chilling journey to a place of uncertainty, loss, teenage passion, and vulnerability--where Ellie's questions are unwanted and her life is in danger.From the Trade Paperback edition.
A Stone's Throw: An Ellie Stone Mystery (An Ellie Stone Mystery #6)
by James W. ZiskinEllie Stone, a young newspaper reporter in 1960s' upstate New York, investigates a double murder at an abandoned stud farm near glamorous Saratoga Springs.August 1962. A suspicious fire claims a tumbledown foaling barn on the grounds of the once-proud Tempesta Stud Farm, halfway between New Holland and Saratoga Springs, NY. The blaze, one of several in recent years at the abandoned farm, barely prompts a shrug from the local sheriff. That is until "girl reporter" Ellie Stone, first on the scene, uncovers a singed length of racing silk in the rubble of the barn. And it's wrapped around the neck of one of two charred bodies buried in the ashes. A bullet between the eyes of one of the victims confirms it's murder, and the police suspect gamblers. Ellie digs deeper.The double murder, committed on a ghostly stud farm in the dead of night, leads Ellie down a haunted path, just a stone's throw from the glamour of Saratoga Springs, to a place where dangerous men don't like to lose. Unraveling secrets from the past--crushing failure and heartless betrayal--she's learning that arson can be cold revenge.
Styx & Stone: An Ellie Stone Mystery (Ellie Stone Mysteries #1)
by James W. ZiskinEllie Stone is a professed modern girl in 1960s' New York City, playing by her own rules and breaking boundaries while searching for a killer among the renowned scholars in Columbia University's Italian Department."If you were a man, you'd make a good detective."Ellie Stone is sure that Sgt. McKeever meant that as a compliment, but that identity-a girl wanting to do a man's job-has throttled her for too long. It's 1960, and Ellie doesn't want to blaze any trails for women; she just wants to be a reporter, one who doesn't need to swat hands off her behind at every turn.Adrift in her career, Ellie is back in New York City after receiving news that her estranged father, a renowned Dante scholar and distinguished professor, is near death after a savage bludgeoning in his home. The police suspect a routine burglary, but Ellie has her doubts. When a second attempt is made on her father's life, in the form of an "accident" in the hospital's ICU, Ellie's suspicions are confirmed.Then another professor turns up dead, and Ellie's investigation turns to her father's university colleagues, their ambitions, jealousies, and secret lives. Ellie embarks on a thorny journey of discovery and reconciliation, as she pursues an investigation that offers her both a chance at redemption in her father's eyes, and the risk of losing him forever.
Turn to Stone: An Ellie Stone Mystery (An Ellie Stone Mystery #7)
by James W. ZiskinThis 1960s-era locked-room mystery takes Ellie Stone to Florence, Italy--a seemingly idyllic setting, which in this case has sinister undertones. Florence, Italy, August 1963. In Italy to accept a posthumous award for her late father's academic work, "girl reporter" Ellie Stone is invited to spend a weekend outside Florence with some of the scholars attending the symposium. A suspected rubella outbreak leaves the ten friends quarantined in the bucolic setting with little to do but tell stories to entertain themselves. Deciding to make the best of their confinement, the men and women spin tales, gorge themselves on fine Tuscan food and wine, and enjoy the delicious fruit of transient love. But the summer bacchanalia takes a menacing turn when the man who organized the symposium is fished out of the Arno. "Morto." As long-buried secrets rise to the surface, Ellie must figure out if one or more of her newfound friends is capable of murder.
Lure of the Arcane: The Literature of Cult and Conspiracy
by Theodore ZiolkowskiA study of the depiction of cults, conspiracies, and secret societies in literature from ancient Greek and Roman mysteries to the 21st century thriller.Fascination with the arcane is a driving force in this comprehensive survey of conspiracy fiction. Theodore Ziolkowski traces the evolution of cults, orders, lodges, secret societies, and conspiracies through various literary manifestations—drama, romance, epic, novel, opera—down to the thrillers of the twenty-first century.Lure of the Arcane considers Euripides’s Bacchae, Andreae’s Chymical Wedding, Mozart’s The Magic Flute, and Eco’s Foucault’s Pendulum, among other seminal works. Mimicking the genre’s quest-driven narrative arc, the reader searches for the significance of conspiracy fiction and is rewarded with the author’s cogent reflections in the final chapter. After much investigation, Ziolkowski reinforces Umberto Eco’s notion that the most powerful secret, the magnetic center of conspiracy fiction, is in fact “a secret without content.”“Conspiracies, whether attributed to mystery cults, Freemasons, Socialists, or Rosicrucians, pervade literature from Euripides to Umberto Eco, as Theodore Ziolkowski shows in Lure of the Arcane. Ziolkowski has read everything, taking even a 3,000-page German novel in his stride, and summarizes and analyses his material fascinatingly for lesser mortals.” —Times Literary Supplement (UK)“Ziolkowski is excellently placed to attempt the construction of a genre history . . . As such, his treatment of the literature and the array of texts included is predictably masterful, moving with ease from Greek and Roman mysteries in antiquity to the Medieval representations of the Knights Templar, through the Rosicrucian manifestoes and the German Enlightenment lodge novels, to the literary depictions of secret societies of Romantic Socialism.” —Nova Religio
Putney: A Novel
by Sofka ZinovieffIn the spirit of Zoë Heller’s Notes on a Scandal and Tom Perrotta’s Mrs. Fletcher, an explosive and thought-provoking novel about the far-reaching repercussions of an illicit relationship between a young girl and a man twenty years her senior.A rising star in the London arts scene of the early 1970s, gifted composer Ralph Boyd is approached by renowned novelist Edmund Greenslay to score a stage adaptation of his most famous work. Welcomed into Greenslay’s sprawling bohemian house in Putney, an artistic and prosperous district in southwest London, the musical wunderkind is introduced to Edmund’s activist wife Ellie, his aloof son Theo, and his nine-year old daughter Daphne, who quickly becomes Ralph’s muse.Ralph showers Daphne with tokens of his affection—clandestine gifts and secret notes. In a home that is exciting but often lonely, Daphne finds Ralph to be a dazzling companion, and while he worships her, he doesn't touch her. Their bond remains strong even after Ralph becomes a husband and father. But in the summer of 1976, when Ralph accompanies thirteen-year-old Daphne alone to meet her parents in Greece, their relationship intensifies irrevocably. One person knows of their passionate trysts: Daphne’s best friend Jane, whose awe of the intoxicating Greenslay family ensures her silence.Forty years later Daphne is back in London. After years lost to decadence and drug abuse, she is struggling to create a normal, stable life for herself and her adolescent daughter. When circumstances bring her back in touch with her long-lost friend, Jane, their reunion inevitably turns to Ralph, now a world-famous musician also living in the city. Daphne’s recollections of her childhood and her growing anxiety over her own daughter eventually lead to an explosive realization that propels her to confront Ralph and their years together.Told from three diverse viewpoints—victim, perpetrator, and witness—Putney is a subtle and powerful novel about consent, agency, and what we tell ourselves to justify what we do, and what others do to us.
Poison
by Bridget ZinnWhen sixteen-year-old Kyra, a potions master, tries to save her kingdom by murdering the princess, who is also her best friend, the poisoned dart misses its mark and Kyra becomes a fugitive, pursued by the King's army and her ex-boyfriend Hal.
Death on the Amazon
by Paul ZindelP.C.'s anthropologist dad invites P.C. and Mac along for a holiday boat trip down the Amazon, but Mr. Hawke's dream trip turns into a nightmare for everyone when they realize they're trapped on board a little steamer with a big killer.
The E-Mail Murders
by Paul ZindelWhen P.C. and Mackenzie are invited to join Mac's dad on a business trip in Monaco, they are thrilled. But their luxurious vacation is cut short when a serial killer thought to be long retired suddenly strikes again ... in their hotel.
The Gadget
by Paul ZindelNear the end of World War II, scientists in Los Alamos, New Mexico, are working on a project that will alter the fate of the world. Thirteen-year-old Stephen Orr is living at a top secret military base with his father who is building the atomic bomb.
The Lethal Gorilla
by Paul ZindelA scientist at the Bronx Wildlife Conservation Park turns up dead and P.C. and Mackenzie are sure that it's no accident. The only way to get a lethal dose of gorilla blood into an unsuspecting person is on purpose.
The Phantom of 86th Street
by Paul ZindelSerena hasn't been herself lately. She has been having sudden lapses of memory and acting like a completely different person - one she doesn't like very much. To add to her confusion, she knows that someone has been following her.
The Scream Museum
by Paul ZindelP. C. Hawke and his partner-in-sleuthing, Mackenzie, are shocked to learn that their friend Tom is accused of murdering the chief biologist of the Museum of Natural History.
The Square Root of Murder
by Paul ZindelWhen the Grim Reaper strikes the math department at a nearby university, P.C. and Mackenzie do some homework and discover that almost everyone-- parents, teachers, and students alike-- had a motive to get this nutty professor out of the way.
The Surfing Corpse
by Paul ZindelDid classmate Timmy Warner plunge to his death over a 300-foot waterfall, or was that Timmy spotted recently, alive and well, at Venice Beach? P.C. and Mackenzie are determined to find out.
When a Darkness Falls
by Paul ZindelFor Jack and Marjorie Krenner and their two small children, life in their new home among the rich and famous is a dream come true. Until slowly they wake to the fear that walks the night. And soon they know that nothing, not the iron gates nor the alarms nor the watchdogs, can protect them from a killer who is closer to home than they dare imagine.
Just Do This One Thing for Me
by Laura ZimmermannHilarious, heartbreaking, and sneaky suspenseful, Just Do This One Thing for Me is a timely novel about a rule-following daughter trying to hold her family together after her scammer mother disappears.&“Just do this one thing for me.&” Drew's mother says it more often than good morning. Heidi Hill has been juggling shady side hustles for all of Drew&’s seventeen years, and Drew knows that &“one thing&” really means all the necessary things her mother thinks are boring, including taking care of her fifteen-year-old sister and eight-year-old brother. In fact, Drew is the closest thing to a responsible adult they&’ve ever known. When their mother disappears on the way to a New Year&’s Eve concert in Mexico and her schemes start unraveling, Drew is faced with a choice: Follow the rules, do the responsible thing, and walk away--alone--from her mother's mess. Or hope the weather stays cold, keep the cons going, and just maybe hold her family together.
The Mystery in the Attic (Leveled Readers 4FOG)
by Tracy ZimmermanA story where a boy and girl learn the true identity of what is in their attic.