Jennifer Donnelly: 26 books

At the end of Dark Tide, Book 3 in the Waterfire Saga, Astrid leaves her mermaid friends to confront her ancestor, Orfeo, the evil force behind the rise of the monster Abbadon. Orfeo possesses one of the six talismans that the merls need in order to keep the monster locked up forever. But without...

Smart, bookish Belle, a captive in the Beast's castle, has become accustomed to her new home and has befriended its inhabitants. When she comes upon Nevermore, an enchanted book unlike anything else she has seen in the castle, Belle finds herself pulled into its pages and transported to a world of...

It has been twelve years since a dark, murderous figure stalked the alleys and courts of Whitechapel. And yet, in the summer of 1900, East London is still poor, still brutal, still a shadow city to its western twin. Among the reformers is an idealistic young woman named India Selwyn-Jones, recently...

Deep in the ocean, in a world not so different from our own, live the merpeople. Their communities are spread throughout the oceans, seas, and freshwaters all over the globe. When Serafina, a mermaid of the Mediterranean Sea, awakens on the morning of her betrothal, her biggest worry should be winning...

The best history/social studies classes are those in which students act as historians, political scientists, and economists. The best teachers are those who model “discipline-specific expertise.” There is an effective formula for achieving the Common Core State Standards’ goal of college and...

La storia inizia sulle sponde del Tamigi, è l'anno 1900: le desolate strade dei sobborghi londinesi non sono il luogo adatto per una ragazza perbene come India Selwyn Jones. Lei però ha la testa dura, è un giovane medico che vuole esercitare la professione dove ce n'è più bisogno. E sarà proprio...

Londra, 1914. La rosa selvatica è un'ammaliante epopea romanzesca capace di restituirci le aspirazioni di un mondo sull'orlo di un cambiamento epocale. In seguito al tragico incidente sulle vette del Kilimangiaro, l'anticonformista e caparbia scalatrice Willa Alden taglia i ponti con il proprio passato...

1890, New York City. Für Josephine Montfort, die aus einer wohlhabenden New Yorker Handelsfamilie stammt, scheint das Leben vorgezeichnet: Nach der Schule eine arrangierte Ehe, Kinder und ein ruhiges, häusliches Leben. Aber Josephine hat andere Pläne: Sie möchte als Journalistin auf das Leben...

Die Herzen von Willa Alden und Seamus Finnegan schlagen für die Gipfel der Welt – und füreinander. Doch auf einer schicksalhaften Bergtour erleidet Willa einen Unfall und ist fortan für ihr Leben körperlich gezeichnet. Voller Vorwürfe wendet sie sich von Seamus ab – die Trennung bricht ihm...

London 1888, eine Stadt im Aufbruch: Während in den Gassen von Whitechapel das Laster blüht, träumt die 17-jährige Fiona von einer besseren Zukunft. Als Packerin in einer Teefabrik beweist die junge Irin ihr Gespür für die köstlichsten Sorten und exotischsten Mischungen. Doch dann muss Fiona...

Noch einmal sah sie das Leuchten in seinen Augen, bevor er sie für immer schloss. An dem Tag, an dem ihr kleiner Bruder Truman starb, starb auch das Herz in Andis Brust. Und seit er nicht mehr da ist, ist ihr alles egal. Nur wenn sie Gitarre spielt, ahnt sie, dass es so etwas wie Gefühle noch gibt....

From a creepypasta horror farm to a bullish love tale and from the bloody metal deck of the ESS Arclight to superhero octopus food trucks, you can transform your shortest stolen moments into utter delights with this diverse collection of 33 flash fiction stories. Commuting to work? Grabbing...