Lincoln: 668 books

Sneaking into the majestic house on Park Row last night and unlocking the door for the well-dressed stranger had been exciting. Still, Roger knows that what he did for Circus was wrong, especially when he learns from the newspaper that one of the inhabitants was killed. But the fifty dollars he earned...

When the Depression strikes America, throwing millions out of work, Petey Williamson's family seems safe. Hadn't the boss promised Petey's father that he'd always have a job? But during the Depression, promises cannot always be kept, and Petey finds his family sliding rapidly into poverty. And when...

When her spendthrift father goes into debt after buying a sheep and the inner workings of a clock, fifteen-year-old Annie Steele is sent to work in the town's new wool mill to help support her family. Her job is full of risk-especially after she and her friend Robert discover that the mill's cruel...

Back before the stock market crash, Jack's dad had been working steadily, and their family had had plenty of money. But now, in the middle of the 1930s Depression, there isn't much work for a trombone player-just a gig down in New York City once in a while. So fourteen-year-old Jack is doing his best...

Life at Deacon Smith's Home for Waifs would be completely dreary if it weren't for Possum's best friend, Billy, who "thinks up lies faster than he can talk" and provides plenty of excitement for the other boys. When Billy hears that gold is hidden in the mountains-"Great big chunks...

At fourteen, Fergy is tired of his family's life style. He's tired of living in a van with his parents, J. P. and Gussie, and his younger sister, Ooma. He's sick of peddling honey and pamphlets of his father's writings. And most of all he hates stealing things, even though J. P. says it's all right...

To Tim Anderson, playing the guitar is as natural-and just about as important-as breathing. He's already decided he's going to be a musician. But his father has other career plans for him-all involving college. And now, because Tim is on the verge of flunking math, he's been forbidden even to touch...

Fourteen-year-old Chris Winchester is torn between two worlds. By birth, he's part of the indomitable Winchester clan, owners of the enormous electronics factory that employs nearly everyone in town. Yet Chris' father gave up his stake in the business to work for the Peace Corp. When he died, Chris,...

It's 1895 in New York City. Hard times have hit, and life isn't going to get noticeably better any time soon. Almost-thirteen-year-old Chipper Carey is running with the Midnight Rats kid gang just to survive. Chipper doesn't normally like to think beyond the present. His past has been bad enough!...

Liz Porelli has lived with the monster called Multiple Sclerosis for years, but when she finds her life threatened during a hospital procedure, she discovers that the monsters lurking within the human mind can be far deadlier.A death caused by a hospital mishap, a missing hospital attendant, neighborhood break-ins and the murder of a good friend, pull Liz into a baffling mystery.

From the award-winning author of the acclaimed novel Poe comes an edgy and bone-chilling new novel. When Fiona Dunn is approached in a bar by a man who claims he’s the devil, she figures it’s just some kind of postmodern-slash-ironic pickup line. But a few drinks in, he offers her a wish...

Agent Gideon Crew erhält den Auftrag, aus einer Ausstellung in New York eine bestimmte Seite aus einer berühmten frühmittelalterlichen Handschrift zu stehlen. Ein gefundenes Fressen für den begnadeten Kunstdieb – der Coup gelingt. Auf dem Pergament schimmert eine alte Seekarte hindurch. Sie...

Special Agent Pendergast reist in das eingeschneite Wintersportgebiet Roaring Fork in Colorado, um seinen Schützling Corrie Swanson zu retten. Corrie, Studentin der ­Forensik, hat dort die exhumierten Leichen von elf Arbeitern einer Silbermine untersucht, die vor über hundert Jahren ums Leben kamen....

"Labyrinth - Elixier des Todes. Ein neuer Fall für Special Agent Pendergast": Der Erfolgsthriller des unvergleichlichen Bestseller-Duos Preston & Child - spannend, schnell und hochexplosiv. Vor seinem Haus in New York findet Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast einen seiner unversöhnlichsten...