Author: Jason Goodwin Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571267505 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 318
Book Description
Lefèvre, a French archaeologist, has arrived in Istanbul determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure. Yashim is commissioned to find out more about him. But when Lefèvre's mutilated body is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out that there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. Once again, Yashim finds himself in a race against time to find the startling truth behind a shadowy secret society dedicated to the revival of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a deadly game deep beneath the city streets, a place where the stakes are high - and betrayal is death.
Author: Berlie Doherty Publisher: ISBN: 9780582317642 Category : Adopted children Languages : en Pages : 180
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It was the first time in my life that I'd ever felt that I didn't actually belong to anybody... I started thinking about my mother and whether she had wanted me when I was born. I didn't even know her name. Using an address on a torn envelope, James decides to find out who he is.
Author: Jason Goodwin Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0571267505 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 318
Book Description
Lefèvre, a French archaeologist, has arrived in Istanbul determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure. Yashim is commissioned to find out more about him. But when Lefèvre's mutilated body is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out that there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. Once again, Yashim finds himself in a race against time to find the startling truth behind a shadowy secret society dedicated to the revival of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a deadly game deep beneath the city streets, a place where the stakes are high - and betrayal is death.
Author: George Edward Stanley Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers ISBN: 0307546802 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 51
Book Description
Stevie Marsh is off for the summer to learn about computers at Camp Viper. He’s not happy about being in the woods with all the bugs and poison ivy and—yuck!—snakes. But how bad can computer camp be? Then Stevie finds out Camp Viper isn’t a computer camp at all. The vipers at this camp are the kind that slither!
Author: Berlie Doherty Publisher: ISBN: 9780780781467 Category : Adoption Languages : en Pages : 166
Book Description
While searching for his birthmother, fifteen-year-old James, a championship diver, discovers who his real parents are and where his real home is.
Author: Berlie Doherty Publisher: Puffin ISBN: 9780140383928 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 180
Book Description
While searching for his birthmother, fifteen-year-old James, a championship diver, discovers who his real parents are and where his real home is.
Author: Piu DasGupta Publisher: Nosy Crow ISBN: 1839946326 Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 225
Book Description
In this breathtaking adventure, Zélie and Jules face a deadly race to solve a family mystery and a vicious crime that stretches from the jungles of Calcutta to the sewers of Paris. Zélie is often accused of being a witch, but she doesn't believe in magic. Until Jules climbs up from the reeking Parisian sewer and hands Zélie the golden locket he discovered there. The locket once held the magical Snakestone, and Zélie knows that if she can find the stone, she might also find her missing father. But a dangerous secret society are equally desperate to get their hands on the Snakestone and its powers. With their lives under threat, Zélie and Jules embark on a desperate hunt for the treasure, facing strange riddles, a mysterious circus, and the miles of murky tunnels that twist beneath the ancient city above... Perfect for fans of Nazneen Ahmed Pathak, Abi Elphinstone and Kiran Millwood Hargrave.
Author: Margaret James Publisher: ISBN: 9780727845665 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 326
Book Description
Abandoned in the squalor of industrial Birmingham to an illiterate foster mother, Deborah Tanner is drawn to the tawdry glamour of the Victorian stage by a handsome actor. By the author of À Touch of earth'.
Author: Jason Goodwin
Author: Berlie Doherty
Author: George Edward Stanley
Author: Berlie Doherty
Author: Berlie Doherty
Author: J. Davy
Author: Marie Hynds
Author: Piu DasGupta
Author: Margaret James