Rory, of Boueuxlieu, Louisiana, is spending a year at a London boarding school when she witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and becomes involved with the very unusual investigation.

Sixteen-year-old Starr Carter moves between two worlds: the poor neighborhood where she lives and the fancy suburban prep school she attends. The uneasy balance between these worlds is shattered when Starr witnesses the fatal shooting of her childhood best friend Khalil at the hands of a police officer. Khalil was unarmed. Soon afterward, his death is a national headline. Some are calling him a thug, maybe even a drug dealer and a gangbanger. Protesters...

La universalidad de esta obra de Mark Twain se debe a su gran manejo de la prosa, al uso admirable del vocabulario coloquial y por sobre todo, a su extraordinario sentido del humor. Las aventuras de Tom Sawyer es un texto plagado de sopresas y aventuras, con personajes entranables, tomados de la vida real, que protagonizan una historia increible y aluciante. Tom y Huck, dos amigos inseparables aunque distintos entre si, y la pequena Becky, de quien...

Publisher Annotation: Ali Cross just solved his first real case. Alex Cross knows it's only a matter of time before his son finds his way into more trouble. Neither of them expected Ali to get caught up in another case so quickly. Ali and his friends were just hanging out in Anacostia Park . . . then they became witnesses to a crime. Alex wants Ali to stay far away from the investigation. But Ali isn't going anywhere, not when his new friend Zoe...