"Iceland begins with Paul arriving at a mysterious Institute to pick out - on doctor's orders - a new internal organ. There he meets Emily, a young, bikini-clad woman hired to stimulate the organs preserved in a nutrient-enhanced swimming pool, and falls in love amidst a flurry of chlorine and kick-boards. In Jim Krusoe's world, this is about as simple as life gets.". "Paul's brief interlude with Emily sets the course for his extraordinary adventures,...

Ten-year-old Leo's future and the fate of the extraordinary Whippet Hotel, where his father is the maintenance man, are at stake when a series of cryptic boxes leads Leo to hidden floors, strange puzzles, and unexpected alliances.

Finding a rare zucchini-colored crayon leads twelve-year-old River Monroe and his friends on an adventure with their eccentric neighbor to save Earth from invading interstellar storm troopers.

In this story about the perils of popularity, the courage of nonconformity, and the thrill of first love, an eccentric student named Stargirl changes Mica High School forever.

Orphaned and alone, the four McCready sisters, aged eight to fourteen, move to a house off the coast of British Columbia left them by their great aunt, and get by with the help of neighbors.

"Villa Ballester, 1974-1975. En ese barrio de clase media del conurbano bonaerense, Teresa Gianelli, alumna ejemplar de una escuela de monjas, se propone ganarse el cielo, convenciendo a los vecinos de que reciban en su casa una estatuilla de la Virgen que brilla en la oscuridad. Ese pequeo acto de fe desencadena un desfile de personajes entraables, desde una monja motociclista y un cura tercermundista hasta Celio, el peluquero de Eterna Belleza,...

When sixth-grader Mac discovers several words of his classroom copy of Jane Yolen's The Devil's Arithmetic are blacked out he is outraged, so he, his friends, and his eccentric family set out to do something about the censorship imposed by one teacher and the school board.

"En noviembre de 2015, el narrador, un periodista de formación científica, ha acudido a París para cubrir una cumbre sobre el clima pocos días después de los atentados yihadistas. La crisis que planea en el sombrío ambiente de la ciudad parece un espejo de una crisis más íntima: la que atraviesa la relación que mantiene con su compañera, Lorenza. Y en busca de un sentido a todo lo que está viviendo, a sus miedos y a sus dudas, mientras...

Ten-year-old Jane Doe, the only student average enough to be excluded from the town of Remarkable's School for the Remarkably Gifted, is joined at her public school by the trouble-making Grimlet twins, who lead her on a series of adventures involving an out-of-control science fair project, a pirate captain on the run from a mutinous crew, a lonely dentist, and a newly constructed bell tower that endangers Remarkable's most beloved inhabitant--a skittish...

"Now that her ne'er-do-well husband has been arrested for murder, Monk's former assistant, Sharona, is ready to reclaim her place in Monk's extremely well-ordered life. But his current assistant, Natalie, is not pleased with this turn of events. While Monk tries to maintain a delicate balance between the two women, he discovers a few snags in the case against Sharona's husband. And with other murders to investigate, Monk realizes he may be up against...