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Having become a human terminus--a human who can eliminate ghosts just with a touch--after her encounter with the Jack the Ripper copycat, Rory Deveaux has teamed up with the Shades, London's premiere, top-secret ghost-fighting squad. Back in London after an extended stay with her parents, Rory is troubled to learn of a new string of murders that seem to be ghost related, and are threatening the whole city.

Discusses the Elizabethan Age in the sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as well as the role Queen Elizabeth I played in bringing stability and wealth to England during her reign.

While spending a year at a boarding school in London, teenager Rory Deveaux of Louisiana witnesses a murder by a Jack the Ripper copycat and sets out to uncover the identity of the mysterious man that police believe to be the prime suspect in a string of brutal murders.

Thirteen-year-old Conor awakens one night to find a monster outside his bedroom window, but not the one from the recurring nightmare that began when his mother became ill--an ancient, wild creature that wants him to face truth and loss.

Hadley and Oliver fall in love on the flight from New York to London, but after a cinematic kiss they lose track of each other at the airport until fate brings them back together on a very momentous day.

When Will Burrows and his friend Chester embark on a quest to find Will's archaeologist father, who has inexplicably disappeared, they are led to a labyrinthine world underneath London, full of sinister inhabitants with evil intentions toward "Topsoilers" like Will and his father.

Alex Rider must once again do battle against the terrorist organization responsible for the death of his parents--Scorpia--when their plot in the Middle East poses a threat to humanity, but this time around the risks are bigger and Alex will not walk away so easily.

As fourteen-year-old archaeologist Will and his friends plummet down a subterranean pore, they face deadly creatures and discover a strange fungal shelf, which not only reveals artifacts from ancient civilizations, but clues to a lost land at the end of the Earth.

Will Burrows believes he is safe at the very center of the earth, in a world that no one knows exists, but the Styx are close behind and will follow him anywhere, while on the surface, Drake and some unlikely allies unearth some critical secrets.

Artemis Fowl creates an extraordinarily powerful computer with stolen fairy technology, but his business deal hopes go sour when a Chicago businessman steals his invention and mortally wounds Artemis's loyal bodyguard.