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CHERUB: Maximum security

2012
The teenage CHERUB agents try to break a child criminal out of a maximum security Arizona prison in order to get at his mother, a weapons dealer of legendary status who has been selling U.S. missiles to terrorists.

The Project

2011
After discovering a terrible secret hidden in the most boring book in the world, Iowa fifteen-year-olds Luke and Tommy find out that members of a secret Nazi organization intend to use this information to rewrite history.

Eye of the storm

1993
Martin Broson is recruited by British Intelligence to catch a master terrorist whose goal is to launch a mortar against the War Cabinet at a meeting at 10 Downing Street.

The call of the wild

dog of the Yukon
1996
Jack London's classic tale of adventrue. Buck, a gentle and beautiful dog, is stolen from his owners in the United States and forced into a wilderness life of survival as a gold-rush sled dog in the frozen Yukon. He is purchased for a lead position by John Thornton and their trials bring a relationship of love and devotion.

The ear, the eye, and the arm

1994
A marvelous odyssey of three children on a forbidden adventure trying to escape from the evils of the past, the technology of the future and criminals with plans far beyond what anyone can imagine.

Vexation

2010
For him power and glory are not enough, immortality is the only possibility. His vanity consumes him, forcing his actions to capture, control, and twist her very reality. He will make her like him, in this he will not yield. Welcome to Devin Sinclair's world... A world where each move is watched, each move is carefully controlled, and trusting your eyes can be a fatal mistake. She is alone, terrified of even her own deteriorating sanity. She must find the truth which hides in the book, the book that reviles what really happened the few months she was held captive, locked in a game he directs. Devin must unravel the truth and learn to trust her mind if she is ever to find freedom for her and her fellow captives.

Petra's destiny

2005
Life is hard for people living in Lubonjno, Macedonia at the turn of the last century. Petra, young and vibrant, dreams of a bette life in a new, unknown country. But when she and her husband Nick finally arrive in America, the journey has only begun. Fate has much more in store for her-- hardship, loss, and the inability to have family of her own. Only her strong family bonds and her aunt's advice to "let God walk ahead of you" give her faith to find joy in living and to ultimately discover the happiness of motherhood in an unexpected way.

Destinazione Italia

an adventure story for readers of Italian
1993
International spies try to use the traveling students and their Italian friends to further their cause and transfer stolen military plans from one continent to the other.

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