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Contains a brief biography of children's writer Lynne Reid Banks, providing information on her early life, her family, her influences, and how she became a writer. Includes interview and time line.

Agent 007, otherwise known as James Bond, sets out to battle the agents of S.M.E.R.S.H., the Soviet organization of torture, vengeance, interrogation and death.

Myrtle, a foundling raised in the Hardy household; Pompey Jones, a street boy who becomes a photographer's assistant; and the pompous, melancholy Dr. Potter, comment on the hidden life of Master George Hardy, a surgeon and amateur photographer who meets his end on the field of battle in 1854.

The author provides an account of her mother Nicola Fuller's life, from being raised in Kenya to moving around the continent with her husband in search of a home, and describes her devotion to her family and land.

Nineteen-year-old Harriet Morton's life is forever changed when a Russian ballet master invites her to dance in a production of "Swan Lake", and, defying her parents' wishes, Harriet travels to the Amazon with the dance company and begins an affair with a mysterious British exile.

Curator Safia al-Maaz and her friend and museum benefactor Lady Kara Kensington, team up with archaeologist Omaha Dunn and government operative Painter Crowe on a perilous expedition to the Arabian desert in search of the lost city of Ubar and the source of the antimatter used to destroy the antiquities branch of a London museum.

Mr. Granite is assigned a new student teacher but A.J. and his friends become convinced that she is actually a vampire who lives in a cave and plays in a heavy metal band with her zombie boyfriend.

Chronicles the English attempts to settle in North America during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, including the failed colony on Roanoke Island and the more successful Jamestown settlement.

A detailed biography of the life and exploits of Rudyard Kipling during his younger years between 1865 and 1900, describing his troubles, years in India, and move to London as a young man.

A charming, young English woman is soon at war with the snobbery of her class and her own desires when she finds herself attracted to someone socially unsuitable.