conspiracies

Canaan is a quiet city on an idyllic world, hemmed in by high walls, but every twelve years the town breaks out in a chaos of bloody violence, after which all the people undergo the Forgetting, in which they are left without any trace of memory of themselves, their families, or their lives--but somehow seventeen-year-old Nadia has never forgotten, and she is determined to find out what causes it and how to put a stop to The Forgetting forever.

Now a driver in the chariot races, Nic is still a target of the Praetors because of the magical amulet he found, and they will do anything to get their hands on it--and meanwhile Atroxia is beginning to wake up.

"Anglet Sutonga, a former Steeplejack, must pose as a foreign princess to catch the thief who stole the government's plans for a secret weapon. Yet Ang has other things on her mind as well. Refugees from the north are trickling into the city, but an ambitious politician is proposing extreme measures to get rid of them, and when Ang discovers that one theft could spark a conflagration of conspiracy that will threaten the most vulnerable of Bar-Selehm, she decides she is the only one who can stop it."--Adapted from dust jacket.

A nerve-damaged data thief, is recruited by a new employer for a last-chance run against a powerful artificial intelligence.

Sixteen-year-old King Edward is dying, and his cousin Jane isn't too happy that he's decided to marry her off to secure the line of royal succession. Edward, Jane, and her betrothed get caught up in a dangerous conspiracy and must rely on their own scheming abilities in order to save the kingdom from a terrible fate.

"Joy must uncover a deadly conspiracy at the heart of Apex City--and lead her fellow Hunters to victory in the final confrontation with the dangerous Othersiders"--Provided by publisher.

Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.

In 1908, on the inaugural journey from Europe to the United States of the world's first underwater railway, seventeen-year-old Rosalind finds love, a murder mystery, and the truth behind the railway's construction.

Victor, a gifted young black man, strikes a bargain with federal law enforcement to be a bounty hunter, and realizes something is terribly wrong withhis version of America, namely that slavery has continued in four states.

Kyra is one of the Returned, having been abducted by aliens and now apparently no longer fully human, but something else. She has possible telekinesis, can hold her breath a great while, and her body heals itself at an accelerated rate. The Daylighters, a shadow organization, are after her, and will certainly experiment on her if they catch her. When Kyra and the Returned learn that their friend Tyler has been captured by the Daylighters, they mount a desperate rescue mission.