alchemists

Before she disappeared, Lettie Peppercorn's mother forbade her from leaving the house. An alchemist arrives at her front door, and he knows where Lettie's Ma is. Lettie, determined to reunite her family, will follow the alchemist on an amazing adventure to find her mother.

While others at St. Bridget's Home for Abandoned Girls dream of adoption, Rose wants only a job and independence until she is hired as maid to Mr. Fountain, an alchemist, and realizes that she, like his grand residence, is filled with magic.

After making a life-changing decision, Sydney Sage, an Alchemist who serves to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires, must tread a careful path as she harnesses her profound magical ability to undermine the way of life she was raised to defend.

During a service at a German cathedral, a band of armed intruders disguised as monks gun down the worshippers and clergy and escape with a priceless treasure that could reshape the world.

Contains two comedies by Ben Jonson, "Volpone" and "The Alchemist" that portray the greed, gullibility, and pretension of seventeenth-century London society.

With only a day left to live and one job left to finish, Nicholas and Perenelle Flamel must defend San Francisco from monsters on Alcatraz Island; meanwhile, Sophie and Josh Newman travel into the past after Dr. John Dee and Virginia Dare.

Fifteen-year-old Josh has chosen to fight alongside Dr. John Dee and the mysterious Virginia Dare, while the immortal Machiavelli and Billy the Kid follow the Elders' plans to set loose the monsters of Alcatraz.

Yorick Bede, warned away from the lab by his alchemist father, disobeys and accidently shrinks himself down to toy size, much to the delight of his little brother Charles.

While working at pleasant but mundane summer jobs in San Francisco, fifteen-year-old twins, Sophie and Josh, suddenly find themselves caught up in the deadly, centuries-old struggle between rival alchemists, Nicholas Flamel and John Dee, over the possession of an ancient and powerful book holding the secret formulas for alchemy and everlasting life.

Matt and Kate must battle the forces of evil to save Anna, who has been betrayed by an evil alchemist into sacrificing herself to the horned god Cernunnos.