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Gentlemen and players

2007
Young Snyde, whose father was dismissed from St. Oswald's, an aristocratic British boys' school, returns masquerading as a teacher planning revenge.

Undiscovered country

2008
Seventeen-year-old Jesse Matson, trying to cope with the fact that his father committed suicide while they were out hunting, begins to question whether the gunshot wound was actually self-afflicted and takes it upon himself to uncover the true nature of the crime.

Forever

a novel
2003
Cormac O'Connor, an Irishman who has come to New York in 1740 to avenge the deaths of his parents, is given the gift of immortality after helping an African shaman, on the condition that he never leave the island of Manhattan, and goes on to become involved in many of the historical events of the city, while pursing a blood enemy throughout the ages.

The ghost in the Tokaido Inn

2005
Fourteen-year-old Seiki, a tea merchant's son who longs to be samurai, attempts to solve the mystery of a stolen jewel.

The last juror

2004
In 1970s Clanton, Mississippi, college dropout Willie Traynor turns a failed small-town paper into a success covering a local rape and murder case and finds his life coming full circle when, nine years after receiving a life sentence for that crime, Danny Padgitt, son of Clanton's most brutally powerful family, is paroled and jury members start turning up dead.

Wonder when you'll miss me

2003
Sixteen-year-old Faith Duckle embarks on a journey of discovery when she runs off with the circus after attacking one of the boys who raped her the year before.

We all fall down

a novel
1991
As The Avenger searches for the teenage boys who trashed a house in his neighborhood, Buddy, one of the trashers, increases his drinking in order to cope with his parents' separation and his obsession with the daughter of the owner of the vandalized house.

Gladiator

fight for freedom
2012
Eleven-year-old Marcus Cornelius Primus, having been recruited as a gladiator, learns what it takes to be an elite warrior and sets out to escape from gladiator school in order to right the wrongs that have been done to his family, without knowing he is carrying a secret that could lead to his freedom and the fall of the Empire.

Flight of the outcast

2010
When thirteen-year-old Asteria's family is killed by space raiders, she leaves their farm on the fringe planet Theron and uses her desire for revenge as motivation at the Royal Military Academy, where she is treated as a second-class citizen because of her father's unfairly stained reputation.

Daniel X, alien hunter

2008
Daniel goes after number seven on the List of Alien Outlaws, whose destructive tendencies could lead to an attempt to take over the Earth, but first Daniel must find a way to enlist the aid of number seven's own son.

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