James Heneghan

While on an ocean voyage to Canada to escape the air raids in his Liverpool home, twelve-year-old Jaimie Monaghan faces another kind of life-threatening situation.

Exiled from Ireland as a terrorist, Declan is sent to live with family in Canada. All he wants, though, is to return to the fight.

Miss Parsnip has asked the O'Brien Detective Agency to find her missing cat, and Clarice O'Brien is eager to take the case. But it looks like the case of the marmalade cat isn't the only mystery around. Clarice's best friend Sadie thinks Miss Parsnip looks and acts an awful lot like a witch ... and their new partner, Brick, can walk on fences, climb on roofs, and talk in cat language.

The new novel from Andrew Vachss puts Burke 'hard-core career criminal and man-for-hire' up against a new breed of predator: stalkers. Some obsessed, some deranged, all dangerous.Burke's old prison pal Hercules, hired by a shadowy network that runs a safehouse for stalking victims, botched the job, and one of the stalkers is dead. To save his partner, Burke has to penetrate the network, and he makes a deal with the boss, Crystal Beth, a woman as obsessed as the stalkers. But Crystal Beth has a stalker of her own, an extortionist who threatens to bring down her entire network unless she surrenders one of the women she's hiding.When Burke learns that the extortionist might be government-issue, and that the stalker he's protecting is a member of a neo-Nazi cell with plans to make Oklahoma City look like a pipe bomb, his survivalist instincts go on full alert ("When there's too many loose threads, somebody always weaves them into a noose"). And when it comes down to making his own house and his family-of-choice safe, Burke turns lethal.With blistering power, Safe House reminds us why Kirkus has called Burke "one of the most fascinating male characters in crime fiction."From the Hardcover edition.

Thirteen-year-old Nell and her friends are robbing banks to raise money for renovations in their foster home.