Rodman Philbrick

A solitary, brooding boy, crippled by an accident when he was very young, sees two marvelous white birds in a spring meadow and feels his life begin to change.

Skiff Beaman has a big problem. He needs a whole heap of money to fix up his family's fishing boat. Skiff can still hear his passed-away mother's voice telling him 'Never give up'. So he comes up with a plan. It's crazy, it's dangerous, and it's going to take all Skiff's grit and strength to win a great battle against the sea.

One night after an evening out, Jason Dessen, forty-year-old physics professor living with his wife and son in Chicago, is kidnapped at gunpoint by a masked man, driven to an abandoned industrial site and injected with a powerful drug. As he wakes, a man Jason's never met smiles down at him and says, "Welcome back, my friend." But this life is not the one he knows. His wife is not his wife; his son was never born; and he's not an ordinary college professor, but a celebrated genius who has achieved something impossible. Is it this world or the other that's the dream? How can he possibly make it back to the family he loves? The answers lie in a journey more wondrous and horrifying than anything he could have imagined--one that will force him to confront the darkest parts of himself as he battles a terrifying, seemingly unbeatable foe. --

Volume 3.

Jason's parents have been called away suddenly, and a baby-sitter is staying with him and his little sister, Sally. The house on Cherry Street is very unhappy with this arrangement. The house doesn't like baby-sitters. It doesn't like children, either.

182 pages ; 22 cm

When something knocks out everything electrical at midnight on New Year's Eve, the world is plunged into chaos, including the town of Harmony, New Hampshire, where Webster Bragg, a vicious survivalist, sees an opportunity to dominate his fellow citizens--but as the town struggles to maintain order and civilization, young Charlie Cobb sets out on a dangerous journey through the snow to find medicine for his diabetic mother.

First came People’s Republic, then Indian CountryNow, Kelly Turnbull returns, locked and loaded, in Wildfire.Blue America teeters on the edge of chaos and collapse, but that’s not ex-operator Kelly Turnbull’s problem anymore – until he is called out of retirement for a crucial job in Siberia that turns out to be a deadly trap. Now Turnbull must go deep undercover inside the crumbling People’s Republic’s secret police force to stop a jihadi threat that could kill millions in both red and blue America. Working alongside his sworn enemy, he has to put his trust where he always has – in his instincts and his .45 automatic as his bloody campaign of revenge takes him from Mexico City to Germany to the bowels of the urban jungle of the abandoned Pentagon where, MAC-10 in hand, Kelly Turnbull faces his deadliest enemy.

When you die are you really done on Earth? Sara Connolly’s adopted daughter, Carrie has the gift of being able to talk to the dead. When women are found dead in the state insane asylum, Sara goes undercover and her daughter converses with the dead in the hopes of preventing another death. Will Amanda Black find the Light when her job on Earth is finished and her living son is safe? Maybe.

At the beginning of eighth grade, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak with a leg disability because his, birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, When the two meet they become close friends and they figure out that when they are combined they create a powerful force and team

Eleven-year-old Roy lets himself find a loving family and a new home on the horse ranch which he and his older half-brother happen to come upon.

After an earthquake has destroyed much of the planet, an epileptic teenager nicknamed Spaz begins the heroic fight to bring human intelligence back to the Earth of a distant future.