Books with title Crossing the Wire

Falling hard never felt so good.Pair skaters Courtney and Mark have one shot left at their Olympic dream. They vow not to let anything get in their way, especially not Josh and Stephanie, the wealthy and talented brother and sister team.The heart doesn’t always listen to reason, though…The more time Courtney spends with sweet, shy Josh, the harder she falls for him. But they are on opposite sides of the competition, and their futures are headed in opposite directions. Will their friendship blossom into more or are their paths too different to cross?

So wrote an Australian prisoner-of-war, Corporal LancelotDavies, only recently taken prisoner at the first battle ofBullecourt, on 11 April 1917. For him – like another 1,200Australians captured at Bullecourt – the future was indeed‘blank’ and unpredictable. The experiences of Australianprisoners of war (POWs) or Kriegsgefangeners heldcaptive in Germany has been largely forgotten or ignored–overshadowed by the horrid stories of Australiansimprisoned by the Japanese during World War II. Yet, asDavid Coombes makes known, the stories are interestingand significant – not only providing an account of whatthose young Australian soldiers experienced, and the spirit they showed in responding to captivity – but also for theinsight it provides into Germany in the last eighteen months of the war.Drawing on previous inaccessible records – including interviews conducted by the late David Chalk as well as privatepapers and unpublished manuscripts (all part of the Chalk Collection) – Coombes focuses on one Australian brigade,the 4th Infantry, from its formation in 1914, through Gallipoli to its baptism of fire on the Western Front, culminating inthe first battle of Bullecourt – which, in turn, leads to the prisoner of war experience.An unknown future was certainly what awaited those mostly young soldiers as POWs – whether it be exposed to theirown artillery fire while working for the enemy ‘behind the line’; in a hospital ward somewhere in France or Germany; orbehind wire, in a camp, in Germany. What remained constant, and gave them reason to stay alive, often in the mosthorrendous circumstances, was their desire to be free – to get back to their family and loved ones in Australia.

A compelling dystopian novel; winner of the 2010 New Zealand Post Children's Book Awards: Young Adult Fiction. Maryam refused to play by the Rules, and now they're out to get her blood… The people of Onewere, a small island in the Pacific, know that they are special-chosen by the great Apostles of the Lamb to survive the deadly Tribulation that consumed the Earth. Now, from their Holy City in the rotting cruise ship Star of the Sea, the Apostles control the population-manipulating texts from the Holy Book to implant themselves as living gods. But what the people of Onewere don't know is this: the white elite will stop at nothing to meet their own blood-thirsty needs… When Maryam crosses from child to woman, she must leave everything she has ever known and make a Crossing of another kind. But life inside the Holy City is not as she had dreamed, and she is faced with the unthinkable: obey the Apostles and very likely die, or turn her back on every belief she once held dear. This book is a fast, suspenseful drama underpinned by a powerful and moving story about love and loss. From the Hardcover edition.

Harry Bosch teams up with Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller in the new thriller from #1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly. Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. The murder rap against his client seems ironclad, but Mickey is sure it's a setup. Though it goes against all his instincts, Bosch takes the case. With the secret help of his former LAPD partner Lucia Soto, he turns the investigation inside the police department. But as Bosch gets closer to discovering the truth, he makes himself a target.

Darby should have been enjoying summer vacation at home in Kentucky with her friends, getting ready for cheer camp and her first year of high school. Instead, she's found herself in the 'town time forgot,' Midvale, Kansas, where her mother has decided to regroup after losing her job. It promises to be a summer of absolutely no fun. Until a fateful trip to a local nostalgia shop, "Antique Crossing," introduces Darby to a world of ghosts and supernatural occurrences apparently only she can see. She also meets a boy named Brian who immediately falls head over heels in love with her. Which can't be good! Darby finds herself pulled into a parallel dimension where she's greeted by the ghost of a dashing young World War II airman, Derick Butler, who pleads with her to help him with his 'unfinished business' in the world of the living. She's the only one who can! She also becomes the target of a dark, mysterious and possibly very evil presence that resides in the last car of the ghost train that appears with the unstable summer weather, beckoning her to use her newfound power in the ghost world for questionable motivations. What at first seemed to be a summer of long cries and lonely nights for Darby becomes a thrilling adventure of close-calls and dangerous travels in both the past and present with Brian on one side, Derick on the other and Darby right in the middle of "The Crossing."

The school year is winding down at The Rosewood Academy for Academic Excellence, but Brooklyn Prescott is nowhere near ready to leave her friends behind to go home for the summer. Also, there’s that unfinished business with Brady—she can’t leave for the summer with how things are between them now. But how is she supposed to get through to him when he won’t even talk to her to let her explain? Not to mention that he’s moved on and found someone else, a mystery girl that no one knows. The best Brooklyn can do is try to put it all behind her and move on. At least she knows that when she’s ready, there’s someone in the wings waiting for her, someone who makes her laugh and wants to spend time with her. He may not be Mr. Right, but as Brooklyn’s friends tell her, maybe the distraction of Mr. Right Now is just what she needs.And then there’s her writing project with Celia that will hopefully help get her mind off her mess of a love life. Maybe creating a book boyfriend will help her get over the real one that got away. Can she make it through the rest of the year without getting her heart broken again? Crossing the Line is the tenth installment of The Rosewoods, an exciting Young Adult series for readers who love fun, flirty love stories.The Rosewoods Series: Fresh Start (series prequel) Taking the Reins Masquerade Playing the Part Reading Between the Lines I'll Never Forget (prequel to This Point Forward) This Point Forward Risking it All (alternate POV short story) Making Ripples Acting Out Hitting the TargetTurning the Page Crossing the Line

Twenty-one years ago, David Pearlman chose a new name for himself: Poppa Neutrino. Mr. Neutrino is nomadic. A year ago, Neutrino and his dog left Key West for California with a crudely made raft that he’d built from plywood. The raft was twelve feet long and four feet wide, and it had a small cabin. It looked like a tree house. Neutrino planned to sail across the Pacific by himself, something that had been accomplished on a raft only once, by his hero, William Willis, in 1964.In the captivating story that served as the basis of his critically acclaimed book, The Happiest Man in the World, Alec Wilkinson introduces readers to David Pearlman, AKA Poppa Neutrino, a restless wanderer, eccentric, mariner, and musician, whose path once crossed with Kerouac and Ginsberg at the height of the beat era, as he attempts to cross the Pacific Ocean on a homemade raft.The Crossing was originally published in The New Yorker, June 27, 2005. Cover design by Adil Dara.

In this "tense" thriller and #1 New York Times bestseller, Detective Harry Bosch teams up with Lincoln Lawyer Mickey Haller to track down a killer who just might find them first (Wall Street Journal).Detective Harry Bosch has retired from the LAPD, but his half-brother, defense attorney Mickey Haller, needs his help. A woman has been brutally murdered in her bed and all evidence points to Haller's client, a former gang member turned family man. Though the murder rap seems ironclad, Mickey is sure it's a setup.Bosch doesn't want anything to do with crossing the aisle to work for the defense. He feels it will undo all the good he's done in his thirty years as a homicide cop. But Mickey promises to let the chips fall where they may. If Harry proves that his client did it, under the rules of discovery, they are obliged to turn over the evidence to the prosecution.Though it goes against all his instincts, Bosch reluctantly takes the case. The prosecution's file just has too many holes and he has to find out for himself: if Haller's client didn't do it, then who did? With the secret help of his former LAPD partner Lucy Soto, Harry starts digging. Soon his investigation leads him inside the police department, where he realizes that the killer he's been tracking has also been tracking him.Thrilling, fast-paced, and impossible to put down, The Crossing shows without a shadow of doubt that Connelly is "a master of building suspense" (Wall Street Journal).

A high-stakes story of star-crossed lovers from Simone Elkeles, the New York Times bestselling author of the Perfect Chemistry seriesTo escape his abusive stepdad, bad boy Ryan Hess runs from his tiny Texas border town to Mexico. But his plans to keep his head down and stay out of trouble are shattered the minute he meets the beautiful and totally out of his league Dalila Sandoval. Dalila Sandoval shouldn’t even know someone like Ryan Hess. The daughter of one of the wealthiest lawyers in Mexico, Dalila is focused on studying and planning for her bright future. Ryan is only a distraction from her dreams, but she’s never felt more alive than when she’s by his side. Ryan and Dalila are wrong for each other in every way. And yet they can’t resist the sparks that fly when they’re together. But their love is like a flame burning too close to the fuse.Something is going to explode. Will their love be strong enough to survive? Or will it burn them both?