Books with title The President's Daughter

Melina has been preparing for a future career as a spy.She just doesn’t know it.Legendary spy Evan Roberts always knew that his fifteen-year-old daughterMelina also possessed the absolute lack of fear required of an agent.Without telling her his real profession or his intention, he began to guide hertoward an eventual career as a spy. However, Melina’s world is shatteredafter her mom is involved in an accident that leaves her mysteriously unhurtbut unresponsive. Her father’s plans on hold, Melina settles into life at asuburban high school, immersing herself in a world of schoolwork, herfriends and a budding romance with Alex, the cute new guy in her class.When Melina and her father uncover shocking new information about hermother’s accident, Melina is pulled deep into her father’s shadowy world.With Alex desperately trying to find her and only hours to go before it willbe too late to save her mother, Melina and her father work together usingtheir combined skills to find a way to reach her.-----The Agent's Daughter is the first book in the Agent Series, a young adultspy thriller filled with mystery, suspense and espionage that builds to anexciting climax!

MORE than two hundred years have elapsed since the first cargo of slaves was landed on the banks of the James River, in the colony of Virginia, from the West coast of Africa. From the introduction of slaves in 1620, down to the period of the separation of the Colonies from the British Crown, the number had increased to five hundred thousand; now there are nearly four million. In fifteen of the thirty-one States, Slavery is made lawful by the Constitution, which binds the several States into one confederacy.

Passionate love, shocking mysteries and a series of strange and tragic events that put a lonely woman at the heart of a famed estate willing to go to any means to protect her family and her soul in The Lighthouse.Beatrice, strong-willed and an outcast in her home and society, refusing to conform to the social customs of her time. Her courage is tested when she returns home to Heversford, where she plans to takes her place as the lady of the house. Under the care of her doctor and lover the brooding, Charles Bennet whom she found herself drawn to and who has a terrifying secret of his own, her father the proud Sir Malcolm and her stepmother. A woman to whom she has lost the love of her father and her heritage without morals or a conscience, who commits heinous acts without apology.There is a terrifying secret hidden inside the gloomy halls that haunts the living and a community that held a firm theocracy that becomes engulfed in hysteria, witchcraft, devils, and magic.Fans of Jane Eyre, Rebecca and the hit showtime series Penny Dreadful will love this new Victorian Horror.

As President Truman once said, "If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog." What do you do when the President won't select a pet? Children's book illustrator/author Karen Folsom offers up a "rainbow" of possible contestants in the vein of "The Apprentice." For all animal lovers, and those still in shock after the election, this picture book is intended for adults, kids and pets alike.

This novel explores slavery's destructive effects on African-American families, the difficult lives of American mulattoes or mixed-race people, and the "degraded and immoral condition of the relation of master and slave in the United States of America." It is a tragic mulatto story about a woman named Currer and her daughters Althesa and Clotel, fathered by Thomas Jefferson.