Books with title The Spy Catchers

Some family trees are pretty twisted and too thorny to touch.Ember Gillespie was sent away from the island of Tulukaruk when she was only a child. Now returning as a teenager, she's finding that the life she idealized from afar is actually a living nightmare, complete with a deranged family that is trying to drive her away and a town full of creepy people.Her only refuge from the constant strain comes from the subtle and mysterious Acton, who has taken her under his wing, and a dark friendship that seems to have the potential to ignite into romance.The only thing more shocking than her family's rejection is the reason they want her leave. Her sister, Thalia, confesses that the town is inhabited by demons. Their mother believes that Acton is particularly dangerous and bent on revenge.Ember knows her mother is crazy. But as she starts losing her memories and waking up to strange notes that she's left herself, she begins to believe her mother may also be right.

“Adele’s supernatural roller-coaster ride continues at breakneck speed.” —RT Book Reviews Tormented by the fate she condemned her mother to, and by the lies she’s forced to tell to cover it up, Adele scours Storm-ravaged New Orleans for the truth about her family’s magical past. But every turn leads her back to the one person she’s determined to forget: the vampire Niccolò Medici. Not even the bewitched locks trapping him can break their connection. Sensing Niccolò calling to Adele, Isaac tries relentlessly to keep her from exploring paths that would endanger them all. But a new threat is rising in New Orleans…an older enemy that will bring Isaac’s haunted past to life, test the witches’ friendships, and jeopardize Adele and Isaac’s blossoming relationship.In this spellbinding continuation of The Casquette Girls saga, Adele delves into seventeenth-century Florence—a time bubbling with alchemy and fraternal betrayal. As she uncovers long-buried secrets, sorting history from fantasy will be her only hope of saving her mother, her coven, and her magic.

“Adele’s supernatural roller-coaster ride continues at breakneck speed.” —RT Book Reviews Tormented by the fate she condemned her mother to, and by the lies she’s forced to tell to cover it up, Adele scours Storm-ravaged New Orleans for the truth about her family’s magical past. But every turn leads her back to the one person she’s determined to forget: the vampire Niccolò Medici. Not even the bewitched locks trapping him can break their connection. Sensing Niccolò calling to Adele, Isaac tries relentlessly to keep her from exploring paths that would endanger them all. But a new threat is rising in New Orleans…an older enemy that will bring Isaac’s haunted past to life, test the witches’ friendships, and jeopardize Adele and Isaac’s blossoming relationship.In this spellbinding continuation of The Casquette Girls saga, Adele delves into seventeenth-century Florence—a time bubbling with alchemy and fraternal betrayal. As she uncovers long-buried secrets, sorting history from fantasy will be her only hope of saving her mother, her coven, and her magic.

Beyond YesterdayEvery story should have a beginning, a middle, and an end. That's the way it is at grandmother's house where tea is served each day at four and tales of death and divorce, illness and abandonment are shared by grandmother's circle of friends. The women watch over one another and eveyone watches over Grayling -- whose own story has never been told her to hear.But in a summer of many changes, fourteen-year-old Grayling encounters love and romance, joy and saddness...and the need to know her own story -- from the very beginning.

What would you do to win your freedom and save your loved ones?Life isn’t better under the sea – a grim reality known to all of the mystical races that swim in the realm beneath the waves. It’s also why so many of them risk everything to escape.None dream of freedom more than Chidi Etienne. Kidnapped from the surface world when she was young, her owner bound Chidi to the watery Salt realm by forcing her to wear a magical sealskin that grants the power of shapeshifting into the animal’s form. Chidi has suffered the life of a Selkie slave ever since.But all of that is about to change . . .After a merfolk king offers a royal bounty for the recapture of a dangerous fugitive, Chidi and a misfit crew of slave catchers are sent ashore to find the elusive runner. Succeed, and they’ll share in the reward to buy freedom for themselves and their families. If any among the crew doesn’t return or they come back empty-handed, however, their loved ones kept behind will pay for the failure with their lives.But when the hunt leads to a deeper mystery and the possibility of greater riches for all, Chidi and the crew face a moral dilemma that threatens to tear their loyalties and families apart - what is the cost of one life worth against the needs of the many . . . and are any among them willing to pay the sacrificial price?How each of them answers the question will teach the crew and Chidi the realm beneath the wave’s harshest truth of all - only through the loss of innocence does one become SALTED.THE SELKIE CATCHERS is the first installment in an epic, coming-of-age fantasy adventure saga.Scroll up and click buy now to dive into these dark waters today and discover a series unlike any you’ve read before!

The only Major League ballplayer whose baseball card is on display at the headquarters of the CIA, Moe Berg has the singular distinction of having both a 15-year career as a catcher for such teams as the New York Robins and the Chicago White Sox and that of a spy for the OSS during World War II. Here, Dawidoff provides "a careful and sympathetic biography" (Chicago Sun-Times) of this enigmatic man.

On Halloween in her fourteenth year, Lizzy Mortimer saw her first death spector. Confused at first, Lizzy soon learns from her grandmother, Bizzy, that as descendant of Morgan le Fay, it is their job to prevent fate from taking its course when an unjust death is planned-a job that has been passed down for countless generations. Now that she is old enough to be a death catcher, Lizzy must learn all she can about preventing death from claiming its victims, a job more complicated than a simple warning. Only she didn't expect a feud older than time between two of the sisters of Avalon, Morgan le Fay and Vivienne Le Mort, to culminate on her watch as they try to wipe out King Arthur's last descendant. And their next victim is Drake Westfall, a boy that Lizzy just happens to be secretly in love with. Can Lizzy outwit fate before it's too late?

Until the letters of the newspaper article she was reading rearranged themselves into an article foretelling her best friend Jodi's death, Lizzy Mortimer had always thought of Crabapple as a relatiVely normal coastal town. But the truth is anything but normal-Lizzy is the descendant of Morgan Le Fay, the legendary Lady of the Lake, and is gifted with the ability to see and prevent unjust deaths. Now Lizzy is caught in the middle of centuries-old feud between Morgan le Fay and her sister, Vivienne le Mort, who hopes to accelerate the end of the world by finding and killing King Arthur's last descendant, humanity's destined champion. So when an obituary for Lizzie's secret crush and the likely Arthurian heir, Drake Westfall, appears before her eyes, Lizzy must race to outwit fate and save her friends before mankind is destroyed forever.

"I couldn't put it down!"“Toast? Dream-deck? It didn’t exactly sound like the most inviting idea considering the last dream he had woken up from propelled him into a secret world of talking upper-crust rats, friendly green frog-people and lanky strangers trying to poison him with cubes of cyanide.” The Catcher is a 54,000-word fantasy/adventure novel for middle-graders set in a land beyond the Bermuda Triangle where nightmares are reality. Someone has kidnapped the Sandman, and it has fallen upon the scrawny shoulders of teenager Jack Masters to set the sleep world right. Together with a blonde super-spy and toffee-nosed rat, he must venture out in search of the mysterious Drake and a father lost.Fans of Harry Potter will love this full-length novel, guaranteed to keep kids glued to its pages for hours.