Author: Arch Montgomery
Publisher: Bancroft Pre
Keywords: trilogy, gunpowder, hank
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2003-02-03
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1890862223
ISBN-13: 9781890862220

Meet Hank Collins, an astute, gutsy, and funny 13-year-old who’s just finished the seventh grade at a public school in Baltimore’s affluent suburbs. But all is not trouble-free for Hank. He must contend with a troubled family, an alien school, and a world otherwise booby-trapped with alluring but perilous possibilities. Hank is the page-turning, contemporary, coming-of-age story he tells of growing up amidst this wreckage during a dangerous and suspenseful summer. From him, we hear the events of his life. We stand by him on the baseball field and at the dinner tables of his remarried parents

Author: Shan Serafi
Publisher: Bancroft Pre
Keywords: novel, seventeen
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2005-10-06
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1890862401
ISBN-13: 9781890862404

The ultimatum: Show me a reason to live or I kill myself in seven days. When seventeen-year-old Sophia dares life to prove to her she should stay alive, her suffering is at its climax, her predicament at its worst, and her adolescence at its crescendo. Sophia is taking summer courses at a New York City college between her junior and senior years of high school, lured to the program by Shauna, her best friend from California. Blessed with all that society considers attractive and intelligent, Shauna succeeds with guy after guy, course after course. Sophia, meanwhile, fails in every course, at e

Authors:Sheilah Kast, Jim Rosapepe,
Publisher: Bancroft Pre
Keywords: dead, dracula
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 2009-11-09
List price: $25.95
ISBN-10: 1890862657
ISBN-13: 9781890862657

In December 1989, Romanians overthrew dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, ending more than forty years of Communist totalitarianism. Twenty years later, Romania is a thriving democracy, an economic success, and a member of NATO and the European Union. What’s the story behind the Romanian miracle? Join former United States ambassador to Romania Jim Rosapepe and his wife, award-winning journalist Sheilah Kast, on an amazing tour of an amazing land beyond Dracula, beyond orphans, beyond Communism, to the vibrant culture, unique history, and 21st century skills that define modern Romania. You’

Author: Gerald Felix Warburg
Publisher: Bancroft
Keywords: novel, club, mandarin
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2006-05-10
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 1890862452
ISBN-13: 9781890862459

A contemporary Washington mystery with a high tech, China twist . . . A brilliantly-conceived spy novel introducing seven engaging characters whose lives are transformed by crisis. It begins as a drinking club in an academic backwater on the Stanford University campus of the late 1970s. A post-Nixon/post-Mao generation of China scholars plots to make a better world. Suddenly, the U.S. recognizes the People’s Republic of China. Intense demand arises for the unique skills The Mandarin Club members possess. Now, yesterday’s dreamers are today’s policy-makers an

Author: Matthew Olshan
Publisher: Bancroft Press
Keywords: finn
Number of Pages: 188
Published: 2001-03-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1890862134
ISBN-13: 9781890862138

Imagine a modern-day retelling of Mark Twain’s classic "The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn," with a teenage girl and a very pregnant young Mexican as the main characters. That’s the gist of Matthew Olshan’s brilliant literary debut, "Finn: a novel." The book’s narrator is Chloe Wilder, a quiet girl, part tomboy, part survivor. Rescued from a murderous life with her mother, Chloe lives with her grandparents in the cocoon of a quiet, middle-class neighborhood. For the first time in her life, things are steady, safe -— and stifling. Enter Silvia Morales, the gran

Author: Jonetta Rose Barras
Publisher: Bancroft Press
Keywords: daddies, amp, daughters, reuniting, bridges
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2005-05-22
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 189086238X
ISBN-13: 9781890862381

Needed For Our Times, Our People, and Our Communities In her critically acclaimed, groundbreaking bestseller—Whatever Happened to Daddy’s Little Girl?—author Jonetta Rose Barras broke the code of silence surrounding the devastating impact father absence has on girls and women. Using her own story, and that of other women from across the country, Barras identified the “fatherless woman syndrome,” along with its ramifications, and offered remedies for healing. In this new self-help book: Bridges: Reuniting Daughters and Daddies, Barras takes the next step, guiding daughter-an

Author: Mike Walker
Publisher: Bancroft Press
Keywords: fable, hollywood, intent, malicious
Number of Pages: 400
Published: 1999-10-01
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 1890862053
ISBN-13: 9781890862053

Charmain Burns is beautiful, ambitious--a bombshell who’ll stop at nothing to get what she wants.