Unaccompanied Minor

Author: Hollis Gillespie
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1440567743
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 251

Book Description
Fourteen-year-old April May Manning spent her life on airplanes with her flight attendant parents. When her father dies in a crash, April's mom marries a pilot who turns out to be an abusive jerk, and gets Mom confined to a psychiatric hospital. So April takes off, literally, living on airplanes, using her mother's flight benefits, relying on the flight crews who know she's been shuttling between divorcing parents for a year. Then, there's a hijacking, but why is April's "dad" on board? April flees to the cargo hold with another unaccompanied minor she's met before, and they fight to thwart the hijackers, faking a fire, making weapons from things they find in luggage. At last, locked in the cockpit with a wounded police officer, the boy, and his service dog, April tries to remember everything her parents said to do in a crisis above the clouds. But she knows it won't be enough.

Gillespie and the Guards

Author: Benjamin Elkin
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Boys
Languages : en
Pages : 74

Book Description
The king offers a prize to anyone who can fool his sharp-sighted guards.

Lady of the Light

Author: Donna Gillespie
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1440624410
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 452

Book Description
Auriane, warrior maiden of the Chattian tribe, was sworn to remove the cursed Romans from the lands of the Rhine. Then fate intervened: she was captured, brought to Rome in chains, and trained to fight in the arenas as a gladiator - only to fall in love with a Roman aristocrat, Marcus Arrius Julianus, and become his wife. Marcus and Auriane have lived in tranquility for years but, without his knowledge, Auriane is a traitor to Rome. Plundering her husband's coffers for nearly a decade, Auriane has provided her people with enough wealth to arm themselves. Now, Auriane's betrayal has been discovered, and if her duplicity reaches the Roman authorities, her life - and the lives of her family - will be forfeit.

The Strange Book of Jacob Boyce

Author: Tom Gillespie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781925965346
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 298

Book Description
A spiralling obsession. A missing wife. A terrifying secret. Will he find her before it's too late? When Dr Jacob Boyce's wife goes missing, the police put it down to a simple marital dispute. Jacob, however, fears something darker. Following her trail to Spain, he becomes convinced that Ella's disappearance is tied to a mysterious painting whose hidden geometric and numerical riddles he's been obsessively trying to solve for months. Obscure, hallucinogenic clues, and bizarre, larger-than-life characters, guide an increasingly unhinged Jacob through a nightmarish Spanish landscape to an art forger's studio in Madrid, where he comes face-to-face with a centuries-old horror, and the terrifying, mind-bending, truth about his wife.

The Production of Books in England 1350-1500

Author: Alexandra Gillespie
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521889790
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 397

Book Description
This book studies approaches to the production of manuscripts in medieval England, from the first commercial guilds to the advent of print.

Dancing with Ghosts

Author: Emily Gillespie
Publisher: Leaping Lion Books
ISBN: 9781988170060
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 258

Book Description
Freshman year of university was supposed to mean freedom. It was supposed to be her escape from parents who didn't understand her -- who turned Patricia away every time she reached out for help. New city, new school, new friends, fresh start - Wasn't that how it's supposed to work? Instead, when Patricia moves from her small, isolating hometown to bustling, sprawling cityscape of Toronto, she finds herself more alone than ever. When she meets Derek -- and intriguing yet mysterious classmate -- she's instantly drawn in by his worldly knowledge and easy charm. For a while, things between them are perfect. For a while, it's thrilling being invited into a world, unlike anything Patricia's experienced before. But this isn't a love story, and not everyone is what they seem.

Her Secret War

Author: Pam Lecky
Publisher: HarperCollins UK
ISBN: 0008464855
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 339

Book Description
”A great WWII-era historical fiction that has it all: mystery, suspense, history, espionage, action, and a dash of romance all wrapped up into an addictive and intriguing novel.” Goodreads reviewer, ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A life-changing moment

Jaded

Author: Kristy Feltenberger Gillespie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780615974835
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 204

Book Description
Jade has spent her entire life within the confines of the eye-color- obsessed Nirvana commune. She dreams of experiencing freedom but travel to the Outside is forbidden. Besides, she's a dutiful daughter who never breaks the rules. As her seventeenth birthday approaches, however, she realizes just how little she wants to follow the commune rules. She doesn't want to undergo another eye color surgery, or immediately choose a life partner, or follow her parents' life paths of teaching or wine making. In fact, her green eyes suit her just fine, she's never even been on a date, and she's passionate about photography. And yet she's resigned to do as she's told because it's easier for her to close her eyes and follow orders. Her Grandmother Ruby's murder is the catalyst that causes Jade to open her eyes wide for the first time in her life. She's devastated yet determined to find the killer and their motive. With help from her mysterious friend Tyrian, and Peaches, the commune leader's sweet daughter, Jade unearths dark secrets which include her mother's illicit affair, her maternal grandparents' escape from Nirvana, and a plethora of murders. To make matters worse, someone is hell bent on ending Jade's mission for the truth, and that someone is most likely the killer. Jade can't continue conforming to an evil society and yet she fears the Outside is just as corrupt. If she resolves to flee and is caught, the punishment is banishment to the slave cabins...and blinding. Although Jaded is considered a young adult dystopian novel, adults will be able to relate to Jade's plight.

Trees

Author: Lisa Jane Gillespie
Publisher: Usborne Books
ISBN:
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 40

Book Description
A fantastic new addition to the Beginner's series, designed to provide an infomative introduction to trees and plant life for young readers.

The Tyrant Strategy

Author: Jonathan C. Gillespie
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780985629908
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 390

Book Description
Trained from childhood, and equipped with alien technology, Reed Barowe ranks among the deadliest in the Serpican Police-a shadow agency that strikes from orbit and snuffs out radicals and other troublemakers, regardless of their motives, all in the name of enforcing the fragile peace on a fractured Earth. But a chance encounter in an isolated village will introduce Reed to a man who should be long dead, a tactical genius that might be mankind's best hope for freedom-or its greatest "threat." In a journey that will take them both into the heart of a fallen United States, and to the seat of a growing revolution, Reed must decide: will he turn from everything he knows to help a man he's been trained to kill?