The Snake Stone

Author: Jason Goodwin
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571267505
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 318

Book Description
Lefèvre, a French archaeologist, has arrived in Istanbul determined to uncover a lost Byzantine treasure. Yashim is commissioned to find out more about him. But when Lefèvre's mutilated body is discovered outside the French embassy, it turns out that there is only one suspect: Yashim himself. Once again, Yashim finds himself in a race against time to find the startling truth behind a shadowy secret society dedicated to the revival of the Byzantine Empire, caught in a deadly game deep beneath the city streets, a place where the stakes are high - and betrayal is death.

The Snake-stone

Author: Berlie Doherty
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780582317642
Category : Adopted children
Languages : en
Pages : 180

Book Description
It was the first time in my life that I'd ever felt that I didn't actually belong to anybody... I started thinking about my mother and whether she had wanted me when I was born. I didn't even know her name. Using an address on a torn envelope, James decides to find out who he is.

Snake Camp

Author: George Edward Stanley
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0307546802
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 51

Book Description
Stevie Marsh is off for the summer to learn about computers at Camp Viper. He’s not happy about being in the woods with all the bugs and poison ivy and—yuck!—snakes. But how bad can computer camp be? Then Stevie finds out Camp Viper isn’t a computer camp at all. The vipers at this camp are the kind that slither!

Sisters of the Snake

Author: Sasha Nanua
Publisher: HarperCollins
ISBN: 0062985612
Category : Young Adult Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 434

Book Description
A lost princess. A mysterious puppet master. And a race against time—before all is lost. Princess Rani longs for a chance to escape her gilded cage and prove herself. Ria is a street urchin, stealing just to keep herself alive. When these two lives collide, everything turns on its head: because Ria and Rani, orphan and royal, are unmistakably identical. A deal is struck to switch places—but danger lurks in both worlds, and to save their home, thief and princess must work together. Or watch it all fall into ruin. Deadly magic, hidden temples, and dark prophecies: Sisters of the Snake is an action-packed, immersive fantasy that will thrill fans of The Wrath & the Dawn and The Tiger at Midnight.

The Great Snake Swindle

Author: Jürgen Banscherus
Publisher: Capstone
ISBN: 9781598893403
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 78

Book Description
While celebrating his eleventh birthday with his mother and his friend Olga, Klooz relates the case that started his detective career, which involved magic balls, and a boy named Snake who was his best friend.

The Janissary Tree

Author: Jason Goodwin
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 0571267491
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 354

Book Description
Yashim is no ordinary detective. It's not that he's particularly brave. Or that he cooks so well, or reads French novels. Not even that his best friend is the Ambassador from Poland, whose country has vanished from the map. Yashim is a eunuch. As the Sultan plans a series of radical reforms to his empire, a concubine is strangled in the palace harem. And a young cadet is found butchered in the streets of Istanbul. Delving deep into the city's crooked alleyways, and deeper still into its tumultuous past, Yashim discovers that some people will go to any lengths to preserve the traditions of the Ottoman Empire. Brilliantly evoking Istanbul in the 1830s, The Ottoman Detective is a fast-paced literary thriller with a spectacular cast, from mystic orders and lissom archivists to soup-makers and a seductive ambassador's wife. Darker than any of these is the mysterious figure who controls the Sultan's harem.

Stone Field

Author: Christy Lenzi
Publisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 162672069X
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316

Book Description
In this loose retelling of "Wuthering Heights" set in Missouri during the Civil War, when free-spirited seventeen-year-old Catrina discovers a mysterious young man with amnesia on her family's sorghum farm, they fall passionately in love, scandalizing intolerant family members and neighbors.

The Serpent Grail

Author: Philip Gardiner
Publisher: Watkins Media Limited
ISBN: 1780282419
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
Languages : en
Pages : 442

Book Description
This is the extraordinary story of the discovery of the ultimate secrets of some of the world's most enigmatic mysteries - including the Holy Grail, the Elixir of Life and the Philosopher's Stone.

Snake

Author: Jeff Stone
Publisher: Random House Books for Young Readers
ISBN: 0375830758
Category : Juvenile Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
With the temple and Grandmaster now gone, twelve-year-old Seh, a snake-style master, joins a bandit gang and meets a mysterious woman whose name means Cobra, while trying to stay ahead of the vengeful Ying.

Oxford Playscripts: The Snake-Stone

Author: Berlie Doherty
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198320876
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 128

Book Description
An engaging classroom playscript. Fifteen-year-old James is mad about diving and trains hard. He has a natural talent and his dad encourages him to aim high. But James has always known he is adopted, and now he decides to find his birth mother and his true identity. He sets out alone, on the journey of a lifetime... New, innovative activities specifically tailored to support the KS3 Framework for Teaching English and help students to fulfil the Framework objectives. Activities include work on Speaking and Listening, close text analysis, and the structure of playscripts, and act as a springboard for personal writing