This book helps parents and students confidently navigate through the twists, obstacles, surprises and roadblocks they are sure to encounter as they seek to find the right college, the right coach, and the right offer of athletic financial aid. Topics covered include: Constructing a profile to stand out; Understanding the recruiting process; Why prospects and families get hurt; and, Negotiating tips and guidelines

Quebrado has been traded from pirate ship to ship in the Caribbean Sea for as long as he can remember. The sailors he toils under call him el quebrado—half islander, half outsider, a broken one. Now the pirate captain Bernardino de Talavera uses Quebrado as a translator to help navigate the worlds and words between his mother’s Taíno Indian language and his father’s Spanish. But when a hurricane sinks the ship and most of its crew, it is Quebrado who escapes to safety...

The story is about Liesel Meminger, young foster girl living outside of Munich in Nazi Germany. Liesel scratches out a meager existence for herself by stealing when she encounters something she can’t resist – books. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor`s wife`s library, wherever they are to be found

Angels & Demons is a mystery-thriller novel, the main character of which is Robert Langdon. He tries to stop the Illuminati, a legendary secret society, from destroying Vatican City with the newly discovered power of antimatter...

It is the story of a teenage girl who, after being raped and murdered, watches from her personal Heaven as her family and friends struggle to move on with their lives while she comes to terms with her own death

The story is about a romantic couple who strongly fall in love. An angry rebel, John dropped out of school and enlisted in the Army, not knowing what else to do with his life--until he meets the girl of his dreams, Savannah. Their mutual attraction quickly grows into the kind of love that leaves Savannah waiting for John to finish his tour of duty, and John wanting to settle down with the woman who has captured his heart

It is about two 13-year-old boys, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway, who have a harrowing experience with a nightmarish traveling carnival that comes to their Midwestern town one October. The carnival's leader is the mysterious "Mr. Dark" who bears a tattoo for each person who, lured by the offer to live out his secret fantasies, has become bound in service to the carnival...

Fahrenheit 451 is a dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury. The novel presents a future American society where books are outlawed and firemen burn any house that contains them

The journal-style book is written as a partial "secret" diary of Abraham Lincoln, kept by the 16th President of the United States and given to the author by a vampire named Henry Sturges

Master the craft of the well-written college admissions essay with the Goof-Proof method. Bad habits disappear fast as grammar and spelling skills improve. Complete with dozens of samples and strategies, the Goof-Proof Rules will help express yourself effectively with clarity, concision, and creativity