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For fans of Alan Furst and Sarah Blake, a spellbinding story of a secret mission and dangerous passion in World War II Paris, from the author of the New York Times bestsellers Holding Up the Universe and All the Bright Places (soon to be a major motion picture starring Elle Fanning). "An unforgettable tale of love, sacrifice, courage and compassion that will resonate with readers long after they finish the book."-Chicago Tribune After deliv...

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A fearless and spirited pilot conquers Hollywood. Now can she survive movie stardom?In 1945 Velva Jean Hart is a bona fide war heroine. After a newsreel film of her triumphant return to America, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer promises to make her a star. They give her a new life story and a brand-new name. As "Kit Rogers, " she navigates the movie sets, recording sessions, parties, staged romances, and occasional backstabbing that accompany her newfound ...

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Theodore Finch is gefascineerd door de dood en wil een einde aan zijn leven maken, maar elke keer gebeurt er iets waardoor hij het toch niet doet. Violet Markey telt de dagen af tot haar diploma-uitreiking, zodat ze het bekrompen stadje waar ze opgroeit voorgoed achter zich kan laten en niet langer geconfronteerd hoeft te worden met de pijnlijke herinneringen aan haar gestorven zus. Wanneer Finch en Violet elkaar op de rand van de hoge klokken...

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SOON TO BE A NETFLIX FILM, STARRING ELLE FANNING AND JUSTICE SMITH! The New York Times bestselling love story about two teens who find each other while standing on the edge. Theodore Finch is fascinated by death. Every day he thinks of ways he might kill himself, but every day he also searches for-and manages to find-something to keep him here, and alive, and awake. Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when s...

From the author of "The Ice Master" comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate uninhabited Arctic island in 1921.

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From the author of The Ice Master comes the remarkable true story of a young Inuit woman who survived six months alone on a desolate, uninhabited Arctic island In September 1921, four young men and Ada Blackjack, a diminutive 25-year-old Eskimo woman, ventured deep into the Arctic in a secret attempt to colonize desolate Wrangel Island for Great Britain. Two years later, Ada Blackjack emerged as the sole survivor of this ambitious polar expedi...

The author of the critically acclaimed Arctic exploration books "The Ice Master" and "Ada Blackjack" tackles her most harrowing expedition of all--high school.

From the author of the New York Times bestsellers Holding Up the Universe and All the Bright Places (soon to be a major motion picture starring Elle Fanning), a spellbinding coming-of-age debut about ill-fated love during the Great Depression-and what it means to be a woman with ambition.Velva Jean's mother urged her to "live out there in the great wide world, " and growing up in Appalachia in the years before World War II, Velva Jean dreams o...