Fifteen years ago Katie Schottland snagged her dream job as an analyst for the CIA. Then two years later she was booted out with no explanation. She agonized over the loss but got on with her life and wrote a wildly successful novel Spy Guys. Now she writes for a cable TV channel spawned from her novel. Most would call Katie a success story. But a single phone call changes her life once again. An Agency woman once involved in preparing high level refugees for their new American lives begs for Katies help. In exchange shell answer questions about Katies sudden dismissal. Can Katie go from fictional spies to the real world of espionage again?
Compiled for the first time, here are all of Newbery Award– winning author Richard Peck’s previously published short stories and two brand-new ones.
A sweet and clever novel about the woes of (boy) history repeating itself, from the author of Mostly Good Girls.
Looks at the difficulty of overcoming a perfectionist attitude, explains what perfectionism is and where it originates, and describes steps that parents and families can take to eliminate the trait.
And what will she do as now comes crashing down around her? Perfect for fans of Far From the Tree, this is the story of one teen's search for herself amid the confusion of a shattered past and a future far from all she planned.
Flawlessly crafted, witty and suspenseful, Past Perfect is classic Susan Isaacs in top form.
... but she thought she could be a martyr if they killed her quick. —“A Temple of the Holy Ghost,” Flannery O'Connor Contents Foreword by Rachel Swenson Balducci ......................................ix Introduction: Fear in.
This is a city half-seen and half-recollected, one version overlaid imperfectly on the other, mapping where the past and the present intersect - a fictional city, then, one that is, in a sense, conjured up by the desire to find some lost ...
Perfect is the story of one girl’s attempt to cope with loss, define true friendship, and figure out the difference between appearances and reality.
A middle-aged Israeli engineer travels to Europe in the hope of finding a new meaning for his life
When her life on her family's vineyard is shattered by her mother's death, Camille finds herself at the mercy of a cold-hearted stepfamily at the same time she bonds with her stepmother's mother and a friend from her childhood.