Nobody's Son

The magical tale of the unhappy things that happen to a hero after "happily ever after"--a Canadian Library Association Best Young Adult Novel.

Nobody's son

Stewart, Sean

Maxwell Macmillan Canada

The hero of FIRECRACKER is a likeable, 32-year-old, slightly feckless divorced father-of-one who lives in Texas and is nicknamed 'Dead' Kennedy, for the rather good reason that he can see dead people. We're told this in a very matter of fact way - there's nothing gothic or horror-like about this novel - it's been something he's had to live with all his life and, apart from the fact that it makes driving a car impossible for him (he keeps swerving to avoid the ghosts), it hasn't really affected his life. DK is trying to put his life back on track, in part to do justice to the faith his daughter Megan - 12 years old, and very funny - continues to place in him, and in part because he's still in love with his ex-wife and he can't bear to prove her new ex-marine husband Don right. The trouble is, he keeps being distracted, first by a long-lost cousin with a weeping ghost in his garage and a terrible secret to hide, then by his all-too-alive mother who is planning a family reunion, and finally by a number of his dead relatives who all seem to want something from him. This isn't trying to be the Sixth Sense - it's far quirkier and funnier. It is a ghost story - with ghosts who are both living and dead - but it's also a love story and the story of a man who loses his way and the people who try and help him find it once again.

Firecracker

Weidenfeld Nicolson Ltd

As the Clone Wars rage, Jedi Master Yoda must once again face one of his greatest adversaries: Count Dooku. . . . The savage Clone Wars have forced the Republic to the edge of collapse. During the height of the battle, one Jedi Knight escapes the carnage to deliver a message to Yoda on Coruscant. It appears that Dooku wants peace and demands a rendezvous. Chances are slim that the treacherous Count is sincere but, with a million lives at stake, Yoda has no choice. The meeting will take place on Djun, a planet steeped in evil. The challenge could not be more difficult. Can Yoda win back his once promising pupil from the dark side or will Count Dooku unleash his sinister forces against his former mentor? Either way, Yoda is sure of one thing: this battle will be one of the fiercest he’ll ever face.

Yoda: Dark Rendezvous (Star Wars: Clone Wars)

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Random House Worlds

Hiding his supernatural powers from a disapproving society, Dante is alarmed when he finds the dead body of someone who looks exactly like him and begins to uncover the truth about his family's troubled past. Original.

Resurrection Man

United States

An award-winning novel tells the story of a peasant who is rewarded by the king for breaking an age-old curse on the kingdom, only to find that living happily ever after is not so simple. Reprint.

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Fantasy

Hiding his psychic powers from a paranoid society, Dante Ratkay is forced to act upon a premonition about his own death and delves into his family's forbidden secrets in order to unleash a profound force deep within himself.

Ace Books

On an island near the edge of the Mist, Brook joins forces with her twin on a perilous odyssey that will lead them to a distant world in search of their irrevocable destiny. By the award-winning author of Resurrection Man. Simultaneous.

Clouds End

Ace Trade

Raised among mortals in a world that perpetually tests his restraint, reluctant angel Dante is challenged to hide his powers and is ultimately compelled to fulfill his fate. Reprint.\nAmazon.com Review\nAfter World War II, magic began leaking back into the world. By 1990, Dante Ratkay's father, a physician, gives charms to his patients as well as prescriptions, and cops investigate crimes with the help of angels, people who are possessed and changed by magical ability. An angel stirs within reluctant Dante, and his sly, rivalrous adopted brother Jet shows Dante his own corpse, called into being by Dante's magic. Magic always has meaning, but what does Dante's corpse signify? What magic marked Jet as an infant, stalking him through life? This brilliant novel about magic, family ties, and identity has the answers, but they aren't easy.

Literary

On an island near the edge of the Mist, Brook joins forces with her twin on a perilous odyssey that would lead them to a distant world in search of their irrevocable destiny

Ace Hardcover

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Nobody's son

Nobody's Son

Firecracker

Yoda: Dark Rendezvous (Star Wars: Clone Wars)

Resurrection Man

Nobody's Son

Resurrection Man

Clouds End

Resurrection Man

Clouds End