For her seventh birthday, Katarina and her Uncle Eddie travelled to Austria When Kat turned fifteen, she planned a con of her own - scamming her way into the best boarding school in the country, determined to leave the family business behind. But now her dad's life is on the line, and Kat must go back to the world she tried so hard to escape But for the last two months she's simply been known as the girl who ran the crew that robbed the greatest museum in the world.
That's why Kat isn't surprised when she's asked to steal the infamous Cleopatra Emerald so it can be returned to its rightful owners. There are only three problems. First, the gem hasn't been seen in public in thirty years.
Second, since the fall of the Egyptian empire and the suicide of Cleopatra, no one who holds the emerald keeps it for long - and in Kat's world, history almost always repeats itself. But it's the third problem that makes Kat's crew the most nervous, and that is Kat might be in way over her head, but she's not going down without a fight. After all, she has her best friend -- the gorgeous Hale - and the rest of her crew with her as they chase the Cleopatra around the globe, dodging curses and realizing that the same tricks and cons her family has used for centuries are useless for this heist.
This time, Kat's going to have to make up her own rules To help embolden hope, here is a powerhouse collection of essays and personal stories that speak directly to teens and all YA readers. Martin Luther King, Jr. We all experience moments when we struggle to understand the state of the world, when we feel powerless and--in some cases--even hopeless.
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Now that April knows Gabriel Winterborne is alive, she must turn to the other orphans to keep him that way. As a looming new danger threatens to take Gabriel down once and for all, they must use their individual talents to find a way to make sure this home for misfits isn't lost to them for ever. Because at the Winterborne Home, nothing is what it seems, no one is who they say they are and nowhere is safe. And now a ragtag group of orphans must unravel the riddle of a missing heir, a supposed phantom and a secret key, all without alerting the adults of Winterborne House that trouble is afoot.
The first book in a captivating new series from the bestselling author of Gallagher Girls. Two sword-wielding vigilantes. One mansion. No rules. April thought she had her happy ending. After all, she has her new house and new friends and new guardian.
But she also has a very big new secret. The kids of Winterborne House are the only ones who know that Gabriel Winterborne--famous billionaire and terrible cook--is really a sword-wielding vigilante. What they don't know is that he's not the only one.
When a masked figure breaks in, looking for something--or someone--it's clear that Gabriel has met his match, and now no one is safe. April and her friends will have to solve a decades-old mystery in order to hang on to the most important thing in the world: each other.
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After all this time without word, Maddie has nothing to say to him -- until their outpost is attacked, and Logan is taken. They won't be out of the woods until they're. Get A Copy. Hardcover , pages. More Details Alaska United States. Other Editions Friend Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.
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Rating details. More filters. Sort order. View all 4 comments. May 03, Carol Bookaria rated it really liked it Shelves: , favorites , fiction , top , romance , young-adult. This is a cute and adventurous YA story and I really enjoyed it. Six years ago, Maddie , the daughter of a secret-service agent, and Logan , the son of the President of the United States were both ten and best friends.
Then, something happened and Maddie moved to Alaska with her father. Fast-forward six years and Maddie is still in Alaska. She has been living with her father, home-schooled, and learning survival skills. All gets disrupted when Logan is sent to Alaska to spend some time with them an This is a cute and adventurous YA story and I really enjoyed it.
All gets disrupted when Logan is sent to Alaska to spend some time with them and just when he is starts getting settled ends up kidnapped. This is the beginning of the story and the rest is an adventurous journey.
The story takes place in an isolated region of Alaska and the characters are likable. I found the novel to be entertaining, romantic, and fun. Overall, I enjoyed it and recommend it to readers of YA and contemporary fiction. View all 12 comments.
Oct 04, Grace A rated it really liked it. Maddie was a girly girl who can survive in the worst possible wilderness situation. It took a life a 4. It took a life and death situation to bring them back together. It is a love story about friendship, trust, survival and loyalty.
It was a fantastic read. View 2 comments. Jun 13, Trina Between Chapters rated it really liked it Shelves: , romance , contemporary , young-adult , audiobooks , standalones. Just what I wanted from that synopsis! A cute, quick read that you'll probably enjoy if you like survival stories. There is also a good dose of friends-to-hate-to-attraction. Only downside was that Maddie could be super annoying. She was acting that way on purpose, but let's just say she excelled at it.
Content warning: Russian terrorists, being taken hostage, falling, violence, injury, survival in wintry wilderness. May 12, Kat rated it really liked it Shelves: library Entered on screen reader. Galley provided by publisher I'd be the first to admit that I wasn't all that impressed by the last book Ally Carter released. I would even go so far as to say that I was a bit disappointed. This one, on the other hand, is a welcome return to how good her previous output had been.
Maddy Manchester is the daughter of the former head of the Secret Service. Following the attempted kidnap of the First Lady, Maddy's father moves them to the wilderness of Alaska, cut off from human civilisation, for r Galley provided by publisher I'd be the first to admit that I wasn't all that impressed by the last book Ally Carter released.
Following the attempted kidnap of the First Lady, Maddy's father moves them to the wilderness of Alaska, cut off from human civilisation, for reasons unknown. In doing this, she leaves behind her best friend Logan, the son of the President. Six years later, Logan is sent to Alaska following a string of misdemeanours to find Maddy completely changed from the girl he knew, and hating his guts.
What follows is typical Ally Carter. And it's great. I have to say, Maddy Manchester might be one of my favourite Carter heroines. I loved her so much, even despite the slight "not like other girls" thing going on at the start which, maybe fair enough, I wouldn't know many girls who could survive alone in Alaska myself, let alone throw a hatchet with accuracy into a tree trunk so. I think one of the problems I had with Embassy Row was that I didn't really connect with Grace that much, or even like her really, in the way I had with Cammie and Kat.
Maddy is a lot more like those two, and it's like returning to something familiar imagine thinking I wouldn't die for Maddy Manchester. Normally, I also really like the love interests. However, the thing that slightly irritated me about Logan was that he never seemed to realise how capable Maddy was, not even really at the end. It was all him being like "no, Maddy, don't do this!! There's also the whole thing where whenever one of the bad guys so much as looks at Maddy, he pretty much jumps them and starts yelling "don't even look at her!!
I know your masculinity has been impugned on and you want to make up for it because Maddy is clearly more capable than you could ever wish to be but please. Just chill. There was also the small matter of the twist at the end being a little out there, but I kind of expect that with Ally Carter so, while a bit strange, it wasn't like it brought me out of the story any.
View all 3 comments. Shelves: favorites , recommended-to-me. Maddie Maddie and Logan were best friends when they were 10 but due to some incident, they were separated from each other. You can probably guess the incident when 3. So, yes I opened the ebook for no reason and the reason I had it on my laptop was because someone repeatedly told me it was a good book.
So I read on and before I knew it, I had read one-third of it. It was really really good especially the first half but the last one-third kinda took away a star. But it was still good. I think the end came off a little meh? Also I guess I needed some more detail about the end telling me what would happen for them next but guess not.
And I wanted to know why Logan thought his father hated him. The underlying reasons for the attacks were kinda stupid and I wish it was better at the end. The writing was good. The characters were fine. I guess Maddie was the best! I would like to read more of her books but in the summer.
Fun and a little adventure. Though I admit it would be good to hear it with the children being the protagonists. Chapter 3 view spoiler [Her father had to leave because the attack happened , right? Was he dismissed?
So innocent. Teach him some lesson! I just kept reading. View all 24 comments. All the boxes are ticked here for a good, no nonsense escapist read with decent characters and great location. It's a fast paced read following the story of Logan and Maddie on the run in cold Alaska from Russian agents. Overall I enjoyed as I like Ally Carter and her teen spy books.
But it was not fantastic, just a good read. Mar 08, Tucker TuckerTheReader rated it really liked it Shelves: thriller , romance , 4-stars , young-adult. I read this book for school which will probably surprise most because this is not an academic book.
It's a long story but basically, my school does this thing called service-learning projects. This year our project was to read a book and then send a copy to an eighth grader along with a letter. I won't go into it here but I hated the project for many reasons. Onto the actual review. I tried to read this a lloooonngggg time ago but couldn't get into it.
This time, I had a much easier time. This was I read this book for school which will probably surprise most because this is not an academic book. This was a very quick and easy read. It's a unique cross between thriller and romance. Also, I have to admit that there were a couple of very cliche cliches sprinkled throughout this novel but somehow they added to my overall enjoyment.
Overall, this was a short, enjoyable treat of a novel! Even so, I probably won't read any other books from this author. Review to come! View all 6 comments. Jun 02, Beth rated it it was ok Shelves: reviewed. This is entertaining, and quippy, and a standalone. My immediate reaction was three stars. It's the best thing Ally Carter has written in years.
And then I started, you know, actually thinking about the story, and its inherent political implications, and none of it makes any sense to me. I'm knocking off a star for that. Every single way in which you could possibly be spoiled is behind this spoiler cut. I'm just going to ask q This is entertaining, and quippy, and a standalone. I'm just going to ask questions about the world in the book: 1. Why would a foreign delegation be allowed to stroll around within the White House unsupervised?
Why would the First Lady be allowed to stroll around where there are foreign - or any! Explain to me what on earth has been happening with US-Russia relationships in the six years since the kidnapping attempt!
They almost succeeded in kidnapping the First Lady! They shot the President's kid! No mention of, I don't know, war? Diplomats being thrown out? And what is UP with that garbage at the end with the Wolf's son being a hot-headed kid who got carried away and obsessed with the First Lady? I'm taking a moment to note that Alaska might be big and empty and scary, but it is also very close to Russia. You couldn't go to the Caribbean? Somewhere Russian mob tattoos would be more likely to be spotted?
Walk me through kidnapping attempt number two. Step one: get Maddie's dad. How, exactly? He was flying to pick up medicine, right? They didn't shoot down his plane, because Stefan was able to fly it away. So how'd he end up, plane unharmed, in the middle of nowhere, when apparently he got into the plane in full view of the new Secret Service detail? How'd they know where Logan was?
The state of Alaska is big and empty, remember? I was going to be Despite Cammie's best intentions to be a normal student, danger seems to follow her. Cammie and her friends must clear her name by discovering the truth about some mysterious guests When year-old April joins a group of kids living at Winterborne Home she doesn't expect to be there for very long. But she soon learns that this home isn't like any of the others - especially when she unearths the secret of the missing-and-presumed-dead billionaire, Gabriel Winterborne, who is neither missing nor dead but is actually living in a basement lair, sharpening his swords and looking for vengeance.
Now that April knows Gabriel Winterborne is alive, she must turn to the other orphans to keep him that way. As a looming new danger threatens to take Gabriel down once and for all, they must use their individual talents to find a way to make sure this home for misfits isn't lost to them for ever.
Because at the Winterborne Home, nothing is what it seems, no one is who they say they are and nowhere is safe. And now a ragtag group of orphans must unravel the riddle of a missing heir, a supposed phantom and a secret key, all without alerting the adults of Winterborne House that trouble is afoot.
The first book in a captivating new series from the bestselling author of Gallagher Girls. Five orphans. Two sword-wielding vigilantes. One mansion. No rules. April thought she had her happy ending. After all, she has her new house and new friends and new guardian. But she also has a very big new secret. The kids of Winterborne House are the only ones who know that Gabriel Winterborne--famous billionaire and terrible cook--is really a sword-wielding vigilante.
What they don't know is that he's not the only one. When a masked figure breaks in, looking for something--or someone--it's clear that Gabriel has met his match, and now no one is safe. April and her friends will have to solve a decades-old mystery in order to hang on to the most important thing in the world: each other.
In Heir Apparent there are as many ways to win as there are to get killed. Giannine can testify to how many ways there are to die—it's about all she's been able to do since she started playing. Now all she has to do is get the magic ring, find the stolen treasure, answer the dwarf's dumb riddles, come up with a poem for the head-chopping statue, cope with the army of ghosts, outmaneuver her half brothers, and defeat the man-eating dragon. If she can do all of that, why, she just might save her own life!
Cammie Morgan is a student at the Gallagher Academy for Exceptional Young Women, a fairly typical all-girls school-that is, if every school taught advanced martial arts in PE and the latest in chemical warfare in science, and students received extra credit for breaking CIA codes in computer class.
The Gallagher Academy might claim to be a school for geniuses but it's really a school for spies. For as long as she can remember, Katarina has been a part of the family business—thieving. With its glamorous international settings, intriguing suspense, complicated cons and even more complicated romance, Heist Society is stealing the hearts of Ally Carter fans everywhere.
We all need a place to escape from the real world. While Divya trades her rising-star status for sponsorships to help her struggling single mom pay rent, Aaron plays as a way to fuel his own dreams of becoming a game developer — and as a way to disappear when his mom starts talking about medical school. Kat Bishop: Friend. Or simply, the girl who robbed the greatest museum in the world Now she's been asked to steal the infamous Cleopatra Emerald so it can be returned to its rightful owners.
Trouble is, not only is the gem elusive - it's cursed. Kat might be in way over her head but help is at hand She enlists the gorgeous Hale and the rest of the crew from Heist Society on a heart-stopping round-the-world search but this time, Kat - who knows every trick and con in the book - is making up her own rules.
Little does he know that his mission is a sham. His prisoner is an innocent man, framed because he fell in love with a Count's daughter. Once the truth is revealed, Paul and Lusignan return to France, determined to seek justice.
Inspired by the real life of American Revolutionary War hero John Paul Jones, "Captain Paul" is a rollicking melodrama, packed with action and romance. Alexandre Dumas - was a hugely popular 19th Century French writer.
Born of mixed French and Haitian heritage, Dumas first rose to prominence in Paris as a playwright, but later gained international fame with his historical fiction.
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