Venom House (Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte Mystery, #16) (Inspector Napoleon Bonaparte)
by Arthur Upfield
The Answerth family's mansion seems to deserve its nickname of Venom House - perhaps because of its forbidding setting, an island in the centre of a man-made lake, its treacherous waters studded by the skeletons of long-dead trees. Perhaps it's because of the unquiet ghosts of the Aboriginals slaughtered by the Answerth ancestors. Whatever the reason, most people are content to give Venom House and its occupants a wide berth...until a couple of corpses turn up in the lake. Inspector Bonaparte ha...
The Hawaiian Funeral (Misadventures of Haole Boy, #4)
by Richard Allen Kapuaala
An action-packed and adventure-filled book that follows Kazan, the pup, in his escape and through his doubts and fears. A brilliant depiction, it sets the imagination to flight. This book is highly engrossing and entertaining for juvenile readers.
The "soft gold" of sea otter pelts lured the Russians across the Bearing Strait in the eighteenth century, and in the wake of the Cossacks came suffering and strife for the native Aluets. One Cossack, gentle and far-seeing, comes to understand the Aluets, and falls in love with one of their young women, the beautiful Tasha Tarakanov. She is forced to choose between her beloved Andrei and the safety of her people-and her decision marks the beginning of a proud and enduring family. Larissa Tara...
