This companion book to the author's highly acclaimed "In a Dark Wood" tells the story of one of the most beloved literary legends of all time: Little John.Michael Cadnum takes us on a journey through medieval England and deep into the heart of Sherwood Forest. From his humble beginnings as John T...
It’s called the game and its inventor is Jared. How do you play the game? You have to break into a house, a house that has people in it. You have to go to their bedroom, take something…and then you can leave.Stanley wants to be accepted by Jared, but first he has to play and ‘win’ the game.And St...
An epic tale of violence and war from the National Book Award-nominated author of IN A DARK WOOD.Lismond has trained all his life to take up an oar as a Viking warrior on the Raven. Wiglaf has spent his days in the quiet of a monastery, learning the arts of healing as a monk's apprentice. When th...
The rush to the gold fields of California is on in the lawless year of 1849, and Will Dwinelle has joined the adventurers. Will and his friend Ben brave the shorter but more dangerous route to the West&150across the isthmus of Panama, to the sultry menace of Panama City, and then by sea to San Fr...
When Stratton Fields is approached by what he thinks are the powers of darkness, he skeptically accepts their help. To his amazement and growing horror, a bargain begun in frustration and distraction grows into an ordeal, as a cycle of violence draws ever closer to the people he loves.
The miraculous reappearance of an ornate mirror he possessed as a boy has a strange effect on attorney Richard Stirling, drawing him into the world of the undead and awakening a lust for blood and revenge against his lover's killer.
Seventeen-year-old Anna Charles, who has turned shoplifting into an art form and a way to vent frustration, feels her confidence crumbling when she begins finding things she does not remember stealing.
******SPOILER ALERT*******This is the story of Peter and Mead 2 high school best-friends who like to sit around getting drunk and hanging out with their friends Angela and Lani. Mead is describes as a flake but everyone considers him the best kind of friend (whatever the hell that means). One nig...
Award-winning poet Michael Cadnum has fashioned a superb tale of the macabre, building subtly from a low note of quest foreboding to a shattering pitch of terror. Leonard Lewis was an odd child. Not nasty, but definitely odd. He was almost obsessed (or was it possessed?) by the grandfather who h...
When eighteen-year-old Simon, the half-English, half-Norman son of a noble family living in Norman-occupied England in 1100, is offered the chance to accompany the king’s friend Walter Tirel on a royal hunt, he is flattered by the honor. He hopes his association with Tirel will help him advance i...
This powerful new novel from the author of Saint Peter's Wolfis the exceptionally well told story of how the need for salvation can, through fear, be used to manipulate belief for terrifying ends.Red Patterson has done for psychiatry what television evangelists have done for religion. Charismatic...
Zach is repelled by the street violence around him, even as he sometimes joins in. But the violence hits close to home when his father is shot during a robbery. When the suspect goes free for lack of evidence, Zach needs to see justice done -- even if he has to do it himself, with a .38 revolver ...
From acclaimed author Michael Cadnum comes the first in a series of novels based on the myths from Ovid's THE METAMORPHOSES.Phaeton is the natural offspring of the Sun, but no one in his village believes him. After Phaeton fights his rival in front of their village over his parentage, he undertak...
Stephen has a chance to compete in a boxing tournament -- if he can come up with the cash. His new pal, Chad, knows about prisons and the darker side of life. He also knows a fast way to get cash, which is exactly what Steven needs if he's going to make it to the big boxing tournament he wants to...
Historical adventure story that takes place in medieval Scandinavia. Hallgerd is the 17 year-old daughter of the Norwegian village leader. A group of Danes, acting under the orders of a powerful, warring-king's daughter, kidnap her and intend to marry her to this noblewoman's son. After a sympat...
Jennifer Thayer went for a run, threw herself down a hill, and then filed a false police report, claiming that she fought off a rapist. Now the police are reassuring and sympathetic, and hardly anyone questions Jennifer's story. Friends and family express their concern, and the press is intereste...
In a stunning retelling based on actual events, Ship of Fire depicts Sir Francis Drake's most famous act of daring, the raid on the Spanish port of Cadiz. When Thomas Spyre, a seventeen-year-old surgeon's apprentice is offered the chance to sail on the Elizabeth Bonaventure, Sir Francis Drake's f...
A fairly decent werewolf novel, set in modern-day San Francisco. An interesting twist in that the werewolf "genes" are passed on through the exchange of fangs which are immediately irresistable to people who find them and which become increasingly difficult for that person to get rid of once the...
Ragged and exhausted from fighting in the Crusades, Hubert, a knight's squire, and his fellow crusaders board a ship bound for England. But the return home is neither quick nor easy. Hubert must use his sword against ships full of attacking infidels, and he is nearly slain at the hand of a vengef...
A National Book Award nominee!Returning to the same era of his "In a Dark Wood", Cadnum's majestic novel--part mystery, part history--chronicles the pageantry and brutality of the Crusades under King Richard.Edmund, a young apprentice, is awaiting punishment as a counterfeiter when a knight inter...
No one has ever bested Geoffrey, the Sheriff of Nottingham -- until the day a new villain appears in the forest. Cunning, treacherous, and, against all expectations, a man to respect, his name is Robin Hood. Acclaimed young adult author Michael Cadnum has brilliantly reimagined the legendary stor...
Strangely, none of the cups were broken. “As though someone was very careful,” said Davis as he straightened out the coffee things. Langton helped clean up, but he did not speak. They were in the office Portakabin to get ready for a meeting of the entire team. “I suppose this is another thing you...
The two lovers were in too great a hurry to spare a moment to watch the rumbling progress of Sisyphus’s boulder, commencing once again on its relentless course. They approached the river Styx breathlessly, and waited there as the lopsided ferry surged toward them, the three-headed beast on the ri...
In morning light it looks almost pink, a substantial place, surrounded by rivers of rushing traffic. The structure has been made earthquake resistant, its foundation far underground consisting of huge wheels. A jolt and the building will roll, but not crumble. In theory. The view from the courtho...
Reginald proved his worth as a physician, looking in on his patient several times during both day and nighttime hours, and often brought something to brighten Ester’s long wait—Valencia oranges or Poitevin peaches. Such fruit was rare. The Crusades had taken up most of the freight vessels through...
Martin thought this was not an auspicious name for a boat. She rode high in the water, her communication antennas swaying with the motion of the sea. The hull was gray rather than white, and her brass fittings had been allowed to go dull. She gave the appearance of having been abandoned for a lon...
Margaret could almost bring herself to say this. Her father sat on a bench beside a thin fire, holding his hands out to the pale flames, having listened to his daughter’s description of the violence against the juggler. He had devoured his portion of fish pie hungrily and exclaimed what an excell...
The shore resembled bread that had been broken and scattered, with some round loaves remaining intact and others crumbled into chunks of brown crust. Sherwin felt dismay at the manner in which the vessel, so stalwart at sea, appeared utterly helpless on shore. She was, even so, an impressive ship...
He had been down practically looking at all the people who had died since ten o’clock. My father was in a quiet panic, and Anita was going to clump through the door any second. “You both go back to bed,” Dad said. “You went all the way down to the police station and asked about dead bodies?” I as...