The Other

Laurie Foos

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• Ava was born with wings. No one called them that until she was two years old. She hides her wings under a special device her father made for her. She ... Lees meer

The Peasants and the Mariners

Brian Bouldrey

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• Storytellers, said Walter Benjamin, are descended from one of two tribes: the mariners or the peasants. We revel in the stories of the sailors, with t... Lees meer

No Stopping Her

Rebecca Elswick

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• Growing up without a mother is hard. Worse is having a stepmother who controls Dad. Brittany Myerson is so ready for high school to end. She knows tha... Lees meer

Letter from Chicago

Cathy Kelly

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• Elsie and Maisie live on opposite sides of the Atlantic. Regular letter writers, they tend to boast about their respective families. Over time, the gu... Lees meer

Key City on the River

Greta Gorsuch

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• On a cold November afternoon in 1833, two wagons are about to cross the dark Mississippi River into Iowa Territory on a tiny boat. Penny Cooper, Nate ... Lees meer

Voices

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• The Open Door anthology brings together a collection of short stories by some of Ireland's greatest writers, all of which are written and crafted spec... Lees meer

On Angel's Wings

Aidan Storey

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• Adapted from his extraordinary autobiography, Angels of Divine Light (Transworld, 2010), for the Open Door series of short books for emerging readers,... Lees meer

Not a Star

Nick Hornby

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• It's bad enough for a mother to discover that her son is a porn star, even worse when the nosy neighbors knew first. When Lynn sees her son Mark in an... Lees meer

OMG! LOL!

Thomas C Willadsen

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• While organizing a community interfaith Thanksgiving event, a pastor discovers that people of all religious traditions laugh in the same language.He e... Lees meer

Jackie Robinson

Joe Schuster

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• The year was 1947. A talented young minor-league baseball player was called up to the majors to join the Brooklyn Dodgers. But this was no ordinary ma... Lees meer

Cell Phone Lot

Greta Gorsuch

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• Jessica Vasquez had worked hard to get where she was. Though some in her family had despaired of her future, she put herself through cosmetology schoo... Lees meer

Airport

Wingo Perseus

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• On any given day, in any given city, countless people are arriving and departing...to visit grandma, to close a business deal, to hook up with a lover... Lees meer

Mrs. Whippy

Cecilia Ahern

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• A woman in trouble turns to ice cream, and just might find love in its pursuit. Emelda is 46 years old. Her husband, Charlie, has just left her for a ... Lees meer

The Lighthouse

Chris Binchy

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• Part of the Open Door series of short books for emerging readers. A young boy waits for his father to come home from England at the weekends. During t... Lees meer

Spin Cycles

Charles Coe

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• Brilliant, homeless and nearly invisible, a young man wanders through Boston, looking for meaning and hope. Extreme mood swings and an unusual outlook... Lees meer

One Season in the Sun

Joe Schuster

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• The history of baseball is filled with forgotten names: players who are good enough to reach the top of the sport but who, for any number of reasons, ... Lees meer

Bake Sale

Suzanne Kamata

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• Laura Murata is a university professor in Japan. She is also a divorced mother of Maya, a seven-year-old girl. Widower Kazu Mori is a dentist. He is r... Lees meer

The Smoking Room

Julie Parsons

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• Part of the Open Door series of short books for emerging readers. It all began one morning in the smoking room of the Department of Health and Welfare... Lees meer

Toast

Laurie Foos

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• In many ways, the Hamilton children are like any other kids. Eleven-year-old Mia and ten-year-old Will love playing Minecraft, eating pizza, and playi... Lees meer

Jesus and Billy Are Off to Barcelona

Deirdre Purcell

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• Billy is an average-looking sixteen-year-old who lives in an ordinary house in an ordinary neighborhood on the northside of Dublin. Jesus, on the othe... Lees meer

Training Days

May-Lee Chai

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• "I rediscovered a bit of myself in Jun-li, and in May-lee Chai's beautifully constructed and perfectly contained world. It's the deftly and subtly ren... Lees meer

Fair-Weather Friend

Patricia Scanlan

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• A story of false friendship and following one's heart Melissa and Sophie have been friends all of their lives. Or that's what Sophie likes to think. S... Lees meer

The Orchard

Catherine Temma Davidson

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• Lisa's grandfather is turning 100, and her family is gathering to celebrate in a sprawling southern Californian apricot orchard. The orchard is both t... Lees meer

Not Just for Christmas

Roddy Doyle

• Paperback | Engels | Open Door
• Danny Murphy is going to meet his brother, Jimmy. They haven't seen each other in more than twenty years, and Danny is nervous. On the way to the pub,... Lees meer