High school biology teacher Brooke Storm has possibly the worst class of seniors imaginable, not one of them interested in learning or listening to her, the clique of
His ambition and arrogance pushing him to attempt a reconstruction beyond the possibility of surgical techniques, the resulting irreparable disfigurement of poor Evelyn Morley drives the fragile patient
In only thirty years the world has changed, the recreation of dinosaurs on Isla Nublar an ambitious experiment which could not be controlled, the long-extinct animals now free
Ambition is shaped by circumstance; it is easier for one who grew up around boats and enjoyed the independence that wealth brings to set their sights on circumnavigating
Along the fjords of Norway the sailing vessel Demeter heads north under the nominal command of Captain Van Vught, an expedition financed and guided by the ambitious and
The slum districts of Chicago, 1987, Angie Pittarelli trying to make ends meet and support both herself and nephew David by working as a stripper at Revealers, harassed
North Denver, 1978; school is hell for Finney Shaw, targeted by a gang of bullies for whom taunts and cruel behaviour are less satisfying than physical violence, nor
July, 1943, almost three years after the Battle of Britain and two years past the worst of the London Blitz and, shortly thereafter, the entry of America into