New Releases by Rodman Philbrick

In Freak the mighty, learning disabled Max and his new friend Freak, whose birth defect has affected his body but not his brilliant mind, find that when they combine forces they make a powerful team. In Max the mighty, fourteen-year-old Max helps a younger girl escape from her abusive stepfather by running away with her to the distant town of Chivalry, Montana, searching for her real father.

Mandy Durgin and Luke Ingram are convinced that aliens are causing their memory blackouts and disappearances, and they must resist their captors before it''s too late.

Where anything is real, and everything is about to disappear... Arthur''s mom tried hard, but sometimes she had no idea what her son was thinking, or why the only thing that made him happy was food, more food. Endless supplies of food, glorious food. "Did you have a nice birthday, dear?" she asked. "Was the cake big enough?" But Arthur didn''t answer because he wasn''t listening. He was thinking about his new miracle weight-loss device. If only it would work! If only he really could go to sleep fat and wake up thin! On the way out of the kitchen, Arthur snagged eleven Oreo cookies and slipped them into his overu00adsized pockets. Just for luck. Then he headed down the cellar stairs into the deep, dark basement. And his life, and the world, and the universe would never be the same again. Award-winning novelist Rodman Philbrick challenges the boundaries of time and place in this exciting fantasy. "Harry Potter fans will recognize the misfit hero in a strange, new world." - Booklist Philbrick’s children''s book Freak the Mighty was the basis of a Golden Globe-nominated Sharon Stone movie titled simply The Mighty.

Author Rodman Philbrick writing as Chris Jordan "...a single mother''s terrifying fight...will send chills up your spine." New York Times bestselling author Steve Berry I''ve seen pictures of guys like this, snipers or SWAT guys or whatever. Never expected to see one of them in my own house, a living nightmare perched on my favorite chair. No parent believes it can happen to them—their child taken from a suburban schoolyard in the gentle hours of dusk. But as widowed mother Kate Bickford discovers, everything can change in the blink of an eye. One minute her lanky, amazing, maddening Tommy is begging for ice cream. Then in a terrible instant, he''s gone. Opening the door to her Connecticut home, hoping to find her son, Kate comes face-to-face with her son''s abductor. He wants money. All she has. And if she doesn''t follow something he calls The Method, the consequences will be gruesome. Her comfortable life collapses as precious seconds tick by, and Kate is horrified to uncover the terrible, world-shattering secret she and her son share with a killer who will stop at nothing.... “Jordan''s full-throttle style makes this an emotionally rewarding thriller that moves like lightning."—Publishers Weekly

HERE ARE THE FACTS For the parents whose children have been taken, for the broken lives we piece back together one relentless investigation at a time, our town house is a sanctuary. My name is Alice Crane. I''m just one of a talented team working for Naomi Nantz, the brilliant and very private detective. Today that sanctuary was violated. The famous kid-finder Randall Shane was taken away by unknown assailants, possibly government agents. Shane''s client is dead, and a boy known as "the keyboard kid" is missing. What is the boy''s connection to a top secret physics lab? Unknown—for now. But under Naomi''s lead, we will infiltrate every illicit boardroom and bedroom and war room. We''ll find that little boy or die trying. The only thing guaranteed in this life is that Naomi Nantz won''t give up. Not now, not ever. "Filled with page-turning suspense and intrigue that keeps you guessing to the end” —Rick Mofina, bestselling author of In Desperation "Jordan''s full-throttle style makes this an emotionally rewarding thriller that moves like lightning." —Publishers Weekly on Taken